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1.		Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (anthropic.com)
		2920 points by qwertox 12 days ago \| 1581 comments
2.		Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (trufflesecurity.com)
		1290 points by hiisthisthingon 13 days ago \| 305 comments
3.		AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)
		414 points by DamnInteresting 12 days ago \| 196 comments
4.		Layoffs at Block (twitter.com/jack)
		909 points by mlex 12 days ago \| 1079 comments
5.		What Claude Code chooses (amplifying.ai)
		611 points by tin7in 12 days ago \| 236 comments
📚.		Vial: Reimagining Clinical Trials (centuryofbio.com)
		18 min read \| by Elliot Hershberg \| saved 560 days ago \| archive
6.		Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)
		604 points by davidbarker 12 days ago \| 575 comments
7.		How will OpenAI compete? (ben-evans.com)
		482 points by iamskeole 13 days ago \| 672 comments
8.		BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
		223 points by jasonpeacock 12 days ago \| 77 comments
9.		Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)
		506 points by pseudolus 13 days ago \| 159 comments
10.		First Website (1992) (cern.ch)
		310 points by shrikaranhanda 13 days ago \| 88 comments
📚.		Why Europe doesn’t have a Tesla (worksinprogress.co)
		18 min read \| by worksinprogress.co \| saved 11 days ago \| archive
11.		I baked a pie every day for a year (theguardian.com)
		303 points by NaOH 15 days ago \| 211 comments
12.		OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (osmand.net)
		242 points by todsacerdoti 12 days ago \| 99 comments
13.		RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (arstechnica.com)
		395 points by jnord 13 days ago \| 342 comments
14.		Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer (simonbergerart.com)
		255 points by cs702 16 days ago \| 109 comments
15.		Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
		687 points by miki123211 12 days ago \| 259 comments
📚.		Patrick Collison (patrickcollison.com)
		1 min read \| by patrickcollison.com \| saved 190 days ago \| archive
16.		The First Fully General Computer Action Model (si.inc)
		345 points by nee1r 15 days ago \| 80 comments
17.		Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (uml.edu)
		203 points by spiffytech 12 days ago \| 107 comments
18.		Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com/here_forawhile)
		322 points by smalltorch 12 days ago \| 85 comments
19.		Museum of Plugs and Sockets (plugsocketmuseum.nl)
		156 points by ohjeez 15 days ago \| 96 comments
20.		Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (technically.dev)
		405 points by itunpredictable 12 days ago \| 441 comments
📚.		Thinking Machines (archive.ph)
		17 min read \| by Matt Levine \| saved 45 days ago \| archive
21.		Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance (hackersmacker.org)
		146 points by conesus 14 days ago \| 168 comments
22.		This time is different (shkspr.mobi)
		199 points by speckx 12 days ago \| 379 comments
23.		Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (playlinex.com)
		82 points by Humanista75 14 days ago \| 38 comments
24.		[dupe] Anthropic ditches its core safety promise (cnn.com)
		552 points by motbus3 12 days ago \| 3 comments
25.		Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal (github.com/flamestro)
		120 points by flamestro 12 days ago \| 67 comments
📚.		The AI Whateverpocalypse Trade (archive.is)
		18 min read \| by Matt Levine \| saved 5 days ago \| 4% read \| archive
26.		Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (idc.com)
		284 points by littlexsparkee 12 days ago \| 323 comments
27.		Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (usecardboard.com)
		132 points by sxmawl 12 days ago \| 83 comments
28.		Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator (internals-for-interns.com)
		100 points by valyala 15 days ago \| 16 comments
29.		Writers and Their Day Jobs (lithub.com)
		89 points by simplegeek 16 days ago \| 37 comments
30.		Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)
		256 points by kvinogradov 12 days ago \| 167 comments
📚.		Predicting the Big Game (archive.is)
		16 min read \| by Matt Levine \| saved 5 days ago \| archive
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