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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics (missionlocal.org)

×10.27 11 | 330 points by computerliker 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it (github.com/matplotlib)

×8.12 78 | 880 points by wrxd 19 hours ago | 689 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years (thehill.com)

×7.13 44 | 108 points by hypeatei 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 (nbcnews.com)

×6.76 19 | 204 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI agent published a hit piece on me (theshamblog.com)

×6.60 8 #9 | 1687 points by scottshambaugh 15 hours ago | 698 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health (bbc.com)

×6.34 47 | 91 points by saikatsg 11 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says (ft.com)

×6.14 66 | 348 points by mraniki 16 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE's Jail in Texas (truthout.org)

×6.13 49 | 89 points by wahnfrieden 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code is being dumbed down? (symmetrybreak.ing)

×5.40 36 #75 | 1052 points by WXLCKNO 1 day ago | 678 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights (apnews.com)

×5.37 10 | 333 points by EwanG 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ai;dr (0xsid.com)

×5.04 40 #50 | 627 points by ssiddharth 14 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out (threathunter.ai)

×4.75 35 | 164 points by bourbonsec 19 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash (theverge.com)

×4.59 14 #17 | 350 points by c420 7 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance (theverge.com)

×4.45 32 #85 | 655 points by jedberg 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The DOJ is spying on members of Congress who review the Epstein files (cnn.com)

×4.44 49 | 8 points by Der_Einzige 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law (arstechnica.com)

×4.25 23 | 145 points by Bender 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I vibecoded 177 tools for my own use (CalcBin) (calcbin.com)

×4.18 118 | 14 points by diNgUrAndI 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code (github.com/tonyyont)

×4.14 15 #41 | 949 points by doppp 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: YOR – open-source bimanual mobile robot for <$10k (yourownrobot.ai)

×4.05 45 | 9 points by jeffacce 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ring owners are returning their cameras (msn.com)

×4.04 10 #15 | 24 points by c420 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Something Big Is Happening (shumer.dev)

×4.03 65 | 83 points by eternalreturn 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal (economist.com)

×3.99 75 | 92 points by doener 6 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI Vampire (medium.com)

×3.86 64 | 93 points by SilverElfin 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 (wallstreetraider.com)

×3.64 106 | 53 points by benstopics 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass (kibty.town)

×3.56 20 #52 | 934 points by JustSkyfall 1 day ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars (techcrunch.com)

×3.52 27 #48 | 18 points by mfiguiere 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TidesDB – A persistent key-value store optimized for modern hardware (github.com/tidesdb)

×3.48 59 | 10 points by alexpadula 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)

×3.40 24 #39 | 329 points by ryanhn 12 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 3 Deep Think (blog.google)

×3.27 2 #4 | 809 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why vampires live forever (machielreyneke.com)

×3.24 6 | 390 points by machielrey 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TinyFish Web Agent (82% on hard tasks vs. Operator's 43%) (tinyfish.ai)

×3.19 42 | 16 points by gargi_tinyfish 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage? (lifehacker.com)

×3.12 38 | 123 points by daft_pink 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists (reuters.com)

×3.11 2 #73 | 479 points by abe94 1 day ago | 640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data (qcontinuum.substack.com)

×3.05 | 463 points by qcontinuum1 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed (can.ac)

×2.99 4 #13 | 638 points by kachapopopow 18 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer (nytimes.com)

×2.97 60 | 71 points by leephillips 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could (techdirt.com)

×2.97 27 #47 | 192 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory (cell.com)

×2.84 8 | 338 points by Archelaos 1 day ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification (matrix.org)

×2.84 37 #49 | 272 points by foresto 10 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discord just killed anonymity (michael-dev-tech.github.io)

×2.72 34 #58 | 131 points by f0r3st 9 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you (skipthe.tips)

×2.70 1 #5 | 247 points by randycupertino 6 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box (realfood.gov)

×2.63 45 | 74 points by burkaman 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues (noheger.at)

×2.63 1 #1 | 417 points by erickhill 7 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment (ssrn.com)

×2.62 14 | 301 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware (theregister.com)

×2.62 60 | 252 points by beardyw 17 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel (twitter.com/DrWhax)

×2.61 14 | 193 points by CGMthrowaway 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ktop – a themed terminal system monitor with charts and OOM tracking (github.com/brontoguana)

