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1.		Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (alqst.org)
		1015 points by giuliomagnifico 19 hours ago \| 428 comments
2.		An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
		1089 points by tedsanders 13 hours ago \| 787 comments
3.		GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)
		791 points by Timofeibu 18 hours ago \| 313 comments
4.		Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
		661 points by kevinsimper 21 hours ago \| 260 comments
5.		Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
		651 points by zambelli 1 day ago \| 238 comments
6.		Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
		370 points by eqrion 20 hours ago \| 144 comments
7.		Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)
		306 points by tigerlily 21 hours ago \| 191 comments
8.		FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
		368 points by ChocMontePy 1 day ago \| 81 comments
9.		Everything in C is undefined behavior (habets.se)
		482 points by lycopodiopsida 1 day ago \| 657 comments
10.		GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com/github)
		618 points by splenditer 1 day ago \| 329 comments
11.		Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (lesnumeriques.com)
		915 points by healsdata 19 hours ago \| 727 comments
12.		Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (railway.com)
		432 points by 0xedb 23 hours ago \| 244 comments
13.		Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
		351 points by ranit 1 day ago \| 157 comments
14.		Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (googleblog.com)
		387 points by primaprashant 1 day ago \| 199 comments
15.		Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
		722 points by ceejayoz 17 hours ago \| 463 comments
16.		Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
		419 points by robin_reala 21 hours ago \| 161 comments
17.		How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
		396 points by hexagr 3 days ago \| 78 comments
18.		Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (railway.com)
		550 points by aarondf 1 day ago \| 350 comments
19.		SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
		148 points by yacin 16 hours ago \| 8 comments
20.		Flipper One Tech Specs (flipper.net)
		355 points by gregsadetsky 13 hours ago \| 127 comments
21.		Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
		505 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago \| 342 comments
22.		SpaceX S-1 (sec.gov)
		361 points by cachecow 11 hours ago \| 279 comments
23.		Why is Inkwell stuck in review (manton.org)
		137 points by speckx 14 hours ago \| 45 comments
24.		Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (usni.org)
		168 points by thnaks 14 hours ago \| 87 comments
25.		Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (scientificamerican.com)
		128 points by dxs 2 days ago \| 28 comments
26.		Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com/pokemoncentral)
		467 points by zeitg3ist 16 hours ago \| 239 comments
27.		Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
		148 points by pramodbiligiri 22 hours ago \| 154 comments
28.		Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (infomaniak.com)
		165 points by darktoto 1 day ago \| 47 comments
29.		The Mercury logic programming system (github.com/mercury-language)
		92 points by Antibabelic 3 days ago \| 23 comments
30.		DOS Zone (dos.zone)
		238 points by rglover 9 hours ago \| 46 comments
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