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61.		Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck (writingruxandrabio.com)
		123 points by rruxandra_l 2 days ago \| 116 comments
62.		Bubble Memory (wikipedia.org)
		92 points by jacquesm 5 days ago \| 28 comments
63.		After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted (asiae.co.kr)
		88 points by mapping365 2 days ago \| 118 comments
64.		I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (naomibashkansky.com)
		134 points by devanshp 2 days ago \| 217 comments
65.		The Golden Age of British Ice Cream (vittlesmagazine.com)
		71 points by bryanrasmussen 3 days ago \| 66 comments
66.		Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication (paloaltonetworks.com)
		50 points by jchanimal 3 days ago \| 52 comments
67.		TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas (tson.io)
		59 points by andrewjneumann 2 days ago \| 65 comments
68.		Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (righto.com)
		53 points by Jimmc414 7 days ago \| 16 comments
69.		Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have (franciscotrindade.me)
		96 points by gpi 2 days ago \| 100 comments
70.		Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)
		167 points by embedding-shape 2 days ago \| 198 comments
71.		The Law of Jante (2015) (theparisreview.org)
		28 points by NaOH 3 days ago \| 3 comments
72.		Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)
		88 points by speckx 2 days ago \| 13 comments
73.		From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017) (practicallyefficient.com)
		25 points by EndXA 6 days ago \| 3 comments
74.		[dupe] Jeff Dean Leaving Google (twitter.com/jeffdean)
		79 points by bifftastic 2 days ago \| 2 comments
75.		BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake (github.com/b-aaz)
		33 points by signa11 8 days ago \| 6 comments
76.		Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (rust-lang.org)
		117 points by afdbcreid 2 days ago \| 72 comments
77.		Colorimeter 3nh CR4501 RAL Hack (github.com/hallko1234)
		22 points by Jimmc414 7 days ago \| 4 comments
78.		Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia? (scientificamerican.com)
		42 points by tzury 2 days ago \| 74 comments
79.		The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized (bbc.com)
		78 points by 1659447091 2 days ago \| 73 comments
80.		Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show (bloomberg.com)
		71 points by mapping365 2 days ago \| 15 comments
81.		Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash (iowaattorneygeneral.gov)
		60 points by ArcHound 2 days ago \| 121 comments
82.		Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (proxmox.com)
		90 points by geerlingguy 2 days ago \| 37 comments
83.		Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base (wardsauto.com)
		48 points by avonmach 2 days ago \| 114 comments
84.		Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up (cnbc.com)
		41 points by mapping365 2 days ago \| 52 comments
85.		Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet (cloudflare.com)
		57 points by hahahaa 3 days ago \| 19 comments
86.		Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy (apoxy.dev)
		46 points by dilyevsky 2 days ago \| 10 comments
87.		The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024 (theguardian.com)
		54 points by igortru 2 days ago \| 78 comments
88.		[flagged] Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else (observer.co.uk)
		49 points by MaysonL 2 days ago \| 52 comments
89.		International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) (knock-knock.net)
		58 points by djkurlander 2 days ago \| 21 comments
90.		Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack (bbc.co.uk)
		54 points by zeristor 2 days ago \| 22 comments
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