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1.
We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)
646 points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago | 105 comments
2.
Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images (esa.int)
661 points by saubeidl 22 hours ago | 91 comments
3.
Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app (macrumors.com)
1027 points by pier25 1 day ago | 852 comments
4.
Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)
615 points by qwesr123 15 hours ago | 299 comments
5.
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
858 points by mijailt 19 hours ago | 603 comments
6.
Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)
542 points by keyboardJones 1 day ago | 1120 comments
7.
Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)
391 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 66 comments
8.
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)
525 points by meetpateltech 12 hours ago | 252 comments
9.
Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer (mecha.so)
253 points by Realman78 4 days ago | 94 comments
10.
Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)
230 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 59 comments
11.
 [dupe] US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)
425 points by randycupertino 13 hours ago | 33 comments
12.
County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
368 points by MBCook 11 hours ago | 175 comments
13.
Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)
252 points by axiomdata316 13 hours ago | 135 comments
14.
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
394 points by voxadam 15 hours ago | 643 comments
15.
A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
306 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 263 comments
16.
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)
355 points by croes 10 hours ago | 157 comments
17.
Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)
185 points by ghostwriternr 15 hours ago | 60 comments
18.
How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
164 points by kruuuder 15 hours ago | 83 comments
19.
Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
134 points by Haakam21 13 hours ago | 143 comments
20.
Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)
649 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 300 comments
21.
EmulatorJS (github.com/emulatorjs)
98 points by avaer 6 days ago | 16 comments
22.
Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
145 points by unsolved73 14 hours ago | 112 comments
23.
AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)
257 points by maximedupre 16 hours ago | 115 comments
24.
Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
86 points by phmx 4 days ago | 38 comments
25.
My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
156 points by kieto 11 hours ago | 89 comments
26.
Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)
147 points by neelc 14 hours ago | 185 comments
27.
Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
153 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 10 hours ago | 57 comments
28.
Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
113 points by orange_redditor 3 days ago | 19 comments
29.
Tea Chemistry (1997) (researchgate.net)
81 points by aabiji 6 days ago | 29 comments
30.
Box64 Expands into RISC-V and LoongArch territory (boilingsteam.com)
43 points by ekianjo 4 days ago | 4 comments

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