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Hackers likely hijacked over 20k Instagram accounts with Meta's AI chatbot (theverge.com)

×0.91 | 1 points by LordAtlas 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs (yalereview.org)

×0.86 | 1 points by jadelcastillo 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beyond Ralph Loops: Orchestrate-Map-Reduce and Higher Order Skills (twitter.com/djgrant_)

×0.89 | 1 points by djgrant 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Battery-free textile turns clothing into a real-time blood pressure monitor (techxplore.com)

×0.90 | 1 points by PaulHoule 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi Work: The AI Desktop for Knowledge Work (kimi.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by pretext 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Function Arrays (nsl.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by tosh 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ear Training Practice Exercises (tonedear.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by mattbit 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GTA V – Graphics Study (2015) [pdf] (uni-bremen.de)

×0.70 | 1 points by carlos-menezes 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Respiratory Rate and Simulated Apnea Utilizing the PneumoWave Biosensor (mdpi.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by PaulHoule 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sanders' AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better (theguardian.com)

×0.69 | 1 points by hackernj 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can AI answer open questions in physics? (m-malinowski.github.io)

×0.69 | 1 points by stared 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keir Starmer set to impose internet restrictions on Britons in days (gbnews.com)

×2.32 46 | 3 points by itbeho 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Types for more than memory safety in OxCaml – Stephen Dolan – VeTSS 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by matt_d 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I ported Xonotic to WASM (xonotic.workers.dev)

×0.62 | 2 points by astlouis44 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
County to pay $192,783 to 3 employees who lost their jobs over Covid vaccine (padailypost.com)

×1.50 | 2 points by MilnerRoute 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write (blockchainednovel.com)

×2.07 44 | 3 points by mck- 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do Agents.md Files Help Coding Agents? (arxiv.org)

×0.67 | 1 points by pretext 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-Source, Local First, GitHub Stars Management and Search (orbit-oneq.vercel.app)

×0.55 | 1 points by alonronin 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uber Freight sees earlier peak season, strong Mexico demand (freightwaves.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by crescit_eundo 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What its like to be an AI Artist [video] (youtube.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by dana321 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eight indicted in alleged carrier impersonation scheme; $4.49M in cargo losses (freightwaves.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by crescit_eundo 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LenPEG (dangermouse.net)

×0.60 | 1 points by tosh 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hostinger — 53% CPU steal, 1996 chipset, fake NVMe. Forensic proof. (github.com/figuerapro)

×0.61 | 1 points by figuerapro 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How private yards became autonomous trucking's most promising frontier (freightwaves.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by crescit_eundo 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game Theory/Mechanism Design for AI Safety (helenqu.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by _hqu 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two Leaps to 1000 Tokens/s on a 1T-Parameter Model (tilert.ai)

×0.57 | 1 points by __natty__ 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Live Code Techno with Posara, Visual-Audio Engine I Made (soundcloud.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by knh190 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings (theguardian.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by NaOH 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do AI tutors empower or enslave learners? [pdf] (arxiv.org)

×0.55 | 1 points by herbertl 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Datatype – variable font that turns text into charts (franktisellano.github.io)

×2.06 40 | 3 points by pavel_lishin 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hormonal signalling reorganizes 3D chromatin in adipocyte thermogenesis (oecd.org)

×0.55 | 1 points by PaulHoule 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AutoMegaKernel: Compile an LLM into one provably-correct CUDA megakernel (github.com/RightNow-AI)

×1.32 | 2 points by OsamaJaber 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rewrite AI-generated text to read naturally, reducing AI-detector flags (hf.space)

×0.57 | 1 points by halleyscomet 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bending Spoons S-1 (sec.gov)

×2.00 39 | 3 points by mattmarcus 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Memory Caching: RNNs with Growing Memory (arxiv.org)

×0.56 | 1 points by ttruett 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Quick games disguised as boring spreadsheets (boredspreadsheet.com)

×1.52 36 | 3 points by kevinclelland 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Built a Dashboard for Every 2026 World Cup Squad (worldcup-2026-dashboard.pages.dev)

×1.22 | 2 points by emot 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel ISPC (ispc.github.io)

×0.54 | 1 points by tosh 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI in Software Development. Boosting or Slowing Your Productivity (olegdubovoi.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by empiree 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Plans to stop children taking nude images (www.gov.uk)

×2.69 49 | 4 points by 0xedb 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The difference in perspectives between superpowers is shaping the race for AI (nytimes.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by yogthos 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Slack like interface where you can run a company of AI employees (tryguildly.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by spiken23 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI vibe shift is real: Why the backlash is growing (mashable.com)

×1.22 | 2 points by cdrnsf 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slop, productivity, and why the AI-fueled world is going nowhere mighty fast (garymarcus.substack.com)

