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  1. Virginia bans sale of geolocation data (hunton.com)
    ×3.36 | 494 points by toomuchtodo 5 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. An American Privacy Emergency (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×3.06 | 138 points by flowercalled 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM (cloud.microsoft)
    ×2.73 2 | 60 points by throwaway2027 2 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C (github.com/FractalFir)
    ×2.23 | 133 points by Philpax 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)
    ×2.01 2 | 141 points by vinhnx 5 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Exapunks (2018) (zachtronics.com)
    ×1.27 3 | 220 points by yu3zhou4 7 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×1.82 3 | 404 points by IngoBlechschmid 10 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Right to Local Intelligence (righttointelligence.org)
    ×2.10 7 | 29 points by thoughtpeddler 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test (dailymail.com)
    ×1.58 2 | 53 points by FireBeyond 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Podman v6.0.0 (podman.io)
    ×3.26 4 | 396 points by soheilpro 11 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform (github.com/Chocobozzz)
    ×3.03 9 | 516 points by doener 14 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How to ask for help from people who don't know you (pradyuprasad.com)
    ×2.50 7 | 394 points by FigurativeVoid 12 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. EFF letter to FTC on X consent order (2 July 2026) [pdf] (arstechnica.net)
    ×1.16 9 | 106 points by Terretta 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11 (apple.github.io)
    ×0.87 16 | 32 points by sourdecor 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD (github.com/segaboy)
    ×0.94 22 | 82 points by segaboy81 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower (dbos.dev)
    ×1.37 8 | 112 points by KraftyOne 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: zkGolf – Competitive optimization of formally verified circuits (zk.golf)
    ×0.79 | 39 points by rot256 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0 (lmdb.tech)
    ×0.67 15 | 62 points by radiator 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Superpowers 6 (fsck.com)
    ×1.33 6 | 74 points by seahorseemoji 5 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Immich 3.0 (github.com/immich-app)
    ×3.84 14 | 200 points by hashier 11 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable (okturtles.org)
    ×1.38 20 | 65 points by Riseed 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations (gitstock.org)
    ×0.44 41 | 9 points by dares2573 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video (github.com/HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo)
    ×1.66 6 | 82 points by cortexosmain 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow (growtheflowutah.org)
    ×1.25 15 | 61 points by cfowles 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices (kendal.codeberg.page)
    ×0.84 11 | 26 points by imkendal 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people (piecesof.me)
    ×0.74 9 | 30 points by domo__knows 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.68 17 | 22 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time (petapixel.com)
    ×0.84 21 | 17 points by HardwareLust 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview (openjdk.org)
    ×0.75 18 | 56 points by za3faran 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud (manufact.com)
    ×0.59 29 | 101 points by pzullo 10 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine (github.com/ctxrs)
    ×1.20 11 | 26 points by luca-ctx 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring for Our Largest Government Contract (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies (clashreport.com)
    ×5.92 27 | 592 points by mgh2 11 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012) (xiph.org)
    ×1.91 12 | 97 points by Kaapeine 9 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity (microsoft.com)
    ×1.00 19 | 24 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. LibreCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
    ×1.01 70 | 73 points by devttyeu 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.02 31 | 142 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus (lwn.net)
    ×0.66 10 | 16 points by spdegabrielle 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection (f-droid.org)
    ×6.47 27 | 1578 points by drewfax 23 hours ago | 681 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected (reuters.com)
    ×2.74 22 | 29 points by cwwc 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Client-side load balancing at a million requests per second (zalando.com)
    ×0.77 67 | 40 points by cjbooms 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules (yomiuri.co.jp)
    ×2.58 21 | 360 points by mushstory 12 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.68 32 | 11 points by k1m 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Hobbes – A Language and Embedded JIT Compiler (github.com/morganstanley)
    ×0.89 75 | 4 points by ryan-ca 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Wireless LAN SD (sdcard.org)
    ×0.85 29 | 30 points by sharpshadow 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation? (yp.to)
    ×2.43 33 | 106 points by SuperSandro2000 13 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars (aasnova.org)
    ×0.85 33 | 29 points by visha1v 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The fall of the theorem economy (davidbessis.substack.com)
