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1.		Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (dpa-international.com)
		871 points by mpweiher 34 days ago \| 1061 comments
2.		How an oil refinery works (construction-physics.com)
		541 points by chmaynard 34 days ago \| 192 comments
3.		Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (rivian.com)
		760 points by Cider9986 33 days ago \| 350 comments
4.		Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" (twitter.com/theo)
		1349 points by elmean 34 days ago \| 720 comments
5.		How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mitpress.mit.edu)
		710 points by the-mitr 34 days ago \| 254 comments
6.		Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
		1215 points by bpierre 35 days ago \| 195 comments
7.		Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library (semgrep.dev)
		465 points by j12y 34 days ago \| 177 comments
8.		Where the goblins came from (openai.com)
		1072 points by ilreb 34 days ago \| 660 comments
9.		You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)
		360 points by vok 37 days ago \| 166 comments
10.		The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
		683 points by lumpa 34 days ago \| 462 comments
11.		I built a Game Boy emulator in F# (nickkossolapov.github.io)
		351 points by elvis70 34 days ago \| 77 comments
12.		I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (bidprowl.com)
		302 points by scarsam 34 days ago \| 105 comments
13.		Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com/mozilla)
		663 points by jaffathecake 34 days ago \| 231 comments
14.		Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (noctua.at)
		501 points by embedding-shape 36 days ago \| 108 comments
15.		Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga (democrata.es)
		520 points by akyuu 34 days ago \| 227 comments
16.		Craig Venter has died (jcvi.org)
		342 points by rdl 34 days ago \| 85 comments
17.		Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file (honker.dev)
		227 points by ferriswil 34 days ago \| 59 comments
18.		New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)
		224 points by armadsen 36 days ago \| 110 comments
19.		Reverse Engineering SimTower (phulin.me)
		259 points by patrickhulin 36 days ago \| 73 comments
20.		Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
		328 points by steveharing1 34 days ago \| 209 comments
21.		Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)
		207 points by ethagnawl 34 days ago \| 33 comments
22.		10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home (gilesthomas.com)
		232 points by gpjt 35 days ago \| 177 comments
23.		Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
		216 points by the-mitr 34 days ago \| 33 comments
24.		Does Postgres Scale? (dbos.dev)
		192 points by KraftyOne 34 days ago \| 95 comments
25.		Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
		209 points by noleary 34 days ago \| 113 comments
26.		Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (github.com/cauchy221)
		201 points by reconnecting 34 days ago \| 166 comments
27.		Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs (bbc.com)
		526 points by gorbachev 34 days ago \| 433 comments
28.		The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill (wikipedia.org)
		113 points by Sir_Twist 35 days ago \| 6 comments
29.		[dupe] LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions (404privacy.com)
		435 points by un-nf 33 days ago \| 219 comments
30.		London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) (amusingplanet.com)
		127 points by CGMthrowaway 35 days ago \| 37 comments
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