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  1. Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom (economist.com)
    ×3.06 1 | 34 points by andsoitis 46 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (costar.com)
    ×2.93 1 | 114 points by mapping365 2 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.48 | 652 points by xtreak29 12 hours ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
    ×1.78 1 | 340 points by ahamez 9 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.02 1 | 544 points by colesantiago 12 hours ago | 621 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Do birds enjoy flying? Analysis of affect after flight in galah (E roseicapilla) (brill.com)
    ×1.31 19 | 14 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
    ×2.05 | 189 points by ExMachina73 6 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
    ×2.45 2 | 59 points by greyblake 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
    ×2.05 5 | 209 points by paulkrush 9 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
    ×1.88 3 | 251 points by moonikakiss 10 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
    ×2.16 9 | 170 points by lladnar 9 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.94 3 | 131 points by Xeophon 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.58 1 | 499 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.61 8 | 196 points by hackerBanana 11 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.45 1 | 106 points by pella 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. LLMs won't break symmetric crypto (bfswa.blog)
    ×1.42 12 | 57 points by rowbin 2 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.63 11 | 169 points by calvinfo 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (gnu.org)
    ×1.43 12 | 148 points by plaguna 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I'll be stepping back from leading product for X (twitter.com/nikitabier)
    ×2.44 2 | 92 points by DearAll 7 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×2.80 11 | 248 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1 (truegrittexturesupply.com)
    ×0.81 29 | 21 points by Michelangelo11 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
    ×1.28 18 | 256 points by theanonymousone 17 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
    ×1.04 23 | 74 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates (github.com/morishuz)
    ×0.79 21 | 39 points by oryx1729 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation (shuklaayu.sh)
    ×1.01 19 | 35 points by shuklaayush 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (science.org)
    ×0.89 30 | 118 points by _____k 14 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.38 15 | 87 points by robin_reala 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Something is changing in the unit economics of software (nicolo.xyz)
    ×1.72 4 | 50 points by coconido 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.82 24 | 115 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Online Friends Are Real Friends (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.53 9 | 86 points by Tomte 9 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.33 53 | 47 points by shailendraht 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
    ×1.42 2 | 167 points by weli 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
    ×1.03 10 | 164 points by teleforce 14 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.83 24 | 108 points by Anon84 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What happens if you put work into the second dimension? (norbertkozsir.com)
    ×1.01 20 | 54 points by abelsm 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. When online commenters detect my art as AI (davidrevoy.com)
    ×2.08 56 | 19 points by Jare 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.19 26 | 130 points by pseudolus 16 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
    ×0.85 28 | 92 points by MarcoDewey 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
    ×0.63 23 | 46 points by triska 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. New Keyboard: Alicja v2 (juszkiewicz.com.pl)
    ×0.42 49 | 5 points by jandeboevrie 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
    ×0.83 28 | 94 points by yogthos 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure (securelist.com)
    ×0.57 35 | 50 points by lschueller 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.36 36 | 201 points by nozzlegear 23 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)
    ×2.89 21 | 459 points by dzdt 17 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (wired.com)
    ×4.73 37 | 269 points by malshe 8 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (proxmox.com)
    ×2.10 48 | 56 points by geerlingguy 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet (bbc.com)
    ×1.64 58 | 41 points by neversaydie 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Thomson Reuters Employees Demand That ICE "Leave Our Cities" (thenation.com)
    ×3.72 22 | 13 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)
    ×1.49 22 | 60 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Faster Than Ninja (build2.org)
    ×0.79 28 | 85 points by elasticdog 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 (cnelecar.com)
    ×1.68 16 | 180 points by iplaypc 13 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A Gallery of Installing from .dmg (aresluna.org)
    ×1.80 45 | 15 points by colinprince 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)
    ×3.12 7 | 133 points by embedding-shape 16 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Investors are having doubts about Elon Musk's grandiose ambitions (economist.com)
    ×4.40 36 | 18 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python (quansight.org)
    ×0.94 47 | 95 points by ngoldbaum 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check (arxiv.org)
    ×1.70 53 | 36 points by alvis 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.14 75 | 430 points by pmg101 2 days ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (righto.com)
    ×0.55 56 | 44 points by Jimmc414 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Bubble Memory (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.03 59 | 79 points by jacquesm 21 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning (github.com/matt-w-horn)
    ×0.82 63 | 15 points by spectraldrift 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas (tson.io)
    ×0.88 43 | 51 points by andrewjneumann 14 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
    ×1.12 50 | 174 points by lapcat 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Detach from your work to make it work (productidentity.co)
    ×0.88 78 | 17 points by itaydr 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Law of Jante (2015) (theparisreview.org)
    ×0.42 70 | 24 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Lisp Machine: Your Next Step in Computing (symbolics.biz)
    ×1.58 80 | 8 points by yacin 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×2.30 30 | 234 points by vincent_s 15 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A Universal Theory of Brain Function [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.62 5 | 6 points by binyu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes (reuters.com)
    ×4.30 31 | 37 points by mapping365 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Symbolics Genera now available free for non-commercial use (inv-only early beta) (hachyderm.io)
    ×2.81 14 | 9 points by self 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, thousands of miners sick (npr.org)
    ×3.89 42 | 9 points by Jimmc414 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.65 63 | 53 points by austinallegro 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.84 19 | 378 points by tosh 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Western Sahara (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.21 26 | 114 points by brudgers 13 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 49 | 93 points by theanonymousone 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Investors Whose SpaceX Shares Vanished Before They Could Cash In (wsj.com)
    ×2.12 35 | 7 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.83 40 | 20 points by zX41ZdbW 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Industrial Revolution to AI tech upheavals: The Catholic principle guiding popes (theconversation.com)
    ×1.39 22 | 3 points by 1659447091 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
    ×1.99 3 | 475 points by riadsila 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode (github.com/adrida)
    ×1.45 66 | 18 points by adam_rida 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Bugtraq is back (securityfocus.com)
    ×0.71 67 | 78 points by bashtoni 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Apps for Kobo (github.com/BandarLabs)
    ×0.92 73 | 9 points by mkagenius 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.20 10 | 602 points by automatoney 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851) (thehopkinthomasproject.com)
    ×0.55 66 | 49 points by gregsadetsky 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake (github.com/b-aaz)
    ×0.48 55 | 32 points by signa11 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)
    ×5.20 11 | 1384 points by MaxMussio 2 days ago | 564 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Month on Vegan Diet Shifts Epigenetic Patterns Assoc with Aging and Inflammation (ucsd.edu)
    ×2.28 64 | 8 points by littlexsparkee 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
    ×0.86 65 | 86 points by firer 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
    ×1.54 24 | 183 points by seg6 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
    ×3.64 14 | 699 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 750 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???