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1.		Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (alqst.org)
		984 points by giuliomagnifico 17 hours ago \| 423 comments
2.		An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
		980 points by tedsanders 11 hours ago \| 712 comments
3.		Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
		651 points by kevinsimper 19 hours ago \| 257 comments
4.		GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)
		716 points by Timofeibu 16 hours ago \| 256 comments
5.		Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
		648 points by zambelli 1 day ago \| 238 comments
6.		FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
		366 points by ChocMontePy 1 day ago \| 81 comments
7.		Everything in C is undefined behavior (habets.se)
		481 points by lycopodiopsida 1 day ago \| 631 comments
8.		Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (lesnumeriques.com)
		905 points by healsdata 17 hours ago \| 714 comments
9.		Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
		357 points by eqrion 18 hours ago \| 138 comments
10.		GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com/github)
		616 points by splenditer 1 day ago \| 326 comments
11.		Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)
		294 points by tigerlily 19 hours ago \| 184 comments
12.		Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
		349 points by ranit 1 day ago \| 157 comments
13.		Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
		710 points by ceejayoz 15 hours ago \| 456 comments
14.		Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (googleblog.com)
		387 points by primaprashant 1 day ago \| 198 comments
15.		Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
		414 points by robin_reala 19 hours ago \| 158 comments
16.		Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (railway.com)
		550 points by aarondf 1 day ago \| 349 comments
17.		Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (railway.com)
		418 points by 0xedb 21 hours ago \| 243 comments
18.		How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
		366 points by hexagr 3 days ago \| 77 comments
19.		Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
		476 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago \| 311 comments
20.		SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
		138 points by yacin 14 hours ago \| 7 comments
21.		Flipper One Tech Specs (flipper.net)
		331 points by gregsadetsky 11 hours ago \| 119 comments
22.		SpaceX S-1 (sec.gov)
		331 points by cachecow 9 hours ago \| 256 comments
23.		Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (scientificamerican.com)
		117 points by dxs 2 days ago \| 27 comments
24.		Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com/pokemoncentral)
		457 points by zeitg3ist 13 hours ago \| 236 comments
25.		Why is Inkwell stuck in review (manton.org)
		128 points by speckx 12 hours ago \| 42 comments
26.		Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (usni.org)
		155 points by thnaks 12 hours ago \| 81 comments
27.		Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (infomaniak.com)
		161 points by darktoto 1 day ago \| 46 comments
28.		The Mercury logic programming system (github.com/mercury-language)
		91 points by Antibabelic 2 days ago \| 23 comments
29.		College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos (tomshardware.com)
		361 points by iancmceachern 18 hours ago \| 361 comments
30.		Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
		134 points by pramodbiligiri 20 hours ago \| 140 comments
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