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  1. Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (www.vals.ai)
    94 points • by u1hcw9nx • today at 9:06 PM • 15 comments
  2. Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com)
    176 points • by mfiguiere • today at 8:08 PM • 67 comments
  3. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (www.atomic14.com)
    411 points • by iamflimflam1 • today at 5:37 PM • 192 comments
  4. Julia 1.13 Highlights (julialang.org)
    91 points • by eigenspace • last Thursday at 12:27 PM • 6 comments
  5. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (www.lesswrong.com)
    327 points • by Levitating • today at 2:28 PM • 154 comments
  6. Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
    18 points • by walrus01 • today at 8:33 PM • 1 comment
  7. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (www.theverge.com)
    226 points • by bookofjoe • today at 1:45 PM • 124 comments
  8. Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco (guessingheadlights.com)
    167 points • by mikhael • today at 5:57 PM • 121 comments
  9. JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)
    491 points • by taubek • today at 7:49 AM • 192 comments
  10. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    165 points • by ibobev • today at 12:30 PM • 40 comments
  11. Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
    113 points • by tosh • today at 2:09 PM • 53 comments
  12. CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com)
    120 points • by chiassedu80 • today at 2:25 PM • 62 comments
  13. Bad Code Is Kudzu (vickiboykis.com)
    12 points • by surprisetalk • last Thursday at 1:02 PM • 3 comments
  14. Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust (bensimms.moe)
    310 points • by vinhnx • last Thursday at 3:32 AM • 77 comments
  15. Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (www.youtube.com)
    61 points • by binyu • last Thursday at 11:32 PM • 13 comments
  16. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
    34 points • by rzk • last Friday at 3:45 AM • 8 comments
  17. Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)
    556 points • by jonifico • today at 1:22 AM • 635 comments
  18. There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier (singjupost.com)
    43 points • by andsoitis • today at 7:41 PM • 51 comments
  19. Why a dispute costs $229 on a $129 pair of shoes (allcentury.github.io)
    4 points • by allcentury • last Friday at 3:41 PM • 1 comment
  20. Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)
    279 points • by TheJCDenton • today at 3:44 PM • 139 comments
  21. Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562 (web.eecs.utk.edu)
    19 points • by azhenley • today at 5:41 PM • 2 comments
  22. I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)
    351 points • by robinpie • today at 6:03 PM • 100 comments
  23. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
    49 points • by lumpa • today at 3:24 PM • 29 comments
  24. AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (August 2026) (www.technologyreview.com)
    40 points • by dgellow • today at 6:49 PM • 32 comments
  25. 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)
    105 points • by blincoln • today at 12:01 PM • 40 comments
  26. Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices (cpak.it)
    37 points • by xlmnxp • today at 3:02 PM • 12 comments
  27. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com)
    60 points • by zdw • yesterday at 11:43 PM • 13 comments
  28. Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999) (alanbellows.com)
    63 points • by DamnInteresting • last Friday at 3:34 PM • 23 comments
  29. Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (high5apps.github.io)
    584 points • by juliantigler • yesterday at 4:25 PM • 138 comments
  30. Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (www.nytimes.com)
    85 points • by thunderbong • today at 5:08 PM • 53 comments
  31. Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)
    515 points • by mikemcquaid • today at 8:41 AM • 204 comments
  32. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com)
    204 points • by kolanos • today at 4:52 PM • 155 comments
  33. On Binary Translation and Its Consequences (chipsandcheese.com)
    45 points • by matt_d • last Thursday at 10:41 PM • 17 comments
  34. Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)
    51 points • by kevvok • last Friday at 9:06 AM • 48 comments
  35. The Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
    158 points • by mulmen • today at 2:43 AM • 24 comments
  36. Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master (twitter.com)
    245 points • by dsubburam • yesterday at 9:51 PM • 367 comments
  37. Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (unsung.aresluna.org)
    86 points • by leephillips • today at 2:00 PM • 27 comments
  38. Apple iPod Engraver (2019) (dunstanorchard.com)
    281 points • by NaOH • last Wednesday at 1:57 AM • 75 comments
  39. Nvidia is the central bank of AI (www.economist.com)
    556 points • by tolugenius • yesterday at 3:08 PM • 391 comments
  40. A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System (github.com)
    16 points • by EvanAnderson • last Friday at 7:52 PM • 11 comments
  41. Aligned to whom? (hyperbo.la)
    169 points • by lopopolo • today at 3:17 AM • 112 comments
  42. Stabilizing Rust's Never Type (lwn.net)
    238 points • by cjd8 • last Wednesday at 11:57 AM • 92 comments
  43. How Google Sees Your Site (blog.miloslavhomer.cz)
    10 points • by ArcHound • today at 3:23 PM • 1 comment
  44. I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant (medium.com)
    164 points • by ichacas • last Thursday at 9:32 AM • 82 comments
  45. The Seizure of Bab El-Mandeb: Why Tanker Rates Are Exploding [video] (www.youtube.com)
    8 points • by toomuchtodo • today at 7:39 PM • 0 comments
  46. Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (xeiaso.net)
    729 points • by xena • today at 12:30 AM • 429 comments
  47. Docket – Per-commit evidence records for agent-written code (github.com)
    13 points • by dillonsmartdev • today at 4:17 PM • 2 comments
  48. LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' (www.tomshardware.com)
    612 points • by datakan • last Thursday at 3:31 PM • 460 comments
  49. Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (eiln.github.io)
    208 points • by eiln • last Thursday at 12:16 AM • 33 comments
  50. Suicidal Compassion: Utilitarianism at AI Companies Endangers Humanity (ai-frontiers.org)
    11 points • by YeGoblynQueenne • today at 6:32 PM • 0 comments