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12031.

OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday (cnbc.com)

137 points by doppp 1 month ago | 3 comments

12032.

The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025) (thefabricator.com)

136 points by itvision 5 months ago | 412 comments

12033.

Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags (bloomberg.com)

136 points by petethomas 4 months ago | 266 comments

12034.

Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011) (gynvael.coldwind.pl)

136 points by e-topy 1 month ago | 237 comments

12035.

God created the real numbers (ethanheilman.com)

136 points by Bogdanp 10 months ago | 219 comments

12036.

Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites (arabnews.com)

136 points by mhb 7 months ago | 205 comments

12037.

State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11? (ntdotdev.wordpress.com)

136 points by xd1936 5 months ago | 198 comments

12038.

DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024) (darpa.mil)

136 points by alhazraed 9 months ago | 193 comments

12039.

How can Apple deal with the memory shortage? (asymco.com)

136 points by tambourine_man 1 month ago | 191 comments

12040.

The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (pluralistic.net)

136 points by baobun 9 months ago | 188 comments

12041.

Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34% (cnbc.com)

136 points by thelastgallon 8 months ago | 175 comments

12042.

Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic (cnbc.com)

136 points by donutshop 5 months ago | 151 comments

12043.

No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 (lists.iana.org)

136 points by speckx 3 months ago | 147 comments

12044.

Bazzite Post-Mortem (ba.antheas.dev)

136 points by transportheap 4 months ago | 143 comments

12045.

Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video] (youtube.com)

136 points by lisper 4 months ago | 141 comments

12046.

When ChatGPT turns informant (futureofbeinghuman.com)

136 points by laurex 8 months ago | 140 comments

12047.

The future of Terraform CDK (github.com)

136 points by mfornasa 6 months ago | 134 comments

12048.

HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA (hhs.gov)

136 points by coloneltcb 10 months ago | 132 comments

12049.

Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com)

136 points by tanelpoder 1 month ago | 130 comments

12050.

Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price (finance.yahoo.com)

136 points by pera 6 months ago | 127 comments

12051.

Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal (bbc.com)

136 points by tartoran 4 months ago | 119 comments

12052.

It is an amazing time for programmers (46elks.com)

136 points by jlundberg 1 month ago | 115 comments

12053.

The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car (openwheelworld.net)

136 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 112 comments

12054.

Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends (nytimes.com)

136 points by fleahunter 7 months ago | 110 comments

12055.

The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions (phoronix.com)

136 points by keyle 7 months ago | 97 comments

12056.

Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland (theguardian.com)

136 points by bookofjoe 1 month ago | 94 comments

12057.

Native Americans had dice 12k years ago (nbcnews.com)

136 points by delichon 2 months ago | 87 comments

12058.

PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs (vuxml.freebsd.org)