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1.
Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
527 points by tomeraberbach 2 days ago | 378 comments
2.
Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
710 points by zakirullin 2 days ago | 346 comments
3.
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
1085 points by nycdatasci 2 days ago | 586 comments
4.
The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
128 points by rurban 2 days ago | 91 comments
5.
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
441 points by Bibabomas 3 days ago | 150 comments
6.
We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
365 points by lukaspetersson 2 days ago | 271 comments
7.
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
701 points by DaSHacka 4 days ago | 313 comments
8.
Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
367 points by andrewzeno 2 days ago | 99 comments
9.
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
494 points by ildari 2 days ago | 236 comments
10.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
269 points by ankitg12 4 days ago | 143 comments
11.
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
187 points by veqq 2 days ago | 45 comments
12.
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
179 points by exploraz 2 days ago | 120 comments
13.
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
198 points by gaws 5 days ago | 24 comments
14.
AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
301 points by topherjaynes 2 days ago | 171 comments
15.
Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
216 points by DASD 5 days ago | 53 comments
16.
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
358 points by Fysi 2 days ago | 139 comments
17.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
345 points by srameshc 2 days ago | 673 comments
18.
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
307 points by ahalbert4 2 days ago | 760 comments
19.
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
329 points by cdrnsf 2 days ago | 143 comments
20.
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
128 points by olivercameron 2 days ago | 23 comments
21.
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
188 points by jumploops 5 days ago | 87 comments
22.
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
204 points by HellMood 3 days ago | 32 comments
23.
Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
81 points by anigbrowl 2 days ago | 30 comments
24.
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
158 points by pizlonator 4 days ago | 32 comments
25.
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
322 points by tekkertje 2 days ago | 119 comments
26.
What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
156 points by jollyjerry 4 days ago | 65 comments
27.
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
558 points by gok 2 days ago | 199 comments
28.
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
324 points by stephenlthorn 2 days ago | 135 comments
29.
A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
91 points by susam 4 days ago | 20 comments
30.
Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
79 points by gmays 6 days ago | 50 comments

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