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  1. Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's locations (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.36 | 43 points by mentalgear 42 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I am building a cloud (crawshaw.io)
    ×3.37 | 537 points by bumbledraven 8 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite (github.com/russellromney)
    ×1.47 | 30 points by russellthehippo 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)
    ×6.82 | 1872 points by Kaibeezy 20 hours ago | 621 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Your hex editor should color-code bytes (simonomi.dev)
    ×2.81 1 | 188 points by tobr 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.94 1 | 22 points by ColinWright 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.26 2 | 655 points by cdrnsf 16 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring (jiga.io)
    51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (ar-ms.me)
    ×1.65 3 | 37 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities (fingerprint.com)
    ×3.95 1 | 767 points by danpinto 19 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (maurycyz.com)
    ×3.48 3 | 686 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Isopods of the world (isopod.site)
    ×1.29 10 | 38 points by debesyla 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.48 8 | 118 points by Prof_Sigmund 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image (antiz.fr)
    ×3.03 10 | 121 points by maxloh 10 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Our newsroom AI policy (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.45 2 | 92 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Onion to Take over InfoWars (nytimes.com)
    ×3.44 6 | 239 points by lxm 9 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Highlights from Git 2.54 (github.blog)
    ×2.44 10 | 42 points by ingve 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary (nrehiew.github.io)
    ×1.89 5 | 384 points by pella 19 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Email could have been X.400 times better (buttondown.com)
    ×1.86 13 | 22 points by maguay 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Website streamed live directly from a model (flipbook.page)
    ×2.25 8 | 321 points by sethbannon 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Work with the Garage Door Up (andymatuschak.org)
    ×0.69 21 | 7 points by jxmorris12 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road (bookdna.com)
    ×0.84 16 | 36 points by bwb 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Technical, cognitive, and intent debt (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.74 17 | 278 points by theorchid 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically (hisorty.app)
    ×1.29 7 | 11 points by damiannn 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game (homemade.systems)
    ×0.99 19 | 88 points by mwenge 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players (reuters.com)
    ×1.10 30 | 134 points by wslh 16 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Parallel agents in Zed (zed.dev)
    ×1.74 12 | 243 points by ajeetdsouza 19 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model (qwen.ai)
    ×3.94 13 | 883 points by mfiguiere 23 hours ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Books are not too expensive (millersbookreview.com)
    ×1.33 48 | 72 points by herbertl 15 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms (psu.edu)
    ×1.40 29 | 243 points by t-3 23 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns (adriankrebs.ch)
    ×1.89 10 | 316 points by hubraumhugo 22 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Forgotten History of Hershey's Electric Railway (1916) in Cuba (ieee.org)
    ×0.71 44 | 11 points by defrost 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise (openai.com)
    ×1.21 15 | 81 points by shpat 12 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Borrow-checking without type-checking (scattered-thoughts.net)
    ×1.04 3 | 69 points by jamii 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (hails.org)
    ×3.81 17 | 966 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bodega cats of New York (bodegacatsofnewyork.com)
    ×1.44 26 | 199 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust (verus-lang.github.io)
    ×0.92 26 | 61 points by fanf2 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Workspace Agents in ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×1.29 27 | 145 points by mfiguiere 19 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Plexus P/20 Emulator (spritetm.github.io)
    ×0.45 40 | 21 points by hggh 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Bring Your Agent to Teams (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.07 30 | 69 points by umangsehgal93 14 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What killed the Florida orange? (slate.com)
    ×1.38 30 | 153 points by danso 21 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing" (eurekalert.org)
    ×3.80 16 | 7 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.73 35 | 44 points by benbreen 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Congressman Introduces Bill to Ban AI Chatbots in Children's Toys (house.gov)
    ×3.34 25 | 14 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (alvarezrosa.com)
    ×1.22 32 | 43 points by dalvrosa 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard (theguardian.com)
    ×0.61 44 | 56 points by agronaut 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.53 38 | 216 points by ingve 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production (anthropocenemagazine.org)