×1.77 30 | 3 points by flail 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Liu Jianjun: the false faith in social sciences (eastisread.com)

×1.15 | 2 points by hackandthink 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unlock.domains – AI domain generator with real-time RDAP availability (unlock.domains)

×1.14 | 2 points by vishr 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Battlemat, a small and fast virtual tabletop (battlemat.app)

×0.51 | 1 points by milancurcic 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France and Germany abandon joint fighter jet program (lemonde.fr)

×1.23 | 2 points by geox 40 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Majority of US's new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land (theguardian.com)

×1.24 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet (oldavista.com)

×2.69 43 | 4 points by abnercoimbre 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flu Vaccines Should Not Be This Hard (theatlantic.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by paulpauper 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slop Machines (2026) (tarasyarema.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by tarasyarema 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ReARM: Governing AI Coding Agents Demo [video] (youtube.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by taleodor 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How America Gave Up on Its Own History (theatlantic.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by paulpauper 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beyond the Hype: Lessons from Pragmatic Summit (jamiehurst.co.uk)

×0.53 | 1 points by mooreds 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI Offers a New Policy Blueprint (thezvi.substack.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by paulpauper 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices (foodwatch.org)

×1.29 | 2 points by john-titor 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who Is the Villain in Mars Sample Return? (mceglowski.substack.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by pavel_lishin 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchmark accuracy retention is the wrong metric (joshuahedtke.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by fmaccomber 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bloom Filter Trick Reduces 170 Object-Storage Reads to One (2.6s → 89ms) (openobserve.ai)

×1.24 | 2 points by birdculture 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
K: Computed Entries in Dict Literals (github.com/chrispsn)

×0.50 | 1 points by tosh 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Landscape experts ask Colorado to "embrace the beige" for drought adaptation (coloradosun.com)

×1.19 | 2 points by mooreds 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Streptomyces produce a diphtheria toxin-like exotoxin that targets insects (doi.org)

×1.16 | 2 points by PaulHoule 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Whales are showing up in San Francisco Bay. New ship alerts help protect them (npr.org)

×1.09 | 2 points by mooreds 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (2019) (gkogan.co)

×1.06 | 2 points by gk1 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Life Paths Closed to You vs. Life Paths Open to You (twitter.com/waitbutwhy)

×0.48 | 1 points by davidbarker 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Subagent Install Manager (github.com/wastedcode)

×1.15 | 2 points by zeppelin_7 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heisenbug (wikipedia.org)

×0.51 | 1 points by davidbarker 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fine-tuning LLMs on 30M academic papers from ScholarAPI (scholarapi.net)

×0.49 | 1 points by mwojnars 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Planescape: Torment, Part 2: To the Desktop (filfre.net)

×1.17 | 2 points by cybersoyuz 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why are so many young people getting cancer? What researchers do and don't know (nature.com)

×4.22 2 #10 | 32 points by Brajeshwar 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Matching frontier performance through training and harness engineering (fireworks.ai)

×1.19 | 2 points by makaimc 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube (reddit.com)

×4.61 80 | 21 points by partsch 56 minutes ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Happens to Your SaaS When Customers Can Build It Themselves with Claude? (claudefolio.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by misterinfo 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is Slowing Down (wheresyoured.at)

×6.12 87 | 56 points by crescit_eundo 56 minutes ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New AI espionage powers trigger Putin camera scare (ft.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by Element_ 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where India sits in the next tech wave? (positive.substack.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by jpatel3 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Penlog – a vision model reads my handwriting into Notion (and MCP) (penlog.app)

×0.48 | 1 points by rickthomasjr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Confident Are AI Classifiers About Their Own Confidence? (gmcirco.github.io)

×1.16 | 2 points by apwheele 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making NumPy-ts as fast as native (nico.codes)

×0.51 | 1 points by dupontcyborg 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Speech Plus Prose 2000 vintage speech synthesizer, as used by Stephen Hawking [video] (youtube.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Arol – Catch the deprecated code your Agents are writing (github.com/benminor)

×0.53 | 1 points by benminor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pastebin for Agents (jotary.com)

×2.70 33 | 4 points by redm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Telbex Kernel 0.2 Delayed

×0.53 | 1 points by gnu779 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Anonymous voting with Privacy Pass, no accounts or IP logs

×1.22 | 2 points by sakanakana00 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Matrix – An installable Python CLI package for cross-device session jumping (github.com/Cole-Will-I-Am)

×1.17 | 2 points by Colewilliamz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turning Cloudflare's threat indicators into real-time WAF rules (cloudflare.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starmaker (jordanvidrine.com)

×1.17 | 2 points by jbv9901 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hoogle Translate (hoogletranslate.com)

×1.90 20 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You Bar (discord.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???