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1.		Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (alqst.org)
		920 points by giuliomagnifico 12 hours ago \| 392 comments
2.		FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
		362 points by ChocMontePy 23 hours ago \| 78 comments
3.		Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
		605 points by kevinsimper 14 hours ago \| 245 comments
4.		Everything in C is undefined behavior (habets.se)
		474 points by lycopodiopsida 19 hours ago \| 618 comments
5.		Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
		646 points by zambelli 1 day ago \| 235 comments
6.		Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (lesnumeriques.com)
		893 points by healsdata 12 hours ago \| 708 comments
7.		Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
		340 points by ranit 23 hours ago \| 155 comments
8.		Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
		663 points by ceejayoz 10 hours ago \| 444 comments
9.		Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (railway.com)
		548 points by aarondf 1 day ago \| 348 comments
10.		GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com/github)
		606 points by splenditer 1 day ago \| 326 comments
11.		Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
		397 points by robin_reala 14 hours ago \| 143 comments
12.		An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
		710 points by tedsanders 6 hours ago \| 512 comments
13.		Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
		312 points by eqrion 13 hours ago \| 133 comments
14.		Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (googleblog.com)
		383 points by primaprashant 1 day ago \| 196 comments
15.		Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)
		251 points by tigerlily 14 hours ago \| 172 comments
16.		GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)
		523 points by Timofeibu 11 hours ago \| 185 comments
17.		Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (railway.com)
		385 points by 0xedb 16 hours ago \| 226 comments
18.		Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com/pokemoncentral)
		425 points by zeitg3ist 8 hours ago \| 229 comments
19.		The Mercury logic programming system (github.com/mercury-language)
		89 points by Antibabelic 2 days ago \| 23 comments
20.		Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (infomaniak.com)
		158 points by darktoto 19 hours ago \| 45 comments
21.		How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
		300 points by hexagr 2 days ago \| 73 comments
22.		College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos (tomshardware.com)
		355 points by iancmceachern 13 hours ago \| 359 comments
23.		SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
		123 points by yacin 9 hours ago \| 7 comments
24.		Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops (reubenbrooks.dev)
		109 points by pyrex41 10 hours ago \| 24 comments
25.		Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
		320 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago \| 209 comments
26.		Flipper One Tech Specs (flipper.net)
		246 points by gregsadetsky 6 hours ago \| 85 comments
27.		When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024) (github.com/deng-ai-lab)
		75 points by teleforce 2 days ago \| 8 comments
28.		In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident (producelikeapro.com)
		84 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago \| 27 comments
29.		RISC-V and Floating-Point (fprox.substack.com)
		62 points by hasheddan 2 days ago \| 48 comments
30.		Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling (beyondplastics.org)
		191 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago \| 133 comments
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