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  1. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
    ×1.60 2 | 102 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
    ×2.09 3 | 24 points by spyc 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
    ×1.92 8 | 73 points by mattsterett 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
    ×1.79 8 | 281 points by riadsila 7 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
    ×0.89 13 | 20 points by sourdecor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×1.96 4 | 444 points by automatoney 8 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
    ×1.71 10 | 21 points by seg6 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×8.08 7 | 759 points by jdcampolargo 4 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
    ×1.56 27 | 10 points by luispa 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication (paloaltonetworks.com)
    ×1.20 21 | 6 points by jchanimal 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
    ×2.08 5 | 226 points by xnx 5 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (openai.com)
    ×0.94 11 | 28 points by glub 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.65 8 | 24 points by edwardbzhang 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it (808bits.com)
    ×0.61 61 | 3 points by meehow 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
    ×1.60 13 | 361 points by zhoutong 13 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
    ×0.81 23 | 19 points by firer 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)
    ×3.59 15 | 189 points by stymaar 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
    ×3.13 14 | 150 points by depr 3 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (thisandthat.chat)
    ×1.91 31 | 88 points by jreynar 8 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
    ×0.67 9 | 74 points by faebi 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
    ×0.68 15 | 42 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
    ×1.51 17 | 227 points by cimi_ 12 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
    ×0.81 25 | 71 points by doppp 7 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
    ×1.49 10 | 161 points by carlos-menezes 5 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The physics of Docker build caching (blacksmith.sh)
    ×0.74 18 | 13 points by piobio 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (edotenv.com)
    ×0.32 43 | 26 points by Mzzzzz 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
    ×3.63 12 | 568 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 608 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust (github.com/brian-armstrong)
    ×0.76 81 | 3 points by brian-armstrong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.26 16 | 325 points by thewebguyd 8 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.23 60 | 340 points by pmg101 1 day ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
    ×1.78 22 | 298 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
    ×0.86 30 | 129 points by simonebrunozzi 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Warp Agent CLI (warp.dev)
    ×0.89 5 | 92 points by emschwartz 6 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.19 51 | 7 points by hahahaa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)
    ×0.96 32 | 56 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Blackmail Fail (2013) (gwern.net)
    ×0.61 19 | 36 points by simonebrunozzi 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)
    ×0.93 22 | 110 points by EndXA 11 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Sound of Inevitability (panoptica.com)
    ×0.39 51 | 7 points by WaitWaitWha 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS (amiga.com)
    ×2.55 36 | 6 points by odomus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. An AI voice agent running locally on a $50 Arduino uno Q (arduino.cc)
    ×1.11 62 | 6 points by supportm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries (vlt.io)
    ×0.70 6 | 49 points by patrikcsak 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Red Strings Club (vegard.net)
    ×0.32 63 | 16 points by meysamazad 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (computerenhance.com)
    ×1.70 41 | 119 points by FrojoS 13 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Nobel Disease (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.68 37 | 101 points by num42 12 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Web Security is Too Hard (textslashplain.com)
    ×2.84 37 | 198 points by kevincox 5 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (github.com/MariaDB)
    ×0.80 25 | 46 points by petecooper 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
    ×2.28 26 | 209 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Amazon Germany to Accept Wero (mobiflip.de)
    ×1.95 64 | 4 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Settlement with OpenAI for Discriminating Against U.S. Workers (justice.gov)
    ×3.53 26 | 8 points by ethanwillis 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The applause that disrupted nothing – yet still led to an arrest (fire.org)
    ×1.52 57 | 27 points by timr 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.19 55 | 29 points by garyhtou 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)
    ×5.07 21 | 1316 points by MaxMussio 1 day ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Oxide RFD 284: Loading the Host Operating System (oxide.computer)
    ×1.09 99 | 3 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf] (website-files.com)
    ×2.01 47 | 53 points by _pdp_ 1 hour ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (404media.co)
    ×4.22 31 | 99 points by cdrnsf 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.00 42 | 94 points by benbreen 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Appeals Court Agrees with EFF That Building a Web Browser Doesn't Violate CFAA (eff.org)
    ×2.42 3 | 3 points by iamnothere 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com/MakazhanAlpamys)
    ×1.05 15 | 116 points by MakazhanAlpamys 12 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
    ×1.08 37 | 97 points by sbulaev 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Gov. Greg Abbott halts Texas data center approvals (thenationalnews.com)
    ×1.97 10 | 5 points by mapping365 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OpenAI pays $3.2M in US probe over hiring foreign workers (reuters.com)
    ×2.81 15 | 4 points by alephnerd 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Rest in Peace, Heinz Stucke, Who Saw the World by Bike (bikepacking.com)
    ×1.12 76 | 18 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Asia Hedge Funds Suffer Widespread Losses in July Market Rout (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.37 19 | 6 points by mapping365 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019) (righto.com)
    ×0.59 61 | 33 points by Jimmc414 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
    ×2.22 3 | 76 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal (euronext.com)
    ×2.20 37 | 91 points by riffraff 14 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. SpaceX Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results [pdf] (q4cdn.com)
    ×2.64 25 | 23 points by simonpure 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Lua 5.5.1 Released (lua.org)
    ×1.91 28 | 20 points by andrewstetsenko 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.43 61 | 37 points by evakhoury 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Feasibility of Space Data Centers (youtube.com)
    ×1.33 13 | 4 points by yoyohello13 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. No Meat Proxy (nomeatproxy.com)
    ×1.63 64 | 31 points by kamilap 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Bundling Bioweapons with Vite (github.com/HughParry)
    ×0.82 74 | 13 points by HughParry 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone (learning-rust.github.io)
    ×0.88 51 | 54 points by dumindunuwan 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Pedagogy Behind the Studio (upenn.edu)
    ×0.32 82 | 8 points by ray__ 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mosh in a Lift (2012) (mosh.org)
    ×0.83 43 | 48 points by gavide 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
    ×1.22 53 | 131 points by wofo 21 hours ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it (theregister.com)
    ×1.15 5 | 9 points by lschueller 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (nytimes.com)
    ×0.50 73 | 45 points by wglb 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Jido Assembly; Slack Clone in Pure Elixir with Integrated Agents (jido.run)
    ×1.04 64 | 14 points by mikehostetler 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where (gadgetreview.com)
    ×1.71 43 | 59 points by 01-_- 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Where .env Went Wrong (secretspec.dev)
    ×1.58 23 | 91 points by domenkozar 9 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (omgmog.net)
    ×0.26 72 | 19 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Uber's Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: 'What Were You Wearing?' (nytimes.com)
    ×3.96 19 | 26 points by teachrdan 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
    ×5.24 33 | 602 points by mertbio 1 day ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story (jg.gg)
    ×0.52 57 | 12 points by jgbbrd 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
    ×2.78 1 | 705 points by bryanmikaelian 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
    ×2.54 1 | 613 points by milkshakes 1 day ago | 908 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Bending Spoons Is Buying Airtable for $1.3B. It Was Valued at $11B in 2021 (inc.com)
    ×1.45 20 | 3 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (complete.org)
    ×1.07 59 | 178 points by roryirvine 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???