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1.		An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
		1429 points by tedsanders 6 days ago \| 1053 comments
2.		GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)
		1054 points by Timofeibu 6 days ago \| 460 comments
3.		Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (alqst.org)
		1079 points by giuliomagnifico 6 days ago \| 469 comments
4.		Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
		409 points by eqrion 6 days ago \| 158 comments
5.		Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
		686 points by zambelli 7 days ago \| 252 comments
6.		Flipper One Tech Specs (flipper.net)
		521 points by gregsadetsky 6 days ago \| 177 comments
7.		Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)
		339 points by tigerlily 6 days ago \| 215 comments
8.		How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
		491 points by hexagr 8 days ago \| 96 comments
9.		Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
		719 points by kevinsimper 6 days ago \| 290 comments
10.		GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com/github)
		634 points by splenditer 7 days ago \| 339 comments
11.		SpaceX S-1 (sec.gov)
		455 points by cachecow 6 days ago \| 376 comments
12.		FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
		380 points by ChocMontePy 6 days ago \| 88 comments
13.		Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (lesnumeriques.com)
		958 points by healsdata 6 days ago \| 775 comments
14.		Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (googleblog.com)
		404 points by primaprashant 7 days ago \| 210 comments
15.		Everything in C is undefined behavior (habets.se)
		505 points by lycopodiopsida 6 days ago \| 715 comments
16.		Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (railway.com)
		456 points by 0xedb 6 days ago \| 265 comments
17.		Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
		767 points by ceejayoz 6 days ago \| 511 comments
18.		Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
		364 points by ranit 6 days ago \| 166 comments
19.		DOS Zone (dos.zone)
		355 points by rglover 6 days ago \| 81 comments
20.		Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
		448 points by robin_reala 6 days ago \| 189 comments
21.		Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (railway.com)
		559 points by aarondf 7 days ago \| 357 comments
22.		SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
		161 points by yacin 6 days ago \| 11 comments
23.		Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
		636 points by cdrnsf 6 days ago \| 440 comments
24.		[dupe] Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad' (openculture.com)
		178 points by diodorus 11 days ago \| 2 comments
25.		Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (usni.org)
		196 points by thnaks 6 days ago \| 124 comments
26.		Why is Inkwell stuck in review (manton.org)
		153 points by speckx 6 days ago \| 49 comments
27.		Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (scientificamerican.com)
		143 points by dxs 8 days ago \| 30 comments
28.		Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
		190 points by pramodbiligiri 6 days ago \| 205 comments
29.		Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com/pokemoncentral)
		507 points by zeitg3ist 6 days ago \| 253 comments
30.		Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (infomaniak.com)
		176 points by darktoto 6 days ago \| 48 comments
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