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1.		Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
		605 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago \| 643 comments
2.		Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
		261 points by marojejian 6 days ago \| 196 comments
3.		In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
		1126 points by jdcampolargo 9 hours ago \| 61 comments
4.		DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
		367 points by zhoutong 18 hours ago \| 91 comments
5.		AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
		743 points by meysamazad 17 hours ago \| 438 comments
6.		There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
		363 points by pmg101 1 day ago \| 386 comments
7.		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
8.		Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
		483 points by automatoney 13 hours ago \| 90 comments
9.		Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
		307 points by tosh 22 hours ago \| 72 comments
10.		Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
		240 points by cimi_ 17 hours ago \| 127 comments
11.		Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
		343 points by riadsila 12 hours ago \| 83 comments
12.		[dupe] Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
		497 points by askvictor 18 hours ago \| 6 comments
13.		Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
		344 points by thewebguyd 13 hours ago \| 253 comments
14.		Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
		273 points by xnx 10 hours ago \| 432 comments
15.		Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
		390 points by fiddlosopher 1 day ago \| 50 comments
16.		Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
		138 points by simonebrunozzi 17 hours ago \| 33 comments
17.		That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
		137 points by wofo 6 days ago \| 297 comments
18.		FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/ffmpeg)
		433 points by gyan 19 hours ago \| 94 comments
19.		Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
		225 points by depr 8 hours ago \| 114 comments
20.		When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
		86 points by doppp 12 hours ago \| 89 comments
21.		Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
		219 points by speckx 13 hours ago \| 80 comments
22.		AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
		171 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago \| 123 comments
23.		Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)
		116 points by EndXA 3 days ago \| 77 comments
24.		libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
		209 points by spyc 5 hours ago \| 26 comments
25.		U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)
		359 points by tcp_handshaker 17 hours ago \| 650 comments
26.		Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)
		257 points by stymaar 7 hours ago \| 69 comments
27.		I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
		222 points by mattsterett 7 hours ago \| 140 comments
28.		Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
		59 points by sbulaev 4 days ago \| 20 comments
29.		Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
		173 points by carlos-menezes 10 hours ago \| 157 comments
30.		Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com/makazhanalpamys)
		125 points by MakazhanAlpamys 17 hours ago \| 24 comments
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