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1.Don't be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)
1788 points by ngruhn 1 day ago | 716 comments
2.LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)
1333 points by MaxMussio 1 day ago | 554 comments
3.In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
1054 points by jdcampolargo 8 hours ago | 58 comments
4.AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
740 points by meysamazad 16 hours ago | 437 comments
5.SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (jfrog.com)
721 points by ymir_e 1 day ago | 370 comments
6.Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
706 points by bryanmikaelian 1 day ago | 231 comments
7.Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
614 points by milkshakes 1 day ago | 913 comments
8.More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
607 points by mertbio 1 day ago | 464 comments
9.Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
598 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 639 comments
10.Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
527 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 435 comments
11. [dupe] Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
497 points by askvictor 17 hours ago | 6 comments
12.Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
475 points by automatoney 12 hours ago | 90 comments
13.FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/ffmpeg)
432 points by gyan 18 hours ago | 94 comments
14.Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
389 points by fiddlosopher 1 day ago | 49 comments
15.Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com/janestreet)
381 points by KolmogorovComp 1 day ago | 151 comments
16.Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time (intellinews.com)
371 points by just_some_user 1 day ago | 319 comments
17.DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
367 points by zhoutong 17 hours ago | 91 comments
18.There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
358 points by pmg101 1 day ago | 386 comments
19.All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (valleynewslive.com)
357 points by NDlurker 10 hours ago | 216 comments
20.U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)
353 points by tcp_handshaker 16 hours ago | 645 comments
21.Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
340 points by thewebguyd 12 hours ago | 253 comments
22.Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
331 points by riadsila 11 hours ago | 79 comments
23.Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs (clickhouse.com)
331 points by nikolay_sivko 1 day ago | 74 comments
24.MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (comfy.org)
325 points by vblanco 1 day ago | 93 comments
25.Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
306 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 72 comments
26.Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days (marlerblog.com)
303 points by speckx 1 day ago | 262 comments
27.Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
300 points by leonickson 1 day ago | 134 comments
28.Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
273 points by meetpateltech 22 hours ago | 284 comments
29.Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
266 points by xnx 9 hours ago | 412 comments
30.Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale (cloudflare.com)
262 points by ascorbic 1 day ago | 66 comments

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