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1.		Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)
		1548 points by thitran 8 days ago \| 753 comments
2.		GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)
		711 points by n1b0m 8 days ago \| 692 comments
3.		How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)
		510 points by Sean-Der 8 days ago \| 146 comments
4.		Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks (nber.org)
		341 points by littlexsparkee 8 days ago \| 380 comments
5.		Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)
		379 points by samcollins 11 days ago \| 131 comments
6.		Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/l1v1ng0ffth3l4n)
		643 points by cft 8 days ago \| 234 comments
7.		Redis array: short story of a long development process (antirez.com)
		318 points by antirez 8 days ago \| 110 comments
8.		Let's Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)
		605 points by bjhess 9 days ago \| 577 comments
9.		I am worried about Bun (wwj.dev)
		521 points by remote-dev 8 days ago \| 349 comments
10.		Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability (strix.ai)
		221 points by bearsyankees 8 days ago \| 101 comments
11.		US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants (techcrunch.com)
		522 points by ZeidJ 8 days ago \| 169 comments
12.		How Monero’s proof of work works (alcazarsec.com)
		316 points by alcazar 8 days ago \| 225 comments
13.		Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac (notepad-plus-plus.org)
		633 points by maxloh 8 days ago \| 306 comments
14.		Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected (tomshardware.com)
		408 points by oceansky 14 days ago \| 273 comments
15.		Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024) (aruljohn.com)
		153 points by heresie-dabord 12 days ago \| 104 comments
16.		Introduction to Atom (w3.org)
		137 points by susam 9 days ago \| 69 comments
17.		PyInfra 3.8.0 (github.com/pyinfra-dev)
		306 points by wowi42 8 days ago \| 107 comments
18.		Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) (stuffedcow.net)
		164 points by TapamN 12 days ago \| 8 comments
19.		Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database (pomiferous.com)
		141 points by Ariarule 8 days ago \| 50 comments
20.		The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (jdgr.net)
		226 points by jdgr 9 days ago \| 136 comments
21.		Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight (stripe.dev)
		214 points by r00k 8 days ago \| 107 comments
22.		Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to (economist.com)
		309 points by andsoitis 8 days ago \| 182 comments
23.		[dupe] Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (ecopv-eu.com)
		572 points by rdeboo 8 days ago \| 533 comments
24.		Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (nhk.or.jp)
		227 points by o4c 10 days ago \| 19 comments
25.		The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)
		295 points by SpyCoder77 9 days ago \| 137 comments
26.		UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations (fuelinsight.co.uk)
		195 points by theazureguy 8 days ago \| 100 comments
27.		Heat pump sales rise across Europe (pv-magazine.com)
		272 points by doener 8 days ago \| 215 comments
28.		Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (science.org)
		159 points by pseudolus 8 days ago \| 152 comments
29.		K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s (github.com/alexellis)
		91 points by rickcarlino 11 days ago \| 51 comments
30.		Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)
		460 points by ayoisaiah 9 days ago \| 374 comments
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