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31.		Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills (qu8n.com)
		230 points by quanwinn 4 months ago \| 286 comments
32.		The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster (economist.com)
		77 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago \| 43 comments
33.		Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval (github.com/gibram-io)
		60 points by ktyptorio 4 months ago \| 9 comments
34.		Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16 (cnx-software.com)
		140 points by fork-bomber 5 months ago \| 82 comments
35.		Consent-O-Matic (github.com/cavi-au)
		193 points by throawayonthe 4 months ago \| 99 comments
36.		Overlapping Markup (wikipedia.org)
		68 points by ripe 4 months ago \| 11 comments
37.		Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board (github.com/dvelton)
		32 points by dustfinger 5 months ago \| 16 comments
38.		U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site (torrentfreak.com)
		126 points by t-3 4 months ago \| 75 comments
39.		Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram (2018) (medium.com/lapsed-historian)
		85 points by tony-allan 4 months ago \| 6 comments
40.		Why Object of Arrays beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance issue (royalbhati.com)
		46 points by howToTestFE 5 months ago \| 22 comments
41.		Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine (github.com/loretta1982)
		74 points by xeniafont 4 months ago \| 44 comments
42.		Stirling Cycle Machine Analysis (ohio.edu)
		34 points by akshatjiwan 4 months ago \| 14 comments
43.		Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game (speedminers.fun)
		49 points by nickponline 4 months ago \| 8 comments
44.		IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator (polysoftit.co.uk)
		50 points by rtybanana 4 months ago \| 4 comments
45.		Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK (presidentti.fi)
		542 points by calcifer 4 months ago \| 528 comments
46.		Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine (loper-os.org)
		36 points by Kotlopou 5 months ago \| 12 comments
47.		The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable (nobelpeaceprize.org)
		298 points by karakoram 4 months ago \| 229 comments
48.		How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery (anthropic.com)
		124 points by gmays 4 months ago \| 75 comments
49.		Show HN: HTTP:COLON – A quick HTTP header/directive inspector and reference (httpcolon.dev)
		37 points by ultimoo 4 months ago \| 4 comments
50.		Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid (joanwestenberg.com)
		53 points by zdw 5 months ago \| 55 comments
51.		Docker.how – Docker command cheat sheet (docker.how)
		73 points by anagogistis 4 months ago \| 25 comments
52.		Data Activation Thoughts (galsapir.github.io)
		21 points by galsapir 4 months ago \| 5 comments
53.		Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better? (nngroup.com)
		72 points by seanwilson 4 months ago \| 72 comments
54.		Five Practical Lessons for Serving Models with Triton Inference Server (talperry.com)
		23 points by talolard 5 months ago \| 6 comments
55.		Launching the Handmade Software Foundation (handmade.network)
		63 points by DeathArrow 4 months ago \| 39 comments
56.		Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations (xnacly.me)
		26 points by ibobev 5 months ago \| 6 comments
57.		Evolution Unleashed (2018) (aeon.co)
		15 points by DiabloD3 4 months ago
58.		OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 (tomshardware.com)
		88 points by thenaturalist 4 months ago \| 76 comments
59.		The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature (washingtonpost.com)
		12 points by benbreen 4 months ago \| 2 comments
60.		EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal (dw.com)
		115 points by perihelions 4 months ago \| 173 comments
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