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31.
Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (science.org)
90 points by hermitcrab 6 days ago | 58 comments
32.
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
68 points by ingve 2 days ago | 71 comments
33.
Norway should buy OpenAI (onethousandmeans.com)
257 points by alexeigannon 1 day ago | 269 comments
34.
California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
171 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 253 comments
35.
Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (privacyguides.org)
262 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 181 comments
36.
Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion (claude.com)
292 points by tyre 1 day ago | 261 comments
37.
Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (cell.com)
108 points by newsomix9xl 2 days ago | 69 comments
38.
Splitting a Git Commit (gnoack.org)
134 points by signa11 4 days ago | 70 comments
39.
2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey (theartnewspaper.com)
96 points by speckx 6 days ago | 49 comments
40.
IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video] (youtube.com)
84 points by kls0e 4 days ago | 49 comments
41.
GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks (artificialanalysis.ai)
146 points by apitman 1 day ago | 55 comments
42.
Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization (pmotschmann.github.io)
90 points by frozenseven 5 days ago | 29 comments
43.
We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked (arstechnica.com)
90 points by rbanffy 5 days ago | 55 comments
44.
Show HN: Openleetcode – Local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com/therepanic)
71 points by therepanic 1 day ago | 19 comments
45.
A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture (terrytao.wordpress.com)
48 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 36 comments
46.
Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data (moultano.wordpress.com)
64 points by moultano 4 days ago | 7 comments
47.
Claude Code teaching macOS to natively print to the HP Laser 1008a (kuber.studio)
130 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 3 comments
48.
How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario (betakit.com)
53 points by builtbystef 6 days ago | 16 comments
49.
Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure (irz.fr)
40 points by zbycz 4 days ago | 23 comments
50.
GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform (cursor.com)
67 points by KGC3D 2 days ago | 27 comments
51.
Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development (videogameschronicle.com)
120 points by danbolt 1 day ago | 82 comments
52.
Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training (kentbeck.com)
32 points by KentBeck 5 days ago | 6 comments
53.
Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026) (arxiv.org)
53 points by baigy 1 day ago | 39 comments
54.
Degraded performance for multiple models (claude.com)
149 points by matt89 1 day ago | 138 comments
55.
Composable Tests (kentbeck.com)
66 points by vinipolicena 1 day ago | 63 comments
56.
Companies promote incompetent employees to management to limit damage they do (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)
78 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 77 comments
57.
Superpowers, Not Superintelligence (bond.now)
35 points by edbernays 1 day ago | 56 comments
58.
Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders (rnz.co.nz)
84 points by beanaroo 3 days ago | 87 comments
59.
Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps (github.com/biw)
24 points by biwills 1 day ago | 3 comments
60.
Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows (bloomberg.com)
74 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 56 comments

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