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  1. Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating (mezha.net)
    342 points • by theanonymousone • today at 6:09 PM • 164 comments
  2. Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
    249 points • by groomlake • today at 4:04 PM • 116 comments
  3. "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
    364 points • by senko • today at 2:32 PM • 248 comments
  4. LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)
    135 points • by andrewpollack • today at 4:49 PM • 78 comments
  5. A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS (specification.website)
    286 points • by shaunpud • today at 1:26 PM • 122 comments
  6. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    29 points • by MarcoDewey • today at 7:38 PM • 4 comments
  7. Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)
    8 points • by bookofjoe • today at 9:07 PM • 2 comments
  8. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
    103 points • by gumby • today at 4:04 PM • 36 comments
  9. Python string literals are kinda funny (sebsite.pw)
    44 points • by jandeboevrie • last Thursday at 4:44 AM • 22 comments
  10. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    339 points • by bhavansig • today at 9:18 AM • 104 comments
  11. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    268 points • by 882542F3884314B • today at 10:57 AM • 283 comments
  12. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)
    101 points • by electricant • today at 1:33 PM • 20 comments
  13. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
    25 points • by skibz • today at 5:42 PM • 5 comments
  14. Monitors for Work (etbe.coker.com.au)
    53 points • by edward • last Wednesday at 3:23 PM • 36 comments
  15. Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (www.science.org)
    16 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 3:03 PM • 0 comments
  16. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
    134 points • by geox • today at 5:27 PM • 52 comments
  17. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
    14 points • by robinpdev • 08/01/2026 • 1 comment
  18. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    82 points • by rfarley04 • today at 12:31 PM • 67 comments
  19. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
    182 points • by rbanffy • today at 10:04 AM • 292 comments
  20. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (www.runnersworld.com)
    399 points • by aanet • last Wednesday at 9:44 PM • 97 comments
  21. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    63 points • by rahen • today at 1:28 PM • 12 comments
  22. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)
    308 points • by epestr • today at 7:04 AM • 91 comments
  23. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    743 points • by tosh • yesterday at 5:56 PM • 448 comments
  24. From your doorbell to your home network (adepts.of0x.cc)
    62 points • by mmoogle • last Wednesday at 12:43 AM • 5 comments
  25. BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud' (omnistrate.com)
    58 points • by kkgupta • last Tuesday at 1:37 AM • 10 comments
  26. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (www.noemamag.com)
    940 points • by RickJWagner • yesterday at 12:42 PM • 1115 comments
  27. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (genesisopenmodels.anl.gov)
    335 points • by moelf • yesterday at 10:24 PM • 141 comments
  28. Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)
    139 points • by happosai • today at 1:55 PM • 90 comments
  29. Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)
    22 points • by mfiguiere • today at 3:34 PM • 11 comments
  30. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com)
    163 points • by ilamont • yesterday at 8:25 PM • 144 comments
  31. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com)
    403 points • by piotrgrabowski • yesterday at 6:01 PM • 100 comments
  32. k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number (arxiv.org)
    61 points • by matt_d • 07/31/2026 • 13 comments
  33. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (www.ign.com)
    485 points • by inigyou • yesterday at 7:58 AM • 462 comments
  34. Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
    250 points • by aagha • yesterday at 6:51 PM • 78 comments
  35. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com)
    64 points • by csmantle • last Sunday at 4:53 AM • 9 comments
  36. Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP (toonk.io)
    24 points • by bgpdude • today at 4:07 PM • 9 comments
  37. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
    143 points • by 01-_- • today at 9:58 AM • 10 comments
  38. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (www.databricks.com)
    295 points • by moonikakiss • yesterday at 6:25 PM • 251 comments
  39. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (unsung.aresluna.org)
    188 points • by allenc • last Tuesday at 3:46 AM • 154 comments
  40. SupererDuperer (www.shirtpocket.com)
    158 points • by zdw • 08/01/2026 • 34 comments
  41. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (www.space.com)
    344 points • by wglb • today at 1:49 AM • 77 comments
  42. From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
    44 points • by denismenace • last Tuesday at 2:21 PM • 3 comments
  43. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (www.sciencealert.com)
    186 points • by jnord • yesterday at 12:45 PM • 110 comments
  44. Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
    221 points • by cckolon • 08/01/2026 • 30 comments
  45. An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (www.sdss.org)
    183 points • by MarcoDewey • yesterday at 3:24 PM • 40 comments
  46. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
    320 points • by poly2it • yesterday at 11:00 AM • 159 comments
  47. Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (www.theverge.com)
    162 points • by eternalreturn • today at 10:16 AM • 154 comments
  48. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (discourse.nixos.org)
    378 points • by Meleagris • today at 1:12 AM • 197 comments
  49. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    195 points • by artninja1988 • yesterday at 4:39 PM • 191 comments
  50. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (blog.cloudflare.com)
    211 points • by m3h • yesterday at 10:42 AM • 60 comments