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  1. Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga (democrata.es)
    ×3.00 2 | 128 points by akyuu 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (dpa-international.com)
    ×2.77 2 | 523 points by mpweiher 4 hours ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA's 'Big Brother Machine' (mit.edu)
    ×2.33 2 | 36 points by the-mitr 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How an Oil Refinery Works (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.68 2 | 150 points by chmaynard 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" (twitter.com/theo)
    ×5.95 4 | 295 points by elmean 2 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library (semgrep.dev)
    ×1.93 13 | 18 points by j12y 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file (honker.dev)
    ×1.51 14 | 38 points by ferriswil 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (bidprowl.com)
    ×1.32 5 | 159 points by scarsam 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)
    ×1.50 5 | 109 points by vok 3 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin (github.com/Pathos0925)
    ×1.87 1 | 24 points by ilarum 42 minutes ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com/mozilla)
    ×2.97 7 | 411 points by jaffathecake 9 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
    ×1.45 4 | 225 points by steveharing1 6 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity (mit.edu)
    ×1.17 16 | 17 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.46 10 | 561 points by lumpa 14 hours ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (noctua.at)
    ×2.42 13 | 428 points by embedding-shape 14 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Where the goblins came from (openai.com)
    ×4.16 1 | 941 points by ilreb 13 hours ago | 558 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Because It Doesn't Have To (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.66 20 | 16 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.71 16 | 34 points by downbad_ 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve? (pomax.github.io)
    ×0.96 17 | 83 points by mostlyk 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock (coverclock.blogspot.com)
    ×0.76 13 | 50 points by g0xA52A2A 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What can we gain by losing infinity? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.82 61 | 66 points by Tomte 11 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Craig Venter has died (jcvi.org)
    ×1.58 21 | 307 points by rdl 15 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled (404media.co)
    ×2.17 6 | 16 points by Brajeshwar 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. GCC 16 has been released (gnu.org)
    ×3.17 14 | 233 points by HeliumHydride 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs (bbc.com)
    ×3.50 23 | 411 points by gorbachev 4 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble (datacenter.fm)
    ×1.38 18 | 109 points by louisbarclay 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens (burla-cloud.github.io)
    ×2.21 46 | 8 points by jmp1062 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. "Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++ (derekrodriguez.dev)
    ×0.71 33 | 64 points by dwrodri 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion that outperforms robot_localization (github.com/manankharwar)
    ×0.32 38 | 7 points by kharwarm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
    ×7.10 7 | 2028 points by salkahfi 1 day ago | 658 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
    ×1.27 20 | 174 points by the-mitr 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. OpenTrafficMap (opentrafficmap.org)
    ×1.88 26 | 356 points by moooo99 21 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) (amusingplanet.com)
    ×1.07 33 | 113 points by CGMthrowaway 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Copy Fail (copy.fail)
    ×5.25 9 | 1288 points by unsnap_biceps 22 hours ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Monad Tutorials Timeline (haskell.org)
    ×0.90 41 | 85 points by brudgers 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
    ×1.62 29 | 174 points by noleary 16 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (github.com/cauchy221)
    ×1.31 13 | 180 points by reconnecting 14 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. We're in 1905: Why Electricity (Not Dot-Com) Is the Right AI Analogy (joereis.substack.com)
    ×2.06 13 | 3 points by speckx 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight (flyingmag.com)
    ×0.82 63 | 78 points by Jblx2 16 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language (spectrelang.org)
    ×1.08 1 | 29 points by pizza_man 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ghostty is leaving GitHub (mitchellh.com)
    ×11.80 7 | 3439 points by WadeGrimridge 1 day ago | 1028 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Official SAP NPM packages compromised to steal credentials (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.66 13 | 14 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
    ×5.19 13 | 1121 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Creating a Color Palette from an Image (amandahinton.com)
    ×1.10 48 | 106 points by evakhoury 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (microsoft.com)
