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1.		Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
		1180 points by theanonymousone 8 days ago \| 722 comments
2.		Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (cloudflare.com)
		843 points by jcbhmr 8 days ago \| 317 comments
3.		OpenJev (openjev.com)
		722 points by ilreb 8 days ago \| 296 comments
4.		Saving another 100TB of RAM (cloudflare.com)
		488 points by f311a 8 days ago \| 122 comments
5.		Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (techcrunch.com)
		954 points by pluc 8 days ago \| 840 comments
6.		Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash (cactuscompute.com)
		236 points by HenryNdubuaku 9 days ago \| 93 comments
7.		Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md (claude.com)
		740 points by datadrivenangel 8 days ago \| 286 comments
8.		Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug (ledger.com)
		219 points by synack 8 days ago \| 92 comments
9.		A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos (hacktron.ai)
		491 points by Handy-Man 8 days ago \| 208 comments
10.		Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash (qwen.ai)
		346 points by jjcm 9 days ago \| 138 comments
11.		I don't like passkeys (hawksley.dev)
		852 points by ethanhawksley 8 days ago \| 819 comments
12.		Jemalloc 5.4.0 (github.com/jemalloc)
		339 points by gkfasdfasdf 8 days ago \| 94 comments
13.		Minimal Phone 2 (minimalcompany.com)
		328 points by nashashmi 8 days ago \| 262 comments
14.		Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud (ferstar.org)
		342 points by csmantle 8 days ago \| 115 comments
15.		Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025) (arxiv.org)
		109 points by rochansinha 8 days ago \| 22 comments
16.		The scourge of x86 emulation (fex-emu.com)
		295 points by dagmx 8 days ago \| 100 comments
17.		How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy? (mathoverflow.net)
		158 points by jjgreen 11 days ago \| 146 comments
18.		Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021) (archive.org)
		220 points by succinct_ideas 8 days ago \| 120 comments
19.		Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek (linguisticdiscovery.com)
		196 points by axiologist 8 days ago \| 74 comments
20.		Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain (sci.news)
		104 points by embedding-shape 11 days ago \| 62 comments
21.		The most important product decision is what you don't build (liamnugent.me)
		161 points by ChrisArchitect 9 days ago \| 54 comments
22.		US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report (cnn.com)
		519 points by realsarm 8 days ago \| 395 comments
23.		Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him (nytimes.com)
		323 points by saimiam 8 days ago \| 221 comments
24.		C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour (sandordargo.com)
		173 points by ibobev 9 days ago \| 289 comments
25.		Cyclomatic Complexity in C# (ndepend.com)
		87 points by gone35 10 days ago \| 29 comments
26.		How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine (construction-physics.com)
		248 points by JumpCrisscross 9 days ago \| 125 comments
27.		North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes (science.org)
		225 points by rbanffy 8 days ago \| 181 comments
28.		Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes (developer.apple.com)
		154 points by CameronBanga 8 days ago \| 116 comments
29.		I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture (overreacted.io)
		271 points by m-hodges 8 days ago \| 297 comments
30.		How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms (uber.com)
		120 points by iscmt 9 days ago \| 49 comments
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