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1.
Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
521 points by tomeraberbach 1 day ago | 365 comments
2.
Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
685 points by zakirullin 1 day ago | 329 comments
3.
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
1057 points by nycdatasci 1 day ago | 553 comments
4.
We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
350 points by lukaspetersson 1 day ago | 264 comments
5.
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
439 points by Bibabomas 2 days ago | 147 comments
6.
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
674 points by DaSHacka 3 days ago | 305 comments
7.
Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
361 points by andrewzeno 21 hours ago | 91 comments
8.
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
486 points by ildari 1 day ago | 234 comments
9.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
258 points by ankitg12 3 days ago | 141 comments
10.
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
184 points by veqq 1 day ago | 44 comments
11.
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
174 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 116 comments
12.
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
198 points by gaws 4 days ago | 23 comments
13.
AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
288 points by topherjaynes 1 day ago | 152 comments
14.
Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
214 points by DASD 4 days ago | 52 comments
15.
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
356 points by Fysi 1 day ago | 136 comments
16.
The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
105 points by rurban 1 day ago | 80 comments
17.
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
300 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | 748 comments
18.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
334 points by srameshc 1 day ago | 610 comments
19.
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
125 points by olivercameron 1 day ago | 22 comments
20.
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
317 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 132 comments
21.
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
184 points by jumploops 3 days ago | 87 comments
22.
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
200 points by HellMood 1 day ago | 32 comments
23.
Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
74 points by anigbrowl 23 hours ago | 29 comments
24.
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
152 points by pizlonator 3 days ago | 30 comments
25.
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
318 points by tekkertje 1 day ago | 114 comments
26.
What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
154 points by jollyjerry 3 days ago | 64 comments
27.
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
323 points by stephenlthorn 1 day ago | 134 comments
28.
A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
90 points by susam 3 days ago | 20 comments
29.
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
548 points by gok 1 day ago | 192 comments
30.
Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
79 points by gmays 4 days ago | 48 comments

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