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1.		Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 (lapcatsoftware.com)
		1330 points by latexr on Dec 28, 2024 \| 984 comments
2.		Jimmy Carter has died (washingtonpost.com)
		1183 points by gkolli on Dec 29, 2024 \| 826 comments
3.		WebGL Fluid Simulation (paveldogreat.github.io)
		466 points by ChadNauseam on Dec 29, 2024 \| 60 comments
4.		Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014) (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
		272 points by wxw on Dec 27, 2024 \| 29 comments
5.		Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (fishshell.com)
		906 points by jdxcode on Dec 28, 2024 \| 198 comments
6.		Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU? (mikegalsworthy.substack.com)
		295 points by mariuz on Dec 29, 2024 \| 691 comments
7.		Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting (scrtwpns.com)
		379 points by tlarkworthy on Dec 29, 2024 \| 56 comments
8.		Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again (chrisholdgraf.com)
		269 points by ianrahman on Dec 29, 2024 \| 538 comments
9.		38C3: Illegal Instructions (ccc.de)
		465 points by type0 on Dec 29, 2024 \| 81 comments
10.		Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator (2018) (jamchamb.net)
		145 points by networked on Dec 28, 2024 \| 5 comments
11.		38C3: Blinkencity, radio controlling street lamps and power plants [video] (ccc.de)
		216 points by aunderscored on Dec 28, 2024 \| 47 comments
12.		Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders (techcrunch.com)
		118 points by PaulHoule on Dec 26, 2024 \| 58 comments
13.		BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video] (ccc.de)
		180 points by doener on Dec 29, 2024 \| 196 comments
14.		Melbourne Train Control System is running on a hardware emulated PDP11 (mastodon.sdf.org)
		129 points by SerCe on Dec 26, 2024 \| 40 comments
15.		The last Inca bridge master (bbc.com)
		146 points by andsoitis on Dec 27, 2024 \| 51 comments
16.		Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible? (benkaiser.dev)
		223 points by benkaiser on Dec 29, 2024 \| 153 comments
17.		NASA, Axiom Space Change Assembly Order of Commercial Space Station (nasa.gov)
		94 points by mzs on Dec 26, 2024 \| 42 comments
18.		Breaking NATO Radio Encryption [video] (ccc.de)
		165 points by doener on Dec 29, 2024 \| 42 comments
19.		We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video] (ccc.de)
		410 points by doener on Dec 29, 2024 \| 68 comments
20.		How I run LLMs locally (abishekmuthian.com)
		400 points by Abishek_Muthian on Dec 29, 2024 \| 231 comments
21.		I was wrong about the ethics crisis (acm.org)
		285 points by bikenaga on Dec 29, 2024 \| 432 comments
22.		Personal Mail Server on OpenBSD (2019) (nicolascarpi.github.io)
		124 points by likeabatterycar on Dec 29, 2024 \| 78 comments
23.		Libsearch: Simple index-free full-text search for JavaScript (github.com/thesephist)
		96 points by thesephist on Dec 29, 2024 \| 19 comments
24.		Jeju Air Jet Crashes in South Korea With Over 170 Dead or Missing (bloomberg.com)
		240 points by toomuchtodo on Dec 29, 2024 \| 251 comments
25.		Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold (cbc.ca)
		268 points by colinprince on Dec 29, 2024 \| 198 comments
26.		Bad keming: Kerning failures, plus other typographical and font mishaps (badkeming.com)
		122 points by gaws on Dec 26, 2024 \| 24 comments
27.		Hello World on z/OS (2018) (medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist)
		89 points by haunter on Dec 27, 2024 \| 63 comments
28.		Coupling nitrogen-vacancy center spins in diamond to a grape dimer (aps.org)
		56 points by bookofjoe on Dec 25, 2024 \| 25 comments
29.		Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems? (scottrlarson.com)
		209 points by trinsic2 on Dec 29, 2024 \| 156 comments
30.		BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021) (ariadne.space)
		121 points by thunderbong on Dec 29, 2024 \| 107 comments
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