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1.
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context (anthropic.com)
1324 points by adocomplete 45 days ago | 692 comments
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Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings (blog.wilsonl.in)
699 points by wilsonzlin 45 days ago | 118 comments
3.
Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable (arxiv.org)
358 points by Cynddl 46 days ago | 375 comments
4.
Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere (github.com/omnara-ai)
310 points by kmansm27 45 days ago | 168 comments
5.
Ashet Home Computer (ashet.computer)
313 points by todsacerdoti 45 days ago | 96 comments
6.
GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf] (arxiv.org)
417 points by SerCe 46 days ago | 83 comments
7.
Why are there so many rationalist cults? (asteriskmag.com)
544 points by glenstein 45 days ago | 911 comments
8.
Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm (thurrott.com)
206 points by thunderbong 49 days ago | 112 comments
9.
Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M² (sdo.group)
274 points by brunohaid 49 days ago | 126 comments
10.
Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils (tangled.sh)
206 points by icy 46 days ago | 64 comments
11.
StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers (lwn.net)
480 points by pabs3 46 days ago | 326 comments
12.
Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive (ghacks.net)
375 points by warrenm 46 days ago | 152 comments
13.
WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video] (ccc.de)
209 points by exiguus 45 days ago | 61 comments
14.
RISC-V single-board computer for less than 40 euros (heise.de)
179 points by doener 49 days ago | 105 comments
15.
Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack (twitter.com/p3b7_)
506 points by treyd 46 days ago | 273 comments
16.
The Article in the Most Languages (wikipedia.org)
243 points by vhcr 49 days ago | 77 comments
17.
Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit (crowdsupply.com)
331 points by RossBencina 50 days ago | 81 comments
18.
Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python (github.com/danterolle)
214 points by danterolle 46 days ago | 63 comments
19.
The History of Windows XP (abortretry.fail)
158 points by achairapart 48 days ago | 104 comments
20.
A gentle introduction to anchor positioning (webkit.org)
131 points by feross 45 days ago | 46 comments
21.
A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) (dadgum.com)
190 points by Bogdanp 49 days ago | 199 comments
22.
The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know (deanebarker.net)
147 points by deanebarker 45 days ago | 85 comments
23.
Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released (debian.org)
233 points by jrepinc 48 days ago | 153 comments
24.
Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics
74 points by grace77 45 days ago | 24 comments
25.
Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations (niemanlab.org)
199 points by aspenmayer 46 days ago | 93 comments
26.
FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs (freebsd.org)
119 points by fntlnz 50 days ago | 33 comments
27.
All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers (apple1registry.com)
156 points by elvis70 49 days ago | 39 comments
28.
What does it mean to be thirsty? (quantamagazine.org)
159 points by pseudolus 46 days ago | 106 comments
29.
Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures (entropicthoughts.com)
118 points by todsacerdoti 45 days ago | 69 comments
30.
The equality delete problem in Apache Iceberg (dataengineerthings.org)
65 points by dkgs 45 days ago | 45 comments

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