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1.		Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs (wsj.com)
		965 points by JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago \| 694 comments
2.		Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise (wikimediastatus.net)
		982 points by greyface- 19 hours ago \| 348 comments
3.		Google Workspace CLI (github.com/googleworkspace)
		916 points by gonzalovargas 1 day ago \| 285 comments
4.		GPT-5.4 (openai.com)
		866 points by mudkipdev 17 hours ago \| 687 comments
5.		Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’ (techcrunch.com)
		784 points by SilverElfin 1 day ago \| 418 comments
📚.		Patrick Collison (patrickcollison.com)
		7 min read \| by patrickcollison.com \| saved 207 days ago
6.		Good software knows when to stop (writizzy.com)
		458 points by ssaboum 22 hours ago \| 232 comments
7.		A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines (grith.ai)
		477 points by edf13 19 hours ago \| 141 comments
8.		The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying (acko.net)
		639 points by LorenDB 1 day ago \| 449 comments
9.		CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements (404media.co)
		473 points by ece 1 day ago \| 187 comments
10.		Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework (jido.run)
		292 points by mikehostetler 20 hours ago \| 59 comments
📚.		The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) (joelonsoftware.com)
		15 min read \| by About The Author. & In I Co-… \| saved 158 days ago
11.		The Brand Age (paulgraham.com)
		376 points by bigwheels 18 hours ago \| 293 comments
12.		Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift (ivan.digital)
		361 points by ipotapov 1 day ago \| 116 comments
13.		Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite (tuananh.net)
		391 points by tuananh 1 day ago \| 377 comments
14.		Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs (pnas.org)
		151 points by bikenaga 1 day ago \| 66 comments
15.		World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite (esa.int)
		182 points by giuliomagnifico 4 days ago \| 71 comments
📚.		The happiest I’ve ever been (ben-mini.com)
		4 min read \| by Ben Wallace \| saved 5 days ago
16.		AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time (arstechnica.com)
		227 points by Bender 4 days ago \| 215 comments
17.		Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details (arcanenibble.github.io)
		154 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago \| 15 comments
18.		NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf] (nrc.gov)
		140 points by Anon84 1 day ago \| 151 comments
19.		Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter (sixstepstobetterhealth.com)
		199 points by colinbartlett 4 days ago \| 70 comments
20.		Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk (jyn.dev)
		154 points by janandonly 17 hours ago \| 73 comments
📚.		Worse than Marxism (archive.ph)
		22 min read \| by Matt Levine \| saved 39 days ago
21.		Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app (alibaba.github.io)
		111 points by simon_luv_pho 18 hours ago \| 59 comments
22.		Poor Man's Polaroid (boxart.lt)
		225 points by ZacnyLos 1 day ago \| 52 comments
23.		A ternary plot of citrus geneology (jlauf.com)
		141 points by jlauf 2 days ago \| 26 comments
24.		Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester (404media.co)
		369 points by sedatk 14 hours ago \| 178 comments
25.		No right to relicense this project (github.com/chardet)
		496 points by robin_reala 1 day ago \| 342 comments
📚.		How Microsoft Lost the API War (joelonsoftware.com)
		25 min read \| by Joel Spolsky \| saved 158 days ago
26.		Dulce et Decorum Est (1921) (poetryfoundation.org)
		207 points by bikeshaving 1 day ago \| 99 comments
27.		Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling
		49 points by Gobhanu 18 hours ago \| 39 comments
28.		Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough (lorenzano.eu)
		144 points by mpweiher 1 day ago \| 71 comments
29.		US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters (theguardian.com)
		179 points by geox 1 day ago \| 236 comments
30.		Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites (norn-labs.com)
		282 points by jdup7 20 hours ago \| 86 comments
📚.		Hedge Funds Have To Be Big (archive.ph)
		19 min read \| by Matt Levine \| saved 39 days ago
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