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1.
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (rickmanelius.com)
1119 points by mooreds 29 days ago | 692 comments
2.
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study (yale.edu)
902 points by karakoram 30 days ago | 979 comments
3.
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
720 points by ibotty 30 days ago | 132 comments
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AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (wiz.io)
424 points by galnagli 30 days ago | 157 comments
5.
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (roboflow.com)
369 points by plurby 30 days ago | 171 comments
6.
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
1071 points by DeepLogin 29 days ago | 883 comments
7.
Olo (Color) (wikipedia.org)
534 points by inigyou 35 days ago | 104 comments
8.
Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing (daringfireball.net)
825 points by ropbear 30 days ago | 731 comments
9.
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
802 points by bilsbie 30 days ago | 385 comments
10.
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
715 points by gavide 29 days ago | 439 comments
11.
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (librarian.net)
340 points by ColinWright 30 days ago | 198 comments
12.
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
649 points by dhruv3006 30 days ago | 437 comments
13.
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
493 points by shdon 29 days ago | 226 comments
14.
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)
487 points by zacharyozer 30 days ago | 301 comments
15.
Sun Clock (sunclock.net)
289 points by Gecko4072 30 days ago | 92 comments
16.
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
245 points by linggen 29 days ago | 65 comments
17.
Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (current.org)
183 points by qingcharles 30 days ago | 74 comments
18.
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
232 points by sudo_cowsay 30 days ago | 81 comments
19.
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail (moddedbear.com)
311 points by neogodless 30 days ago | 212 comments
20.
A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball' (nature.com)
150 points by Brajeshwar 35 days ago | 52 comments
21.
Incident with Github.com [resolved] (githubstatus.com)
562 points by SpyCoder77 30 days ago | 976 comments
22.
Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia (newyorker.com)
169 points by bookofjoe 29 days ago | 73 comments
23.
On AI regulation and messaging (twitter.com/darioamodei)
250 points by jacquesm 30 days ago | 545 comments
24.
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
118 points by abdik 30 days ago | 69 comments
25.
Linear algebra done right (axler.net)
281 points by the-mitr 30 days ago | 116 comments
26.
India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions (bbc.com)
182 points by monkey_monkey 29 days ago | 263 comments
27.
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
129 points by erickhill 30 days ago | 29 comments
28.
Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)
254 points by root-parent 30 days ago | 152 comments
29.
Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
128 points by spdegabrielle 30 days ago | 58 comments
30.
How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (support.google.com)
236 points by dt3ft 33 days ago | 181 comments

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