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31.		Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016) (salk.edu)
		178 points by anjel 28 days ago \| 112 comments
32.		What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf] (itu.dk)
		125 points by jbarrow 32 days ago \| 56 comments
33.		Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today (grepular.com)
		119 points by zdw 28 days ago \| 259 comments
34.		On The Need For Understanding (information-superhighway.net)
		118 points by zdw 32 days ago \| 45 comments
35.		Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance (pyrefly.org)
		119 points by ocamoss 28 days ago \| 59 comments
36.		A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era (msn.com)
		95 points by zdw 28 days ago \| 111 comments
37.		Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video] (youtube.com)
		95 points by surprisetalk 32 days ago \| 11 comments
38.		Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points (exclusivearchitecture.com)
		139 points by ExAr 29 days ago \| 49 comments
39.		Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025) (arxiv.org)
		148 points by wek 28 days ago \| 81 comments
40.		Even faster asin() was staring right at me (16bpp.net)
		124 points by def-pri-pub 28 days ago \| 64 comments
41.		Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI (nvidia.com)
		179 points by lewismenelaws 27 days ago \| 101 comments
42.		Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn (politico.eu)
		293 points by speckx 28 days ago \| 230 comments
43.		Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation (righttoprivacyact.github.io)
		118 points by pilingual 28 days ago \| 74 comments
44.		SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files (github.com/jtsylve)
		60 points by luu 29 days ago \| 19 comments
45.		Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu (ben.gesoff.uk)
		108 points by bengesoff 32 days ago \| 16 comments
46.		'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images (popsci.com)
		226 points by wslh 28 days ago \| 101 comments
47.		How far can you go with IX Route Servers only? (benjojo.co.uk)
		60 points by ingve 32 days ago \| 5 comments
48.		What is agentic engineering? (simonwillison.net)
		165 points by lumpa 28 days ago \| 94 comments
49.		Type systems are leaky abstractions: the case of Map.take!/2 (dashbit.co)
		52 points by tosh 32 days ago \| 30 comments
50.		A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites (ulmer457718.substack.com)
		52 points by gaplong 31 days ago \| 15 comments
51.		Launch HN: Chamber (YC W26) – An AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure (usechamber.io)
		26 points by jshen96 28 days ago \| 7 comments
52.		Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral? (asimov.press)
		80 points by surprisetalk 32 days ago \| 33 comments
53.		Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily (hackerbrief.vercel.app)
		82 points by p0u4a 28 days ago \| 47 comments
54.		An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS (towlion.github.io)
		22 points by baijum 28 days ago \| 13 comments
55.		[flagged] Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects (github.com/qainsights)
		23 points by qainsights 28 days ago \| 36 comments
56.		Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan (siliconimist.com)
		57 points by johncole 28 days ago \| 15 comments
57.		ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007) (cam.ac.uk)
		46 points by exvi 28 days ago \| 29 comments
58.		MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025) (sciencedaily.com)
		104 points by carlos-menezes 28 days ago \| 106 comments
59.		Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
		218 points by tathagatadg 28 days ago \| 202 comments
60.		Show HN: Free OpenAI API Access with ChatGPT Account (github.com/evanzhoudev)
		48 points by EvanZhouDev 28 days ago \| 17 comments
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