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91.		Robot sprints to victory in Beijing, beating the half-marathon world record (apnews.com)
		15 points by tromp 4 days ago \| discuss
92.		Meta to cut 8k jobs 10% of workforce in major bloodbath next month (nypost.com)
		15 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 days ago \| 1 comment
93.		How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ front end infrastructure in Rust (nearlyfreespeech.net)
		10 points by NewCzech 4 days ago \| discuss
94.		Islamic Medicine (2018) (hekint.org)
		9 points by debo_ 3 days ago \| discuss
95.		Verkada Deceives School That Verkada Cameras Would Not "Brick" (ipvm.com)
		14 points by jhonovich 4 days ago \| 2 comments
96.		Open-source Firecracker microVM orchestrator (github.com/sahil-shubham)
		14 points by davidcollantes 4 days ago \| discuss
97.		Yoshihisa Kishimoto (1961 – 2026), creator of Double Dragon and Kunio-kun (reddit.com)
		10 points by alberto-m 3 days ago \| discuss
98.		NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (axios.com)
		16 points by jbegley 3 days ago \| 3 comments
99.		The Trouble with Transformers (roblh.substack.com)
		11 points by rob_lh 3 days ago \| 1 comment
100.		EFF pushes back on Google data scandal response: 'Google screwed up' (androidauthority.com)
		10 points by donohoe 3 days ago \| discuss
101.		Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (xda-developers.com)
		8 points by y1n0 4 days ago \| 5 comments
102.		Pupil dilation suggests people start solving before all numbers are in (phys.org)
		8 points by y1n0 4 days ago \| 2 comments
103.		Everyone needs own their own machine that is an extension of their intelligence (twitter.com/beffjezos)
		8 points by bilsbie 3 days ago \| 4 comments
104.		AI-Assisted Coding: Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code (vascoduarte.substack.com)
		7 points by e2e4 4 days ago \| 10 comments
105.		Tiny Go and Rust programs appear to start equally fast (on some machines) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		5 points by ingve 4 days ago \| 1 comment
106.		A Chinese Android just ran a half-marathon faster than any human (cnn.com)
		11 points by Bender 3 days ago \| 3 comments
107.		'Meow, meow': Pilots scolded after animal noises heard on air traffic radio (abcnews.com)
		8 points by osnium123 3 days ago \| 5 comments
108.		Deleteduser.com –A $15 PII Magnet (mike-sheward.medium.com)
		8 points by birdculture 4 days ago \| 2 comments
109.		Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media (nytimes.com)
		7 points by doener 3 days ago \| 2 comments
110.		Can Claude Write Z80 Assembly Code? (hackaday.com)
		6 points by omer_k 3 days ago \| 1 comment
111.		Show HN: Pvm – A TUI to browse and run commands across multiple Python venvs (github.com/higangssh)
		14 points by swq115 4 days ago \| 2 comments
112.		Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial (nbcnews.com)
		11 points by Anon84 3 days ago \| 2 comments
113.		Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich (newyorker.com)
		10 points by mitchbob 4 days ago \| 1 comment
114.		Why the Stock Market Makes No Sense (nytimes.com)
		9 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 4 days ago \| 3 comments
115.		HTTP desync in Discord's media proxy: Spying on a whole platform (tmctmt.com)
		7 points by birdculture 4 days ago \| discuss
116.		New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power (pv-magazine.com)
		6 points by xbmcuser 5 days ago \| 1 comment
117.		Third Place (wikipedia.org)
		5 points by thunderbong 4 days ago \| discuss
118.		Trump orders fast tracking review of psychedelics for mental health disorders (npr.org)
		11 points by mikhael 4 days ago \| 2 comments
119.		Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators (washingtonpost.com)
		9 points by 01-_- 3 days ago \| 4 comments
120.		Ask HN: May be a basic question, but how can I use AI well?
		9 points by jdw64 4 days ago \| 5 comments
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