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  1. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
    ×5.43 15 #46 | 1280 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago | 918 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
    ×4.36 24 #29 | 909 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 736 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
    ×3.38 15 #52 | 898 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 609 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
    ×3.46 15 #56 | 820 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
    ×4.91 13 #65 | 805 points by thm 1 day ago | 696 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
    ×3.19 12 #61 | 801 points by flipped 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
    ×2.80 4 #68 | 750 points by speckx 1 day ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.18 #1 | 670 points by anonymousiam 8 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
    ×3.38 58 #64 | 650 points by ribtoks 12 hours ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (reddit.com)
    ×4.07 24 | 613 points by newsoftheday 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.48 16 #84 | 572 points by bsuh 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
    ×4.40 53 #66 | 533 points by mwheelz 14 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×6.13 10 | 503 points by Qem 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
    ×2.44 17 | 478 points by tamnd 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
    ×4.25 11 #9 | 467 points by defrost 14 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
    ×2.41 3 | 381 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
    ×2.63 14 | 378 points by wslh 1 day ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
    ×1.86 12 #16 | 376 points by ColinWright 15 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)
    ×1.81 11 | 361 points by instagraham 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (mozilla.org)
    ×2.80 34 #53 | 340 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
    ×2.10 14 #76 | 329 points by speckx 1 day ago | 703 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
    ×1.43 1 | 321 points by berlianta 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×3.00 11 #32 | 299 points by mittermayr 17 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
    ×2.47 27 #24 | 295 points by sbt567 19 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
    ×1.70 5 #7 | 291 points by willmeyers 10 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.97 5 | 291 points by speckx 1 day ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.52 33 | 266 points by andsoitis 2 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
    ×1.73 15 #41 | 262 points by Borkdude 19 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
    ×1.65 4 #4 | 258 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
    ×2.11 9 #26 | 240 points by david-gpu 14 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2 (nintendo.co.jp)
    ×2.08 29 | 227 points by razorbeamz 19 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb (theregister.com)
    ×2.93 23 | 218 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
    ×1.23 47 | 203 points by stereo-highway 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
    ×2.09 24 #58 | 200 points by gmays 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off (theverge.com)
    ×4.17 57 | 198 points by droidjj 12 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
    ×1.09 12 #17 | 196 points by xngbuilds 11 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal (reuters.com)
    ×2.49 22 #43 | 195 points by scrlk 9 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
    ×1.69 | 191 points by hhs 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Just Use Go (blainsmith.com)
    ×10.42 52 | 185 points by xngbuilds 13 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
    ×1.22 24 | 181 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (pcmag.com)
    ×4.15 17 #21 | 164 points by tcp_handshaker 4 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.01 63 #80 | 156 points by wojtczyk 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.15 56 | 149 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. GeoJSON (geojson.org)
    ×1.13 25 #40 | 148 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
    ×1.31 3 #11 | 145 points by MrBruh 7 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours (cnbc.com)
    ×2.11 7 #10 | 145 points by christhecaribou 7 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
    ×1.04 29 #72 | 145 points by hhs 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas) (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×12.75 17 | 145 points by tfirst 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI's WebRTC problem (moq.dev)
    ×2.56 #2 | 141 points by atgctg 3 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
    ×1.12 38 #74 | 136 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved (status.io)
    ×3.91 62 #78 | 134 points by rbaudibert 7 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook (johnozbay.com)
    ×1.64 36 | 129 points by speckx 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
    ×0.84 17 #31 | 126 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.24 57 | 125 points by segmenta 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.70 29 | 124 points by epistasis 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
    ×0.96 35 #69 | 121 points by foltik 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit (garrido.io)
    ×0.97 21 #36 | 119 points by ggpsv 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters (firethering.com)
    ×1.00 58 | 110 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What we lost the last time code got cheap (poppastring.com)
    ×1.94 64 | 109 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com/trevin)
    ×0.85 41 #88 | 108 points by blumpy22 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads (neowin.net)
    ×1.35 24 #90 | 107 points by bundie 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)
    ×2.12 18 #15 | 100 points by pretext 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply (kmph.com)
    ×3.44 45 | 99 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.22 53 | 99 points by mobeigi 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com/graemeg)
    ×0.88 28 #71 | 96 points by peter_d_sherman 22 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.07 28 | 96 points by hhs 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Git for AI Agents (github.com/regent-vcs)
    ×0.84 15 #45 | 93 points by doshay 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Discord Incident – Resolved (discordstatus.com)
    ×2.13 65 | 87 points by moelf 6 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. QBE – Compiler Back End (c9x.me)
    ×1.04 40 #55 | 87 points by smartmic 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy (abc4.com)
    ×5.39 43 | 84 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees (~20% of workforce) (yahoo.com)
    ×11.39 41 | 83 points by gcr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement (ohio.news)
    ×3.73 55 | 82 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Creating for a niche (davesnider.com)
    ×0.82 50 | 80 points by snide 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process (techdirt.com)
    ×4.95 45 | 78 points by hn_acker 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic) (cardor.dev)
    ×0.67 63 | 78 points by enmanuelmag 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022) (stroustrup.com)
    ×0.97 20 #30 | 76 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg (eieio.games)
    ×5.90 51 | 74 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.78 70 | 73 points by darkrishabh 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs (sdocs.dev)
    ×0.73 47 #47 | 73 points by FailMore 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support (apnews.com)
    ×2.85 22 | 70 points by OutOfHere 22 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Upper Middle Class Trap (ofdollarsanddata.com)
    ×3.04 65 | 69 points by speckx 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport (ietf.org)
    ×0.73 61 | 67 points by mondainx 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. People Hate AI Art (mccue.dev)
    ×6.03 #3 | 56 points by 3dedb728-3f77 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. UFO Release 1: Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (war.gov)
    ×2.84 13 | 62 points by thinkingemote 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Looking at the data behind prediction markets (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.97 12 #20 | 60 points by kqr 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
    ×1.65 4 #5 | 57 points by mufeedvh 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love (etke.cc)
    ×1.00 48 | 58 points by anotherevan 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation (lwn.net)
    ×0.82 34 | 55 points by signa11 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional (apnews.com)
    ×5.79 67 | 51 points by 1659447091 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Claude Code CVE-2026-39861:sandbox escape via symlink (github.com/advisories)
    ×1.19 48 #89 | 49 points by Armor1AI 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???