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1.
AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
1420 points by xiaoyu2006 1 day ago | 516 comments
2.
CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
858 points by gmays 21 hours ago | 191 comments
3.
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
745 points by sam_bristow 1 day ago | 255 comments
4.
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
745 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 649 comments
5.
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (twitter.com/jsrailton)
411 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 225 comments
6.
How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)
395 points by kkm 18 hours ago | 99 comments
7.
Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)
199 points by FergusArgyll 21 hours ago | 122 comments
8.
Electric motors with no rare earths (renaultgroup.com)
527 points by bestouff 14 hours ago | 152 comments
9.
Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates (piwodlaiwo.github.io)
281 points by iweczek 19 hours ago | 82 comments
10.
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine (ft.com)
363 points by sschueller 15 hours ago | 84 comments
11.
How we made hit video game Prince of Persia (theguardian.com)
269 points by msephton 3 days ago | 106 comments
12.
Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks (endorlabs.com)
402 points by bugvader 1 day ago | 240 comments
13.
A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (utexas.edu)
158 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 99 comments
14.
"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" (correresmidestino.com)
422 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 342 comments
15.
Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter (swift.org)
209 points by DASD 16 hours ago | 95 comments
16.
Maxproof (arxiv.org)
132 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 13 comments
17.
H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office (eff.org)
229 points by Cider9986 2 days ago | 81 comments
18.
Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
244 points by freejoe76 2 days ago | 329 comments
19.
Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
46 points by arcb 19 hours ago | 21 comments
20.
Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF (yadutaf.fr)
100 points by jtlebigot 21 hours ago | 31 comments
21.
Adaptive PDFs (sgaud.com)
151 points by SarthakGaud 19 hours ago | 73 comments
22.
Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
432 points by nekofneko 1 day ago | 227 comments
23.
Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
158 points by sneela 6 days ago | 237 comments
24.
Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
168 points by dougcalobrisi 1 day ago | 85 comments
25.
WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)
247 points by mavdol04 22 hours ago | 91 comments
26.
Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself (quantamagazine.org)
126 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 63 comments
27.
A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (lopp.net)
320 points by FergusArgyll 21 hours ago | 217 comments
28.
AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (ifin.network)
292 points by keyle 1 day ago | 217 comments
29.
I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (miguelgrinberg.com)
266 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 202 comments
30.
Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
99 points by croqaz 2 days ago | 28 comments

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