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1.
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
1023 points by emctech 2 days ago | 329 comments
2.
I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
857 points by Ariarule 4 days ago | 338 comments
3.
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)
1665 points by speckx 2 days ago | 389 comments
4.
HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
996 points by encyclopedism 3 days ago | 229 comments
5.
Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
548 points by abhisek 2 days ago | 497 comments
6.
CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (wsj.com)
449 points by EwanG 2 days ago | 269 comments
7.
The August 17 outage (github.blog)
635 points by 0xedb 2 days ago | 748 comments
8.
I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
335 points by tyre 2 days ago | 130 comments
9.
Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
291 points by mariuz 2 days ago | 127 comments
10.
Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com/zachahn)
302 points by Bluestein 2 days ago | 294 comments
11.
Don't paste the AI, please (dontpastetheai.com)
1041 points by pjerem 2 days ago | 579 comments
12.
Mojo is now open source (modular.com)
410 points by visheshdembla 4 days ago | 97 comments
13.
Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)
588 points by simedw 2 days ago | 117 comments
14.
Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)
210 points by speckx 2 days ago | 163 comments
15.
Git at any scale (cursor.com)
360 points by meetpateltech 4 days ago | 115 comments
16.
Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (danielvaughn.dev)
376 points by danielvaughn 2 days ago | 209 comments
17.
Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (computerenhance.com)
349 points by mayoff 2 days ago | 215 comments
18.
Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
354 points by luu 2 days ago | 137 comments
19.
Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)
293 points by gregsadetsky 2 days ago | 62 comments
20.
Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
297 points by nunodonato 3 days ago | 252 comments
21.
How to compromise your system with a job interview (codedge.de)
184 points by codedge 2 days ago | 166 comments
22.
DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)
162 points by gmays 2 days ago | 40 comments
23.
Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (wixsite.com)
192 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 27 comments
24.
Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
112 points by vga805 2 days ago | 96 comments
25.
A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
265 points by gavide 6 days ago | 89 comments
26.
Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
61 points by yousefh409 2 days ago | 22 comments
27.
SpacetimeDB: a short technical review (strn.cat)
113 points by hurrrr 2 days ago | 53 comments
28.
Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (rathbiotaclan.com)
354 points by Akasci 2 days ago | 120 comments
29.
Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (mikekasberg.com)
105 points by speckx 2 days ago | 57 comments
30.
Project Cybersyn (2022) (bactra.org)
67 points by cassepipe 2 days ago | 55 comments

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