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  1. Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
    ×2.90 | 465 points by stefanpie 7 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
    ×2.94 | 326 points by psxuaw 6 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
    ×2.75 1 | 528 points by flipped 10 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (reuters.com)
    ×4.80 1 | 463 points by PriorityLeft 9 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
    ×1.91 2 | 76 points by cemsakarya 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
    ×2.42 4 | 587 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.24 4 | 402 points by bsuh 12 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
    ×1.26 13 | 52 points by foltik 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)
    ×1.70 6 | 240 points by instagraham 11 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
    ×1.19 6 | 80 points by hhs 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
    ×1.42 14 | 272 points by berlianta 14 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.04 24 | 37 points by hhs 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
    ×2.44 1 | 344 points by tamnd 13 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device (zknill.io)
    ×0.73 23 | 8 points by zknill 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
    ×5.19 10 | 558 points by thm 10 hours ago | 488 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos (lanl.gov)
    ×0.70 18 | 15 points by LAsteNERD 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
    ×2.00 5 | 115 points by hhs 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
    ×2.53 14 | 138 points by wslh 11 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.57 91 | 120 points by rustoo 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love (etke.cc)
    ×1.16 10 | 38 points by anotherevan 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
    ×2.35 1 | 274 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (mozilla.org)
    ×5.30 21 | 118 points by HieronymusBosch 13 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
    ×1.13 19 | 68 points by jruohonen 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Creating for a niche (davesnider.com)
    ×0.82 32 | 49 points by snide 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
    ×5.55 34 | 537 points by jeromechoo 1 day ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com/trevin)
    ×0.82 25 | 78 points by blumpy22 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person (popularwoodworking.com)
    ×0.77 22 | 42 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (reddit.com)
    ×4.20 20 | 522 points by newsoftheday 13 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
    ×1.29 10 | 165 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.07 55 | 132 points by wojtczyk 23 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Evaluating Geekbench 6 (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.80 69 | 3 points by wmf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (lites.dev)
    ×1.04 22 | 167 points by atilimcetin 18 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. PySimpleGUI 6 (github.com/PySimpleGUI)
    ×0.85 24 | 95 points by geophph 14 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Traveling Salesdog Problem (wespiser.com)
    ×0.69 7 | 21 points by wespiser_2018 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Rolling the Root Key (apnic.net)
    ×0.71 17 | 34 points by jandeboevrie 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters (firethering.com)
    ×1.16 48 | 101 points by steveharing1 20 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Utah data center: Projected daily heat equivalent to 23 atomic bombs (abc4.com)
    ×2.69 20 | 15 points by WarOnPrivacy 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support (apnews.com)
    ×2.61 3 | 7 points by OutOfHere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×6.03 10 | 1693 points by haunter 1 day ago | 576 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal (ycombinator.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Let Me Convince You to Be Prolific (3quarksdaily.com)
    ×1.59 49 | 12 points by herbertl 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo (github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork)
    ×2.04 24 | 12 points by larusso 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Colored Shadow Penumbra (chosker.github.io)
    ×0.42 31 | 34 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Agentic Engineering (addyosmani.com)
    ×2.70 38 | 18 points by fagnerbrack 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
    ×2.38 22 | 346 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
    ×1.54 33 | 73 points by cainxinth 5 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.06 25 | 259 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus) (online.fr)
    ×0.73 20 | 68 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Easy Random Trees (wilsonb.com)
    ×0.66 15 | 30 points by aebtebeten 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.42 36 | 114 points by segmenta 22 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The IT Productivity Paradox (stanford.edu)
    ×1.07 37 | 9 points by simonpure 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive (itsnicethat.com)
    ×1.16 9 | 157 points by sahar_builds 19 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
    ×1.26 26 | 191 points by stereo-highway 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.05 30 | 262 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook (johnozbay.com)
    ×1.68 9 | 113 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.28 10 | 92 points by mobeigi 16 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
    ×3.42 9 | 615 points by whatisabcdefgh 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport (ietf.org)
    ×0.74 20 | 62 points by mondainx 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. CVE-2026-42511 Breakdown: RCE in FreeBSD (aisle.com)
    ×1.08 49 | 14 points by mmsc 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)
    ×6.00 29 | 1541 points by diebillionaires 1 day ago | 631 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic) (cardor.dev)
    ×0.70 31 | 76 points by enmanuelmag 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Printing Blogs (fi-le.net)
    ×0.66 32 | 36 points by fi-le 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice (singleride.nyc)
    ×0.96 44 | 90 points by TMWNN 22 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
    ×0.86 74 | 3 points by gmays 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow (github.com/alikamp)
    ×0.58 40 | 47 points by kauai1 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The IDE Should Become an Operating System for AI (avkcode.github.io)
    ×0.92 74 | 3 points by akrylov 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)
    ×0.46 35 | 18 points by andres 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. New open source city-state, with new constitution functional on one site (arkology.org)
    ×0.95 73 | 3 points by TravelingTTime 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
    ×1.40 12 | 155 points by mindcrime 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally (github.com/ReviewStage)
    ×0.59 36 | 35 points by cpan22 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Learning OCaml: PPX for Mere Mortals (batsov.com)
    ×0.77 76 | 8 points by DASD 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family (mendelgreenberg.com)
    ×0.96 26 | 104 points by chabad360 22 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van (thedrive.com)
    ×0.89 41 | 65 points by PaulHoule 20 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. WAF and framework adapter mitigations for React and Next.js vulnerabilities (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.13 53 | 5 points by tjek 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.14 12 | 141 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.48 7 | 252 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Molecular quantum nanosensors functioning in living cells (science.org)
    ×0.68 65 | 8 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
    ×1.27 16 | 187 points by suoken 21 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape (iop.org)
    ×0.50 51 | 32 points by gnabgib 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why Don't Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII? (tylerhillery.com)
    ×2.41 31 | 11 points by alpaylan 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mojo Language (mojolang.org)
    ×1.64 47 | 14 points by melodyogonna 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.52 27 | 752 points by e12e 1 day ago | 857 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
    ×1.16 36 | 145 points by dmos62 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Pen pal programs endure in a digital age (apnews.com)
    ×0.91 39 | 90 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.76 36 | 68 points by darkrishabh 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×1.05 32 | 192 points by ozkatz 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Consumer Confidence Diverging for Low- and High-Income Households (apollo.com)
    ×0.60 68 | 7 points by akyuu 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AWS says data center overheating in North Virginia disrupts services (reuters.com)
    ×1.54 38 | 6 points by christhecaribou 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.41 16 | 1718 points by john-doe 2 days ago | 1122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.21 32 | 19 points by droidjj 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???