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1.		The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
		944 points by herbertl 12 hours ago \| 543 comments
2.		GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
		617 points by Topfi 1 day ago \| 442 comments
3.		Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
		509 points by flaburgan 18 hours ago \| 275 comments
4.		Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
		565 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago \| 386 comments
5.		Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
		278 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago \| 74 comments
6.		Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
		403 points by otherayden 13 hours ago \| 64 comments
7.		Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
		475 points by tomasreimers 1 day ago \| 362 comments
8.		Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
		359 points by jp_sc 12 hours ago \| 244 comments
9.		Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
		350 points by Vinnl 13 hours ago \| 178 comments
10.		Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
		231 points by andrewjanke 6 days ago \| 61 comments
11.		Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
		490 points by haunter 1 day ago \| 398 comments
12.		Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
		172 points by rglover 1 day ago \| 46 comments
13.		Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
		267 points by zeristor 11 hours ago \| 55 comments
14.		The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
		104 points by whobre 6 days ago \| 54 comments
15.		Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
		224 points by honungsburk 18 hours ago \| 128 comments
16.		Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (posit.co)
		160 points by jeroenjanssens 12 hours ago \| 33 comments
17.		Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asme.org)
		285 points by cwwc 8 hours ago \| 422 comments
18.		Beware Management Consultants (iceland.co.uk)
		442 points by KolmogorovComp 6 hours ago \| 123 comments
19.		The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
		170 points by cyndunlop 23 hours ago \| 61 comments
20.		Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (science.org)
		87 points by hermitcrab 5 days ago \| 58 comments
21.		How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		67 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 65 comments
22.		California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
		141 points by littlexsparkee 22 hours ago \| 209 comments
23.		Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (privacyguides.org)
		244 points by DeepLogin 13 hours ago \| 165 comments
24.		How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)
		229 points by NaOH 7 hours ago \| 143 comments
25.		Norway should buy OpenAI (onethousandmeans.com)
		217 points by alexeigannon 6 hours ago \| 228 comments
26.		Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
		61 points by bwm 9 hours ago \| 37 comments
27.		Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/ryancodrai)
		208 points by fittingopposite 7 hours ago \| 27 comments
28.		Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (cell.com)
		99 points by newsomix9xl 21 hours ago \| 60 comments
29.		Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion (claude.com)
		261 points by tyre 8 hours ago \| 230 comments
30.		Splitting a Git Commit (gnoack.org)
		121 points by signa11 3 days ago \| 60 comments
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