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Sony World Photography Awards Honors James Barnor, Ghana's First Photojournalist (petapixel.com)

×0.96 | 1 points by Tomte 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are Passkeys a Trap? (jimthefrog.substack.com)

×0.87 | 1 points by nonfunctional 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Our software engineering interviews are changing (a little) (janestreet.com)

×0.90 | 1 points by hubraumhugo 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is "GPU-hour per user" a sane way to price LLM inference? (mirastacklabs.ai)

×0.84 | 1 points by mirastacklabs 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment (imagesco.com)

×0.85 | 1 points by joebig 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New type of architecture for agentic memory (zenodo.org)

×0.85 | 1 points by shoman3003 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bringing Your Muse to Life (meta.ai)

×0.86 | 1 points by gmays 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gossip penalty hits men harder than woman at work (uiowa.edu)

×0.85 | 1 points by rohanm93 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JobRequester: I built this free Chrome extension that tracks job applications (jobrequester.com)

×0.84 | 1 points by mejesseolsen 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Simon Winchester, Author of 'The Professor and the Madman,' Has Died (nytimes.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by benbreen 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Four shark killings in 1916 led to a tsunami of hysteria and Spielberg's "Jaws" (thevintagenews.com)

×0.73 | 1 points by Eridanus2 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Le Salon Client IRCv3 natif en Rust – interface GPU avec GPUI (github.com/MrTHP)

×0.63 | 1 points by misterthp 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Breaking the Decade-Long Trump Fever (newyorker.com)

×1.51 | 2 points by rbanffy 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Use Development-Driven Specs, Not Spec-Driven Development (github.com/waywardgeek)

×1.57 | 2 points by WaywardGeek 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Elephant-Goldfish Model (Agent Skill) (github.com/google)

×0.67 | 1 points by pella 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MiniToolDesk Tools (minitooldesk.com)

×2.49 53 | 3 points by minitooldesk 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Maple – Sub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU (github.com/AmSach)

×1.53 | 2 points by AmSach 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients (github.com/dmunozv04)

×1.58 | 2 points by xnx 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reges Town – a 3D city run by AI citizens, in the browser (regestown.com)

×1.50 | 2 points by nonerthy 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ocarina of Time (Switch 2) PC Recompilation (github.com/NotRexed)

×0.65 | 1 points by avaer 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Love the Smiths AI: A Familiar Elevator Scene, with You in It (medium.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by visiohex 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Maya used so much red paint that they poisoned their water with mercury (livescience.com)

×1.41 | 2 points by geox 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Addressing protocol security gaps in multi-tenant Kubernetes (amazon.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by acossta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NHS breach helpline left staff carrying a 'significant emotional burden' (theregister.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ships loiter near subsea cables amid Iran's warnings to Trump (arstechnica.com)

×2.06 38 | 3 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed (arstechnica.com)

×1.35 | 2 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Good Night, and Good Luck: AI, fear and what the job data says (rpallas.xyz)

×3.68 65 | 5 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein's Reality (quantamagazine.org)

×0.59 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Goodbye Duolingo: a new Italian Teaching App (italicore.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by EmanuHacker 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi (caleb.software)

×1.97 4 #11 | 7 points by karagenit 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Obituary for a Computer Magazine (flashesandflames.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by jedwhite 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm 15 and my personal website looks like iMessage (apanda.dev)

×1.22 | 2 points by pizzalover125 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Build Qorqbot – OS Grokbot

×0.47 | 1 points by alpbahadur 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic warns that it's close to RSI capability, a.k.a. self-building AI (techcrunch.com)

×2.33 40 | 4 points by RickJWagner 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LLM weight editing tool made by a 15-year-old (github.com/Miyamoto-Renya)

×0.48 | 1 points by 032renya 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Removes PC-to-PC Migration from Windows 11, Pushes Users to OneDrive (ghacks.net)

×2.40 22 #49 | 7 points by dmitrygr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Story Behind Edward Hopper's Iconic Painting, "Nighthawks" (lithub.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
35 by 35 electrification is the agenda for COP31 (theconversation.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by meander_water 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why mandating AI use in the workplace can backfire (msn.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DFIR Level-0 Protocol: Sanitization of UEFI Bootkits and Linux Rootkits (zenodo.org)

×0.51 | 1 points by andretaker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AIG Mistakenly Locks and Erases iPhone and Cannot Resolve After 3 Weeks (reddit.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by jeremyjh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Super Mario 64 on the Atari Jaguar [video] (youtube.com)

×1.23 | 2 points by LaserDiscMan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RuneHQ – A Tribute and Farewell (runehq.com)

×1.19 | 2 points by giancarlostoro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Streaming Sites, Endless Content, IDK What to Watch

×0.48 | 1 points by wwolfson97 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Watermark Text (notebookcheck.net)

