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  1. When did Google get so weird? (bearblog.dev)
    ×6.04 1 #2 | 813 points by sancho-panza 6 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de)
    ×3.40 27 | 692 points by ezst 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI (authorsguild.org)
    ×4.45 37 #58 | 601 points by papergirl 19 hours ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband (themomoftheyear.substack.com)
    ×10.33 31 | 577 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (lexontech.org)
    ×2.09 7 | 433 points by ksec 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election (reddit.com)
    ×5.49 62 #87 | 421 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.61 7 | 418 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians (wordpress.com)
    ×2.35 9 | 393 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com/reladraw)
    ×2.09 27 #45 | 390 points by jpwalsh234 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
    ×2.04 22 #39 | 377 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
    ×2.09 19 #25 | 367 points by blutack 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
    ×2.27 1 #3 | 361 points by gmays 8 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted (aresluna.org)
    ×3.19 37 #44 | 348 points by jandeboevrie 11 hours ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tells of a Slop UI (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×7.95 83 | 338 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. There are no "rogue" AI agents (eoinhiggins.substack.com)
    ×5.83 56 #61 | 337 points by zzzeek 9 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs (haskell.org)
    ×2.81 3 | 325 points by signa11 1 day ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.69 30 #47 | 315 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (ihatethefuture.com)
    ×2.15 24 #36 | 248 points by pxx 10 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
    ×2.95 19 #82 | 243 points by kspacewalk2 23 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life (nytimes.com)
    ×1.33 2 #17 | 212 points by danso 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (floci.io)
    ×1.63 32 #86 | 205 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (codinghorror.com)
    ×5.22 22 | 204 points by signa11 22 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners (aljazeera.com)
    ×4.20 4 | 199 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 576 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe (economist.com)
    ×2.34 10 | 199 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. One Month Without AI (bustikiller.com)
    ×3.61 31 | 180 points by saibotk 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video] (youtube.com)
    ×6.18 82 | 177 points by CharlesW 8 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
    ×1.83 3 #9 | 175 points by safaelmali 7 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas (tangled.org)
    ×1.10 49 #56 | 175 points by parasitid 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (openai.com)
    ×1.66 35 #55 | 168 points by apsec112 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura (nura.eco)
    ×2.67 24 #51 | 161 points by HotGarbage 10 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub (iain.rocks)
    ×2.27 2 #12 | 155 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models (allanrbo.blogspot.com)
    ×1.00 47 | 150 points by allanrbo 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.46 21 | 144 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
    ×1.01 19 #19 | 139 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? (safenotsafe.dev)
    ×1.19 44 | 132 points by vira28 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (privatemode.ai)
    ×1.40 26 #73 | 128 points by flxflx 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites (bbc.com)
    ×2.08 37 | 127 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ten lines of code that changed my world (pixelambacht.nl)
    ×1.70 6 #49 | 123 points by dimonomid 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees (macrumors.com)
    ×2.65 34 | 123 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
    ×1.52 16 #64 | 117 points by matt_d 20 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
    ×1.11 34 #28 | 116 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (righto.com)
    ×1.15 41 #66 | 112 points by pwg 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
    ×1.76 22 #30 | 108 points by ClydeN 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Copilot+ PC brand is dead (windowscentral.com)
    ×2.50 51 | 104 points by bj-rn 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice (arxiv.org)
    ×0.94 18 #84 | 101 points by yu3zhou4 15 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
    ×1.01 3 #33 | 100 points by hp6 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled (lemonde.fr)
    ×6.14 46 | 97 points by thibaut_barrere 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons (fu-berlin.de)
    ×1.01 38 #76 | 96 points by geox 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American (2017) (shkspr.mobi)
    ×4.53 60 | 90 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike (motherjones.com)
    ×9.24 30 | 86 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields (swarmcha.se)
    ×2.73 17 | 84 points by intunderflow 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization
    ×14.47 33 | 80 points by lorenzomassaro 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station (lightspeedmagazine.com)
    ×0.89 42 #88 | 80 points by bucket2015 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    ×0.84 53 #38 | 80 points by torutofu 19 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" (thegreenplace.net)
    ×1.25 37 #46 | 76 points by ingve 17 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case (reuters.com)
    ×3.01 48 | 76 points by onemoresoop 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027 (homelabfest.org)
    ×1.61 70 | 76 points by geerlingguy 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”? (quora.com)
    ×0.84 15 #5 | 75 points by midnightfish 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games (github.com/brumar)
    ×0.89 52 | 75 points by brumar 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)
    ×1.40 14 #15 | 74 points by bingden 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store (github.com/rgodha24)
    ×1.32 24 #83 | 74 points by handfuloflight 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp (jadidbourbaki.github.io)
    ×1.13 26 #31 | 72 points by pptadversary 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (alvarezrosa.com)
    ×2.79 7 #10 | 69 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview (mgrebler.substack.com)
    ×1.73 32 | 67 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely (scitechdaily.com)
    ×1.63 57 | 67 points by GordonS 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
    ×1.28 11 #7 | 67 points by utiiiD 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I Posed as a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP (propublica.org)
    ×3.68 6 | 65 points by theblazehen 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey (livescience.com)
    ×0.93 29 #24 | 63 points by gmays 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web (markdown.beauty)
    ×1.60 23 | 62 points by thiagoperes 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers (generalroboticslab.com)
    ×0.87 31 #27 | 62 points by AareyBaba 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Allegations of US interference in Quebec election (globalnews.ca)
    ×4.02 65 | 57 points by Teever 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior (lasso.security)
    ×1.14 64 | 56 points by nisosguy 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue (theguardian.com)
    ×4.29 36 | 54 points by smb06 9 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com/deepfates)
    ×0.83 18 #14 | 52 points by mpweiher 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.74 29 #16 | 52 points by Rochus 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.37 63 #78 | 50 points by blondie9x 4 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Alberta's image as world's only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat (theguardian.com)
    ×1.63 72 | 47 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Lunar Terminator Paradox (secretsauce.net)
    ×0.59 20 #8 | 44 points by dima55 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. OpenAI (2015) (openai.com)
    ×5.15 45 | 44 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Evolution of Vending Machines (saturdayeveningpost.com)
    ×0.70 58 | 44 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Sousveillance (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.00 49 | 43 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs (github.com/eval-exec)
    ×0.92 66 | 42 points by tagfowufe 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Emacs Cat: Running Emacs in MicroVM (olddeuteronomy.github.io)
    ×0.76 73 | 41 points by hndhyc0bdt 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I built my daughter a custom alarm clock because everything on Amazon sucked (reclaimtheday.substack.com)
    ×2.24 65 | 38 points by pneedleman 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own (stanford.edu)
    ×0.91 59 | 38 points by famouswaffles 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Have an LLC (zachholman.com)
    ×2.51 21 #18 | 37 points by mlex 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Allegations of sexual harassment and rape at Bay Area AI party houses (kron4.com)
    ×3.45 61 | 36 points by lukewarm707 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.71 41 #70 | 33 points by AbuAssar 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. My Recent Woodworking Projects (notoriousbfg.com)
    ×1.31 14 #26 | 32 points by trwhite 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Trail – new kind of logic game (franzai.com)
    ×1.23 12 | 30 points by franze 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???