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1.		Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
		293 points by compiler-guy 3 days ago \| 168 comments
2.		Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
		337 points by tionis 1 day ago \| 79 comments
3.		Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		423 points by subset 18 hours ago \| 126 comments
4.		Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
		518 points by systima 10 hours ago \| 291 comments
5.		Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
		128 points by Anon84 3 days ago \| 22 comments
6.		An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
		238 points by jamiebeach 5 days ago \| 77 comments
7.		I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
		104 points by c-c-c-c-c 3 days ago \| 40 comments
8.		I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
		375 points by therepanic 10 hours ago \| 235 comments
9.		Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)
		382 points by joahnn_s 8 hours ago \| 181 comments
10.		Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
		269 points by signa11 20 hours ago \| 52 comments
11.		What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (gist.github.com)
		431 points by jhoho 1 day ago \| 164 comments
12.		How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (cancerworld.net)
		239 points by downbad_ 1 day ago \| 146 comments
13.		How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
		106 points by raahelb 13 hours ago \| 136 comments
14.		Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
		74 points by hydrogen7800 4 days ago \| 29 comments
15.		Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
		151 points by cosmtrek 23 hours ago \| 62 comments
16.		How to read more books (scotto.me)
		284 points by silcoon 13 hours ago \| 162 comments
17.		Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
		170 points by brryant 12 hours ago \| 62 comments
18.		A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
		96 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 63 comments
19.		LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
		197 points by BerislavLopac 12 hours ago \| 40 comments
20.		Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
		107 points by root-parent 12 hours ago \| 45 comments
21.		Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
		190 points by nradov 1 day ago \| 486 comments
22.		Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
		130 points by ming13 5 days ago \| 48 comments
23.		EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
		69 points by rellem 8 days ago \| 37 comments
24.		Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
		131 points by softwaredoug 2 days ago \| 170 comments
25.		Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)
		96 points by supo 11 hours ago \| 24 comments
26.		Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
		185 points by naves 8 hours ago \| 11 comments
27.		I Learned to Read Again (magazinenongrata.com)
		119 points by georgex7 10 hours ago \| 50 comments
28.		Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
		90 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago \| 24 comments
29.		Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)
		149 points by AlexeyBrin 17 hours ago \| 92 comments
30.		Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (acm.org)
		94 points by adunk 11 hours ago \| 67 comments
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