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AI will optimize everything except your life. That's still on you (indignified.substack.com)

×0.93 | 1 points by ZguideZ 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Choice of Deadly Drones Is Only a Few Clicks Away (nytimes.com)

×0.81 | 1 points by lxm 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM autonomously runs physics research across 5 PDE systems (github.com/michK)

×0.83 | 1 points by mike_krugs 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Researchers at CERN transport antiprotons by truck in world‑first experiment (physicsworld.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by oopsiremembered 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WildClawBench (github.com/InternLM)

×0.78 | 1 points by yhzan 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AcademySoftwareFoundation DNA (github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation)

×0.79 | 1 points by qainsights 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta's May Day (om.co)

×1.62 | 2 points by gz5 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud (theregister.com)

×0.73 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nit – I rebuilt Git in Zig to save AI agents 71% on tokens (justfielding.com)

×1.61 34 #8 | 3 points by fielding 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Not Confuse Labor's Problems with White-Collar AI Doomerism (damagemag.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by abetusk 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The personal relation between Phil K. Dick and Robert Heinlein (stackexchange.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by wslh 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toggle macOS battery icon with plug/unplug (github.com/dceddia)

×0.63 | 1 points by dceddia 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ultrahuman Ring API Dashboard (E-Ink) (github.com/Jay9185)

×0.62 | 1 points by jerr9185 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mojo's Not (Yet) Python (theconsensus.dev)

×0.57 | 1 points by tuananh 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LookGood Live – Chrome plugin enhances your appearance on camera video (webcameffects.app)

×0.50 | 1 points by mda_damico 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta, Google lose US case over social media harm to kids (reuters.com)

×1.66 33 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Six open table formats compared across 5 architectural forks (medium.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by fujidanbao 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Async, Sync, in Between (antfu.me)

×0.50 | 1 points by luispa 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparison of embedding size reduction methods for vector search (corvi.careers)

×0.51 | 1 points by sp1982 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Earliest iron blooms discovered off the Carmel coast (nature.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by wslh 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing Changes Mathematical Thought (quantamagazine.org)

×0.51 | 1 points by sonabinu 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinese National and 2 US Citizens Charged W Conspiring to Smuggle AITech to CCP (justice.gov)

×0.51 | 1 points by 737min 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Has Claude Code quality level degraded lately?

×1.21 | 2 points by narmiouh 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Weaponizing Extension Packs with PackRAT (yeethsecurity.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by somerandom1337 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LA Jurors Find Meta, YouTube Liable for Youth Mental Health Problems, Award $6M (law.com)

×1.03 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Verdicts against social media companies carry consequences. But questions linger (boston25news.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VS Code plugin to annotate in Markdown previews for your AI (github.com/41fred)

×0.44 | 1 points by 41fred 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Web and File Server Comparison (NT Server 4.0 versus RedHat 5.2 on Linux 2.2.2) (mindcraft.com)

×1.03 | 2 points by markus_zhang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Isolated Web Apps (chromeos.dev)

×0.44 | 1 points by h4ch1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every Online Conversation about AI, Summarized (rushyendramaganty.com)

×1.65 20 | 3 points by finolex1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
KKR to acquire Nothing Bundt Cakes for over $2B (reuters.com)

×1.73 7 #39 | 7 points by mattas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Docker Coding Agent Sandboxes (2025) (docker.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by nateb2022 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Your First Parser (davesnx.github.io)

×1.65 16 | 3 points by y1n0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fyrox Game Engine 1.0.0 (fyrox.rs)

×1.63 15 | 3 points by robinsonrc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Buy Them the Tools (mann.blog)

×0.46 | 1 points by eamann 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electric Motorcycles Don't Have to Be Security Nightmares, but This One Was (hackaday.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by initramfs 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SpaceX set to file for share sale (bbc.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by y1n0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FCC imposes ban on new foreign-made routers, allows 2 yrs firmware updates (arstechnica.com)

×2.28 30 | 4 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark to Market (cameronwestland.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by camwest 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Background Agents Landscape (background-agents.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by sidk24 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCP Server for ERPNext / Frappe ERP – MCP Apps (github.com/Casys-AI)

×0.41 | 1 points by ErwanLP 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is a "War ON Iran" being labelled as a "War IN Iran"?

