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1.
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
1561 points by anonymousiam 21 days ago | 591 comments
2.
Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
1356 points by PriorityLeft 22 days ago | 998 comments
3.
Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
921 points by stefanpie 22 days ago | 648 comments
4.
Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
1063 points by surprisetalk 22 days ago | 875 comments
5.
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
886 points by defrost 22 days ago | 165 comments
6.
An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
524 points by ColinWright 22 days ago | 187 comments
7.
Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
854 points by psxuaw 22 days ago | 470 comments
8.
Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
419 points by willmeyers 21 days ago | 131 comments
9.
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
430 points by speckx 21 days ago | 173 comments
10.
Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
375 points by sbt567 22 days ago | 246 comments
11.
Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
253 points by xngbuilds 21 days ago | 99 comments
12.
US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
336 points by david-gpu 22 days ago | 545 comments
13.
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
1676 points by CliffStoll 23 days ago | 258 comments
14.
AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (cnbc.com)
267 points by christhecaribou 22 days ago | 201 comments
15.
You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
215 points by MrBruh 21 days ago | 144 comments
16.
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
403 points by rustoo 24 days ago | 665 comments
17.
Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
396 points by wslh 22 days ago | 383 comments
18.
Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
308 points by cemsakarya 24 days ago | 130 comments
19.
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
707 points by ribtoks 21 days ago | 365 comments
20.
Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
388 points by HieronymusBosch 22 days ago | 171 comments
21.
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
625 points by mwheelz 22 days ago | 295 comments
22.
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
152 points by hhs 22 days ago | 62 comments
23.
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
207 points by hhs 22 days ago | 80 comments
24.
PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
147 points by ibobev 21 days ago | 71 comments
25.
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
132 points by foltik 22 days ago | 69 comments
26.
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
479 points by mittermayr 22 days ago | 347 comments
27.
ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
279 points by Borkdude 22 days ago | 73 comments
28.
All means are fair except solving the problem (yosefk.com)
83 points by akkartik 23 days ago | 56 comments
29.
The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
173 points by cainxinth 23 days ago | 240 comments
30.
A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
106 points by timvisee 25 days ago | 36 comments

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