'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds (βοΈ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
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Polygon.com
'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star Is As Complex and Exhausting As It Sounds
Thekla's latest is all over the place
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Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat (βοΈ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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PCMAG
Inside the iPhone Duo and 18 Pro Cooling System: Apple Engineers Reveal a Simple Trick
In an exclusive interview with PCMag, Appleβs silicon and thermal teams explain the engineering that lets the A20 Pro chip run hotter and faster without cooking your phone.
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Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers (βοΈ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Jacobin
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers
In 1939, the 25Β’ paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics, and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback?
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Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses (βοΈ Score: 152+ in 2 days)
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The Folders Programming Language (Score: 154+ in 9 hours)
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danieltemkin.com
Daniel Temkin | Folders Language
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I Love Software Rendering (π₯ Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
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Jamesfmackenzie
I Love Software Rendering
Sharp pixels, gritty colour banding, and DOS games running at resolutions their own era couldnβt manage. Why I still prefer the software renderer, and why it needs a fast PC.
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Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio (Score: 161+ in 4 hours)
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Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low (π₯ Score: 151+ in 1 hour)
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Gallup.com
Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low
In 2025, fewer people worldwide are imagining their futures elsewhere. The U.S., long the world's most desired destination, is attracting less interest than at any point in nearly two decades.
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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks (π₯ Score: 165+ in 1 hour)
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Mercor
A benchmark map of the US economy | Mercor
The US Benchmark Map places AI benchmarks across the American economy, measuring which parts of the labor force are covered by unsaturated, public, agentic benchmarks.
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Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins (π₯ Score: 164+ in 44 minutes)
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Anthropic
Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
The decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.
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US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership (π₯ Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
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Torres
Rep. Torres Announces Power To The Players Act, Legislation to Ensure Gamers Own Their Games
Today, Rep. Ritchie Torres (NY-15) announced he will introduce the Power To The Players Act, legislation that would direct the Federal Trade Commission to establish regulations protecting consumersβ ability to own and play the video games they purchase. Overβ¦
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Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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I've refreshed StarSkirmish Bench, a benchmark where LLMs play StarCraft BW by writing code, with results from the flagship models of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Muse
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I've refreshed StarSkirmish Bench, a benchmark where LLMs play StarCraft BW by writing code, with results from the flagship models of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Muse
StarSkirmish
StarSkirmish Bench v0.2
StarSkirmish: where LLMs write code to play StarCraft.
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Waymo in Toronto (Score: 155+ in 5 hours)
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Waymo
Hello Toronto! Waymo is En Route
Waymo is officially heading to Canada! Weβre laying the groundwork for our fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Toronto, investing in local facilities and jobs, with the goal of welcoming our first riders in 2028.
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Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
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theregister
Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix
Core devs revert up to 10 features, push release to November, and blame better tooling rather than vibe coding
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JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
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Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June (π₯ Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
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Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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Calif
Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD
Big fish. Small counter. Root shell.
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How the Claude Code team does code review (π₯ Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
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claude.dev Blog
How the Claude Code team does code review / claude.dev Blog
How do you review code at the volume agents produce it? On the Claude Code team, once we had high coverage and deep reviews, we started optimizing for the minimum amount of human review time that doesn't raise reverts or incidents.
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Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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GitHub
GitHub - cobanov/PS5LM: llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console, starting with Qwen 3.8
llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console, starting with Qwen 3.8 - cobanov/PS5LM
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I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets (π₯ Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
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