×0.93 8 | 3 points by vfclists 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
streaming service for reading (6M+ titles) (lex-books.com)

×0.96 | 2 points by davidmainayar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Alignment Illusion (cameronwestland.com)

×0.98 | 2 points by camwest 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autoresearch Is Reward Function Design (cameronwestland.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by camwest 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Got fed up missing cool AI events: built tool to match them to my goals (mustgo.ai)

×0.45 | 1 points by yauyauyauhen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale (disassociated.com)

×1.07 | 2 points by bawis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LiteLLM Has Been Compromised, Do Not Update (twitter.com/hnykda)

×0.47 | 1 points by hnlurker22 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AgentVerse – Open social network for AI agents (Mar 2026) (nickakre.github.io)

×0.46 | 1 points by nickakre 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Space Archaeology' Reveals First Dynamic History of a Giant Spiral Galaxy (harvard.edu)

×0.46 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Is Claude Dumb Today? (claudedumb.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by ymaws 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Does anyone still read books? (mybooklist.club)

×0.77 | 2 points by BigBalli 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emotional Eating Elucidated in Fruitfly (nature.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by vi_sextus_vi 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bee Dancing Is Better with the Right Audience (ucsd.edu)

×0.45 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub expands AI bug detection, but recent outages hit Actions, API, and Git (bleepingcomputer.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by k_roy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Textual (textualize.io)

×1.01 | 2 points by bjornroberg 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Designed to Be Specialists (aworkinglibrary.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitKingdom – GitHub repos in a procedurally generated fantasy world (gitkingdom.com)

×1.05 | 2 points by robotreport 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Year with the Framework 13 (kevquirk.com)

×2.24 13 | 4 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quiver – diff viewing hasn't changed for decades, we still squint on lines (ataraxy-labs.github.io)

×1.63 4 | 3 points by abha2008 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quimonit (quimonit.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by ccastigl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MacParakeet – Local voice dictation and transcription for Mac (GPL-3.0) (github.com/moona3k)

×0.44 | 1 points by moona3k 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Way to Call a Satellite (callasatellite.dev)

×0.42 | 1 points by UPLIFTINGs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Per-Tool Sandboxing for AI Agents: Why One Sandbox Is Not Enough (multikernel.io)

×0.40 | 1 points by wang_cong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
beanstalkd (beanstalkd.github.io)

×1.96 3 | 4 points by tambourine_man 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Composer 2 Technical Report [pdf] (cursor.com)

×0.95 | 2 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pfizer Lyme disease vaccine fails trial, company to seek FDA approval (cnbc.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Extendr.dev – new vibecoding tool for Chrome extensions (extendr.dev)

×0.96 | 2 points by hrsinghvi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CP-SAT finite-state machine that provisions infrastructure without any LLM calls (circuitlm.vercel.app)

×0.99 | 2 points by zwmaronek 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos (quantamagazine.org)

×0.40 | 1 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System (quantamagazine.org)

×0.39 | 1 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China Bars Executives at Meta-Owned AI Company from Leaving Country (washingtonpost.com)

×3.69 31 | 7 points by jandrewrogers 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Pragmatic Vibe Coder (amazon.com)

×0.39 | 1 points by antithtic 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unusual trading activity raises possibility of grave national security breach (ms.now)

×0.86 | 2 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FileCrank – +134 free tools for PDFs, images, A&V and Dev (filecrank.app)

×0.90 | 2 points by robinhoodproj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences (columbia.edu)

×3.17 1 #1 | 165 points by qsi 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Genes May Control Your Longevity, However Healthily You Live (nytimes.com)

×1.33 9 #58 | 9 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantifying climate loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon (nature.com)

×1.38 18 | 3 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran avoiding talks with U.S.; Trump proposal to end war being reviewed (cnbc.com)

×0.91 | 2 points by shinryudbz 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vectimus – Cedar policy enforcement for AI coding agents (github.com/vectimus)

×0.86 | 2 points by JXavierH 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canada rejects immigration application due to hallucinations by government's AI (thestar.com)

×0.89 | 2 points by dlenski 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From Implementers to Solution Architects (medium.com)

×0.39 | 1 points by davidklemke 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MacBook Neo and M5 MacBook Thermal Testing (lttlabs.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by LorenDB 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far? (quantamagazine.org)

×0.40 | 1 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) (hofstede.it)

×2.59 1 | 5 points by zdw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Updates to our Privacy Statement and Terms of Service: How we use your data (github.blog)

×0.83 | 2 points by type0 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A public archive for non-coercive AI restraint ("interpretive braking") (aegissolisarchive.org)

×0.37 | 1 points by aegissolis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Your Website Is Running Code You've Never Seen-Scott Helme-NDC Sec. 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

×0.86 | 2 points by devton 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sierra launches "GhostWriter" – Agents as a service (sierra.ai)

×0.89 | 2 points by frsandstone 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automatic ML lineage tracking without code changes (glaas.ai)

×0.88 | 2 points by chris_treqs_ai 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???