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1.
John Ternus to become Apple CEO (apple.com)
2160 points by schappim 1 day ago | 1311 comments
2.
All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 (theolivepress.es)
1434 points by ramonga 2 days ago | 1249 comments
3.
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving (qwen.ai)
702 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 377 comments
4.
ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL (posit.co)
449 points by thomasp85 2 days ago | 84 comments
5.
GitHub's fake star economy (awesomeagents.ai)
800 points by Liriel 2 days ago | 368 comments
6.
Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI (letsdatascience.com)
598 points by kevcampb 2 days ago | 134 comments
7.
Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers (kimi.com)
308 points by Alifatisk 2 days ago | 32 comments
8.
WebUSB Extension for Firefox (github.com/arcanenibble)
265 points by tuananh 2 days ago | 246 comments
9.
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it (politico.eu)
298 points by axbyte 2 days ago | 204 comments
10.
M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (usgs.gov)
290 points by Someone 2 days ago | 137 comments
11.
Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
309 points by Brajeshwar 3 days ago | 290 comments
12.
Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding (kimi.com)
701 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 369 comments
13.
Sauna effect on heart rate (tryterra.co)
440 points by kyriakosel 2 days ago | 233 comments
14.
Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys (filippo.io)
302 points by hasheddan 2 days ago | 108 comments
15.
Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated (techcrunch.com)
362 points by FiddlerClamp 2 days ago | 388 comments
16.
Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
432 points by walterbell 3 days ago | 278 comments
17.
10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026 (mastodon.social)
227 points by luu 3 days ago | 121 comments
18.
A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
233 points by vinhnx 3 days ago | 101 comments
19.
NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (axios.com)
481 points by Palmik 2 days ago | 341 comments
20.
Modern Rendering Culling Techniques (krupitskas.com)
189 points by krupitskas 3 days ago | 43 comments
21.
Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit (isaaccorbrey.com)
262 points by icorbrey 1 day ago | 166 comments
22.
Kefir C17/C23 Compiler (sr.ht)
171 points by conductor 4 days ago | 19 comments
23.
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
224 points by twapi 2 days ago | 84 comments
24.
OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (flyingpenguin.com)
307 points by feigewalnuss 2 days ago | 329 comments
25.
Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64 (github.com/gizmo64k)
147 points by adunk 2 days ago | 45 comments
26.
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (sciencedetective.org)
156 points by jruohonen 3 days ago | 61 comments
27.
Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (discovermagazine.com)
180 points by janandonly 5 days ago | 30 comments
28.
OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance” (adweek.com)
300 points by jlark77777 1 day ago | 160 comments
29.
F-35 is built for the wrong war (warontherocks.com)
295 points by anjel 2 days ago | 683 comments
30.
At long last, InfoWars is ours (theonion.com)
627 points by HotGarbage 2 days ago | 297 comments

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