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1.		Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
		759 points by todotask2 14 hours ago \| 340 comments
2.		Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
		566 points by us321 1 day ago \| 349 comments
3.		OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
		396 points by gpi 1 day ago \| 57 comments
4.		Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
		523 points by cl3misch 16 hours ago \| 245 comments
5.		Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
		331 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago \| 163 comments
6.		List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
		347 points by wilson090 1 day ago \| 114 comments
7.		STFU (github.com/pankajtanwarbanna)
		729 points by tanelpoder 11 hours ago \| 472 comments
8.		Data is the only moat (frontierai.substack.com)
		198 points by cgwu 1 day ago \| 47 comments
9.		6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
		370 points by jaas 13 hours ago \| 216 comments
10.		Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
		461 points by embedding-shape 14 hours ago \| 190 comments
11.		Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
		283 points by p44v9n 4 days ago \| 123 comments
12.		Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
		299 points by 1659447091 1 day ago \| 151 comments
13.		Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
		243 points by tosh 18 hours ago \| 87 comments
14.		My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
		149 points by azhenley 1 day ago \| 96 comments
15.		Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
		223 points by samuel246 21 hours ago \| 9 comments
16.		Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
		119 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago \| 147 comments
17.		East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
		383 points by robertvc 11 hours ago \| 133 comments
18.		Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
		118 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago \| 34 comments
19.		Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
		70 points by christalwang 12 hours ago \| 77 comments
20.		Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
		115 points by jamesgresql 5 days ago \| 83 comments
21.		What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
		98 points by nz 6 days ago \| 15 comments
22.		Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop (github.com/tldraw)
		179 points by pranav_rajs 1 day ago \| 96 comments
23.		Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
		231 points by speckx 8 hours ago \| 111 comments
24.		All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible (mvr.github.io)
		121 points by HeliumHydride 1 day ago \| 13 comments
25.		psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context (github.com/loresuso)
		87 points by tanelpoder 15 hours ago \| 27 comments
26.		I Built a 1 Petabyte Server from Scratch [video] (youtube.com)
		124 points by zdw 6 days ago \| 49 comments
27.		Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% (electrek.co)
		402 points by 1970-01-01 11 hours ago \| 533 comments
28.		Training my smartwatch to track intelligence (dmvaldman.github.io)
		135 points by dmvaldman 2 days ago \| 64 comments
29.		The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly (buildsoftwaresystems.com)
		91 points by ThierryBuilds 19 hours ago \| 33 comments
30.		Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
		174 points by cebert 11 hours ago \| 232 comments
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