    ×1.54 25 | 94 points by dotcoma 17 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Neon King of New Orleans (gardenandgun.com)
    ×0.66 38 | 52 points by renameme 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be (craigmod.com)
    ×2.90 20 | 60 points by jen729w 8 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Columnar Storage Is Normalization (buttondown.com)
    ×0.83 43 | 113 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Approximating Hyperbolic Tangent (jtomschroeder.com)
    ×0.73 29 | 47 points by jtomschroeder 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Effectful Recursion Schemes (effekt-lang.org)
    ×0.57 52 | 31 points by marvinborner 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts (twitter.com/orsonscottcard)
    ×1.44 7 | 131 points by MrBuddyCasino 17 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. What Have We Dumped on the Moon? (hackaday.com)
    ×1.17 3 | 3 points by pkaeding 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era (blog.google)
    ×2.23 20 | 434 points by xnx 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The great Scouse pasty war (livpost.co.uk)
    ×0.66 47 | 52 points by DamonHD 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports (lwn.net)
    ×1.23 39 | 116 points by edward 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries (lpeproject.org)
    ×1.16 16 | 115 points by cainxinth 19 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. ChatGPT Images 2.0 (openai.com)
    ×3.95 11 | 1016 points by wahnfrieden 1 day ago | 943 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud (github.com/besimple-oss)
    ×0.64 45 | 67 points by yzhong94 20 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 3.4M Solar Panels (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.60 8 | 308 points by marklit 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. SteamOS now runs on every AMD handheld (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.36 13 | 4 points by SockThief 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. OpenAI model for masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text (openai.com)
    ×1.92 22 | 37 points by tanelpoder 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Another Day Has Come (daringfireball.net)
    ×1.77 1 | 243 points by ndr42 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.16 48 | 87 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Rip language. Compiles to ES2022. Built-in reactivity (github.com/shreeve)
    ×0.79 43 | 25 points by perfunctory 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tasteful Tokenmaxxing (latent.space)
    ×0.81 56 | 10 points by omer_k 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Making RAM at Home [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.63 14 | 600 points by kaipereira 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. All your agents are going async (zknill.io)
    ×1.08 37 | 130 points by zknill 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer (Part 2) (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×0.50 52 | 34 points by kkl 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Musicians are manufacturing sold-out shows (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.89 60 | 59 points by helsinkiandrew 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Light Pollution and Wildlife Interactive Ecology Simulation (naturnacht-fulda-rhoen.de)
    ×1.06 64 | 4 points by ptrsrtp 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. An MCP Server for Fastmail – National Email Day (fastmail.com)
    ×1.49 34 | 24 points by nmjenkins 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation (github.com/google-deepmind)
    ×0.91 38 | 115 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Garbage collection without unsafe code (fitzgen.com)
    ×0.82 44 | 111 points by foota 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline (nytimes.com)
    ×2.56 24 | 219 points by marojejian 20 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger (theregister.com)
    ×5.14 32 | 16 points by tcp_handshaker 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry (github.com/telemetry)
    ×2.51 44 | 445 points by ingve 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Laws of Software Engineering (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)
    ×4.37 20 | 1143 points by milanm081 2 days ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How Much Caffeine in Coffee Cup? (researchgate.net)
    ×1.00 53 | 14 points by rzk 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma (ieee.org)
    ×0.73 39 | 98 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.86 15 | 21 points by 019 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Cljfx: A declarative desktop UI framework in Clojure (github.com/cljfx)
    ×1.02 55 | 19 points by marcelox86 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Real-Real-Time Chat (kraa.io)
    ×0.45 58 | 6 points by levmiseri 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans (github.blog)
    ×3.58 23 | 524 points by zorrn 2 days ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment (courthousenews.com)
    ×0.70 41 | 99 points by geox 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser (duckdb.org)
    ×1.82 16 | 156 points by janandonly 22 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How I Use Unspent Tokens (artisincode.com)
    ×1.26 47 | 20 points by parentheses 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A Practical Introduction to Constraint Programming Using CP-SAT and Python (pganalyze.com)
    ×0.46 61 | 5 points by acheong08 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???