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Saturday, July 25, 2026
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Anthropic▲ 1435

Claude Opus 5

Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.

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The Hindu▲ 436

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth app Bitchat over security risks amid internet restrictions during protests, says Jack Dorsey.

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CNBC▲ 572

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

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HHH▲ 550

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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DBOS▲ 263

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

How we optimized Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY-backed data streams at scale, achieving 60K writes per second on a single Postgres server with millisecond-scale latency.

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Artificial Analysis▲ 220

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

Comparison and analysis of AI models across key performance metrics including quality, price, output speed, latency, context window & others.

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Haiku OS▲ 288

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

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YouTube▲ 153

Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

Abstract: In our modern world, it's easy to feel like things are careening out of control; that the future is happening to us while we take a back seat... an...

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HN — Best of the Week

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Kitsumed Blog▲ 899

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku.

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Tobi Knaup▲ 355

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment

Open-weight models are becoming the foundation for the next AI ecosystem. The US should compete in it, not wall itself off.

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Did they ghost you?▲ 353

Did They Ghost You?

Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.

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Cam▲ 571

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

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Claude▲ 251

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. How to apply the lessons we learned to your own context engineering in Claude Code and with your own agents.

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the Guardian▲ 222

The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

An underground network of privacy activists is disabling or destroying the ubiquitous surveillance devices sprouting up across the US

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Kirwinhampshire▲ 187

The Dark Night of Mathematics

What are we really doing?

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Fly▲ 180

Turn And Face The Strange

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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Wsj▲ 319

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Radicle▲ 227

Bitchat is now on Radicle

Explore the Radicle network

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Augmental▲ 172

MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

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Arcprize▲ 168

ARC-AGI Leaderboard

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Ieee▲ 163

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

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