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Grove.el – An Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs (jonathanchu.is)

×9.30 50 | 15 points by tolerance 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%) (daringfireball.net)

×8.74 12 #14 | 156 points by gyomu 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (nytimes.com)

×5.58 55 | 89 points by jbegley 8 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs (tomshardware.com)

×5.51 63 | 228 points by GavinAnderegg 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)

×5.51 8 #13 | 1232 points by thitran 16 hours ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Omar – A TUI for managing 100 coding agents (omar.tech)

×5.43 184 | 16 points by karim7 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Explores Using Intel and Samsung to Build Main Device Chips in the US (bloomberg.com)

×5.21 31 #44 | 11 points by tambourine_man 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Colorado grandma keeps getting pulled over due to database error (guessingheadlights.com)

×5.20 115 | 43 points by chasil 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)

×5.04 9 | 427 points by ayoisaiah 1 day ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved (githubstatus.com)

×4.56 77 | 421 points by gen220 12 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races (reuters.com)

×4.53 121 | 46 points by Propelloni 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)

×4.30 101 #90 | 659 points by indigodaddy 3 days ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)

×4.22 4 #73 | 840 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uncle Bob: It's Over (reddit.com)

×4.11 111 | 61 points by lopespm 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N)

×4.07 12 #16 | 458 points by cft 9 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Days without GitHub incidents (dayswithoutgithubincident.com)

×4.02 79 | 361 points by goalieca 10 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender (theguardian.com)

×4.00 74 | 7 points by prawn 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built my site as a Windows 95 experience (2025) (wes.dev)

×3.95 159 | 10 points by WesSouza 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac (notepad-plus-plus.org)

×3.90 28 #49 | 588 points by maxloh 18 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security (ft.com)

×3.86 103 | 126 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (smithsonianmag.com)

×3.78 7 #77 | 550 points by dryadin 1 day ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Musk Settles SEC Suit for Underpaying Twitter Investors by $150M for Just $1.5M (law.com)

×3.77 59 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 49 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)

×3.73 4 #56 | 579 points by bjhess 1 day ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts (wired.com)

×3.66 23 #57 | 101 points by HotGarbage 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (ecopv-eu.com)

×3.63 80 | 552 points by rdeboo 12 hours ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level (theguardian.com)

×3.53 20 #35 | 112 points by dmm 6 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pocket (anthonyliddle.dev)

×3.52 15 | 6 points by sciurus 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (thinkpol.ca)

×3.51 67 | 375 points by bazlightyear 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI and the Danger of Cognitive Surrender (economist.com)

×3.49 53 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (github.com/aattaran)

×3.34 23 #79 | 653 points by alattaran 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emergency brakes: How to limit temps long before last resort of geoengineering (thebulletin.org)

×3.21 15 #78 | 6 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Oscars just banned AI from winning acting and writing awards (gizmodo.com)

×3.14 104 | 76 points by ZeidJ 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The code hosting platform after GitHub (ersc.io)

×3.06 29 | 5 points by rishiadhikari 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust (github.com/oven-sh)

×3.06 1 #2 | 236 points by SergeAx 2 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan (thegamer.com)

×3.02 39 | 305 points by rishabhd 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tokens and Dreams (charlesleifer.com)

×2.98 45 | 5 points by xngbuilds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision (goodmorningamerica.com)

×2.94 22 | 111 points by taubek 19 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work (arstechnica.com)

×2.93 3 #53 | 39 points by ColinWright 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)

×2.93 4 #24 | 653 points by n1b0m 18 hours ago | 622 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day (christophermeiklejohn.com)

×2.92 58 | 227 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants (techcrunch.com)

×2.91 19 #27 | 448 points by ZeidJ 10 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Truth (stanford.edu)

×2.90 25 | 5 points by nvr219 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables (github.com/darrylmorley)

×2.87 107 | 556 points by sleepingNomad 3 days ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original (arstechnica.com)

×2.85 14 | 5 points by cwal37 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump's proposed NASA budget is a 'horrible threat to our future' in space (space.com)

×2.84 11 | 5 points by voxadam 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Parrot – a fun, skeuomorphic audio recorder to hear yourself (zkhrv.com)

×2.76 139 | 18 points by zkhrv 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks (independent.co.uk)

×2.76 5 #38 | 12 points by latexr 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)

