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1.		Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades (latimes.com)
		724 points by ValentineC 25 days ago \| 588 comments
2.		Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco (nautilus.quest)
		158 points by zackoverflow 54 days ago \| 46 comments
3.		Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing (ieee.org)
		630 points by pseudolus 61 days ago \| 603 comments
4.		Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 (oneusefulthing.org)
		352 points by JumpCrisscross 63 days ago \| 319 comments
5.		After my dad died, we found the love letters (jenn.site)
		953 points by eatitraw 63 days ago \| 435 comments
6.		Microsoft makes Zork open-source (opensource.microsoft.com)
		640 points by tabletcorry 66 days ago \| 242 comments
7.		Mysterious holes in the Andes may have been an ancient marketplace (sydney.edu.au)
		60 points by gmays 74 days ago \| 35 comments
8.		The code and open-source tools I used to produce a science fiction anthology (compellingsciencefiction.com)
		215 points by mojoe 68 days ago \| 48 comments
9.		A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition (generativehistory.substack.com)
		553 points by scrlk 75 days ago \| 313 comments
10.		Mr TIFF (inventingthefuture.ghost.io)
		1052 points by speckx 82 days ago \| 150 comments
11.		Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux (tomshardware.com)
		499 points by jamesgill 89 days ago \| 270 comments
12.		It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts (pabloecortez.com)
		1300 points by speckx 3 months ago \| 540 comments
13.		Tags to make HTML work like you expect (jim-nielsen.com)
		441 points by FromTheArchives 3 months ago \| 238 comments
14.		Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023) (si.edu)
		289 points by thunderbong 3 months ago \| 32 comments
15.		I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' (daviddodda.com)
		897 points by DavidDodda 3 months ago \| 515 comments
16.		IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 (ikeamuseum.com)
		507 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago \| 139 comments
17.		A replica of Citizen Quartz watch based on Harel's paper introducing statecharts (andyjakubowski.github.io)
		146 points by all2 3 months ago \| 22 comments
18.		If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead (framinghamsource.com)
		166 points by markhall 4 months ago \| 74 comments
19.		40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language (openculture.com)
		189 points by mdp2021 4 months ago \| 131 comments
20.		Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
		459 points by ncarlson 4 months ago \| 565 comments
21.		The Rise and Fall of the British Detective Novel (2010) (historytoday.com)
		51 points by Caiero 4 months ago \| 24 comments
22.		UTF-8 is a brilliant design (iamvishnu.com)
		849 points by vishnuharidas 4 months ago \| 348 comments
23.		What Is the Fourier Transform? (quantamagazine.org)
		475 points by rbanffy 4 months ago \| 206 comments
24.		A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt (smithsonianmag.com)
		176 points by sensiquest 5 months ago \| 60 comments
25.		People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say (bbc.com)
		96 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago \| 14 comments
26.		How to increase your surface area for luck (usefulfictions.substack.com)
		213 points by jger15 6 months ago \| 101 comments
27.		Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 (mbh4h.substack.com)
		438 points by keiferski 6 months ago \| 404 comments
28.		GLP-1s are breaking life insurance (glp1digest.com)
		441 points by alexslobodnik 6 months ago \| 620 comments
29.		Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore (archaeologymag.com)
		264 points by hilux 6 months ago \| 197 comments
30.		Why English doesn't use accents (deadlanguagesociety.com)
		350 points by sandbach 6 months ago \| 602 comments
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