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1.
AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
1414 points by xiaoyu2006 1 day ago | 514 comments
2.
CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
814 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 190 comments
3.
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
739 points by sam_bristow 1 day ago | 254 comments
4.
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
743 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 639 comments
5.
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (twitter.com/jsrailton)
387 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 219 comments
6.
How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)
368 points by kkm 15 hours ago | 91 comments
7.
Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)
193 points by FergusArgyll 18 hours ago | 120 comments
8.
How we made hit video game Prince of Persia (theguardian.com)
269 points by msephton 3 days ago | 106 comments
9.
A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (utexas.edu)
158 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 99 comments
10.
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine (ft.com)
337 points by sschueller 12 hours ago | 67 comments
11.
Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates (piwodlaiwo.github.io)
259 points by iweczek 16 hours ago | 79 comments
12.
Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks (endorlabs.com)
398 points by bugvader 1 day ago | 239 comments
13.
"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" (correresmidestino.com)
408 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 334 comments
14.
Electric motors with no rare earths (renaultgroup.com)
439 points by bestouff 11 hours ago | 124 comments
15.
Maxproof (arxiv.org)
132 points by ilreb 21 hours ago | 13 comments
16.
Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
43 points by arcb 16 hours ago | 21 comments
17.
Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF (yadutaf.fr)
95 points by jtlebigot 18 hours ago | 31 comments
18.
Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
242 points by freejoe76 2 days ago | 327 comments
19.
Adaptive PDFs (sgaud.com)
149 points by SarthakGaud 16 hours ago | 71 comments
20.
Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
429 points by nekofneko 22 hours ago | 225 comments
21.
Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter (swift.org)
198 points by DASD 13 hours ago | 86 comments
22.
Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
153 points by sneela 6 days ago | 237 comments
23.
Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
167 points by dougcalobrisi 1 day ago | 85 comments
24.
H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office (eff.org)
212 points by Cider9986 2 days ago | 66 comments
25.
WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)
246 points by mavdol04 19 hours ago | 91 comments
26.
Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself (quantamagazine.org)
125 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 62 comments
27.
A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (lopp.net)
319 points by FergusArgyll 18 hours ago | 216 comments
28.
AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (ifin.network)
290 points by keyle 1 day ago | 216 comments
29.
I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (miguelgrinberg.com)
263 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 201 comments
30.
Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
98 points by croqaz 2 days ago | 28 comments

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