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1.		Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (alqst.org)
		1024 points by giuliomagnifico 22 hours ago \| 432 comments
2.		An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
		1200 points by tedsanders 15 hours ago \| 877 comments
3.		GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)
		868 points by Timofeibu 21 hours ago \| 362 comments
4.		Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
		385 points by eqrion 22 hours ago \| 148 comments
5.		Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
		656 points by zambelli 1 day ago \| 239 comments
6.		Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)
		317 points by tigerlily 1 day ago \| 198 comments
7.		Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
		666 points by kevinsimper 1 day ago \| 264 comments
8.		FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
		370 points by ChocMontePy 1 day ago \| 81 comments
9.		How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
		424 points by hexagr 3 days ago \| 85 comments
10.		GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com/github)
		619 points by splenditer 1 day ago \| 332 comments
11.		Everything in C is undefined behavior (habets.se)
		488 points by lycopodiopsida 1 day ago \| 667 comments
12.		Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (lesnumeriques.com)
		921 points by healsdata 21 hours ago \| 730 comments
13.		Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (railway.com)
		433 points by 0xedb 1 day ago \| 247 comments
14.		Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (googleblog.com)
		389 points by primaprashant 1 day ago \| 199 comments
15.		Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
		353 points by ranit 1 day ago \| 159 comments
16.		Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
		738 points by ceejayoz 20 hours ago \| 474 comments
17.		Flipper One Tech Specs (flipper.net)
		390 points by gregsadetsky 16 hours ago \| 135 comments
18.		Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
		425 points by robin_reala 1 day ago \| 163 comments
19.		Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (railway.com)
		551 points by aarondf 1 day ago \| 350 comments
20.		SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
		153 points by yacin 19 hours ago \| 8 comments
21.		Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (usni.org)
		181 points by thnaks 17 hours ago \| 95 comments
22.		Why is Inkwell stuck in review (manton.org)
		142 points by speckx 17 hours ago \| 46 comments
23.		SpaceX S-1 (sec.gov)
		373 points by cachecow 14 hours ago \| 292 comments
24.		Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
		531 points by cdrnsf 13 hours ago \| 375 comments
25.		Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (scientificamerican.com)
		133 points by dxs 2 days ago \| 29 comments
26.		Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad' (openculture.com)
		148 points by diodorus 5 days ago \| 101 comments
27.		DOS Zone (dos.zone)
		264 points by rglover 12 hours ago \| 60 comments
28.		Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
		153 points by pramodbiligiri 1 day ago \| 170 comments
29.		Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com/pokemoncentral)
		475 points by zeitg3ist 18 hours ago \| 240 comments
30.		Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (infomaniak.com)
		166 points by darktoto 1 day ago \| 47 comments
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