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31.
The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
181 points by cyndunlop 5 days ago | 64 comments
32.
Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (science.org)
90 points by hermitcrab 9 days ago | 58 comments
33.
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
68 points by ingve 5 days ago | 73 comments
34.
Norway should buy OpenAI (onethousandmeans.com)
259 points by alexeigannon 4 days ago | 271 comments
35.
California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
176 points by littlexsparkee 5 days ago | 260 comments
36.
Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (privacyguides.org)
262 points by DeepLogin 4 days ago | 185 comments
37.
Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion (claude.com)
295 points by tyre 4 days ago | 265 comments
38.
Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (cell.com)
109 points by newsomix9xl 4 days ago | 71 comments
39.
Splitting a Git Commit (gnoack.org)
136 points by signa11 7 days ago | 71 comments
40.
2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey (theartnewspaper.com)
98 points by speckx 9 days ago | 50 comments
41.
IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video] (youtube.com)
84 points by kls0e 7 days ago | 49 comments
42.
GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks (artificialanalysis.ai)
152 points by apitman 4 days ago | 55 comments
43.
Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization (pmotschmann.github.io)
91 points by frozenseven 7 days ago | 30 comments
44.
We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked (arstechnica.com)
90 points by rbanffy 8 days ago | 55 comments
45.
Show HN: Openleetcode – Local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com/therepanic)
73 points by therepanic 4 days ago | 19 comments
46.
Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)
96 points by rhgraysonii 4 days ago | 16 comments
47.
A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture (terrytao.wordpress.com)
48 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 36 comments
48.
Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data (moultano.wordpress.com)
64 points by moultano 7 days ago | 8 comments
49.
Claude Code teaching macOS to natively print to the HP Laser 1008a (kuber.studio)
130 points by amrrs 4 days ago | 3 comments
50.
How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario (betakit.com)
53 points by builtbystef 8 days ago | 16 comments
51.
Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure (irz.fr)
40 points by zbycz 6 days ago | 24 comments
52.
GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform (cursor.com)
67 points by KGC3D 5 days ago | 27 comments
53.
Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development (videogameschronicle.com)
121 points by danbolt 4 days ago | 83 comments
54.
Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training (kentbeck.com)
32 points by KentBeck 8 days ago | 6 comments
55.
Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026) (arxiv.org)
54 points by baigy 4 days ago | 39 comments
56.
Degraded performance for multiple models (claude.com)
151 points by matt89 4 days ago | 140 comments
57.
Composable Tests (kentbeck.com)
67 points by vinipolicena 4 days ago | 64 comments
58.
Companies promote incompetent employees to management to limit damage they do (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)
79 points by behnamoh 4 days ago | 77 comments
59.
Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders (rnz.co.nz)
86 points by beanaroo 6 days ago | 84 comments
60.
Superpowers, Not Superintelligence (bond.now)
35 points by edbernays 4 days ago | 56 comments

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