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31.
The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
196 points by gmays 5 days ago | 226 comments
32.
Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick (heather.cafe)
152 points by CJefferson 8 days ago | 115 comments
33.
€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs (ai.google.dev)
398 points by zanbezi 5 days ago | 292 comments
34.
YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes (theverge.com)
319 points by pentagrama 6 days ago | 159 comments
35.
PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations (php.net)
124 points by moebrowne 7 days ago | 49 comments
36.
Mozilla Thunderbolt (thunderbolt.io)
369 points by dabinat 5 days ago | 339 comments
37.
The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama (sleepingrobots.com)
643 points by Zetaphor 5 days ago | 208 comments
38.
Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011) (stevehanov.ca)
103 points by sebg 9 days ago | 22 comments
39.
Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus (medium.com/airbnb-engineering)
78 points by jmarbach 5 days ago | 21 comments
40.
Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants (japantimes.co.jp)
172 points by mikhael 5 days ago | 132 comments
41.
Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations
92 points by FailMore 6 days ago | 49 comments
42.
Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness (github.com/macos26)
83 points by jv22222 6 days ago | 55 comments
43.
Six Characters (ajitem.com)
103 points by Airplanepasta 8 days ago | 14 comments
44.
A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service (tokyodev.com)
77 points by pwim 5 days ago | 13 comments
45.
Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card (anthropic.com)
176 points by adocomplete 5 days ago | 84 comments
46.
We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit (andonlabs.com)
198 points by lukaspetersson 5 days ago | 286 comments
47.
Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding (github.com/grvydev)
75 points by GRVYDEV 5 days ago | 38 comments
48.
Circuit Transformations, Loop Fusion, and Inductive Proof (natetyoung.github.io)
45 points by matt_d 8 days ago | 3 comments
49.
Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent (techstackups.com)
210 points by mooreds 5 days ago | 123 comments
50.
Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout (ieee.org)
122 points by WaitWaitWha 6 days ago | 59 comments
51.
Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017) (bbc.com)
112 points by harambae 6 days ago | 136 comments
52.
FIXAPL (fixapl.netlify.app)
59 points by tosh 9 days ago | 4 comments
53.
IBM AP-101 general-purpose computer [pdf] (windows.net)
35 points by __patchbit__ 8 days ago | 4 comments
54.
Hacker News CLI (2014) (pythonhosted.org)
58 points by rolph 6 days ago | 26 comments
55.
Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] (hms.harvard.edu)
72 points by Metacelsus 5 days ago | 70 comments
56.
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock (boat.horse)
61 points by ohjeez 7 days ago | 27 comments
57.
European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp (politico.eu)
124 points by aa_is_op 5 days ago | 83 comments
58.
PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998) (pbs.org)
36 points by opengrass 10 days ago | 10 comments
59.
PCI Express over Fiber [video] (youtube.com)
109 points by mmastrac 10 days ago | 39 comments
60.
Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip (raymii.org)
99 points by type0 9 days ago | 115 comments

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