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1.I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)
680 points by TheEdonian 13 days ago | 454 comments
2.Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (blog.mozilla.org)
808 points by WithinReason 13 days ago | 356 comments
3.A nicer voltmeter clock (lcamtuf.substack.com)
373 points by surprisetalk 14 days ago | 51 comments
4.Colossus: The Forbin Project (wikipedia.org)
254 points by doener 16 days ago | 98 comments
5.I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com/tech4bot)
449 points by tech4bot 13 days ago | 237 comments
6.Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
283 points by birdculture 15 days ago | 59 comments
7.Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)
328 points by celsoazevedo 14 days ago | 351 comments
8.CUDA Books (github.com/alternbits)
243 points by dariubs 13 days ago | 60 comments
9.GenCAD (gencad.github.io)
441 points by dagenix 13 days ago | 127 comments
10.Hindenburg’s Smoking Room (airships.net)
230 points by crescit_eundo 16 days ago | 211 comments
11.High-Entropy Alloy (wikipedia.org)
156 points by leonidasrup 16 days ago | 27 comments
12.Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (maurycyz.com)
253 points by zdw 14 days ago | 23 comments
13.Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) (rogerebert.com)
151 points by walterbell 15 days ago | 90 comments
14.Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)
452 points by dive 13 days ago | 307 comments
15.Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)
113 points by bushwart 13 days ago | 126 comments
16.AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)
480 points by ch_sm 13 days ago | 209 comments
17.Halt and Catch Fire (unstack.io)
210 points by ScottWRobinson 14 days ago | 109 comments
18.Prolog Coding Horror (metalevel.at)
202 points by RohanAdwankar 13 days ago | 83 comments
19.Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)
355 points by datadrivenangel 13 days ago | 302 comments
20.A molecule with half-Möbius topology (science.org)
113 points by bryanrasmussen 18 days ago | 10 comments
21.Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely (idahonews.com)
245 points by ChrisArchitect 13 days ago | 252 comments
22.Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] (fosdem.org)
213 points by ibobev 15 days ago | 255 comments
23. [dupe] Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)
594 points by nolok 13 days ago | 263 comments
24.C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
212 points by signa11 16 days ago | 166 comments
25.AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise (thestateofbrand.com)
421 points by mooreds 13 days ago | 401 comments
26.The Third Hard Problem (mmapped.blog)
165 points by surprisetalk 16 days ago | 66 comments
27.VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) (ieee.org)
168 points by bookofjoe 13 days ago | 62 comments
28.Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets (quantamagazine.org)
88 points by Xcelerate 17 days ago | 18 comments
29.Illusions of understanding in the sciences (springer.com)
115 points by sebg 16 days ago | 63 comments
30.WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)
328 points by zzzeek 13 days ago | 226 comments

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