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We Tested $200 GPT-5.6 Sol on PhD Level Math [video] (youtube.com)

×0.98 | 1 points by Topfi 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My AI Model Tier List for Mid-2026 (taoofmac.com)

×0.97 | 1 points by rcarmo 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Last American polio survivor in an iron lung dies at 78 (kron4.com)

×0.97 | 1 points by speckx 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Forced Clicks and Stand-Down Violations by Shopping Plugin Phia (benedelman.org)

×0.93 | 1 points by randycupertino 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (pnas.org)

×1.97 | 2 points by littlexsparkee 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I've created a Workspace Comparator, I hope you use it (github.com/angelahack1)

×0.87 | 1 points by angelahack1 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero Knowledge Tolstoyan Art (max-amb.github.io)

×0.89 | 1 points by max-amb 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Tonnetz (guichaoua.gitlab.io)

×0.84 | 1 points by mci 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is there any verified/signed bot traffic? (sitedex.github.io)

×2.01 | 2 points by zeppelin_7 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An educational lab of AI agent architectures (github.com/Rudnik-Ilia)

×0.78 | 1 points by ilia53 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hard Questions (anthropic.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by mrmarket 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Humanity Wallpaper (youtube.com)

×0.82 | 1 points by mabios 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Random auditory stimulation during sleep disturbs declarative memory (cell.com)

×0.82 | 2 points by bookofjoe 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surveillance of Cyclosporiasis (cdc.gov)

×0.83 | 1 points by bookmtn 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)

×2.20 2 #2 | 10 points by saisrirampur 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ginzburg-Landau equation simulation with various symmetries (symmhub.github.io)

×0.78 | 1 points by snorbleck 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Economic Data Viewer (mesmeron.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by rorkney 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)

×1.81 | 2 points by wolfi1 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A better Twitter alternative for readers (norotfeed.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by namadaza 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aether – Run Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode in devboxes you can watch (runaether.dev)

×0.79 | 1 points by pranav100000 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I made AI agents play diplomacy (github.com/brendenehlers)

×0.80 | 1 points by behlers99 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HoverSource – From pixel to source file in one keystroke (loerei.github.io)

×0.78 | 1 points by Loerei 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to build a circular LCD clock (blinry.org)

×0.78 | 1 points by birdculture 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aerial – DIY Orchestration and Agent Messaging (dcdeniz.github.io)

×1.83 | 2 points by dcdeniz 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Prover, the Skeptic, and the Judge (bearblog.dev)

×0.75 | 1 points by snorbleck 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1000 Iterations Beats One Perfect Plan (trevormil.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by trevormil 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unowned Property (wikipedia.org)

×0.77 | 1 points by gone35 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Plot equations and evolve them with Conway's Game of Life (victorribeiro.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by atum47 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Towards CSI: What's the best harness? (arxiv.org)

×1.77 | 2 points by snorbleck 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jektex 0.2.0 – A Jekyll plugin for LaTeX rendering is now ~10x faster (github.com/yagarea)

×0.75 | 1 points by yagarea 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is Making Silicon Valley Productive, Anxious and Afraid to Log Off (bloomberg.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by mancerayder 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A meditative waiting room for Claude/Codex (waitingfor.ai)

×0.72 | 1 points by xxbondsxx 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI coding agents read your code perfectly and understand your team not at all (medium.com)

×5.40 81 | 6 points by iamalizaidi 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
South Africa midfielder dies aged 25, weeks after World Cup appearance (espn.com)

×2.34 64 | 3 points by theanonymousone 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free Software (fsf.org)

×2.33 63 | 3 points by bpenjii 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Silent Epidemic of LLM Technical Debt (seldon-ai.com)

×1.54 | 2 points by nlpnerd 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LAME v4.0 (sourceforge.io)

×0.65 | 1 points by alisonatwork 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pursuit: An epic, month-long San Francisco scavenger hunt (sfpursuit.org)

×2.17 60 | 3 points by jer0me 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Unfair Advantage of Using Agents for Email – MailKite (mailkite.dev)

×2.96 70 | 4 points by gabe_karina 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Haizu – Placement Management System (github.com/uswebk)

×2.05 59 | 3 points by uswebk 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Huawei's telephoto lens identified a plane as a bird (xcancel.com)

×3.03 69 | 4 points by robin_reala 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One email to summarize all your emails (suminone.click)

×1.38 | 2 points by evgy 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We tried London's first driverless bus (londoncentric.media)

