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1.		Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace (huggingface.co)
		1379 points by nateb2022 7 days ago \| 545 comments
2.		Our position on open-weights models (anthropic.com)
		1178 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago \| 1747 comments
3.		PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works (nikolays.github.io)
		929 points by jonbaer 8 days ago \| 92 comments
4.		Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (theconsensus.dev)
		261 points by matheusmoreira 9 days ago \| 43 comments
5.		US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search (techspot.com)
		1339 points by eecc 8 days ago \| 1117 comments
6.		French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time (france24.com)
		462 points by saaaaaam 8 days ago \| 368 comments
7.		Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (blackhole.plav.in)
		476 points by aplavin 11 days ago \| 194 comments
8.		We have proof automation now (imperialviolet.org)
		232 points by zdw 8 days ago \| 109 comments
9.		Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary (github.com/vercel-labs)
		286 points by maxloh 8 days ago \| 158 comments
10.		Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023) (misago-project.org)
		253 points by Ralfp 7 days ago \| 199 comments
11.		How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going? (lockwood.dev)
		495 points by tomlockwood 7 days ago \| 385 comments
12.		Paged Out #9 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
		286 points by laurensr 7 days ago \| 32 comments
13.		Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)
		165 points by jcbhmr 7 days ago \| 43 comments
14.		The computer that helped win World War II (ieee.org)
		208 points by baruchel 12 days ago \| 79 comments
15.		Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages (gpuopen.com)
		123 points by LorenDB 11 days ago \| 19 comments
16.		AI companies are shredding rare books (twitter.com/hedgiemarkets)
		798 points by anon373839 7 days ago \| 513 comments
17.		Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol (acs.org)
		179 points by gmays 11 days ago \| 106 comments
18.		Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines (github.com/libsm64)
		196 points by klaussilveira 7 days ago \| 24 comments
19.		Securing Services with Rootless Containers (coderspirit.xyz)
		115 points by speckx 11 days ago \| 36 comments
20.		Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (techdirt.com)
		341 points by cdrnsf 7 days ago \| 153 comments
21.		DConf 2026 in London (dconf.org)
		124 points by teleforce 7 days ago \| 68 comments
22.		I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated (arstechnica.com)
		181 points by lee_ars 11 days ago \| 173 comments
23.		Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals (rise-reforming.com)
		85 points by george_rose25 7 days ago \| 38 comments
24.		VLC for Unity now supported on Linux (videolan.org)
		169 points by martz 7 days ago \| 55 comments
25.		A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)
		408 points by quantified 7 days ago \| 291 comments
26.		How real are real numbers? (2004) (arxiv.org)
		96 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago \| 102 comments
27.		Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)
		163 points by EatonZ 7 days ago \| 61 comments
28.		Modern email can be built from borrowed parts (andros.dev)
		198 points by andros 7 days ago \| 160 comments
29.		The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] (lsu.edu)
		133 points by jxmorris12 11 days ago \| 9 comments
30.		Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025) (mymodernmet.com)
		260 points by speckx 12 days ago \| 98 comments
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