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1.		Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)
		726 points by qwesr123 1 day ago \| 336 comments
2.		Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)
		627 points by meetpateltech 23 hours ago \| 307 comments
3.		Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app (macrumors.com)
		1070 points by pier25 1 day ago \| 884 comments
4.		We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)
		658 points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago \| 110 comments
5.		PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)
		506 points by croes 22 hours ago \| 277 comments
6.		Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images (esa.int)
		685 points by saubeidl 1 day ago \| 94 comments
7.		Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
		896 points by mijailt 1 day ago \| 624 comments
8.		AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)
		430 points by maximedupre 1 day ago \| 168 comments
9.		A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
		373 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago \| 307 comments
10.		Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)
		552 points by keyboardJones 1 day ago \| 1146 comments
11.		Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
		257 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 21 hours ago \| 96 comments
12.		Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)
		401 points by mellosouls 1 day ago \| 66 comments
13.		My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
		218 points by kieto 22 hours ago \| 127 comments
14.		Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
		451 points by voxadam 1 day ago \| 736 comments
15.		Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer (mecha.so)
		260 points by Realman78 4 days ago \| 96 comments
16.		Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)
		232 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 61 comments
17.		Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT (openai.com)
		267 points by rd 19 hours ago \| 337 comments
18.		[dupe] US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)
		430 points by randycupertino 1 day ago \| 34 comments
19.		County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
		416 points by MBCook 22 hours ago \| 192 comments
20.		Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)
		221 points by ghostwriternr 1 day ago \| 65 comments
21.		Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)
		194 points by neelc 1 day ago \| 226 comments
22.		Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)
		260 points by axiomdata316 1 day ago \| 141 comments
23.		Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
		156 points by Haakam21 1 day ago \| 158 comments
24.		How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
		176 points by kruuuder 1 day ago \| 87 comments
25.		Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)
		657 points by randycupertino 1 day ago \| 302 comments
26.		Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
		169 points by unsolved73 1 day ago \| 134 comments
27.		EmulatorJS (github.com/emulatorjs)
		100 points by avaer 7 days ago \| 16 comments
28.		Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
		86 points by phmx 5 days ago \| 38 comments
29.		Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
		119 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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