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1.
The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)
1574 points by booleanbetrayal 9 days ago | 944 comments
2.
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes (about.gitlab.com)
592 points by nayak 7 days ago | 250 comments
3.
Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics (yomiuri.co.jp)
438 points by anigbrowl 6 days ago | 284 comments
4.
A year of funded FreeBSD development (daemonology.net)
380 points by cperciva 7 days ago | 126 comments
5.
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)
1633 points by DavideNL 7 days ago | 757 comments
6.
A masochist's guide to web development (tronto.net)
283 points by sebtron 7 days ago | 52 comments
7.
Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed (mozillafoundation.org)
536 points by speckx 7 days ago | 225 comments
8.
Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer (blocksandfiles.com)
225 points by rbanffy 7 days ago | 92 comments
9.
The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] (cdn-apple.com)
473 points by amrrs 7 days ago | 269 comments
10.
Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games (odyc.dev)
248 points by achtaitaipai 7 days ago | 51 comments
11.
Too Many Open Files (mattrighetti.com)
178 points by furkansahin 7 days ago | 109 comments
12.
Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019) (atlasobscura.com)
141 points by mooreds 6 days ago | 93 comments
13.
Curate your shell history (esham.io)
155 points by todsacerdoti 7 days ago | 84 comments
14.
Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo (veitner.bearblog.dev)
125 points by timmyd 7 days ago | 62 comments
15.
What you need to know about EMP weapons (aardvark.co.nz)
170 points by flyingkiwi44 7 days ago | 206 comments
16.
Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator (godmodeai.cloud)
162 points by lyogavin 7 days ago | 116 comments
17.
Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record (heise.de)
203 points by doener 10 days ago | 68 comments
18.
How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy (openai.com)
283 points by BUFU 7 days ago | 322 comments
19.
Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp (storytotell.org)
128 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 58 comments
20.
Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally (countercraft.substack.com)
86 points by benbreen 8 days ago | 52 comments
21.
Building an AI server on a budget (informationga.in)
174 points by mful 7 days ago | 106 comments
22.
Series C and scale (cursor.com)
94 points by fidotron 7 days ago | 69 comments
23.
What a developer needs to know about SCIM (tesseral.com)
148 points by noleary 7 days ago | 36 comments
24.
Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest (boostsecurity.io)
111 points by chha 7 days ago | 57 comments
25.
Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations (masonyarbrough.com)
129 points by echollama 7 days ago | 61 comments
26.
Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite (github.com/wey-gu)
158 points by wey-gu 7 days ago | 52 comments
27.
I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024) (softwaredoug.com)
140 points by softwaredoug 8 days ago | 24 comments
28.
4-7-8 Breathing (breathbelly.com)
287 points by cheekyturtles 7 days ago | 120 comments
29.
Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake (layer22.com)
100 points by pusewicz 7 days ago | 84 comments
30.
Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells (theguardian.com)
216 points by colinprince 7 days ago | 36 comments

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