×2.71 9 | 287 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why TUIs are back (alcidesfonseca.com)

×2.66 10 | 406 points by rickcarlino 1 day ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amp's GPT 5.5 Model Analysis (ampcode.com)

×2.62 30 | 5 points by goranmoomin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heat pump sales rise across Europe (pv-magazine.com)

×2.60 14 #33 | 223 points by doener 10 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game Boy Advance Dev: Link Cable Networking (mattgreer.dev)

×2.58 22 #86 | 22 points by birdculture 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction (lelanthran.com)

×2.57 77 | 159 points by lelanthran 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Woman's Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court (proofnews.org)

×2.53 8 #58 | 8 points by g8oz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?

×2.51 44 | 4 points by devstein 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) (shonczinner.github.io)

×2.50 37 | 4 points by kjshsh123 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)

×2.50 81 | 281 points by brendanmc6 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

×2.48 142 | 593 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption (9to5mac.com)

×2.45 2 #60 | 30 points by latchkey 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Biscuit (github.com/yattsu)

×2.41 40 | 4 points by unixfg 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Following the Text Gradient at Scale (stanford.edu)

×2.39 42 | 4 points by bearseascape 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A desktop made for one (isene.org)

×2.39 39 #72 | 430 points by xngbuilds 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs (tomshardware.com)

×2.39 9 #52 | 23 points by Zeidd 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flock Holding Closed Police Conference, Requires Police Consent for Marketing (ipvm.com)

×2.37 3 | 49 points by jhonovich 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025) (space.com)

×2.37 20 #47 | 151 points by Tomte 10 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Mental Model for Agentic Work (basti.io)

×2.36 40 | 4 points by basti_ag 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I am worried about Bun (wwj.dev)

×2.36 8 #18 | 434 points by remote-dev 11 hours ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boris Cherny Why Coding Is Solved, and What Comes Next (youtube.com)

×2.35 48 | 4 points by gastonmorixe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Staggering' number of people believe unproven health claims (nature.com)

×2.34 4 #75 | 40 points by anigbrowl 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets (wsj.com)

×2.34 6 | 95 points by JumpCrisscross 16 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Developer re-enables features that Bambu Lab disabled, BL threatens legal action (tomshardware.com)

×2.33 46 | 4 points by jacquesm 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)

×2.32 4 #5 | 158 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An LLM agent that runs on any Linux box (getclaw.site)

×2.31 33 | 4 points by kilian-ai 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Valve just imported 50 tons of game consoles in two days (theverge.com)

×2.30 34 | 4 points by droidjj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why AI Agents Need Proof Chains, Not Just Logs (github.com/rodriguezaa22ar-boop)

×2.30 15 | 5 points by astra_omnia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents (github.com/lahfir)

×2.30 129 | 98 points by lahfir 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't let your Mac's storage fill up (sixcolors.com)

×2.28 45 | 4 points by xngbuilds 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why ChatGPT answers instead of saying "I don't know" (medium.com)

×2.27 37 | 4 points by BoundaryTester 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hello, World in many different languages (jdunn.dev)

×2.24 158 | 10 points by jdironman 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Companies Learn the Word No (reason.com)

×2.22 32 | 4 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Telescript (Programming Language) (wikipedia.org)

×2.22 55 | 3 points by avaer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White House may vet new AI models before public release (forbes.com)

×2.17 54 | 4 points by adriangrassi 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programmers Sell Ox, Not UX (makonea.com)

×2.17 57 | 4 points by jdw64 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WeSearch – Anonymous news aggregator with no algorithm, 700 sources (wesearch.press)

×2.17 189 | 15 points by EGCstudy 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
File Approved – File approvals without the back-and-forth (fileapproved.com)

×2.16 16 | 4 points by vannventures 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reporters at McClatchy Withhold Bylines in Dispute over A.I. Content (nytimes.com)

×2.15 26 | 4 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: My OSINT dashboard with 60+ feeds now has a pseudonymous P2P comms (github.com/BigBodyCobain)

×2.12 173 | 5 points by vancecookcobxin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets (engadget.com)

×2.09 8 | 106 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adobe's 'Modern' User Interface Is Just Webpages – Pixel Envy (pxlnv.com)

×2.07 27 | 3 points by tambourine_man 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers (heise.de)

×2.07 9 #63 | 47 points by hmokiguess 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???