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121.		"AI" will never become conscious (mataroa.blog)
		39 points by speckx 3 days ago \| 26 comments
122.		London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says (theregister.com)
		35 points by Bender 3 days ago \| 1 comment
123.		[flagged] Pam Bondi Implicated in as Much as $5.5M in Insider Trading (cmarmitage.substack.com)
		37 points by JumpCrisscross 3 days ago \| 12 comments
124.		Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon (reuters.com)
		26 points by thm 3 days ago \| 9 comments
125.		I ran a 1998 artificial life SIM at 560x speed and caught a rare easter egg [video] (youtube.com)
		6 points by robinduckett 6 days ago \| 3 comments
126.		Apple's 'Private Relay' Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses (404media.co)
		28 points by spenvo 3 days ago \| 1 comment
127.		Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip (businessinsider.com)
		23 points by closetheloopdev 3 days ago \| 11 comments
128.		[flagged] People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying (thenerve.news)
		31 points by marbex7 3 days ago \| 19 comments
129.		[flagged] AI is a bubble, just like dot-com (constraintlab.com)
		26 points by potetm 3 days ago \| 36 comments
130.		Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets (arstechnica.com)
		31 points by cdrnsf 3 days ago \| 15 comments
131.		Lawmaker Who Wants Data Center Pause Wins Kansas Democratic Primary (nytimes.com)
		26 points by mapping365 3 days ago \| 2 comments
132.		Run full-blown macOS on iPadOS 16 (github.com/nfzerox)
		24 points by 71bw 3 days ago \| 7 comments
133.		Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet (koreajoongangdaily.com)
		13 points by Bluestein 3 days ago \| 5 comments
134.		Proxmox Virtual Environment now available for 64-bit ARM (ARM64) (proxmox.com)
		34 points by tlamponi 3 days ago \| 5 comments
135.		Detach from your work to make it work (productidentity.co)
		22 points by itaydr 3 days ago \| discuss
136.		A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming 'too big to fail' (thenextweb.com)
		22 points by cdrnsf 3 days ago \| 10 comments
137.		Google's Chief Scientist Is Leaving After 27 Years–To Start His Own AI Company (wsj.com)
		21 points by lairv 3 days ago \| 1 comment
138.		The journalist taking on the 'tech fascists' of Silicon Valley (theguardian.com)
		26 points by Markoff 3 days ago \| 14 comments
139.		Where was Mythos when WordPress fell? (patrik.re)
		15 points by patrikgrobs 3 days ago \| 6 comments
140.		Cloudflare OS (cloudflare.app)
		9 points by coloneltcb 3 days ago \| 4 comments
141.		Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode (github.com/adrida)
		26 points by adam_rida 3 days ago \| 1 comment
142.		White House excludes open models from framework to test advanced AI capabilities (axios.com)
		21 points by petethomas 4 days ago \| 5 comments
143.		Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert (bbc.com)
		19 points by jacquesm 3 days ago \| 6 comments
144.		ADSL's Copper Miracle [video] (youtube.com)
		17 points by askl 3 days ago \| 2 comments
145.		Oxide RFD 284: Loading the Host Operating System (oxide.computer)
		17 points by tosh 4 days ago \| 5 comments
146.		US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers (reuters.com)
		14 points by petethomas 3 days ago \| discuss
147.		$20M+ in Microsoft bug bounties paid out in last 12 months (theregister.com)
		12 points by Gaishan 4 days ago \| discuss
148.		We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native. (reelang.com)
		7 points by stuess 4 days ago \| 15 comments
149.		[flagged] 'I want to rejoin the EU Brexit has been a disaster' – Andy Burnham (thelondoneconomic.com)
		16 points by doener 3 days ago \| 13 comments
150.		Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs (elman.ai)
		14 points by fran-mora 3 days ago \| discuss
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