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31.
The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
258 points by sylvainkalache 3 days ago | 278 comments
32.
Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
59 points by hasheddan 4 days ago | 6 comments
33.
Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)
360 points by trocado 3 days ago | 238 comments
34.
Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
79 points by b-man 3 days ago | 18 comments
35.
Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time (amitlimaye1.substack.com)
88 points by riteshnoronha16 7 days ago | 45 comments
36.
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com/nikolays)
142 points by gmcabrita 3 days ago | 37 comments
37.
A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025) (ar-ms.me)
70 points by y1n0 7 days ago | 27 comments
38.
Generating a color spectrum for an image (amandahinton.com)
57 points by evakhoury 6 days ago | 11 comments
39.
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)
173 points by tchalla 3 days ago | 190 comments
40.
Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
113 points by bryanrasmussen 3 days ago | 61 comments
41.
It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
70 points by pabs3 3 days ago | 67 comments
42.
Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG (github.com/yapstudios)
28 points by olliewagner 3 days ago | 9 comments
43.
The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (npr.org)
88 points by nuke-web3 3 days ago | 12 comments
44.
Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
164 points by tech234a 3 days ago | 142 comments
45.
Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)
45 points by arjunchint 4 days ago | 17 comments
46.
Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale (waxletter.com)
25 points by hjconstas 6 days ago | 17 comments
47.
Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
129 points by signa11 3 days ago | 257 comments
48.
 [flagged] Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists (ipvm.com)
85 points by jhonovich 3 days ago | 34 comments
49.
 [flagged] America Lost the Mandate of Heaven (geohot.github.io)
99 points by mefengl 3 days ago | 107 comments
50.
Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)
93 points by pjmlp 3 days ago | 91 comments
51.
Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
53 points by mhb 3 days ago | 14 comments
52.
Binary Encodings for JSON and Variant (jincongho.com)
16 points by jincongho 6 days ago | 3 comments
53.
Loonies for Loongsons (leadedsolder.com)
32 points by zdw 7 days ago | 5 comments
54.
America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)
76 points by andsoitis 3 days ago | 140 comments
55.
Sherry Turkle: "We're losing the raw human part of being with each other" (2013) (theguardian.com)
32 points by plenched 3 days ago | 4 comments
56.
Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement (reuters.com)
72 points by Jimmc414 3 days ago | 20 comments
57.
Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
68 points by decide1000 3 days ago | 63 comments
58.
The FBI Director Is MIA (theatlantic.com)
99 points by osnium123 3 days ago | 10 comments
59.
"Liberation Day" at OpenAI as multiple senior executives announce leaving (mas.to)
81 points by riffraff 3 days ago | 13 comments
60.
Building a Grow-Only Counter on a Sequentially Consistent KV Store (brunocalza.me)
7 points by brunocalza 8 days ago | discuss

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