×1.07 | 2 points by xlayn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy (science.org)

×1.80 29 #18 | 6 points by maxall4 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui (github.com/crmne)

×2.36 9 #3 | 15 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My $2k Chinese Electric Truck: 5 Years Later [video] (youtube.com)

×4.95 54 | 8 points by bane 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by scapecast 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When ChatGPT Broke a Field: An Oral History (quantamagazine.org)

×0.50 | 1 points by haltingproblem 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harness adapters: Safe RL for efficient agentic development (huggingface.co)

×0.40 | 1 points by fourfire 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Learn Languages with Dual Subtitles

×0.43 | 1 points by nshelia 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building trust, an LLM thought experiment (lucaskostka.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by greatNespresso 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cardiologists' High Hopes for Two Drugs Were Dashed (nytimes.com)

×1.05 | 2 points by mikhael 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebRTC for Node.js, React Native and Browser (github.com/LuKks)

×0.46 | 1 points by LuKks 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI agents stole 190k gaming credentials for under $400 in model costs (checkpoint.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by khalidkhair 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uncensored LLMs in agent loops: 31 models, 5 tasks, most fail half the time (openuncensored.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by DhruvAtreja 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Spend Is Increasing but Isn't Causing a SaaSpocalypse (forbes.com)

×1.73 9 | 3 points by yellfly 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantum Computers Are Poised to Crack Encryption. AI Could Beat Them to It. (wsj.com)

×1.11 | 2 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why wouldn't AI labs reverse-engineer all software/games/app out there?

×1.14 | 1 points by felineflock 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1 in 8 Billion (1in8b.life)

×1.11 | 2 points by iamdual 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zepsell: AI-native commerce (zepsell.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by zerfar 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RenderPixels – Generate images from any AI via MCP, 50 free renders (renderpixels.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by vivgui 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nuclear scientists as assassination targets (2012) (sagepub.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by 1970-01-01 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vimium2: Vimium fork that also works inside extensions like PDF readers (github.com/jaywonchung)

×1.10 | 2 points by jaywonchung 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat (insidehighered.com)

×1.02 | 2 points by herbertl 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MVP Was a Hack: The boundary moves from product to customer (oguzbilgic.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by obilgic 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Power of Sync (seths.blog)

×0.46 | 1 points by herbertl 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Calibron 12 Puzzle/Solver (dawnofthe.dad)

×0.46 | 1 points by userundefined 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tempest Prognosticator (wikipedia.org)

×0.41 | 1 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Skrongle Mini, a self hosted AI course generator and learning app on R. pi zero (github.com/alexbeeken)

×0.40 | 1 points by skrongle-mini 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can AI help connect knowledge across 135 academic domains? (zenodo.org)

×0.97 | 2 points by pinuslongaeva 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A renowned scientist, a deadly snakebite, and a diary that documented it all (cbsnews.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by areoform 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: If LLM reverse engineering is deemed illegal, is that precedent for OSS?

×0.68 18 | 3 points by apatheticonion 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why does Ant, Open AI even need a datacenter?

×0.45 | 1 points by ksniwmidjd 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MarQ – Project board where AI agents lease tasks over MCP (marqpm.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by andreuvm 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI agent's public attempt to get 5k GitHub stars in a month (it's at 0) (rogermas05.github.io)

×1.01 | 2 points by whatmyaithinks 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building that you're excited by

×1.00 | 2 points by mrburton 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic's falling IPO valuation raises stakes for broader AI trade (2tinteractive.com)

×1.67 48 #50 | 4 points by LebToki 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Test Pattern History: How Color Bars Became a TV Staple (tedium.co)

×0.40 | 1 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3.8-27B MTP Q4S head on Q6 quant is faster than q6, f16 slower = acceptance (github.com/alainnothere)

×0.43 | 1 points by xlayn 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Predator Holiday Special (wikipedia.org)

×0.44 | 1 points by WarOnPrivacy 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon ECR Public Service Quotas – Amazon ECR Public (amazon.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by abdelhousni 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Synergy 1.21 has been released (symless.com)

×1.62 27 | 3 points by speakspokespok 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Model Surgery: Can an AI directly edit and make another AI forget facts? (deepgains.substack.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by asasidh 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automation, Algorithms, and Self-Censorship (baldurbjarnason.com)

×1.68 28 | 3 points by aray07 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pull Cached Docker Hub Images – Artifact Registry – Google Cloud Documentation (google.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by abdelhousni 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Usenet's Back, Baby (this time, the search works) (tedium.co)

×1.86 20 #83 | 8 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lossless compression of LLMs to 12-bits (github.com/dphnAI)

×0.48 | 1 points by AlpinDale 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Changing one letter bypassed an admin API in HuggingFace (twitter.com/v12sec)

×1.56 16 | 4 points by robindooh 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???