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1.
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
1057 points by emctech 5 days ago | 337 comments
2.
I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
866 points by Ariarule 7 days ago | 341 comments
3.
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)
1696 points by speckx 5 days ago | 398 comments
4.
HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
1019 points by encyclopedism 6 days ago | 229 comments
5.
Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
551 points by abhisek 5 days ago | 509 comments
6.
CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (wsj.com)
450 points by EwanG 6 days ago | 270 comments
7.
The August 17 outage (github.blog)
640 points by 0xedb 5 days ago | 756 comments
8.
I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
340 points by tyre 5 days ago | 130 comments
9.
Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
300 points by mariuz 5 days ago | 129 comments
10.
Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com/zachahn)
305 points by Bluestein 5 days ago | 299 comments
11.
Don't paste the AI, please (dontpastetheai.com)
1054 points by pjerem 5 days ago | 581 comments
12.
Mojo is now open source (modular.com)
414 points by visheshdembla 7 days ago | 97 comments
13.
Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)
597 points by simedw 5 days ago | 118 comments
14.
Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)
212 points by speckx 5 days ago | 165 comments
15.
Git at any scale (cursor.com)
368 points by meetpateltech 7 days ago | 116 comments
16.
Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (danielvaughn.dev)
384 points by danielvaughn 5 days ago | 210 comments
17.
Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (computerenhance.com)
352 points by mayoff 5 days ago | 216 comments
18.
Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
356 points by luu 5 days ago | 137 comments
19.
Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)
296 points by gregsadetsky 5 days ago | 62 comments
20.
Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
315 points by nunodonato 6 days ago | 272 comments
21.
How to compromise your system with a job interview (codedge.de)
190 points by codedge 5 days ago | 170 comments
22.
DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)
163 points by gmays 5 days ago | 40 comments
23.
Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (wixsite.com)
194 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 27 comments
24.
Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
116 points by vga805 5 days ago | 97 comments
25.
A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
269 points by gavide 9 days ago | 89 comments
26.
Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
64 points by yousefh409 5 days ago | 22 comments
27.
SpacetimeDB: a short technical review (strn.cat)
114 points by hurrrr 5 days ago | 59 comments
28.
Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (rathbiotaclan.com)
356 points by Akasci 5 days ago | 120 comments
29.
Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (mikekasberg.com)
109 points by speckx 5 days ago | 59 comments
30.
Project Cybersyn (2022) (bactra.org)
68 points by cassepipe 5 days ago | 55 comments

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