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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
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github.com/ninjahawk
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| 632 points by
bryan0
11 hours ago
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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
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tomwojcik.com
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| 226 points by
marjancek
3 hours ago
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117 comments
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Solving Factorio Quality
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exyr.org
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| 76 points by
laurenth
4 hours ago
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24 comments
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Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
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earendil.com
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| 5 points by
yarapavan
20 minutes ago
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discuss
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Dots: Always-on agents
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openai.com
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| 626 points by
alvis
17 hours ago
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487 comments
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Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
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bbc.com
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| 203 points by
devonnull
13 hours ago
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160 comments
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U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
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postalemployeenetwork.com
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| 232 points by
ilamont
14 hours ago
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136 comments
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America.gov
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america.gov
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| 568 points by
plesiv
20 hours ago
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475 comments
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NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
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aviationweek.com
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| 172 points by
ilamont
11 hours ago
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173 comments
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Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
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mattkeeter.com
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| 43 points by
luu
6 hours ago
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Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
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bl2.net
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| 253 points by
wanick
15 hours ago
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56 comments
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RSS Feeds for Last.fm
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xiffy.nl
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| 77 points by
Baljhin
7 hours ago
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14 comments
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Built Dental Scope
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dental-scope.com
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| 8 points by
Zeruxe
2 hours ago
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3 comments
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How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
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ieee.org
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| 525 points by
rbanffy
21 hours ago
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294 comments
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
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prospect.org
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| 100 points by
ragall
2 hours ago
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58 comments
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Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
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backblaze.com
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| 196 points by
HieronymusBosch
17 hours ago
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57 comments
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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
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openai.com
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| 947 points by
crorella
17 hours ago
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833 comments
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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
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jagi.studio
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| 295 points by
evakhoury
1 day ago
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48 comments
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Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020)
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retromash.com
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| 17 points by
robin_reala
3 hours ago
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3 comments
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Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language
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hereticpleb.vercel.app
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| 108 points by
birdculture
11 hours ago
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31 comments
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Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results
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bigmessowires.com
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| 8 points by
zdw
2 hours ago
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1 comments
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Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev
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sebastianraschka.com
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| 125 points by
Anon84
13 hours ago
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5 comments
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When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
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theconversation.com
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| 89 points by
thelastgallon
12 hours ago
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76 comments
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Ask HN: What are you reading?
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| 286 points by
dan-bailey
19 hours ago
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572 comments
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PS5 Relapse Exploit
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github.com/ntfargo
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| 312 points by
therepanic
18 hours ago
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189 comments
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NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
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somethingbig.ai
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| 145 points by
rossant
17 hours ago
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85 comments
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Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality
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github.com/ciromattia
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| 22 points by
seam_carver
5 hours ago
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4 comments
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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
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sujithjay.com
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| 269 points by
amortize
21 hours ago
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57 comments
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NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
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gevernova.com
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| 40 points by
papa-whisky
11 hours ago
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13 comments
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Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
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frostyard.github.io
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| 135 points by
bketelsen
19 hours ago
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81 comments
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Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine
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enigma.design
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| 73 points by
primitivesuave
13 hours ago
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23 comments
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We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
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theguardian.com
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| 163 points by
pseudolus
11 hours ago
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84 comments
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Tcl/Tk 9.1
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tcl-lang.org
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| 278 points by
dmux
17 hours ago
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120 comments
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PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust
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github.com/Sparticle62ops
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| 77 points by
sparticle62
6 hours ago
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32 comments
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Commodore 64: Mercenary
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gamesexplained.com
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| 49 points by
a1r
14 hours ago
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8 comments
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Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)
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cathsenker.co.uk
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| 55 points by
joebig
15 hours ago
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7 comments
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Ballmer Peak
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wikipedia.org
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| 61 points by
thunderbong
7 hours ago
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15 comments
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Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
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cloudflare.com
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| 56 points by
ewpratten
15 hours ago
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37 comments
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Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization
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wired.com
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| 6 points by
rbanffy
1 hour ago
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2 comments
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Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)
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withouthotair.com
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| 143 points by
0sake_rs
21 hours ago
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82 comments
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Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
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pocoo.org
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| 61 points by
tosh
12 hours ago
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A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
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jorgegarciaherrero.com
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| 417 points by
damaru2
1 day ago
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133 comments
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Walking Men
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bookofjoe2.blogspot.com
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| 81 points by
surprisetalk
19 hours ago
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26 comments
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Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It
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nytimes.com
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| 92 points by
gumby
18 hours ago
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33 comments
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Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)
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mightygodking.com
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| 41 points by
peter_d_sherman
8 hours ago
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25 comments
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What if Jev spoke Arrow?
