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1.
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
1422 points by novemp 1 day ago | 892 comments
2.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
589 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 114 comments
3.
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
408 points by danielhanchen 21 hours ago | 191 comments
4.
What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
387 points by ssgodderidge 16 hours ago | 147 comments
5.
Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)
348 points by handfuloflight 3 days ago | 190 comments
6.
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
280 points by futurecat 3 days ago | 199 comments
7.
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
494 points by harel 17 hours ago | 338 comments
8.
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
332 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 63 comments
9.
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
164 points by luu 1 day ago | 218 comments
10.
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
145 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 95 comments
11.
SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)
327 points by mustaphah 10 hours ago | 138 comments
12.
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
372 points by beardyw 20 hours ago | 227 comments
13.
Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
87 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 36 comments
14.
Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
215 points by 0bytematt 3 days ago | 14 comments
15.
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
123 points by luu 3 days ago | 89 comments
16.
PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
125 points by varjag 2 days ago | 36 comments
17.
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
134 points by telotortium 5 days ago | 18 comments
18.
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
344 points by righthand 16 hours ago | 110 comments
19.
Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
274 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 251 comments
20.
Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
165 points by zachlatta 10 hours ago | 77 comments
21.
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
351 points by dClauzel 18 hours ago | 289 comments
22.
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
123 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 67 comments
23.
State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
89 points by kianN 11 hours ago | 15 comments
24.
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
152 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | 60 comments
25.
Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
102 points by icwtyjj 10 hours ago | 58 comments
26.
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
82 points by lirbank 11 hours ago | 46 comments
27.
Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
82 points by yichab0d 12 hours ago | 34 comments
28.
Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)
218 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 132 comments
29.
Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI (avelino.run)
59 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 3 comments
30.
Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)
104 points by kyars 1 day ago | 115 comments

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