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Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom
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economist.com
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| 34 points by
andsoitis
46 minutes ago
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Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
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costar.com
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| 114 points by
mapping365
2 hours ago
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101 comments
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Discovery Loop
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discoveryloop.com
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| 652 points by
xtreak29
12 hours ago
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404 comments
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Zed DeltaDB
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zed.dev
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| 340 points by
ahamez
9 hours ago
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182 comments
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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
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blog.google
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| 544 points by
colesantiago
12 hours ago
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621 comments
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Do birds enjoy flying? Analysis of affect after flight in galah (E roseicapilla)
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brill.com
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bookofjoe
1 hour ago
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3 comments
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The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
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randsinrepose.com
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| 189 points by
ExMachina73
6 hours ago
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82 comments
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Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If
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greyblake.com
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| 59 points by
greyblake
3 hours ago
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13 comments
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Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
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meta.ai
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| 209 points by
paulkrush
9 hours ago
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122 comments
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Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
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neon.com
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| 251 points by
moonikakiss
10 hours ago
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63 comments
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Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
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fogus.me
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| 170 points by
lladnar
9 hours ago
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166 comments
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Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
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primeintellect.ai
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| 131 points by
Xeophon
7 hours ago
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22 comments
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
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cloudflare.com
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| 499 points by
speckx
14 hours ago
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252 comments
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Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
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promptarmor.com
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| 196 points by
hackerBanana
11 hours ago
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77 comments
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NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
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chipsandcheese.com
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| 106 points by
pella
7 hours ago
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15 comments
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LLMs won't break symmetric crypto
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bfswa.blog
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| 57 points by
rowbin
2 hours ago
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60 comments
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Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
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github.com/denoland
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| 169 points by
calvinfo
11 hours ago
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GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2
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gnu.org
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| 148 points by
plaguna
11 hours ago
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I'll be stepping back from leading product for X
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twitter.com/nikitabier
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| 92 points by
DearAll
7 hours ago
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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
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runarcn.no
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| 248 points by
speckx
8 hours ago
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204 comments
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The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1
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truegrittexturesupply.com
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Michelangelo11
5 hours ago
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1 comments
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Position: LLMs Can't Jump
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openreview.net
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| 256 points by
theanonymousone
17 hours ago
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173 comments
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Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust
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acm.org
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| 74 points by
pseudolus
9 hours ago
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32 comments
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Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates
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github.com/morishuz
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| 39 points by
oryx1729
6 hours ago
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5 comments
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Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation
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shuklaayu.sh
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| 35 points by
shuklaayush
6 hours ago
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Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast
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science.org
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| 118 points by
_____k
14 hours ago
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52 comments
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Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)
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arxiv.org
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| 87 points by
robin_reala
10 hours ago
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58 comments
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Something is changing in the unit economics of software
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nicolo.xyz
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| 50 points by
coconido
5 hours ago
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36 comments
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The Entropy of a Markov Chain
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chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com
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| 115 points by
surprisetalk
14 hours ago
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9 comments
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Online Friends Are Real Friends
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bearblog.dev
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| 86 points by
Tomte
9 hours ago
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54 comments
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Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod
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hyperprobe.co
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| 47 points by
shailendraht
11 hours ago
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38 comments
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The Valley of Webhooks
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weli.dev
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| 167 points by
weli
13 hours ago
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77 comments
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Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
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campion.edu.au
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| 164 points by
teleforce
14 hours ago
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78 comments
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Building an Advanced Agentic Harness
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data4sci.com
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| 108 points by
Anon84
14 hours ago
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42 comments
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What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
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norbertkozsir.com
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| 54 points by
abelsm
9 hours ago
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46 comments
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When online commenters detect my art as AI
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davidrevoy.com
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| 19 points by
Jare
7 hours ago
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11 comments
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Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
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quantamagazine.org
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| 130 points by
pseudolus
16 hours ago
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127 comments
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Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field
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rubinobservatory.org
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| 92 points by
MarcoDewey
14 hours ago
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15 comments
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Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog
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sagredo.dev
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| 46 points by
triska
9 hours ago
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2 comments
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New Keyboard: Alicja v2
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juszkiewicz.com.pl
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| 5 points by
jandeboevrie
2 hours ago
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Painting with Gaussians
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yogthos.net
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| 94 points by
yogthos
14 hours ago
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Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure
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securelist.com
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| 50 points by
lschueller
11 hours ago
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14 comments
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“Gravity is worth asking about”
(
aresluna.org
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| 201 points by
nozzlegear
23 hours ago
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127 comments
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Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
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wired.com
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| 459 points by
dzdt
17 hours ago
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242 comments
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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
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wired.com
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| 269 points by
malshe
8 hours ago
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201 comments
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Proxmox VE now available for ARM64
