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1.		Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
		531 points by tomeraberbach 24 days ago \| 382 comments
2.		Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
		730 points by zakirullin 24 days ago \| 356 comments
3.		Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
		1097 points by nycdatasci 24 days ago \| 595 comments
4.		The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
		130 points by rurban 24 days ago \| 92 comments
5.		Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
		445 points by Bibabomas 25 days ago \| 151 comments
6.		The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
		715 points by DaSHacka 26 days ago \| 314 comments
7.		We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
		375 points by lukaspetersson 24 days ago \| 270 comments
8.		Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
		370 points by andrewzeno 23 days ago \| 99 comments
9.		We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
		501 points by ildari 24 days ago \| 237 comments
10.		Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
		273 points by ankitg12 26 days ago \| 145 comments
11.		Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
		214 points by veqq 24 days ago \| 46 comments
12.		1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
		182 points by exploraz 24 days ago \| 121 comments
13.		Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
		200 points by gaws 27 days ago \| 25 comments
14.		AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
		307 points by topherjaynes 24 days ago \| 173 comments
15.		Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
		218 points by DASD 27 days ago \| 53 comments
16.		Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
		363 points by Fysi 24 days ago \| 141 comments
17.		It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
		316 points by ahalbert4 24 days ago \| 767 comments
18.		Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
		349 points by srameshc 24 days ago \| 688 comments
19.		The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
		338 points by cdrnsf 24 days ago \| 146 comments
20.		Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
		128 points by olivercameron 24 days ago \| 23 comments
21.		Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
		189 points by jumploops 26 days ago \| 87 comments
22.		WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
		259 points by HellMood 24 days ago \| 33 comments
23.		Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
		81 points by anigbrowl 24 days ago \| 30 comments
24.		The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
		160 points by pizlonator 26 days ago \| 32 comments
25.		Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
		323 points by tekkertje 24 days ago \| 117 comments
26.		What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
		156 points by jollyjerry 26 days ago \| 66 comments
27.		Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
		565 points by gok 24 days ago \| 206 comments
28.		Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
		325 points by stephenlthorn 24 days ago \| 135 comments
29.		A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
		91 points by susam 26 days ago \| 21 comments
30.		Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
		79 points by gmays 28 days ago \| 54 comments
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