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1.
CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
1002 points by gmays 27 days ago | 220 comments
2.
AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
1467 points by xiaoyu2006 28 days ago | 535 comments
3.
Electric motors with no rare earths (renaultgroup.com)
717 points by bestouff 27 days ago | 218 comments
4.
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
793 points by sam_bristow 28 days ago | 263 comments
5.
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (twitter.com/jsrailton)
460 points by marc__1 28 days ago | 239 comments
6.
How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)
507 points by kkm 27 days ago | 127 comments
7.
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
774 points by lumpa 28 days ago | 656 comments
8.
Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)
219 points by FergusArgyll 27 days ago | 136 comments
9.
Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates (piwodlaiwo.github.io)
328 points by iweczek 27 days ago | 111 comments
10.
H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office (eff.org)
282 points by Cider9986 29 days ago | 129 comments
11.
Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter (swift.org)
241 points by DASD 27 days ago | 135 comments
12.
Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks (endorlabs.com)
410 points by bugvader 28 days ago | 250 comments
13.
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine (ft.com)
426 points by sschueller 27 days ago | 114 comments
14.
How we made hit video game Prince of Persia (theguardian.com)
275 points by msephton 30 days ago | 111 comments
15.
A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (utexas.edu)
162 points by ilreb 28 days ago | 99 comments
16.
"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" (correresmidestino.com)
479 points by speckx 27 days ago | 385 comments
17.
Maxproof (arxiv.org)
137 points by ilreb 27 days ago | 13 comments
18.
Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
254 points by freejoe76 29 days ago | 338 comments
19.
Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
58 points by arcb 27 days ago | 25 comments
20.
Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF (yadutaf.fr)
113 points by jtlebigot 27 days ago | 33 comments
21.
Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
463 points by nekofneko 27 days ago | 240 comments
22.
Adaptive PDFs (sgaud.com)
170 points by SarthakGaud 27 days ago | 81 comments
23.
Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
173 points by sneela 33 days ago | 261 comments
24.
Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
180 points by dougcalobrisi 28 days ago | 91 comments
25.
WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)
260 points by mavdol04 27 days ago | 98 comments
26.
Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself (quantamagazine.org)
136 points by ibobev 27 days ago | 68 comments
27.
A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (lopp.net)
333 points by FergusArgyll 27 days ago | 238 comments
28.
AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (ifin.network)
303 points by keyle 28 days ago | 225 comments
29.
I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (miguelgrinberg.com)
275 points by ibobev 27 days ago | 207 comments
30.
Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
104 points by croqaz 28 days ago | 29 comments

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