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1.
China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning (werd.io)
1231 points by benwerd 2 days ago | 928 comments
2.
Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (risky.biz)
705 points by speckx 2 days ago | 407 comments
3.
Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (jelly-ui.com)
659 points by baldvinmar 2 days ago | 201 comments
4.
Kimi Work (kimi.com)
671 points by ms7892 2 days ago | 275 comments
5.
Perfection is not over-engineering (var0.xyz)
287 points by var0xyz 2 days ago | 123 comments
6.
Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac (blaizzy.github.io)
374 points by aratahikaru5 2 days ago | 129 comments
7.
Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture (xcancel.com)
794 points by loubbrad 2 days ago | 506 comments
8.
Airport Simulator (apunen.com)
849 points by apunen 2 days ago | 164 comments
9.
Agent swarms and the new model economics (cursor.com)
272 points by jlaneve 2 days ago | 143 comments
10.
Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) (nothings.org)
188 points by firephox 2 days ago | 91 comments
11.
Shinjuku Station in 3D (satoshi7190.github.io)
286 points by Gecko4072 2 days ago | 66 comments
12.
I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25 (slcyber.io)
402 points by infosecau 2 days ago | 226 comments
13.
How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks (unslop.run)
242 points by dopamine_daddy 2 days ago | 169 comments
14.
The Zen of Parallel Programming (smolnero.com)
189 points by edgar_ortega 8 days ago | 36 comments
15.
You only need the frontier model for one single edit (stencil.so)
227 points by jxmorris12 7 days ago | 93 comments
16.
Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight (github.com/hgaiser)
368 points by wertyk 2 days ago | 150 comments
17.
The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel (edri.org)
550 points by rapnie 2 days ago | 351 comments
18.
Orion Browser by Kagi (orionbrowser.com)
302 points by sebjones 3 days ago | 306 comments
19.
LEDs’ potential to save our night skies (ieee.org)
245 points by defrost 2 days ago | 187 comments
20.
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism (scottrlarson.com)
163 points by trinsic2 2 days ago | 38 comments
21.
Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling (emergingtrajectories.com)
366 points by cl42 2 days ago | 335 comments
22.
Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
100 points by alexsouthmayd 2 days ago | 103 comments
23.
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 (xiaomi.com)
520 points by ilreb 2 days ago | 324 comments
24.
I Stopped “Creating Content” (refactoringenglish.com)
302 points by mtlynch 2 days ago | 238 comments
25.
Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL (phoronix.com)
300 points by DemiGuru 2 days ago | 77 comments
26.
11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture (openculture.com)
104 points by gslin 7 days ago | 4 comments
27.
The Voice of Google (newyorker.com)
227 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 130 comments
28.
Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms (pgadey.ca)
59 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 1 comment
29.
LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques (github.com/saivineeth147)
145 points by Vineeth147 2 days ago | 29 comments
30.
Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt (labrujulaverde.com)
133 points by isaacfrond 7 days ago | 85 comments

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