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1.		AI's Dial-Up Era (wreflection.com)
		469 points by nowflux 5 months ago [ext] \| 433 comments [ext]
2.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) [ext]
		401 points by whoishiring 5 months ago [ext] \| 583 comments [ext]
3.		The Case Against PGVector (alex-jacobs.com)
		381 points by tacoooooooo 5 months ago [ext] \| 137 comments [ext]
4.		Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
		374 points by ium4024 70 days ago \| hide \| 174 comments
4.		Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024) (needleful.net)
		371 points by gudzpoz 5 months ago [ext] \| 163 comments [ext]
5.		A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors (codepen.io)
		298 points by BlankCanvas 5 months ago [ext] \| 95 comments [ext]
6.		Facts about throwing good parties (atvbt.com)
		963 points by cjbarber 5 months ago [ext] \| 412 comments [ext]
7.		Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
		322 points by oik7062 60 days ago \| hide \| 65 comments
7.		First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022) (louisville.edu)
		290 points by thunderbong 5 months ago [ext] \| 284 comments [ext]
8.		State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions (jeffquast.com)
		267 points by SG- 5 months ago [ext] \| 273 comments [ext]
9.		WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel (github.com/joelseverin)
		299 points by marcodiego 5 months ago [ext] \| 65 comments [ext]
10.		When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
		298 points by can738 85 days ago \| hide \| 122 comments
10.		Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower (supercarblondie.com)
		622 points by chris_overseas 5 months ago [ext] \| 598 comments [ext]
11.		Why Nextcloud feels slow to use (ounapuu.ee)
		457 points by rpgbr 5 months ago [ext] \| 350 comments [ext]
12.		Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025) [ext]
		198 points by whoishiring 5 months ago [ext] \| 444 comments [ext]
13.		The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
		487 points by htx5127 609 days ago \| hide \| 15 comments
13.		The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018) (bangshift.com)
		179 points by mstngl 5 months ago [ext] \| 123 comments [ext]
14.		Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery (jayinnn.dev)
		147 points by ChrisArchitect 5 months ago [ext] \| 36 comments [ext]
15.		The Case That A.I. Is Thinking (newyorker.com)
		278 points by ascertain 5 months ago [ext] \| 1011 comments [ext]
16.		Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
		187 points by jem4017 85 days ago \| hide \| 177 comments
16.		How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries (phys.org)
		134 points by pseudolus 5 months ago [ext] \| 151 comments [ext]
17.		Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received (goodenough.us)
		130 points by busymom0 5 months ago [ext] \| 33 comments [ext]
18.		VimGraph (wolframcloud.com)
		166 points by gdelfino01 5 months ago [ext] \| 30 comments [ext]
19.		When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
		380 points by orz1950 90 days ago \| hide \| 148 comments
19.		Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023) (cloudflare.com)
		192 points by Garbage 5 months ago [ext] \| 88 comments [ext]
20.		Guideline has been acquired by Gusto (guideline.com)
		121 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago [ext] \| 115 comments [ext]
21.		The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge (somnolescent.net)
		131 points by CharlesW 5 months ago [ext] \| 51 comments [ext]
22.		The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
		469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago \| hide \| 14 comments
22.		Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength (nickvsnetworking.com)
		439 points by tsujamin 5 months ago [ext] \| 181 comments [ext]
23.		When models manipulate manifolds: The geometry of a counting task (transformer-circuits.pub)
		98 points by vinhnx 5 months ago [ext] \| 17 comments [ext]
24.		</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening (htmx.org)
		361 points by leephillips 5 months ago [ext] \| 153 comments [ext]
25.		Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
		429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago \| hide \| 150 comments
25.		Why we migrated from Python to Node.js (yakkomajuri.com)
		229 points by yakkomajuri 5 months ago [ext] \| 281 comments [ext]
26.		Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz (mynamelowercase.com)
		97 points by Gormisdomai 5 months ago [ext] \| 40 comments [ext]
27.		KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web (katex.org)
		181 points by suioir 5 months ago [ext] \| 74 comments [ext]
28.		The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
		271 points by prl1591 602 days ago \| hide \| 193 comments
28.		Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Version of Uber H3 in Rust (grim7reaper.github.io)
		112 points by ashergill 5 months ago [ext] \| 40 comments [ext]
29.		Collatz-Weyl Generators: Pseudorandom Number Generators (2023) (arxiv.org)
		59 points by danny00 5 months ago [ext] \| 1 comment [ext]
30.		New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second (simonwillison.net)
		114 points by simonw 5 months ago [ext] \| 44 comments [ext]
31.		The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
		376 points by kol5306 2 days ago \| hide \| 127 comments
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