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  1. Midjourney Medical (midjourney.com)
    ×5.30 14 #35 | 1293 points by ricochet11 1 day ago | 845 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (lore.org)
    ×4.45 9 #50 | 1228 points by regnerba 1 day ago | 666 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff (wpvip.com)
    ×6.46 35 | 1068 points by thm 1 day ago | 574 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.55 3 #68 | 879 points by himata4113 1 day ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. U.S. science is in chaos (scientificamerican.com)
    ×5.30 27 | 864 points by presspot 1 day ago | 1089 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users (grapheneos.org)
    ×4.43 29 | 765 points by microtonal 1 day ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants (bluewin.ch)
    ×3.90 20 #26 | 731 points by leonidasrup 15 hours ago | 629 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware (orchidfiles.com)
    ×3.20 5 #6 | 730 points by theorchid 17 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Want your images back? That'll be $5 (lutr.dev)
    ×3.04 21 | 651 points by lutr 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly (windowslatest.com)
    ×5.27 22 #36 | 637 points by Adam-Hincu 17 hours ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hacker News but for independent blogs (bubbles.town)
    ×3.46 5 | 612 points by headalgorithm 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. DeepSeek Introduces Vision (deepseek.com)
    ×2.59 17 #52 | 464 points by RIshabh235 23 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool (alexellis.io)
    ×2.59 7 #58 | 457 points by alphabettsy 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving (rahuljuliato.com)
    ×2.18 8 #32 | 430 points by frou_dh 17 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.94 30 #62 | 424 points by lompad 21 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (charitydotwtf.substack.com)
    ×3.32 3 | 408 points by BerislavLopac 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method (rfc-editor.org)
    ×1.85 8 | 406 points by schappim 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A website that lists websites to submit your website to (submission.directory)
    ×2.39 21 #39 | 403 points by azeemkafridi 14 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.86 9 | 393 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.56 13 #87 | 381 points by Bender 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.63 15 | 357 points by greenchair 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars (independent.co.uk)
    ×3.77 22 #34 | 349 points by Tomte 12 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git (nelson.cloud)
    ×2.69 12 #18 | 348 points by FergusArgyll 18 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020) (cornell.edu)
    ×2.07 16 #12 | 341 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone (thesignalist.io)
    ×2.02 19 | 313 points by kodesko 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI (twitter.com/NoamShazeer)
    ×2.19 14 #27 | 310 points by lukasgross 11 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost (kcl.ac.uk)
    ×1.50 22 #14 | 300 points by giuliomagnifico 18 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS (ui.com)
    ×1.76 14 #11 | 299 points by ksec 14 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×3.44 10 #20 | 295 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (intheweights.com)
    ×3.66 14 #19 | 279 points by turtlesoup 8 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok? (openrouter.ai)
    ×2.60 2 | 267 points by Usu 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C (github.com/rxi)
    ×1.40 32 | 250 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further (ieee.org)
    ×1.79 11 #28 | 247 points by Vinnl 17 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball (ribbie.tv)
    ×1.35 38 #73 | 244 points by brownrout 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup (claude.com)
    ×1.46 56 #77 | 239 points by e2e4 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors (storiedcolors.com)
    ×1.30 6 | 222 points by susiecambria 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable (steampowered.com)
    ×3.85 14 | 215 points by jrepinc 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction (loreline.app)
    ×1.56 16 | 211 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024) (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.85 52 #57 | 210 points by trymas 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (github.com/Adam-CAD)
    ×0.99 59 #60 | 207 points by zachdive 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 (movq.de)
    ×3.28 28 #59 | 204 points by npongratz 14 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata (cells2pixels.github.io)
    ×1.18 45 | 198 points by esychology 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Clojure Hosted on Go (github.com/glojurelang)
    ×1.43 9 | 194 points by dnlo 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty (elenarossini.com)
    ×1.12 20 #24 | 190 points by nemoniac 16 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags) (horg.com)
