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1.
Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
1481 points by dwwoelfel 4 days ago | 666 comments
2.
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)
1067 points by theanonymousone 4 days ago | 888 comments
3.
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
691 points by technewssss 4 days ago | 378 comments
4.
OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
582 points by abhisek 4 days ago | 448 comments
5.
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
481 points by adam_rida 4 days ago | 223 comments
6.
What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
424 points by nickthegreek 4 days ago | 204 comments
7.
Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
295 points by mpweiher 4 days ago | 70 comments
8.
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
492 points by benbreen 5 days ago | 238 comments
9.
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
270 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 142 comments
10.
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)
268 points by r2sk5t 4 days ago | 336 comments
11.
The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)
483 points by glinscott 5 days ago | 99 comments
12.
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)
390 points by dhorthy 4 days ago | 270 comments
13.
Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)
227 points by MarcoDewey 4 days ago | 86 comments
14.
The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
310 points by jjfoooo4 4 days ago | 216 comments
15.
Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
191 points by harrisontin 4 days ago | 39 comments
16.
Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
160 points by helonaut 5 days ago | 76 comments
17.
Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
178 points by speckx 4 days ago | 95 comments
18.
Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com/onecli)
109 points by Jonathanfishner 4 days ago | 32 comments
19.
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (uchicago.edu)
102 points by MarcoDewey 4 days ago | 32 comments
20.
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
85 points by louis030195 4 days ago | 66 comments
21.
Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
112 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 15 comments
22.
Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
156 points by ErenayDev 4 days ago | 117 comments
23.
Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)
365 points by Shortness8 4 days ago | 229 comments
24.
Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)
179 points by giuliomagnifico 4 days ago | 170 comments
25.
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects (codeberg.org/codeberg)
375 points by intunderflow 4 days ago | 654 comments
26.
git's –end-of-options Flag (nesbitt.io)
184 points by ErenayDev 6 days ago | 121 comments
27.
Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com/izeigerman)
111 points by s0ck_r4w 4 days ago | 85 comments
28.
Making ASCII Art in Vim (alexyang.dev)
118 points by evakhoury 7 days ago | 16 comments
29.
Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)
134 points by jjba23 6 days ago | 121 comments
30.
Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)
65 points by wuemeli 7 days ago | 20 comments

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