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1.Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
1616 points by moultano 18 hours ago | 1273 comments
2.Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (anthropic.com)
574 points by jlebar 11 hours ago | 357 comments
3.Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge (jestoph.com)
410 points by anitil 20 hours ago | 92 comments
4.IBM Bob (ibm.com)
252 points by artpar 17 hours ago | 282 comments
5.Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% (discoverwildlife.com)
368 points by speckx 1 day ago | 122 comments
6.Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year (techdirt.com)
539 points by beardyw 23 hours ago | 235 comments
7.How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language (news.mit.edu)
204 points by theanonymousone 4 days ago | 116 comments
8.Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search (productrise.app)
376 points by DeepLogin 18 hours ago | 72 comments
9.Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive (torrentfreak.com)
376 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 222 comments
10.Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap (kedglobal.com)
459 points by gmays 2 days ago | 179 comments
11.Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nist.gov)
415 points by negura 8 hours ago | 234 comments
12.Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025) (gwern.net)
122 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 40 comments
13.Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (opentrailpaper.com)
269 points by stingrae 13 hours ago | 96 comments
14.Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
166 points by sukit 1 day ago | 186 comments
15.Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread (gallup.com)
344 points by karakoram 8 hours ago | 258 comments
16.Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)
315 points by mywacaday 11 hours ago | 139 comments
17.Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)
230 points by iopapa 10 hours ago | 139 comments
18.deSEC – Free Secure DNS (desec.io)
126 points by gurjeet 15 hours ago | 42 comments
19.Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (statichost.eu)
229 points by p4bl0 10 hours ago | 71 comments
20.Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building (starelevator.com)
145 points by palashawas 4 days ago | 52 comments
21.The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (master.dev)
134 points by acusti 12 hours ago | 27 comments
22.Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch (rietta.com)
86 points by rietta 11 hours ago | 25 comments
23.Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI (nytimes.com)
286 points by aaraujo002 15 hours ago | 261 comments
24.GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
187 points by Topfi 9 hours ago | 100 comments
25.Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom (jactl.io)
55 points by jaccomo 3 days ago | 9 comments
26.Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4 (github.com/anthropics)
92 points by aaraujo002 11 hours ago | 17 comments
27.How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+ (arstechnica.com)
190 points by CrypticShift 17 hours ago | 180 comments
28.An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy (quad9.net)
80 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 24 comments
29.Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs (github.com/gioblu)
113 points by gioscarab 21 hours ago | 30 comments
30.From Hookswitch to Grave (computer.rip)
40 points by Sniffnoy 1 day ago | 2 comments

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