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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
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github.com/ninjahawk
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| 316 points by
bryan0
4 hours ago
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136 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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| 185 points by
ilamont
7 hours ago
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109 comments
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America.gov
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america.gov
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| 403 points by
plesiv
13 hours ago
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329 comments
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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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×1.71
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| 135 points by
wanick
8 hours ago
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32 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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| 819 points by
crorella
10 hours ago
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751 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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| 452 points by
rbanffy
14 hours ago
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265 comments
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PS5 Relapse Exploit
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github.com/ntfargo
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| 246 points by
therepanic
11 hours ago
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134 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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| 45 points by
Anon84
6 hours ago
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Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
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backblaze.com
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| 100 points by
HieronymusBosch
11 hours ago
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17 comments
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Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language
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hereticpleb.vercel.app
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| 42 points by
birdculture
4 hours ago
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12 comments
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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
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jagi.studio
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| 265 points by
evakhoury
1 day ago
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We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
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theguardian.com
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| 79 points by
pseudolus
5 hours ago
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53 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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| 113 points by
rossant
10 hours ago
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62 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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| 42 points by
primitivesuave
6 hours ago
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3 comments
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Commodore 64: Mercenary
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gamesexplained.com
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| 34 points by
a1r
7 hours ago
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6 comments
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Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
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frostyard.github.io
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| 98 points by
bketelsen
12 hours ago
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67 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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| 5 points by
peter_d_sherman
1 hour ago
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1 comments
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Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
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bbc.com
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| 110 points by
devonnull
6 hours ago
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100 comments
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Ask HN: What are you reading?
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| 164 points by
dan-bailey
12 hours ago
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411 comments
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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
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sujithjay.com
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| 202 points by
amortize
14 hours ago
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42 comments
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Tcl/Tk 9.1
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tcl-lang.org
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| 249 points by
dmux
10 hours ago
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Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
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pocoo.org
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| 36 points by
tosh
5 hours ago
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6 comments
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Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
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github.com/PostHog
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| 232 points by
nicowaltz
16 hours ago
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88 comments
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Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor
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newyorker.com
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conorcleary
1 hour ago
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Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
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derekthompson.org
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| 750 points by
barry-cotter
16 hours ago
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679 comments
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Dots: Always-on agents
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openai.com
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| 477 points by
alvis
10 hours ago
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359 comments
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Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)
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withouthotair.com
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| 138 points by
0sake_rs
14 hours ago
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80 comments
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Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
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cloudflare.com
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| 35 points by
ewpratten
8 hours ago
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20 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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| 85 points by
yakkomajuri
4 hours ago
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47 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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| 43 points by
joebig
8 hours ago
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5 comments
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Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT
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thill.me
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| 33 points by
luu
8 hours ago
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18 comments
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Walking Men
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bookofjoe2.blogspot.com
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| 75 points by
surprisetalk
12 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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| 84 points by
gumby
11 hours ago
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31 comments
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Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s
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github.com/lostmsu
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| 45 points by
lostmsu
7 hours ago
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10 comments
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What if Jev spoke Arrow?
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columnar.tech
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| 36 points by
ianmcook
10 hours ago
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5 comments
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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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| 411 points by
damaru2
18 hours ago
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130 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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| 57 points by
ibobev
14 hours ago
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18 comments
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Is open-weight AI banned yet?
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isopenweightaibannedyet.com
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| 14 points by
kartikarti
7 hours ago
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1 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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| 6 points by
papa-whisky
4 hours ago
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ChatGPT Pro 500
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openai.com
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| 191 points by
prodigycorp
9 hours ago
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225 comments
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Galaxy Game
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icm.museum
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| 15 points by
rbanffy
7 hours ago
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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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| 3 points by
pkilgore
3 hours ago
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discuss
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Councilmember, residents push back on AI 'blight scores' given to homes
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nbcdfw.com
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hn_acker
3 hours ago
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2 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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| 240 points by
colinprince
14 hours ago
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129 comments
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Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
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theregister.com
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| 191 points by
rbanffy
13 hours ago
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130 comments
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When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
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theconversation.com
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| 47 points by
thelastgallon
5 hours ago
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45 comments
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Software occlusion culling in Block Game
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enikofox.com
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| 95 points by
airhangerf15
20 hours ago
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8 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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| 184 points by
doener
21 hours ago
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101 comments
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Systems that no one will test
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christianperone.com
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| 146 points by
perone
21 hours ago
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78 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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| 73 points by
ilamont
4 hours ago
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87 comments
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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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| 62 points by
tgluck
15 hours ago
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14 comments
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Using any C++ library in Godot
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conan.io
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| 159 points by
czoido
18 hours ago
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59 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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| 3 points by
sceeene
5 hours ago
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discuss
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Frequent cannabis use: association w seizure burden in drug-resistant epilepsy
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wiley.com
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| 3 points by
bookofjoe
5 hours ago
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discuss
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When did Google get so weird?
