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61.		A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there (sfstandard.com)
		105 points by forrestbrazeal 30 days ago \| 92 comments
62.		[flagged] Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques (petapixel.com)
		58 points by ZeljkoS 30 days ago \| 68 comments
63.		[flagged] I tried to make Claude make me money on open-source bounties (github.com/iotqowrop)
		37 points by _mcid 29 days ago \| 26 comments
64.		Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
		78 points by klez 30 days ago \| 105 comments
65.		Matlab: Communications Toolbox (mathworks.com)
		6 points by tosh 33 days ago
66.		Mode collapse has a name, and he's selling cancer treatment advice on Amazon (danielmay.co.uk)
		26 points by danielrmay 30 days ago \| 13 comments
67.		Meta to cut 8000 employees despite $26B Q1 net income (moneywise.com)
		36 points by stackghost 30 days ago \| 6 comments
68.		Microsoft Exchange, Windows 11 hacked on second day of Pwn2Own (bleepingcomputer.com)
		21 points by Brajeshwar 30 days ago \| 1 comment
69.		Prepare for an AI Jobs Apocalypse (economist.com)
		33 points by wiseowise 30 days ago \| 16 comments
70.		Reading code instead of writing code: The underestimated senior discipline (heise.de)
		23 points by goloroden 30 days ago \| 3 comments
71.		Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban (politico.com)
		22 points by cdrnsf 30 days ago \| 28 comments
72.		Terence Tao: New Mathematical Workflows – Future of Mathematics (youtube.com)
		16 points by tcp_handshaker 30 days ago \| 1 comment
73.		[flagged] I spent my whole career building passive income. Here's what I got wrong (dariusforoux.com)
		21 points by speckx 30 days ago \| 16 comments
74.		Show HN: Daily vibe-coding video games, day 33: Tower Defense (single prompt) (gamevibe.us)
		8 points by pzxc 30 days ago \| 7 comments
75.		Show HN: Browser based sythesizer, drum machine and squencer (github.com/madmonk13)
		22 points by madmonk 31 days ago \| 4 comments
76.		US Government openly schemes to indict Raúl Castro as prelude to invading Cuba (usatoday.com)
		21 points by ck2 30 days ago \| 9 comments
77.		Is China using fentanyl as a weapon against the United States? (unav.edu)
		21 points by Stevvo 30 days ago \| 15 comments
78.		Datacenters slurping juice help drive 75% jump in PJM power prices (theregister.com)
		17 points by jnord 30 days ago
79.		Xbox Is Now XBOX (theverge.com)
		13 points by namiwang 30 days ago \| 1 comment
80.		Show HN: AI that audits your codebase in 60 seconds (hf.space)
		8 points by haapatel 30 days ago \| 3 comments
81.		Setting up an AI-native organization (aweb.ai)
		5 points by juanre 30 days ago \| 12 comments
82.		Google tests 5 GB cap for users who skip phone numbers (theregister.com)
		13 points by jnord 30 days ago \| 1 comment
83.		Why 'Smart' Products Have Started to Look Like the Dumb Choice (nytimes.com)
		13 points by 0in 30 days ago \| 4 comments
84.		Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths (arstechnica.com)
		12 points by tatersolid 30 days ago
85.		Six Million Selections Later: How the DMA Is Giving People Browser Choice (blog.mozilla.org)
		10 points by naves 30 days ago
86.		Major VPN provider says it could leave Canada over lawful access bill (ctvnews.ca)
		19 points by ethanplant 30 days ago \| 5 comments
87.		Why 'Smart' Products Have Started to Look Like the Dumb Choice (nytimes.com)
		11 points by reaperducer 30 days ago \| 7 comments
88.		Striking New Views of the First Atomic Bomb Test (ieee.org)
		15 points by lemonberry 30 days ago
89.		Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump (theatlantic.com)
		16 points by hebelehubele 30 days ago \| 5 comments
90.		As Russian drones hunt Ukrainians in 'human Safari,' a boy fought back (washingtonpost.com)
		11 points by Stratoscope 30 days ago \| 11 comments
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