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1.		Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
		283 points by compiler-guy 3 days ago \| 162 comments
2.		Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
		336 points by tionis 1 day ago \| 79 comments
3.		Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		413 points by subset 15 hours ago \| 120 comments
4.		I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
		104 points by c-c-c-c-c 3 days ago \| 39 comments
5.		Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
		125 points by Anon84 3 days ago \| 22 comments
6.		An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
		238 points by jamiebeach 5 days ago \| 77 comments
7.		Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
		470 points by systima 7 hours ago \| 264 comments
8.		Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
		265 points by signa11 17 hours ago \| 50 comments
9.		Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
		150 points by cosmtrek 20 hours ago \| 62 comments
10.		How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (cancerworld.net)
		239 points by downbad_ 1 day ago \| 144 comments
11.		Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
		74 points by hydrogen7800 3 days ago \| 29 comments
12.		A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
		95 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 63 comments
13.		What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (gist.github.com)
		403 points by jhoho 1 day ago \| 156 comments
14.		Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
		188 points by nradov 22 hours ago \| 476 comments
15.		Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
		130 points by ming13 4 days ago \| 47 comments
16.		I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
		327 points by therepanic 7 hours ago \| 195 comments
17.		EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
		69 points by rellem 8 days ago \| 37 comments
18.		Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)
		312 points by joahnn_s 5 hours ago \| 154 comments
19.		How to read more books (scotto.me)
		257 points by silcoon 10 hours ago \| 145 comments
20.		Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
		89 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago \| 24 comments
21.		Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)
		148 points by AlexeyBrin 14 hours ago \| 91 comments
22.		How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
		79 points by raahelb 10 hours ago \| 93 comments
23.		The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (economist.com)
		216 points by saikatsg 10 hours ago \| 177 comments
24.		Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
		183 points by zdw 10 hours ago \| 114 comments
25.		Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids (quantamagazine.org)
		97 points by Anon84 23 hours ago \| 58 comments
26.		Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
		95 points by root-parent 9 hours ago \| 41 comments
27.		The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012) (arxiv.org)
		29 points by lioeters 1 day ago \| 3 comments
28.		Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
		145 points by brryant 8 hours ago \| 47 comments
29.		LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
		163 points by BerislavLopac 9 hours ago \| 36 comments
30.		Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity (theregister.com)
		212 points by Bender 5 hours ago \| 206 comments
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