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  1. 8M Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions (koi.ai)
    ×5.48 | 32 points by takira 32 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Quill OS is an open-source, fully-functional standalone OS for Kobo's eReaders (quill-os.org)
    ×1.78 | 129 points by Curiositry 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite (rkblog.dev)
    ×1.16 19 | 17 points by geekman7473 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ideas aren't getting harder to find (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.70 3 | 78 points by mitchbob 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr (squishy.computer)
    ×1.64 10 | 132 points by fiatjaf 5 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. “Are you the one?” is free money (owenlacey.dev)
    ×2.19 7 | 188 points by samwho 7 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf] (nanohub.org)
    ×1.12 19 | 123 points by akshatjiwan 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers (andrewmccalip.com)
    ×1.48 17 | 53 points by flinner 5 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.72 5 | 48 points by technonerd 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Rollstack (YC W23) is hiring multiple software engineers (TypeScript) US/Canada (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: PasteClean – Desktop app to strip tracking parameters from clipboard (iixotic.github.io)
    ×0.95 13 | 19 points by Iblockedthem 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Understanding carriage (seths.blog)
    ×0.66 22 | 23 points by herbertl 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Umbrel – Personal Cloud (umbrel.com)
    ×1.23 8 | 140 points by oldfuture 8 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Bob Dylan concert for just one person (flaggingdown.com)
    ×1.83 2 | 42 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 (wired.com)
    ×5.10 10 | 221 points by sacred-rat 5 hours ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock (questdb.com)
    ×0.72 15 | 59 points by bluestreak 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. In Defense of Matlab Code (runmat.org)
    ×1.30 20 | 83 points by finbarr1987 9 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×5.83 12 | 239 points by connor11528 6 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century (hpjansson.org)
    ×1.36 11 | 115 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets (science.org)
    ×0.67 24 | 85 points by toomuchtodo 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable (johnlian.net)
    ×1.68 12 | 202 points by jlian 5 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet (reuters.com)
    ×3.58 14 | 146 points by divbzero 4 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The appropriate amount of effort is zero (expandingawareness.org)
    ×1.71 9 | 68 points by gmays 7 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.96 12 | 252 points by schmuckonwheels 8 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. We are discontinuing the dark web report (google.com)
    ×1.76 23 | 106 points by satertek 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number (ericdaigle.ca)
    ×4.18 23 | 533 points by e_daigle 8 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me (marcusolang.substack.com)
    ×6.20 10 | 578 points by florian_s 15 hours ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES (relaxing.run)
    ×1.83 8 | 357 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. John Updike Wrote It All Down (newrepublic.com)
    ×0.45 32 | 5 points by samclemens 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave (arxiv.org)
    ×2.35 11 | 122 points by bikenaga 7 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs (benjojo.co.uk)
    ×1.39 5 | 197 points by pavel_lishin 13 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop (vaxry.net)
    ×2.83 21 | 281 points by LorenDB 8 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
    ×1.71 40 | 402 points by david927 1 day ago | 1315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Creating custom yellow handshake emojis with zero-width joiners (alexbeals.com)
    ×1.32 67 | 4 points by dado3212 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide (mlive.com)
    ×3.62 17 | 386 points by bikenaga 12 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Optics and Image Processing Behind Fundus Cameras (youtube.com)
    ×0.42 35 | 12 points by hyperific 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Autonomous code analyzer beats all human teams at OSS zero-day competition (theori.io)
    ×1.40 54 | 4 points by tjbecker 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A pager (udp7777.com)
    ×0.93 48 | 86 points by keepamovin 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI agents are starting to eat SaaS (martinalderson.com)
    ×2.88 23 | 357 points by jnord 1 day ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres (andyatkinson.com)
    ×1.94 7 | 341 points by pil0u 17 hours ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Building an efficient hash table in Java (bluuewhale.github.io)
    ×1.21 25 | 81 points by birdculture 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Datasetq: jq for Datasets; Polars-powered Parquet/JSON/CSV query lang/cli (github.com/datasetq)
    ×1.36 79 | 3 points by djb-at-durable 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Rob Reiner has died (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×3.52 11 | 300 points by RickJWagner 23 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. We architected an edge caching layer to eliminate cold starts (mintlify.com)
    ×0.55 26 | 33 points by skeptrune 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges (bloomberglaw.com)
    ×3.84 4 | 625 points by nreece 1 day ago | 770 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car (currentindia.com)
    ×2.33 9 | 63 points by voxleone 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ (thenewstack.io)
