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151.
OpenAI Didn't Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Hacking Spree (wired.com)
6 points by Michelangelo11 6 days ago | discuss
152.
China-Free Batteries Made from Salt Are Finally Here (wsj.com)
5 points by Vaslo 6 days ago | discuss
153.
"The Pitt" cast will do a live table read of the first Star Trek episode (deadline.com)
5 points by ohjeez 6 days ago | discuss
154.
Why Normal People Aren't Using AI Agents (wired.com)
5 points by joozio 7 days ago | 3 comments
155.
Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly' (npr.org)
11 points by randycupertino 6 days ago | 18 comments
156.
The Witness (wikipedia.org)
9 points by tosh 6 days ago | 2 comments
157.
Meta fined $567M in largest child safety ruling against social media giant (bbc.com)
9 points by tartoran 7 days ago | discuss
158.
Show HN: AI Tutoring with Visual Grounding (useknowable.ai)
8 points by samuelzxu 7 days ago | 8 comments
159.
Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets (simplepixelart.com)
8 points by lam_hg94 7 days ago | 2 comments
160.
How Amazon Built a Data Center in a California Town Without Anyone Noticing (wsj.com)
8 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | discuss
161.
Restaurants and theatres ban Meta's smart glasses (theguardian.com)
7 points by BlueBerry2001 7 days ago | discuss
162.
Show HN: XSAF – Extra Small Agent Framework (ilha.build)
7 points by ryuzyy 7 days ago | 4 comments
163.
Show HN: S-Bahn Seat Picker (welidev.github.io)
7 points by weli 6 days ago | 4 comments
164.
Wyden proposes new taxes on data centers (eenews.net)
6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 days ago | 1 comment
165.
Google repository now has 90 skills (github.com/google)
5 points by haebom 7 days ago | discuss
166.
What are Looped Transformers? Explained clearly (twitter.com/neural_avb)
5 points by gmays 7 days ago | discuss
167.
OpenAI slows release of Astra model, citing cyber capabilities (axios.com)
5 points by dpc10 6 days ago | 1 comment
168.
Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)
5 points by andros 7 days ago | 1 comment
169.
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan (theregister.com)
5 points by baud147258 7 days ago | discuss
170.
Common knowledge shapes our lives and societies (theconversation.com)
4 points by andsoitis 7 days ago | discuss
171.
Cuprate – Alternative Monero node software written in Rust syncs 2x faster (reddit.com)
4 points by Cider9986 7 days ago | 1 comment
172.
Terafab (wikipedia.org)
4 points by tosh 7 days ago | discuss
173.
Agent Reach: An open-source CLI that gives AI agents access to the internet (github.com/panniantong)
4 points by Nina_antalpha 7 days ago | 4 comments
174.
Killing Complexity Before Complexity Kills Growth (bain.com)
4 points by andrewstetsenko 6 days ago | discuss
175.
Informing HTTP Extension Design with Data (mnot.net)
3 points by jiehong 7 days ago | discuss
176.
Why AI is a risk to Communist China (economist.com)
6 points by petethomas 7 days ago | discuss
177.
'I feel like I dug my own grave': The workers caught in the AI transition (bbc.co.uk)
8 points by edward 6 days ago | 1 comment
178.
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews (arstechnica.com)
8 points by mooreds 6 days ago | 2 comments
179.
One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Broken Containment (wired.com)
5 points by kass_paul 7 days ago | 3 comments
180.
Remote login is a lot like astral projection (doughnut.neocities.org)
4 points by xbryanx 7 days ago | discuss

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