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1.GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
1132 points by Philpax 7 days ago | 580 comments
2.AWS Acquires DuckLabs (ducklabs.com)
1102 points by onderkalaci 7 days ago | 317 comments
3.Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video] (youtube.com)
309 points by zoenolan 11 days ago | 102 comments
4.Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane (github.com/tailscale)
687 points by nderjung 7 days ago | 134 comments
5.Nebula Sans (nebulasans.com)
473 points by GavinAnderegg 7 days ago | 197 comments
6.An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (lwn.net)
489 points by Velocifyer 7 days ago | 232 comments
7.Tim Curry has died (theguardian.com)
723 points by mykowebhn 7 days ago | 239 comments
8.Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account (twitterwebviewer.com)
581 points by motownphilly 7 days ago | 423 comments
9.Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk (farmaction.us)
300 points by speckx 7 days ago | 210 comments
10.CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela (hotosm.org)
339 points by gedankenstuecke 7 days ago | 87 comments
11.FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer (fda.gov)
286 points by leopoldj 7 days ago | 74 comments
12.Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (qwen.ai)
704 points by tosh 7 days ago | 233 comments
13.The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead (openai.com)
335 points by amrrs 7 days ago | 463 comments
14.Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022 (copernicus.org)
276 points by totetsu 7 days ago | 210 comments
15.Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) (actinideinc.com)
175 points by dsalzman 7 days ago | 89 comments
16.RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com)
515 points by j0selit0 7 days ago | 216 comments
17.When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python (sethmlarson.dev)
178 points by rbanffy 8 days ago | 75 comments
18.IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE (ibm.com)
175 points by porridgeraisin 7 days ago | 131 comments
19.Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers (acceptmarkdown.com)
176 points by tilt 7 days ago | 108 comments
20.The Harness Is the Thing (scott-fryxell.github.io)
208 points by sfryxell 7 days ago | 124 comments
21. [dupe] The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
364 points by LVB 7 days ago | 6 comments
22.Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker (arxiv.org)
186 points by matt_d 7 days ago | 30 comments
23.Actually Queryable Executables (fzakaria.com)
341 points by rguiscard 8 days ago | 86 comments
24.It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI (ssp.sh)
263 points by zazuke 7 days ago | 189 comments
25.Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others (github.com/runetes)
114 points by zdw 8 days ago | 74 comments
26.Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies (risklytics.ai)
54 points by AlexRisio 7 days ago | 24 comments
27.Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children (reuters.com)
543 points by bhouston 7 days ago | 547 comments
28.Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights (bloomberg.com)
435 points by garo-pro 7 days ago | 146 comments
29.GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? (isgithubcooked.com)
275 points by toomanyrichies 7 days ago | 189 comments
30.Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved (githubstatus.com)
263 points by blimmer 7 days ago | 169 comments

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