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1.		Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (alqst.org)
		937 points by giuliomagnifico 14 hours ago \| 404 comments
2.		Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
		624 points by kevinsimper 16 hours ago \| 250 comments
3.		FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
		364 points by ChocMontePy 1 day ago \| 79 comments
4.		Everything in C is undefined behavior (habets.se)
		475 points by lycopodiopsida 20 hours ago \| 623 comments
5.		Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
		646 points by zambelli 1 day ago \| 236 comments
6.		Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (lesnumeriques.com)
		897 points by healsdata 13 hours ago \| 711 comments
7.		Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
		341 points by ranit 1 day ago \| 155 comments
8.		An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
		786 points by tedsanders 7 hours ago \| 581 comments
9.		Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
		676 points by ceejayoz 12 hours ago \| 448 comments
10.		GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com/github)
		609 points by splenditer 1 day ago \| 326 comments
11.		Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
		404 points by robin_reala 15 hours ago \| 147 comments
12.		Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (railway.com)
		548 points by aarondf 1 day ago \| 348 comments
13.		GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)
		574 points by Timofeibu 13 hours ago \| 206 comments
14.		Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (googleblog.com)
		385 points by primaprashant 1 day ago \| 196 comments
15.		Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
		323 points by eqrion 14 hours ago \| 137 comments
16.		Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)
		262 points by tigerlily 15 hours ago \| 174 comments
17.		Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (railway.com)
		393 points by 0xedb 18 hours ago \| 236 comments
18.		How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
		316 points by hexagr 3 days ago \| 73 comments
19.		Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com/pokemoncentral)
		434 points by zeitg3ist 10 hours ago \| 230 comments
20.		The Mercury logic programming system (github.com/mercury-language)
		89 points by Antibabelic 2 days ago \| 23 comments
21.		SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
		128 points by yacin 11 hours ago \| 7 comments
22.		Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (infomaniak.com)
		158 points by darktoto 21 hours ago \| 45 comments
23.		Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
		372 points by cdrnsf 5 hours ago \| 249 comments
24.		College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos (tomshardware.com)
		357 points by iancmceachern 14 hours ago \| 361 comments
25.		Flipper One Tech Specs (flipper.net)
		271 points by gregsadetsky 8 hours ago \| 98 comments
26.		Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops (reubenbrooks.dev)
		115 points by pyrex41 11 hours ago \| 27 comments
27.		Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (scientificamerican.com)
		103 points by dxs 2 days ago \| 25 comments
28.		Why is Inkwell stuck in review (manton.org)
		112 points by speckx 9 hours ago \| 36 comments
29.		When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024) (github.com/deng-ai-lab)
		76 points by teleforce 2 days ago \| 8 comments
30.		In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident (producelikeapro.com)
		84 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago \| 27 comments
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