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31.		At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025 (stateofsurveillance.org)
		443 points by rolph 66 days ago \| 326 comments
32.		The occasional ECONNRESET (movq.de)
		120 points by zdw 66 days ago \| 25 comments
33.		Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf] (arxiv.org)
		109 points by teleforce 67 days ago \| 26 comments
34.		Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes (electrek.co)
		178 points by breve 67 days ago \| 65 comments
35.		The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations (jdhodges.com)
		112 points by zdw 66 days ago \| 57 comments
36.		How diamonds are made (jaydip.me)
		101 points by lemonberry 68 days ago \| 62 comments
37.		Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU (arnaud-carre.github.io)
		113 points by z303 67 days ago \| 46 comments
38.		Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype (publicdomainreview.org)
		49 points by benbreen 67 days ago \| 6 comments
39.		Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? (phys.org)
		51 points by PaulHoule 69 days ago \| 35 comments
40.		Roman Letters (romanletters.org)
		110 points by diodorus 69 days ago \| 17 comments
41.		Schanuel's Conjecture and the Semantics of Triton's FPSan (hatsya.com)
		29 points by c1ccccc1 68 days ago \| 6 comments
42.		Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust (github.com/akiomik)
		63 points by nateb2022 69 days ago \| 2 comments
43.		Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP (xca-attacks.github.io)
		52 points by negura 66 days ago \| 29 comments
44.		Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request (twitter.com/ryangrim)
		207 points by bhouston 66 days ago \| 149 comments
45.		Grafana Labs internal source code accessed (twitter.com/grafana)
		85 points by jschorr 67 days ago \| 26 comments
46.		Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails (github.com/shurikentrade)
		55 points by jgan0978 66 days ago \| 33 comments
47.		[flagged] XS: A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone (xslang.org)
		60 points by yacin 66 days ago \| 42 comments
48.		A digital billboard company has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks (thedrive.com)
		93 points by cf100clunk 68 days ago \| 47 comments
49.		EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data (osnews.com)
		158 points by abdelhousni 66 days ago \| 71 comments
50.		Don’t Outsource the Learning (addyosmani.com)
		100 points by korecodes 66 days ago \| 46 comments
51.		Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy (sciencedaily.com)
		57 points by ndr42 66 days ago \| 44 comments
52.		Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests (wiley.com)
		47 points by PaulHoule 69 days ago \| 10 comments
53.		Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages (opencivics-labs.github.io)
		98 points by laurex 66 days ago \| 28 comments
54.		Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions (medium.com/emilymenonbender)
		51 points by olalonde 70 days ago \| 61 comments
55.		Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' (businessinsider.com)
		116 points by LelouBil 66 days ago \| 196 comments
56.		Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them (rutgerbregman.substack.com)
		232 points by fredski42 67 days ago \| 110 comments
57.		Citroën metropolis concept car (2010) (citroenet.org.uk)
		34 points by Alifatisk 69 days ago \| 20 comments
58.		[flagged] The AI water issue is fake (andymasley.com)
		83 points by shepherdjerred 66 days ago \| 58 comments
59.		Bear spray is exploding in the trash near Yellowstone National Park (sfgate.com)
		26 points by turtlegrids 67 days ago \| 22 comments
60.		AI Wearables Are Coming but They'll Need to Pass the Coffee Shop Test to Survive (inc.com)
		22 points by connorjewiss 66 days ago \| 17 comments
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