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1.		The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
		1330 points by herbertl 1 day ago \| 672 comments
2.		Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
		870 points by nichochar 3 days ago \| 676 comments
3.		How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)
		442 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 310 comments
4.		GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
		626 points by Topfi 1 day ago \| 448 comments
5.		A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/denissergeevitch)
		365 points by phoenix120 21 hours ago \| 176 comments
6.		Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
		578 points by tomasreimers 2 days ago \| 439 comments
7.		Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/ryancodrai)
		286 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago \| 34 comments
8.		Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (andros.dev)
		316 points by andros 1 day ago \| 115 comments
9.		And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (shkspr.mobi)
		428 points by _djo_ 1 day ago \| 360 comments
10.		Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
		537 points by flaburgan 1 day ago \| 298 comments
11.		Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
		650 points by haunter 2 days ago \| 540 comments
12.		Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
		296 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago \| 212 comments
13.		Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
		439 points by otherayden 1 day ago \| 72 comments
14.		Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
		598 points by pseudolus 1 day ago \| 416 comments
15.		Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
		281 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago \| 74 comments
16.		Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
		417 points by jp_sc 1 day ago \| 290 comments
17.		Beware Management Consultants (iceland.co.uk)
		592 points by KolmogorovComp 1 day ago \| 151 comments
18.		Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
		269 points by newusertoday 1 day ago \| 404 comments
19.		Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
		384 points by Vinnl 1 day ago \| 191 comments
20.		Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
		261 points by andrewjanke 7 days ago \| 66 comments
21.		Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
		287 points by zeristor 1 day ago \| 58 comments
22.		Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
		177 points by rglover 1 day ago \| 48 comments
23.		The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
		107 points by whobre 7 days ago \| 56 comments
24.		Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
		254 points by honungsburk 1 day ago \| 149 comments
25.		Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (posit.co)
		188 points by jeroenjanssens 1 day ago \| 40 comments
26.		Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asme.org)
		308 points by cwwc 1 day ago \| 481 comments
27.		Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
		80 points by bwm 1 day ago \| 43 comments
28.		The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
		174 points by cyndunlop 1 day ago \| 62 comments
29.		Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (science.org)
		90 points by hermitcrab 6 days ago \| 58 comments
30.		How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		68 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 67 comments
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