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  1. Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (theguardian.com)
    ×12.39 14 | 517 points by mhga 1 day ago | 336 comments | ??? ???
  2. Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)
    ×9.27 30 | 678 points by AndrewSwift 3 days ago | 518 comments | ??? ???
  3. My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (twitter.com/soham_btw)
    ×8.94 67 | 919 points by sohzm 5 days ago | 503 comments | ??? ???
  4. US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy (theguardian.com)
    ×8.55 61 | 220 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  5. Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (theregister.com)
    ×7.86 18 | 296 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 220 comments | ??? ???
  6. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)
    ×6.78 17 #78 | 1199 points by adrianh 2 days ago | 412 comments | ??? ???
  7. Analyzing Grok's Latest Meltdown Through Public xAI System Prompts (theahura.substack.com)
    ×6.58 75 | 9 points by theahura 43 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  8. I’ve decided to step down as CEO of X (twitter.com/lindayax)
    ×6.19 77 | 9 points by danso 37 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  9. Show HN: A Truth Table Generator Written in Common Lisp (manoel.dev)
    ×6.01 15 | 16 points by lerax 11 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  10. X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform (nytimes.com)
    ×5.98 11 #12 | 71 points by donohoe 33 minutes ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  11. Nvidia won, we all lost (sebin-nyshkim.net)
    ×5.88 47 | 965 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 567 comments | ??? ???
  12. Sizing up the 5 companies selected for Europe's launcher challenge (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.36 74 | 7 points by Bluestein 29 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  13. Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)
    ×5.28 98 | 588 points by geox 6 days ago | 391 comments | ??? ???
  14. The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public (honest-broker.com)
    ×5.24 49 | 445 points by imartin2k 3 days ago | 393 comments | ??? ???
  15. The Rise of Whatever (eev.ee)
    ×5.17 77 | 620 points by cratermoon 5 days ago | 496 comments | ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
    ×5.14 27 | 71 points by Eatcats 1 day ago | 100 comments | ??? ???
  17. Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 (europa.eu)
    ×5.11 59 | 256 points by toomuchtodo 14 hours ago | 301 comments | ??? ???
  18. Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)
    ×5.09 50 | 444 points by bundie 23 hours ago | 309 comments | ??? ???
  19. IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes (theverge.com)
    ×4.99 9 #14 | 200 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 105 comments | ??? ???
  20. Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.86 10 | 478 points by pyman 2 days ago | 638 comments | ??? ???
  21. HN is censoring news about X / Twitter
    ×4.57 73 | 5 points by tslocum 5 minutes ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  22. SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)
    ×4.55 3 #62 | 479 points by cantdutchthis 1 day ago | 118 comments | ??? ???
  23. The Cost of an Image: The Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation (arxiv.org)
    ×4.45 54 | 6 points by GodelInTheShell 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Pulse – the wearable for n=1 habit experiments (pulse.site)
    ×4.45 58 | 6 points by msingh_5 56 minutes ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  25. Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success (tjll.net)
    ×4.41 15 #23 | 54 points by Mond_ 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  26. US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.40 24 #10 | 318 points by gausswho 16 hours ago | 309 comments | ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Vibechat – A chatroom for people bored waiting for Claude (github.com/antimatter15)
    ×4.16 145 | 9 points by antimatter15 2 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  28. Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (cnbc.com)
    ×3.96 25 | 511 points by bwfan123 3 days ago | 331 comments | ??? ???
  29. Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (freyaindia.co.uk)
    ×3.92 16 | 529 points by drankl 2 days ago | 490 comments | ??? ???
  30. Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking (dmitriid.com)
    ×3.86 93 | 297 points by troupo 4 days ago | 353 comments | ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built a website to summarize Tech Twitter each day (todayontechtwitter.com)
    ×3.83 150 | 11 points by nsomani 2 days ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  32. Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (maalvika.substack.com)
    ×3.81 63 | 754 points by alihm 4 days ago | 207 comments | ??? ???
  33. Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)
    ×3.78 7 #28 | 774 points by rexpository 21 hours ago | 419 comments | ??? ???
  34. Slack is just the worst – and I've used a BBS and 14.4k modem
    ×3.75 72 | 12 points by sincethebbsera 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  35. Show HN: ASCII Fireworks (asciifireworks.com)
    ×3.75 168 | 18 points by theli0nheart 4 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  36. I don't think AGI is right around the corner (dwarkesh.com)
    ×3.72 38 | 367 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 436 comments | ??? ???
  37. Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)
    ×3.71 11 #11 | 647 points by jonkuipers 19 hours ago | 164 comments | ??? ???
  38. What is the voice inside my head? (bbc.com)
    ×3.69 67 | 5 points by Bluestein 24 minutes ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  39. Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi (electrek.co)
    ×3.68 75 | 263 points by JumpCrisscross 3 days ago | 236 comments | ??? ???
  40. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean (csic.es)
    ×3.61 88 | 476 points by riffraff 5 days ago | 315 comments | ??? ???
  41. X CEO Linda Yaccarino to step down (axios.com)
    ×3.59 60 | 5 points by jmsflknr 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  42. Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago (elpais.com)
    ×3.57 39 | 435 points by leephillips 3 days ago | 104 comments | ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Gore – A Doom Engine Port in Go (github.com/AndreRenaud)
    ×3.53 134 | 8 points by EstIgnavus 1 day ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  44. Local-first software (2019) (inkandswitch.com)
    ×3.51 36 | 860 points by gasull 4 days ago | 294 comments | ??? ???
  45. Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web (websmith.studio)
    ×3.45 10 #17 | 189 points by pumbaa 6 hours ago | 153 comments | ??? ???
