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61.		YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview (sfstandard.com)
		115 points by theanonymousone 17 days ago \| 69 comments
62.		[flagged] Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
		100 points by tehwebguy 18 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 22 days ago \| 59 comments
64.		Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert (firerescue1.com)
		38 points by gurjeet 18 days ago \| 59 comments
65.		Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken (franken.domains)
		33 points by klausbreyer 18 days ago \| 49 comments
66.		Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem (gingerbeardman.com)
		9 points by tobr 19 days ago \| 7 comments
67.		Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team (archlinux.org)
		46 points by datakan 18 days ago \| 11 comments
68.		[flagged] Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now (worseonpurpose.com)
		50 points by xbryanx 17 days ago \| 44 comments
69.		Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf] (utexas.edu)
		14 points by peter_d_sherman 18 days ago \| 4 comments
70.		Toast IDE Gets Markdown Spell Checking (github.com/paradise-runner)
		8 points by dividedcomet 18 days ago \| 6 comments
71.		Google kills Earth AI generator after one day (twitter.com/newsfromgoogle)
		64 points by BlueBerry2001 18 days ago \| 105 comments
72.		Printing floating point numbers in binary (johndcook.com)
		8 points by ibobev 22 days ago \| 2 comments
73.		Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI [video] (youtube.com)
		56 points by tcp_handshaker 17 days ago \| 48 comments
74.		[flagged] Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe? (theguardian.com)
		63 points by bookofjoe 17 days ago \| 44 comments
75.		Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?
		36 points by NotParth11 18 days ago \| 65 comments
76.		Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth (digitaldigging.org)
		61 points by taubek 19 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 17 days ago \| 22 comments
78.		Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) (rsadowski.de)
		20 points by tylerius 18 days ago \| 1 comment
79.		Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries (atspotify.com)
		19 points by kalaracey 18 days ago \| 3 comments
80.		Anime Professions (github.com/elmiram)
		14 points by Gray0Ed 24 days ago \| 9 comments
81.		Fermi Paradox (wikipedia.org)
		36 points by simonebrunozzi 18 days ago \| 38 comments
82.		When Internal Memory Fails: A No-Solder Wii U Recovery (smolnero.com)
		11 points by edgar_ortega 22 days ago \| 2 comments
83.		How to Spot AI Writing (economist.com)
		37 points by ijidak 18 days ago \| 74 comments
84.		[flagged] Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned (dailymail.com)
		28 points by Bender 18 days ago \| 32 comments
85.		[flagged] I Fired My AI Assitant (chreke.com)
		23 points by speckx 18 days ago \| 48 comments
86.		[flagged] A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies (economist.com)
		36 points by andsoitis 18 days ago \| 79 comments
87.		Firefox Local Mode for Web Developers (firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org)
		34 points by csmantle 18 days ago \| 2 comments
88.		History remembers two Robert McNamaras (indevelopmentmag.com)
		9 points by salonium_ 21 days ago \| 2 comments
89.		Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator [video] (infoq.com)
		7 points by e-topy 21 days ago \| 1 comment
90.		Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth (barchart.com)
		29 points by thm 18 days ago \| 27 comments
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