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1.
I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)
658 points by TheEdonian 1 day ago | 445 comments
2.
Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (blog.mozilla.org)
798 points by WithinReason 2 days ago | 347 comments
3.
A nicer voltmeter clock (lcamtuf.substack.com)
366 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 50 comments
4.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (wikipedia.org)
251 points by doener 4 days ago | 97 comments
5.
I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com/tech4bot)
428 points by tech4bot 1 day ago | 227 comments
6.
Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
275 points by birdculture 3 days ago | 55 comments
7.
Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)
316 points by celsoazevedo 2 days ago | 346 comments
8.
GenCAD (gencad.github.io)
432 points by dagenix 1 day ago | 119 comments
9.
CUDA Books (github.com/alternbits)
229 points by dariubs 1 day ago | 58 comments
10.
Hindenburg’s Smoking Room (airships.net)
228 points by crescit_eundo 4 days ago | 198 comments
11.
High-Entropy Alloy (wikipedia.org)
153 points by leonidasrup 4 days ago | 26 comments
12.
Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (maurycyz.com)
251 points by zdw 2 days ago | 23 comments
13.
Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) (rogerebert.com)
145 points by walterbell 3 days ago | 88 comments
14.
Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)
445 points by dive 1 day ago | 300 comments
15.
Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)
112 points by bushwart 1 day ago | 123 comments
16.
AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)
466 points by ch_sm 1 day ago | 206 comments
17.
Halt and Catch Fire (unstack.io)
208 points by ScottWRobinson 2 days ago | 109 comments
18.
Prolog Coding Horror (metalevel.at)
195 points by RohanAdwankar 1 day ago | 83 comments
19.
A molecule with half-Möbius topology (science.org)
112 points by bryanrasmussen 6 days ago | 10 comments
20.
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)
339 points by datadrivenangel 1 day ago | 289 comments
21.
Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely (idahonews.com)
242 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 249 comments
22.
Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] (fosdem.org)
209 points by ibobev 3 days ago | 250 comments
23.
 [dupe] Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)
582 points by nolok 1 day ago | 261 comments
24.
C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
206 points by signa11 4 days ago | 158 comments
25.
AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise (thestateofbrand.com)
410 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 396 comments
26.
The Third Hard Problem (mmapped.blog)
160 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 66 comments
27.
VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) (ieee.org)
167 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 61 comments
28.
Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets (quantamagazine.org)
86 points by Xcelerate 5 days ago | 19 comments
29.
Illusions of understanding in the sciences (springer.com)
114 points by sebg 4 days ago | 61 comments
30.
WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)
324 points by zzzeek 1 day ago | 221 comments

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