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91.		No Data Centers in My Backyard (jasmi.news)
		57 points by Anon84 3 days ago \| 164 comments
92.		[flagged] OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record (community.openai.com)
		53 points by ppavlyuk 3 days ago \| 40 comments
93.		Universities would prefer no AI (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
		40 points by HR01 3 days ago \| 80 comments
94.		A Sick People (householderkarl.com)
		85 points by speckx 3 days ago \| 119 comments
95.		Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers (politico.com)
		29 points by mapping365 3 days ago \| 68 comments
96.		Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11 (techpowerup.com)
		70 points by speckx 3 days ago \| 49 comments
97.		When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think (sahansera.dev)
		10 points by sahan 6 days ago \| 8 comments
98.		[flagged] Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s (sonar21.com)
		41 points by SanjayMehta 4 days ago \| 16 comments
99.		Show HN: A little physical breakout clone (brontosaurusrex.github.io)
		18 points by brontosaurusrex 8 days ago \| 15 comments
100.		KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs (robertborghesi.is)
		5 points by dghez 3 days ago \| 1 comment
101.		Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport (cnn.com)
		42 points by Tomte 3 days ago \| 15 comments
102.		Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes (reuters.com)
		55 points by mapping365 3 days ago \| 64 comments
103.		What is distributed Key Generation (DKG)? (stoffelmpc.com)
		10 points by badcryptobitch 7 days ago \| discuss
104.		Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words (vocab.top)
		18 points by LandoLorinse 3 days ago \| 12 comments
105.		[flagged] Antigravity 2.0 (antigravity.google)
		26 points by saikatsg 3 days ago \| 33 comments
106.		What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check (arxiv.org)
		53 points by alvis 3 days ago \| 16 comments
107.		Appeals Court Agrees with EFF That Building a Web Browser Doesn't Violate CFAA (eff.org)
		36 points by iamnothere 4 days ago \| 1 comment
108.		Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices (seroundtable.com)
		31 points by franze 3 days ago \| 31 comments
109.		You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard (2021) (wbur.org)
		50 points by downbad_ 3 days ago \| 46 comments
110.		I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words (dylan.blog)
		19 points by harper 3 days ago \| 64 comments
111.		OpenAI settles claims of discrimination against US workers for $3.2M (yahoo.com)
		27 points by declan_roberts 3 days ago \| 10 comments
112.		US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (reuters.com)
		32 points by dataflow 4 days ago \| 4 comments
113.		Amazon Germany to Accept Wero (mobiflip.de)
		41 points by doener 4 days ago \| 14 comments
114.		[flagged] Show HN: Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (sprinklz.io)
		24 points by sammy0910 3 days ago \| 18 comments
115.		Ban the Throbber (banthethrobber.neocities.org)
		36 points by kyledrake 3 days ago \| 12 comments
116.		Grocery prices are Americans' top affordability challenge, report finds (cnbc.com)
		27 points by mapping365 3 days ago \| 5 comments
117.		Trump pushes ahead on false claims that Reflecting Pool was vandalized (apnews.com)
		24 points by petethomas 3 days ago \| discuss
118.		The Job Board Is Lying to You (nanomicon.com)
		32 points by theHocineSaad 3 days ago \| 12 comments
119.		Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
		110 points by vivzkestrel 3 days ago \| 21 comments
120.		Settlement with OpenAI for Discriminating Against U.S. Workers (justice.gov)
		39 points by ethanwillis 4 days ago \| 9 comments
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