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  1. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
    ×7.11 52 #59 | 1413 points by novemp 22 hours ago | 888 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
    ×5.42 24 #49 | 1396 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 1078 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear (europa.eu)
    ×6.04 45 | 1183 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 805 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state (greenwald.substack.com)
    ×5.76 19 | 921 points by mikece 1 day ago | 645 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I fixed Windows native development (marler8997.github.io)
    ×3.33 3 #76 | 792 points by deevus 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
    ×3.34 5 #68 | 673 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library (oat.ink)
    ×3.33 14 | 519 points by twapi 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
    ×2.39 32 #45 | 490 points by harel 15 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.75 3 #2 | 482 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died (videogameschronicle.com)
    ×3.00 2 | 428 points by magoghm 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (github.com/TechPaula)
    ×1.65 11 #83 | 406 points by classichasclass 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
    ×2.36 6 #41 | 399 points by danielhanchen 19 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
    ×3.44 23 #54 | 368 points by beardyw 17 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (fide.com)
    ×1.70 1 #84 | 358 points by prophylaxis 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved (flashpointarchive.org)
    ×1.81 38 | 348 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
    ×4.64 64 | 346 points by dClauzel 16 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
    ×1.90 13 #8 | 341 points by ssgodderidge 14 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×4.30 32 #51 | 337 points by righthand 14 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals (theintercept.com)
    ×3.27 16 | 312 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
    ×3.11 10 #19 | 302 points by dvrp 10 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless (arxiv.org)
    ×2.00 #3 | 301 points by mustaphah 7 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.74 19 #87 | 296 points by bikenaga 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
    ×1.76 24 | 291 points by theblazehen 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)
    ×2.77 38 #48 | 273 points by enz 10 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser (boratto.ca)
    ×1.69 19 | 269 points by b44 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (bbc.com)
    ×2.64 #1 | 266 points by colinprince 3 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×4.94 2 #4 | 267 points by VorpalWay 4 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 (jmail.world)
    ×8.85 7 | 267 points by doener 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Privilege is bad grammar (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.42 16 #28 | 254 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself (ahmedeldin.substack.com)
    ×7.08 46 | 252 points by 0x54MUR41 16 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court (heise.de)
    ×2.87 29 | 244 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface (kotaku.com)
    ×3.65 53 | 225 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door (knock-knock.net)
    ×1.68 32 | 217 points by djkurlander 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)
    ×1.38 4 #38 | 214 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.31 52 | 192 points by swah 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.24 40 #85 | 168 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
    ×1.39 49 #67 | 162 points by luu 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Sideprocalypse (hal.se)
    ×1.50 6 #63 | 152 points by headalgorithm 14 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)
    ×2.21 6 #5 | 150 points by max-m 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
    ×0.87 30 #47 | 149 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.28 42 | 146 points by computerliker 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I guess I kinda get why people hate AI (noided.media)
    ×5.24 57 | 145 points by NM-Super 11 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
    ×1.02 39 #75 | 145 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI is going to kill app subscriptions (nichehunt.app)
    ×2.39 49 | 145 points by informal007 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices (github.com/pocketblue)
    ×1.07 57 #74 | 141 points by nikodunk 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Robert Duvall has died (nytimes.com)
    ×3.35 52 #78 | 137 points by glimshe 10 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. WebMCP Proposal (webmachinelearning.github.io)
    ×1.15 4 #36 | 133 points by Alifatisk 11 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Why I don't think AGI is imminent (dlants.me)
    ×3.02 37 | 131 points by anonymid 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
    ×1.38 9 #7 | 129 points by zachlatta 7 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.01 44 #55 | 122 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe (wero-wallet.eu)
    ×3.06 61 | 120 points by tilt 9 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986) (github.com/s-macke)
    ×0.89 64 | 117 points by tosh 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI optimism is a class privilege (joshcollinsworth.com)
    ×5.95 52 | 115 points by ragall 10 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.22 19 #33 | 114 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF (zamoshi.substack.com)
    ×5.40 72 | 112 points by Zamoshi 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life (macrumors.com)
    ×2.59 21 | 109 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality (pennmedicine.org)
    ×1.40 41 | 108 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research (arxiv.org)
    ×0.81 55 | 105 points by gmays 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)
    ×0.90 27 | 104 points by kyars 23 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists (github.com/cavedave)
    ×1.19 61 | 104 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (gnu.org.ua)
    ×0.71 60 #82 | 101 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Kimi Claw (kimi.com)
    ×1.76 66 | 97 points by pretext 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI (github.com/gpasquero)
    ×0.74 56 | 94 points by gpasquero 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
    ×0.86 5 #24 | 91 points by icwtyjj 8 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How not to answer the salary question (adatosystems.com)
    ×2.38 44 | 89 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
    ×1.91 17 #71 | 88 points by presbyterian 10 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. SCM as a database for the code (github.com/gritzko)
    ×1.15 75 | 88 points by gritzko 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
    ×0.71 51 #90 | 87 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.03 76 | 82 points by tosh 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults (usc.edu)
    ×2.35 62 | 80 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents (videocardz.com)
    ×2.50 60 | 77 points by ledoge 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.99 32 #12 | 76 points by kianN 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative) (github.com/fosrl)
    ×0.88 59 | 76 points by miloschwartz 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
    ×0.74 27 #11 | 75 points by lirbank 8 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
    ×1.16 1 #17 | 72 points by four_fifths 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
    ×1.12 43 #18 | 72 points by yichab0d 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop (lithub.com)
    ×0.77 71 | 71 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
    ×0.99 5 #9 | 68 points by dogline 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. History of AT&T Long Lines (telephoneworld.org)
    ×0.94 46 #34 | 68 points by p_ing 12 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. One Server. Small Business (chodounsky.com)
    ×2.21 73 | 67 points by jakubgarfield 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending (nytimes.com)
    ×2.92 57 | 66 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apple.com)
    ×1.27 32 #69 | 64 points by AnujNayyar 7 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium (github.com/HenryNdubuaku)
    ×0.81 30 #29 | 64 points by HenryNdubuaku 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment (axios.com)
    ×4.62 1 | 64 points by defmacr0 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts (twitter.com/jawwwn_)
    ×13.92 16 | 63 points by sosomoxie 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary (github.com/nineties)
    ×0.81 73 #40 | 62 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation (chrislewis.au)
    ×0.98 41 #21 | 61 points by knackers 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. "I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.44 24 | 60 points by only-one1701 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OpenClaw (ClawdBot) joins OpenAI (twitter.com/sama)
    ×3.80 67 | 60 points by iSloth 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Seeing Theory (brown.edu)
    ×1.54 86 | 60 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???