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bearblog.dev
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sancho-panza
2 days ago
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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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| 7 points by
robinpie
6 hours ago
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discuss
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McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac
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cnbc.com
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Betelbuddy
7 hours ago
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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
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anthropic.com
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| 197 points by
Philpax
9 hours ago
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191 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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| 289 points by
p-s-v
1 day ago
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380 comments
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Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote
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countingfromzero.blog
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| 44 points by
luu
19 hours ago
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10 comments
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DevDay 2026 Recap
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openai.com
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| 90 points by
polygot
10 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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| 475 points by
ilamont
15 hours ago
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290 comments
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McDonald's Is Using AI to Dynamically Price Its Burgers
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rnz.co.nz
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DeepLogin
4 hours ago
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13 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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| 373 points by
randycupertino
1 day ago
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Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev)
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sezwhere.com
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| 16 points by
irs
12 hours ago
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4 comments
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Show HN: Sarala – An open-source WYSIWYG Markdown editor
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solancer.com
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| 9 points by
solancer
7 hours ago
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Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
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columbia.edu
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| 140 points by
zaik
8 hours ago
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103 comments
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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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TIRx Harness: An Open Compiler Harness for Agentic GPU Programming
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mlc.ai
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| 9 points by
jinhongyii
8 hours ago
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discuss
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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
17 hours ago
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13 comments
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macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
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squareorbits.com
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| 443 points by
SquareOrbits
12 hours ago
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316 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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| 208 points by
mrborgen
1 day ago
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97 comments
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DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
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eff.org
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| 532 points by
paimapi
10 hours ago
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378 comments
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Behold the pawpaw
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cbc.ca
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BiraIgnacio
1 day ago
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45 comments
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The Netherlands is preparing to dump Windows and Office for its own Linux
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beehiiv.com
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| 14 points by
CrankyBear
4 hours ago
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2 comments
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FBI Announces ShinyHunters Arrest
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fbi.gov
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| 19 points by
sanelk
4 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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| 303 points by
mfiguiere
1 day ago
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117 comments
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Its not just the f*cking sandbox
(
twitter.com/joedaroo
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jumploops
1 day ago
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8 comments
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Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland
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startup-nights.ch
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sschueller
19 hours ago
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26 comments
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A New Type of Small Nuclear Reactor Gets the Green Light in Tennessee
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nytimes.com
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| 3 points by
elsewhen
2 hours ago
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discuss
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OpenAI Targets $30B in New Funding at $1.4T Value
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bloomberg.com
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| 41 points by
spenvo
9 hours ago
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13 comments
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Pirating the Pirates
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mubi.com
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| 688 points by
piotrgrabowski
1 day ago
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362 comments
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Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API
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cloudflare.com
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×1.29
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| 166 points by
macleos
1 day ago
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83 comments
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It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
(
calnewport.com
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| 597 points by
ibobev
1 day ago
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264 comments
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Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman
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spritefusion.com
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| 166 points by
HugoDz
1 day ago
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39 comments
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Nura // The road to daily-drivable mainline phones
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nura.eco
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| 3 points by
ibobev
7 hours ago
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discuss
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Coding is not solved
(
alexewerlof.com
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| 548 points by
firstSpeaker
1 day ago
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533 comments
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Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
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nissan-global.com
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×1.02
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| 164 points by
mroche
2 days ago
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421 comments
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Georeferencing Chernarus and visiting in real life (2021)
(
longcreek.me
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×0.40
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| 24 points by
carlos-menezes
13 hours ago
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5 comments
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37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
(
habibicode.org
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×1.13
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| 177 points by
nicocarsui
1 day ago
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33 comments
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