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 1.                                                                Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died                                                              
     300 points by paveworld 4 hours ago | hide | 55 comments                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                               
 2.                                                                Why don't more developers "use the platform"? ( nolanlawson.com )                           
     40 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | hide | 21 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                               
 3.                                                                So you think you could be an electrician? ( asteriskmag.com )                               
     113 points by zdw 6 hours ago | hide | 60 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                               
 4.                                                                We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything ( simonwillison.net )
     330 points by elffjs 5 hours ago | hide | 165 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                               
 5.                                                                The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux ( phoronix.com )       
     205 points by speckx 10 hours ago | hide | 24 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                               
 6.                                                                Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict ( cosmowenman.substack.com )                  
     134 points by CosmoWenman 8 hours ago | hide | 67 comments                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                               
 7.                                                                Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields ( notoriousbfg.com )           
     264 points by trwhite 11 hours ago | hide | 62 comments                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                               
 8.                                                                Agents don't need memory, they need documentation ( liao.gg )                               
     109 points by kmeh 9 hours ago | hide | 64 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                               
 9.                                                                Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager ( whec.com )      
     174 points by gscott 12 hours ago | hide | 42 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                               
10.                                                                Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model ( aleph-alpha.com )                                  
     558 points by bastitx 20 hours ago | hide | 311 comments                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                               
11.                                                                Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked ( stolovitz.com )                                    
     129 points by citelao 8 hours ago | hide | 64 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                               
12.                                                                Your body of work thinks back at you ( photoni.st )                                         
     40 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                               
13.                                                                Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] ( youtube.com )                          
     24 points by bobajeff 6 hours ago | hide | 8 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                               
14.                                                                Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web ( royapakzad.substack.com )   
     19 points by effects 4 hours ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                               
15.                                                                We're working on a new RuneScape MMO ( runescape.com )                                      
     14 points by droidjj 3 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                               
16.                                                                FTL: A new operating system for clouds ( ftl-os.org )                                       
     161 points by romac 14 hours ago | hide | 65 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                               
17.                                                                The characters of plastics (2024) ( yarchive.net )                                          
     13 points by thelastgallon 3 hours ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                               
18.                                                                I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken ( theatlantic.com )                             
     138 points by Brajeshwar 15 hours ago | hide | 400 comments                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                               
19.                                                                Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? ( thoreaubasic.com )     
     43 points by Gorsefound 9 hours ago | hide | 13 comments                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                               
20.                                                                Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program ( twz.com )                    
     35 points by rkagerer 8 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                               
21.                                                                Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? ( sjg.io )                          
     62 points by simonjgreen 9 hours ago | hide | 29 comments                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                               
22.                                                                Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server ( pipod.dev )    
     85 points by edverma2 12 hours ago | hide | 31 comments                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                               
23.                                                                Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) ( darbiansphotography.com )                           
     134 points by NaOH 16 hours ago | hide | 26 comments                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                               
24.                                                                Memory-Safe WebP Decoding ( halide.cx )                                                     
     52 points by computerbuster 9 hours ago | hide | 16 comments                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                               
25.                                                                New York City should carefully measure a new tree ( willmeye.rs )                           
     64 points by willmeyers 8 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                               
26.                                                                Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) ( recoil.org )                            
     30 points by avsm 8 hours ago | hide | 22 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                               
27.                                                                C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler ( github.com/andreasfertig )
     151 points by rramadass 18 hours ago | hide | 28 comments                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                               
28.                                                                Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' ( techcrunch.com )             
     390 points by sbulaev 7 hours ago | hide | 223 comments                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                               
29.                                                                RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) ( kevincox.ca )                                              
     49 points by KomoD 10 hours ago | hide | 9 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                               
30.                                                                RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring ( ycombinator.com )                                          
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