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  1. Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (edjefferson.com)

    1,712 points|by sohkamyung||254 comments|link

  2. Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024) (humantransit.org)

    306 points|by skadamat||162 comments|link

  3. The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive (motherjones.com)

    301 points|by robtherobber||55 comments|link

  4. Colorfigures (april-zhu.com)

    148 points|by the-mitr||22 comments|link

  5. Anthropic S-1 (sec.gov)

    1,675 points|by SiNTEx||1,628 comments|link

  6. Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx (categorica.io)

    52 points|by foxhill||13 comments|link

  7. PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP (github.com)

    233 points|by vardhan1237||87 comments|link

  8. Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria (archaeologymag.com)

    143 points|by janandonly||63 comments|link

  9. US designates helium as a critical material (apnews.com)

    224 points|by rbanffy||136 comments|link

  10. iPhone Duo Teardown (ifixit.com)

    158 points|by kripy||139 comments|link

  11. PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025) (hallofdreams.org)

    106 points|by bmacho||69 comments|link

  12. Cancer vaccines are finally here. How do we get them to patients? (statnews.com)

    26 points|by elo2000||1 comment|link

  13. Firefox 159 (firefox.com)

    11 points|by andreasha||3 comments|link

  14. Unlimited-OCR-2: Baidu open-sources an OCR model for unlimited-horizon parsing (huggingface.co)

    7 points|by wondersky||0 comments|link

  15. In Context [video] (youtube.com)

    29 points|by adityaathalye||2 comments|link

  16. The Curse of Soldered RAM (blog.hardill.me.uk)

    120 points|by gsky||159 comments|link

  17. SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller (shraiwi.com)

    226 points|by zdw||65 comments|link

  18. Pharo 14 (pharo.org)

    271 points|by xkriva11||82 comments|link

  19. Growing Trees (brashandplucky.com)

    199 points|by ibobev||27 comments|link

  20. An incremental approach to JIT construction (dl.acm.org)

    47 points|by andsoitis||7 comments|link

  21. Historical Telecommunications (retronetworking.org)

    17 points|by jruohonen||5 comments|link

  22. Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model (cohere.com)

    314 points|by matthieu_bl||124 comments|link

  23. World Wars I and II Military Aviation Museum Collection (militaryaviationmuseum.org)

    42 points|by NaOH||14 comments|link

  24. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (imaginationlibrary.com)

    680 points|by jumploops||109 comments|link

  25. ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems (404media.co)

    259 points|by cdrnsf||94 comments|link

  26. Elon Musk Just Dumped Another $76M into the Midterms (wired.com)

    12 points|by xyzal||1 comment|link

  27. Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce (arstechnica.com)

    19 points|by tambourine_man||2 comments|link

  28. Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video] (youtube.com)

    80 points|by surprisetalk||16 comments|link

  29. “AI Skills” are worthless in 2026 (fishbowl.pastiche.org)

    45 points|by saikatsg||22 comments|link

  30. Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 at 184 tok/s on a single RTX 6000 Pro (meshapplied.com)

    25 points|by matteohorvath||4 comments|link