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1.		The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		459 points by paulmooreparks 15 hours ago \| 149 comments
2.		I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
		788 points by apitman 14 hours ago \| 369 comments
3.		SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (reuters.com)
		608 points by itsmarcelg 9 hours ago \| 1019 comments
4.		Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)
		676 points by jfb 5 hours ago \| 315 comments
5.		I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video] (youtube.com)
		164 points by alexis-d 6 days ago \| 85 comments
6.		Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art (heikkilotvonen.com)
		136 points by california-og 15 hours ago \| 23 comments
7.		Mechanical Watch (2022) (ciechanow.ski)
		550 points by razin 8 hours ago \| 103 comments
8.		Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields (sighack.com)
		138 points by 0x000xca0xfe 2 days ago \| 22 comments
9.		Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers (theregister.com)
		502 points by _tk_ 10 hours ago \| 303 comments
10.		Cohere's First Model for Developers (cohere.com)
		133 points by hmokiguess 5 days ago \| 36 comments
11.		Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 (tck.mn)
		235 points by rdmuser 10 hours ago \| 75 comments
12.		Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion (economist.com)
		160 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago \| 445 comments
13.		Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri (narracomm.com)
		119 points by thelonelyborg 19 hours ago \| 131 comments
14.		Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		107 points by tosh 12 hours ago \| 34 comments
15.		Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness (theverge.com)
		296 points by neilfrndes 3 hours ago \| 96 comments
16.		The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat (rferl.org)
		151 points by Cider9986 2 days ago \| 52 comments
17.		Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org (strivemath.org)
		95 points by apulkit6 10 hours ago \| 12 comments
18.		Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap (ishmeetbindra.com)
		76 points by arzh2 19 hours ago \| 70 comments
19.		Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator (unicorn-engine.org)
		75 points by tosh 8 hours ago \| 23 comments
20.		The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (shonczinner.github.io)
		57 points by Anon84 5 days ago \| 10 comments
21.		Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers (9to5google.com)
		245 points by speckx 6 hours ago \| 319 comments
22.		SpaceX Is Buying Cursor (bbc.com)
		285 points by jrm-veris 7 hours ago \| 3 comments
23.		An interview with an Apple emoji designer (shadycharacters.co.uk)
		76 points by nate 3 days ago \| 39 comments
24.		Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? (pragmaticengineer.com)
		219 points by throwarayes 3 hours ago \| 141 comments
25.		SubQ 1.1 Small (subq.ai)
		81 points by EDM115 4 hours ago \| 37 comments
26.		[flagged] Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch (runtimewire.com)
		154 points by ilreb 16 hours ago \| 69 comments
27.		But yak shaving is fun (parksb.github.io)
		123 points by parksb 5 hours ago \| 33 comments
28.		Commodore Releases Flip Phone (commodore.net)
		156 points by bartekrutkowski 10 hours ago \| 95 comments
29.		Claude: Elevated errors across many models (claude.com)
		144 points by forks 2 hours ago \| 125 comments
30.		Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers (slashdot.org)
		132 points by arnejenssen 4 hours ago \| 3 comments
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