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1.Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug (tailscale.com)
1223 points by ropbear 19 days ago | 239 comments
2.DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
1041 points by explosion-s 19 days ago | 453 comments
3.2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)
513 points by zoenolan 19 days ago | 143 comments
4.Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
713 points by Philpax 19 days ago | 171 comments
5.AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (florianherrengt.com)
1014 points by florianherrengt 19 days ago | 937 comments
6.Delta (zed.dev)
679 points by khy 19 days ago | 260 comments
7.Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
632 points by iLuddite 19 days ago | 616 comments
8.Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
306 points by doener 19 days ago | 44 comments
9.Compression is prediction (ngrok.com)
674 points by nikolay 20 days ago | 302 comments
10.Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
305 points by gavinhking 19 days ago | 228 comments
11.Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (guillaumetech.github.io)
339 points by gutechh 19 days ago | 67 comments
12.License plate reader searches should require a warrant (andrewpwheeler.com)
644 points by apwheele 19 days ago | 397 comments
13.Shade Map (shademap.app)
248 points by fredley 19 days ago | 61 comments
14.HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (andros.dev)
257 points by redbell 19 days ago | 196 comments
15.Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
162 points by advaith08 20 days ago | 37 comments
16.Grok Bot (x.ai)
351 points by rvz 20 days ago | 334 comments
17.Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
314 points by adius 19 days ago | 46 comments
18.The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
391 points by dcminter 25 days ago | 58 comments
19.Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
173 points by ortusdux 19 days ago | 401 comments
20.Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)
167 points by thoughtpeddler 19 days ago | 201 comments
21.What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (gowers.wordpress.com)
261 points by ColinWright 19 days ago | 164 comments
22.Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation? (funcall.blogspot.com)
155 points by oumua_don17 19 days ago | 153 comments
23.Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)
479 points by robtherobber 19 days ago | 338 comments
24.Breaking the WAL (antithesis.com)
162 points by wwilson 19 days ago | 52 comments
25.Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf (corneroffifth.studio)
193 points by carabiner 19 days ago | 326 comments
26.LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)
482 points by theanonymousone 20 days ago | 204 comments
27.Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
343 points by wertyk 19 days ago | 417 comments
28.High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons (petapixel.com)
169 points by bookofjoe 25 days ago | 18 comments
29.llama.cpp (llama.app)
364 points by kristianpaul 20 days ago | 165 comments
30.The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
200 points by burnto 20 days ago | 89 comments

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