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About the writing process (or lack thereof) (thefoxfirepub.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by FantasticPulp 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinas War on Female Delusion (mamathemagazine.com)

×1.53 | 2 points by trojanalert 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees (openai.com)

×0.70 | 1 points by doppp 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do you process asynchronous tasks today? (meerkatagents.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by kannanreghu 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SC law legalizes pinball for youth, ending decades-old prohibition (scdailygazette.com)

×2.51 47 | 3 points by eric_h 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Magpie-search – a federated search engine for LLM's/agents (github.com/xfloukiex-lab)

×0.71 | 1 points by Floukie 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Niaid funded Wuhan Institute of Virology coronavirus gain-of-function research (dni.gov)

×4.41 71 | 6 points by stinkbeetle 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China targets U.S. firms in retaliation for Pentagon blacklist (cnbc.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by ilreb 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Timesharing on the MIT Weather Radar PDP-8/IX (retrocomputingforum.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by signa11 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ILX Launcher – a developer cockpit for Python apps (hot reload, crash capture) (github.com/ilxstudio)

×0.60 | 1 points by ilxstudio 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hundred Hour Workweek (jeremynixon.net)

×0.62 | 1 points by jeremynixon 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lloyd's Lab: Accelerating innovation in the insurance industry (2023) [pdf] (lloyds.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by mooreds 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When AI Agents Do the Work, What Do We Lose? (milvus.io)

×0.58 | 1 points by Fendy 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Crespo – Tree-sitter AST blueprints instead of raw code for LLMs (github.com/hrudulmmn)

×0.54 | 1 points by ByteJoseph 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I applied Lyapunov stability theory to detect when LLM agents spiral (github.com/vishal-dehurdle)

×0.56 | 1 points by visha1v 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Telegram founder accuses Meta of sabotaging access in India with BGP hijacks (theregister.com)

×3.48 53 | 5 points by thisislife2 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Manifest for RISC-V Constant Time Floating-Point Operations (fprox.substack.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by hasheddan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Flat Curve Society (medium.com)

×1.51 3 #8 | 15 points by fbuilesv 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Gen Z Is Nostalgic for a Digital World They Never Knew (decodingvibes.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by altmanaltman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Story of the UK General Strike (nationalarchives.gov.uk)

×0.47 | 1 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source Notion-style personal site / blog (github.com/terryds)

×0.47 | 1 points by terryds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Progressive Disclosure (wikipedia.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by Austin_Conlon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump Ally Wins Colombia Election, Heralding Pro-Market Turn (bloomberg.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by baristaGeek 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HyperSnatch – local-first evidence workstation for Windows (github.com/Z3r0DayZion-install)

×0.42 | 1 points by neuralshell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Typevia live LaTeX editing with AI assistance (typevia.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by Niqht 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Geopolitical jitters push Europe's internet registry away from cloud strategy (theregister.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK's largest children's prison (theguardian.com)

×1.49 6 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebGPU feature detection was not enough to run small LLMs on phones (ludion.ai)

×0.42 | 1 points by Littice 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Speculation Is All You Need (modal.com)

×1.00 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fugu: Learn to assemble, route, and coordinate expert agents [pdf] (github.com/SakanaAI)

×1.03 | 2 points by saran945 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Extreme Time Value of Money: Late-Stage Career Planning (2021) (kentbeck.com)

×1.06 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Manticore Search 27.1.5 (manticoresearch.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by snikolaev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chile turned to China for an undersea cable. The U.S. said no (restofworld.org)

×1.86 20 | 4 points by higginsniggins 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Watchdog (theatlantic.com)

×0.39 | 1 points by mikhael 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What will AI coding look like when today's CS freshmen graduate?

×0.40 | 1 points by linzhangrun 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Local-first LaTeX editor – open-source (microsoft.com)

×0.95 | 2 points by leonardosalasd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canadian government spent $46.8M on a secret Palantir contract (theijf.org)

×2.70 11 #18 | 12 points by logickkk1 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sakana Fugu (sakana.ai)

×1.83 2 #4 | 56 points by Finbarr 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free AI courses that require a short reflection to earn a certificate (abc.com.py)

×0.40 | 1 points by pfannl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why the Human Genome's Tangled Physicality May Confound AI (quantamagazine.org)

×0.39 | 1 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tlbic: A Time-Limited Basic Income System Designed with AI, v7.0 (google.com)

×1.46 14 | 3 points by michikawa59 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Staggeringly precise optical lattice clock has a wealth of practical application (nippon.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by anigbrowl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rights for Gods (lrb.co.uk)

×2.02 8 | 4 points by mitchbob 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microbubbles in Medicine (worksinprogress.co)

×2.10 7 | 4 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Activation Scripts – Activate Windows / Office / ESUs (github.com/massgravel)

