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22951.

Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions (tomshardware.com)

51 points by cratermoon 1 month ago | 46 comments

22952.

Big Breakfast Alters Appetite, Gut Health (cambridge.org)

51 points by wjb3 2 months ago | 46 comments

22953.

Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025) (dailynk.com)

51 points by spzb 3 weeks ago | 45 comments

22954.

Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand (startribune.com)

51 points by fizl 4 months ago | 45 comments

22955.

'A mass casualty event that could exceed Hiroshima': Yale researcher on Sudan (cnn.com)

51 points by moosedman 6 months ago | 45 comments

22956.

Iranian Women Graduate in Stem 3× the Rate of U.S. Women and Has 5× More PhDs (hrnews1.substack.com)

51 points by williesmellson 2 months ago | 44 comments

22957.

My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent (blog.kestrelsnest.social)

51 points by fortyseven 5 months ago | 44 comments

22958.

The average chess players of Bletchley Park and AI research in Britain (blogs.bl.uk)

51 points by salonium_ 10 months ago | 43 comments

22959.

Tell HN: I kinda want to go back to Java

51 points by throwmeaway222 8 months ago | 42 comments

22960.

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky (theconversation.com)

51 points by 01-_- 1 month ago | 41 comments

22961.

Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects?

51 points by pillefitz 9 months ago | 40 comments

22962.

Leaders are using appeals to nostalgia, nationalism to attack higher education (theconversation.com)

51 points by rntn 10 months ago | 38 comments

22963.

Revocation of X.509 Certificates (blog.apnic.net)

51 points by jandeboevrie 3 weeks ago | 37 comments

22964.

Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects (2014) (martinfowler.com)

51 points by pjmlp 2 months ago | 37 comments

22965.

Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation (github.com)

51 points by urav 2 months ago | 37 comments

22966.

Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff

51 points by creativesage 4 months ago | 37 comments

22967.

Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing (browserbuddy.com)

51 points by alien0006 5 months ago | 37 comments

22968.

How virtual textures work (shlom.dev)

51 points by betamark 3 months ago | 36 comments

22969.

Shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer (2019) (snf.github.io)

51 points by klaussilveira 8 months ago | 36 comments

22970.

Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? (phys.org)

51 points by PaulHoule 1 week ago | 35 comments

22971.

How Semiconductors Were Made in America (siliconimist.com)

51 points by johncole 3 weeks ago | 35 comments

22972.

Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld (mdpi.com)

51 points by maxeda 3 months ago | 35 comments

22973.

Yoshua Bengio Launches LawZero: A New Nonprofit Advancing Safe-by-Design AI (lawzero.org)

51 points by WillieCubed 11 months ago | 35 comments

22974.

SCOTUS declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material (reuters.com)

51 points by cainxinth 2 months ago | 33 comments

22975.

Tire Pressure Sensor IDs: Why, Where and When (2015) (tomorrowstechnician.com)

51 points by walterbell 7 months ago | 32 comments

22976.

Meta Joins Kotlin Foundation (engineering.fb.com)

51 points by bundie 10 months ago | 32 comments

22977.

AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going (nickolinger.com)

51 points by olingern 3 months ago | 30 comments

22978.

Show HN: An open source Launchpad for macOS 26 (github.com)

51 points by roversx 7 months ago | 30 comments

22979.

Goldman Sachs says AI still not showing up in companies' bottom lines (businessinsider.com)

51 points by ethanwillis 8 months ago | 30 comments

22980.

Cross-Model Void Convergence: GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6 Deterministic Silence (zenodo.org)

51 points by rayanpal_ 2 months ago | 28 comments