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1.		Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (alqst.org)
		1020 points by giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago \| 432 comments
2.		An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
		1167 points by tedsanders 14 hours ago \| 853 comments
3.		GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)
		840 points by Timofeibu 20 hours ago \| 350 comments
4.		Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
		664 points by kevinsimper 23 hours ago \| 262 comments
5.		Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
		654 points by zambelli 1 day ago \| 239 comments
6.		Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)
		313 points by tigerlily 23 hours ago \| 193 comments
7.		Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
		378 points by eqrion 22 hours ago \| 147 comments
8.		FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
		369 points by ChocMontePy 1 day ago \| 81 comments
9.		Everything in C is undefined behavior (habets.se)
		487 points by lycopodiopsida 1 day ago \| 665 comments
10.		GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com/github)
		619 points by splenditer 1 day ago \| 331 comments
11.		Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (lesnumeriques.com)
		920 points by healsdata 21 hours ago \| 728 comments
12.		How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
		416 points by hexagr 3 days ago \| 81 comments
13.		Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (railway.com)
		433 points by 0xedb 1 day ago \| 246 comments
14.		Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (googleblog.com)
		387 points by primaprashant 1 day ago \| 199 comments
15.		Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
		351 points by ranit 1 day ago \| 159 comments
16.		Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
		733 points by ceejayoz 19 hours ago \| 468 comments
17.		Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
		423 points by robin_reala 23 hours ago \| 162 comments
18.		Flipper One Tech Specs (flipper.net)
		376 points by gregsadetsky 15 hours ago \| 133 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)
		152 points by yacin 18 hours ago \| 8 comments
21.		Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
		524 points by cdrnsf 12 hours ago \| 368 comments
22.		SpaceX S-1 (sec.gov)
		367 points by cachecow 13 hours ago \| 292 comments
23.		Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (usni.org)
		175 points by thnaks 16 hours ago \| 93 comments
24.		Why is Inkwell stuck in review (manton.org)
		142 points by speckx 16 hours ago \| 46 comments
25.		Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (scientificamerican.com)
		129 points by dxs 2 days ago \| 29 comments
26.		Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
		151 points by pramodbiligiri 23 hours ago \| 167 comments
27.		DOS Zone (dos.zone)
		259 points by rglover 11 hours ago \| 55 comments
28.		Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad' (openculture.com)
		137 points by diodorus 5 days ago \| 94 comments
29.		Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com/pokemoncentral)
		472 points by zeitg3ist 17 hours ago \| 238 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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