×1.00 | 2 points by beatthatflight 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Watt lies beneath (Geothermal Energy) (worksinprogress.co)

×0.42 | 1 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Josh helps Rust manage code across multiple repositories (rust-lang.org)

×0.89 | 2 points by Tiberium 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Opinion on RL

×0.43 | 2 points by umjunsik132 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) (publicdomainreview.org)

×0.89 | 2 points by benbreen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Woltspace – a lodge for your coding agents (woltspace.com)

×0.87 | 2 points by jerpint 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Banned All CI for Our (OSS) Org Because of Bad Drive-By Contributors

×2.10 30 | 7 points by BlueMatt 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact (pewresearch.org)

×1.33 26 | 3 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rightwing populist 'El Tigre' wins Colombia election (ft.com)

×0.89 | 2 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley (economist.com)

×4.97 43 | 10 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crossary – AI-assisted field mapping that outputs signed Excel files (crossary.com)

×0.91 | 2 points by migueljpalmeida 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan's Toto to invest $495M in chip materials, targeting 1-nm era (nikkei.com)

×2.97 22 | 6 points by Nrbelex 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Never Too Late (stephengbarr.substack.com)

×1.44 27 | 3 points by SGBmedia 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing (youtube.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by unleaded 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Job application asked for my SAT scores (mrmarket.lol)

×2.05 9 | 4 points by mrmarket 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2k retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud (theregister.com)

×3.26 6 #66 | 8 points by joebuckwilliams 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Early prototype of Stonehenge unearthed 3 miles from prehistoric landmark (nbcnews.com)

×1.41 32 | 3 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keogram: The Sky in 2025 (nasa.gov)

×0.95 | 2 points by mef51 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Entity Core Protocol (github.com/EntityChurch)

×0.91 | 2 points by billatbillslab 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You're probably using Agent Skills wrong (ansonbiggs.com)

×2.02 1 #36 | 16 points by MisterBiggs 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacking their bodies for a longer life: is there science behind their methods? (nature.com)

×1.34 40 | 3 points by olalonde 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World-first catch: new shark species (eurekalert.org)

×1.30 43 | 3 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Baserates.dev, memorize programmer napkin math (baserates.dev)

×0.80 | 2 points by stopachka 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Doom Justifies the Valuation (geohot.github.io)

×3.61 28 #32 | 90 points by inatreecrown2 3 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Next Black President (vanityfair.com)

×2.25 27 | 9 points by Kapura 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?

×0.85 11 #76 | 6 points by hmokiguess 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
QEMU with Espressif (github.com/espressif)

×0.79 | 2 points by arbayi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Older iPhones are vulnerable to a flaw Apple likely can't fix (mashable.com)

×1.28 47 | 3 points by gnabgib 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)

×2.54 68 | 32 points by forks 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
(Reverse Engineering) Apple Internals: Swift in the Kernel (calif.io)

×1.31 50 | 3 points by dnw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone (oldtelephoneroom.ca)

×0.91 13 #9 | 33 points by arexxbifs 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Give your sandboxed agents API keys they can't read (superserve.ai)

×0.85 | 2 points by Amit_Patil_010 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Better Grammar – Grammar Practice for Adults (benkaiser.github.io)

×1.34 52 | 3 points by benkaiser 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Summer Solstice 2026: Sunrise Live from Stonehenge [video] (youtube.com)

×0.88 | 2 points by zeristor 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
10 years of terms and conditions I've agreed to (henryach.com)

×1.48 54 | 3 points by henryhoward 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Axiomatic Audit of Modern Physics Frameworks via Structural Logic (zenodo.org)

×0.86 | 2 points by VCNoninski 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Promptblock – detect prompt injections in GitHub issues (ryandens.github.io)

×1.35 55 | 3 points by rdens1 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Built an MCP Server in 200 Lines of Go (and Claude Became 10x Useful) (medium.com)

×0.88 | 2 points by cheikhshift 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Wirewright, an experimental symbolic physics environment (github.com/wirewright)

×1.29 57 | 3 points by homonoidian 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HiFi/Stereo Review-Stereo Review – Audiophile Magazine from 1958 to 1999 (worldradiohistory.com)

×1.78 33 | 4 points by PopAlongKid 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Phileas – Local-first memory that remembers you (github.com/alexajuno)

×0.85 | 2 points by alexajuno 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jets were 300 feet apart in Boston close call that forced Delta flight to abort (pbs.org)

×1.87 34 | 4 points by abixb 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Super Pac Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit A.I (nytimes.com)

×1.85 44 | 17 points by reasonableklout 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Napoleon Was a Guitarist (yamaha.com)

×1.73 38 | 4 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bean – a portable convergence gate for agent work (github.com/grainulation)

×1.21 42 | 4 points by woptober 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spas Were a Mistake (2022) (gomakethings.com)

×3.13 1 | 7 points by kristianp 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???