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Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
637 points by zakirullin 21 hours ago | 311 comments
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Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
457 points by tomeraberbach 17 hours ago | 320 comments
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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
968 points by nycdatasci 17 hours ago | 482 comments
4.
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
642 points by DaSHacka 2 days ago | 288 comments
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Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
434 points by Bibabomas 1 day ago | 144 comments
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We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
469 points by ildari 19 hours ago | 229 comments
7.
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
194 points by gaws 3 days ago | 23 comments
8.
Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
211 points by DASD 3 days ago | 52 comments
9.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
224 points by ankitg12 3 days ago | 130 comments
10.
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
332 points by Fysi 21 hours ago | 131 comments
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We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
270 points by lukaspetersson 16 hours ago | 215 comments
12.
AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
235 points by topherjaynes 21 hours ago | 133 comments
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Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
162 points by veqq 15 hours ago | 38 comments
14.
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
289 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | 715 comments
15.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
315 points by srameshc 17 hours ago | 547 comments
16.
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
176 points by jumploops 3 days ago | 86 comments
17.
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
285 points by cdrnsf 15 hours ago | 117 comments
18.
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
112 points by olivercameron 16 hours ago | 22 comments
19.
Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
311 points by andrewzeno 11 hours ago | 75 comments
20.
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
195 points by HellMood 1 day ago | 32 comments
21.
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
145 points by exploraz 20 hours ago | 90 comments
22.
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
307 points by tekkertje 16 hours ago | 105 comments
23.
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
137 points by pizlonator 2 days ago | 26 comments
24.
What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
147 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 59 comments
25.
Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
58 points by anigbrowl 13 hours ago | 24 comments
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Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
321 points by stephenlthorn 23 hours 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)
78 points by gmays 4 days ago | 45 comments
29.
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (ieee.org)
124 points by SVI 22 hours ago | 31 comments
30.
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
520 points by gok 19 hours ago | 161 comments

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