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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)
1391 points by novemp 18 hours ago | 869 comments
2.
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
482 points by harel 11 hours ago | 330 comments
3.
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
372 points by danielhanchen 15 hours ago | 179 comments
4.
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
145 points by andsoitis 22 hours ago | 91 comments
5.
Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)
304 points by handfuloflight 2 days ago | 170 comments
6.
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
277 points by futurecat 3 days ago | 194 comments
7.
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
352 points by beardyw 13 hours ago | 217 comments
8.
Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
86 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 36 comments
9.
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
161 points by luu 1 day ago | 205 comments
10.
What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
294 points by ssgodderidge 10 hours ago | 112 comments
11.
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
120 points by luu 3 days ago | 82 comments
12.
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
131 points by telotortium 4 days ago | 17 comments
13.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
383 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 74 comments
14.
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
321 points by righthand 10 hours ago | 103 comments
15.
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
120 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 64 comments
16.
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
337 points by dClauzel 12 hours ago | 283 comments
17.
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
147 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 60 comments
18.
Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI (avelino.run)
59 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 3 comments
19.
Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)
104 points by kyars 19 hours ago | 111 comments
20.
Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)
207 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 128 comments
21.
Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing (github.com/preservim)
139 points by gurjeet 4 days ago | 46 comments
22.
Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code (christopherkrapu.com)
107 points by mpcsb 4 days ago | 52 comments
23.
Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found (nytimes.com)
109 points by Brajeshwar 5 days ago | 92 comments
24.
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
245 points by dvrp 19 hours ago | 48 comments
25.
Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)
260 points by enz 6 hours ago | 96 comments
26.
The Sideprocalypse (hal.se)
151 points by headalgorithm 10 hours ago | 123 comments
27.
WebMCP Proposal (webmachinelearning.github.io)
130 points by Alifatisk 7 hours ago | 68 comments
28.
Hard problems in social media archiving (alexwlchan.net)
49 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 11 comments
29.
How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)
96 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 4 comments
30.
Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless (arxiv.org)
217 points by mustaphah 3 hours ago | 102 comments

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