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1.
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
1353 points by john-doe 22 hours ago | 905 comments
2.
Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com/oven-sh)
701 points by SergeAx 1 day ago | 522 comments
3.
Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026? (distr.sh)
383 points by pmig 5 days ago | 268 comments
4.
When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing (robert-glaser.de)
340 points by youngbrioche 20 hours ago | 228 comments
5.
Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)
368 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 1 day ago | 200 comments
6.
iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
399 points by alentodorov 17 hours ago | 298 comments
7.
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)
517 points by amrrs 13 hours ago | 233 comments
8.
Async Rust never left the MVP state (tweedegolf.nl)
429 points by pjmlp 22 hours ago | 232 comments
9.
Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)
404 points by blenderob 14 hours ago | 275 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.
Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold (walzr.com)
317 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 261 comments
12.
Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)
364 points by palashawas 13 hours ago | 212 comments
13.
EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
262 points by brudgers 14 hours ago | 66 comments
14.
California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (sfgate.com)
308 points by littlexsparkee 11 hours ago | 364 comments
15.
Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (github.com/angelos-p)
435 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 50 comments
16.
.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? (verisignlabs.com)
587 points by warpspin 9 hours ago | 294 comments
17.
IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
325 points by SeenNotHeard 12 hours ago | 191 comments
18.
Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
234 points by ingve 22 hours ago | 225 comments
19.
Agents for financial services and insurance (anthropic.com)
222 points by louiereederson 14 hours ago | 168 comments
20.
Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement (variety.com)
335 points by spankibalt 11 hours ago | 310 comments
21.
Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
109 points by mtricot 14 hours ago | 28 comments
22.
CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers (dragonsreach.it)
187 points by averi 1 day ago | 114 comments
23.
Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% (twitter.com/brian_armstrong)
324 points by adrianmsmith 17 hours ago | 479 comments
24.
AI didn't delete your database, you did (idiallo.com)
511 points by Brajeshwar 15 hours ago | 284 comments
25.
Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)
209 points by jollyjerry 1 day ago | 42 comments
26.
I'm scared about biological computing (kuber.studio)
179 points by kuberwastaken 13 hours ago | 150 comments
27.
Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache (theregister.com)
240 points by dreadsword 1 day ago | 170 comments
28.
GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents (arxiv.org)
130 points by gmays 12 hours ago | 27 comments
29.
Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks (paletteinspiration.com)
141 points by ouli 11 hours ago | 55 comments
30.
When networking doesn't work (os2museum.com)
93 points by kencausey 1 day ago | 15 comments

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