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1.		Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
		615 points by automatoney 2 days ago \| 99 comments
2.		Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
		704 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago \| 762 comments
3.		In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
		1617 points by jdcampolargo 2 days ago \| 94 comments
4.		Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
		479 points by riadsila 2 days ago \| 133 comments
5.		Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
		325 points by xnx 2 days ago \| 713 comments
6.		There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
		439 points by pmg101 2 days ago \| 437 comments
7.		Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
		271 points by marojejian 8 days ago \| 205 comments
8.		DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
		380 points by zhoutong 2 days ago \| 107 comments
9.		AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
		292 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago \| 245 comments
10.		AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
		790 points by meysamazad 2 days ago \| 465 comments
11.		Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
		310 points by leonickson 3 days ago \| 140 comments
12.		Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
		324 points by tosh 2 days ago \| 77 comments
13.		libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
		317 points by spyc 1 day ago \| 72 comments
14.		Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
		250 points by cimi_ 2 days ago \| 138 comments
15.		Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
		414 points by fiddlosopher 3 days ago \| 53 comments
16.		We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
		185 points by seg6 1 day ago \| 164 comments
17.		Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
		168 points by edwardbzhang 1 day ago \| 52 comments
18.		[dupe] Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
		501 points by askvictor 2 days ago \| 6 comments
19.		Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
		386 points by thewebguyd 2 days ago \| 283 comments
20.		Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
		90 points by firer 4 days ago \| 21 comments
21.		When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
		103 points by doppp 2 days ago \| 128 comments
22.		[flagged] I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
		314 points by mattsterett 1 day ago \| 233 comments
23.		Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
		78 points by sbulaev 5 days ago \| 34 comments
24.		Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
		146 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago \| 35 comments
25.		Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
		257 points by depr 1 day ago \| 192 comments
26.		That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
		146 points by wofo 8 days ago \| 308 comments
27.		FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/ffmpeg)
		459 points by gyan 2 days ago \| 97 comments
28.		Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
		245 points by speckx 2 days ago \| 102 comments
29.		Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)
		336 points by stymaar 1 day ago \| 81 comments
30.		Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)
		127 points by EndXA 5 days ago \| 87 comments
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