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1.		New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
		796 points by boplicity 2 days ago \| 423 comments
2.		What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
		1013 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago \| 1224 comments
3.		DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
		772 points by tosh 1 day ago \| 462 comments
4.		Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
		690 points by tsak 2 days ago \| 534 comments
5.		Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
		415 points by piotrgrabowski 1 day ago \| 109 comments
6.		Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
		526 points by delduca 1 day ago \| 372 comments
7.		São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)
		351 points by rmason 7 days ago \| 124 comments
8.		2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
		500 points by inigyou 2 days ago \| 479 comments
9.		Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
		326 points by poly2it 1 day ago \| 164 comments
10.		Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
		254 points by aagha 1 day ago \| 78 comments
11.		Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
		213 points by Audiophilip 2 days ago \| 62 comments
12.		Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
		214 points by m3h 1 day ago \| 61 comments
13.		An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)
		185 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago \| 40 comments
14.		US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)
		894 points by defrost 1 day ago \| 872 comments
15.		Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
		220 points by gnabgib 2 days ago \| 35 comments
16.		Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)
		189 points by jnord 1 day ago \| 114 comments
17.		Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)
		303 points by moonikakiss 1 day ago \| 261 comments
18.		Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
		197 points by artninja1988 1 day ago \| 192 comments
19.		Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
		228 points by cckolon 7 days ago \| 30 comments
20.		A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)
		449 points by petercooper 1 day ago \| 411 comments
21.		Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/wyzer-lang)
		215 points by v0id_isgood 1 day ago \| 114 comments
22.		I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
		258 points by baranul 6 days ago \| 256 comments
23.		Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
		195 points by stagas 1 day ago \| 74 comments
24.		Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
		156 points by koolhead17 5 days ago \| 55 comments
25.		Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)
		249 points by Bender 1 day ago \| 160 comments
26.		Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
		76 points by ibobev 1 day ago \| 10 comments
27.		Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
		149 points by sebg 2 days ago \| 10 comments
28.		Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
		86 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago \| 4 comments
29.		Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)
		85 points by birdculture 5 days ago \| 7 comments
30.		Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)
		64 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago \| 42 comments
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