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1.		Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (cloudflare.com)
		1283 points by rrampage 3 days ago \| 742 comments
2.		Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display (benholmen.com)
		1108 points by benholmen 3 days ago \| 140 comments
3.		Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering (qwenlm.github.io)
		537 points by meetpateltech 3 days ago \| 159 comments
4.		OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware (openipc.org)
		303 points by zakki 6 days ago \| 148 comments
5.		How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast (v8.dev)
		448 points by emschwartz 3 days ago \| 165 comments
6.		Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers (fortune.com)
		591 points by robtherobber 3 days ago \| 874 comments
7.		So you want to parse a PDF? (eliot-jones.com)
		403 points by UglyToad 3 days ago \| 230 comments
8.		I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class (lithub.com)
		297 points by lapcat 4 days ago \| 287 comments
9.		Objects should shut up (dustri.org)
		478 points by gm678 3 days ago \| 358 comments
10.		DrawAFish.com Postmortem (aldenhallak.com)
		387 points by hallak 3 days ago \| 103 comments
11.		Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft (bl.ag)
		213 points by detaro 5 days ago \| 42 comments
12.		Customizing tmux (evgeniipendragon.com)
		181 points by EPendragon 3 days ago \| 151 comments
13.		My Ideal Array Language (ashermancinelli.com)
		145 points by bobajeff 3 days ago \| 71 comments
14.		How we built Bluey’s world (itsnicethat.com)
		380 points by skrebbel 6 days ago \| 173 comments
15.		NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills (nasa.gov)
		156 points by Bluestein 2 days ago \| 52 comments
16.		How to grow almost anything (howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site)
		201 points by car 3 days ago \| 61 comments
17.		Content-Aware Spaced Repetition (giacomoran.com)
		180 points by ran3000 2 days ago \| 65 comments
18.		Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (pcgamer.com)
		586 points by croes 3 days ago \| 577 comments
19.		Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding (solmaz.io)
		273 points by hosolmaz 3 days ago \| 229 comments
20.		Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf] (cfa.harvard.edu)
		143 points by jackbravo 3 days ago \| 232 comments
21.		Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
		151 points by deegles 3 days ago \| 61 comments
22.		Why doctors hate their computers (2018) (newyorker.com)
		118 points by mitchbob 3 days ago \| 219 comments
23.		New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials (phys.org)
		142 points by janandonly 6 days ago \| 24 comments
24.		Hiroshima (1946) (newyorker.com)
		119 points by pseudolus 5 days ago \| 262 comments
25.		What Can a Cell Remember? (quantamagazine.org)
		80 points by chapulin 6 days ago \| 12 comments
26.		Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth (ft.com)
		201 points by hhs 3 days ago \| 331 comments
27.		Everything to know about UniFi OS Server (deluisio.com)
		73 points by codydeluisio 3 days ago \| 10 comments
28.		Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable (nytimes.com)
		151 points by elektor 2 days ago \| 34 comments
29.		Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co)
		501 points by Hamuko 3 days ago \| 264 comments
30.		A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability (notashes.me)
		152 points by hyperbrainer 3 days ago \| 78 comments
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