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Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases (bepurple.ai)

×33.88 | 89 points by arndt 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal (euronews.com)

×8.24 35 | 155 points by nothrowaways 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MacBook Neo (apple.com)

×6.72 9 #16 | 1779 points by dm 19 hours ago | 2089 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran War Cost Tracker (iran-cost-ticker.com)

×6.36 10 | 316 points by TSiege 1 day ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MacBook Neo (apple.com)

×6.10 37 | 188 points by meetpateltech 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death (politico.eu)

×5.82 29 | 184 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign (newrepublic.com)

×5.60 15 #17 | 34 points by TrackerFF 51 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’ (techcrunch.com)

×5.50 13 #18 | 566 points by SilverElfin 9 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (ifixit.com)

×5.49 29 | 490 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone needs to go to jail (edwardelson.substack.com)

×5.39 54 | 110 points by shimm723 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No right to relicense this project (github.com/chardet)

×5.31 8 #9 | 101 points by robin_reala 1 hour ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Xkcd thing, now interactive (p5js.org)

×5.08 40 | 1295 points by memalign 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores (engadget.com)

×4.79 62 | 212 points by _____k 14 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)

×4.55 20 #47 | 1231 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 520 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?

×4.43 78 | 146 points by throwaway53463 3 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pane – Give your AI access to your financial data via MCP (pane.money)

×4.42 112 | 10 points by darnfish 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying (acko.net)

×4.36 5 #4 | 140 points by LorenDB 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman admits OpenAI can't control Pentagon's use of AI (theguardian.com)

×4.29 48 | 7 points by iamflimflam1 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff (wsj.com)

×4.28 55 | 82 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time (cbc.ca)

×3.99 6 #89 | 1159 points by ireflect 2 days ago | 560 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns (svd.se)

×3.92 17 #87 | 1411 points by sandbach 2 days ago | 800 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays (theregister.com)

×3.84 3 | 97 points by Bender 21 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We want to displace Notion with collaborative Markdown files (moment.dev)

×3.83 87 | 27 points by antics 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)

×3.80 72 | 847 points by aamederen 22 hours ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FiveW – Stay current on AI in 5 minutes a day (fivew.xyz)

×3.66 67 | 15 points by ethanmlam 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)

×3.64 2 | 228 points by SerCe 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic (techcrunch.com)

×3.63 21 #34 | 165 points by jnord 7 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model (microsoft.com)

×3.61 35 #75 | 8 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I put HN discussions next to the article where it belongs (railway.app)

×3.48 79 | 8 points by krenerd 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bet on German Train Delays (bahn.bet)

×3.40 36 | 286 points by indiantinker 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review (theverge.com)

×3.27 49 | 188 points by duggan 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Workspace CLI (github.com/googleworkspace)

×3.26 2 #2 | 568 points by gonzalovargas 9 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral (bbc.com)

×3.24 58 | 182 points by tartoran 14 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An interactive map of Flock Cams (deflock.org)

×3.16 31 #45 | 575 points by anjel 14 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (simonwillison.net)

×3.15 2 #15 | 661 points by simonw 17 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video] (youtube.com)

×3.14 33 | 303 points by vanyauhalin 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a new Flash (newgrounds.com)

×3.08 4 #8 | 537 points by TechPlasma 13 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services (neilzone.co.uk)

×3.05 34 | 963 points by speckx 1 day ago | 613 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native (tonsky.me)

×3.04 42 | 192 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals (experimental-history.com)

×3.00 39 #70 | 366 points by sito42 18 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran says targeted AWS Data Centers for support of U.S. military (cnbc.com)

×2.97 18 #66 | 24 points by johnbarron 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)

×2.94 4 | 521 points by devinitely 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)

×2.91 22 #71 | 514 points by r4um 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands (wired.com)

×2.82 26 | 238 points by alwillis 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude's Cycles [pdf] (stanford.edu)

×2.79 28 #49 | 778 points by fs123 1 day ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We build a Graph of public Skills (skillinsight.io)

×2.79 89 | 9 points by mapleeman 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Major airline bans 'barebeaters' across all 24 daily flights from UK airports (metro.co.uk)

×2.72 22 #42 | 7 points by sieste 52 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip (macrumors.com)

