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1.
Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format (kabir.au)
417 points by frays 6 days ago | 466 comments
2.
SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video (nvlabs.github.io)
404 points by mjgil 6 days ago | 152 comments
3.
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)
696 points by mpweiher 6 days ago | 397 comments
4.
Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust (crates.io)
572 points by gidellav 6 days ago | 307 comments
5.
Accelerando (2005) (antipope.org)
334 points by eamag 6 days ago | 202 comments
6.
We've made the world too complicated (user8.bearblog.dev)
476 points by James72689 6 days ago | 469 comments
7.
δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
239 points by 44za12 6 days ago | 60 comments
8.
OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens (openai.com)
331 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 338 comments
9.
The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme (quantamagazine.org)
237 points by sohkamyung 8 days ago | 91 comments
10.
Greek Alphabet Cards (randomquark.com)
154 points by ricochet11 6 days ago | 72 comments
11.
Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station (openculture.com)
140 points by bookofjoe 10 days ago | 83 comments
12.
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
134 points by lukeplato 8 days ago | 11 comments
13.
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) (dynomight.net)
203 points by tomjakubowski 7 days ago | 258 comments
14.
Futhark by example (2020) (futhark-lang.org)
125 points by tosh 6 days ago | 38 comments
15.
Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution (github.com/chiennv2000)
244 points by FranckDernoncou 7 days ago | 44 comments
16.
Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer (ploopy.co)
177 points by jibcage 10 days ago | 83 comments
17.
Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol (tangled.org)
117 points by tsiry 6 days ago | 44 comments
18.
Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019) (refractor.io)
332 points by breve 6 days ago | 235 comments
19.
MCP Hello Page (hybridlogic.co.uk)
133 points by Dachande663 6 days ago | 49 comments
20.
Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server (blocksandfiles.com)
138 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 112 comments
21.
Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64 (phoboslab.org)
180 points by ibobev 7 days ago | 30 comments
22.
PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools (openrockets.com)
129 points by openrockets 6 days ago | 35 comments
23.
3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend (bfeldman.me)
134 points by b__feldman 9 days ago | 12 comments
24.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again (seangoedecke.com)
277 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | 76 comments
25.
Erlang/OTP 29.0 (erlang.org)
257 points by pyinstallwoes 7 days ago | 61 comments
26.
 [flagged] SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud (fixelsmith.com)
319 points by redbell 7 days ago | 130 comments
27.
Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus (edna.land)
130 points by ednaordinary 8 days ago | 32 comments
28.
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (theregister.com)
285 points by _____k 6 days ago | 320 comments
29.
'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens (kevinpatel.xyz)
450 points by alligatorplum 7 days ago | 218 comments
30.
Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations (github.com/acceleratehs)
93 points by tosh 6 days ago | 18 comments

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