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1.
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
1402 points by novemp 20 hours ago | 883 comments
2.
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
485 points by harel 13 hours ago | 334 comments
3.
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
388 points by danielhanchen 17 hours ago | 180 comments
4.
Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)
316 points by handfuloflight 2 days ago | 177 comments
5.
What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
320 points by ssgodderidge 12 hours ago | 126 comments
6.
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
278 points by futurecat 3 days ago | 194 comments
7.
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
145 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 92 comments
8.
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
360 points by beardyw 15 hours ago | 221 comments
9.
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
161 points by luu 1 day ago | 208 comments
10.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
427 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 86 comments
11.
Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
87 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 36 comments
12.
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
122 points by luu 3 days ago | 86 comments
13.
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
133 points by telotortium 4 days ago | 18 comments
14.
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
330 points by righthand 11 hours ago | 107 comments
15.
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
120 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 64 comments
16.
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
340 points by dClauzel 14 hours ago | 285 comments
17.
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
148 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 60 comments
18.
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
269 points by dvrp 20 hours ago | 50 comments
19.
Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI (avelino.run)
59 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 3 comments
20.
Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)
104 points by kyars 21 hours ago | 111 comments
21.
Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)
210 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 131 comments
22.
Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing (github.com/preservim)
141 points by gurjeet 4 days ago | 46 comments
23.
Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless (arxiv.org)
264 points by mustaphah 5 hours ago | 114 comments
24.
Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code (christopherkrapu.com)
110 points by mpcsb 4 days ago | 52 comments
25.
How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)
110 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 5 comments
26.
Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
232 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 232 comments
27.
Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found (nytimes.com)
109 points by Brajeshwar 5 days ago | 93 comments
28.
Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)
268 points by enz 7 hours ago | 98 comments
29.
The Sideprocalypse (hal.se)
151 points by headalgorithm 12 hours ago | 124 comments
30.
PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
100 points by varjag 2 days ago | 31 comments

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