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1.Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
1425 points by john-doe 1 day ago | 936 comments
2.Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026? (distr.sh)
396 points by pmig 5 days ago | 275 comments
3.Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com/oven-sh)
701 points by SergeAx 1 day ago | 525 comments
4.When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing (robert-glaser.de)
360 points by youngbrioche 23 hours ago | 235 comments
5.Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)
549 points by amrrs 16 hours ago | 257 comments
6.Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)
433 points by blenderob 17 hours ago | 302 comments
7.iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
405 points by alentodorov 20 hours ago | 303 comments
8.Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)
369 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 1 day ago | 201 comments
9.Async Rust never left the MVP state (tweedegolf.nl)
432 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 233 comments
10.1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving' (electrek.co)
195 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 164 comments
11.Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)
387 points by palashawas 15 hours ago | 223 comments
12.Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold (walzr.com)
319 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 262 comments
13.EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
282 points by brudgers 16 hours ago | 69 comments
14.DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (denic.de)
652 points by warpspin 12 hours ago | 319 comments
15.California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (sfgate.com)
329 points by littlexsparkee 14 hours ago | 383 comments
16.Agents for financial services and insurance (anthropic.com)
236 points by louiereederson 17 hours ago | 171 comments
17.Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
117 points by mtricot 17 hours ago | 30 comments
18.Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% (twitter.com/brian_armstrong)
357 points by adrianmsmith 20 hours ago | 544 comments
19.Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (github.com/angelos-p)
445 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 50 comments
20.Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement (variety.com)
378 points by spankibalt 14 hours ago | 339 comments
21.IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
340 points by SeenNotHeard 15 hours ago | 198 comments
22.I'm scared about biological computing (kuber.studio)
209 points by kuberwastaken 16 hours ago | 170 comments
23.Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
241 points by ingve 1 day ago | 225 comments
24.GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents (arxiv.org)
140 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 28 comments
25.CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers (dragonsreach.it)
188 points by averi 1 day ago | 115 comments
26.Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks (paletteinspiration.com)
162 points by ouli 14 hours ago | 58 comments
27.AI didn't delete your database, you did (idiallo.com)
521 points by Brajeshwar 18 hours ago | 290 comments
28.Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)
211 points by jollyjerry 1 day ago | 42 comments
29.Write some software, give it away for free (nonogra.ph)
253 points by nohell 11 hours ago | 168 comments
30.Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache (theregister.com)
242 points by dreadsword 1 day ago | 170 comments

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