Daily Top Stories
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Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file (pocketbase.io)
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EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance (reclaimthenet.org)
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AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you (replaceyourboss.ai)
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Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras (github.com)
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Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany (openpetition.de)
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250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland (energy-storage.news)
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A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z (nealstephenson.substack.com)
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The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation (bbc.com)
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Underrated reasons to be thankful V (dynomight.net)
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DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf] (github.com)
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LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell (ramones.dev)
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Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest
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Meta hiding $27B in debt using advanced geometry (stohl.substack.com)
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How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024) (bbc.com)
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Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans (medicalxpress.com)
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Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip (vsora.com)
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Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation (wsj.com)
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Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? (dub.uu.nl)
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China's BEV trucks and the end of diesel's dominance (cleantechnica.com)
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A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue (2022) (tigerbeetle.com)
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A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI (garymarcus.substack.com)
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FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users (github.com)
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Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024) (tigerstyle.dev)
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SQLite as an Application File Format (sqlite.org)
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Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent (github.com)
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AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out (apolloacademy.com)
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Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism (lux-magazine.com)
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Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division (heise.de)
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Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities (heise.de)
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The VPN panic is only getting started (theverge.com)