Daily Top Stories
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
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Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
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US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
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FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
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LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet (social.kernel.org)
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After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news (niemanlab.org)
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PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (theregister.com)
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ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
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Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (cloud.google.com)
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Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com)
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Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
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Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
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You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass (geohot.github.io)
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Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
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What life is like in Minneapolis now (donmoynihan.substack.com)
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The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (theguardian.com)
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Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com)
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Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor (washingtonpost.com)
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Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland (apnews.com)
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Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation (mintlify.com)
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The recurring dream of replacing developers (caimito.net)
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Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers (seangoedecke.com)
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Germany's shut down of nuclear plants a 'huge mistake', says Merz (brusselssignal.eu)
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Every data centre is a U.S. military base (policyalternatives.ca)
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The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says (npr.org)
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Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study (binghamton.edu)
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Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)
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The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (bbc.com)
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ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.' (businessinsider.com)
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The Dilbert Afterlife (astralcodexten.com)