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61.
YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview (sfstandard.com)
115 points by theanonymousone 4 days ago | 69 comments
62.
 [flagged] Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
99 points by tehwebguy 4 days ago | 58 comments
63.
Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM (airbus.com)
36 points by r2sk5t 8 days ago | 59 comments
64.
Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert (firerescue1.com)
38 points by gurjeet 4 days ago | 59 comments
65.
Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken (franken.domains)
33 points by klausbreyer 4 days ago | 49 comments
66.
Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem (gingerbeardman.com)
9 points by tobr 5 days ago | 5 comments
67.
Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team (archlinux.org)
46 points by datakan 4 days ago | 11 comments
68.
 [flagged] Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now (worseonpurpose.com)
50 points by xbryanx 4 days ago | 44 comments
69.
Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf] (utexas.edu)
14 points by peter_d_sherman 4 days ago | 4 comments
70.
Toast IDE Gets Markdown Spell Checking (github.com/paradise-runner)
8 points by dividedcomet 4 days ago | 6 comments
71.
Google kills Earth AI generator after one day (twitter.com/newsfromgoogle)
64 points by BlueBerry2001 4 days ago | 105 comments
72.
Printing floating point numbers in binary (johndcook.com)
8 points by ibobev 8 days ago | 2 comments
73.
Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI [video] (youtube.com)
56 points by tcp_handshaker 4 days ago | 51 comments
74.
 [flagged] Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe? (theguardian.com)
63 points by bookofjoe 4 days ago | 44 comments
75.
Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?
33 points by NotParth11 4 days ago | 64 comments
76.
Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth (digitaldigging.org)
61 points by taubek 5 days ago | 40 comments
77.
AI's real threat to jobs isn't job loss, it's lower paychecks, new research says (businessinsider.com)
49 points by theanonymousone 4 days ago | 22 comments
78.
Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) (rsadowski.de)
20 points by tylerius 4 days ago | 1 comment
79.
Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries (atspotify.com)
19 points by kalaracey 4 days ago | 3 comments
80.
Anime Professions (github.com/elmiram)
14 points by Gray0Ed 10 days ago | 9 comments
81.
Fermi Paradox (wikipedia.org)
36 points by simonebrunozzi 4 days ago | 38 comments
82.
When Internal Memory Fails: A No-Solder Wii U Recovery (smolnero.com)
11 points by edgar_ortega 8 days ago | 2 comments
83.
How to Spot AI Writing (economist.com)
36 points by ijidak 4 days ago | 74 comments
84.
 [flagged] Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned (dailymail.com)
28 points by Bender 4 days ago | 32 comments
85.
 [flagged] I Fired My AI Assitant (chreke.com)
23 points by speckx 4 days ago | 47 comments
86.
 [flagged] A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies (economist.com)
36 points by andsoitis 4 days ago | 80 comments
87.
Firefox Local Mode for Web Developers (firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org)
34 points by csmantle 4 days ago | 2 comments
88.
History remembers two Robert McNamaras (indevelopmentmag.com)
9 points by salonium_ 7 days ago | 2 comments
89.
Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator [video] (infoq.com)
7 points by e-topy 7 days ago | 1 comment
90.
Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
37 points by nanochess 5 days ago | 2 comments

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