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Tell HN: Scribd Breached

×2.30 #2 | 154 points by x______________ 4 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?

×0.77 | 2 points by sky2224 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

×1.62 5 #53 | 24 points by stillatit 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?

×0.85 6 | 39 points by karakoram 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?

×0.84 50 | 15 points by all2 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?

×0.75 62 | 5 points by Gooblebrai 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GEMM Tutorial and UlmBLAS

×0.72 78 | 3 points by michael-lehn 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Wrong" Email

×1.05 31 | 24 points by rbmm 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?

×0.45 75 | 30 points by jahala 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Hack

×0.27 74 | 9 points by throwaway3309 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?

×0.39 88 | 4 points by winrid 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?

×0.35 86 | 8 points by japhyr 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?

×0.82 77 | 34 points by learner_yearner 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?

×0.18 103 | 8 points by weinzierl 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites

×0.74 90 | 31 points by TekMol 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?

×0.55 102 | 10 points by arm32 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Antrophic tightened usage limits?

×0.48 111 | 5 points by lukan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you using AI in your personal life?

×0.17 138 | 3 points by whall6 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?

×0.11 139 | 3 points by xiaomaijj 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?

×0.37 119 | 5 points by d--b 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?

×0.17 121 | 5 points by lucasov 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's your iPhone Duo experience so far?

×0.40 131 | 4 points by dgellow 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?

×5.74 14 | 144 points by mellosty 22 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Expericencing an issue in Gmail where emails do not delete in Firefox

×0.16 146 | 9 points by rc_kas 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?

×0.46 133 | 32 points by olalonde 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?

×0.35 137 | 21 points by pelcg 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Alternative to Tldraw Draw Fast?

×0.88 148 | 4 points by outlore 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Non-autoregressive NC LLM spits tokens 21x faster than text diffusion (stanford.edu)

×0.56 | 1 points by LarsDu88 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal (github.com/da-luce)

×1.43 36 #47 | 230 points by nvmdbljstm 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ViBrow – A custom browser engine in pure Python for Raspberry Pi Zero (github.com/HYXZKAKONHNK)

×0.51 | 1 points by pfehqqq 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dirjet – A fast, secure local file server that just works (github.com/skorotkiewicz)

×1.06 | 2 points by modinfo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Huntsman – Self-hosted web scraper that turns pages into Markdown (github.com/TulipFarm)

×0.45 | 1 points by maddhruvhn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Hate Online Waiting Rooms (bearblog.dev)

×1.33 | 2 points by mugamuga 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust (firezone.dev)

×1.36 10 #13 | 116 points by wh33zle 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Configure a UPS on Linux with NUT (linuxjunkies.org)

×1.21 20 #22 | 10 points by eustoria 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Academic Ancestry – See Who taught the people who taught you (Launch) (academicancestry.org)

×0.82 134 | 3 points by Codeblackwell 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VX100 and AXM2 Reference for DIY AI Hardware Projects (github.com/pigeon-labs-stack)

×0.61 | 1 points by jacquesm 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GenesisDB – The event sourcing database, is now open source (genesisdb.io)

×4.04 96 | 13 points by patriceckhart 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tyrtulia, a headless forum with no passwords, made for the terminal (andros.dev)

×0.84 104 | 3 points by andros 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trouble finding a motivated co-founder

×1.76 20 | 3 points by emexz 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lambda.ai Is Down? (lambda.ai)

×1.12 | 2 points by aftbit 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FK Sofa – Truck (truck-furniture.co.jp)

×1.69 | 2 points by Michelangelo11 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Visit Iceland Will Send a Real Knitter to Your Dumb Meeting So You Can Skip It (matadornetwork.com)

×3.52 10 #61 | 11 points by rdmuser 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
H.264 Is Magic (2016) (sidbala.com)

×2.14 14 #88 | 510 points by ea016 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brief History of PDP Computers (entropicthoughts.com)

×0.71 28 #16 | 12 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers (dreamgroup.com)

×1.71 18 | 323 points by 882542F3884314B 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Good writing is a business advantage (2020) (adaged.blogspot.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by zenincognito 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Adopts New AI Training Control (seroundtable.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by thm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Popkern – open-source CAD kernel with G2 corner blends, browser IDE (popkern.dev)

×1.09 117 | 14 points by geedy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii (virtuallyfun.com)

