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1.
John Ternus to become Apple CEO (apple.com)
2171 points by schappim 5 days ago | 1328 comments
2.
All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 (theolivepress.es)
1443 points by ramonga 5 days ago | 1260 comments
3.
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving (qwen.ai)
704 points by mfiguiere 5 days ago | 377 comments
4.
ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL (posit.co)
449 points by thomasp85 5 days ago | 84 comments
5.
GitHub's fake star economy (awesomeagents.ai)
804 points by Liriel 5 days ago | 376 comments
6.
Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI (letsdatascience.com)
604 points by kevcampb 5 days ago | 136 comments
7.
Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers (kimi.com)
309 points by Alifatisk 5 days ago | 32 comments
8.
WebUSB Extension for Firefox (github.com/arcanenibble)
270 points by tuananh 5 days ago | 254 comments
9.
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it (politico.eu)
299 points by axbyte 5 days ago | 207 comments
10.
M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (usgs.gov)
291 points by Someone 5 days ago | 137 comments
11.
Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
311 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | 291 comments
12.
Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding (kimi.com)
708 points by meetpateltech 5 days ago | 371 comments
13.
Sauna effect on heart rate (tryterra.co)
445 points by kyriakosel 5 days ago | 235 comments
14.
Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys (filippo.io)
307 points by hasheddan 5 days ago | 109 comments
15.
Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated (techcrunch.com)
366 points by FiddlerClamp 5 days ago | 389 comments
16.
Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
436 points by walterbell 6 days ago | 280 comments
17.
10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026 (mastodon.social)
227 points by luu 6 days ago | 121 comments
18.
A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
233 points by vinhnx 6 days ago | 105 comments
19.
NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (axios.com)
483 points by Palmik 5 days ago | 345 comments
20.
Modern Rendering Culling Techniques (krupitskas.com)
194 points by krupitskas 6 days ago | 43 comments
21.
Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit (isaaccorbrey.com)
264 points by icorbrey 5 days ago | 168 comments
22.
Kefir C17/C23 Compiler (sr.ht)
173 points by conductor 8 days ago | 19 comments
23.
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
224 points by twapi 5 days ago | 84 comments
24.
OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (flyingpenguin.com)
307 points by feigewalnuss 5 days ago | 330 comments
25.
Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64 (github.com/gizmo64k)
147 points by adunk 5 days ago | 45 comments
26.
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (sciencedetective.org)
157 points by jruohonen 6 days ago | 61 comments
27.
Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (discovermagazine.com)
182 points by janandonly 8 days ago | 30 comments
28.
OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance” (adweek.com)
302 points by jlark77777 5 days ago | 161 comments
29.
F-35 is built for the wrong war (warontherocks.com)
297 points by anjel 5 days ago | 691 comments
30.
At long last, InfoWars is ours (theonion.com)
653 points by HotGarbage 5 days ago | 303 comments

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