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121.IRC technology news from the first half of 2026 (ilmarilauhakangas.fi)
20 points by birdculture 3 days ago | 2 comments
122.China overtakes US to lead global R&D spending, hitting $615B (nikkei.com)
16 points by yogthos 4 days ago | discuss
123.Flesh Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana (nytimes.com)
15 points by jihadjihad 4 days ago | 3 comments
124.Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
14 points by modinfo 4 days ago | 2 comments
125.Tesla Driver Tries 'I Wasn't Driving' Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket (gizmodo.com)
14 points by ripe 3 days ago | 7 comments
126.What makes companies dodge taxes? (utexas.edu)
13 points by hhs 4 days ago | 3 comments
127.Delta Passed on Starlink Wi-Fi. United and Virgin Atlantic Are Seeing the Payoff (inc.com)
9 points by mlindner 4 days ago | discuss
128.Show HN: Lumabri – What if LLMs worked like Napster? (github.com/justvugg)
8 points by vforno 3 days ago | 10 comments
129.The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers (theguardian.com)
21 points by mukmuk 3 days ago | 2 comments
130.Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
17 points by sakuraiben 4 days ago | 12 comments
131.Dutch bank: Extreme heat could wipe out Dutch, EU economic growth this year (nltimes.nl)
16 points by giuliomagnifico 4 days ago | 1 comment
132.GPT-4 finished training four years ago today (twitter.com/gdb)
11 points by nekofneko 4 days ago | 1 comment
133.Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
24 points by 0x54MUR41 4 days ago | 5 comments
134.What it was like working on LLMs and security at Meta (2022-2026) (joshuasaxe181906.substack.com)
10 points by botanicalfriend 4 days ago | discuss
135.Testing is underway on vaccines to intercept brewing colon cancer (cnn.com)
10 points by mooreds 3 days ago | discuss
136.PEP 784 – Adding Zstandard to the standard library (python.org)
9 points by tosh 3 days ago | 1 comment
137.A weapon that could help red squirrels in their Battle of Britain (economist.com)
9 points by geneticdrifts 4 days ago | discuss
138.Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
13 points by climate_denier_ 4 days ago | 2 comments
139.Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?
12 points by kocial 4 days ago | 48 comments
140.What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half (lesswrong.com)
12 points by paulpauper 3 days ago | 2 comments
141.I asked 4 AI companions what they were. They lied, then texted me the next day (ssrn.com)
11 points by Ai_Sycophancy 4 days ago | 2 comments
142.Romania Extends Nuclear Reactor Output by Nine Days After Danube Blasts (bloomberg.com)
11 points by alephnerd 3 days ago | 1 comment
143.Termdom: Build terminal apps with HTML, CSS and the DOM (github.com/bikeshaving)
10 points by thunderbong 4 days ago | discuss
144.Virus reactivation in acute and long Covid-19 (nature.com)
9 points by thenerdhead 3 days ago | 1 comment
145.Muse Code Sends Codex and Claude Instructions to Meta by Default (runtimewire.com)
8 points by ryanmerket 4 days ago | 2 comments
146.Never Gonna Give You Up but the lyrics are in alphabetical order [video] (youtube.com)
7 points by mooreds 4 days ago | discuss
147.What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace (thezvi.substack.com)
6 points by jgalt212 4 days ago | 1 comment
148.I got an email about resistance (seangoedecke.com)
15 points by danielhaven 3 days ago | 10 comments
149.Show HN: Tura – Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results (github.com/tura-ai)
14 points by turaainet 4 days ago | discuss
150.CRT-TV-Emulator (github.com/aaromanov1985)
14 points by xterminal 3 days ago | 6 comments

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