Weekly Best
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Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
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Bill Atkinson has died (daringfireball.net)
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GCP Outage (status.cloud.google.com)
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Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure (tailscale.com)
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A receipt printer cured my procrastination (laurieherault.com)
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The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles (simonwillison.net)
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Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
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Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc (apple.com)
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Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS (github.com)
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If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) (joshworth.com)
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Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole (port.ac.uk)
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Jemalloc Postmortem (jasone.github.io)
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Apple introduces a universal design across platforms (apple.com)
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US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists (apnews.com)
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Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests (cnn.com)
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Chatterbox TTS (github.com)
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Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user (brutecat.com)
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Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub (github.com)
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Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
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"Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B (zeropartydata.es)
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I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it (philmckinney.substack.com)
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Kagi Reaches 50k Users (kagi.com)
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How I program with agents (crawshaw.io)
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OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80% (twitter.com)
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Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own (ssp.sh)
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My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle (corentin.trebaol.com)
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Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard (theguardian.com)
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The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela (kaveland.no)
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Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) (tech.slashdot.org)
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Joining Apple Computer (2018) (folklore.org)