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  1. Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says (reuters.com)
    ×9.28 79 | 1467 points by mriguy 1 week ago | 1857 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image (bitbytebit.substack.com)
    ×6.55 2 | 1248 points by recroad 3 days ago | 718 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads (github.com/yt-dlp)
    ×5.21 16 | 1224 points by phewlink 3 days ago | 600 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here (hackerone.com)
    ×7.38 62 | 1161 points by redbell 5 days ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough? (phishyurl.com)
    ×4.46 91 | 1121 points by jordigh 1 week ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Always Invite Anna (sharif.io)
    ×7.39 46 | 1115 points by walterbell 4 days ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps (metalhearf.fr)
    ×5.69 26 | 1071 points by Metalhearf 2 days ago | 609 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus (cybersect.substack.com)
    ×4.42 26 | 1047 points by sixhobbits 3 days ago | 615 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×4.80 18 | 1043 points by bertman 3 days ago | 544 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Nine things I learned in ninety years (edwardpackard.com)
    ×4.51 53 | 987 points by coderintherye 4 days ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; (github.com/avestura)
    ×6.69 55 | 931 points by avestura 4 days ago | 799 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me (anniemueller.com)
    ×4.65 73 | 919 points by wonger_ 5 days ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Open Social (overreacted.io)
    ×4.17 14 #47 | 899 points by knowtheory 1 day ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians (theguardian.com)
    ×6.65 11 | 859 points by helsinkiandrew 2 days ago | 742 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Just let me select text (aartaka.me)
    ×4.19 31 | 857 points by ayoisaiah 3 days ago | 581 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Find SF parking cops (walzr.com)
    ×3.22 51 | 844 points by alazsengul 4 days ago | 467 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ultrasonic Chef's Knife (seattleultrasonics.com)
    ×3.77 85 | 819 points by hemloc_io 1 week ago | 671 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Libghostty is coming (mitchellh.com)
    ×3.27 52 | 817 points by kingori 4 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy (cloudflare.com)
    ×4.46 72 | 770 points by jgrahamc 5 days ago | 482 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over (nbcnews.com)
    ×6.45 4 | 768 points by coloneltcb 2 days ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet (abeto.co)
    ×4.71 #1 | 733 points by thecupisblue 8 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle (deno.com)
    ×4.70 101 | 710 points by kaladin-jasnah 1 week ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf] (pup-e.com)
    ×3.47 99 | 704 points by jolux 1 week ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Huntington's disease treated for first time (bbc.com)
    ×3.02 45 | 699 points by _zie 3 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Quicksort explained IKEA-style (idea-instructions.com)
    ×2.90 35 | 681 points by foehrenwald 6 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees (travelandtourworld.com)
    ×3.60 47 | 661 points by duxup 3 days ago | 641 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Cloudflare Email Service: private beta (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.96 5 | 656 points by tosh 2 days ago | 538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.25 77 | 639 points by jgrahamc 5 days ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement (lwn.net)
    ×3.41 13 #26 | 629 points by pykello 16 hours ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version (larian.com)
    ×2.76 56 | 624 points by _JamesA_ 3 days ago | 446 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. ChatGPT Pulse (openai.com)
    ×2.83 3 | 611 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 706 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. They Thought They Were Free (1955) (uchicago.edu)
    ×4.13 88 | 601 points by nataliste 6 days ago | 499 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor (brutalita.com)
    ×2.57 14 | 597 points by fibo 4 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Helium Browser (helium.computer)
    ×2.68 33 | 596 points by spacebuffer 3 days ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover (drapper.me)
    ×4.88 64 | 593 points by bradgessler 4 days ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. EU age verification app not planning desktop support (github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet)
    ×3.25 50 | 581 points by sschueller 3 days ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press (windowsread.me)
    ×3.53 105 | 574 points by Leftium 1 week ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video (github.com/QwenLM)
    ×2.40 78 | 570 points by meetpateltech 5 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite (googleblog.com)
    ×2.11 10 | 534 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks (obsidian.md)
    ×2.27 103 | 522 points by saeedesmaili 1 week ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Go has added Valgrind support (googlesource.com)
    ×2.23 75 | 516 points by cirelli94 4 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Getting AI to work in complex codebases (github.com/humanlayer)
    ×2.74 67 | 509 points by dhorthy 4 days ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers (wired.com)
