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1.		A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn (mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com)
		518 points by MattSWilliamson 17 hours ago \| 317 comments
2.		Glamorous Toolkit (gtoolkit.com)
		300 points by radeeyate 1 day ago \| 108 comments
3.		DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught (nature.com)
		231 points by LinuxBender 3 days ago \| 136 comments
4.		We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing (theverge.com)
		328 points by Tomte 3 days ago \| 195 comments
5.		Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game (github.com/lechmazur)
		160 points by colonCapitalDee 3 days ago \| 50 comments
6.		Baby Steps into Genetic Programming (aerique.blogspot.com)
		108 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 35 comments
7.		Journey to Optimize Cloudflare D1 Database Queries (gist.github.com)
		104 points by rxliuli 4 days ago \| 22 comments
8.		The Mathematics of Crochet (hellohartblog.wordpress.com)
		99 points by edward 3 days ago \| 10 comments
9.		Reinventing Feathering for the Vectorian Era (rive.app)
		67 points by interpol_p 4 days ago \| 10 comments
10.		A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri's Flares (centauri-dreams.org)
		54 points by JPLeRouzic 4 days ago \| 13 comments
11.		Data centers contain 90% crap data (gerrymcgovern.com)
		214 points by billybuckwheat 1 day ago \| 127 comments
12.		Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust (s2.dev)
		90 points by shikhar 3 days ago \| 7 comments
13.		Knowing where your engineer salary comes from (seangoedecke.com)
		284 points by mooreds 1 day ago \| 161 comments
14.		Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town (tokyoweekender.com)
		581 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago \| 107 comments
15.		AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution (home.cern)
		72 points by rbanffy 4 days ago \| 15 comments
16.		How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat (theguardian.com)
		309 points by howard941 1 day ago \| 258 comments
17.		Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code (browsermcp.io)
		349 points by namukang 10 hours ago \| 133 comments
18.		Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023) (botanica.software)
		101 points by mu0n 11 hours ago \| 32 comments
19.		After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work (science.org)
		277 points by pmags 1 day ago \| 284 comments
20.		MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby (worksonmymachine.substack.com)
		122 points by daviducolo 1 day ago \| 25 comments
21.		Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI (uncurl.dev)
		99 points by darubramha 21 hours ago \| 42 comments
22.		20 years of Git (gitbutler.com)
		213 points by videlov 9 hours ago \| 142 comments
23.		The Dire Wolf Is Back (newyorker.com)
		160 points by adrianhon 16 hours ago \| 165 comments
24.		Anagram Word Game (codingjlu.github.io)
		54 points by codingjlu 3 days ago \| 17 comments
25.		Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua (mrcjkb.dev)
		175 points by mrcjkb 8 hours ago \| 58 comments
26.		I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today (codeberg.org)
		73 points by LuciOfStars 3 days ago \| 39 comments
27.		SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets (sciop.net)
		156 points by WarOnPrivacy 1 day ago \| 13 comments
28.		Mass grave of Roman soldiers found under Vienna sports field (gizmodo.com)
		97 points by speckx 3 days ago \| 48 comments
29.		Why Catullus continues to seduce us (newyorker.com)
		58 points by frereubu 10 hours ago \| 33 comments
30.		Why Lotus Domino? (2024) (moohar.com)
		87 points by wonger_ 1 day ago \| 60 comments
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