    ×0.86 58 | 84 points by aragonite 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.87 69 | 127 points by sandslash 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Iran war disrupts the circuit board supply chain, raises costs for tech firms (reuters.com)
    ×1.48 | 21 points by croes 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all (markready.io)
    ×1.71 40 | 119 points by chambertime 3 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials (promptarmor.com)
    ×0.83 62 | 135 points by takira 23 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust (acm.org)
    ×0.55 69 | 44 points by tkhattra 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. PostgreSQL 19 features I'm excited about (bytebase.com)
    ×1.68 6 | 17 points by tianzhou 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot (lina.sh)
    ×2.00 45 | 140 points by fishgoesblub 20 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig (pure-systems.org)
    ×1.73 1 | 172 points by xngbuilds 14 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Warm Burnout: editor and terminal color scheme (warmburnout.com)
    ×2.42 55 | 54 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones (404media.co)
    ×3.34 48 | 71 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies (agwa.name)
    ×1.77 11 | 399 points by agwa 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How not to ban surveillance pricing (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.55 13 | 8 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design (eetimes.com)
    ×0.56 68 | 58 points by giuliomagnifico 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years (jivx.com)
    ×2.82 1 | 359 points by momentmaker 21 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write (github.com/aallan)
    ×1.10 46 | 104 points by unignorant 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 (talkie-lm.com)
    ×2.85 67 | 757 points by jekude 2 days ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.06 58 | 107 points by zdw 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts (github.com/DOS-History)
    ×0.95 62 | 147 points by s2l 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant (heise.de)
    ×1.29 11 | 36 points by pantalaimon 6 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I Mean, Why Shouldn't We All Smoke Cigarettes Again? (thecut.com)
    ×2.20 9 | 5 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Copy-fail-destroyer: K8s remediation for CVE-2026-31431 (github.com/NorskHelsenett)
    ×0.47 52 | 12 points by evenh 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL (bensimms.moe)
    ×0.97 49 | 89 points by nitros 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce (github.com/GliaX)
    ×1.57 20 | 294 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. No new trial for Sam Bankman-Fried (citationneeded.news)
    ×2.72 28 | 16 points by wslh 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Laws of UX (lawsofux.com)
    ×1.82 1 | 324 points by bobbiechen 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com/anthropics)
    ×5.24 46 | 1206 points by homebrewer 22 hours ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Soft launch of open-source code platform for government (nldigitalgovernment.nl)
    ×2.33 4 | 545 points by e12e 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web (archive.org)
    ×1.56 19 | 6 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell (jointhefreeworld.org)
    ×1.41 5 | 258 points by jjba23 23 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Online age verification is the hill to die on (x.com)
    ×5.79 37 | 929 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 642 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample (plagiarismtoday.com)
    ×0.72 38 | 22 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores (theguardian.com)
    ×2.84 4 | 320 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. At Protocol: Building the Social Internet (atproto.com)
    ×0.93 52 | 89 points by resiros 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I tricked 3M people into believing in an evil fake polycule (rawandferal.substack.com)
    ×2.65 5 | 13 points by jjmarr 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories (theguardian.com)
    ×1.12 54 | 89 points by Cynddl 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Will you heed my warnings now? (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.81 18 | 78 points by bwesterb 10 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing (jeffschomay.com)
    ×0.84 45 | 129 points by jschomay 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Bugs Rust won't catch (corrode.dev)
    ×2.83 6 | 664 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Watercolor World with Three.js (susurrus.vercel.app)
    ×1.07 1 | 10 points by lovegrenoble 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Throwaway – open-source disposable email checker and API (github.com/sslboard)
    ×0.54 44 | 8 points by weddpros 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral.ai)
    ×3.41 24 | 481 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Before GitHub (pocoo.org)
    ×2.65 13 | 662 points by mlex 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. We need a federation of forges (tangled.org)
    ×2.52 32 | 587 points by icy 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web. We oppose this API (mastodon.social)
    ×1.59 12 | 21 points by Vinnl 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???