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  1. Solarpunk is happening in Africa (climatedrift.substack.com)
    ×4.39 11 #38 | 1113 points by JoiDegn 1 day ago | 541 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Mr TIFF (inventingthefuture.ghost.io)
    ×3.83 2 #64 | 1019 points by speckx 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. End of Japanese community (mozilla.org)
    ×4.59 14 #35 | 880 points by phantomathkg 18 hours ago | 699 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race (nbcnews.com)
    ×15.08 20 | 800 points by jsheard 1 day ago | 1133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ratatui – App Showcase (ratatui.rs)
    ×3.27 9 #32 | 685 points by AbuAssar 18 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair (nottingham.ac.uk)
    ×3.34 #45 | 621 points by CGMthrowaway 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.21 31 #62 | 516 points by hnaccount_rng 1 day ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is (heise.de)
    ×6.27 10 #12 | 513 points by Projectiboga 4 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars (rameerez.com)
    ×3.79 4 | 506 points by sebnun 1 day ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why aren't smart people happier? (theseedsofscience.pub)
    ×2.84 3 #60 | 478 points by zdw 1 day ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.88 13 #68 | 466 points by isaacfrond 1 day ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations (theintercept.com)
    ×14.76 18 | 432 points by rzk 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model (moonshotai.github.io)
    ×2.89 3 #2 | 428 points by nekofneko 6 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser (github.com/dillo-browser)
    ×1.78 6 #49 | 422 points by nazgulsenpai 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk (binnenlandsbestuur.nl)
    ×3.40 2 #5 | 407 points by vincvinc 4 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again (gothamist.com)
    ×2.67 13 #59 | 405 points by hrldcpr 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport (avherald.com)
    ×2.69 47 #54 | 400 points by jnsaff2 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.86 13 | 385 points by gslin 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses (scandasia.com)
    ×3.59 22 #87 | 379 points by dredmorbius 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others (ctvnews.ca)
    ×1.86 4 #56 | 369 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not (theregister.com)
    ×3.09 14 | 367 points by SanjayMehta 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline (macrumors.com)
    ×2.46 1 #84 | 339 points by tosh 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states (nextgov.com)
    ×3.33 11 | 336 points by jhatax 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud (github.com/openpcc)
    ×1.65 10 #7 | 314 points by adam_gyroscope 9 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The shadows lurking in the equations (gods.art)
    ×1.35 2 #82 | 300 points by calebm 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What the hell have you built (sacha.house)
    ×4.32 65 | 295 points by sachahjkl 12 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
    ×2.03 5 #80 | 293 points by urnicus 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car (caricecars.com)
    ×1.54 14 #74 | 280 points by RubenvanE 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities (forbes.com)
    ×3.36 2 | 279 points by Mossy9 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux (github.com/pythops)
    ×1.66 27 | 271 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Trade Barriers (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.83 14 #26 | 267 points by iamnothere 7 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products (ikea.com)
    ×3.64 12 #27 | 243 points by lemoine0461 7 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity (electrek.co)
    ×3.96 28 #37 | 238 points by ohjeez 6 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced (reddit.com)
    ×3.48 21 #28 | 236 points by hentrep 16 hours ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025 (medium.com)
    ×1.26 24 #58 | 228 points by ashvardanian 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python (hypothesis.readthedocs.io)
    ×1.24 26 | 226 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk (noelrappin.com)
    ×1.14 15 #77 | 220 points by jrochkind1 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Radiant Computer (radiant.computer)
    ×1.61 4 #90 | 217 points by beardicus 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.69 5 | 208 points by thinkcontext 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale (wordpress.com)
    ×1.23 11 #19 | 206 points by nabla9 11 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful (arnon.dk)
    ×3.51 63 | 203 points by arnon 10 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How I am deeply integrating Emacs (joshblais.com)
    ×1.57 12 #31 | 190 points by signa11 14 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc. (github.com/zserge)
    ×1.41 43 | 187 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Removing XSLT for a more secure browser (chrome.com)
    ×1.70 7 | 179 points by justin-reeves 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1T AI expansion (investinglive.com)
    ×9.56 28 | 177 points by donsupreme 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI Slop vs. OSS Security (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.86 21 #46 | 170 points by mooreds 9 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf] (urv.cat)
