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 1.                                                                  Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym ( thienantran.com )                                               
     318 points by thitran 2 hours ago | hide | 133 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                          
 2.                                                                  GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay ( bbc.co.uk )                                          
     352 points by n1b0m 4 hours ago | hide | 288 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                          
 3.                                                                  PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out ( github.com/pyinfra-dev )                                                      
     62 points by wowi42 1 hour ago | hide | 24 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                          
 4.                                                                  Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test ( science.org )                                      
     43 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | hide | 13 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                          
 5.                                                                  Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets ( engadget.com )                   
     48 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | hide | 17 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                          
 6.                                                                  Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac ( notepad-plus-plus.org )                                
     361 points by maxloh 4 hours ago | hide | 148 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                          
 7.                                                                  World's biggest RC A380 [video] ( youtube.com )                                                      
     68 points by NaOH 5 hours ago | hide | 20 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                          
 8.                                                                  Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers ( samcollins.blog )                              
     303 points by samcollins 14 hours ago | hide | 104 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                          
 9.                                                                  Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025) ( reiner.org )                  
     49 points by jxmorris12 5 hours ago | hide | 15 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                          
10.                                                                  Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer ( nhk.or.jp )           
     113 points by o4c 8 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                          
11.                                                                  BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth ( partyon.xyz )                              
     418 points by nullagent 20 hours ago | hide | 134 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                          
12.                                                                  DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro ( github.com/aattaran )                     
     552 points by alattaran 16 hours ago | hide | 233 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                          
13.                                                                  Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets ( wsj.com )                      
     35 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | hide | 23 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                          
14.                                                                  Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) ( stuffedcow.net )          
     129 points by TapamN 13 hours ago | hide | 6 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                          
15.                                                                  A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life ( quantamagazine.org )                  
     69 points by worldvoyageur 10 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                          
16.                                                                  Southwest Headquarters Tour ( katherinemichel.github.io )                                            
     284 points by KatiMichel 21 hours ago | hide | 84 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                          
17.                                                                  Let's Buy Spirit Air ( letsbuyspiritair.com )                                                        
     449 points by bjhess 14 hours ago | hide | 423 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                          
18.                                                                  US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City ( phys.org )                          
     184 points by leopoldj 20 hours ago | hide | 67 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                          
19.                                                                  Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense ( guille.site )                
     32 points by LolWolf 9 hours ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                          
20.                                                                  OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors ( theguardian.com )  
     447 points by donsupreme 23 hours ago | hide | 393 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                          
21.                                                                  K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s ( github.com/alexellis )                                     
     78 points by rickcarlino 14 hours ago | hide | 36 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                          
22.                                                                  Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024) ( aruljohn.com )           
     130 points by heresie-dabord 16 hours ago | hide | 86 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                          
23.                                                                  Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors ( citizenlab.ca )          
     180 points by miohtama 22 hours ago | hide | 18 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                          
24.                                                                  A desktop made for one ( isene.org )                                                                 
     395 points by xngbuilds 22 hours ago | hide | 228 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                          
25.                                                                  Introduction to Atom ( w3.org )                                                                      
     111 points by susam 16 hours ago | hide | 51 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                          
26.                                                                  New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag ( smithsonianmag.com )
     479 points by dryadin 19 hours ago | hide | 450 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                          
27.                                                                  Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons ( drive.com.au )                             
     777 points by teleforce 23 hours ago | hide | 444 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                          
28.                                                                  Text-to-CAD ( github.com/earthtojake )                                                               
     143 points by softservo 21 hours ago | hide | 36 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                          
29.                                                                  I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video] ( youtube.com )                           
     116 points by cyrc 20 hours ago | hide | 39 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                          
30.                                                                  Humanoid Robot Actuators ( firgelli.com )                                                            
     159 points by ofrzeta 10 hours ago | hide | 72 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                          
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