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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
943 points by itvision 5 days ago | 717 comments
2.
Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
1180 points by theanonymousone 5 days ago | 169 comments
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Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
338 points by Wirbelwind 5 days ago | 245 comments
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Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
698 points by DarkContinent 5 days ago | 215 comments
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Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
315 points by tedsanders 5 days ago | 281 comments
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Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
303 points by neversaydie 6 days ago | 63 comments
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How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
492 points by atan2 7 days ago | 252 comments
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GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
507 points by Footkerchief 5 days ago | 415 comments
9.
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
281 points by collinmanderson 5 days ago | 189 comments
10.
Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
258 points by binyu 13 days ago | 108 comments
11.
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
416 points by dsubburam 5 days ago | 209 comments
12.
My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (gamedev.place)
199 points by luu 5 days ago | 345 comments
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Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (sydorets.com)
420 points by yusyd 5 days ago | 420 comments
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Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
212 points by laurentiurad 11 days ago | 73 comments
15.
Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
253 points by Xeophon 6 days ago | 69 comments
16.
Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
291 points by greyblake 8 days ago | 111 comments
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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
546 points by apitman 5 days ago | 354 comments
18.
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
236 points by willcarkner 5 days ago | 156 comments
19.
Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (costar.com)
322 points by mapping365 5 days ago | 480 comments
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Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/copilotkit)
121 points by davidmckayv 5 days ago | 24 comments
21.
The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener (danielmangum.com)
126 points by hasheddan 9 days ago | 30 comments
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STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com/jonas.eschenburg)
92 points by indyjo 12 days ago | 13 comments
23.
Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
69 points by rbanffy 12 days ago | 28 comments
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Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
189 points by nanochess 11 days ago | 34 comments
25.
Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
96 points by mpweiher 12 days ago | 14 comments
26.
Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
117 points by bschne 5 days ago | 80 comments
27.
Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
70 points by skogstokig 11 days ago | 20 comments
28.
I'll be stepping back from leading product for X (twitter.com/nikitabier)
138 points by DearAll 6 days ago | 282 comments
29.
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)
179 points by pseudolus 5 days ago | 112 comments
30.
Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer (github.com/bashalarmistalt)
48 points by ksec 8 days ago | 45 comments

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