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31.
Your Most Improbable Life (kevinkelly.substack.com)
164 points by jger15 6 days ago | 120 comments
32.
Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com/helvesec)
190 points by shideneyu 3 days ago | 93 comments
33.
Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
95 points by adisingh13 3 days ago | 105 comments
34.
A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide (wired.com)
253 points by cdrnsf 3 days ago | 88 comments
35.
Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water (waterdictionary.net)
132 points by smugglerFlynn 6 days ago | 60 comments
36.
FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation (fatgid.io)
105 points by WhyNotHugo 3 days ago | 42 comments
37.
Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos (github.com/kouhxp)
97 points by mrkn1 4 days ago | 48 comments
38.
Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks? (thek6project.co.uk)
89 points by Kaibeezy 3 days ago | 63 comments
39.
What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean? (quantamagazine.org)
162 points by baruchel 6 days ago | 64 comments
40.
Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ (ryanjk5.github.io)
74 points by HeliumHydride 6 days ago | 14 comments
41.
Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid (swns.com)
191 points by speckx 3 days ago | 100 comments
42.
All the bugs they found (andreapivetta.com)
84 points by ziggy42 5 days ago | 34 comments
43.
Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices (calculators.de)
91 points by ohjeez 3 days ago | 21 comments
44.
Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket (ssrn.com)
167 points by vcf 3 days ago | 154 comments
45.
What is a Demand Coop (cahootzcoops.com)
93 points by DeonRob 4 days ago | 111 comments
46.
Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta) (silentshark.app)
125 points by epaga 6 days ago | 45 comments
47.
Shunning AI is the human choice (thehandbasket.co)
371 points by cdrnsf 3 days ago | 538 comments
48.
A Markdown-based test suite (blogsystem5.substack.com)
58 points by zdw 6 days ago | 13 comments
49.
 [dupe] OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday (cnbc.com)
137 points by doppp 4 days ago | 3 comments
50.
Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
267 points by bojta-lepenye 3 days ago | 60 comments
51.
US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds (theguardian.com)
249 points by robtherobber 3 days ago | 216 comments
52.
Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can (osnews.com)
219 points by speckx 3 days ago | 198 comments
53.
Michael Keating has died (bigfinish.com)
98 points by speckx 3 days ago | 40 comments
54.
IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation (ieee.org)
80 points by rbanffy 3 days ago | 6 comments
55.
Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40 (fabiensanglard.net)
84 points by ibobev 3 days ago | 100 comments
56.
We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API (rivet.dev)
89 points by yakkomajuri 3 days ago | 17 comments
57.
Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars (guitarworld.com)
129 points by rectang 6 days ago | 132 comments
58.
What Is Happening to Publishing? (resobscura.substack.com)
83 points by benbreen 5 days ago | 59 comments
59.
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades (newscientist.com)
160 points by Anon84 3 days ago | 156 comments
60.
London Mayor Blocks Palantir (theguardian.com)
194 points by ZiiS 3 days ago | 65 comments

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