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1.
Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)
755 points by qwesr123 4 days ago | 351 comments
2.
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)
671 points by meetpateltech 4 days ago | 322 comments
3.
Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app (macrumors.com)
1109 points by pier25 5 days ago | 911 comments
4.
We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)
681 points by giancarlostoro 5 days ago | 113 comments
5.
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)
557 points by croes 4 days ago | 342 comments
6.
AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)
516 points by maximedupre 4 days ago | 193 comments
7.
Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images (esa.int)
708 points by saubeidl 4 days ago | 99 comments
8.
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
943 points by mijailt 4 days ago | 637 comments
9.
Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
279 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 4 days ago | 113 comments
10.
A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
396 points by bookofjoe 4 days ago | 325 comments
11.
Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)
564 points by keyboardJones 5 days ago | 1191 comments
12.
Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)
415 points by mellosouls 5 days ago | 66 comments
13.
Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT (openai.com)
297 points by rd 4 days ago | 411 comments
14.
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
478 points by voxadam 4 days ago | 786 comments
15.
My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
237 points by kieto 4 days ago | 147 comments
16.
Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer (mecha.so)
267 points by Realman78 8 days ago | 98 comments
17.
Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)
235 points by NaOH 5 days ago | 61 comments
18.
 [dupe] US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)
435 points by randycupertino 4 days ago | 37 comments
19.
County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
439 points by MBCook 4 days ago | 203 comments
20.
Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)
242 points by ghostwriternr 4 days ago | 71 comments
21.
Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)
223 points by neelc 4 days ago | 254 comments
22.
Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)
269 points by axiomdata316 4 days ago | 150 comments
23.
Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
169 points by Haakam21 4 days ago | 167 comments
24.
How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
186 points by kruuuder 4 days ago | 95 comments
25.
Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)
676 points by randycupertino 5 days ago | 305 comments
26.
Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
189 points by unsolved73 4 days ago | 144 comments
27.
EmulatorJS (github.com/emulatorjs)
102 points by avaer 10 days ago | 16 comments
28.
Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
87 points by phmx 8 days ago | 38 comments
29.
Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
121 points by orange_redditor 7 days ago | 20 comments
30.
Tea Chemistry (1997) (researchgate.net)
83 points by aabiji 10 days ago | 38 comments

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