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1.
Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
484 points by tomeraberbach 20 hours ago | 339 comments
2.
Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
654 points by zakirullin 1 day ago | 317 comments
3.
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
1011 points by nycdatasci 19 hours ago | 515 comments
4.
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
653 points by DaSHacka 2 days ago | 293 comments
5.
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
435 points by Bibabomas 1 day ago | 144 comments
6.
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
478 points by ildari 22 hours ago | 232 comments
7.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
243 points by ankitg12 3 days ago | 138 comments
8.
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
196 points by gaws 3 days ago | 23 comments
9.
We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
300 points by lukaspetersson 19 hours ago | 228 comments
10.
AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
268 points by topherjaynes 1 day ago | 146 comments
11.
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
170 points by veqq 18 hours ago | 42 comments
12.
Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
213 points by DASD 3 days ago | 52 comments
13.
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
345 points by Fysi 23 hours ago | 131 comments
14.
Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
332 points by andrewzeno 14 hours ago | 83 comments
15.
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
157 points by exploraz 23 hours ago | 97 comments
16.
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
293 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | 726 comments
17.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
321 points by srameshc 20 hours ago | 562 comments
18.
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
118 points by olivercameron 18 hours ago | 22 comments
19.
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
296 points by cdrnsf 18 hours ago | 124 comments
20.
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
179 points by jumploops 3 days ago | 86 comments
21.
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
196 points by HellMood 1 day ago | 32 comments
22.
Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
68 points by anigbrowl 16 hours ago | 26 comments
23.
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
311 points by tekkertje 19 hours ago | 110 comments
24.
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
144 points by pizlonator 2 days ago | 29 comments
25.
What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
149 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 60 comments
26.
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
322 points by stephenlthorn 1 day ago | 132 comments
27.
A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
88 points by susam 3 days ago | 20 comments
28.
Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
79 points by gmays 4 days ago | 45 comments
29.
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (ieee.org)
127 points by SVI 1 day ago | 31 comments
30.
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
530 points by gok 22 hours ago | 171 comments

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