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columnar.tech
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| 39 points by
ianmcook
17 hours ago
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5 comments
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Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
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wordpress.com
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| 61 points by
ibobev
21 hours ago
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20 comments
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Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s
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github.com/lostmsu
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| 49 points by
lostmsu
14 hours ago
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10 comments
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Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT
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thill.me
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| 34 points by
luu
15 hours ago
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20 comments
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Postgres with QUIC
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lupyd.com
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| 17 points by
tenesripranav
3 hours ago
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4 comments
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Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
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computerworld.com
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| 189 points by
doener
1 day ago
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103 comments
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Software occlusion culling in Block Game
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enikofox.com
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| 102 points by
airhangerf15
1 day ago
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9 comments
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1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
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cbc.ca
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| 261 points by
colinprince
21 hours ago
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135 comments
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When did Google get so weird?
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bearblog.dev
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| 1973 points by
sancho-panza
2 days ago
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1099 comments
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ChatGPT Pro 500
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openai.com
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| 205 points by
prodigycorp
16 hours ago
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237 comments
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Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes
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ledge.sh
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| 15 points by
dancablam
10 hours ago
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2 comments
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Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
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agmai.org
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| 52 points by
aureianimus
7 hours ago
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53 comments
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Systems that no one will test
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christianperone.com
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| 148 points by
perone
1 day ago
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81 comments
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Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
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github.com/PostHog
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nicowaltz
23 hours ago
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91 comments
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Galaxy Game
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icm.museum
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| 17 points by
rbanffy
14 hours ago
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2 comments
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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
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petervijeh.com
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| 295 points by
p-s-v
1 day ago
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387 comments
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Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
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derekthompson.org
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| 785 points by
barry-cotter
23 hours ago
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697 comments
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Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
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theregister.com
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| 201 points by
rbanffy
20 hours ago
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135 comments
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Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote
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countingfromzero.blog
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| 47 points by
luu
1 day ago
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10 comments
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Using any C++ library in Godot
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conan.io
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| 165 points by
czoido
1 day ago
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62 comments
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AI tools generated nearly $1B in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say
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reuters.com
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EA-3167
6 hours ago
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8 comments
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All Circuits Are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995)
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calpoly.edu
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| 13 points by
robinpie
13 hours ago
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discuss
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Synthetic Sagas
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scattered-thoughts.net
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| 4 points by
ffin
7 hours ago
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Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound
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jevstiller.pages.dev
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| 63 points by
tgluck
22 hours ago
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15 comments
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California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
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kqed.org
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| 377 points by
randycupertino
1 day ago
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Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
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arstechnica.com
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| 125 points by
gumby
1 day ago
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56 comments
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How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it
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railcode.dev
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| 114 points by
yakkomajuri
11 hours ago
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64 comments
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Mathematicians Harness Randomness to Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture
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quantamagazine.org
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| 4 points by
tzury
10 hours ago
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Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability
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electrek.co
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| 115 points by
ciconia
5 hours ago
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149 comments
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Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
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hn.watch
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| 210 points by
mrborgen
1 day ago
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97 comments
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Climate Essay: The Inconvenient Truth Behind the Inconvenient Truth (2026)
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brucemccabe.com
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sceeene
12 hours ago
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discuss
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Behold the pawpaw
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cbc.ca
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| 84 points by
BiraIgnacio
1 day ago
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47 comments
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Inspect: An open-source framework for large language model evaluations
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aisi.org.uk
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| 4 points by
pkilgore
10 hours ago
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discuss
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DevDay 2026 Recap
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openai.com
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| 94 points by
polygot
17 hours ago
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46 comments
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500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
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theguardian.com
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| 488 points by
ilamont
22 hours ago
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294 comments
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Israel-bound flight lands in Saudi Arabia after violent incident between pilots
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cnn.com
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| 3 points by
jeffwass
21 minutes ago
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discuss
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Someone Still Has to Buy Your Product
(
mayt.substack.com
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| 11 points by
maytc
5 hours ago
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4 comments
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World Labs is Joining AMD
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worldlabs.ai
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| 305 points by
mfiguiere
1 day ago
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118 comments
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Show HN: Sarala – An open-source WYSIWYG Markdown editor
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solancer.com
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×1.37
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| 16 points by
solancer
14 hours ago
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2 comments
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Its not just the f*cking sandbox
(
twitter.com/joedaroo
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| 32 points by
jumploops
1 day ago
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11 comments
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Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders
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streaminglearningcenter.com
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| 29 points by
dabinat
1 day ago
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13 comments
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Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman
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spritefusion.com
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| 171 points by
HugoDz
1 day ago
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39 comments
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Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API
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cloudflare.com
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×1.27
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| 167 points by
macleos
1 day ago
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84 comments
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It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
(
calnewport.com
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| 606 points by
ibobev
1 day ago
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266 comments
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Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
(
nissan-global.com
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| 167 points by
mroche
2 days ago
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423 comments
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