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  1. Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (theguardian.com)
    ×12.16 9 | 518 points by mhga 1 day ago | 340 comments | ??? ???
  2. Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)
    ×9.20 38 | 682 points by AndrewSwift 3 days ago | 519 comments | ??? ???
  3. My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (twitter.com/soham_btw)
    ×8.86 70 | 922 points by sohzm 5 days ago | 503 comments | ??? ???
  4. Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (theregister.com)
    ×8.08 10 | 309 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 234 comments | ??? ???
  5. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)
    ×6.76 18 #86 | 1210 points by adrianh 2 days ago | 412 comments | ??? ???
  6. OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome (reuters.com)
    ×6.41 53 #67 | 27 points by jmsflknr 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  7. Nvidia won, we all lost (sebin-nyshkim.net)
    ×5.85 52 | 967 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 568 comments | ??? ???
  8. X removes posts by Musk chatbot Grok after antisemitism complaints (reuters.com)
    ×5.72 78 | 7 points by rbanffy 28 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  9. Show HN: A Truth Table Generator Written in Common Lisp (manoel.dev)
    ×5.63 53 | 16 points by lerax 17 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  10. Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)
    ×5.26 96 | 589 points by geox 6 days ago | 392 comments | ??? ???
  11. Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 (europa.eu)
    ×5.24 39 | 265 points by toomuchtodo 20 hours ago | 315 comments | ??? ???
  12. The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public (honest-broker.com)
    ×5.22 57 | 447 points by imartin2k 3 days ago | 393 comments | ??? ???
  13. Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)
    ×5.18 33 | 455 points by bundie 1 day ago | 314 comments | ??? ???
  14. The Rise of Whatever (eev.ee)
    ×5.15 79 | 622 points by cratermoon 5 days ago | 497 comments | ??? ???
  15. Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.90 16 | 485 points by pyman 2 days ago | 641 comments | ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
    ×4.88 43 | 76 points by Eatcats 1 day ago | 103 comments | ??? ???
  17. Let Kids Be Loud (afterbabel.com)
    ×4.72 11 #12 | 65 points by trevin 1 hour ago | 64 comments | ??? ???
  18. X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform (nytimes.com)
    ×4.69 25 #28 | 288 points by donohoe 6 hours ago | 415 comments | ??? ???
  19. Trump appointees stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts (yahoo.com)
    ×4.64 47 | 7 points by ivape 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  20. IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes (theverge.com)
    ×4.57 22 #32 | 337 points by thunderbong 11 hours ago | 213 comments | ??? ???
  21. SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)
    ×4.51 3 #69 | 494 points by cantdutchthis 1 day ago | 120 comments | ??? ???
  22. US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.32 19 #14 | 503 points by gausswho 22 hours ago | 473 comments | ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Vibechat – A chatroom for people bored waiting for Claude (github.com/antimatter15)
    ×4.13 149 | 9 points by antimatter15 2 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  24. Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (cnbc.com)
    ×3.96 37 | 513 points by bwfan123 3 days ago | 331 comments | ??? ???
  25. Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (freyaindia.co.uk)
    ×3.92 28 | 531 points by drankl 2 days ago | 490 comments | ??? ???
  26. Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap (cnbc.com)
    ×3.90 42 #61 | 95 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  27. Slack is just the worst – and I've used a BBS and 14.4k modem
    ×3.88 83 | 13 points by sincethebbsera 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  28. Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking (dmitriid.com)
    ×3.84 94 | 297 points by troupo 4 days ago | 353 comments | ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: HN is becoming too political
    ×3.83 56 | 6 points by redm 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  30. Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)
    ×3.82 10 #18 | 747 points by jonkuipers 1 day ago | 198 comments | ??? ???
  31. Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (maalvika.substack.com)
    ×3.82 63 | 757 points by alihm 4 days ago | 207 comments | ??? ???
  32. Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)
    ×3.77 33 #63 | 803 points by rexpository 1 day ago | 437 comments | ??? ???
  33. Show HN: ASCII Fireworks (asciifireworks.com)
    ×3.74 168 | 18 points by theli0nheart 4 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  34. Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.73 78 #89 | 117 points by pseudolus 6 hours ago | 154 comments | ??? ???
  35. I don't think AGI is right around the corner (dwarkesh.com)
    ×3.71 47 | 368 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 437 comments | ??? ???
  36. Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi (electrek.co)
    ×3.65 78 | 263 points by JumpCrisscross 3 days ago | 236 comments | ??? ???