×2.61 4 | 80 points by vanburen 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (apple.com)

×2.60 23 #84 | 848 points by scrlk 1 day ago | 936 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents (poehnelt.com)

×2.58 28 #43 | 86 points by justinwp 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Engineering Anti Patterns (simonwillison.net)

×2.58 32 #80 | 8 points by pchristensen 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (bbc.com)

×2.55 7 #72 | 412 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Demucs music stem separator rewritten in Rust – runs in the browser (github.com/nikhilunni)

×2.51 107 | 15 points by nikhilunni 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? (venturebeat.com)

×2.50 13 | 136 points by GTP 20 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours (llmhorrors.com)

×2.47 66 | 85 points by salkahfi 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters (theguardian.com)

×2.41 9 #19 | 71 points by geox 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dulce et Decorum Est (1921) (poetryfoundation.org)

×2.39 14 #21 | 132 points by bikeshaving 12 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Potatoverse, home for your vibecoded apps (github.com/blue-monads)

×2.36 62 | 6 points by born-jre 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch (ntik.me)

×2.36 30 | 563 points by nicktikhonov 2 days ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video] (youtube.com)

×2.33 7 | 508 points by pcdavid 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gulf insurance costs soar 12-fold despite US president's guarantee (ft.com)

×2.31 25 | 4 points by divbzero 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Does that use a lot of energy? (hannahritchie.github.io)

×2.29 51 #76 | 210 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-sourced a web client that lets any device use Apple's on-device AI (github.com/Techopolis)

×2.28 77 | 10 points by tayarndt 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No Silver Bullet [pdf] (dartmouth.edu)

×2.28 46 | 3 points by abrbhat 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config (joshua.hu)

×2.28 31 #54 | 303 points by mmsc 15 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction (retractionwatch.com)

×2.26 35 | 169 points by Tomte 18 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gapless.js – gapless web audio playback (github.com/RelistenNet)

×2.25 109 | 35 points by switz 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't make me talk to your chatbot (raymyers.org)

×2.25 11 | 254 points by pkilgore 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Microsoft Clairty" Isn't Microsoft Clarity: Deobfuscating Ad Fraud Script (cside.com)

×2.23 32 | 4 points by swijck 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub having issues [resolved] (githubstatus.com)

×2.20 34 | 211 points by Simpliplant 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite (tuananh.net)

×2.18 7 #3 | 100 points by tuananh 4 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You Just Reveived (dylan.gr)

×2.14 8 #14 | 161 points by djnaraps 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Glyph, a local-first Markdown notes app for macOS built with Rust (glyphformac.com)

×2.13 98 | 7 points by skarat 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MacBook Air with M5 (apple.com)

×2.13 9 | 415 points by Garbage 1 day ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy (arstechnica.com)

×2.10 48 | 90 points by Gagarin1917 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: What % of your commits were written by AI? (btao.org)

×2.04 103 | 5 points by tao_oat 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments (nature.com)

×2.02 17 | 102 points by jacquesm 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide (unsloth.ai)

×1.98 9 #32 | 336 points by bilsbie 21 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When AI writes the software, who verifies it? (leodemoura.github.io)

×1.97 20 | 298 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't become an engineering manager (manager.dev)

×1.86 14 | 390 points by flail 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 (growtika.com)

×1.85 43 | 226 points by Growtika 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders (bbc.com)

×1.82 23 | 361 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B (huggingface.co)

×1.78 8 | 3 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI model trained on 9.3T base pairs can now design novel genes (dongascience.com)

×1.77 5 | 3 points by benewton 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules (theregister.com)

×1.76 22 #51 | 168 points by Bender 22 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs (github.com/cosmiciron)

×1.74 101 | 77 points by cosmiciron 3 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building PDR AI – Open-source startup accelerator engine (github.com/Deodat-Lawson)

×1.74 13 | 3 points by DaggerDreaming 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs (ddmckinnon.com)

×1.73 38 #78 | 190 points by dmckinno 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Paste a URL and watch multiple AI models redesign it side-by-side (shuffle.dev)

×1.73 75 | 4 points by kemyd 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses recordings aren't private (mashable.com)

×1.73 3 | 3 points by ivell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???