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1.
Compression is prediction (ngrok.com)
644 points by nikolay 1 day ago | 279 comments
2.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
816 points by explosion-s 12 hours ago | 322 comments
3.
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (florianherrengt.com)
789 points by florianherrengt 15 hours ago | 735 comments
4.
Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug (tailscale.com)
886 points by ropbear 14 hours ago | 174 comments
5.
2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)
462 points by zoenolan 17 hours ago | 124 comments
6.
Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
544 points by Philpax 13 hours ago | 121 comments
7.
Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
128 points by advaith08 21 hours ago | 28 comments
8.
License plate reader searches should require a warrant (andrewpwheeler.com)
566 points by apwheele 14 hours ago | 335 comments
9.
Grok Bot (x.ai)
335 points by rvz 1 day ago | 315 comments
10.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
358 points by dcminter 6 days ago | 55 comments
11.
Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
249 points by doener 14 hours ago | 30 comments
12.
Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
253 points by gavinhking 14 hours ago | 189 comments
13.
Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (guillaumetech.github.io)
276 points by gutechh 14 hours ago | 61 comments
14.
What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (gowers.wordpress.com)
247 points by ColinWright 18 hours ago | 138 comments
15.
Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
464 points by iLuddite 13 hours ago | 436 comments
16.
uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook (digitalescapetools.com)
364 points by Markoff 17 hours ago | 483 comments
17.
Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
270 points by adius 18 hours ago | 40 comments
18.
Delta (zed.dev)
461 points by khy 10 hours ago | 159 comments
19.
Shade Map (shademap.app)
164 points by fredley 15 hours ago | 44 comments
20.
Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)
466 points by robtherobber 19 hours ago | 322 comments
21.
HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (andros.dev)
168 points by redbell 12 hours ago | 113 comments
22.
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)
467 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 201 comments
23.
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
322 points by wertyk 11 hours ago | 353 comments
24.
High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons (petapixel.com)
159 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 17 comments
25.
llama.cpp (llama.app)
351 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 167 comments
26.
The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
185 points by burnto 1 day ago | 90 comments
27.
Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux (github.com/yikerman)
80 points by xiaoyu2006 5 days ago | 8 comments
28.
Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)
109 points by thoughtpeddler 12 hours ago | 109 comments
29.
Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
119 points by ortusdux 12 hours ago | 226 comments
30.
The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood (whdh.com)
103 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 31 comments

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