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Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists

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Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes

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20

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20

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19

USGS: M 7.1 Earthquake – 90 km SE of Pangai, Tonga

18

The Child and the Shadow (1975) [pdf]

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File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends (2019)

17

Ask HN: Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this?

15

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14

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14

In Defense of the Rat

13

I made a show shuffler that shuffles shows in order

13

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13

Literate Development: AI-Enhanced Software Engineering

11

Tiniest Flying Robot (Wingspan <1cm) Soars Thanks to Magnets

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The Mediocrity of Modern Google

10

Man Detained by ICE for Autism Awareness Tattoo Sent to Prison

9

Luigi Mangione-Inspired Ballot Initiative Targets Health Insurance Denials

8

The Nobel Duel

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Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship

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6

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5

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances

5

Vitodeploy: Self hosted Laravel Forge alternative

5

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4

RPCEmu is an emulator of classic Acorn computer systems

4

Lehmer's Continued Fraction Factorization Algorithm

4

Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses

4

Agentic AI Needs Its TCP/IP Moment

3

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3

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3

Preventing nearsightedness using AR glasses or projectors

3

Kalua: An OpenWrt extension for building large mesh-networks

2

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2

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1

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1

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