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1.
WikiTok (wikitok.vercel.app)
1429 points by Group_B 5 days ago | 220 comments
2.
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools (danieldelaney.net)
852 points by cryptophreak 5 days ago | 412 comments
3.
What's happening inside the NIH and NSF (science.org)
947 points by rrock 5 days ago | 1515 comments
4.
El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender (ticotimes.net)
921 points by smallerfish 6 days ago | 852 comments
5.
Apple Invites (apple.com)
649 points by openchampagne 5 days ago | 912 comments
6.
Open Deep Research (github.com/huggingface)
394 points by transpute 5 days ago | 77 comments
7.
The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE (wired.com)
1666 points by medler 7 days ago | 2977 comments
8.
AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU (techcrunch.com)
452 points by geox 6 days ago | 396 comments
9.
Alan Turing's "Delilah" project (ieee.org)
205 points by pseudolus 5 days ago | 25 comments
10.
America desperately needs more air traffic controllers (cnn.com)
345 points by mooreds 5 days ago | 641 comments
11.
The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access (gamehistory.org)
362 points by pabs3 6 days ago | 72 comments
12.
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored (deno.com)
630 points by healsdata 5 days ago | 180 comments
13.
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance (washingtonpost.com)
613 points by jbegley 5 days ago | 536 comments
14.
DeepRAG: Thinking to retrieval step by step for large language models (arxiv.org)
191 points by fofoz 5 days ago | 29 comments
15.
Mitochondria as you've never seen them (nature.com)
340 points by Brajeshwar 8 days ago | 86 comments
16.
Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp (macintoshrepository.org)
111 points by tosh 8 days ago | 33 comments
17.
Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig (gist.github.com)
352 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 300 comments
18.
Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf] (govinfo.gov)
270 points by kalu 6 days ago | 235 comments
19.
Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns (kubamartin.com)
234 points by cube2222 5 days ago | 117 comments
20.
Push Notifications for Decentralized Services (unifiedpush.org)
164 points by notmine1337 8 days ago | 52 comments
21.
Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill (mill-build.org)
152 points by lihaoyi 8 days ago | 99 comments
22.
US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek (404media.co)
494 points by soundworlds 6 days ago | 312 comments
23.
Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing (radfoam.github.io)
210 points by w-m 5 days ago | 23 comments
24.
Spotted hyena found in Egypt for the first time in 5k years (phys.org)
97 points by wglb 10 days ago | 54 comments
25.
Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
69 points by christiansafka 5 days ago | 43 comments
26.
Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut (bloomberg.com)
335 points by cantaloupe 5 days ago | 270 comments
27.
ArXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to ArXiv (github.com/google-research)
103 points by t55 9 days ago | 42 comments
28.
The APL Challenge (dyalog.com)
86 points by bjarteaarmolund 5 days ago | 21 comments
29.
Alibaba/T-HEAD's Xuantie C910: An open source RISC-V core (chipsandcheese.com)
221 points by mfiguiere 6 days ago | 76 comments
30.
Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost (arstechnica.com)
256 points by ossusermivami 5 days ago | 118 comments

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