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31.		Statement from Jerome Powell (federalreserve.gov)
		924 points by 0xedb 6 months ago \| 808 comments
32.		Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association (github.com/scionassociation)
		94 points by romshark 6 months ago \| 32 comments
33.		Erich von Däniken has died (daniken.com)
		135 points by Kaibeezy 6 months ago \| 254 comments
34.		Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn (bbc.com)
		164 points by koolhead17 6 months ago \| 163 comments
35.		Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video] (youtube.com)
		77 points by rib3ye 6 months ago \| 47 comments
36.		Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios (kikkia.dev)
		133 points by zdw 7 months ago \| 59 comments
37.		Garbage collection is contrarian (trynova.dev)
		68 points by aapoalas 6 months ago \| 23 comments
38.		Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language (github.com/imjasonh)
		62 points by ImJasonH 6 months ago \| 41 comments
39.		Ansible battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, Nginx, MySQL (github.com/dev-sec)
		95 points by walterbell 7 months ago \| 24 comments
40.		Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser (kushaldas.in)
		59 points by kushaldas 7 months ago \| 15 comments
41.		Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants (metacpan.org)
		77 points by mjs 7 months ago \| 29 comments
42.		Which programming languages are most token-efficient? (martinalderson.com)
		115 points by tehnub 6 months ago \| 91 comments
43.		What old tennis players teach us (2017) (raphkoster.com)
		53 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago \| 31 comments
44.		Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse (irishtimes.com)
		155 points by mooreds 6 months ago \| 99 comments
45.		XMPP and Metadata (mathieui.net)
		77 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago \| 31 comments
46.		Computers that used to be human (digitalseams.com)
		64 points by bobbiechen 6 months ago \| 20 comments
47.		Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails (promptarmor.com)
		114 points by takira 6 months ago \| 30 comments
48.		Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell (github.com/ibehnam)
		37 points by behnamoh 7 months ago \| 15 comments
49.		[dupe] Statement from Federal Reserve Chair (federalreserve.gov)
		180 points by nikhizzle 6 months ago \| 29 comments
50.		Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome F. Powell [video] (youtube.com)
		368 points by sprawl_ 6 months ago \| 4 comments
51.		Rare Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard found (bbc.com)
		35 points by breve 7 months ago \| 13 comments
52.		Code is cheap now, but software isn't (chrisgregori.dev)
		159 points by fs_software 6 months ago \| 74 comments
53.		[flagged] X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It (wired.com)
		222 points by pavel_lishin 6 months ago \| 197 comments
54.		Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text (huggingface.co)
		55 points by tsazan 7 months ago \| 34 comments
55.		Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig (yankodesign.com)
		87 points by tortilla 6 months ago \| 52 comments
56.		Show HN: What if AI agents had Zodiac personalities? (github.com/baturyilmaz)
		29 points by arbayi 6 months ago \| 18 comments
57.		GitHub: A case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013) (chrismorgan.info)
		26 points by roryokane 7 months ago \| 7 comments
58.		Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use (open-meteo.com)
		112 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago \| 16 comments
59.		Iran has now been offline for 96 hours (twitter.com/netblocks)
		165 points by payamb 6 months ago \| 183 comments
60.		[flagged] Show HN: DevicePrint – device fingerprinting without cookies
		21 points by silverrump 7 months ago \| 50 comments
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