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31.		Iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes (tangled.org)
		76 points by luthenwald 4 days ago \| 16 comments
32.		Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google (alanwsmith.com)
		126 points by bobbiechen 9 hours ago \| 69 comments
33.		There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers (howtogeek.com)
		130 points by rmason 6 hours ago \| 39 comments
34.		Sending Data over Offline Finding Networks (cc-sw.com)
		70 points by findmysanity 5 days ago \| 8 comments
35.		Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations (xnacly.me)
		35 points by xnacly 5 days ago \| 2 comments
36.		From Nevada to Kansas by Glider (weglide.org)
		111 points by sammelaugust 4 days ago \| 25 comments
37.		Folding NASA Experience into an Origamist's Toolkit (2024) (nasa.gov)
		68 points by andsoitis 2 days ago \| 4 comments
38.		The space and motion of communicating agents (2008) [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
		36 points by dhorthy 4 days ago \| 5 comments
39.		Cardputer uLisp Machine (2024) (ulisp.com)
		55 points by tosh 4 days ago \| 5 comments
40.		Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
		152 points by zkid18 13 hours ago \| 165 comments
41.		Robust Conditional 3D Shape Generation from Casual Captures (facebookresearch.github.io)
		48 points by lastdong 15 hours ago \| 6 comments
42.		Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights (corporateeurope.org)
		262 points by robtherobber 14 hours ago \| 160 comments
43.		Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf] (cia.gov)
		119 points by praptak 6 hours ago \| 51 comments
44.		How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025) (domainlanguage.com)
		40 points by druther 3 days ago \| 34 comments
45.		Show HN: AWS-doctor – A terminal-based AWS health check and cost optimizer in Go (github.com/elc0mpa)
		49 points by elC0mpa 22 hours ago \| 20 comments
46.		RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board (tomshardware.com)
		76 points by fork-bomber 16 hours ago \| 42 comments
47.		Self Sanitizing Door Handle (jamesdysonaward.org)
		59 points by rendaw 4 days ago \| 54 comments
48.		Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro (gamesbymason.com)
		187 points by AndyKelley 1 day ago \| 252 comments
49.		Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video] (youtube.com)
		61 points by evakhoury 3 days ago \| 11 comments
50.		A Brief History of Ralph (humanlayer.dev)
		62 points by dhorthy 8 hours ago \| 34 comments
51.		MTOTP: Wouldn't it be nice if you were the 2FA device? (github.com/vbranimir)
		83 points by brna-2 18 hours ago \| 90 comments
52.		The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs (heelan.io)
		85 points by long 19 hours ago \| 58 comments
53.		New work on using fluids to function as gear teeth (phys.org)
		31 points by vlachen 5 days ago \| 52 comments
54.		Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters (github.com/luxury-yacht)
		73 points by mooreds 5 days ago \| 30 comments
55.		[flagged] Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end) (pdfwithlove.netlify.app)
		171 points by pratik227 21 hours ago \| 118 comments
56.		Show HN: A creative coding library for making art with desktop windows (github.com/willmeyers)
		27 points by willmeyers 6 hours ago \| 2 comments
57.		Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books (torrentfreak.com)
		197 points by antonmks 15 hours ago \| 122 comments
58.		The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets (jbecker.dev)
		130 points by jonbecker 10 hours ago \| 116 comments
59.		Nuclear elements detected in West Philippine Sea (philstar.com)
		85 points by ksec 16 hours ago \| 32 comments
60.		Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows (techcrunch.com)
		141 points by toomanyrichies 6 hours ago \| 137 comments
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