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  1. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
    ×2.27 | 123 points by ahamez 1 hour ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.15 | 389 points by xtreak29 4 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
    ×1.93 5 | 95 points by moonikakiss 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×2.54 3 | 249 points by colesantiago 4 hours ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
    ×2.65 1 | 60 points by paulkrush 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.58 6 | 79 points by hackerBanana 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (gnu.org)
    ×1.59 11 | 62 points by plaguna 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
    ×0.82 25 | 16 points by triska 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.71 12 | 64 points by calvinfo 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.35 9 | 35 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (wired.com)
    ×5.27 7 | 47 points by malshe 39 minutes ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
    ×1.08 16 | 87 points by weli 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
    ×2.08 4 | 78 points by lladnar 1 hour ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.29 33 | 29 points by shailendraht 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.78 21 | 81 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (science.org)
    ×0.90 30 | 79 points by _____k 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure (securelist.com)
    ×0.66 18 | 29 points by lschueller 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What happens if you put work into the second dimension? (norbertkozsir.com)
    ×1.35 22 | 14 points by abelsm 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.41 8 | 380 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
    ×1.04 23 | 15 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
    ×1.01 5 | 129 points by teleforce 6 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.76 19 | 80 points by Anon84 6 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Western Sahara (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.12 6 | 89 points by brudgers 5 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
    ×0.81 30 | 63 points by MarcoDewey 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
    ×0.87 24 | 76 points by yogthos 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Job Board Is Lying to You (nanomicon.com)
    ×1.27 44 | 4 points by theHocineSaad 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
    ×1.23 5 | 215 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Faster Than Ninja (build2.org)
    ×0.84 22 | 75 points by elasticdog 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)
    ×2.98 14 | 418 points by dzdt 9 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)
    ×1.44 31 | 21 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 (cnelecar.com)
    ×1.62 14 | 151 points by iplaypc 5 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Law of Jante (2015) (theparisreview.org)
    ×0.51 45 | 22 points by NaOH 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.63 58 | 6 points by zX41ZdbW 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard (2021) (wbur.org)
    ×3.13 10 | 23 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ban the Throbber (neocities.org)
    ×3.45 15 | 18 points by kyledrake 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (proxmox.com)
    ×1.96 49 | 23 points by geerlingguy 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (righto.com)
    ×0.56 32 | 39 points by Jimmc414 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check (arxiv.org)
    ×1.94 51 | 17 points by alvis 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×2.36 16 | 216 points by vincent_s 7 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet (bbc.com)
    ×1.55 52 | 16 points by neversaydie 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (naomibashkansky.com)
    ×2.30 14 | 55 points by devanshp 3 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python (quansight.org)
    ×0.87 32 | 82 points by ngoldbaum 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.39 22 | 191 points by nozzlegear 15 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. "AI" will never become conscious (mataroa.blog)
    ×3.16 10 | 13 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Bubble Memory (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.99 57 | 68 points by jacquesm 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.65 32 | 48 points by mapping365 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think (sahansera.dev)
    ×0.24 80 | 6 points by sahan 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Detach from your work to make it work (productidentity.co)
    ×0.69 72 | 7 points by itaydr 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.62 65 | 47 points by austinallegro 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake (github.com/b-aaz)
    ×0.48 57 | 29 points by signa11 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says (theregister.com)
    ×1.89 13 | 14 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
    ×1.12 50 | 166 points by lapcat 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.27 10 | 122 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.68 8 | 14 points by closetheloopdev 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Apple's 'Private Relay' Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses (404media.co)
    ×1.98 1 | 17 points by spenvo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs (elman.ai)
    ×0.60 54 | 7 points by fran-mora 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.14 79 | 422 points by pmg101 1 day ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.83 1 | 368 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11 (techpowerup.com)
    ×2.84 7 | 50 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.91 49 | 85 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. If you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading it (crookedtimber.org)
    ×1.83 14 | 11 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What is distributed Key Generation (DKG)? (stoffelmpc.com)
    ×0.10 66 | 8 points by badcryptobitch 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851) (thehopkinthomasproject.com)
    ×0.58 66 | 49 points by gregsadetsky 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.58 1 | 16 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Proxmox Virtual Environment now available for 64-bit ARM (ARM64) (proxmox.com)
    ×1.40 43 | 24 points by tlamponi 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A hand-drawn illustration skill for any articles (github.com/helloianneo)
    ×1.00 64 | 13 points by Nina_antalpha 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore (kuber.studio)
    ×3.74 74 | 11 points by kuberwastaken 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck (writingruxandrabio.com)
    ×1.69 38 | 109 points by rruxandra_l 6 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Lua community needs to learn to move on (hisham.hm)
    ×2.59 13 | 11 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You (sightlessscribbles.com)
    ×3.12 55 | 164 points by calcifer 5 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Diffing Binary Files (withkord.com)
    ×1.05 28 | 11 points by wennyyustalim 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Bugtraq is back (securityfocus.com)
    ×0.73 66 | 76 points by bashtoni 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Grocery prices are Americans' top affordability challenge, report finds (cnbc.com)
    ×2.48 7 | 14 points by mapping365 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have (franciscotrindade.me)
    ×1.37 38 | 82 points by gpi 6 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Why is it all in the kernel? (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×1.49 40 | 80 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
    ×1.56 29 | 179 points by seg6 22 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
    ×1.99 5 | 470 points by riadsila 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Better Posture Linked to Better Decision Making and Mood (nautil.us)
    ×1.23 56 | 15 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AWS Webhook Serverless Ingestion (growingbits.dev)
    ×0.71 81 | 8 points by MexicanYoda 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode (github.com/adrida)
    ×0.73 62 | 6 points by adam_rida 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
    ×0.85 68 | 83 points by firer 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.19 10 | 595 points by automatoney 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: An AI agent that trades inside limits you set, starting on paper (quantsignals.xyz)
    ×0.61 64 | 10 points by henryzhangpku 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Monitors for Work (coker.com.au)
    ×1.01 51 | 7 points by edward 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
    ×2.75 26 | 504 points by luispa 22 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Committing to Creativity (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.52 98 | 3 points by zazuke 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (acm.org)
    ×1.81 13 | 276 points by tchalla 20 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
    ×2.02 3 | 288 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
    ×1.91 6 | 315 points by xnx 1 day ago | 680 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???