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1.
I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)
680 points by TheEdonian 20 days ago | 454 comments
2.
Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (blog.mozilla.org)
808 points by WithinReason 20 days ago | 356 comments
3.
A nicer voltmeter clock (lcamtuf.substack.com)
373 points by surprisetalk 20 days ago | 51 comments
4.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (wikipedia.org)
254 points by doener 22 days ago | 98 comments
5.
I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com/tech4bot)
449 points by tech4bot 19 days ago | 237 comments
6.
Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
283 points by birdculture 22 days ago | 59 comments
7.
Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)
328 points by celsoazevedo 20 days ago | 351 comments
8.
CUDA Books (github.com/alternbits)
243 points by dariubs 19 days ago | 60 comments
9.
GenCAD (gencad.github.io)
441 points by dagenix 19 days ago | 127 comments
10.
Hindenburg’s Smoking Room (airships.net)
230 points by crescit_eundo 22 days ago | 210 comments
11.
High-Entropy Alloy (wikipedia.org)
156 points by leonidasrup 23 days ago | 27 comments
12.
Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (maurycyz.com)
253 points by zdw 20 days ago | 23 comments
13.
Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) (rogerebert.com)
151 points by walterbell 21 days ago | 90 comments
14.
Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)
452 points by dive 20 days ago | 308 comments
15.
Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)
113 points by bushwart 20 days ago | 126 comments
16.
AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)
480 points by ch_sm 19 days ago | 209 comments
17.
Halt and Catch Fire (unstack.io)
210 points by ScottWRobinson 20 days ago | 109 comments
18.
Prolog Coding Horror (metalevel.at)
202 points by RohanAdwankar 19 days ago | 83 comments
19.
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)
355 points by datadrivenangel 20 days ago | 302 comments
20.
A molecule with half-Möbius topology (science.org)
113 points by bryanrasmussen 24 days ago | 10 comments
21.
Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely (idahonews.com)
245 points by ChrisArchitect 19 days ago | 252 comments
22.
Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] (fosdem.org)
213 points by ibobev 22 days ago | 255 comments
23.
 [dupe] Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)
594 points by nolok 19 days ago | 263 comments
24.
C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
212 points by signa11 22 days ago | 166 comments
25.
AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise (thestateofbrand.com)
421 points by mooreds 20 days ago | 401 comments
26.
The Third Hard Problem (mmapped.blog)
165 points by surprisetalk 22 days ago | 66 comments
27.
VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) (ieee.org)
168 points by bookofjoe 19 days ago | 62 comments
28.
Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets (quantamagazine.org)
88 points by Xcelerate 23 days ago | 18 comments
29.
Illusions of understanding in the sciences (springer.com)
115 points by sebg 22 days ago | 63 comments
30.
WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)
328 points by zzzeek 19 days ago | 226 comments

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