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1.
Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
944 points by xtreak29 3 days ago | 593 comments
2.
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
854 points by colesantiago 3 days ago | 928 comments
3.
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
659 points by speckx 3 days ago | 331 comments
4.
Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
526 points by ahamez 3 days ago | 311 comments
5.
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
432 points by moonikakiss 3 days ago | 122 comments
6.
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
438 points by ExMachina73 3 days ago | 211 comments
7.
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
331 points by paulkrush 3 days ago | 260 comments
8.
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
437 points by lladnar 3 days ago | 520 comments
9.
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)
301 points by hackerBanana 3 days ago | 136 comments
10.
Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
296 points by theanonymousone 3 days ago | 213 comments
11.
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
476 points by speckx 3 days ago | 518 comments
12.
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
543 points by luispa 4 days ago | 293 comments
13.
GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (gnu.org)
224 points by plaguna 6 days ago | 153 comments
14.
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
282 points by calvinfo 3 days ago | 54 comments
15.
Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (science.org)
157 points by _____k 9 days ago | 69 comments
16.
Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
206 points by pella 3 days ago | 46 comments
17.
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
385 points by tosh 7 days ago | 224 comments
18.
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)
496 points by dzdt 3 days ago | 278 comments
19.
The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
145 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 15 comments
20.
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (acm.org)
291 points by tchalla 4 days ago | 249 comments
21.
DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
146 points by sourdecor 4 days ago | 22 comments
22.
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
182 points by lapcat 4 days ago | 38 comments
23.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
173 points by robin_reala 3 days ago | 104 comments
24.
Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
68 points by shailendraht 3 days ago | 53 comments
25.
The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
241 points by weli 3 days ago | 100 comments
26.
Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
100 points by pseudolus 8 days ago | 43 comments
27.
Bugtraq is back (securityfocus.com)
82 points by bashtoni 4 days ago | 32 comments
28.
“Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
227 points by nozzlegear 9 days ago | 146 comments
29.
Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
192 points by teleforce 3 days ago | 96 comments
30.
Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
130 points by Anon84 3 days ago | 42 comments

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