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1.
China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning (werd.io)
1243 points by benwerd 14 days ago | 932 comments
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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (risky.biz)
709 points by speckx 14 days ago | 416 comments
3.
Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (jelly-ui.com)
661 points by baldvinmar 14 days ago | 202 comments
4.
Kimi Work (kimi.com)
678 points by ms7892 14 days ago | 279 comments
5.
Perfection is not over-engineering (var0.xyz)
290 points by var0xyz 14 days ago | 124 comments
6.
Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac (blaizzy.github.io)
377 points by aratahikaru5 14 days ago | 131 comments
7.
Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture (xcancel.com)
803 points by loubbrad 15 days ago | 515 comments
8.
Airport Simulator (apunen.com)
856 points by apunen 14 days ago | 168 comments
9.
Agent swarms and the new model economics (cursor.com)
278 points by jlaneve 14 days ago | 143 comments
10.
Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) (nothings.org)
188 points by firephox 14 days ago | 91 comments
11.
Shinjuku Station in 3D (satoshi7190.github.io)
289 points by Gecko4072 14 days ago | 66 comments
12.
I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25 (slcyber.io)
404 points by infosecau 14 days ago | 227 comments
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How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks (unslop.run)
244 points by dopamine_daddy 14 days ago | 171 comments
14.
The Zen of Parallel Programming (smolnero.com)
189 points by edgar_ortega 20 days ago | 42 comments
15.
You only need the frontier model for one single edit (stencil.so)
230 points by jxmorris12 20 days ago | 97 comments
16.
Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight (github.com/hgaiser)
374 points by wertyk 15 days ago | 152 comments
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The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel (edri.org)
554 points by rapnie 14 days ago | 357 comments
18.
Orion Browser by Kagi (orionbrowser.com)
304 points by sebjones 15 days ago | 309 comments
19.
LEDs’ potential to save our night skies (ieee.org)
249 points by defrost 14 days ago | 192 comments
20.
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism (scottrlarson.com)
165 points by trinsic2 14 days ago | 41 comments
21.
Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling (emergingtrajectories.com)
371 points by cl42 14 days ago | 336 comments
22.
Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
102 points by alexsouthmayd 14 days ago | 107 comments
23.
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 (xiaomi.com)
528 points by ilreb 15 days ago | 325 comments
24.
I Stopped “Creating Content” (refactoringenglish.com)
312 points by mtlynch 14 days ago | 242 comments
25.
Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL (phoronix.com)
304 points by DemiGuru 14 days ago | 77 comments
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11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture (openculture.com)
105 points by gslin 19 days ago | 4 comments
27.
The Voice of Google (newyorker.com)
232 points by littlexsparkee 14 days ago | 134 comments
28.
Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms (pgadey.ca)
61 points by surprisetalk 19 days ago | 1 comment
29.
LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques (github.com/saivineeth147)
145 points by Vineeth147 15 days ago | 29 comments
30.
Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt (labrujulaverde.com)
133 points by isaacfrond 19 days ago | 86 comments

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