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31.
XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support (ostechnix.com)
264 points by alexzeitler on Oct 6, 2024 | 200 comments
32.
To Be Born in a Bag (asimov.com)
95 points by mailyk on Oct 6, 2024 | 134 comments
33.
Life, death, and retirement (randomascii.wordpress.com)
320 points by david2ndaccount on Oct 1, 2024 | 166 comments
34.
Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence (theguardian.com)
82 points by zeristor on Oct 1, 2024 | 31 comments
35.
Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI (abc.net.au)
82 points by testrun on Oct 6, 2024 | 37 comments
36.
Router Security (routersecurity.org)
119 points by blueridge on Oct 5, 2024 | 83 comments
37.
Distributed transactions in Go: Read before you try (threedots.tech)
98 points by roblaszczak on Oct 2, 2024 | 56 comments
38.
WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept) (github.com/centminmod)
83 points by rob on Oct 5, 2024 | 39 comments
39.
How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet (eff.org)
118 points by mooreds on Oct 6, 2024 | 72 comments
40.
We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem (reddit.com)
199 points by neelc on Oct 6, 2024 | 223 comments
41.
AI is an impediment to learning web development (ben.page)
229 points by bdlowery on Oct 6, 2024 | 216 comments
42.
Partitioning in the Chiplet Era (semiengineering.com)
51 points by rbanffy on Oct 6, 2024 | 11 comments
43.
DMNO: Environment Variables Evolved (dmno.dev)
33 points by bpierre on Oct 1, 2024 | 16 comments
44.
WiFi4EU initiative provides free Wi-Fi in public spaces across Europe (europa.eu)
131 points by nabla9 on Oct 6, 2024 | 119 comments
45.
Hyprland 0.44 (hyprland.org)
124 points by bpierre on Oct 6, 2024 | 60 comments
46.
New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter (phys.org)
92 points by squircle on Oct 6, 2024 | 36 comments
47.
Starlink direct-to-cell enabled for hurricane helene emergency messaging (twitter.com/spacex)
147 points by nynx on Oct 6, 2024 | 164 comments
48.
Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009) (freakonomics.com)
61 points by jawns on Oct 6, 2024 | 164 comments
49.
The X-Files Game (filfre.net)
80 points by thurnderbong on Oct 6, 2024 | 33 comments
50.
Taiwan is heading toward an energy crunch? (wired.com)
82 points by vunderba on Oct 6, 2024 | 119 comments
51.
King vs. Kubrick: The Origins of Evil (2020) (sensesofcinema.com)
61 points by indigodaddy on Oct 5, 2024 | 73 comments
52.
ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping (twitter.com/uwukko)
138 points by jsheard on Oct 6, 2024 | 54 comments
53.
Let the network tell you where you are (rachelbythebay.com)
79 points by zdw on Oct 2, 2024 | 22 comments
54.
"Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says (arstechnica.com)
67 points by cebert on Oct 6, 2024 | 45 comments
55.
Things I learned interviewing for Staff positions (2020) (amyunger.com)
82 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 6, 2024 | 79 comments
56.
The Plan to Save Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Skyscraper Isn't Going as Planned (nytimes.com)
34 points by tintinnabula on Oct 1, 2024 | 52 comments
57.
Show HN: CodeAir – Control VS Code from Your Phone (codeair.app)
41 points by pk97 on Oct 5, 2024 | 33 comments
58.
'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything' (elpais.com)
111 points by belter on Oct 6, 2024 | 150 comments
59.
 [flagged] Meta Is Probably Training AI on Images Taken by Meta Ray-Bans (macrumors.com)
77 points by reaperducer on Oct 6, 2024 | 46 comments
60.
Show HN: Gato Prompt Lang – keep prompt content and responses short in JSON (github.com/listfulal)
16 points by cat-turner on Oct 2, 2024 | 5 comments

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