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1.
Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
531 points by tomeraberbach 17 days ago | 382 comments
2.
Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
730 points by zakirullin 17 days ago | 356 comments
3.
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
1097 points by nycdatasci 17 days ago | 595 comments
4.
The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
130 points by rurban 18 days ago | 92 comments
5.
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
445 points by Bibabomas 18 days ago | 151 comments
6.
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
715 points by DaSHacka 19 days ago | 314 comments
7.
We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
375 points by lukaspetersson 17 days ago | 270 comments
8.
Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
370 points by andrewzeno 17 days ago | 99 comments
9.
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
501 points by ildari 17 days ago | 237 comments
10.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
273 points by ankitg12 20 days ago | 145 comments
11.
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
214 points by veqq 17 days ago | 46 comments
12.
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
182 points by exploraz 17 days ago | 121 comments
13.
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
200 points by gaws 20 days ago | 25 comments
14.
AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
307 points by topherjaynes 17 days ago | 173 comments
15.
Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
218 points by DASD 20 days ago | 53 comments
16.
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
363 points by Fysi 17 days ago | 141 comments
17.
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
316 points by ahalbert4 18 days ago | 767 comments
18.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
349 points by srameshc 17 days ago | 688 comments
19.
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
338 points by cdrnsf 17 days ago | 146 comments
20.
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
128 points by olivercameron 17 days ago | 23 comments
21.
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
189 points by jumploops 20 days ago | 87 comments
22.
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
259 points by HellMood 18 days ago | 33 comments
23.
Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
81 points by anigbrowl 17 days ago | 30 comments
24.
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
160 points by pizlonator 19 days ago | 32 comments
25.
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
323 points by tekkertje 17 days ago | 117 comments
26.
What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
156 points by jollyjerry 19 days ago | 66 comments
27.
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
565 points by gok 17 days ago | 206 comments
28.
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
325 points by stephenlthorn 18 days ago | 135 comments
29.
A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
91 points by susam 20 days ago | 21 comments
30.
Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
79 points by gmays 21 days ago | 54 comments

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