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1.
Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
774 points by xtreak29 18 hours ago | 486 comments
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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
678 points by colesantiago 19 hours ago | 734 comments
3.
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
568 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 274 comments
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Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
283 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 185 comments
5.
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
527 points by luispa 1 day ago | 285 comments
6.
Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
445 points by ahamez 16 hours ago | 237 comments
7.
Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (science.org)
138 points by _____k 6 days ago | 63 comments
8.
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
383 points by tosh 5 days ago | 216 comments
9.
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
327 points by moonikakiss 16 hours ago | 81 comments
10.
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)
244 points by hackerBanana 17 hours ago | 97 comments
11.
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
351 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 351 comments
12.
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)
474 points by dzdt 1 day ago | 248 comments
13.
The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
131 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 12 comments
14.
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
227 points by calvinfo 18 hours ago | 38 comments
15.
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
266 points by paulkrush 16 hours ago | 167 comments
16.
GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (gnu.org)
182 points by plaguna 3 days ago | 124 comments
17.
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (acm.org)
286 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 245 comments
18.
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
286 points by lladnar 16 hours ago | 290 comments
19.
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
288 points by ExMachina73 13 hours ago | 139 comments
20.
DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
142 points by sourdecor 1 day ago | 22 comments
21.
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
176 points by lapcat 1 day ago | 33 comments
22.
Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
59 points by shailendraht 18 hours ago | 41 comments
23.
NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
134 points by pella 13 hours ago | 28 comments
24.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
130 points by robin_reala 17 hours ago | 71 comments
25.
The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
197 points by weli 19 hours ago | 84 comments
26.
Bugtraq is back (securityfocus.com)
78 points by bashtoni 1 day ago | 30 comments
27.
Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
88 points by pseudolus 5 days ago | 36 comments
28.
“Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
204 points by nozzlegear 7 days ago | 135 comments
29.
Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
175 points by teleforce 21 hours ago | 87 comments
30.
Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
115 points by Anon84 21 hours ago | 43 comments

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