×1.18 14 #1 | 287 points by DHowett 14 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The First Agentic Native Hobby Operating System (github.com/vahmoh)

×0.79 | 1 points by sevda11 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code VS Code extension with backdoor released on Cursor marketplace (doublepulsar.com)

×5.61 55 | 399 points by bashtoni 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax (lesnumeriques.com)

×11.62 46 | 111 points by nick486 12 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Optimized CUDA forced alignment kernels. 10x – 1000x faster (github.com/brthor)

×1.21 83 | 3 points by bthornbury 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management (proc-cli.com)

×0.55 141 | 24 points by yazeedaloyoun 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pure Particles, an open source art particle toy built with Three.js (pureart-xyz.vercel.app)

×0.76 130 | 5 points by exos-xyz 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cirkit – Annotate, Trace, and Ask AI About Schematic PDFs (cirkit.us)

×0.97 153 | 5 points by Tal005 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required) (github.com/chris124567)

×1.59 6 #3 | 168 points by costco 9 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers (github.com/arterialist)

×1.52 3 #41 | 36 points by Arterialist 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Measuring how much of an AI-assisted design is yours (claude.ai)

×0.56 155 | 3 points by arian_ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we know so far about Spain train crash (bbc.com)

×1.54 28 | 240 points by ZeljkoS 1 day ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance (npr.org)

×2.35 52 | 192 points by paulpauper 15 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linode Security Incident (linode.com)

×2.70 29 #37 | 179 points by lacoolj 9 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech (house.gov)

×5.32 81 | 636 points by DeepLogin 19 hours ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

×0.42 100 #59 | 76 points by shong0504 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Junglia theme park in Okinawa posted ¥17.3B (US$109.84) loss in first year (japantimes.co.jp)

×0.56 | 1 points by guessmyname 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The State of Yuzu, Ryujinx, and Their Forks in 2026 (boilingsteam.com)

×1.49 46 | 3 points by ekianjo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (github.com/SheepSeb)

×1.41 2 | 270 points by airinei 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Patrick Stewart Has Died (nytimes.com)

×3.26 51 | 114 points by duke_sam 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Witnessory – a signed record of the web's move to post-quantum crypto (witnessory.org)

×0.61 110 | 6 points by parthod0x 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes (wired.com)

×2.74 15 #4 | 417 points by domhudson 18 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Pickpocket's Guide to New York (newyorker.com)

×1.15 18 #39 | 72 points by prismatic 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Full Python 3.15 Implemented in 25k LoC C11

×1.31 120 | 9 points by soasme 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Spinf-serve – inference server for bulk scoring and decisions (github.com/spinfinc)

×0.31 65 #69 | 21 points by giarec 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Getting Google Cast on My Soundbar (codon.org.uk)

×0.87 | 1 points by robin_reala 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kotlin Flow: Bugs That Look Correct at First (kt.academy)

×0.70 | 1 points by TheWiggles 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Remote code execution on Linux systems with multipath TCP (lwn.net)

×0.59 | 1 points by zenincognito 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hi3D Launches AI 3D Model with 2048³ Voxel Resolution (3dprintingindustry.com)

×1.63 | 2 points by noobplus 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Lasm – Write formally verified webapps in Lean for Node/serverless/edge (github.com/Millillion)

×0.67 71 | 36 points by lastmjs 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The 'Moylan Arrow' Is One of Ford's Best Contributions to Car Design (thedrive.com)

×1.66 5 #71 | 21 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE wants its mask back, and hired a company to ask (flokinet.is)

×5.76 51 | 194 points by rdmuser 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites (twitter.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm)

×7.11 25 | 106 points by jacquesm 17 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fitness Functions for Dbt Projects (github.com/tjirab)

×0.65 132 | 3 points by bartschuijt 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Capo-S3 – a typed, async-first S3 client for Python (pypi.org)

×4.12 94 | 16 points by karpetrosyan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (phorion.io)

×3.75 1 #15 | 872 points by _chall 1 day ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mexico urges respect for treaties after Texas seizes nine islands on Rio Grande (elpais.com)

×1.32 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Polish president turns back from Senegal trip after top court chief suspended (reuters.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by aliasxneo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proton goes all in on using AI (convo.casa)

×3.91 42 | 116 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cormac McCarthy's Library (utk.edu)

×0.96 45 #63 | 108 points by maitland 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target (wsj.com)

×8.09 64 #65 | 142 points by timr 4 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???