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1.		The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)
		1575 points by booleanbetrayal on June 4, 2025 \| 948 comments
2.		How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes (about.gitlab.com)
		593 points by nayak on June 6, 2025 \| 253 comments
3.		Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics (yomiuri.co.jp)
		440 points by anigbrowl on June 6, 2025 \| 284 comments
4.		A year of funded FreeBSD development (daemonology.net)
		382 points by cperciva on June 6, 2025 \| 126 comments
5.		Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)
		1634 points by DavideNL on June 6, 2025 \| 760 comments
6.		A masochist's guide to web development (tronto.net)
		285 points by sebtron on June 6, 2025 \| 52 comments
7.		Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed (mozillafoundation.org)
		538 points by speckx on June 6, 2025 \| 225 comments
8.		Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer (blocksandfiles.com)
		225 points by rbanffy on June 6, 2025 \| 94 comments
9.		The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] (cdn-apple.com)
		488 points by amrrs on June 6, 2025 \| 270 comments
10.		Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games (odyc.dev)
		249 points by achtaitaipai on June 6, 2025 \| 51 comments
11.		Too Many Open Files (mattrighetti.com)
		180 points by furkansahin on June 6, 2025 \| 109 comments
12.		Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019) (atlasobscura.com)
		141 points by mooreds on June 6, 2025 \| 92 comments
13.		Curate your shell history (esham.io)
		156 points by todsacerdoti on June 6, 2025 \| 84 comments
14.		Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo (veitner.bearblog.dev)
		125 points by timmyd on June 6, 2025 \| 64 comments
15.		What you need to know about EMP weapons (aardvark.co.nz)
		170 points by flyingkiwi44 on June 6, 2025 \| 206 comments
16.		Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator (godmodeai.cloud)
		162 points by lyogavin on June 6, 2025 \| 116 comments
17.		Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record (heise.de)
		205 points by doener on June 3, 2025 \| 68 comments
18.		How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy (openai.com)
		284 points by BUFU on June 6, 2025 \| 324 comments
19.		Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp (storytotell.org)
		128 points by todsacerdoti on June 6, 2025 \| 59 comments
20.		Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally (countercraft.substack.com)
		86 points by benbreen on June 5, 2025 \| 52 comments
21.		Building an AI server on a budget (informationga.in)
		174 points by mful on June 6, 2025 \| 106 comments
22.		Series C and scale (cursor.com)
		94 points by fidotron on June 6, 2025 \| 70 comments
23.		What a developer needs to know about SCIM (tesseral.com)
		148 points by noleary on June 5, 2025 \| 36 comments
24.		Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest (boostsecurity.io)
		111 points by chha on June 6, 2025 \| 58 comments
25.		Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations (masonyarbrough.com)
		129 points by echollama on June 5, 2025 \| 61 comments
26.		Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite (github.com/wey-gu)
		159 points by wey-gu on June 6, 2025 \| 52 comments
27.		I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024) (softwaredoug.com)
		141 points by softwaredoug on June 5, 2025 \| 24 comments
28.		4-7-8 Breathing (breathbelly.com)
		292 points by cheekyturtles on June 6, 2025 \| 122 comments
29.		Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake (layer22.com)
		100 points by pusewicz on June 6, 2025 \| 84 comments
30.		Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells (theguardian.com)
		216 points by colinprince on June 6, 2025 \| 36 comments
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