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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)
1411 points by novemp 21 hours ago | 886 comments
2.
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
489 points by harel 14 hours ago | 336 comments
3.
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
396 points by danielhanchen 18 hours ago | 184 comments
4.
Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)
328 points by handfuloflight 2 days ago | 185 comments
5.
What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
337 points by ssgodderidge 13 hours ago | 134 comments
6.
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
279 points by futurecat 3 days ago | 195 comments
7.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
463 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 92 comments
8.
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
145 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 92 comments
9.
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
162 points by luu 1 day ago | 211 comments
10.
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
365 points by beardyw 17 hours ago | 223 comments
11.
Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
87 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 36 comments
12.
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
122 points by luu 3 days ago | 86 comments
13.
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
286 points by dvrp 22 hours ago | 56 comments
14.
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
133 points by telotortium 5 days ago | 18 comments
15.
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
335 points by righthand 13 hours ago | 109 comments
16.
Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless (arxiv.org)
294 points by mustaphah 7 hours ago | 126 comments
17.
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
121 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 64 comments
18.
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
345 points by dClauzel 15 hours ago | 287 comments
19.
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
149 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 60 comments
20.
Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI (avelino.run)
59 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 3 comments
21.
Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)
104 points by kyars 22 hours ago | 113 comments
22.
Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)
213 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 132 comments
23.
Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing (github.com/preservim)
143 points by gurjeet 4 days ago | 47 comments
24.
Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
246 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 240 comments
25.
PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
111 points by varjag 2 days ago | 32 comments
26.
How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)
114 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 5 comments
27.
Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code (christopherkrapu.com)
112 points by mpcsb 4 days ago | 53 comments
28.
Visual Introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
155 points by 0bytematt 3 days ago | 13 comments
29.
Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found (nytimes.com)
109 points by Brajeshwar 5 days ago | 93 comments
30.
Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (simonhalvdansson.github.io)
33 points by swesnow 8 hours ago | 5 comments

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