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1.		Bill Atkinson has died (daringfireball.net)
		1589 points by romanhn 10 months ago [ext] \| 273 comments [ext]
2.		Low-Level Optimization with Zig (alloc.dev)
		307 points by Retro_Dev 10 months ago [ext] \| 200 comments [ext]
3.		Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own (ssp.sh)
		499 points by articsputnik 10 months ago [ext] \| 241 comments [ext]
4.		Discord's Real Lesson: The Meta-Layer Enterprise Slack Can't Build (kwokchain.com)
		448 points by aok168 431 days ago \| hide \| 83 comments
4.		Why We're Moving on from Nix (railway.com)
		275 points by mooreds 10 months ago [ext] \| 136 comments [ext]
5.		Getting Past Procrastination (ieee.org)
		437 points by WaitWaitWha 10 months ago [ext] \| 175 comments [ext]
6.		What was Radiant AI, anyway? (paavo.me)
		234 points by paavohtl 10 months ago [ext] \| 118 comments [ext]
7.		How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
		312 points by gul702 10 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
7.		I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits (maxemitchell.com)
		301 points by maxemitchell 10 months ago [ext] \| 283 comments [ext]
8.		A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022) (github.com/arduinocelentano)
		203 points by carlesfe 10 months ago [ext] \| 61 comments [ext]
9.		Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) (slashdot.org)
		472 points by miles 10 months ago [ext] \| 331 comments [ext]
10.		How Rich Barton Turns Gossip Into Billion-Dollar Search Monopolies (kwokchain.com)
		234 points by gak1654 431 days ago \| hide \| 59 comments
10.		My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle (trebaol.com)
		491 points by 5mv2 10 months ago [ext] \| 223 comments [ext]
11.		The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure (joost.blog)
		210 points by twapi 10 months ago [ext] \| 44 comments [ext]
12.		Convert photos to Atkinson dithering (gazs.github.io)
		438 points by nvahalik 10 months ago [ext] \| 54 comments [ext]
13.		Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
		429 points by pex8279 10 hours ago \| hide \| 150 comments
13.		BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore (github.com/borgbackup)
		186 points by jaegerma 10 months ago [ext] \| 115 comments [ext]
14.		Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray (aoli.al)
		157 points by aoli-al 10 months ago [ext] \| 52 comments [ext]
15.		Why are smokestacks so tall? (practical.engineering)
		195 points by azeemba 10 months ago [ext] \| 46 comments [ext]
16.		How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
		443 points by pal3183 592 days ago \| hide \| 193 comments
16.		Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation (flightaware.engineering)
		473 points by cratermoon 10 months ago [ext] \| 199 comments [ext]
17.		Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks (sutro.sh)
		118 points by cmogni1 10 months ago [ext] \| 36 comments [ext]
18.		Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise (pkh.me)
		137 points by ux 10 months ago [ext] \| 8 comments [ext]
19.		What Happens When You Hand GPT-5 and Claude Real Money (nof1.ai)
		454 points by esn516 151 days ago \| hide \| 8 comments
19.		Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts (spacenews.com)
		329 points by rbanffy 10 months ago [ext] \| 757 comments [ext]
20.		Hate Radio (2011) (rwandanstories.org)
		141 points by thomassmith65 10 months ago [ext] \| 154 comments [ext]
21.		Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client (tensorzero.com)
		159 points by paulwarren 10 months ago [ext] \| 35 comments [ext]
22.		The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
		174 points by mem4364 104 days ago \| hide \| 48 comments
22.		You need much less memory than time (computationalcomplexity.org)
		126 points by jonbaer 10 months ago [ext] \| 11 comments [ext]
23.		What “working” means in the era of AI apps (a16z.com)
		116 points by Brysonbw 10 months ago [ext] \| 83 comments [ext]
24.		If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI startups (1999) (dspace.mit.edu)
		115 points by rbanffy 10 months ago [ext] \| 59 comments [ext]
25.		The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
		469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago \| hide \| 14 comments
25.		NASA delays next flight of Boeing's alternative to SpaceX Dragon (theedgemalaysia.com)
		57 points by bookmtn 10 months ago [ext] \| 57 comments [ext]
26.		Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users (help.openai.com)
		65 points by mfiguiere 10 months ago [ext] \| 48 comments [ext]
27.		EFF to the FTC: DMCA Section 1201 Creates Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers (eff.org)
		83 points by hn_acker 10 months ago [ext] \| 2 comments [ext]
28.		Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
		292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago \| hide \| 110 comments
28.		Math Symbol Frequencies (leancrew.com)
		49 points by tosh 10 months ago [ext] \| 20 comments [ext]
29.		Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021) (michaelhorowitz.com)
		155 points by userbinator 10 months ago [ext] \| 159 comments [ext]
30.		A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts (economist.com)
		70 points by libraryofbabel 10 months ago [ext] \| 65 comments [ext]
31.		The Cybersecurity Stack Was Built on Assumptions AI Just Broke ()
		486 points by gtm4646 84 days ago \| hide \| 150 comments
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