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1.
GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
1132 points by Philpax 29 days ago | 580 comments
2.
AWS Acquires DuckLabs (ducklabs.com)
1102 points by onderkalaci 29 days ago | 316 comments
3.
Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video] (youtube.com)
310 points by zoenolan 34 days ago | 102 comments
4.
Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane (github.com/tailscale)
687 points by nderjung 29 days ago | 134 comments
5.
Nebula Sans (nebulasans.com)
473 points by GavinAnderegg 29 days ago | 196 comments
6.
An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (lwn.net)
489 points by Velocifyer 29 days ago | 232 comments
7.
Tim Curry has died (theguardian.com)
724 points by mykowebhn 29 days ago | 239 comments
8.
Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account (twitterwebviewer.com)
581 points by motownphilly 29 days ago | 425 comments
9.
Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk (farmaction.us)
300 points by speckx 29 days ago | 210 comments
10.
CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela (hotosm.org)
340 points by gedankenstuecke 29 days ago | 87 comments
11.
FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer (fda.gov)
286 points by leopoldj 29 days ago | 74 comments
12.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (qwen.ai)
704 points by tosh 29 days ago | 233 comments
13.
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead (openai.com)
335 points by amrrs 29 days ago | 465 comments
14.
Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022 (copernicus.org)
276 points by totetsu 29 days ago | 210 comments
15.
Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) (actinideinc.com)
175 points by dsalzman 29 days ago | 89 comments
16.
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com)
516 points by j0selit0 30 days ago | 218 comments
17.
When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python (sethmlarson.dev)
178 points by rbanffy 30 days ago | 75 comments
18.
IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE (ibm.com)
175 points by porridgeraisin 29 days ago | 131 comments
19.
Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers (acceptmarkdown.com)
176 points by tilt 29 days ago | 108 comments
20.
The Harness Is the Thing (scott-fryxell.github.io)
209 points by sfryxell 29 days ago | 124 comments
21.
 [dupe] The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
364 points by LVB 29 days ago | 6 comments
22.
Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker (arxiv.org)
186 points by matt_d 29 days ago | 30 comments
23.
Actually Queryable Executables (fzakaria.com)
341 points by rguiscard 30 days ago | 85 comments
24.
It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI (ssp.sh)
263 points by zazuke 29 days ago | 189 comments
25.
Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others (github.com/runetes)
114 points by zdw 30 days ago | 74 comments
26.
Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies (risklytics.ai)
54 points by AlexRisio 29 days ago | 25 comments
27.
Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children (reuters.com)
543 points by bhouston 29 days ago | 546 comments
28.
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights (bloomberg.com)
435 points by garo-pro 29 days ago | 146 comments
29.
GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? (isgithubcooked.com)
276 points by toomanyrichies 29 days ago | 189 comments
30.
Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved (githubstatus.com)
263 points by blimmer 29 days ago | 169 comments

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