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61.		YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview (sfstandard.com)
		115 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago \| 69 comments
62.		[flagged] Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
		99 points by tehwebguy 2 days ago \| 58 comments
63.		Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM (airbus.com)
		36 points by r2sk5t 6 days ago \| 59 comments
64.		Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert (firerescue1.com)
		37 points by gurjeet 2 days ago \| 58 comments
65.		Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken (franken.domains)
		33 points by klausbreyer 2 days ago \| 49 comments
66.		Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem (gingerbeardman.com)
		9 points by tobr 3 days ago \| 5 comments
67.		Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team (archlinux.org)
		46 points by datakan 2 days ago \| 11 comments
68.		[flagged] Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now (worseonpurpose.com)
		50 points by xbryanx 2 days ago \| 44 comments
69.		Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf] (utexas.edu)
		14 points by peter_d_sherman 2 days ago \| 2 comments
70.		Toast IDE Gets Markdown Spell Checking (github.com/paradise-runner)
		8 points by dividedcomet 2 days ago \| 6 comments
71.		Google kills Earth AI generator after one day (twitter.com/newsfromgoogle)
		64 points by BlueBerry2001 2 days ago \| 105 comments
72.		Printing floating point numbers in binary (johndcook.com)
		8 points by ibobev 6 days ago \| 2 comments
73.		Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI [video] (youtube.com)
		55 points by tcp_handshaker 2 days ago \| 51 comments
74.		[flagged] Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe? (theguardian.com)
		63 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago \| 44 comments
75.		Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?
		33 points by NotParth11 2 days ago \| 64 comments
76.		Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth (digitaldigging.org)
		60 points by taubek 3 days ago \| 39 comments
77.		AI's real threat to jobs isn't job loss, it's lower paychecks, new research says (businessinsider.com)
		49 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago \| 22 comments
78.		Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) (rsadowski.de)
		20 points by tylerius 2 days ago \| 1 comment
79.		Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries (atspotify.com)
		19 points by kalaracey 2 days ago \| 3 comments
80.		Anime Professions (github.com/elmiram)
		14 points by Gray0Ed 8 days ago \| 9 comments
81.		Fermi Paradox (wikipedia.org)
		36 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago \| 37 comments
82.		When Internal Memory Fails: A No-Solder Wii U Recovery (smolnero.com)
		11 points by edgar_ortega 6 days ago \| 2 comments
83.		How to Spot AI Writing (economist.com)
		36 points by ijidak 2 days ago \| 74 comments
84.		[flagged] Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned (dailymail.com)
		27 points by Bender 2 days ago \| 32 comments
85.		[flagged] I Fired My AI Assitant (chreke.com)
		23 points by speckx 2 days ago \| 47 comments
86.		[flagged] A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies (economist.com)
		36 points by andsoitis 2 days ago \| 78 comments
87.		Firefox Local Mode for Web Developers (firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org)
		33 points by csmantle 2 days ago \| 2 comments
88.		History remembers two Robert McNamaras (indevelopmentmag.com)
		9 points by salonium_ 5 days ago \| 2 comments
89.		Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator [video] (infoq.com)
		7 points by e-topy 5 days ago \| 1 comment
90.		Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
		37 points by nanochess 3 days ago \| 2 comments
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