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1.LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)
1073 points by baranul 19 hours ago | 545 comments
2.Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)
667 points by vitaut 1 day ago | 65 comments
3.GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (reddit.com)
537 points by mbustamanter 16 hours ago | 343 comments
4.What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph (data.stackexchange.com)
391 points by secretslol 18 hours ago | 486 comments
5.Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux (parksb.github.io)
214 points by parksb 4 days ago | 154 comments
6.Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help? (charlesazam.com)
231 points by couAUIA 18 hours ago | 110 comments
7.TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years (github.com/badchemical)
223 points by BadChemical 1 day ago | 88 comments
8.Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? (amateurphotographer.com)
211 points by aanet 4 days ago | 443 comments
9.If You Build It, They Will Come (benlandautaylor.com)
340 points by barry-cotter 14 hours ago | 124 comments
10.Gleam Is Now on Tangled (tangled.org)
222 points by nerdypepper 14 hours ago | 140 comments
11.Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide (ykdojo.github.io)
210 points by ykev 13 hours ago | 140 comments
12.Elixir-lang.org has a new design (elixir-lang.org)
205 points by bbg2401 14 hours ago | 117 comments
13.Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System (prathosh.in)
211 points by subinalex 5 days ago | 53 comments
14.I started a “dirt notebook” (pinewind.bearblog.dev)
110 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 92 comments
15.Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb (github.com/moonshine-ai)
375 points by petewarden 4 days ago | 38 comments
16.Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator (stenchill.com)
80 points by radeeyate 1 day ago | 26 comments
17.Lego building instructions through time (lego.com)
153 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 40 comments
18.Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser (q3edit.com)
77 points by drdator 14 hours ago | 14 comments
19.Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
76 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 23 comments
20.The Kimi K3 Moment (bochinski.dev)
316 points by sbochins 12 hours ago | 353 comments
21.The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal (negroniventurestudios.com)
153 points by Kudos 21 hours ago | 38 comments
22.A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game (nytimes.com)
82 points by danso 5 days ago | 28 comments
23.Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home (lcamtuf.substack.com)
73 points by zdw 1 day ago | 10 comments
24.An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead) (igalia.com)
71 points by bkardell 4 days ago | 5 comments
25.Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (arxiv.org)
86 points by sciences44 20 hours ago | 15 comments
26.EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application (europa.eu)
280 points by robtherobber 15 hours ago | 284 comments
27.I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp (mssv.net)
123 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 18 comments
28.The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold (isomorphiclabs.com)
81 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 8 comments
29.In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains (in-toto.io)
64 points by Erenay09 2 days ago | 13 comments
30.Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025) (velvetshark.com)
419 points by miniBill 18 hours ago | 139 comments

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