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 1.                                                               Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model ( reflection.ai )                                            
     187 points by Philpax 2 hours ago | hide | 54 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                         
 2.                                                               Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates ( vals.ai )            
     84 points by outlier99 48 minutes ago | hide | 77 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                         
 3.                                                               Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation ( qlabs.sh )                                    
     8 points by E-Reverance 33 minutes ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                         
 4.                                                               How to save a life without knowing CPR ( bookofjoe2.blogspot.com )                                     
     37 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | hide | 24 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                         
 5.                                                               Web Search API ( cloudflare.com )                                                                      
     433 points by tosh 11 hours ago | hide | 202 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                         
 6.                                                               Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] ( cses.fi )                                             
     63 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                         
 7.                                                               Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 ( floreal.tech )                                           
     115 points by Vosporos 7 hours ago | hide | 25 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                         
 8.                                                               Incident with Actions ( githubstatus.com )                                                             
     75 points by hising 1 hour ago | hide | 49 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                         
 9.                                                               Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort ( smyck.net )                                            
     7 points by hukl 1 hour ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                         
10.                                                               The Future of Mathematics ( terrytao.wordpress.com )                                                   
     49 points by smilelamp 2 hours ago | hide | 20 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                         
11.                                                               Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge ( techspot.com )                   
     395 points by emptybits 16 hours ago | hide | 326 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                         
12.                                                               Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear ( github.com/rsutcliffe )
     57 points by delphidolphin 4 hours ago | hide | 8 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                         
13.                                                               Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) ( lizzie.io )                                             
     78 points by mkornaukhov 7 hours ago | hide | 16 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                         
14.                                                               Our approach to EU text provenance rules ( openai.com )                                                
     55 points by tosh 6 hours ago | hide | 39 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                         
15.                                                               Apple and a hacker's future ( stratechery.com )                                                        
     172 points by maguay 11 hours ago | hide | 165 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                         
16.                                                               Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech ( bloomberg.com )                         
     165 points by 0xedb 14 hours ago | hide | 102 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                         
17.                                                               The lamps in my house ( arslan.io )                                                                    
     80 points by farslan 7 hours ago | hide | 49 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                         
18.                                                               The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients ( ieee.org )                               
     44 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | hide | 47 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                         
19.                                                               WSL containers is now generally available ( windows.com )                                              
     20 points by abdelhousni 59 minutes ago | hide | 4 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                         
20.                                                               Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses ( barrons.com )                                               
     89 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | hide | 54 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                         
21.                                                               A third way of using Linux ( hisvirusness.com )                                                        
     8 points by speckx 1 hour ago | hide | 6 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                         
22.                                                               Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` ( haskell.org )                                                
     119 points by signa11 11 hours ago | hide | 27 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                         
23.                                                               Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025) ( danielchasehooper.com )                                
     124 points by AlexeyBrin 12 hours ago | hide | 96 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                         
24.                                                               2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel ( nobelprize.org )             
     101 points by lode 12 hours ago | hide | 40 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                         
25.                                                               The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists ( worksinprogress.co )                       
     214 points by benbreen 7 hours ago | hide | 175 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                         
26.                                                               After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi ( npr.org )            
     41 points by momentmaker 2 hours ago | hide | 21 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                         
27.                                                               Beating the compiler (2024) ( mattkeeter.com )                                                         
     57 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | hide | 38 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                         
28.                                                               The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? ( gnome.org )                                    
     9 points by vinhnx 4 hours ago | hide | 56 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                         
29.                                                               Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland ( ess-news.com )                               
     47 points by msalsas 3 hours ago | hide | 27 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                         
30.                                                               Martian chaos terrain ( wikipedia.org )                                                                
     90 points by tiagod 12 hours ago | hide | 25 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                         
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