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1.		Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux (himthe.dev)
		1864 points by bobsterlobster 6 days ago \| 1497 comments
2.		ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data (eff.org)
		1473 points by JKCalhoun 8 days ago \| 970 comments
3.		Airfoil (2024) (ciechanow.ski)
		529 points by brk 6 days ago \| 60 comments
4.		Android’s desktop interface leaks (9to5google.com)
		287 points by thunderbong 6 days ago \| 384 comments
5.		Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers (github.com/ratatui)
		244 points by orhunp_ 5 days ago \| 47 comments
6.		Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance (alecmuffett.com)
		547 points by wubin 5 days ago \| 150 comments
7.		Amazon cuts 16k jobs (reuters.com)
		705 points by DGAP 6 days ago \| 976 comments
8.		Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python (dimamik.com)
		270 points by dimamik 6 days ago \| 105 comments
9.		Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU (vectorware.com)
		255 points by justaboutanyone 10 days ago \| 57 comments
10.		Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model (arcee.ai)
		230 points by linolevan 6 days ago \| 82 comments
11.		Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores (yahoo.com)
		315 points by trenning 7 days ago \| 547 comments
12.		Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection (computerhistory.org)
		187 points by ChrisArchitect 5 days ago \| 39 comments
13.		Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending (github.com/jmuncor)
		218 points by jmuncor 5 days ago \| 118 comments
14.		There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him (fastcompany.com)
		326 points by coloneltcb 10 days ago \| 158 comments
15.		Show HN: The HN Arcade (andrewgy8.github.io)
		350 points by yuppiepuppie 6 days ago \| 122 comments
16.		Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning? (newyorker.com)
		183 points by littlexsparkee 6 days ago \| 78 comments
17.		Some notes on starting to use Django (jvns.ca)
		256 points by ingve 6 days ago \| 142 comments
18.		Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks (siliceum.com)
		157 points by bdash 6 days ago \| 62 comments
19.		Extremophile molds are invading art museums (scientificamerican.com)
		153 points by sohkamyung 11 days ago \| 74 comments
20.		Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle (geometrycode.com)
		174 points by peter_d_sherman 10 days ago \| 64 comments
21.		Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index (github.com/microsoft)
		143 points by SchwKatze 5 days ago \| 22 comments
22.		In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games? (thinkygames.com)
		89 points by tobr 11 days ago \| 106 comments
23.		LM Studio 0.4 (lmstudio.ai)
		238 points by jiqiren 5 days ago \| 128 comments
24.		SVG Path Editor (yqnn.github.io)
		253 points by gurjeet 11 days ago \| 43 comments
25.		Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp (fb.com)
		265 points by ubj 6 days ago \| 144 comments
26.		Make.ts (matklad.github.io)
		248 points by ingve 6 days ago \| 135 comments
27.		I overengineered a spinning top [video] (youtube.com)
		160 points by bane 11 days ago \| 51 comments
28.		How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital (economist.com)
		226 points by ellieh 6 days ago \| 356 comments
29.		UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M (mahadk.com)
		402 points by JustSkyfall 5 days ago \| 150 comments
30.		Pandas 3.0 (pydata.org)
		270 points by jonbaer 11 days ago \| 118 comments
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