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31.		Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript (github.com/n-e)
		69 points by n_e 59 days ago \| 34 comments
32.		Xbox UI Portfolio Site (gabrielcabrera.co)
		172 points by valgaze 60 days ago \| 51 comments
33.		Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other (mage-bench.com)
		117 points by GregorStocks 59 days ago \| 83 comments
34.		CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC (nbcnews.com)
		535 points by theahura 59 days ago \| 261 comments
35.		Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024) (tardis.ac)
		48 points by luu 61 days ago \| 5 comments
36.		Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring (theregister.com)
		285 points by benji8000 59 days ago \| 204 comments
37.		Chess engines do weird stuff (girl.surgery)
		154 points by admiringly 59 days ago \| 81 comments
38.		Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps (halfof8.com)
		63 points by gessha 59 days ago \| 16 comments
39.		Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts (sonarly.com)
		30 points by Dimittri 59 days ago \| 17 comments
40.		Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station (kpbj.fm)
		113 points by solomonb 59 days ago \| 56 comments
41.		Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout (vo2maxpro.com)
		189 points by GoodluckH 60 days ago \| 149 comments
42.		A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)
		256 points by zdw 62 days ago \| 176 comments
43.		How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is (newscientist.com)
		71 points by pella 63 days ago \| 60 comments
44.		Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite (notnotp.com)
		77 points by enz 62 days ago \| 11 comments
45.		What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf] (tuwien.ac.at)
		68 points by tosh 63 days ago \| 100 comments
46.		Don't pass on small block ciphers (00f.net)
		50 points by jstrieb 62 days ago \| 63 comments
47.		SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution (svardos.org)
		73 points by d_silin 60 days ago \| 16 comments
48.		Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs (github.com/byte271)
		35 points by yihac1 59 days ago \| 8 comments
49.		America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital (governance.fyi)
		184 points by bigbobbeeper 59 days ago \| 346 comments
50.		Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs (chromewebstore.google.com)
		40 points by somesortofthing 63 days ago \| 43 comments
51.		[flagged] Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat (arstechnica.com)
		223 points by voxadam 59 days ago \| 76 comments
52.		Show HN: Box of Rain - Auto-Layouted ASCII Diagrams (github.com/switz)
		24 points by switz 62 days ago \| 14 comments
53.		Labyrinth Locator (labyrinthlocator.org)
		38 points by emigre 63 days ago \| 11 comments
54.		An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout (theshamblog.com)
		120 points by scottshambaugh 59 days ago \| 83 comments
55.		After 800 episodes, 'The Simpsons' creators look back and ahead (apnews.com)
		48 points by 1659447091 61 days ago \| 60 comments
56.		Rethinking High-School Science Fairs (asteriskmag.com)
		62 points by surprisetalk 63 days ago \| 72 comments
57.		Undo in Vi and Its Successors (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		46 points by todsacerdoti 59 days ago \| 46 comments
58.		Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware? (semiengineering.com)
		87 points by stn8188 59 days ago \| 115 comments
59.		Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School (404media.co)
		89 points by trinsic2 59 days ago \| 76 comments
60.		Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI (continue.dev)
		44 points by sestinj 59 days ago \| 7 comments
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