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Hawaii just found a way around Citizens United. Other states are following (ms.now)

×7.70 36 | 52 points by xyst 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
D. Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Running Felony Fraud Scheme Prosecutable in New York (cmarmitage.substack.com)

×7.45 60 | 65 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Magnifica Humanitas (vatican.va)

×6.36 18 #45 | 1553 points by theletterf 1 day ago | 879 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Eternal Sloptember (geohot.github.io)

×6.23 1 | 475 points by razin 1 day ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you (samkriss.substack.com)

×6.10 63 | 38 points by ghghgfdfgh 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (reuters.com)

×5.96 3 #6 | 335 points by thm 4 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn (seuros.com)

×5.68 85 | 181 points by berlianta 4 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges (apnews.com)

×5.64 73 | 40 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend (hollandtech.net)

×5.59 31 | 271 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (pluralistic.net)

×5.44 49 | 61 points by doener 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (tomshardware.com)

×5.37 16 #39 | 1020 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia strikes Kyiv with drones and hypersonic missile, in photos (apnews.com)

×5.16 46 | 33 points by consumer451 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few (religionnews.com)

×5.07 9 | 341 points by benwerd 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care (dw.com)

×5.07 81 | 41 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas" (anthropic.com)

×4.90 20 | 82 points by Philpax 22 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify' (theverge.com)

×4.80 15 #32 | 208 points by berlianta 7 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing (businessinsider.com)

×4.74 2 #77 | 272 points by _____k 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization" (variety.com)

×4.47 16 | 164 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exposing fake Canadians pushing to join the US [video] (youtube.com)

×4.36 34 | 59 points by cloche 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd (osnews.com)

×4.28 53 | 84 points by birdculture 8 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)

×4.27 9 #9 | 1016 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (politico.eu)

×4.25 8 #13 | 366 points by vrganj 6 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore (techcrunch.com)

×4.20 27 | 556 points by elorant 1 day ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union (reuters.com)

×4.15 14 #15 | 156 points by onemoresoop 1 hour ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free Fonts – a collection of 400+ original, open-source typefaces (mixfont.com)

×3.97 142 | 13 points by justswim 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S. (bnnbloomberg.ca)

×3.96 22 | 57 points by leopoldj 19 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Rise of the AI Script Kiddie

×3.95 55 | 5 points by erminpour 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99% (xiaomimimo.com)

×3.90 61 | 5 points by gainsurier 27 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100 (scienceaim.com)

×3.77 35 | 256 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Actions was down (githubstatus.com)

×3.63 64 #66 | 637 points by cebert 6 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leave Me Behind (androidessence.com)

×3.59 6 | 345 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month (eualternative.eu)

×3.59 8 | 222 points by sparkling 23 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Board Game Agent Built Using Sanity Context and Vercel's AI SDK (sanity.io)

×3.55 47 | 5 points by crabasa 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The real cost of owning a home (ericturner.dev)

×3.49 5 #12 | 46 points by ggcr 1 hour ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"? (dynomight.net)

×3.42 9 #2 | 34 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)

×3.42 36 #29 | 467 points by obscurette 1 day ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)

×3.38 19 #44 | 338 points by Cider9986 13 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017) (atlasobscura.com)

×3.36 57 | 67 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Darnix – Darwin Built with Nix (github.com/jonhermansen)

×3.28 132 | 13 points by jonhermansen 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A platform to find people to jam on side projects with (letsjam.live)

×3.21 110 | 16 points by itsmechase 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Unsiloed AI – #1 on olmOCR-Bench

×3.17 72 | 9 points by adnan9999 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers (hackyexperiments.com)

×3.15 51 | 43 points by bilater 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker News front page as a site (thefrontpage.dev)

×3.12 9 #43 | 393 points by thatxliner 21 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)

×3.07 76 | 685 points by zambelli 1 week ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI (simonwillison.net)

×3.05 3 | 58 points by pretext 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)

×3.05 80 | 726 points by zakirullin 1 week ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xiaomi Mimo-v2.5 pricing is now permanently reduced (twitter.com/XiaomiMiMo)

×3.02 48 | 4 points by ammar_x 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now (cnn.com)