  46. Introducing tmux-rs (richardscollin.github.io)
    ×3.40 73 | 853 points by Jtsummers 6 days ago | 287 comments | ??? ???
  47. Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations (retractionwatch.com)
    ×3.39 19 #44 | 103 points by ArmageddonIt 8 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  48. Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.15 #4 | 37 points by pseudolus 46 minutes ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  49. Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry (venturebeat.com)
    ×3.14 7 #9 | 77 points by fdaudens 1 hour ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  50. Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (github.com/jackjackbits)
    ×3.14 4 | 746 points by ananddtyagi 2 days ago | 383 comments | ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (pinout.xyz)
    ×3.10 144 | 9 points by gadgetoid 1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?
    ×3.09 8 | 83 points by pedrodelfino 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  53. Why I'm skeptical of Ground News (sjodle.com)
    ×3.09 32 #73 | 8 points by blowenopdestoep 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  54. Why XSS Persists in This Frameworks Era? (flatt.tech)
    ×3.02 44 | 3 points by y0n3uchy 27 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  55. HN is how I know we've reached peak hype saturation
    ×3.02 37 | 4 points by zerosizedweasle 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  56. How to Network as an Introvert (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.93 69 | 367 points by agcat 3 days ago | 135 comments | ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: HN was much more interesting a year ago
    ×2.93 90 | 14 points by fud101 1 day ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Stravu – Editable, multi-player AI notebooks with text, tables, diagram
    ×2.84 38 | 4 points by wek 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  59. Linda Yaccarino to step down as CEO of X (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.83 45 | 3 points by ceejayoz 27 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  60. SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand (zdnet.com)
    ×2.81 13 #36 | 108 points by saubeidl 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  61. Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.80 103 | 300 points by transpute 5 days ago | 257 comments | ??? ???
  62. A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
    ×2.78 23 | 470 points by zdw 2 days ago | 408 comments | ??? ???
  63. Zorin OS (zorin.com)
    ×2.75 52 #30 | 140 points by oldfuture 23 hours ago | 132 comments | ??? ???
  64. AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.74 117 | 318 points by tysone 6 days ago | 385 comments | ??? ???
  65. What a Hacker Stole from Me (mynoise.net)
    ×2.72 65 | 387 points by wonger_ 3 days ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Open-source transcription that costs $0.02/hour instead of $30/month (github.com/braden-w)
    ×2.72 153 | 6 points by braden-w 2 days ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  67. I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (github.com/BlueFalconHD)
    ×2.69 19 | 532 points by BlueFalconHD 2 days ago | 430 comments | ??? ???
  68. 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers (nikkei.com)
    ×2.64 89 | 227 points by ohjeez 4 days ago | 141 comments | ??? ???
  69. What to build instead of AI agents (decodingml.substack.com)
    ×2.63 120 | 239 points by giuliomagnifico 6 days ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  70. Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap (cnbc.com)
    ×2.63 1 #37 | 8 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Kuvasz – an open-source uptime and SSL monitoring service (kuvasz-uptime.dev)
    ×2.63 159 | 29 points by csirkezuza 5 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I built a single API to post on all social platforms (postforme.dev)
    ×2.58 138 | 7 points by calebpanza 1 day ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  73. Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology (blog.google)
    ×2.57 106 | 338 points by doomroot13 5 days ago | 190 comments | ??? ???
  74. Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×2.51 22 #13 | 140 points by todsacerdoti 11 hours ago | 95 comments | ??? ???
  75. Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights? (arxiv.org)
    ×2.50 83 | 237 points by lexandstuff 3 days ago | 240 comments | ??? ???
  76. Hidden interface controls that affect usability (acm.org)
    ×2.49 46 | 556 points by cxr 3 days ago | 437 comments | ??? ???
  77. Tools: Code Is All You Need (pocoo.org)
    ×2.45 110 | 310 points by Bogdanp 6 days ago | 225 comments | ??? ???
  78. Larry (cat) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.43 94 | 346 points by dcminter 5 days ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  79. The first time I was almost fired from Apple (engineersneedart.com)
    ×2.42 33 | 336 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 148 comments | ??? ???
  80. I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (noperator.dev)
    ×2.39 1 | 513 points by noperator 2 days ago | 194 comments | ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: What old or outdated software have you never found a replacement for?
    ×2.37 132 | 34 points by prisenco 3 days ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  82. Why English doesn't use accents (deadlanguagesociety.com)
    ×2.36 43 | 334 points by sandbach 2 days ago | 585 comments | ??? ???
  83. Data on AI-related Show HN posts (ryanfarley.co)
    ×2.33 57 | 274 points by rfarley04 5 days ago | 155 comments | ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Dashboard tracking all GitHub PRs and analyzing Code Agent activity (github.com/logic-star-ai)
    ×2.33 105 | 8 points by mnmueller 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Built a lovable clone to see what makes agentic apps tick (github.com/beam-cloud)
    ×2.33 197 | 7 points by llom2600 4 days ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  86. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017) (crypto101.io)
    ×2.32 61 | 229 points by pona-a 2 days ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  87. OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D (kbkg.com)
    ×2.29 79 | 422 points by tareqak 4 days ago | 369 comments | ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I made this free tool in 4 days to make your screenshots 10x better. (shotcanvas.com)
    ×2.27 175 | 6 points by stjernberg 2 days ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  89. Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)
    ×2.26 6 | 562 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 236 comments | ??? ???
  90. LLMs should not replace therapists (arxiv.org)
    ×2.26 48 | 292 points by layer8 2 days ago | 402 comments | ??? ???