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1.		We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)
		648 points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago \| 107 comments
2.		Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)
		667 points by qwesr123 19 hours ago \| 308 comments
3.		Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app (macrumors.com)
		1045 points by pier25 1 day ago \| 863 comments
4.		Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images (esa.int)
		673 points by saubeidl 1 day ago \| 93 comments
5.		Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
		873 points by mijailt 22 hours ago \| 611 comments
6.		Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)
		567 points by meetpateltech 16 hours ago \| 275 comments
7.		Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)
		544 points by keyboardJones 1 day ago \| 1128 comments
8.		Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)
		397 points by mellosouls 1 day ago \| 66 comments
9.		A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
		334 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago \| 282 comments
10.		PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)
		421 points by croes 14 hours ago \| 197 comments
11.		Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer (mecha.so)
		255 points by Realman78 4 days ago \| 95 comments
12.		Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)
		230 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 59 comments
13.		[dupe] US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)
		426 points by randycupertino 17 hours ago \| 33 comments
14.		Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
		427 points by voxadam 19 hours ago \| 679 comments
15.		County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
		390 points by MBCook 14 hours ago \| 179 comments
16.		Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)
		207 points by ghostwriternr 18 hours ago \| 61 comments
17.		Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)
		253 points by axiomdata316 17 hours ago \| 136 comments
18.		AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)
		329 points by maximedupre 20 hours ago \| 138 comments
19.		Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
		145 points by Haakam21 16 hours ago \| 148 comments
20.		My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
		181 points by kieto 14 hours ago \| 94 comments
21.		Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)
		172 points by neelc 17 hours ago \| 198 comments
22.		How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
		167 points by kruuuder 18 hours ago \| 83 comments
23.		Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
		186 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 13 hours ago \| 71 comments
24.		Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)
		653 points by randycupertino 1 day ago \| 301 comments
25.		Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
		155 points by unsolved73 18 hours ago \| 121 comments
26.		EmulatorJS (github.com/emulatorjs)
		99 points by avaer 7 days ago \| 16 comments
27.		Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
		86 points by phmx 4 days ago \| 38 comments
28.		Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
		116 points by orange_redditor 3 days ago \| 19 comments
29.		Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT (openai.com)
		188 points by rd 12 hours ago \| 256 comments
30.		Tea Chemistry (1997) (researchgate.net)
		81 points by aabiji 6 days ago \| 29 comments
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