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1.		Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
		643 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago \| 673 comments
2.		Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
		520 points by automatoney 17 hours ago \| 90 comments
3.		In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
		1317 points by jdcampolargo 13 hours ago \| 75 comments
4.		Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
		261 points by marojejian 6 days ago \| 199 comments
5.		Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
		400 points by riadsila 16 hours ago \| 98 comments
6.		There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
		378 points by pmg101 1 day ago \| 400 comments
7.		DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
		370 points by zhoutong 22 hours ago \| 93 comments
8.		Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
		304 points by leonickson 1 day ago \| 137 comments
9.		AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
		758 points by meysamazad 21 hours ago \| 442 comments
10.		Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
		311 points by tosh 1 day ago \| 73 comments
11.		Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
		242 points by cimi_ 21 hours ago \| 130 comments
12.		Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
		288 points by xnx 14 hours ago \| 508 comments
13.		[dupe] Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
		497 points by askvictor 22 hours ago \| 6 comments
14.		AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
		223 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago \| 174 comments
15.		Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
		401 points by fiddlosopher 1 day ago \| 51 comments
16.		Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
		365 points by thewebguyd 17 hours ago \| 261 comments
17.		libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
		262 points by spyc 9 hours ago \| 54 comments
18.		I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
		274 points by mattsterett 12 hours ago \| 179 comments
19.		When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
		97 points by doppp 16 hours ago \| 95 comments
20.		Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
		139 points by simonebrunozzi 21 hours ago \| 33 comments
21.		Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
		243 points by depr 12 hours ago \| 138 comments
22.		That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
		138 points by wofo 6 days ago \| 297 comments
23.		Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
		67 points by sbulaev 4 days ago \| 27 comments
24.		FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/ffmpeg)
		440 points by gyan 23 hours ago \| 94 comments
25.		We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
		123 points by seg6 10 hours ago \| 103 comments
26.		Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
		109 points by edwardbzhang 13 hours ago \| 31 comments
27.		Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
		229 points by speckx 17 hours ago \| 88 comments
28.		Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
		61 points by firer 2 days ago \| 11 comments
29.		Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)
		119 points by EndXA 3 days ago \| 79 comments
30.		Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)
		287 points by stymaar 11 hours ago \| 73 comments
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