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1.		SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B (twitter.com/spacex)
		776 points by dmarcos 20 hours ago \| 929 comments
2.		Making RAM at Home [video] (youtube.com)
		556 points by kaipereira 1 day ago \| 159 comments
3.		Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen (asteriskmag.com)
		643 points by nkurz 2 days ago \| 426 comments
4.		Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (hails.org)
		743 points by sohkamyung 9 hours ago \| 173 comments
5.		Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021) (luminousmen.substack.com)
		291 points by zdw 19 hours ago \| 211 comments
6.		Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM (jasoneckert.github.io)
		179 points by jasoneckert 3 days ago \| 139 comments
7.		Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)
		546 points by Kaibeezy 2 hours ago \| 192 comments
8.		CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production (brex.com)
		122 points by pedrofranceschi 1 day ago \| 51 comments
9.		Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code (fitzgen.com)
		102 points by foota 3 days ago \| 52 comments
10.		GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry (cli.github.com)
		324 points by ingve 7 hours ago \| 244 comments
11.		Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment (courthousenews.com)
		96 points by geox 1 day ago \| 9 comments
12.		Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma (ieee.org)
		88 points by pseudolus 3 days ago \| 2 comments
13.		Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model (qwen.ai)
		387 points by mfiguiere 5 hours ago \| 211 comments
14.		Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era (blog.google)
		304 points by xnx 6 hours ago \| 151 comments
15.		How does GPS work? (perthirtysix.com)
		184 points by alfanick 9 hours ago \| 39 comments
16.		XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		165 points by ingve 12 hours ago \| 178 comments
17.		MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation (github.com/google-deepmind)
		99 points by modinfo 3 days ago \| 22 comments
18.		3.4M Solar Panels (marksblogg.com)
		235 points by marklit 6 hours ago \| 163 comments
19.		FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX (fortune.com)
		212 points by ineedasername 16 hours ago \| 135 comments
20.		All your agents are going async (zknill.io)
		111 points by zknill 2 days ago \| 72 comments
21.		A printing press for biological data (owlposting.com)
		55 points by crescit_eundo 2 days ago \| 2 comments
22.		Prefill-as-a-Service:KVCache of Next-Generation Models Could Go Cross-Datacenter (arxiv.org)
		42 points by matt_d 3 days ago \| 1 comment
23.		Another Day Has Come (daringfireball.net)
		141 points by ndr42 22 hours ago \| 121 comments
24.		San Diego rents declined following surge in supply (kpbs.org)
		209 points by littlexsparkee 17 hours ago \| 212 comments
25.		Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns (adriankrebs.ch)
		228 points by hubraumhugo 4 hours ago \| 177 comments
26.		Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source" (arstechnica.com)
		102 points by tambourine_man 17 hours ago \| 30 comments
27.		Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs (theregister.com)
		214 points by jjgreen 10 hours ago \| 158 comments
28.		Kuri – Zig based agent-browser alternative (github.com/justrach)
		53 points by sorcercode 16 hours ago \| 7 comments
29.		Columnar Storage Is Normalization (buttondown.com/jaffray)
		79 points by ibobev 6 hours ago \| 29 comments
30.		Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops (psu.edu)
		151 points by t-3 5 hours ago \| 41 comments
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