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Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
612 points by zakirullin 17 hours ago | 301 comments
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We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
456 points by ildari 15 hours ago | 210 comments
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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
905 points by nycdatasci 13 hours ago | 449 comments
4.
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
615 points by DaSHacka 2 days ago | 271 comments
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Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
429 points by Bibabomas 1 day ago | 143 comments
6.
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
194 points by gaws 3 days ago | 23 comments
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Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
211 points by DASD 3 days ago | 52 comments
8.
Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
417 points by tomeraberbach 13 hours ago | 288 comments
9.
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
321 points by Fysi 17 hours ago | 124 comments
10.
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
285 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | 701 comments
11.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
302 points by srameshc 13 hours ago | 513 comments
12.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
194 points by ankitg12 3 days ago | 115 comments
13.
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
175 points by jumploops 3 days ago | 86 comments
14.
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
269 points by cdrnsf 11 hours ago | 107 comments
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WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
192 points by HellMood 1 day ago | 32 comments
16.
We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
226 points by lukaspetersson 12 hours ago | 193 comments
17.
AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
198 points by topherjaynes 17 hours ago | 109 comments
18.
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
150 points by veqq 11 hours ago | 35 comments
19.
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
298 points by tekkertje 12 hours ago | 96 comments
20.
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
131 points by pizlonator 2 days ago | 26 comments
21.
What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
146 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 57 comments
22.
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
102 points by olivercameron 11 hours ago | 18 comments
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Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
320 points by stephenlthorn 19 hours ago | 131 comments
24.
A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
88 points by susam 3 days ago | 20 comments
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Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
78 points by gmays 4 days ago | 45 comments
26.
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (ieee.org)
116 points by SVI 18 hours ago | 30 comments
27.
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
510 points by gok 15 hours ago | 154 comments
28.
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
134 points by exploraz 16 hours ago | 80 comments
29.
'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs' (bbc.co.uk)
217 points by bauc 17 hours ago | 62 comments
30.
Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions (ftc.gov)
164 points by Lihh27 10 hours ago | 80 comments

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