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  1. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (www.theregister.com)
    424 points • by itvision • yesterday at 8:23 PM • 331 comments
  2. Mario Meets Pareto (www.mayerowitz.io)
    907 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 11:24 AM • 151 comments
  3. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
    158 points • by neversaydie • last Wednesday at 3:33 PM • 33 comments
  4. I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (www.makeuseof.com)
    101 points • by baranul • last Monday at 7:12 AM • 61 comments
  5. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (www.troyhunt.com)
    102 points • by gnabgib • yesterday at 9:52 PM • 18 comments
  6. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    231 points • by tsak • yesterday at 5:01 PM • 188 comments
  7. Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (www.sciencedaily.com)
    66 points • by Audiophilip • yesterday at 9:18 PM • 11 comments
  8. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (www.aleksagordic.com)
    74 points • by sebg • yesterday at 9:30 PM • 3 comments
  9. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
    159 points • by collinmanderson • yesterday at 7:14 PM • 108 comments
  10. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
    168 points • by tedsanders • yesterday at 5:02 PM • 122 comments
  11. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (www.githubstatus.com)
    346 points • by Footkerchief • yesterday at 3:49 PM • 277 comments
  12. Almost no skill required to cook a steak (blog.sydorets.com)
    292 points • by yusyd • yesterday at 3:30 PM • 334 comments
  13. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    187 points • by willcarkner • yesterday at 3:59 PM • 133 comments
  14. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (www.bbc.com)
    24 points • by koolhead17 • last Tuesday at 2:50 AM • 4 comments
  15. Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it's Sao Paulo's largest park (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
    42 points • by rmason • last Saturday at 9:02 PM • 6 comments
  16. Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media (www.wsj.com)
    84 points • by boplicity • today at 12:06 AM • 45 comments
  17. The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem (www.futilitycloset.com)
    23 points • by surprisetalk • 07/31/2026 • 6 comments
  18. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    25 points • by indyjo • 07/30/2026 • 2 comments
  19. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    260 points • by Wirbelwind • yesterday at 11:58 AM • 194 comments
  20. My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (mastodon.gamedev.place)
    93 points • by luu • yesterday at 6:26 PM • 176 comments
  21. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (slayersclub.bethesda.net)
    228 points • by dsubburam • yesterday at 8:21 PM • 113 comments
  22. Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    114 points • by laurentiurad • 07/31/2026 • 20 comments
  23. Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com)
    91 points • by davidmckayv • yesterday at 4:05 PM • 20 comments
  24. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (blog.janestreet.com)
    67 points • by bschne • yesterday at 7:07 PM • 46 comments
  25. The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener (danielmangum.com)
    104 points • by hasheddan • last Sunday at 12:14 PM • 21 comments
  26. Pareto Front (en.wikipedia.org)
    225 points • by binyu • 07/29/2026 • 95 comments
  27. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (www.rafa.ee)
    68 points • by mpweiher • 07/30/2026 • 11 comments
  28. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    453 points • by apitman • yesterday at 6:44 PM • 289 comments
  29. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (www.bbc.com)
    87 points • by tchalla • yesterday at 1:08 PM • 108 comments
  30. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (www.sciencedaily.com)
    77 points • by jandrewrogers • last Wednesday at 3:57 PM • 82 comments
  31. Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (github.com)
    41 points • by mdeeds • yesterday at 9:49 PM • 23 comments
  32. Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization (arxiv.org)
    14 points • by Jimmc414 • last Monday at 9:22 PM • 1 comment
  33. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    163 points • by nanochess • 07/31/2026 • 32 comments
  34. Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (www.nbcnews.com)
    137 points • by pseudolus • yesterday at 6:22 PM • 101 comments
  35. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    655 points • by DarkContinent • yesterday at 4:46 AM • 203 comments
  36. Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 (github.com)
    66 points • by john_strinlai • yesterday at 4:24 PM • 10 comments
  37. Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters (zenodo.org)
    7 points • by purestatelabs • yesterday at 10:50 PM • 1 comment
  38. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    461 points • by atan2 • last Tuesday at 1:24 PM • 236 comments
  39. US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners (www.reuters.com)
    25 points • by voxadam • yesterday at 11:28 PM • 9 comments
  40. The Triangle Game, from Zero (muchmirul.github.io)
    12 points • by jdkee • last Sunday at 2:58 PM • 1 comment
  41. Let's all meet up in the Y2K (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
    111 points • by msephton • yesterday at 6:43 AM • 81 comments
  42. State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer (keel-iot.eu)
    9 points • by fcravio • yesterday at 7:54 PM • 4 comments
  43. An Agentic IDE That Builds Itself (www.sawyerhood.com)
    11 points • by sawyerjhood • yesterday at 10:59 PM • 0 comments
  44. Discovery Loop (www.discoveryloop.com)
    913 points • by xtreak29 • last Wednesday at 4:19 PM • 581 comments
  45. Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom (www.motortrend.com)
    13 points • by thehoff • today at 12:04 AM • 6 comments
  46. Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (2015) (notes.secretsauce.net)
    34 points • by dima55 • last Sunday at 5:03 PM • 21 comments
  47. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    827 points • by colesantiago • last Wednesday at 4:05 PM • 887 comments
  48. How Did Rogue Generate Its Random Dungeons? (howtomakeanrpg.com)
    19 points • by danschuller • yesterday at 4:42 PM • 4 comments
  49. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (www.primeintellect.ai)
    243 points • by Xeophon • last Wednesday at 9:11 PM • 59 comments
  50. Morioka Shoten (www.takram.com)
    67 points • by skogstokig • 07/31/2026 • 20 comments