tech

This link was posted by [twerkmeister](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=twerkmeister) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946010). It received 174 points and 78 comments.

Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize

This link was posted by [divbzero](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=divbzero) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943142). It received 70 points and 36 comments.

How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues

This link was posted by [vincent_s](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vincent_s) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342). It received 267 points and 146 comments.

Kimi K3 is now live

This link was posted by [pilililo2](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pilililo2) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932539). It received 110 points and 56 comments.

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

This link was posted by [mcgin](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mcgin) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930454). It received 126 points and 55 comments.

The lost joy of music piracy

This link was posted by [decimalenough](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=decimalenough) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930011). It received 142 points and 75 comments.

Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner's Meta Glasses Campaign

This link was posted by [vimarsh6739](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vimarsh6739) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924912). It received 231 points and 68 comments.

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

This link was posted by [davidbarker](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidbarker) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923079). It received 138 points and 112 comments.

Codex Micro

This link was posted by [neomindryan](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=neomindryan) 3 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922434). It received 124 points and 67 comments.

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

This link was posted by [vinhnx](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vinhnx) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915709). It received 133 points and 31 comments.

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

This link was posted by [LookAtThatBacon](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=LookAtThatBacon) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914644). It received 89 points and 34 comments.

Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

This link was posted by [hoechst](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hoechst) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909424). It received 141 points and 58 comments.

Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK

This link was posted by [yenniejun111](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yenniejun111) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908178). It received 146 points and 125 comments.

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

This link was posted by [plicerin](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=plicerin) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908271). It received 61 points and 34 comments.

Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works

This link was posted by [embedding-shape](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=embedding-shape) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905028). It received 124 points and 73 comments.

Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

This link was posted by [donohoe](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=donohoe) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569). It received 118 points and 28 comments.

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

This link was posted by [turbocon](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=turbocon) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010). It received 68 points and 34 comments.

The Git history command deserves more attention

This link was posted by [gmays](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gmays) 2 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899672). It received 55 points and 33 comments.

‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays

This link was posted by [speckx](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=speckx) 4 hours ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896665). It received 218 points and 102 comments.

Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode

This link was posted by [get-inscribe](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=get-inscribe) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894752). It received 158 points and 74 comments.

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

This link was posted by [ibobev](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ibobev) 1 hour ago on [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893639). It received 100 points and 14 comments.