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1.		The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
		1371 points by herbertl 1 day ago \| 685 comments
2.		Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
		918 points by nichochar 3 days ago \| 733 comments
3.		How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)
		454 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 323 comments
4.		GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
		629 points by Topfi 2 days ago \| 448 comments
5.		A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/denissergeevitch)
		374 points by phoenix120 1 day ago \| 184 comments
6.		Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
		585 points by tomasreimers 2 days ago \| 440 comments
7.		Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/ryancodrai)
		296 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago \| 33 comments
8.		And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (shkspr.mobi)
		446 points by _djo_ 1 day ago \| 395 comments
9.		Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (andros.dev)
		325 points by andros 2 days ago \| 119 comments
10.		Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
		541 points by flaburgan 2 days ago \| 304 comments
11.		Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
		661 points by haunter 2 days ago \| 553 comments
12.		fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
		287 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago \| 120 comments
13.		Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
		326 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago \| 222 comments
14.		Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
		156 points by j4mie 1 day ago \| 240 comments
15.		Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
		442 points by otherayden 1 day ago \| 73 comments
16.		Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
		610 points by pseudolus 2 days ago \| 418 comments
17.		Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
		281 points by pizzaiolo 2 days ago \| 73 comments
18.		Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
		422 points by jp_sc 1 day ago \| 297 comments
19.		Beware Management Consultants (iceland.co.uk)
		613 points by KolmogorovComp 1 day ago \| 155 comments
20.		Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
		283 points by newusertoday 1 day ago \| 431 comments
21.		Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
		391 points by Vinnl 1 day ago \| 195 comments
22.		Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
		265 points by andrewjanke 7 days ago \| 69 comments
23.		Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
		294 points by zeristor 1 day ago \| 58 comments
24.		Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
		180 points by rglover 2 days ago \| 48 comments
25.		The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
		107 points by whobre 8 days ago \| 56 comments
26.		Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
		255 points by honungsburk 2 days ago \| 151 comments
27.		Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (posit.co)
		191 points by jeroenjanssens 1 day ago \| 40 comments
28.		Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asme.org)
		311 points by cwwc 1 day ago \| 497 comments
29.		Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
		80 points by bwm 1 day ago \| 43 comments
30.		The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
		176 points by cyndunlop 2 days ago \| 64 comments
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