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1.		Study mode (openai.com)
		1130 points by meetpateltech on July 29, 2025 \| 805 comments
2.		My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air) (simonwillison.net)
		577 points by simonw on July 29, 2025 \| 396 comments
3.		RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession (japanesenostalgiccar.com)
		425 points by fidotron on July 29, 2025 \| 88 comments
4.		Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300% (science.org)
		492 points by sxv on July 29, 2025 \| 257 comments
5.		Learning basic electronics by building fireflies (a64.in)
		321 points by signa11 on July 29, 2025 \| 82 comments
6.		iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras (candid9.com)
		512 points by sergiotapia on July 29, 2025 \| 507 comments
7.		Show HN: Terminal-Bench-RL: Training long-horizon terminal agents with RL (github.com/danau5tin)
		125 points by Danau5tin on July 29, 2025 \| 12 comments
8.		Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker
		270 points by yujonglee on July 29, 2025 \| 180 comments
9.		Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game (kathaaverse.com)
		280 points by rcrKnight on July 29, 2025 \| 111 comments
10.		Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview (observablehq.com)
		235 points by mbostock on July 29, 2025 \| 57 comments
11.		URL-Driven State in HTMX (lorenstew.art)
		304 points by lorenstewart on July 29, 2025 \| 185 comments
12.		FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [video] (youtube.com)
		222 points by zdw on July 25, 2025 \| 55 comments
13.		Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language (ponylang.io)
		286 points by RossBencina on July 29, 2025 \| 274 comments
14.		Elements of System Design (github.com/jarulraj)
		159 points by qianli_cs on July 29, 2025 \| 37 comments
15.		Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK (flightsimulator.com)
		152 points by breve on July 26, 2025 \| 115 comments
16.		A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023) (neilzone.co.uk)
		137 points by ColinWright on July 29, 2025 \| 96 comments
17.		More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves (uoguelph.ca)
		229 points by pseudolus on July 29, 2025 \| 159 comments
18.		Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations (wikimediafoundation.org)
		400 points by Nurw on July 29, 2025 \| 185 comments
19.		Structuring large Clojure codebases with Biff (biffweb.com)
		98 points by PaulHoule on July 29, 2025 \| 8 comments
20.		USB-C for Lightning iPhones (obsoless.com)
		227 points by colinprince on July 27, 2025 \| 130 comments
21.		SRAM Has No Chill: Exploiting Power Domain Separation to Steal On-Chip Secrets (acm.org)
		71 points by zdw on July 25, 2025 \| 25 comments
22.		Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen (shellshore.com)
		192 points by Alupis on July 25, 2025 \| 202 comments
23.		Supervised fine tuning on curated data is reinforcement learning (arxiv.org)
		71 points by GabrielBianconi on July 29, 2025 \| 19 comments
24.		Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC (maruos.com)
		265 points by fsflover on July 29, 2025 \| 207 comments
25.		Truchet Tiles (wikipedia.org)
		123 points by downboots on July 25, 2025 \| 28 comments
26.		Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors? (washingtonpost.com)
		135 points by bookofjoe on July 25, 2025 \| 344 comments
27.		Fintech dystopia (fintechdystopia.com)
		263 points by LasEspuelas on July 29, 2025 \| 277 comments
28.		Project Zero – Policy and Disclosure: 2025 Edition (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
		102 points by esnard on July 29, 2025 \| 39 comments
29.		Linux Performance Analysis (2015) (netflixtechblog.com)
		181 points by benjacksondev on July 29, 2025 \| 40 comments
30.		Exploiting zero days in abandoned hardware (trailofbits.com)
		113 points by ingve on July 25, 2025 \| 35 comments
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