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1.
CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
995 points by gmays 4 days ago | 219 comments
2.
AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
1460 points by xiaoyu2006 4 days ago | 532 comments
3.
Electric motors with no rare earths (renaultgroup.com)
711 points by bestouff 4 days ago | 217 comments
4.
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
787 points by sam_bristow 4 days ago | 263 comments
5.
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (twitter.com/jsrailton)
458 points by marc__1 5 days ago | 238 comments
6.
How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)
501 points by kkm 4 days ago | 124 comments
7.
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
770 points by lumpa 4 days ago | 657 comments
8.
Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)
219 points by FergusArgyll 4 days ago | 135 comments
9.
Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates (piwodlaiwo.github.io)
325 points by iweczek 4 days ago | 110 comments
10.
H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office (eff.org)
281 points by Cider9986 6 days ago | 129 comments
11.
Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter (swift.org)
240 points by DASD 4 days ago | 134 comments
12.
Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks (endorlabs.com)
407 points by bugvader 5 days ago | 245 comments
13.
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine (ft.com)
425 points by sschueller 4 days ago | 113 comments
14.
How we made hit video game Prince of Persia (theguardian.com)
274 points by msephton 7 days ago | 111 comments
15.
A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (utexas.edu)
161 points by ilreb 5 days ago | 99 comments
16.
"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" (correresmidestino.com)
476 points by speckx 4 days ago | 381 comments
17.
Maxproof (arxiv.org)
137 points by ilreb 4 days ago | 13 comments
18.
Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
251 points by freejoe76 6 days ago | 337 comments
19.
Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
57 points by arcb 4 days ago | 25 comments
20.
Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF (yadutaf.fr)
112 points by jtlebigot 4 days ago | 33 comments
21.
Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
455 points by nekofneko 4 days ago | 240 comments
22.
Adaptive PDFs (sgaud.com)
168 points by SarthakGaud 4 days ago | 79 comments
23.
Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
173 points by sneela 10 days ago | 259 comments
24.
Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
178 points by dougcalobrisi 4 days ago | 91 comments
25.
WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)
258 points by mavdol04 4 days ago | 96 comments
26.
Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself (quantamagazine.org)
135 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 68 comments
27.
A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (lopp.net)
332 points by FergusArgyll 4 days ago | 233 comments
28.
AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (ifin.network)
301 points by keyle 4 days ago | 225 comments
29.
I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (miguelgrinberg.com)
274 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 207 comments
30.
Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
101 points by croqaz 5 days ago | 29 comments

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