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1.
China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning (werd.io)
1129 points by benwerd 21 hours ago | 855 comments
2.
Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (risky.biz)
658 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 366 comments
3.
Kimi Work (kimi.com)
582 points by ms7892 18 hours ago | 247 comments
4.
Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (jelly-ui.com)
533 points by baldvinmar 18 hours ago | 159 comments
5.
Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture (xcancel.com)
766 points by loubbrad 1 day ago | 479 comments
6.
Perfection is not over-engineering (var0.xyz)
246 points by var0xyz 21 hours ago | 107 comments
7.
Airport Simulator (apunen.com)
804 points by apunen 1 day ago | 154 comments
8.
I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25 (slcyber.io)
394 points by infosecau 1 day ago | 214 comments
9.
Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) (nothings.org)
175 points by firephox 20 hours ago | 72 comments
10.
The Zen of Parallel Programming (smolnero.com)
188 points by edgar_ortega 6 days ago | 35 comments
11.
Shinjuku Station in 3D (satoshi7190.github.io)
235 points by Gecko4072 22 hours ago | 52 comments
12.
How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks (unslop.run)
226 points by dopamine_daddy 19 hours ago | 156 comments
13.
Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac (blaizzy.github.io)
295 points by aratahikaru5 17 hours ago | 97 comments
14.
Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight (github.com/hgaiser)
344 points by wertyk 1 day ago | 145 comments
15.
Orion Browser by Kagi (orionbrowser.com)
298 points by sebjones 1 day ago | 297 comments
16.
The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel (edri.org)
514 points by rapnie 23 hours ago | 315 comments
17.
LEDs’ potential to save our night skies (ieee.org)
237 points by defrost 22 hours ago | 180 comments
18.
Agent swarms and the new model economics (cursor.com)
212 points by jlaneve 17 hours ago | 97 comments
19.
Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling (emergingtrajectories.com)
341 points by cl42 20 hours ago | 313 comments
20.
Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
89 points by alexsouthmayd 19 hours ago | 92 comments
21.
You only need the frontier model for one single edit (stencil.so)
167 points by jxmorris12 6 days ago | 49 comments
22.
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 (xiaomi.com)
485 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 316 comments
23.
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism (scottrlarson.com)
119 points by trinsic2 15 hours ago | 20 comments
24.
Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL (phoronix.com)
277 points by DemiGuru 22 hours ago | 66 comments
25.
11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture (openculture.com)
100 points by gslin 5 days ago | 4 comments
26.
The Voice of Google (newyorker.com)
209 points by littlexsparkee 20 hours ago | 118 comments
27.
Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms (pgadey.ca)
56 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 1 comment
28.
LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques (github.com/saivineeth147)
142 points by Vineeth147 1 day ago | 30 comments
29.
Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt (labrujulaverde.com)
123 points by isaacfrond 6 days ago | 83 comments
30.
When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure? (theconversation.com)
169 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 148 comments

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