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1.Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
598 points by zakirullin 15 hours ago | 294 comments
2.Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
194 points by gaws 3 days ago | 23 comments
3.Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
877 points by nycdatasci 11 hours ago | 442 comments
4.The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
595 points by DaSHacka 2 days ago | 267 comments
5.Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
429 points by Bibabomas 1 day ago | 139 comments
6.We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
448 points by ildari 14 hours ago | 201 comments
7.Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
211 points by DASD 3 days ago | 52 comments
8.Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
405 points by tomeraberbach 12 hours ago | 279 comments
9.Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
308 points by Fysi 15 hours ago | 118 comments
10.It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
284 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | 697 comments
11.Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
296 points by srameshc 11 hours ago | 492 comments
12.Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
172 points by jumploops 3 days ago | 84 comments
13.The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
259 points by cdrnsf 9 hours ago | 106 comments
14.WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
191 points by HellMood 1 day ago | 32 comments
15.Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
189 points by ankitg12 3 days ago | 110 comments
16.Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
292 points by tekkertje 10 hours ago | 96 comments
17.What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
143 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 57 comments
18.The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
124 points by pizlonator 2 days ago | 24 comments
19.Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
319 points by stephenlthorn 17 hours ago | 130 comments
20.A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
88 points by susam 2 days ago | 20 comments
21.We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
215 points by lukaspetersson 11 hours ago | 179 comments
22.Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
148 points by veqq 9 hours ago | 34 comments
23.Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
78 points by gmays 4 days ago | 45 comments
24.Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (ieee.org)
113 points by SVI 17 hours ago | 30 comments
25.Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
504 points by gok 14 hours ago | 148 comments
26.Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
94 points by olivercameron 10 hours ago | 18 comments
27.'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs' (bbc.co.uk)
214 points by bauc 16 hours ago | 62 comments
28.Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions (ftc.gov)
163 points by Lihh27 9 hours ago | 78 comments
29.Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable' (theregister.com)
202 points by jonbaer 17 hours ago | 101 comments
30.Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint (modal.com)
79 points by charles_irl 11 hours ago | 18 comments

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