    ×1.94 2 | 416 points by MilnerRoute 23 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. US Tech Force (techforce.gov)
    ×2.98 25 | 184 points by purple_ferret 10 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again (bbc.com)
    ×1.96 14 | 163 points by 1659447091 12 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Cordon – Reduce large log files to anomalous sections (github.com/calebevans)
    ×0.58 60 | 9 points by calebevans 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. John Varley has died (floggingbabel.blogspot.com)
    ×1.32 36 | 158 points by decimalenough 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Whole App is a Blob (drobinin.com)
    ×1.27 33 | 148 points by valzevul 23 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (elpais.com)
    ×3.87 6 | 530 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 889 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve complete tumor elimination (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.75 2 | 10 points by OutOfHere 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases (github.com/Maxteabag)
    ×2.40 64 | 20 points by MaxTeabag 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions (github.com/pretzelhammer)
    ×1.37 33 | 121 points by CafeRacer 21 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. $5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop (exclav.es)
    ×0.94 36 | 100 points by gsf_emergency_6 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. New citizenship rules for Canadians born or adopted abroad are now in effect (canada.ca)
    ×2.26 19 | 8 points by agentifysh 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Instacart director says she was fired for Democratic congressional campaign (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.14 31 | 37 points by reaperducer 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
    ×1.01 2 | 69 points by hussein-khalil 11 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How well do you know C++ auto type deduction? (volatileint.dev)
    ×0.90 48 | 86 points by volatileint 23 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Liquid-rust: Liquid templating for Rust (github.com/cobalt-org)
    ×0.47 26 | 18 points by transpute 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Unscii (viznut.fi)
    ×2.00 10 | 308 points by Levitating 23 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.05 21 | 122 points by huvarda 12 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I used Claude Code to write a piano web app (jcurcioconsulting.com)
    ×0.92 12 | 18 points by Jeremy1026 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System (capros.org)
    ×0.78 51 | 102 points by gjvc 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×2.35 7 | 7 points by mitchbob 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.65 30 | 121 points by ksec 11 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The History of Xerox (abortretry.fail)
    ×0.91 47 | 70 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Amazon's Aggressive Push to Get Cops Using AI Surveillance (forbes.com)
    ×1.52 5 | 16 points by measurablefunc 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets (bearcove.eu)
    ×1.32 3 | 220 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. SoundCloud has banned VPN access (reddit.com)
    ×2.43 8 | 277 points by empressplay 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. UK to "encourage" Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.71 31 | 29 points by GlumWoodpecker 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Nasdaq to submit paperwork with SEC for round-the-clock trading (reuters.com)
    ×2.09 17 | 21 points by m-hodges 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Getting into public speaking (brooks.page)
    ×1.38 61 | 160 points by jbrooksuk 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963) (caltech.edu)
    ×0.89 29 | 90 points by rramadass 23 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011) (wordpress.com)
    ×0.59 53 | 35 points by kruuuder 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities (castiching.com)
    ×0.59 5 | 55 points by jackzhuo 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. QStudio SQL Analysis tool now open source (timestored.com)
    ×1.20 65 | 4 points by RyanHamilton 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Lidar maker Luminar files for bankruptcy (luminartech.com)
    ×1.13 47 | 9 points by gripfx 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. US suspends technology deal with the UK (ft.com)
    ×1.98 6 | 6 points by beejiu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Java Ring: A Wearable Computer (1998) (nngroup.com)
    ×0.67 36 | 45 points by cromulent 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: 100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air (twitter.com/AKurian001)
    ×2.05 34 | 69 points by Arun_Kurian 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Elevated errors across many models (claude.com)
    ×1.92 10 | 314 points by pablo24602 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites before making 550th SpaceX landing (space.com)
    ×1.70 3 | 25 points by gmays 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Read Something Wonderful (readsomethingwonderful.com)
    ×2.12 10 | 178 points by snorbleck 23 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System (typeframe.net)
    ×0.88 38 | 123 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Baumol's Cost Disease (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.34 44 | 128 points by drra 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons (alinpanaitiu.com)
    ×1.92 18 | 217 points by alin23 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. History of Declarative Programming (2021) (shenlanguage.org)
    ×0.77 41 | 70 points by measurablefunc 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???