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proxmox.com
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| 56 points by
geerlingguy
13 hours ago
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15 comments
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See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet
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bbc.com
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| 41 points by
neversaydie
12 hours ago
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4 comments
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Thomson Reuters Employees Demand That ICE "Leave Our Cities"
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thenation.com
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| 13 points by
petethomas
1 hour ago
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5 comments
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Stop sending me your errors
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kramkow.ski
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| 60 points by
speckx
11 hours ago
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10 comments
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Faster Than Ninja
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build2.org
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| 85 points by
elasticdog
14 hours ago
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30 comments
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Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
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cnelecar.com
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| 180 points by
iplaypc
13 hours ago
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119 comments
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A Gallery of Installing from .dmg
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aresluna.org
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| 15 points by
colinprince
6 hours ago
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2 comments
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Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
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divingintheshallowend.com
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| 133 points by
embedding-shape
16 hours ago
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164 comments
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Investors are having doubts about Elon Musk's grandiose ambitions
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economist.com
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| 18 points by
andsoitis
2 hours ago
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11 comments
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Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python
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quansight.org
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| 95 points by
ngoldbaum
19 hours ago
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13 comments
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What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check
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arxiv.org
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| 36 points by
alvis
12 hours ago
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7 comments
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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
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wpi.edu
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| 430 points by
pmg101
2 days ago
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431 comments
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Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system
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righto.com
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| 44 points by
Jimmc414
14 hours ago
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10 comments
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Bubble Memory
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wikipedia.org
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×1.03
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| 79 points by
jacquesm
21 hours ago
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25 comments
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Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning
(
github.com/matt-w-horn
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| 15 points by
spectraldrift
9 hours ago
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5 comments
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TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas
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tson.io
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| 51 points by
andrewjneumann
14 hours ago
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51 comments
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IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
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mysk.blog
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| 174 points by
lapcat
1 day ago
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Detach from your work to make it work
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productidentity.co
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×0.88
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| 17 points by
itaydr
11 hours ago
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The Law of Jante (2015)
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theparisreview.org
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| 24 points by
NaOH
13 hours ago
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The Lisp Machine: Your Next Step in Computing
(
symbolics.biz
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| 8 points by
yacin
7 hours ago
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discuss
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TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
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vincentschmalbach.com
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| 234 points by
vincent_s
15 hours ago
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98 comments
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A Universal Theory of Brain Function [video]
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youtube.com
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| 6 points by
binyu
2 hours ago
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Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes
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reuters.com
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| 37 points by
mapping365
5 hours ago
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36 comments
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Symbolics Genera now available free for non-commercial use (inv-only early beta)
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hachyderm.io
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| 9 points by
self
4 hours ago
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1 comments
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Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead
(
ycombinator.com
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1 day ago
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discuss
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Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, thousands of miners sick
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npr.org
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| 9 points by
Jimmc414
1 hour ago
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Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds
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hannahilea.com
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| 53 points by
austinallegro
20 hours ago
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9 comments
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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
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simonwillison.net
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| 378 points by
tosh
1 day ago
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213 comments
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Western Sahara
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wikipedia.org
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×1.21
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| 114 points by
brudgers
13 hours ago
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75 comments
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Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
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arxiv.org
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| 93 points by
theanonymousone
23 hours ago
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12 comments
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The Investors Whose SpaceX Shares Vanished Before They Could Cash In
(
wsj.com
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| 7 points by
JumpCrisscross
1 hour ago
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discuss
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Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems
(
clickhouse.com
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| 20 points by
zX41ZdbW
10 hours ago
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5 comments
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Industrial Revolution to AI tech upheavals: The Catholic principle guiding popes
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theconversation.com
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| 3 points by
1659447091
1 hour ago
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discuss
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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
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mistral.ai
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×1.99
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| 475 points by
riadsila
1 day ago
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131 comments
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Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode
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github.com/adrida
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| 18 points by
adam_rida
12 hours ago
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1 comments
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Bugtraq is back
(
securityfocus.com
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×0.71
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| 78 points by
bashtoni
1 day ago
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30 comments
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Apps for Kobo
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github.com/BandarLabs
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| 9 points by
mkagenius
9 hours ago
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3 comments
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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
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toneyalexander.github.io
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| 602 points by
automatoney
1 day ago
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99 comments
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The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851)
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thehopkinthomasproject.com
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| 49 points by
gregsadetsky
22 hours ago
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11 comments
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BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake
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github.com/b-aaz
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| 32 points by
signa11
16 hours ago
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6 comments
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LLMs reward expertise
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seangoedecke.com
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| 1384 points by
MaxMussio
2 days ago
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564 comments
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Month on Vegan Diet Shifts Epigenetic Patterns Assoc with Aging and Inflammation
(
ucsd.edu
)
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| 8 points by
littlexsparkee
8 hours ago
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discuss
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Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power
(
sharedobject.blog
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| 86 points by
firer
1 day ago
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21 comments
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We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
(
seg6.space
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| 183 points by
seg6
1 day ago
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159 comments
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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
(
birchtree.me
)
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| 699 points by
surprisetalk
1 day ago
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750 comments
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