×2.60 136 | 6 points by brontoguana 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)

×2.56 8 #10 | 145 points by ffworld 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code, Codex, and Other IDEs (github.com/PeonPing)

×2.54 56 | 3 points by theshrike79 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Unpack – a lightweight way to steer Codex/Claude with phased docs (github.com/apresmoi)

×2.53 116 | 7 points by apresmoi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app (bbc.com)

×2.50 42 | 152 points by belter 17 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FrankenTUI in the Browser (frankentui.com)

×2.45 93 | 7 points by eigenvalue 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Got VACE working in real-time – 30fps on a 5090 (daydream.live)

×2.41 69 | 10 points by cmuir 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do not apologize for replying late to my email (ploum.net)

×2.40 30 | 219 points by validatori 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k (jasongodfrey.info)

×2.33 17 #46 | 151 points by heifer 12 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (openai.com)

×2.33 6 #2 | 680 points by meetpateltech 13 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport (nytimes.com)

×2.33 11 | 365 points by edward 1 day ago | 577 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm (qntm.org)

×2.28 8 #6 | 22 points by stickynotememo 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git (kraxel.org)

×2.25 48 #79 | 288 points by dzulp0d 2 days ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare adds real-time Markdown rendering for AI agents (cloudflare.com)

×2.25 15 #51 | 19 points by thestackfox 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Three Inverse Laws of AI and Robotics (susam.net)

×2.23 26 | 4 points by susam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (biorxiv.org)

×2.22 21 | 4 points by eq_ind 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks (z.ai)

×2.21 14 #67 | 466 points by CuriouslyC 1 day ago | 510 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering (z.ai)

×2.21 7 | 376 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Crank – The SSH Terminal Manager for Engineers Who Refuse to Close Tabs (github.com/nexivibe)

×2.18 108 | 6 points by mathgladiator 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work (vangemert.dev)

×2.17 13 #77 | 427 points by spmvg 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users (atha.io)

×2.09 #19 | 492 points by thatha7777 17 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter (fluorite.game)

×2.04 4 #78 | 522 points by bsimpson 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gottp – A Postman/Insomnia-Like TUI API Client Built in Go (github.com/sadopc)

×2.03 128 | 5 points by sadopc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink (livescience.com)

×2.03 24 #61 | 170 points by Brajeshwar 14 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified (minimax.io)

×2.01 23 #57 | 175 points by denysvitali 14 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)

×1.98 63 | 407 points by tombh 3 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why governments insist on CBDCs or stablecoins when most people don't want them (nakedcapitalism.com)

×1.98 1 | 4 points by iamnothere 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you "step through" your own anxiety?

×1.94 56 | 5 points by schneak 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78 (arstechnica.com)

×1.90 14 #86 | 131 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS Adds support for nested virtualization (github.com/aws)

×1.87 3 #8 | 169 points by sitole 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
D Programming Language (dlang.org)

×1.86 35 #44 | 184 points by arcadia_leak 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day (macrumors.com)

×1.84 25 | 147 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using an engineering notebook (ntietz.com)

×1.83 2 #65 | 323 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 3D and World Models for Consistent AI Filmmaking (getartcraft.com)

×1.81 121 | 4 points by echelon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025) (openculture.com)

×1.77 35 #36 | 201 points by nobody9999 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who smeared Richard Feynman? (2014) (nuclearsecrecy.com)

×1.76 62 | 73 points by srean 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Communities are not fungible (joanwestenberg.com)

×1.75 33 | 237 points by tardibear 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built managed OpenClaw hosting with 60s provisioning in 6 days (clawhosters.com)

×1.75 122 | 8 points by yixn_io 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Audio Is the One Area Small Labs Are Winning (amplifypartners.com)

×1.74 9 | 3 points by rocauc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rawkit – Free, no-ads developer tools that run in the browser (rawkit.dev)

×1.74 113 | 4 points by mohammedsunasra 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation (tildeweb.nl)

×1.73 37 #70 | 76 points by roywashere 23 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)

×1.71 78 | 305 points by ariaalam 4 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Where to find people to discuss the future of AI?

×1.71 | 2 points by Vishal19111999 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory (github.com/localgpt-app)

×1.70 85 | 329 points by yi_wang 5 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???