×2.95 28 | 127 points by breve 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost (esengine.github.io)

×2.89 14 #84 | 720 points by Alifatisk 2 days ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ferrari Luce (ferrari.com)

×2.87 17 #28 | 433 points by jumploops 20 hours ago | 801 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: My homelab is outperforming the stock market (sjer.red)

×2.86 93 | 14 points by shepherdjerred 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google, I Dump Your Ass (jaredwhite.com)

×2.82 13 #42 | 10 points by abnercoimbre 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately (theregister.com)

×2.82 56 | 4 points by Bender 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore (unix.foo)

×2.70 3 #52 | 270 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Front Page – Newspaper-style front page for Hacker News (thefrontpage.dev)

×2.70 88 | 26 points by stagas 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I turned my dev stack into an alien planet ruled by my dog (bkawa-bot.github.io)

×2.70 122 | 9 points by bkawa-bot 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Does anybody like React? (jsx.lol)

×2.69 11 #61 | 221 points by brazukadev 15 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)

×2.63 14 #18 | 515 points by bilsbie 19 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA (nature.com)

×2.63 67 | 51 points by geox 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DoomBench – Can Your Data Stack Run Doom? (cedardb.com)

×2.63 44 | 5 points by SchwKatze 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2k a Month to Masturbate (decrypt.co)

×2.63 20 #46 | 22 points by ajay-d 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive (theguardian.com)

×2.63 10 #22 | 23 points by coffeeyesplease 1 hour ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: skills-for-humanity – 171 structured reasoning skills for Claude Code (github.com/human-avatar)

×2.61 53 | 10 points by finnworks 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Migrating from Go to Rust (corrode.dev)

×2.59 18 | 469 points by jabits 1 day ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Real wages start to shrink in developed countries (ft.com)

×2.59 | 53 points by mikhael 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/MinishLab)

×2.56 92 | 444 points by Bibabomas 1 week ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
West Coast Cities Turn to Vacancy Taxes to Grapple with Housing Crisis (theurbanist.org)

×2.44 69 | 49 points by harambae 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices (cbp.gov)

×2.37 48 | 174 points by Ember_Wipe 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties (techxplore.com)

×2.37 12 #69 | 187 points by Lihh27 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)

×2.35 82 | 529 points by danybittel 1 week ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sweden becomes a smoke-free country (thelocal.se)

×2.34 40 #55 | 36 points by Teever 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

×2.32 79 | 267 points by bojta-lepenye 5 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You Can Start Building LLM Skills Before You Know the Whole Shape (sosuke.com)

×2.31 25 | 3 points by sosuke 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web (audiomass.co)

×2.31 10 #87 | 529 points by pantelisk 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100 (github.com/exmergo)

×2.29 40 | 87 points by adunk 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI (wiert.me)

×2.28 29 | 3 points by geerlingguy 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Revenge of the Business Idiot (wheresyoured.at)

×2.24 3 #38 | 6 points by 7777777phil 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fake ChatGPT installers on GitHub are dropping Deno RATs (vechron.com)

×2.20 17 | 3 points by GeorgeWoff25 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)

×2.19 98 | 325 points by stephenlthorn 1 week ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SpaceX to drive a Cybertruck through corporate governance norms (ft.com)

×2.18 32 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What the Hantavirus Story Reveals About Medical Mistrust (undark.org)

×2.18 22 | 3 points by speckx 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)

×2.16 77 | 426 points by kageroumado 5 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I manage teams without a single call (orchidfiles.com)

×2.16 47 | 68 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (promptarmor.com)

×2.15 2 #65 | 254 points by Kneenex 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Xerox invented the GUI and watched Apple and Microsoft win (generationamiga.com)

×2.14 20 | 3 points by ibobev 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI may fuel US business creation, but few signs of similar trend in Canada (theglobeandmail.com)

×2.13 23 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Booz Allen Hamilton Conducts Fraud Against the Government (google.com)

×2.10 35 | 3 points by cochranblock 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jira Is Turing-Complete (seriot.ch)

×2.07 15 | 301 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude (apple.com)

×2.05 10 #63 | 164 points by dragonsenseiguy 18 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)

×2.04 71 | 383 points by sanity 5 days ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???