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1.
AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
1395 points by xiaoyu2006 21 hours ago | 506 comments
2.
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
725 points by sam_bristow 1 day ago | 243 comments
3.
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
728 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 627 comments
4.
CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
715 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 179 comments
5.
How we made hit video game Prince of Persia (theguardian.com)
266 points by msephton 3 days ago | 105 comments
6.
A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (utexas.edu)
157 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 98 comments
7.
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (twitter.com/jsrailton)
316 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 191 comments
8.
Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
406 points by nekofneko 15 hours ago | 214 comments
9.
Maxproof (arxiv.org)
128 points by ilreb 14 hours ago | 12 comments
10.
Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
148 points by sneela 6 days ago | 225 comments
11.
Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
158 points by dougcalobrisi 1 day ago | 79 comments
12.
Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks (endorlabs.com)
394 points by bugvader 1 day ago | 238 comments
13.
WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)
237 points by mavdol04 12 hours ago | 89 comments
14.
Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)
166 points by FergusArgyll 11 hours ago | 111 comments
15.
"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" (correresmidestino.com)
325 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 273 comments
16.
A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (lopp.net)
311 points by FergusArgyll 11 hours ago | 214 comments
17.
How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)
275 points by kkm 8 hours ago | 71 comments
18.
Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
239 points by freejoe76 2 days ago | 322 comments
19.
AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (ifin.network)
276 points by keyle 20 hours ago | 211 comments
20.
I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (miguelgrinberg.com)
255 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 185 comments
21.
Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
96 points by croqaz 1 day ago | 28 comments
22.
Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself (quantamagazine.org)
111 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 60 comments
23.
Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates (piwodlaiwo.github.io)
202 points by iweczek 9 hours ago | 73 comments
24.
Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF (yadutaf.fr)
80 points by jtlebigot 11 hours ago | 26 comments
25.
A dumpster arrived behind my university's library (yalereview.org)
158 points by mooreds 12 hours ago | 153 comments
26.
Adaptive PDFs (sgaud.com)
122 points by SarthakGaud 9 hours ago | 65 comments
27.
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine (ft.com)
204 points by sschueller 5 hours ago | 47 comments
28.
Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
35 points by arcb 9 hours ago | 19 comments
29.
Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher (osull.com)
240 points by danosull 15 hours ago | 186 comments
30.
Encrypted Spaces: An architecture for collaborative applications (encryptedspaces.org)
68 points by _____k 14 hours ago | 10 comments

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