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1.		AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
		1414 points by xiaoyu2006 1 day ago \| 514 comments
2.		Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
		737 points by sam_bristow 1 day ago \| 253 comments
3.		CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
		803 points by gmays 17 hours ago \| 190 comments
4.		Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
		740 points by lumpa 1 day ago \| 637 comments
5.		Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (twitter.com/jsrailton)
		377 points by marc__1 1 day ago \| 217 comments
6.		How we made hit video game Prince of Persia (theguardian.com)
		269 points by msephton 3 days ago \| 105 comments
7.		How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)
		356 points by kkm 14 hours ago \| 86 comments
8.		Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)
		191 points by FergusArgyll 17 hours ago \| 119 comments
9.		A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (utexas.edu)
		157 points by ilreb 1 day ago \| 99 comments
10.		"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" (correresmidestino.com)
		405 points by speckx 14 hours ago \| 331 comments
11.		Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine (ft.com)
		319 points by sschueller 11 hours ago \| 66 comments
12.		Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks (endorlabs.com)
		398 points by bugvader 1 day ago \| 239 comments
13.		Maxproof (arxiv.org)
		132 points by ilreb 20 hours ago \| 13 comments
14.		Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates (piwodlaiwo.github.io)
		250 points by iweczek 15 hours ago \| 78 comments
15.		Electric motors with no rare earths (renaultgroup.com)
		415 points by bestouff 10 hours ago \| 109 comments
16.		Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
		43 points by arcb 15 hours ago \| 21 comments
17.		Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF (yadutaf.fr)
		95 points by jtlebigot 17 hours ago \| 31 comments
18.		Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
		242 points by freejoe76 2 days ago \| 326 comments
19.		Adaptive PDFs (sgaud.com)
		146 points by SarthakGaud 15 hours ago \| 69 comments
20.		Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
		425 points by nekofneko 21 hours ago \| 225 comments
21.		Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
		153 points by sneela 6 days ago \| 235 comments
22.		Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
		166 points by dougcalobrisi 1 day ago \| 85 comments
23.		Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter (swift.org)
		192 points by DASD 12 hours ago \| 86 comments
24.		WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)
		243 points by mavdol04 18 hours ago \| 91 comments
25.		H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office (eff.org)
		208 points by Cider9986 2 days ago \| 64 comments
26.		Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself (quantamagazine.org)
		125 points by ibobev 16 hours ago \| 62 comments
27.		A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (lopp.net)
		319 points by FergusArgyll 17 hours ago \| 216 comments
28.		AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (ifin.network)
		289 points by keyle 1 day ago \| 216 comments
29.		I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (miguelgrinberg.com)
		263 points by ibobev 14 hours ago \| 201 comments
30.		Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
		98 points by croqaz 1 day ago \| 28 comments
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