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1.Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
529 points by tomeraberbach 4 days ago | 381 comments
2.Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
713 points by zakirullin 4 days ago | 352 comments
3.Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
1088 points by nycdatasci 4 days ago | 594 comments
4.The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
130 points by rurban 4 days ago | 91 comments
5.Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
442 points by Bibabomas 5 days ago | 150 comments
6.We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
372 points by lukaspetersson 4 days ago | 271 comments
7.The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
705 points by DaSHacka 6 days ago | 314 comments
8.Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
368 points by andrewzeno 4 days ago | 99 comments
9.We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
497 points by ildari 4 days ago | 237 comments
10.Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
269 points by ankitg12 6 days ago | 145 comments
11.Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
209 points by veqq 4 days ago | 46 comments
12.1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
181 points by exploraz 4 days ago | 121 comments
13.Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
198 points by gaws 7 days ago | 24 comments
14.AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
302 points by topherjaynes 4 days ago | 172 comments
15.Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
216 points by DASD 7 days ago | 53 comments
16.Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
360 points by Fysi 4 days ago | 141 comments
17.It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
312 points by ahalbert4 4 days ago | 763 comments
18.Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
346 points by srameshc 4 days ago | 686 comments
19.The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
331 points by cdrnsf 4 days ago | 146 comments
20.Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
128 points by olivercameron 4 days ago | 23 comments
21.Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
188 points by jumploops 7 days ago | 87 comments
22.WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
208 points by HellMood 5 days ago | 32 comments
23.Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
81 points by anigbrowl 4 days ago | 30 comments
24.The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
159 points by pizlonator 6 days ago | 32 comments
25.Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
323 points by tekkertje 4 days ago | 119 comments
26.What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
156 points by jollyjerry 6 days ago | 66 comments
27.Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
562 points by gok 4 days ago | 201 comments
28.Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
324 points by stephenlthorn 4 days ago | 135 comments
29.A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
91 points by susam 6 days ago | 20 comments
30.Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
79 points by gmays 8 days ago | 50 comments

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