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1.		An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
		1352 points by tedsanders 23 hours ago \| 978 comments
2.		Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (alqst.org)
		1047 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago \| 452 comments
3.		GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)
		995 points by Timofeibu 1 day ago \| 436 comments
4.		Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
		402 points by eqrion 1 day ago \| 154 comments
5.		Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
		666 points by zambelli 2 days ago \| 242 comments
6.		Flipper One Tech Specs (flipper.net)
		490 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago \| 164 comments
7.		Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)
		329 points by tigerlily 1 day ago \| 209 comments
8.		How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
		468 points by hexagr 3 days ago \| 96 comments
9.		Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
		685 points by kevinsimper 1 day ago \| 282 comments
10.		GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com/github)
		625 points by splenditer 1 day ago \| 337 comments
11.		SpaceX S-1 (sec.gov)
		414 points by cachecow 22 hours ago \| 327 comments
12.		FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
		375 points by ChocMontePy 1 day ago \| 81 comments
13.		Everything in C is undefined behavior (habets.se)
		492 points by lycopodiopsida 1 day ago \| 682 comments
14.		Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (googleblog.com)
		397 points by primaprashant 2 days ago \| 202 comments
15.		Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (lesnumeriques.com)
		934 points by healsdata 1 day ago \| 753 comments
16.		Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (railway.com)
		440 points by 0xedb 1 day ago \| 254 comments
17.		Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
		356 points by ranit 1 day ago \| 164 comments
18.		Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
		753 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago \| 498 comments
19.		DOS Zone (dos.zone)
		331 points by rglover 20 hours ago \| 74 comments
20.		Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
		435 points by robin_reala 1 day ago \| 174 comments
21.		Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (railway.com)
		555 points by aarondf 1 day ago \| 351 comments
22.		SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
		159 points by yacin 1 day ago \| 10 comments
23.		[dupe] Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad' (openculture.com)
		178 points by diodorus 5 days ago \| 143 comments
24.		Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (usni.org)
		189 points by thnaks 1 day ago \| 115 comments
25.		Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
		590 points by cdrnsf 21 hours ago \| 416 comments
26.		Why is Inkwell stuck in review (manton.org)
		147 points by speckx 1 day ago \| 49 comments
27.		Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (scientificamerican.com)
		138 points by dxs 3 days ago \| 29 comments
28.		Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
		167 points by pramodbiligiri 1 day ago \| 195 comments
29.		Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com/pokemoncentral)
		490 points by zeitg3ist 1 day ago \| 246 comments
30.		Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (infomaniak.com)
		169 points by darktoto 1 day ago \| 47 comments
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