    ×1.55 17 | 253 points by varjag 18 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Small Molecules Have More Information per Atom Than Biologics (corinwagen.github.io)
    ×1.55 78 | 4 points by sebg 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 19 | 137 points by tcp_handshaker 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies (github.com/clidey)
    ×0.95 50 | 9 points by modelorona 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you (github.com/alex-w-developer)
    ×1.34 2 | 9 points by sudo_cowsay 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models (github.com/rafal-qa)
    ×0.70 29 | 76 points by rkochanowski 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×4.45 38 | 435 points by toomuchtodo 12 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. CarPlay Is Additive (caseyliss.com)
    ×3.96 52 | 44 points by sprawl_ 1 hour ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Supreme Court rules privacy protections apply to cellphone location history (apnews.com)
    ×3.21 33 | 15 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.66 29 | 326 points by ColinWright 14 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.42 23 | 34 points by argee 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers (snorkel.ai)
    ×1.19 59 | 166 points by matt_d 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. CursorBench 3.1 (cursor.com)
    ×1.24 44 | 160 points by handfuloflight 20 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Smol Machines (smolmachines.com)
    ×2.43 50 | 7 points by fumplethumb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Simple, beautiful Emacs modeline: modusregel (codeberg.org)
    ×0.47 51 | 9 points by jjba23 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser (freegraphpaper.net)
    ×1.12 14 | 93 points by lam_hg94 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing (bednars.me)
    ×0.74 51 | 81 points by piotrbednarsalt 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout (victoriametrics.com)
    ×1.01 19 | 50 points by eatonphil 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bring back crappy forums (tedium.co)
    ×3.46 15 | 536 points by pentagrama 23 hours ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Intercept lost control of its Signal-based tip line for months (twitter.com/ryangrim)
    ×4.38 36 | 24 points by bhouston 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Swift-Nio-QUIC (github.com/apple)
    ×0.74 65 | 8 points by frizlab 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. My favorite keyboards (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.41 36 | 128 points by tmach32 18 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why jet engines aren't made in China (aakash.substack.com)
    ×2.31 46 | 286 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)
    ×0.70 71 | 11 points by MegagramEnjoyer 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline (github.com/emson)
    ×0.47 62 | 45 points by emson 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. North Korea patents soybean-based chocolate to bypass cocoa and sanctions (chosun.com)
    ×2.83 18 | 5 points by mushstory 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction (mixedbread.com)
    ×0.87 49 | 104 points by breadislove 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years (cnbc.com)
    ×4.34 62 | 151 points by MilnerRoute 6 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3 (zerofs.net)
    ×1.00 9 | 117 points by Eikon 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
    ×1.93 20 | 402 points by unliftedq 21 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I measured the half-life of 41,301 Show HN launches. It's 7 hours (jonno.nz)
    ×1.76 92 | 20 points by jonnonz 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy (rfi.fr)
    ×2.74 36 | 201 points by giuliomagnifico 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Brave's latest browser release offers Containers for better and easier workflow (brave.com)
    ×1.53 52 | 25 points by dotcoma 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Modeling the Covid-19 Outbreak with J (2020) (datakinds.github.io)
    ×0.70 15 | 20 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Vite+ Beta (voidzero.dev)
    ×1.55 37 | 220 points by Erenay09 14 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 'Separate in name and power': How America reinvented English (bbc.com)
    ×1.09 41 | 9 points by 1659447091 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I built an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork (github.com/valmishq)
    ×1.02 74 | 26 points by wayneshng 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides (quantamagazine.org)
    ×3.57 13 | 926 points by defrost 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI content flood: why the web's signal is dying (psyll.com)
    ×2.45 44 | 11 points by lucasfletcher 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Rethinking Mean-Field Theory for Neural Networks (aps.org)
    ×0.71 72 | 9 points by visha1v 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Millions told to check their sunscreen experts reveal products may not be safe (dailymail.com)
    ×0.77 74 | 4 points by Bender 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How do wombats poop cubes? (2021) (science.org)
    ×1.28 54 | 166 points by bushwart 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. 'Weird Al' Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad (variety.com)
    ×3.44 38 | 22 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???