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31.
 [dupe] Incident with Github.com (githubstatus.com)
719 points by kevcampb 41 days ago | 2 comments
32.
Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
381 points by anana_ 41 days ago | 180 comments
33.
Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
328 points by sharts 41 days ago | 262 comments
34.
Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
166 points by vlowrian 41 days ago | 76 comments
35.
Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)
104 points by hardlianotion 42 days ago | 28 comments
36.
The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (ischool.berkeley.edu)
223 points by ronbenton 42 days ago | 129 comments
37.
How to put 170 atoms in an atom (signoregalilei.com)
120 points by surprisetalk 41 days ago | 26 comments
38.
Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals (bundeskartellamt.de)
262 points by nyku 41 days ago | 99 comments
39.
Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (science.org)
71 points by gumby 42 days ago | 30 comments
40.
Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012) (wolfram.com)
45 points by surprisetalk 47 days ago | 6 comments
41.
Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees (github.com/crabbuild)
56 points by forhappy 42 days ago | 15 comments
42.
How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser (nanochess.org)
92 points by nanochess 42 days ago | 22 comments
43.
GIMP Development Update (gimp.org)
264 points by lumpa 41 days ago | 255 comments
44.
Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013) (breakintochat.com)
62 points by bananaboy 49 days ago | 15 comments
45.
Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver (mkornreich.me)
72 points by enjoyyourlife 41 days ago | 42 comments
46.
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (highereddive.com)
284 points by walrus01 42 days ago | 192 comments
47.
scScript for Linux (scapplications.com)
40 points by OptionOfT 41 days ago | 18 comments
48.
Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models (roboflow.com)
56 points by Bluestein 41 days ago | 5 comments
49.
Gakutensoku (wikipedia.org)
71 points by benbreen 45 days ago | 14 comments
50.
Mexico crackdown on coastal development (yucatanmagazine.com)
123 points by untiledsource 41 days ago | 31 comments
51.
Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized (marginalutility.dev)
70 points by mcclowes 41 days ago | 61 comments
52.
How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy (func25.dev)
70 points by func25 45 days ago | 76 comments
53.
 [dupe] GitHub down again? no PR access
290 points by yodon 41 days ago | 2 comments
54.
A simple fix for LLM tail latency (myhoai.com)
54 points by oskrim 44 days ago | 18 comments
55.
The oldest bar in every state (businessinsider.com)
76 points by NaOH 45 days ago | 38 comments
56.
Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug (npr.org)
99 points by brandonb 41 days ago | 69 comments
57.
Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (flagquizzes.com)
57 points by artiomyak 41 days ago | 40 comments
58.
How to ship a database every day (turbopuffer.com)
71 points by tarunnnp 41 days ago | 10 comments
59.
Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device (vocalslice.com)
51 points by terranivium 48 days ago | 41 comments
60.
We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng (secretspec.dev)
46 points by linggen 41 days ago | 51 comments

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