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1.		Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (nvidia.com)
		421 points by nonmaskable 16 hours ago \| 153 comments
2.		Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes (ryan.science)
		44 points by Ryan5453 1 hour ago \| 9 comments
3.		Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (independent.co.uk)
		191 points by doener 5 hours ago \| 150 comments
4.		Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com/vinnylarouge)
		94 points by rochansinha 9 hours ago \| 14 comments
5.		Why Does the Universe Expand? (cosmicave.org)
		46 points by the__alchemist 8 hours ago \| 28 comments
6.		HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
		68 points by matt_d 6 hours ago \| 20 comments
7.		I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app (oldmanrahul.com)
		30 points by oldmanrahul 15 hours ago \| 15 comments
8.		Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (amazon.science)
		52 points by Betelbuddy 2 days ago \| 5 comments
9.		The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind (gcaptain.com)
		37 points by gumby 3 hours ago \| 16 comments
10.		DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (zartbot.github.io)
		55 points by mfiguiere 2 hours ago \| 6 comments
11.		OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior (nytimes.com)
		57 points by jbegley 3 hours ago \| 56 comments
12.		Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.org)
		10 points by evakhoury 1 day ago \| 1 comment
13.		Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008) (vanityfair.com)
		21 points by kamaraju 1 hour ago \| 6 comments
14.		Pangram – AI detector for text and images (pangram.com)
		19 points by doodlesdev 2 hours ago \| 12 comments
15.		Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough (bbc.com)
		11 points by marc__1 2 hours ago \| 7 comments
16.		A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks into a Telnet Server (watchtowr.com)
		11 points by paimapi 1 day ago \| discuss
17.		William Buckland's Theology of Geology (historytoday.com)
		4 points by Petiver 1 day ago \| discuss
18.		Paramount 'Leaks' Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked (techdirt.com)
		22 points by hn_acker 4 hours ago \| 3 comments
19.		OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents (axios.com)
		19 points by toomuchtodo 3 hours ago \| 3 comments
20.		Michael Burry slams OpenAI, Anthropic for 'self-serving' calls to slow AI (nypost.com)
		16 points by nsagent 2 hours ago \| discuss
21.		My website charged AI agents a penny per page. I watched Claude pay it (suganthan.com)
		10 points by gmays 4 hours ago \| 3 comments
22.		What's Scarier Than Agents Taking over Internet? CEO Cartel Trying Take over AI (fractalsofchange.substack.com)
		16 points by gz5 3 hours ago \| 2 comments
23.		ASCII City (asciicity.live)
		10 points by anjel 43 minutes ago \| 2 comments
24.		Danish pharma giant Novo to use Anthropic's Claude to advance AI drug discovery (euronews.com)
		7 points by billybuckwheat 5 hours ago \| 1 comment
25.		Migrating the GitHub Copilot Runtime to Rust, Using Copilot (github.blog)
		7 points by abraham 3 hours ago \| 1 comment
26.		Ms. Rachel on Gaza Controversy, YouTube Fame, and Her New Album (rollingstone.com)
		7 points by ledoge 6 hours ago \| discuss
27.		Model Misalignment Reporting Framework (openai.com)
		12 points by raahelb 6 hours ago \| 2 comments
28.		Everybody's Lost Their Minds (netmeister.org)
		7 points by HotGarbage 1 hour ago \| discuss
29.		We Must Create the Shit Machine (mcsweeneys.net)
		6 points by CharlesW 11 hours ago \| discuss
30.		CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels (nvidia.com)
		5 points by thomasfromcdnjs 8 hours ago \| discuss
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