    ×1.17 38 #65 | 188 points by beatthatflight 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them (nytimes.com)
    ×5.19 36 | 183 points by thm 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore (realtor.com)
    ×5.64 41 | 167 points by littlexsparkee 16 hours ago | 476 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How Alberta Eradicated Rats (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.50 26 #29 | 158 points by tzury 16 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×1.43 3 #5 | 156 points by niyikiza 7 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.36 55 | 156 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025) (freerange.city)
    ×1.40 62 #79 | 156 points by Redoubts 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts (gerrymandle.cc)
    ×1.39 15 #31 | 155 points by realmofthemad 15 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I hate compilers (xeiaso.net)
    ×1.15 42 #45 | 154 points by xena 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion (acma.gov.au)
    ×1.79 10 | 152 points by anitil 23 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation (science.org)
    ×1.28 46 | 141 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate (ghostinthedata.info)
    ×1.55 43 | 139 points by speckx 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle (mameworld.info)
    ×1.21 39 #41 | 134 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs (bbc.com)
    ×2.86 13 | 134 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker (404media.co)
    ×4.77 51 | 124 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative (nsf.gov)
    ×2.59 30 #37 | 122 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content (mindgard.ai)
    ×2.90 31 | 120 points by dijksterhuis 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi (rednafi.com)
    ×1.08 7 #33 | 117 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Migrate from OpenClaw (nousresearch.com)
    ×1.44 6 #63 | 116 points by JumpCrisscross 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×10.65 44 | 112 points by aanet 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps (tester.army)
    ×0.72 31 #22 | 111 points by okwasniewski 13 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy (wired.com)
    ×1.24 2 #40 | 105 points by dstala 11 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants (neutronbytes.com)
    ×1.17 7 #51 | 103 points by mpweiher 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The AI Hate Progression (xodium.net)
    ×6.81 54 | 102 points by gpi 10 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall (elastic.co)
    ×0.93 35 #43 | 102 points by showmypost 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. NetNewsWire Status (inessential.com)
    ×1.97 70 | 99 points by droidjj 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK (mroczek.dev)
    ×1.01 23 #25 | 95 points by lackoftactics 11 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code (github.com/evanklem)
    ×1.35 59 | 93 points by evanklem2004 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Let's Encrypt has been down most of today (status.io)
    ×2.55 #1 | 89 points by widdakay 1 hour ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload (brevio.pro)
    ×1.40 69 | 88 points by ruimbarreira 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety (wsj.com)
    ×1.74 53 | 86 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.94 47 #54 | 85 points by layer8 20 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap (stephantul.github.io)
    ×0.96 72 | 83 points by stephantul 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Midjourney Full Body Ultrasonic CT Scanner (midjourney.com)
    ×3.52 40 | 82 points by lnyan 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20) (nim-lang.org)
    ×0.93 40 #88 | 78 points by pietroppeter 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The (real) dead economy theory (pluralistic.net)
    ×3.26 49 | 78 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Windows 11 25H2 – I'm so happy to not be using this (dedoimedo.com)
    ×3.35 56 | 77 points by speckx 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users) (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.52 65 | 77 points by FrustratedMonky 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia (dpolakovic.space)
    ×1.20 13 #21 | 75 points by dpola 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.90 16 #38 | 75 points by asim 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart (arun.is)
    ×1.05 10 #7 | 73 points by ddrmaxgt37 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Harajuku Moment (2024) (tim.blog)
    ×0.92 18 #84 | 73 points by abhaynayar 13 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout (flickey.site)
    ×1.01 58 | 73 points by tal_alfi 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The AirPods Effect (theescapenewsletter.com)
    ×2.77 68 | 69 points by herbertl 6 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. TypeScript 7.0 RC (microsoft.com)
    ×3.17 12 | 69 points by DanRosenwasser 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Challenging the Narrative of European Decline (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×4.36 11 | 65 points by vrganj 17 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???