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1.
China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning (werd.io)
1169 points by benwerd 1 day ago | 878 comments
2.
Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (risky.biz)
679 points by speckx 1 day ago | 382 comments
3.
Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (jelly-ui.com)
595 points by baldvinmar 21 hours ago | 182 comments
4.
Kimi Work (kimi.com)
622 points by ms7892 21 hours ago | 255 comments
5.
Perfection is not over-engineering (var0.xyz)
265 points by var0xyz 1 day ago | 115 comments
6.
Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture (xcancel.com)
773 points by loubbrad 1 day ago | 483 comments
7.
Airport Simulator (apunen.com)
817 points by apunen 1 day ago | 157 comments
8.
Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac (blaizzy.github.io)
326 points by aratahikaru5 20 hours ago | 111 comments
9.
Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) (nothings.org)
186 points by firephox 23 hours ago | 86 comments
10.
I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25 (slcyber.io)
398 points by infosecau 1 day ago | 215 comments
11.
Shinjuku Station in 3D (satoshi7190.github.io)
263 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 57 comments
12.
Agent swarms and the new model economics (cursor.com)
240 points by jlaneve 20 hours ago | 116 comments
13.
The Zen of Parallel Programming (smolnero.com)
188 points by edgar_ortega 7 days ago | 35 comments
14.
How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks (unslop.run)
232 points by dopamine_daddy 21 hours ago | 157 comments
15.
Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight (github.com/hgaiser)
350 points by wertyk 1 day ago | 147 comments
16.
The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel (edri.org)
526 points by rapnie 1 day ago | 320 comments
17.
Orion Browser by Kagi (orionbrowser.com)
299 points by sebjones 1 day ago | 300 comments
18.
LEDs’ potential to save our night skies (ieee.org)
239 points by defrost 1 day ago | 182 comments
19.
You only need the frontier model for one single edit (stencil.so)
199 points by jxmorris12 6 days ago | 71 comments
20.
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism (scottrlarson.com)
140 points by trinsic2 18 hours ago | 30 comments
21.
Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling (emergingtrajectories.com)
351 points by cl42 23 hours ago | 318 comments
22.
Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
93 points by alexsouthmayd 22 hours ago | 96 comments
23.
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 (xiaomi.com)
497 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 319 comments
24.
Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL (phoronix.com)
283 points by DemiGuru 1 day ago | 68 comments
25.
11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture (openculture.com)
102 points by gslin 5 days ago | 4 comments
26.
I Stopped “Creating Content” (refactoringenglish.com)
237 points by mtlynch 22 hours ago | 191 comments
27.
The Voice of Google (newyorker.com)
215 points by littlexsparkee 23 hours ago | 120 comments
28.
Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms (pgadey.ca)
57 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 1 comment
29.
LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques (github.com/saivineeth147)
142 points by Vineeth147 1 day ago | 30 comments
30.
Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt (labrujulaverde.com)
127 points by isaacfrond 6 days ago | 83 comments

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