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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)
    ×7.10 59 #66 | 1415 points by novemp 23 hours ago | 889 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
    ×5.43 31 #54 | 1401 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 1081 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear (europa.eu)
    ×6.04 50 | 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 24 | 922 points by mikece 1 day ago | 645 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I fixed Windows native development (marler8997.github.io)
    ×3.33 1 #78 | 792 points by deevus 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
    ×3.35 7 #75 | 677 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.83 3 #1 | 532 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library (oat.ink)
    ×3.34 12 | 521 points by twapi 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
    ×2.39 43 #56 | 492 points by harel 16 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died (videogameschronicle.com)
    ×2.99 4 | 428 points by magoghm 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (github.com/TechPaula)
    ×1.65 11 #86 | 406 points by classichasclass 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
    ×2.38 12 #46 | 404 points by danielhanchen 20 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
    ×3.44 32 #61 | 372 points by beardyw 19 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
    ×1.95 14 #4 | 362 points by ssgodderidge 15 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (fide.com)
    ×1.70 1 #87 | 358 points by prophylaxis 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
    ×4.68 65 | 350 points by dClauzel 17 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved (flashpointarchive.org)
    ×1.82 36 | 349 points by helloplanets 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×4.29 36 #58 | 342 points by righthand 15 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)
    ×2.04 14 #19 | 323 points by mustaphah 8 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
    ×3.09 17 #25 | 317 points by dvrp 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals (theintercept.com)
    ×3.26 14 | 312 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (bbc.com)
    ×2.64 4 #5 | 310 points by colinprince 5 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×4.96 33 #36 | 309 points by VorpalWay 5 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.73 17 #89 | 296 points by bikenaga 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
    ×1.75 25 | 291 points by theblazehen 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)
    ×2.79 49 #60 | 278 points by enz 11 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser (boratto.ca)
    ×1.69 20 | 270 points by b44 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 (jmail.world)
    ×8.84 8 | 268 points by doener 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Privilege is bad grammar (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.40 20 #32 | 264 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself (ahmedeldin.substack.com)
    ×7.08 43 | 253 points by 0x54MUR41 18 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court (heise.de)
    ×2.88 29 | 245 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface (kotaku.com)
    ×3.64 49 | 225 points by thisislife2 2 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)
    ×1.39 #44 | 217 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door (knock-knock.net)
    ×1.67 31 | 217 points by djkurlander 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.31 48 | 192 points by swah 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)
    ×2.11 8 #2 | 178 points by max-m 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.24 38 #88 | 168 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
    ×1.39 47 #71 | 163 points by luu 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Sideprocalypse (hal.se)
    ×1.49 31 | 152 points by headalgorithm 15 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
    ×1.45 7 #7 | 151 points by zachlatta 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
    ×0.88 26 #52 | 151 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I guess I kinda get why people hate AI (noided.media)
    ×5.26 55 | 146 points by NM-Super 12 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.27 42 | 146 points by computerliker 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
    ×1.02 33 #82 | 145 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI is going to kill app subscriptions (nichehunt.app)
    ×2.38 47 | 145 points by informal007 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices (github.com/pocketblue)
    ×1.07 51 #79 | 142 points by nikodunk 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Robert Duvall has died (nytimes.com)
    ×3.33 56 #84 | 138 points by glimshe 11 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. WebMCP Proposal (webmachinelearning.github.io)
    ×1.15 3 #43 | 135 points by Alifatisk 13 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why I don't think AGI is imminent (dlants.me)
    ×3.01 37 | 131 points by anonymid 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe (wero-wallet.eu)
    ×3.10 58 | 122 points by tilt 11 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.00 39 #62 | 122 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI optimism is a class privilege (joshcollinsworth.com)
    ×6.02 46 | 117 points by ragall 12 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986) (github.com/s-macke)
    ×0.89 64 | 117 points by tosh 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.20 19 #37 | 115 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF (zamoshi.substack.com)
    ×5.37 71 | 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 19 | 109 points by tosh 15 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 28 | 104 points by kyars 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists (github.com/cavedave)
    ×1.18 60 | 104 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (gnu.org.ua)
    ×0.71 56 #85 | 101 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
    ×0.88 13 #18 | 98 points by icwtyjj 9 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Kimi Claw (kimi.com)
    ×1.76 65 | 97 points by pretext 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How not to answer the salary question (adatosystems.com)
    ×2.42 39 | 91 points by mooreds 11 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
    ×1.82 37 #20 | 91 points by presbyterian 11 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. SCM as a database for the code (github.com/gritzko)
    ×1.15 74 | 88 points by gritzko 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
    ×0.70 51 | 87 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
    ×1.26 9 #30 | 86 points by four_fifths 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.98 32 #17 | 82 points by kianN 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.03 76 | 82 points by tosh 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
    ×0.74 30 #13 | 80 points by lirbank 9 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults (usc.edu)
    ×2.34 62 | 80 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
    ×1.10 38 #23 | 78 points by yichab0d 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents (videocardz.com)
    ×2.50 61 | 77 points by ledoge 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
    ×0.94 9 #8 | 74 points by dogline 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. History of AT&T Long Lines (telephoneworld.org)
    ×1.00 42 #38 | 74 points by p_ing 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium (github.com/HenryNdubuaku)
    ×0.85 28 #31 | 71 points by HenryNdubuaku 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop (lithub.com)
    ×0.77 72 | 71 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apple.com)
    ×1.22 31 #16 | 67 points by AnujNayyar 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment (axios.com)
    ×4.81 7 | 67 points by defmacr0 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. One Server. Small Business (chodounsky.com)
    ×2.20 73 | 67 points by jakubgarfield 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending (nytimes.com)
    ×2.91 57 | 66 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation (chrislewis.au)
    ×0.96 33 #29 | 65 points by knackers 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts (twitter.com/jawwwn_)
    ×13.88 12 | 64 points by sosomoxie 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. "I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.56 20 | 62 points by only-one1701 11 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary (github.com/nineties)
    ×0.79 70 #47 | 62 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OpenClaw (ClawdBot) joins OpenAI (twitter.com/sama)
    ×3.78 66 | 60 points by iSloth 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Seeing Theory (brown.edu)
    ×1.54 83 | 60 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???