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61.
Mosh in a Lift (2012) (mosh.org)
56 points by gavide 9 days ago | 17 comments
62.
Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (omgmog.net)
21 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 4 comments
63.
Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019) (righto.com)
37 points by Jimmc414 10 days ago | 7 comments
64.
It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
98 points by speckx 7 days ago | 92 comments
65.
 [flagged] Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex (github.com/tikalk)
75 points by kanfilior 7 days ago | 38 comments
66.
The Red Strings Club (vegard.net)
23 points by meysamazad 8 days ago | 8 comments
67.
 [flagged] The AI Demand Bubble (wheresyoured.at)
112 points by 7777777phil 7 days ago | 149 comments
68.
How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (404media.co)
145 points by cdrnsf 7 days ago | 9 comments
69.
Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields (aps.org)
16 points by bookofjoe 11 days ago | 1 comment
70.
Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video (leoaido.com)
18 points by cortexosmain 8 days ago | 6 comments
71.
Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off (not-ship.com)
85 points by speckx 7 days ago | 87 comments
72.
Cyberpunk Video Games (shellzine.net)
57 points by zdw 13 days ago | 70 comments
73.
The Apple Calculator Language (wadetregaskis.com)
41 points by ingve 12 days ago | 8 comments
74.
The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) (upi.com)
114 points by giov4 7 days ago | 81 comments
75.
AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where (gadgetreview.com)
67 points by 01-_- 7 days ago | 25 comments
76.
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal (euronext.com)
115 points by riffraff 7 days ago | 117 comments
77.
Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic (ekxide.io)
14 points by elfenpiff 7 days ago | 29 comments
78.
New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year (transportenvironment.org)
71 points by giuliomagnifico 12 days ago | 96 comments
79.
NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data (publictechnology.net)
155 points by robin_reala 7 days ago | 37 comments
80.
An Honest Review of AI Programming (mropert.github.io)
53 points by ingve 7 days ago | 81 comments
81.
Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons (reuters.com)
38 points by Teever 7 days ago | 6 comments
82.
The Myth, the Mythos, and the Man (om.co)
21 points by sanj 7 days ago | 6 comments
83.
What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (stlouisfed.org)
36 points by toomuchtodo 7 days ago | 83 comments
84.
The applause that disrupted nothing – yet still led to an arrest (fire.org)
78 points by timr 7 days ago | 18 comments
85.
RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle (chipsandcheese.com)
10 points by aba_cz 11 days ago | discuss
86.
Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf] (website-files.com)
64 points by _pdp_ 6 days ago | 54 comments
87.
 [flagged] Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang (picburn.xyz)
15 points by shelldweller 7 days ago | 35 comments
88.
 [flagged] Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields (mentalium.me)
31 points by trubetskov 7 days ago | 24 comments
89.
Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short (electrek.co)
43 points by theanonymousone 6 days ago | 94 comments
90.
Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July (ing.dk)
58 points by bogeholm 7 days ago | 83 comments

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