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31.		Batmobile: 10-20x Faster CUDA Kernels for Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (elliotarledge.com)
		93 points by ipnon 17 days ago \| 11 comments
32.		Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages (theregister.com)
		231 points by jjgreen 13 days ago \| 105 comments
33.		TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB (terabytedeals.com)
		148 points by vektor888 13 days ago \| 88 comments
34.		Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python (aljamal.substack.com)
		78 points by aburjg 18 days ago \| 18 comments
35.		Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
		471 points by Daemon404 13 days ago \| 505 comments
36.		SETI@home is in hiberation (setiathome.berkeley.edu)
		276 points by keepamovin 13 days ago \| 136 comments
37.		Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967) (saturdayeveningpost.com)
		87 points by jxmorris12 13 days ago \| 16 comments
38.		Challenges in join optimization (starrocks.io)
		70 points by HermitX 13 days ago \| 21 comments
39.		Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time (2024) (github.com/vitoplantamura)
		256 points by akyuu 13 days ago \| 183 comments
40.		Linux from Scratch (linuxfromscratch.org)
		413 points by Alupis 13 days ago \| 103 comments
41.		I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds (atempleton.bearblog.dev)
		190 points by signa11 13 days ago \| 19 comments
42.		RTS for Agents (getagentcraft.com)
		106 points by summoned 18 days ago \| 45 comments
43.		SmartOS (smartos.org)
		183 points by ofrzeta 13 days ago \| 89 comments
44.		Who owns Rudolph's nose? (creativelawcenter.com)
		43 points by ohjeez 14 days ago \| 22 comments
45.		Disaster planning for regular folks (2015) (coredump.cx)
		155 points by AlphaWeaver 14 days ago \| 118 comments
46.		Three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them (modal.com)
		75 points by charles_irl 13 days ago \| 5 comments
47.		The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns (nibzard.com)
		210 points by SouravInsights 14 days ago \| 145 comments
48.		Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty (nukeproof.org)
		109 points by jamesblonde 13 days ago \| 55 comments
49.		How AI destroys institutions (stanford.edu)
		305 points by JeanKage 13 days ago \| 281 comments
50.		TeraWave Satellite Communications Network (blueorigin.com)
		137 points by T-A 13 days ago \| 109 comments
51.		Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing (kenkoonwong.com)
		62 points by speckx 13 days ago \| 36 comments
52.		PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts (yyzkevin.com)
		116 points by rbanffy 13 days ago \| 28 comments
53.		Vibecoding #2 (matklad.github.io)
		150 points by ibobev 13 days ago \| 116 comments
54.		Show HN: yolo-cage – AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets (github.com/borenstein)
		60 points by borenstein 13 days ago \| 76 comments
55.		What Is a PC Compatible? (codon.org.uk)
		84 points by edward 19 days ago \| 31 comments
56.		Proof of Concept to Test Humanoid Robots (thehumanoid.ai)
		18 points by 0xedb 19 days ago \| 25 comments
57.		The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025) (thefabricator.com)
		136 points by itvision 13 days ago \| 412 comments
58.		[flagged] Cloudflare zero-day: Accessing any host globally (fearsoff.org)
		75 points by 2bluesc 14 days ago \| 15 comments
59.		Mystery of the Head Activator (asimov.press)
		31 points by mailyk 16 days ago \| 5 comments
60.		Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds (di.se)
		209 points by madspindel 13 days ago \| 180 comments
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