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Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
631 points by zakirullin 19 hours ago | 308 comments
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We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
467 points by ildari 17 hours ago | 227 comments
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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
943 points by nycdatasci 15 hours ago | 465 comments
4.
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
635 points by DaSHacka 2 days ago | 285 comments
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Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
434 points by Bibabomas 1 day ago | 144 comments
6.
Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
448 points by tomeraberbach 16 hours ago | 300 comments
7.
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
194 points by gaws 3 days ago | 23 comments
8.
Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
211 points by DASD 3 days ago | 52 comments
9.
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
326 points by Fysi 19 hours ago | 130 comments
10.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
213 points by ankitg12 3 days ago | 127 comments
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It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
288 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | 710 comments
12.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
311 points by srameshc 15 hours ago | 541 comments
13.
We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
256 points by lukaspetersson 14 hours ago | 206 comments
14.
AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
221 points by topherjaynes 20 hours ago | 119 comments
15.
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
157 points by veqq 13 hours ago | 36 comments
16.
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
176 points by jumploops 3 days ago | 86 comments
17.
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
281 points by cdrnsf 13 hours ago | 114 comments
18.
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
194 points by HellMood 1 day ago | 32 comments
19.
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
106 points by olivercameron 14 hours ago | 21 comments
20.
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
302 points by tekkertje 14 hours ago | 101 comments
21.
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
140 points by exploraz 18 hours ago | 84 comments
22.
Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
296 points by andrewzeno 10 hours ago | 70 comments
23.
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
135 points by pizlonator 2 days ago | 26 comments
24.
What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
146 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 57 comments
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Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
321 points by stephenlthorn 21 hours ago | 132 comments
26.
A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
88 points by susam 3 days ago | 20 comments
27.
Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
78 points by gmays 4 days ago | 45 comments
28.
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (ieee.org)
119 points by SVI 21 hours ago | 31 comments
29.
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
517 points by gok 17 hours ago | 158 comments
30.
Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
53 points by anigbrowl 11 hours ago | 22 comments

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