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1.
Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
947 points by xtreak29 5 days ago | 597 comments
2.
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
863 points by colesantiago 5 days ago | 930 comments
3.
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
663 points by speckx 5 days ago | 331 comments
4.
Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
527 points by ahamez 5 days ago | 314 comments
5.
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
433 points by moonikakiss 5 days ago | 124 comments
6.
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
440 points by ExMachina73 5 days ago | 211 comments
7.
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
333 points by paulkrush 5 days ago | 265 comments
8.
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
442 points by lladnar 5 days ago | 524 comments
9.
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)
302 points by hackerBanana 5 days ago | 137 comments
10.
Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
300 points by theanonymousone 5 days ago | 213 comments
11.
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
480 points by speckx 5 days ago | 522 comments
12.
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
544 points by luispa 6 days ago | 294 comments
13.
GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (gnu.org)
224 points by plaguna 8 days ago | 153 comments
14.
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
282 points by calvinfo 5 days ago | 54 comments
15.
Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (science.org)
157 points by _____k 11 days ago | 69 comments
16.
Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
208 points by pella 5 days ago | 46 comments
17.
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
385 points by tosh 9 days ago | 225 comments
18.
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)
498 points by dzdt 5 days ago | 278 comments
19.
The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
145 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 15 comments
20.
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (acm.org)
291 points by tchalla 6 days ago | 249 comments
21.
DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
147 points by sourdecor 6 days ago | 22 comments
22.
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
183 points by lapcat 6 days ago | 38 comments
23.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
174 points by robin_reala 5 days ago | 107 comments
24.
Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
68 points by shailendraht 5 days ago | 53 comments
25.
The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
245 points by weli 5 days ago | 102 comments
26.
Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
100 points by pseudolus 10 days ago | 44 comments
27.
Bugtraq is back (securityfocus.com)
83 points by bashtoni 6 days ago | 32 comments
28.
“Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
228 points by nozzlegear 11 days ago | 146 comments
29.
Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
194 points by teleforce 5 days ago | 97 comments
30.
Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
134 points by Anon84 5 days ago | 42 comments

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