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121.		Bill Phillips used flowing water to model the economy (npr.org)
		9 points by curio_Pol_curio 10 days ago \| discuss
122.		Why Meter Is Not Essential to Poetry (oliviamarstall.substack.com)
		9 points by frogulis 9 days ago \| discuss
123.		A DNA Archive Built to Identify Missing Migrants Has Vanished (undark.org)
		9 points by EA-3167 10 days ago \| discuss
124.		The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026 (caio.ca)
		7 points by birdculture 9 days ago \| 2 comments
125.		Minecraft Java Edition 26.2 Snapshot 1: Initial Vulkan Support (minecraft.net)
		14 points by exploraz 10 days ago \| 2 comments
126.		Thousands of Consumer routers hacked by Russia's military (arstechnica.com)
		9 points by oldnetguy 10 days ago \| discuss
127.		Show HN: Voxcode: local speech to text and ripgrep = transcript and code context (github.com/jensneuse)
		11 points by jensneuse 10 days ago \| 2 comments
128.		Russia and China veto UN resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz (apnews.com)
		9 points by WaitWaitWha 10 days ago \| discuss
129.		Inside a huge compound where 10k workers scammed people globally (apnews.com)
		8 points by ece 10 days ago \| discuss
130.		Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens (krebsonsecurity.com)
		8 points by KnuthIsGod 10 days ago \| discuss
131.		macOS has a 49.7-day networking time bomb built in that only a reboot fixes (tomshardware.com)
		8 points by gloxkiqcza 9 days ago \| discuss
132.		Americans Are Drowning in Debt? 60% or More (patreon.com)
		7 points by videobroker 10 days ago \| 3 comments
133.		Tech industry lays off nearly 80k employees in the first quarter of 2026 (tomshardware.com)
		6 points by speckx 10 days ago \| discuss
134.		An active phishing campaign is targeting Rust crate owners (rust-lang.org)
		5 points by etaweb 9 days ago \| discuss
135.		Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research (nature.com)
		5 points by lamename 10 days ago \| discuss
136.		Trier OS – Industrial Operating System (github.com/dougtrier)
		7 points by DougTrier 10 days ago \| 2 comments
137.		Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the 'easiest country to develop AI' (theregister.com)
		14 points by jeffbobries 10 days ago \| 3 comments
138.		Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and how to mitigate attacks (kerkour.com)
		11 points by randomint64 10 days ago \| discuss
139.		Show HN: Mo – checks GitHub PRs against decisions approved in Slack (motionode.com)
		10 points by oscarcaldera 10 days ago \| 3 comments
140.		Original Apollo 11 TV broadcast (youtube.com)
		9 points by kaycebasques 10 days ago \| discuss
141.		Ralph for Beginners (engora.com)
		8 points by Vermin2000 10 days ago \| 2 comments
142.		Gmail / Google Workspace Incendent Underway (google.com)
		8 points by vapemaster 9 days ago \| 2 comments
143.		No financial instrument has ever put a root in the ground (thismightbetrue.substack.com)
		7 points by BrendanNestor 9 days ago \| discuss
144.		Takeaways from Our Search for Bitcoin's Creator (nytimes.com)
		11 points by glenstein 10 days ago \| 1 comment
145.		Apple is running out of A18 Pro chips for the MacBook Neo (tomsguide.com)
		6 points by Lwrless 10 days ago \| 2 comments
146.		Madman Theory (wikipedia.org)
		6 points by selljamhere 10 days ago \| 2 comments
147.		Show HN: Bx – macOS native sandbox for AI and coding tools (github.com/holtwick)
		8 points by holtwick 11 days ago \| discuss
148.		It's Called Silicon Sampling, and It's Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling (nytimes.com)
		8 points by tysone 10 days ago \| 2 comments
149.		Nuclear brinkmanship usually works. It's also dangerous (natesilver.net)
		9 points by rbanffy 10 days ago \| 1 comment
150.		How Trump Took the U.S. to War with Iran (nytimes.com)
		9 points by u1hcw9nx 10 days ago \| 1 comment
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