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1.
Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format (kabir.au)
418 points by frays 15 days ago | 466 comments
2.
SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video (nvlabs.github.io)
405 points by mjgil 14 days ago | 152 comments
3.
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)
698 points by mpweiher 14 days ago | 397 comments
4.
Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust (crates.io)
575 points by gidellav 14 days ago | 308 comments
5.
Accelerando (2005) (antipope.org)
334 points by eamag 14 days ago | 203 comments
6.
We've made the world too complicated (user8.bearblog.dev)
480 points by _nxwj 14 days ago | 470 comments
7.
δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
240 points by 44za12 14 days ago | 60 comments
8.
OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens (openai.com)
333 points by bookofjoe 14 days ago | 339 comments
9.
The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme (quantamagazine.org)
238 points by sohkamyung 17 days ago | 92 comments
10.
Greek Alphabet Cards (randomquark.com)
155 points by ricochet11 14 days ago | 73 comments
11.
Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station (openculture.com)
140 points by bookofjoe 18 days ago | 83 comments
12.
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
134 points by lukeplato 16 days ago | 11 comments
13.
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) (dynomight.net)
205 points by tomjakubowski 15 days ago | 259 comments
14.
Futhark by example (2020) (futhark-lang.org)
125 points by tosh 14 days ago | 38 comments
15.
Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution (github.com/chiennv2000)
246 points by FranckDernoncou 15 days ago | 45 comments
16.
Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer (ploopy.co)
177 points by jibcage 18 days ago | 83 comments
17.
Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol (tangled.org)
117 points by tsiry 14 days ago | 44 comments
18.
Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019) (refractor.io)
334 points by breve 14 days ago | 235 comments
19.
MCP Hello Page (hybridlogic.co.uk)
134 points by Dachande663 14 days ago | 49 comments
20.
Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server (blocksandfiles.com)
138 points by rbanffy 14 days ago | 111 comments
21.
Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64 (phoboslab.org)
181 points by ibobev 15 days ago | 31 comments
22.
3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend (bfeldman.me)
135 points by b__feldman 17 days ago | 12 comments
23.
PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools (openrockets.com)
129 points by openrockets 14 days ago | 35 comments
24.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again (seangoedecke.com)
280 points by Brajeshwar 14 days ago | 76 comments
25.
Erlang/OTP 29.0 (erlang.org)
257 points by pyinstallwoes 15 days ago | 61 comments
26.
 [flagged] SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud (fixelsmith.com)
320 points by redbell 15 days ago | 130 comments
27.
Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus (edna.land)
131 points by ednaordinary 17 days ago | 32 comments
28.
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (theregister.com)
286 points by _____k 14 days ago | 321 comments
29.
'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens (kevinpatel.xyz)
452 points by alligatorplum 15 days ago | 218 comments
30.
Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations (github.com/acceleratehs)
94 points by tosh 14 days ago | 18 comments

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