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1.		Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
		1093 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago \| 162 comments
2.		AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
		756 points by itvision 18 hours ago \| 576 comments
3.		Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
		326 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago \| 229 comments
4.		Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
		674 points by DarkContinent 1 day ago \| 211 comments
5.		How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
		481 points by atan2 3 days ago \| 247 comments
6.		Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
		275 points by tedsanders 21 hours ago \| 222 comments
7.		Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
		252 points by binyu 9 days ago \| 100 comments
8.		GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
		446 points by Footkerchief 22 hours ago \| 368 comments
9.		Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
		247 points by collinmanderson 19 hours ago \| 173 comments
10.		Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
		249 points by Xeophon 1 day ago \| 65 comments
11.		Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (sydorets.com)
		380 points by yusyd 22 hours ago \| 404 comments
12.		Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
		193 points by laurentiurad 7 days ago \| 62 comments
13.		Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
		359 points by dsubburam 18 hours ago \| 174 comments
14.		Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
		269 points by neversaydie 1 day ago \| 53 comments
15.		Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
		289 points by greyblake 4 days ago \| 110 comments
16.		My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (gamedev.place)
		170 points by luu 20 hours ago \| 298 comments
17.		Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
		517 points by apitman 19 hours ago \| 323 comments
18.		Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
		213 points by willcarkner 22 hours ago \| 151 comments
19.		Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (costar.com)
		319 points by mapping365 1 day ago \| 470 comments
20.		Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/copilotkit)
		109 points by davidmckayv 22 hours ago \| 22 comments
21.		The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener (danielmangum.com)
		120 points by hasheddan 5 days ago \| 28 comments
22.		STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com/jonas.eschenburg)
		78 points by indyjo 7 days ago \| 10 comments
23.		Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
		67 points by rbanffy 7 days ago \| 28 comments
24.		Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
		177 points by nanochess 6 days ago \| 33 comments
25.		Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
		84 points by mpweiher 7 days ago \| 12 comments
26.		Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
		69 points by skogstokig 6 days ago \| 20 comments
27.		Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
		96 points by bschne 19 hours ago \| 59 comments
28.		I'll be stepping back from leading product for X (twitter.com/nikitabier)
		138 points by DearAll 1 day ago \| 280 comments
29.		Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer (github.com/bashalarmistalt)
		48 points by ksec 3 days ago \| 45 comments
30.		Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)
		162 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago \| 111 comments
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