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1.		UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (uefa.com)
		1225 points by dickfickling 3 days ago \| 672 comments
2.		Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
		808 points by speckx 3 days ago \| 545 comments
3.		Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
		615 points by ai2027 3 days ago \| 538 comments
4.		Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
		775 points by tomzorz 3 days ago \| 295 comments
5.		AI's top startups are barely publishing their research (science.org)
		616 points by YeGoblynQueenne 4 days ago \| 319 comments
6.		GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)
		352 points by arto 3 days ago \| 427 comments
7.		The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
		283 points by javaeeeee 3 days ago \| 122 comments
8.		Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)
		603 points by tedsanders 3 days ago \| 399 comments
9.		Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (construction-physics.com)
		230 points by crescit_eundo 3 days ago \| 304 comments
10.		Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (quantamagazine.org)
		235 points by ibobev 3 days ago \| 177 comments
11.		Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year (googleblog.com)
		422 points by dmantis 3 days ago \| 524 comments
12.		The lost civic life of movie rental stores (mitpress.mit.edu)
		208 points by facundo_olano 3 days ago \| 271 comments
13.		We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (bottlenecklabs.com)
		403 points by Areibman 3 days ago \| 234 comments
14.		Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal (github.com/memoiremorte)
		98 points by sciences44 5 days ago \| 13 comments
15.		Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)
		166 points by cgorlla 3 days ago \| 73 comments
16.		CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)
		191 points by robin_reala 3 days ago \| 52 comments
17.		LLM Honeypot (llm2human.pages.dev)
		386 points by 8thom 4 days ago \| 107 comments
18.		The Productivity Mirage (frantic.im)
		360 points by msephton 4 days ago \| 153 comments
19.		The Cold Email (zachholman.com)
		296 points by holman 4 days ago \| 124 comments
20.		Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (anthropic.com)
		247 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago \| 196 comments
21.		Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (github.com/aminblg)
		333 points by navs 3 days ago \| 119 comments
22.		Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free (rune.build)
		99 points by ernestrc 3 days ago \| 51 comments
23.		2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026 (obryant.dev)
		278 points by tnisonoff 8 days ago \| 243 comments
24.		Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (projectpluto.com)
		218 points by ryannevius 3 days ago \| 81 comments
25.		Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
		172 points by bmacho 3 days ago \| 30 comments
26.		Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (science.org)
		69 points by gmays 3 days ago \| 32 comments
27.		Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (grumpygamer.com)
		263 points by alberto-m 3 days ago \| 118 comments
28.		[dupe] 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling (remysharp.com)
		433 points by speckx 3 days ago \| 176 comments
29.		Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools (prized.dev)
		77 points by marinoseliades 3 days ago \| 58 comments
30.		Logic for Programmers (logicforprogrammers.com)
		214 points by _doctor_love 3 days ago \| 47 comments
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