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1.		Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator (filiph.github.io)
		930 points by filiph on April 15, 2025 \| 162 comments
2.		Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations (reddit.com)
		1511 points by scaredpelican on April 14, 2025 \| 606 comments
3.		4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak (knowyourmeme.com)
		710 points by LookAtThatBacon on April 15, 2025 \| 975 comments
4.		Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data (npr.org)
		1171 points by rbanffy on April 15, 2025 \| 542 comments
5.		Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2 (blog.google)
		347 points by meetpateltech on April 15, 2025 \| 132 comments
6.		How the U.S. became a science superpower (steveblank.com)
		480 points by groseje on April 15, 2025 \| 501 comments
7.		TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days (digicert.com)
		512 points by crtasm on April 15, 2025 \| 676 comments
8.		How to win an argument with a toddler (seths.blog)
		728 points by herbertl on April 15, 2025 \| 520 comments
9.		Clolog (github.com/bobschrag)
		258 points by todsacerdoti on April 15, 2025 \| 44 comments
10.		Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness (github.com/ubisoft)
		231 points by gm678 on April 15, 2025 \| 86 comments
11.		Hacking the Postgres wire protocol (pgdog.dev)
		229 points by levkk on April 15, 2025 \| 50 comments
12.		How many supernova explode every year? (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)
		369 points by rbanffy on April 12, 2025 \| 187 comments
13.		America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back (molsonhart.com)
		842 points by putzdown on April 15, 2025 \| 992 comments
14.		Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads (searchengineland.com)
		380 points by rexbee on April 14, 2025 \| 691 comments
15.		Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch (dogac.dev)
		250 points by dogacel on April 11, 2025 \| 74 comments
16.		JSLinux (bellard.org)
		392 points by TechTechTech on April 14, 2025 \| 118 comments
17.		Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024) (jmswrnr.com)
		318 points by walterbell on April 15, 2025 \| 79 comments
18.		JSX over the Wire (overreacted.io)
		267 points by danabramov on April 15, 2025 \| 178 comments
19.		Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review
		221 points by pomarie on April 15, 2025 \| 108 comments
20.		The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		143 points by luu on April 15, 2025 \| 48 comments
21.		Tomb Engine (tombengine.com)
		212 points by ibobev on April 14, 2025 \| 49 comments
22.		How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers (ieee.org)
		225 points by DonHopkins on April 15, 2025 \| 170 comments
23.		Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024) (arxiv.org)
		248 points by doener on April 15, 2025 \| 95 comments
24.		Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
		236 points by memet_rush on April 14, 2025 \| 223 comments
25.		Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers (github.com/riseandignite)
		134 points by nick_wolf on April 15, 2025 \| 39 comments
26.		Cohere Launches Embed 4 (cohere.com)
		96 points by rekovacs on April 15, 2025 \| 48 comments
27.		Show HN: Resonate – real-time high temporal resolution spectral analysis (alexandrefrancois.org)
		76 points by arjf on April 15, 2025 \| 30 comments
28.		Liquid: Language models are scalable and unified multi-modal generators (foundationvision.github.io)
		82 points by pr337h4m on April 15, 2025 \| 8 comments
29.		It's easier than ever to de-censor videos (jeffgeerling.com)
		387 points by DamonHD on April 15, 2025 \| 158 comments
30.		7k-year-old skeletons from the green Sahara reveal a mysterious human lineage (smithsonianmag.com)
		96 points by pseudolus on April 12, 2025 \| 33 comments
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