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91.Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers (theguardian.com)
43 points by erehweb 36 days ago | 13 comments
92.A few thoughts about PayPal, nearly 12 years after I left (twitter.com/davidmarcus)
38 points by latchkey 37 days ago | 3 comments
93.Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians' biometric data, ID documents (crikey.com.au)
33 points by stuaxo 37 days ago | 1 comment
94.Beg Bounties (troyhunt.com)
24 points by latexr 36 days ago
95.Speculative Sampling Explained (saibo-creator.github.io)
11 points by teleforce 36 days ago
96.The Murder of the Washington Post (theatlantic.com)
23 points by mooreds 36 days ago
97.Washington Post cuts a third of its staff in a blow to a legendary news brand (apnews.com)
19 points by bluedino 36 days ago | 4 comments
98.Claude Code's /Insights (natemeyvis.com)
13 points by ingve 36 days ago | 1 comment
99.DMA enforced an option to sort Ig/FB feeds chronologically (instagram.com)
22 points by cromka 36 days ago | 1 comment
100.Melinda French Gates Appears to Confirm Divorce Was Related to Epstein (gizmodo.com)
17 points by petethomas 37 days ago | 3 comments
101.US Gen-X is definitely feeling the pressure (sciencedaily.com)
25 points by dickiedyce 36 days ago | 7 comments
102.User blowback convinces Adobe to keep supporting 30-year-old 2D animation app (arstechnica.com)
20 points by stalfosknight 36 days ago
103."Superhuman": A 13 year old boy swims 2.5 miles to save family swept out to sea (cbsnews.com)
18 points by gurjeet 37 days ago
104.Disk Scout – Find the Cheapest SSDs Across Amazon (disk-scout.com)
10 points by matansfb 36 days ago | 11 comments
105.Many people have no mental imagery. What's going on in their brains? (nature.com)
22 points by johngossman 36 days ago | 11 comments
106.Alphabet Q4 2025 Earnings release [pdf] (q4cdn.com)
24 points by etamponi 36 days ago | 3 comments
107.36 Years in Making, GNU's Own Kernel Project Hurd Is Anything but Dead (itsfoss.com)
14 points by pkaeding 37 days ago | 1 comment
108.Jeffrey Epstein made lucrative investment in crypto exchange Coinbase (washingtonpost.com)
13 points by reaperducer 36 days ago
109.Walmart hits $1T market cap (cnbc.com)
12 points by ChrisArchitect 37 days ago
110.A Trump 'Blockade' Is Stalling Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide (nytimes.com)
19 points by doener 36 days ago | 5 comments
111.A programmer's guide to leaving GitHub (lord.io)
20 points by stackptr 37 days ago | 10 comments
112.Epstein asked Chomsky for advice over 'putrid' media coverage, files show (bbc.com)
27 points by tartoran 36 days ago | 20 comments
113.Learning Low-Level Computing and C++ by Making a Game Boy Emulator (byteofmelon.com)
20 points by romes 36 days ago | 3 comments
114.EU plan to share data with US border force sparks surveillance fears (politico.eu)
20 points by billybuckwheat 36 days ago | 1 comment
115.JetBrains drops X11 for Wayland as default in IntelliJ-based IDEs (neowin.net)
19 points by bundie 36 days ago | 3 comments
116.China to ban hidden door handles on cars starting in 2027 (apnews.com)
17 points by bobwaycott 36 days ago | 4 comments
117.How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam – Camo Studio with OBS (tomshardware.com)
15 points by gnabgib 37 days ago | 2 comments
118.China bans hidden car door handles (npr.org)
14 points by mooreds 36 days ago | 2 comments
119.Ending 15 years of subprocess polling (gmpy.dev)
14 points by birdculture 36 days ago
120.Map Shows 21 States Where Deaths Now Outnumber Births (2025) (newsweek.com)
13 points by toomuchtodo 36 days ago | 5 comments

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