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1.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
1589 points by moultano 17 hours ago | 1252 comments
2.
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (anthropic.com)
565 points by jlebar 11 hours ago | 348 comments
3.
Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge (jestoph.com)
408 points by anitil 19 hours ago | 92 comments
4.
IBM Bob (ibm.com)
248 points by artpar 16 hours ago | 279 comments
5.
Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% (discoverwildlife.com)
367 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 22 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)
375 points by DeepLogin 17 hours ago | 72 comments
9.
Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive (torrentfreak.com)
373 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 219 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.
Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025) (gwern.net)
122 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 40 comments
12.
Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nist.gov)
385 points by negura 7 hours ago | 223 comments
13.
Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
165 points by sukit 1 day ago | 186 comments
14.
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (opentrailpaper.com)
263 points by stingrae 12 hours ago | 94 comments
15.
Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread (gallup.com)
311 points by karakoram 7 hours ago | 241 comments
16.
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)
305 points by mywacaday 10 hours ago | 134 comments
17.
deSEC – Free Secure DNS (desec.io)
122 points by gurjeet 14 hours ago | 42 comments
18.
Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building (starelevator.com)
145 points by palashawas 4 days ago | 52 comments
19.
Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)
214 points by iopapa 9 hours ago | 133 comments
20.
Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (statichost.eu)
208 points by p4bl0 9 hours ago | 69 comments
21.
The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (master.dev)
128 points by acusti 11 hours ago | 25 comments
22.
Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI (nytimes.com)
284 points by aaraujo002 14 hours ago | 258 comments
23.
Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom (jactl.io)
55 points by jaccomo 3 days ago | 9 comments
24.
How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+ (arstechnica.com)
189 points by CrypticShift 17 hours ago | 179 comments
25.
Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch (rietta.com)
83 points by rietta 10 hours ago | 25 comments
26.
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
172 points by Topfi 8 hours ago | 90 comments
27.
Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4 (github.com/anthropics)
82 points by aaraujo002 10 hours ago | 17 comments
28.
From Hookswitch to Grave (computer.rip)
40 points by Sniffnoy 1 day ago | 2 comments
29.
An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy (quad9.net)
78 points by mooreds 9 hours ago | 19 comments
30.
New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first (cbc.ca)
121 points by colinprince 3 days ago | 106 comments

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