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1.		The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
		1187 points by herbertl 21 hours ago \| 631 comments
2.		GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
		622 points by Topfi 1 day ago \| 445 comments
3.		Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
		529 points by flaburgan 1 day ago \| 297 comments
4.		Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
		567 points by tomasreimers 1 day ago \| 418 comments
5.		Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
		429 points by otherayden 21 hours ago \| 69 comments
6.		Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
		584 points by pseudolus 1 day ago \| 405 comments
7.		Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
		280 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago \| 74 comments
8.		How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)
		352 points by NaOH 16 hours ago \| 247 comments
9.		Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
		406 points by jp_sc 21 hours ago \| 276 comments
10.		Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
		523 points by nichochar 2 days ago \| 331 comments
11.		Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
		610 points by haunter 1 day ago \| 497 comments
12.		Beware Management Consultants (iceland.co.uk)
		555 points by KolmogorovComp 15 hours ago \| 149 comments
13.		Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/ryancodrai)
		252 points by fittingopposite 16 hours ago \| 31 comments
14.		And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (shkspr.mobi)
		326 points by _djo_ 17 hours ago \| 211 comments
15.		A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/denissergeevitch)
		285 points by phoenix120 12 hours ago \| 107 comments
16.		Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
		378 points by Vinnl 21 hours ago \| 176 comments
17.		Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (andros.dev)
		220 points by andros 1 day ago \| 69 comments
18.		Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
		250 points by andrewjanke 6 days ago \| 64 comments
19.		Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
		206 points by porridgeraisin 22 hours ago \| 162 comments
20.		Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
		174 points by rglover 1 day ago \| 47 comments
21.		Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
		274 points by zeristor 20 hours ago \| 57 comments
22.		The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
		106 points by whobre 7 days ago \| 56 comments
23.		Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
		202 points by newusertoday 18 hours ago \| 290 comments
24.		Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
		244 points by honungsburk 1 day ago \| 141 comments
25.		Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (posit.co)
		176 points by jeroenjanssens 21 hours ago \| 40 comments
26.		Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asme.org)
		301 points by cwwc 17 hours ago \| 460 comments
27.		Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
		78 points by bwm 18 hours ago \| 42 comments
28.		The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
		170 points by cyndunlop 1 day ago \| 61 comments
29.		Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (science.org)
		89 points by hermitcrab 5 days ago \| 58 comments
30.		How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		67 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 66 comments
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