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1.
We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug (tailscale.com)
994 points by ropbear 17 hours ago | 188 comments
2.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
888 points by explosion-s 15 hours ago | 360 comments
3.
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (florianherrengt.com)
851 points by florianherrengt 18 hours ago | 773 comments
4.
Compression is prediction (ngrok.com)
647 points by nikolay 1 day ago | 279 comments
5.
2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)
477 points by zoenolan 19 hours ago | 130 comments
6.
Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
593 points by Philpax 16 hours ago | 137 comments
7.
License plate reader searches should require a warrant (andrewpwheeler.com)
576 points by apwheele 17 hours ago | 345 comments
8.
Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
133 points by advaith08 1 day ago | 28 comments
9.
Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
264 points by doener 17 hours ago | 32 comments
10.
Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
268 points by gavinhking 17 hours ago | 200 comments
11.
Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
520 points by iLuddite 16 hours ago | 469 comments
12.
uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook (digitalescapetools.com)
437 points by Markoff 20 hours ago | 555 comments
13.
Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (guillaumetech.github.io)
292 points by gutechh 17 hours ago | 63 comments
14.
Grok Bot (x.ai)
338 points by rvz 1 day ago | 318 comments
15.
Delta (zed.dev)
517 points by khy 13 hours ago | 180 comments
16.
Shade Map (shademap.app)
183 points by fredley 18 hours ago | 46 comments
17.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
364 points by dcminter 6 days ago | 55 comments
18.
Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
288 points by adius 21 hours ago | 40 comments
19.
What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (gowers.wordpress.com)
254 points by ColinWright 21 hours ago | 143 comments
20.
HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (andros.dev)
185 points by redbell 15 hours ago | 128 comments
21.
Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)
468 points by robtherobber 22 hours ago | 321 comments
22.
Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)
133 points by thoughtpeddler 15 hours ago | 128 comments
23.
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)
468 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 202 comments
24.
Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
137 points by ortusdux 15 hours ago | 263 comments
25.
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
327 points by wertyk 14 hours ago | 359 comments
26.
High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons (petapixel.com)
160 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 18 comments
27.
llama.cpp (llama.app)
352 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 168 comments
28.
The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
188 points by burnto 1 day ago | 90 comments
29.
Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux (github.com/yikerman)
80 points by xiaoyu2006 5 days ago | 8 comments
30.
Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available (embarcadero.com)
172 points by layer8 20 hours ago | 129 comments

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