×1.27 | 2 points by BerislavLopac 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We re living in a tick nightmare (nytimes.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by yeknoda 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I created a font called Ghost Font that only humans can read (twitter.com/ericlu)

×0.58 | 1 points by mcenedella 50 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I miss post-internet art (spectator.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by thinkingemote 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Only 5L,If you want to take 5090 to college, Try this case – FE9 Build [video] (youtube.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by ksec 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch (windowslatest.com)

×6.88 35 #43 | 14 points by GBiT 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote (bbc.co.uk)

×2.58 63 #81 | 5 points by BerislavLopac 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New York Times and Other Publishers Ask Court to Penalize OpenAI (nytimes.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1 (mathspp.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by mpweiher 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025 (expressnews.com)

×7.06 54 #55 | 51 points by gscott 58 minutes ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Good Questions (economist.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by andsoitis 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
40 Years of AVM/Fritz: From BTX Hobby Project to Router Icon (heise.de)

×0.61 | 1 points by sebastian_z 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dora Compliance for Email: Mapping Sender Authentication to Article 9-10-11 (dmarcguard.io)

×0.61 | 1 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence (nautil.us)

×2.23 45 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I was wrong about game development (mijndertstuij.nl)

×1.42 | 2 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What I Expect from an Editor as a Programmer (plaindrops.de)

×0.62 | 1 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Does AI Work? [video] (youtube.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by luispa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path

×0.62 | 1 points by c4kar 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thomas Midgley Jr (wikipedia.org)

×0.56 | 1 points by chistev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DoS Attack on Crates.io (crates.io)

×1.32 | 2 points by garo-pro 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PR Reminder Bot – Node.js tool that Slack-nags you about stale PRs (github.com/Enox77)

×0.57 | 1 points by Enox77 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The world bank has ditched its climate targets (economist.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent OS – a local-first harness for reliable software agents (github.com/earthwalker17)

×0.60 | 1 points by MonoEarthwalker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB (2b2t.place)

×0.60 | 1 points by _____k 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Litert.js, Google's High Performance Web AI Inference (googleblog.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Nix Be a Better Arch Linux AUR? (grigio.org)

×0.62 | 1 points by grigio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub – PolymathicAI/The_well: A 15TB Collection of Physics Simulation Datasets (github.com/PolymathicAI)

×0.59 | 1 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seaboard maker Roli fights to avoid second collapse (thetimes.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by startupfreak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You Might Be a Late Bloomer (theatlantic.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by jaynate 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oodle Keeps Observability Fast at Scale (oodle.ai)

×0.60 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CNN investigates Iran rebuilding nuclear facilities (cnn.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by spwa4 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I used Claude to make some free fun pet-themed browser arcade games (whatpetshouldiget.com)

×1.34 | 2 points by scamdrill 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID intervention (thelancet.com)

×1.38 | 2 points by Topfi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the Bayeux Tapestry broke the internet (spectator.com)

×1.41 | 2 points by thinkingemote 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laguna XS 2.1 33B on a RTX 3090: 296 tok/s peak, 152 tok/s at 256K context (lucebox.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by GreenGames 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: verbatimeter - check how grounded your LLM / RAG agent is in real-time (pypi.org)

×0.60 | 1 points by pobonin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
List of OpenAI Whisper Checkpoints Variants (sparsh.dev)

×0.55 | 1 points by sparshrestha 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lobster Is Migrating to SQLite (github.com/lobsters)

×2.08 25 | 3 points by maxloh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
San Francisco Inches Closer to PG&E Acquisition (kqed.org)

×0.58 | 1 points by rdoherty 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SignalPosts – turns sales call transcripts into LinkedIn posts (signalposts.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by mistaflu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets (bleepingcomputer.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent World – an open standard and live market for personal AI agents (github.com/macrokit)

×0.59 | 1 points by spriterock 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Disappearing Polymorph (wikipedia.org)

×0.60 | 1 points by hliyan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spacetime as a discrete computational NavMesh: Deriving a 0.8723as universal r.r (zenodo.org)

×0.61 | 1 points by TomerHaimovich 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number

×2.82 74 | 8 points by superkuh 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can we reconstruct a tokenizer using only two oracles from the chat API? (reddit.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by bayes-song 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TargetBridge – Use an Intel iMac as a Thunderbolt Display Apple Macs (github.com/swellweb)

×0.62 | 1 points by targetbridge 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fixed-Point Combinator (wikipedia.org)

×2.11 18 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???