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1.		AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
		921 points by itvision 2 days ago \| 693 comments
2.		Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
		1167 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago \| 165 comments
3.		Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
		335 points by Wirbelwind 2 days ago \| 244 comments
4.		Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
		692 points by DarkContinent 2 days ago \| 214 comments
5.		Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
		314 points by tedsanders 2 days ago \| 272 comments
6.		Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
		302 points by neversaydie 3 days ago \| 61 comments
7.		How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
		489 points by atan2 4 days ago \| 252 comments
8.		GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
		501 points by Footkerchief 2 days ago \| 409 comments
9.		Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
		276 points by collinmanderson 2 days ago \| 186 comments
10.		Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
		254 points by binyu 10 days ago \| 108 comments
11.		Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
		412 points by dsubburam 2 days ago \| 202 comments
12.		My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (gamedev.place)
		193 points by luu 2 days ago \| 339 comments
13.		Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (sydorets.com)
		414 points by yusyd 2 days ago \| 418 comments
14.		Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
		207 points by laurentiurad 8 days ago \| 70 comments
15.		Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
		252 points by Xeophon 3 days ago \| 69 comments
16.		Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
		289 points by greyblake 5 days ago \| 111 comments
17.		Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
		544 points by apitman 2 days ago \| 346 comments
18.		Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
		229 points by willcarkner 2 days ago \| 155 comments
19.		Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (costar.com)
		322 points by mapping365 2 days ago \| 474 comments
20.		Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/copilotkit)
		118 points by davidmckayv 2 days ago \| 24 comments
21.		The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener (danielmangum.com)
		126 points by hasheddan 6 days ago \| 30 comments
22.		STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com/jonas.eschenburg)
		91 points by indyjo 9 days ago \| 13 comments
23.		Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
		69 points by rbanffy 9 days ago \| 28 comments
24.		Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
		185 points by nanochess 8 days ago \| 33 comments
25.		Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
		94 points by mpweiher 9 days ago \| 13 comments
26.		Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
		116 points by bschne 2 days ago \| 80 comments
27.		Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
		70 points by skogstokig 8 days ago \| 20 comments
28.		I'll be stepping back from leading product for X (twitter.com/nikitabier)
		138 points by DearAll 3 days ago \| 282 comments
29.		Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)
		177 points by pseudolus 2 days ago \| 112 comments
30.		Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer (github.com/bashalarmistalt)
		48 points by ksec 5 days ago \| 45 comments
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