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31.
How Golden Is Silence, Actually? (newyorker.com)
75 points by tintinnabula 5 days ago | 52 comments
32.
The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
137 points by michaefe 6 days ago | 40 comments
33.
Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (oup.com)
185 points by bohaska 3 days ago | 203 comments
34.
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
345 points by minimaxir 2 days ago | 69 comments
35.
Datalog Disassembly (github.com/grammatech)
67 points by aboardRat4 8 days ago | 6 comments
36.
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)
277 points by Thorondor 2 days ago | 103 comments
37.
Stylized GGX Shading (alexandrelamure.github.io)
57 points by ibobev 7 days ago | discuss
38.
Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
295 points by evo_9 2 days ago | 270 comments
39.
Crickets as pets (wikipedia.org)
88 points by Michelangelo11 6 days ago | 40 comments
40.
Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing (github.com/eighttrigrams)
54 points by eighttrigrams 2 days ago | 15 comments
41.
Incentives are for losers (experimental-history.com)
170 points by bkudria 2 days ago | 124 comments
42.
The Hacker's Renaissance (2025) (phrack.org)
124 points by yu3zhou4 2 days ago | 104 comments
43.
The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video] (gdcvault.com)
54 points by hyperific 6 days ago | 11 comments
44.
Protopia (kevinkelly.substack.com)
53 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 57 comments
45.
Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (informs.org)
197 points by iamnothere 2 days ago | 99 comments
46.
Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)
133 points by WaitWaitWha 2 days ago | 127 comments
47.
Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)
46 points by login588 2 days ago | 18 comments
48.
Touring the Consensus, Six Months In (theconsensus.dev)
26 points by tosh 5 days ago | discuss
49.
Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake (jakearchibald.com)
51 points by robin_reala 14 days ago | 21 comments
50.
When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
44 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 6 comments
51.
Every fast write moves work somewhere else (shayon.dev)
73 points by shayonj 2 days ago | 24 comments
52.
CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)
99 points by ashurandi 2 days ago | 45 comments
53.
FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (tomshardware.com)
118 points by f-serif 2 days ago | 119 comments
54.
Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue (github.com/uber)
69 points by handfuloflight 10 days ago | 60 comments
55.
Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win (alphabetsoup.club)
35 points by johnchinjew 2 days ago | 35 comments
56.
Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (wtoc.com)
139 points by chirau 2 days ago | 136 comments
57.
SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost (404media.co)
102 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 69 comments
58.
Assert(): A Modern How To (fiberfs.io)
19 points by nyc_pizzadev 7 days ago | 32 comments
59.
The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (andymasley.com)
171 points by mef 2 days ago | 200 comments
60.
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
109 points by Eloissssss 2 days ago | 84 comments

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