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1.		Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
		622 points by automatoney 4 days ago \| 99 comments
2.		Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
		712 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago \| 767 comments
3.		In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
		1637 points by jdcampolargo 4 days ago \| 95 comments
4.		Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
		481 points by riadsila 4 days ago \| 133 comments
5.		Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
		330 points by xnx 4 days ago \| 728 comments
6.		There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
		452 points by pmg101 5 days ago \| 442 comments
7.		Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
		272 points by marojejian 10 days ago \| 205 comments
8.		DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
		382 points by zhoutong 4 days ago \| 107 comments
9.		AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
		292 points by bookofjoe 4 days ago \| 247 comments
10.		AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
		793 points by meysamazad 4 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)
		311 points by leonickson 5 days ago \| 142 comments
12.		Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
		330 points by tosh 4 days ago \| 79 comments
13.		libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
		319 points by spyc 4 days ago \| 73 comments
14.		Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
		250 points by cimi_ 4 days ago \| 138 comments
15.		Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
		419 points by fiddlosopher 5 days ago \| 53 comments
16.		We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
		187 points by seg6 4 days ago \| 164 comments
17.		Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
		171 points by edwardbzhang 4 days ago \| 53 comments
18.		[dupe] Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
		503 points by askvictor 4 days ago \| 6 comments
19.		Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
		387 points by thewebguyd 4 days ago \| 283 comments
20.		Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
		90 points by firer 6 days ago \| 21 comments
21.		When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
		104 points by doppp 4 days ago \| 131 comments
22.		[flagged] I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
		316 points by mattsterett 4 days ago \| 235 comments
23.		Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
		80 points by sbulaev 8 days ago \| 34 comments
24.		Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
		149 points by simonebrunozzi 4 days ago \| 34 comments
25.		Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
		259 points by depr 4 days ago \| 196 comments
26.		That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
		150 points by wofo 10 days ago \| 310 comments
27.		FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/ffmpeg)
		461 points by gyan 4 days ago \| 97 comments
28.		Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
		246 points by speckx 4 days ago \| 102 comments
29.		Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)
		337 points by stymaar 4 days ago \| 82 comments
30.		Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)
		127 points by EndXA 7 days ago \| 87 comments
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