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1.		CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
		868 points by gmays 22 hours ago \| 197 comments
2.		AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
		1424 points by xiaoyu2006 1 day ago \| 517 comments
3.		Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
		748 points by sam_bristow 1 day ago \| 256 comments
4.		Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (twitter.com/jsrailton)
		419 points by marc__1 1 day ago \| 225 comments
5.		Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
		749 points by lumpa 1 day ago \| 649 comments
6.		How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)
		410 points by kkm 20 hours ago \| 102 comments
7.		Electric motors with no rare earths (renaultgroup.com)
		554 points by bestouff 15 hours ago \| 163 comments
8.		Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)
		207 points by FergusArgyll 22 hours ago \| 125 comments
9.		Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates (piwodlaiwo.github.io)
		289 points by iweczek 20 hours ago \| 83 comments
10.		Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine (ft.com)
		374 points by sschueller 16 hours ago \| 85 comments
11.		How we made hit video game Prince of Persia (theguardian.com)
		271 points by msephton 3 days ago \| 106 comments
12.		Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks (endorlabs.com)
		402 points by bugvader 1 day ago \| 240 comments
13.		A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (utexas.edu)
		158 points by ilreb 1 day ago \| 99 comments
14.		Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter (swift.org)
		213 points by DASD 17 hours ago \| 99 comments
15.		H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office (eff.org)
		236 points by Cider9986 2 days ago \| 86 comments
16.		"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" (correresmidestino.com)
		429 points by speckx 19 hours ago \| 343 comments
17.		Maxproof (arxiv.org)
		135 points by ilreb 1 day ago \| 13 comments
18.		Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
		244 points by freejoe76 2 days ago \| 329 comments
19.		Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
		48 points by arcb 20 hours ago \| 21 comments
20.		Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF (yadutaf.fr)
		103 points by jtlebigot 22 hours ago \| 31 comments
21.		Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
		437 points by nekofneko 1 day ago \| 228 comments
22.		Adaptive PDFs (sgaud.com)
		153 points by SarthakGaud 21 hours ago \| 73 comments
23.		Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
		161 points by sneela 6 days ago \| 240 comments
24.		Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
		169 points by dougcalobrisi 1 day ago \| 85 comments
25.		WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)
		249 points by mavdol04 23 hours ago \| 91 comments
26.		Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself (quantamagazine.org)
		127 points by ibobev 22 hours ago \| 64 comments
27.		A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (lopp.net)
		322 points by FergusArgyll 23 hours ago \| 218 comments
28.		AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (ifin.network)
		295 points by keyle 1 day ago \| 217 comments
29.		I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (miguelgrinberg.com)
		266 points by ibobev 19 hours ago \| 203 comments
30.		Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
		99 points by croqaz 2 days ago \| 28 comments
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