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31.
A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks (github.com/mwallner)
68 points by schusterfredl 8 days ago | 18 comments
32.
GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research (openai.com)
102 points by babelfish 5 days ago | 30 comments
33.
Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day (theverge.com)
165 points by dotmanish 4 days ago | 93 comments
34.
Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (archives.gov)
153 points by bryanrasmussen 4 days ago | 49 comments
35.
Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech (citizenlab.ca)
68 points by Cider9986 8 days ago | discuss
36.
How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (investigate-europe.eu)
182 points by cyberlimerence 4 days ago | 64 comments
37.
Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
112 points by WesSouza 4 days ago | 178 comments
38.
The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
75 points by mcookly 4 days ago | 9 comments
39.
Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
223 points by breve 4 days ago | 214 comments
40.
中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron (kevinzwu.com)
78 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 38 comments
41.
Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan (bbc.com)
180 points by flykespice 5 days ago | 117 comments
42.
Designing the Transport Typeface (thamesandhudson.com)
82 points by speckx 6 days ago | 7 comments
43.
Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
80 points by atan2 4 days ago | 18 comments
44.
Century-bandwidth antenna reinvented,patented after 18 yrs with decade bandwidth (2006) (ieee.org)
47 points by teleforce 8 days ago | 13 comments
45.
Average is all you need (rawquery.dev)
113 points by AlexC04 8 days ago | 102 comments
46.
Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com/dacracot)
58 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 26 comments
47.
PROBoter – Open-source platform for automated PCB analysis (schutzwerk.com)
30 points by kuizu 4 days ago | 2 comments
48.
Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap' (theguardian.com)
303 points by tcp_handshaker 4 days ago | 231 comments
49.
Nintendo's Empire of Secrets with Keza MacDonald [audio] (art19.com)
29 points by tpoindex 5 days ago | 4 comments
50.
The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard (lse.ac.uk)
41 points by AusiasTsel 7 days ago | 11 comments
51.
"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org)
17 points by benbreen 7 days ago | 2 comments
52.
How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025) (davidma.org)
27 points by taikon 4 days ago | 16 comments
53.
The Utopia of the Family Computer (mudmapmagazine.com)
80 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 51 comments
54.
Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers? (thenation.com)
120 points by ZunarJ5 4 days ago | 104 comments
55.
NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation (heise.de)
64 points by doener 4 days ago | 51 comments
56.
Building a web page that edits itself (patrickweaver.net)
42 points by evakhoury 8 days ago | 10 comments
57.
George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (openculture.com)
82 points by doener 5 days ago | 59 comments
58.
Precision over perception: Why architecture matters in benchmarking (redhat.com)
19 points by salkahfi 8 days ago | discuss
59.
We reproduced Anthropic's Mythos findings with public models (vidocsecurity.com)
109 points by __natty__ 4 days ago | 57 comments
60.
 [flagged] 288,493 Requests – How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force from a Weird Cache Ratio (marcindudek.dev)
13 points by taubek 8 days ago | 11 comments

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