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1.
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (rickmanelius.com)
1103 points by mooreds 4 days ago | 690 comments
2.
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study (yale.edu)
897 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 967 comments
3.
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
716 points by ibotty 4 days ago | 131 comments
4.
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (wiz.io)
424 points by galnagli 4 days ago | 157 comments
5.
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (roboflow.com)
365 points by plurby 4 days ago | 170 comments
6.
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
1054 points by DeepLogin 4 days ago | 858 comments
7.
Olo (Color) (wikipedia.org)
533 points by inigyou 9 days ago | 104 comments
8.
Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing (daringfireball.net)
822 points by ropbear 5 days ago | 728 comments
9.
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
798 points by bilsbie 5 days ago | 383 comments
10.
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
710 points by gavide 4 days ago | 439 comments
11.
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (librarian.net)
338 points by ColinWright 4 days ago | 197 comments
12.
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
645 points by dhruv3006 4 days ago | 432 comments
13.
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
490 points by shdon 4 days ago | 225 comments
14.
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)
485 points by zacharyozer 5 days ago | 298 comments
15.
Sun Clock (sunclock.net)
287 points by Gecko4072 4 days ago | 92 comments
16.
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
244 points by linggen 4 days ago | 65 comments
17.
Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (current.org)
183 points by qingcharles 4 days ago | 74 comments
18.
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
231 points by sudo_cowsay 5 days ago | 81 comments
19.
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail (moddedbear.com)
311 points by neogodless 4 days ago | 211 comments
20.
A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball' (nature.com)
149 points by Brajeshwar 9 days ago | 51 comments
21.
Incident with Github.com [resolved] (githubstatus.com)
560 points by SpyCoder77 4 days ago | 975 comments
22.
Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia (newyorker.com)
168 points by bookofjoe 4 days ago | 73 comments
23.
On AI regulation and messaging (twitter.com/darioamodei)
250 points by jacquesm 4 days ago | 544 comments
24.
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
118 points by abdik 4 days ago | 68 comments
25.
Linear algebra done right (axler.net)
278 points by the-mitr 4 days ago | 116 comments
26.
India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions (bbc.com)
181 points by monkey_monkey 4 days ago | 261 comments
27.
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
129 points by erickhill 4 days ago | 29 comments
28.
Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)
252 points by root-parent 5 days ago | 152 comments
29.
Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
127 points by spdegabrielle 4 days ago | 58 comments
30.
 [dupe] Incident with Github.com (githubstatus.com)
719 points by kevcampb 4 days ago | 2 comments

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