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1.		Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)
		690 points by qwesr123 21 hours ago \| 315 comments
2.		We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)
		649 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)
		1049 points by pier25 1 day ago \| 869 comments
4.		Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images (esa.int)
		678 points by saubeidl 1 day ago \| 94 comments
5.		Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)
		586 points by meetpateltech 18 hours ago \| 279 comments
6.		Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
		880 points by mijailt 1 day ago \| 617 comments
7.		Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)
		545 points by keyboardJones 1 day ago \| 1136 comments
8.		Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)
		398 points by mellosouls 1 day ago \| 66 comments
9.		A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
		346 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago \| 285 comments
10.		PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)
		441 points by croes 16 hours ago \| 220 comments
11.		Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer (mecha.so)
		256 points by Realman78 4 days ago \| 95 comments
12.		Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)
		230 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 60 comments
13.		[dupe] US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)
		426 points by randycupertino 18 hours ago \| 33 comments
14.		Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
		434 points by voxadam 20 hours ago \| 697 comments
15.		AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)
		348 points by maximedupre 21 hours ago \| 148 comments
16.		County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
		398 points by MBCook 16 hours ago \| 180 comments
17.		My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
		194 points by kieto 16 hours ago \| 99 comments
18.		Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
		200 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 15 hours ago \| 74 comments
19.		Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)
		212 points by ghostwriternr 20 hours ago \| 63 comments
20.		Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)
		256 points by axiomdata316 18 hours ago \| 138 comments
21.		Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)
		176 points by neelc 19 hours ago \| 209 comments
22.		Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
		150 points by Haakam21 18 hours ago \| 155 comments
23.		How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
		170 points by kruuuder 20 hours ago \| 85 comments
24.		Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)
		654 points by randycupertino 1 day ago \| 301 comments
25.		Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
		159 points by unsolved73 20 hours ago \| 126 comments
26.		EmulatorJS (github.com/emulatorjs)
		99 points by avaer 7 days ago \| 16 comments
27.		Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
		86 points by phmx 4 days ago \| 38 comments
28.		Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT (openai.com)
		210 points by rd 14 hours ago \| 278 comments
29.		Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
		117 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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