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31.
U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)
380 points by tcp_handshaker 6 days ago | 724 comments
32.
Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
205 points by carlos-menezes 6 days ago | 195 comments
33.
Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com/makazhanalpamys)
138 points by MakazhanAlpamys 6 days ago | 28 comments
34.
All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (valleynewslive.com)
396 points by NDlurker 6 days ago | 248 comments
35.
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
115 points by sbulaev 6 days ago | 33 comments
36.
Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
117 points by benbreen 10 days ago | 24 comments
37.
Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
90 points by faebi 6 days ago | 48 comments
38.
Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (nytimes.com)
51 points by wglb 9 days ago | 13 comments
39.
Beauty in my backyard (worksinprogress.co)
52 points by footest 11 days ago | 32 comments
40.
The Warp Agent CLI (warp.dev)
111 points by emschwartz 6 days ago | 63 comments
41.
Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality (github.com/david-g-3654)
59 points by davai-g 6 days ago | 8 comments
42.
Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (edotenv.com)
39 points by Mzzzzz 6 days ago | 34 comments
43.
Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
290 points by meetpateltech 7 days ago | 295 comments
44.
Web Security is Too Hard (textslashplain.com)
226 points by kevincox 6 days ago | 119 comments
45.
They Forgot What Happened Last Time: Hacking the Windows 365 Link [video] (ccc.de)
59 points by Jimmc414 10 days ago | 2 comments
46.
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) (rootsofprogress.org)
78 points by frozenseven 7 days ago | 69 comments
47.
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (computerenhance.com)
161 points by FrojoS 6 days ago | 183 comments
48.
Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (thisandthat.chat)
125 points by jreynar 6 days ago | 138 comments
49.
Nobel Disease (wikipedia.org)
124 points by num42 6 days ago | 131 comments
50.
Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)
141 points by johnbarron 6 days ago | 207 comments
51.
You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)
140 points by pedro_movai 7 days ago | 114 comments
52.
Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)
79 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 21 comments
53.
Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone (learning-rust.github.io)
70 points by dumindunuwan 6 days ago | 11 comments
54.
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (openai.com)
52 points by glub 6 days ago | 7 comments
55.
FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it (808bits.com)
39 points by meehow 6 days ago | 27 comments
56.
Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries (vlt.io)
55 points by patrikcsak 6 days ago | 19 comments
57.
Blackmail Fail (2013) (gwern.net)
41 points by simonebrunozzi 6 days ago | 3 comments
58.
IPC-7351B Electronic Component Zero Orientation [pdf] (2010) (scancad.net)
15 points by gregsadetsky 10 days ago | 12 comments
59.
Where .env Went Wrong (secretspec.dev)
99 points by domenkozar 10 days ago | 69 comments
60.
MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (github.com/mariadb)
64 points by petecooper 6 days ago | 23 comments

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