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1.		Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)
		707 points by qwesr123 22 hours ago \| 325 comments
2.		We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)
		652 points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago \| 107 comments
3.		Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app (macrumors.com)
		1056 points by pier25 1 day ago \| 872 comments
4.		Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)
		598 points by meetpateltech 19 hours ago \| 287 comments
5.		Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images (esa.int)
		680 points by saubeidl 1 day ago \| 94 comments
6.		Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
		883 points by mijailt 1 day ago \| 621 comments
7.		PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)
		458 points by croes 18 hours ago \| 241 comments
8.		Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)
		546 points by keyboardJones 1 day ago \| 1139 comments
9.		Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)
		398 points by mellosouls 1 day ago \| 66 comments
10.		A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
		360 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago \| 293 comments
11.		AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)
		372 points by maximedupre 23 hours ago \| 152 comments
12.		Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer (mecha.so)
		258 points by Realman78 4 days ago \| 95 comments
13.		Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
		216 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 17 hours ago \| 79 comments
14.		Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
		437 points by voxadam 22 hours ago \| 709 comments
15.		My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
		203 points by kieto 18 hours ago \| 104 comments
16.		Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)
		232 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 60 comments
17.		[dupe] US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)
		429 points by randycupertino 20 hours ago \| 34 comments
18.		County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
		402 points by MBCook 18 hours ago \| 184 comments
19.		Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)
		215 points by ghostwriternr 22 hours ago \| 63 comments
20.		Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)
		184 points by neelc 21 hours ago \| 214 comments
21.		Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)
		256 points by axiomdata316 20 hours ago \| 139 comments
22.		Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
		153 points by Haakam21 20 hours ago \| 155 comments
23.		How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
		173 points by kruuuder 22 hours ago \| 86 comments
24.		Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)
		655 points by randycupertino 1 day ago \| 302 comments
25.		Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT (openai.com)
		225 points by rd 15 hours ago \| 296 comments
26.		Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
		164 points by unsolved73 22 hours ago \| 129 comments
27.		EmulatorJS (github.com/emulatorjs)
		100 points by avaer 7 days ago \| 16 comments
28.		Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
		86 points by phmx 5 days ago \| 38 comments
29.		Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
		118 points by orange_redditor 3 days ago \| 19 comments
30.		Tea Chemistry (1997) (researchgate.net)
		81 points by aabiji 6 days ago \| 29 comments
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