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1.		Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display (benholmen.com)
		1145 points by benholmen 8 months ago [ext] \| 144 comments [ext]
2.		Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering (qwenlm.github.io)
		544 points by meetpateltech 8 months ago [ext] \| 159 comments [ext]
3.		OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware (openipc.org)
		306 points by zakki 8 months ago [ext] \| 152 comments [ext]
4.		A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
		488 points by gon322 114 days ago \| hide \| 68 comments
4.		How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast (v8.dev)
		458 points by emschwartz 8 months ago [ext] \| 168 comments [ext]
5.		Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (cloudflare.com)
		1315 points by rrampage 8 months ago [ext] \| 748 comments [ext]
6.		Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers (fortune.com)
		607 points by robtherobber 8 months ago [ext] \| 882 comments [ext]
7.		Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
		292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago \| hide \| 110 comments
7.		So you want to parse a PDF? (eliot-jones.com)
		408 points by UglyToad 8 months ago [ext] \| 230 comments [ext]
8.		I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class (lithub.com)
		300 points by lapcat 8 months ago [ext] \| 291 comments [ext]
9.		Objects should shut up (dustri.org)
		490 points by gm678 8 months ago [ext] \| 362 comments [ext]
10.		Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
		215 points by fik8005 57 days ago \| hide \| 155 comments
10.		DrawAFish.com Postmortem (aldenhallak.com)
		390 points by hallak 8 months ago [ext] \| 104 comments [ext]
11.		Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft (bl.ag)
		219 points by detaro 8 months ago [ext] \| 42 comments [ext]
12.		Customizing tmux (evgeniipendragon.com)
		185 points by EPendragon 8 months ago [ext] \| 152 comments [ext]
13.		The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
		478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago \| hide \| 193 comments
13.		My Ideal Array Language (ashermancinelli.com)
		148 points by bobajeff 8 months ago [ext] \| 71 comments [ext]
14.		How we built Bluey’s world (itsnicethat.com)
		387 points by skrebbel 8 months ago [ext] \| 174 comments [ext]
15.		NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills (nasa.gov)
		160 points by Bluestein 8 months ago [ext] \| 52 comments [ext]
16.		Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
		229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago \| hide \| 57 comments
16.		How to grow almost anything (howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site)
		201 points by car 8 months ago [ext] \| 61 comments [ext]
17.		Content-Aware Spaced Repetition (giacomoran.com)
		183 points by ran3000 8 months ago [ext] \| 65 comments [ext]
18.		Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (pcgamer.com)
		594 points by croes 8 months ago [ext] \| 580 comments [ext]
19.		The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
		174 points by mem4364 105 days ago \| hide \| 48 comments
19.		Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding (solmaz.io)
		274 points by hosolmaz 8 months ago [ext] \| 229 comments [ext]
20.		Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf] (cfa.harvard.edu)
		143 points by jackbravo 8 months ago [ext] \| 244 comments [ext]
21.		Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
		151 points by deegles 8 months ago [ext] \| 64 comments [ext]
22.		The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
		154 points by krz3514 374 days ago \| hide \| 13 comments
22.		Why doctors hate their computers (2018) (newyorker.com)
		121 points by mitchbob 8 months ago [ext] \| 219 comments [ext]
23.		New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials (phys.org)
		145 points by janandonly 8 months ago [ext] \| 24 comments [ext]
24.		Hiroshima (1946) (newyorker.com)
		120 points by pseudolus 8 months ago [ext] \| 266 comments [ext]
25.		The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
		491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago \| hide \| 105 comments
25.		What Can a Cell Remember? (quantamagazine.org)
		83 points by chapulin 8 months ago [ext] \| 13 comments [ext]
26.		Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth (ft.com)
		201 points by hhs 8 months ago [ext] \| 333 comments [ext]
27.		Everything to know about UniFi OS Server (deluisio.com)
		73 points by codydeluisio 8 months ago [ext] \| 10 comments [ext]
28.		From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
		98 points by oem2878 253 days ago \| hide \| 150 comments
28.		Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable (nytimes.com)
		151 points by elektor 8 months ago [ext] \| 36 comments [ext]
29.		Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co)
		519 points by Hamuko 8 months ago [ext] \| 273 comments [ext]
30.		A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability (notashes.me)
		154 points by hyperbrainer 8 months ago [ext] \| 79 comments [ext]
31.		Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
		43 points by jan967 252 days ago \| hide \| 128 comments
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