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1.		Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
		1185 points by speleo 4 days ago \| 241 comments
2.		Flipper One – we need your help (flipper.net)
		1260 points by sandebert 4 days ago \| 482 comments
3.		We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)
		629 points by sofumel 4 days ago \| 571 comments
4.		Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (changs.co.uk)
		428 points by rbanffy 4 days ago \| 219 comments
5.		Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (simbastack.com)
		469 points by asenna 4 days ago \| 140 comments
6.		Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)
		421 points by pseudolus 4 days ago \| 121 comments
7.		Google's Antigravity bait and switch (0xsid.com)
		765 points by ssiddharth 4 days ago \| 340 comments
8.		Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
		565 points by apwheele 7 days ago \| 446 comments
9.		Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD (crocidb.com)
		371 points by speckx 4 days ago \| 229 comments
10.		Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
		367 points by mattas 4 days ago \| 472 comments
11.		Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)
		489 points by root-parent 4 days ago \| 205 comments
12.		Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (noslopgrenade.com)
		706 points by napolux 4 days ago \| 418 comments
13.		Using Kagi Search with Low Vision (veroniiiica.com)
		267 points by speckx 4 days ago \| 89 comments
14.		Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)
		383 points by sanity 4 days ago \| 268 comments
15.		News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (niemanlab.org)
		331 points by jaredwiener 4 days ago \| 123 comments
16.		AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)
		820 points by speckx 4 days ago \| 732 comments
17.		Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
		426 points by kageroumado 5 days ago \| 106 comments
18.		The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		302 points by bambax 5 days ago \| 54 comments
19.		Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
		369 points by OuterVale 4 days ago \| 244 comments
20.		Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans (hollywoodreporter.com)
		180 points by elffjs 4 days ago \| 361 comments
21.		Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)
		305 points by aurareturn 5 days ago \| 349 comments
22.		Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)
		115 points by pvtmert 6 days ago \| 58 comments
23.		Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (haskell.org)
		180 points by azhenley 4 days ago \| 76 comments
24.		BBEdit 16 (barebones.com)
		316 points by qaz_plm 4 days ago \| 110 comments
25.		Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team (runtm.com)
		101 points by gustrigos 4 days ago \| 30 comments
26.		Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
		261 points by wapasta 4 days ago \| 196 comments
27.		Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
		129 points by gmac 7 days ago \| 35 comments
28.		Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
		226 points by ki4jgt 5 days ago \| 79 comments
29.		New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (redhat.com)
		141 points by siteshwar 6 days ago \| 22 comments
30.		OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
		205 points by louiereederson 5 days ago \| 406 comments
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