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  1. Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (sherliker.net)
    ×5.45 12 #24 | 1361 points by speerer 22 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Chatto is now open source (hmans.dev)
    ×3.81 13 #19 | 928 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (fightchatcontrol.eu)
    ×3.97 15 #76 | 887 points by gasull 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (streetcomplete.app)
    ×3.08 12 #82 | 813 points by kls0e 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera (allaboutcookies.org)
    ×4.88 39 | 767 points by nickslaughter02 1 day ago | 1022 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (apnews.com)
    ×3.78 #1 | 702 points by djoldman 7 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. GPT‑Live (openai.com)
    ×4.00 12 #20 | 685 points by logickkk1 14 hours ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software (gamefromscratch.com)
    ×4.37 17 | 656 points by bauc 1 day ago | 589 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament (heise.de)
    ×4.60 15 | 634 points by miroljub 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (30papers.com)
    ×3.25 16 | 624 points by notmcrowley 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Grok 4.5 (x.ai)
    ×4.11 5 #14 | 592 points by BoumTAC 13 hours ago | 802 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. TypeScript 7 (microsoft.com)
    ×5.00 11 #25 | 578 points by DanRosenwasser 15 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.48 2 | 532 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 98% isn't much (whynothugo.nl)
    ×2.92 | 520 points by speckx 1 day ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos (noma.security)
    ×2.47 18 #58 | 516 points by ColinEberhardt 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)
    ×2.25 12 | 510 points by speckx 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Rewriting Bun in Rust (bun.com)
    ×6.18 17 #21 | 499 points by afturner 9 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model (mistral.ai)
    ×2.05 13 #34 | 461 points by ottomengis 17 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules (cyberinsider.com)
    ×3.61 19 #35 | 401 points by ggirelli 14 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Cloudflare Drop (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.76 #13 | 385 points by coloneltcb 12 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. FAANG Simulator (abeyk.com)
    ×2.98 15 #26 | 379 points by nerdbiscuits 11 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (davit.app)
    ×2.10 1 | 379 points by xinit 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor (cert.org)
    ×1.79 9 #90 | 348 points by miniBill 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes (bbc.com)
    ×3.46 9 | 348 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID (pcmag.com)
    ×3.26 25 | 348 points by ifh-hn 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986) (mit.edu)
    ×2.00 9 | 347 points by gjvc 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024) (neil.computer)
    ×1.64 23 | 335 points by 4diii 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Amazon without the knockoffs (knockoff.shopping)
    ×3.05 13 | 326 points by plurby 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch) (nwo.nl)
    ×2.88 26 | 318 points by 28304283409234 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I think I have LLM burnout (alecscollon.com)
    ×4.09 29 #31 | 310 points by sosodev 5 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (euronews.com)
    ×3.27 21 | 304 points by pax 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code (odra.dev)
    ×6.17 7 | 297 points by zie1ony 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips (apple.com)
    ×1.81 13 #55 | 288 points by soheilpro 20 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again (dw.com)
    ×2.45 31 | 287 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 817 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup (gao.gov)
    ×1.34 3 | 274 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.60 13 #12 | 262 points by chenglong-hn 13 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence (cognition.com)
    ×1.70 14 #44 | 262 points by mekpro 15 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (nist.gov)
    ×1.85 2 #36 | 261 points by linggen 18 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU) (flatpanelshd.com)
    ×3.91 26 #53 | 256 points by thewebguyd 13 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler (pgdog.dev)
    ×1.61 36 #78 | 252 points by levkk 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)
    ×1.74 33 | 251 points by adulion 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.45 19 #60 | 244 points by bobnamob 18 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×4.41 7 | 235 points by jfrbfbreudh 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12 (twitter.com/claudeai)
    ×2.78 17 | 228 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com/rowboatlabs)
    ×1.40 24 | 214 points by segmenta 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Jim's TrueType QR Code Font (github.com/jimparis)
    ×1.27 34 #89 | 212 points by arantius 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Astro 7.0 (astro.build)
    ×2.47 29 | 209 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food (theguardian.com)
    ×4.95 44 | 206 points by randycupertino 18 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous (combine-lab.github.io)
    ×2.72 48 #66 | 203 points by karrot-kake 10 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations (openai.com)
    ×1.07 11 #6 | 202 points by sk4rekr0w 10 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. LineageOS Statistics (lineageos.org)
    ×1.56 28 #75 | 185 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us? (yale.edu)
    ×1.49 37 #72 | 183 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks (digipres.org)
    ×1.13 8 | 178 points by whiteblossom 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.09 28 | 177 points by 0in 19 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. l: A new runtime for k and q (lv1.sh)
    ×1.05 38 | 173 points by skruger 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T (the-independent.com)
    ×6.43 56 | 166 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The revenge of the philosophy majors (nytimes.com)
    ×1.38 51 | 162 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Notes on Software Quality (anthonyhobday.com)
    ×1.21 43 | 160 points by speckx 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line (yamanote.fun)
    ×1.64 11 #11 | 146 points by madebymagnolia 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps (tryai.dev)
    ×2.17 17 #32 | 145 points by hershyb_ 8 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Is The Economist Always Wrong? (economist.com)
    ×1.47 22 | 136 points by nreece 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Automating AI Away (replicated.live)
    ×1.15 62 | 132 points by gritzko 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data (github.com/dekart-xyz)
    ×0.95 41 #52 | 129 points by rzk 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Better Auth is joining Vercel (better-auth.com)
    ×1.81 61 | 128 points by sync 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base (github.com/linuxrebel)
    ×1.21 18 #16 | 123 points by linuxrebe1 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood (fastcompany.com)
    ×8.06 69 | 116 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl (zksecurity.xyz)
    ×0.84 59 | 111 points by duha 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A bug which affected only left handed users (shkspr.mobi)
    ×0.95 23 #28 | 108 points by sixhobbits 13 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k (govauctions.app)
    ×1.83 63 | 106 points by player_piano 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50% (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.06 63 | 100 points by furcyd 8 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage (openmandriva.org)
    ×0.96 27 #29 | 98 points by workethics 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)
    ×1.21 75 | 98 points by whimbyte 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types (saneengineer.com)
    ×0.94 68 | 97 points by anivan_ 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years (linuxiac.com)
    ×4.65 6 | 95 points by hkmaxpro 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony (bbc.com)
    ×1.39 23 #27 | 93 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete (seriot.ch)
    ×1.21 16 #10 | 93 points by beefburger 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?
    ×3.93 25 | 84 points by weird_trousers 13 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released (github.com/mplsllc)
    ×0.73 66 | 83 points by mplsllc 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Remote Attestation (liamcvw.com)
    ×0.91 15 #8 | 79 points by lcvw 7 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years (theguardian.com)
    ×3.85 65 | 76 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Chiptune Radio (alephvoid.com)
    ×0.76 58 | 75 points by bootbloopers 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Meta says it's facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case (nypost.com)
    ×3.43 57 | 72 points by NewCzech 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees (connectsci.au)
    ×1.33 1 #2 | 70 points by Jedd 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool (bbc.com)
    ×1.99 10 | 71 points by breitling 18 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley (ft.com)
    ×3.64 37 | 70 points by iamflimflam1 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com/kklimuk)
    ×0.80 70 | 69 points by kirillklimuk 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League (mira-wm.com)
    ×1.22 6 #23 | 66 points by ethanlipson 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase (databricks.com)
    ×1.24 10 #9 | 61 points by tanelpoder 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface (mirror.co.uk)
    ×2.98 42 | 61 points by jjgreen 23 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home (firesphere.dev)
    ×2.19 72 | 60 points by skeledrew 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???