    ×6.25 19 | 507 points by rendx 2 days ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Apple: SSH and FileVault (keith.github.io)
    ×2.22 115 | 504 points by ingve 1 week ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why haven't local-first apps become popular? (marcobambini.substack.com)
    ×2.85 81 | 503 points by marcobambini 5 days ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers (reuters.com)
    ×3.29 21 #57 | 482 points by alex77456 1 day ago | 741 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.04 109 | 476 points by sampo 1 week ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99 (github.com/rxi)
    ×1.99 93 | 473 points by simonpure 6 days ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems (openai.com)
    ×2.44 82 | 470 points by meetpateltech 5 days ago | 632 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.43 108 | 468 points by speckx 1 week ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day (github.com/JerryZLiu)
    ×2.46 48 | 467 points by jerryliu12 3 days ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps (reddit.com)
    ×5.28 117 | 466 points by personjerry 1 week ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger? (elma.dev)
    ×3.30 97 | 460 points by elmsec 6 days ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
    ×3.22 107 | 458 points by ncarlson 1 week ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think (github.com/apple)
    ×1.89 9 #53 | 454 points by kevlened 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts (idiallo.com)
    ×2.42 58 | 451 points by jnord 3 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Markov chains are the original language models (elijahpotter.dev)
    ×2.19 74 | 448 points by chilipepperhott 1 week ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How to make sense of any mess (howtomakesenseofanymess.com)
    ×2.47 17 #87 | 443 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement (theguardian.com)
    ×3.79 94 | 442 points by mindracer 6 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high (worksinprogress.news)
    ×2.66 27 | 436 points by bensouthwood 2 days ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Qwen3-VL (qwen.ai)
    ×2.27 68 | 432 points by natrys 4 days ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on (reddit.com)
    ×3.30 61 | 426 points by greazy 3 days ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers (modernretail.co)
    ×6.60 100 | 417 points by blindriver 6 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Raspberry Pi 500+ (raspberrypi.com)
    ×4.06 36 | 415 points by sohkamyung 2 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta (system76.com)
    ×2.59 4 #72 | 412 points by agluszak 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer (cnx-software.com)
    ×1.91 102 | 409 points by smartmic 1 week ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Greenland is a beautiful nightmare (matduggan.com)
    ×2.89 13 #15 | 406 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately (indiatimes.com)
    ×8.55 106 | 406 points by irthomasthomas 1 week ago | 615 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework (simonhartcher.com)
    ×2.63 87 | 403 points by deevus 5 days ago | 523 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras (evanstonroundtable.com)
    ×2.67 1 | 400 points by ptk 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit (yahoo.com)
    ×6.91 111 | 399 points by anderber 1 week ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.42 96 | 397 points by akyuu 6 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
    ×1.92 60 | 396 points by baalimago 3 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Nostr (nostr.com)
    ×2.58 122 | 391 points by dtj1123 1 week ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community (arko.net)
    ×3.59 41 | 368 points by ciconia 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.39 76 | 367 points by delichon 4 days ago | 840 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime (ftc.gov)
    ×3.66 32 | 362 points by Improvement 2 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs (2minutestreaming.com)
    ×1.99 66 | 361 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How to be a leader when the vibes are off (chaoticgood.management)
    ×2.64 63 | 359 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. iFixit iPhone Air teardown (ifixit.com)
    ×2.06 104 | 359 points by zdw 6 days ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust (max-inden.de)
    ×2.41 14 #78 | 355 points by Bender 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves (lichess.org)
    ×2.52 6 | 355 points by emporas 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ollama Web Search (ollama.com)
    ×1.78 28 | 342 points by jmorgan 2 days ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns (t0mpr1c3.github.io)
    ×1.64 49 | 340 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data (bbbprograms.org)
    ×3.86 80 | 337 points by Improvement 4 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. FLX1s phone is launched (furilabs.com)
    ×2.28 113 | 337 points by slau 1 week ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres (dizzy.zone)
    ×2.59 32 #80 | 336 points by redbell 2 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. US cities pay too much for buses (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.26 2 #76 | 335 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 539 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system (kernel.org)
    ×3.65 112 | 335 points by WhyNotHugo 1 week ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Download responsibly (geofabrik.de)
    ×2.58 95 | 334 points by marklit 5 days ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???