    ×1.39 38 #41 | 168 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FDA described as a "clown show" amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.02 45 | 163 points by duxup 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown (cnbc.com)
    ×5.98 23 | 144 points by mikhael 18 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes (theguardian.com)
    ×2.18 47 | 141 points by c420 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Eating stinging nettles (rachel.blog)
    ×1.24 16 #13 | 139 points by rzk 9 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986) (phrack.org)
    ×2.17 36 | 138 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops) (h4x0r.org)
    ×0.92 38 #42 | 136 points by eatonphil 20 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.21 73 #83 | 135 points by treadump 4 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Swift on FreeBSD Preview (swift.org)
    ×1.41 3 #3 | 131 points by glhaynes 3 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona (bigislandnow.com)
    ×2.15 53 | 128 points by austinallegro 10 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs (karltryggvason.com)
    ×0.89 14 #10 | 124 points by kalli 7 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Epic vs. Google settlement: Opening up Android (twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic)
    ×2.99 49 | 115 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019) (pnas.org)
    ×1.14 58 #65 | 112 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise (leefang.com)
    ×2.45 52 | 111 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory (microsoft.com)
    ×0.98 53 | 111 points by zdw 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood (codegood.co)
    ×2.25 50 #72 | 110 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios (int10h.org)
    ×0.92 47 #53 | 106 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell (github.com/matisojka)
    ×1.20 17 #25 | 104 points by iagooar 10 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The grim truth behind the Pied Piper (2020) (bbc.com)
    ×0.81 42 #89 | 103 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Patching 68K Software – SimpleText (tinkerdifferent.com)
    ×0.64 58 | 103 points by mmoogle 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024) (seemann.io)
    ×0.66 58 #70 | 96 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenDesk – a flexible all-in-one office suite for the public sector (opendesk.eu)
    ×2.59 62 #69 | 95 points by gjvc 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: See chords as flags – Visual harmony of top composers on musescore (rawl.rocks)
    ×0.80 14 #23 | 95 points by vitaly-pavlenko 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet (cascade.family)
    ×1.24 56 | 94 points by meatmanek 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Two billion email addresses were exposed (troyhunt.com)
    ×2.58 #1 | 88 points by esnard 49 minutes ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. BlackRock's Larry Fink: "Tokenization", Digital IDs, & Social Credit (thewinepress.substack.com)
    ×1.23 61 | 88 points by sbuttgereit 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time (technologyreview.com)
    ×3.75 65 | 87 points by samuel2 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted (wired.com)
    ×6.74 36 #40 | 85 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.58 64 | 82 points by duxup 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers (restofworld.org)
    ×2.06 15 | 81 points by ohjeez 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CPUs and GPUs to Become More Expensive After TSMC Price Hike in 2026 (guru3d.com)
    ×2.51 66 | 81 points by elorant 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist (breakthroughjournal.org)
    ×3.78 28 | 74 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code (arxiv.org)
    ×1.10 67 | 74 points by liminal 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sales jump (reuters.com)
    ×4.72 29 | 72 points by moosedman 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Fiber reduces overall mortality by 23% (empirical.health)
    ×2.85 33 | 70 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.56 35 | 69 points by jbredeche 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. GM Deprecating In-Car App Store for Models as Recent as 2020 (gmauthority.com)
    ×1.55 62 | 68 points by goopthink 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The English language doesn't exist – it's just French that's badly pronounced (frenchclasses.com)
    ×2.03 72 | 67 points by detectivestory 4 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×3.78 30 | 63 points by moosedman 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor's race, capping an ascent (apnews.com)
    ×3.82 59 | 63 points by vga42 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Refund requests flood Microsoft after tricking users into AI upgrades (afr.com)
    ×5.73 45 | 62 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Michael Burry is back with two bets against Nvidia and Palantir (cnn.com)
    ×3.77 48 | 62 points by jb1991 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Cargo plane crashes at Kentucky airport (bbc.com)
    ×2.40 68 | 62 points by hshdhdhehd 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. 74% of CEOs worry AI failures could cost them their jobs (indiatimes.com)
    ×4.17 74 | 55 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???