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1.
Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
1465 points by dwwoelfel 2 days ago | 656 comments
2.
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)
1059 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 870 comments
3.
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
685 points by technewssss 2 days ago | 375 comments
4.
OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
578 points by abhisek 2 days ago | 446 comments
5.
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
467 points by adam_rida 2 days ago | 218 comments
6.
What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
417 points by nickthegreek 2 days ago | 198 comments
7.
Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
295 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 69 comments
8.
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
491 points by benbreen 3 days ago | 238 comments
9.
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
268 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 142 comments
10.
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)
267 points by r2sk5t 2 days ago | 330 comments
11.
The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)
476 points by glinscott 3 days ago | 98 comments
12.
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)
382 points by dhorthy 2 days ago | 265 comments
13.
Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)
226 points by MarcoDewey 2 days ago | 82 comments
14.
The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
309 points by jjfoooo4 2 days ago | 212 comments
15.
Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
187 points by harrisontin 2 days ago | 37 comments
16.
Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
160 points by helonaut 3 days ago | 73 comments
17.
Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
176 points by speckx 2 days ago | 95 comments
18.
Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com/onecli)
105 points by Jonathanfishner 2 days ago | 32 comments
19.
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (uchicago.edu)
99 points by MarcoDewey 2 days ago | 30 comments
20.
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
84 points by louis030195 2 days ago | 62 comments
21.
Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
111 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 15 comments
22.
Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
156 points by ErenayDev 2 days ago | 117 comments
23.
Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)
359 points by Shortness8 2 days ago | 225 comments
24.
Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)
177 points by giuliomagnifico 2 days ago | 169 comments
25.
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects (codeberg.org/codeberg)
373 points by intunderflow 2 days ago | 650 comments
26.
git's –end-of-options Flag (nesbitt.io)
184 points by ErenayDev 4 days ago | 121 comments
27.
Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com/izeigerman)
109 points by s0ck_r4w 2 days ago | 84 comments
28.
Making ASCII Art in Vim (alexyang.dev)
117 points by evakhoury 5 days ago | 16 comments
29.
Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)
134 points by jjba23 4 days ago | 120 comments
30.
Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)
65 points by wuemeli 5 days ago | 20 comments

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