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1.
Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug (tailscale.com)
1172 points by ropbear 1 day ago | 227 comments
2.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
1016 points by explosion-s 1 day ago | 439 comments
3.
2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)
507 points by zoenolan 1 day ago | 140 comments
4.
Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
700 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 168 comments
5.
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (florianherrengt.com)
959 points by florianherrengt 1 day ago | 884 comments
6.
Delta (zed.dev)
659 points by khy 1 day ago | 242 comments
7.
Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
621 points by iLuddite 1 day ago | 598 comments
8.
Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
294 points by doener 1 day ago | 35 comments
9.
Compression is prediction (ngrok.com)
659 points by nikolay 2 days ago | 288 comments
10.
Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
300 points by gavinhking 1 day ago | 224 comments
11.
Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (guillaumetech.github.io)
331 points by gutechh 1 day ago | 68 comments
12.
HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (andros.dev)
245 points by redbell 1 day ago | 192 comments
13.
Shade Map (shademap.app)
240 points by fredley 1 day ago | 59 comments
14.
License plate reader searches should require a warrant (andrewpwheeler.com)
615 points by apwheele 1 day ago | 369 comments
15.
Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
154 points by advaith08 1 day ago | 35 comments
16.
Grok Bot (x.ai)
342 points by rvz 2 days ago | 326 comments
17.
Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
308 points by adius 1 day ago | 45 comments
18.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
376 points by dcminter 7 days ago | 58 comments
19.
Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
162 points by ortusdux 1 day ago | 368 comments
20.
Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)
157 points by thoughtpeddler 1 day ago | 196 comments
21.
What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (gowers.wordpress.com)
259 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 156 comments
22.
Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation? (funcall.blogspot.com)
146 points by oumua_don17 1 day ago | 136 comments
23.
Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)
476 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 338 comments
24.
Breaking the WAL (antithesis.com)
156 points by wwilson 1 day ago | 51 comments
25.
Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf (corneroffifth.studio)
178 points by carabiner 1 day ago | 292 comments
26.
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)
473 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 203 comments
27.
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
336 points by wertyk 1 day ago | 396 comments
28.
High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons (petapixel.com)
168 points by bookofjoe 7 days ago | 18 comments
29.
llama.cpp (llama.app)
360 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 162 comments
30.
The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
192 points by burnto 1 day ago | 92 comments

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