  37. Would You Like an IDOR With That? Leaking 64m McDonald's Job Applications (ian.sh)
    ×3.65 43 | 5 points by samwcurry 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  38. McDonald's AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers (wired.com)
    ×3.64 49 | 5 points by impish9208 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  39. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean (csic.es)
    ×3.60 87 | 476 points by riffraff 5 days ago | 315 comments | ??? ???
  40. Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago (elpais.com)
    ×3.57 46 | 437 points by leephillips 3 days ago | 104 comments | ??? ???
  41. Local-first software (2019) (inkandswitch.com)
    ×3.51 42 | 861 points by gasull 4 days ago | 295 comments | ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Gore – A Doom Engine Port in Go (github.com/AndreRenaud)
    ×3.50 137 | 8 points by EstIgnavus 1 day ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  43. Introducing tmux-rs (richardscollin.github.io)
    ×3.41 77 | 855 points by Jtsummers 6 days ago | 289 comments | ??? ???
  44. Build visual AI workflows from a prompt – OCR, detection, editing and more (google.com)
    ×3.36 35 | 5 points by fzysingularity 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  45. Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (github.com/jackjackbits)
    ×3.18 11 | 755 points by ananddtyagi 2 days ago | 384 comments | ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?
    ×3.16 8 | 86 points by pedrodelfino 1 day ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  47. Solar becomes top source of electricity in California (pv-magazine-usa.com)
    ×3.15 30 #48 | 27 points by martinpw 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: HN was much more interesting a year ago
    ×3.07 101 | 15 points by fud101 1 day ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  49. Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web (websmith.studio)
    ×3.06 19 #36 | 253 points by pumbaa 11 hours ago | 204 comments | ??? ???
  50. Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations (retractionwatch.com)
    ×3.05 15 #68 | 116 points by ArmageddonIt 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (pinout.xyz)
    ×3.05 147 | 9 points by gadgetoid 2 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  52. Why I'm skeptical of Ground News (sjodle.com)
    ×3.00 44 #41 | 41 points by blowenopdestoep 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  53. A Null Pointer Exception Brought Down Mighty Google;7 Hours of Downtime (getpanto.ai)
    ×2.99 79 | 7 points by pavan_panto 24 minutes ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  54. Jank Programming Language (jank-lang.org)
    ×2.98 2 #4 | 115 points by akkad33 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  55. QRS: Epsilon Wrangling (tbray.org)
    ×2.95 10 #26 | 3 points by zdw 9 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  56. How to Network as an Introvert (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.92 72 | 367 points by agcat 3 days ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  57. A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
    ×2.79 32 | 472 points by zdw 2 days ago | 409 comments | ??? ???
  58. Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.79 102 | 300 points by transpute 5 days ago | 257 comments | ??? ???
  59. AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.73 116 | 318 points by tysone 1 week ago | 385 comments | ??? ???
  60. What a Hacker Stole from Me (mynoise.net)
    ×2.71 71 | 387 points by wonger_ 3 days ago | 120 comments | ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Open-source transcription that costs $0.02/hour instead of $30/month (github.com/braden-w)
    ×2.70 156 | 6 points by braden-w 2 days ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  62. Picking uncontested private IP subnets with usage data (benjojo.co.uk)
    ×2.69 53 | 3 points by fanf2 12 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  63. I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (github.com/BlueFalconHD)
    ×2.69 30 | 532 points by BlueFalconHD 3 days ago | 431 comments | ??? ???
  64. A simple monthly injection allows mice to live 25% longer and free from diseases (elpais.com)
    ×2.67 22 #56 | 13 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  65. Perplexity Comet (perplexity.ai)
    ×2.66 84 | 31 points by birriel 1 hour ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  66. My smartphone died and I'm not replacing it (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.64 50 | 4 points by speckx 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Kuvasz – an open-source uptime and SSL monitoring service (kuvasz-uptime.dev)
    ×2.63 157 | 29 points by csirkezuza 5 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  68. What to build instead of AI agents (decodingml.substack.com)
    ×2.62 122 | 239 points by giuliomagnifico 6 days ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  69. Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology (blog.google)
    ×2.56 105 | 338 points by doomroot13 6 days ago | 190 comments | ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I built a single API to post on all social platforms (postforme.dev)
    ×2.55 143 | 7 points by calebpanza 1 day ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Cool Symbols (copysymbol.cc)
    ×2.55 17 | 4 points by artiomyak 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  72. SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand (zdnet.com)
    ×2.53 1 #49 | 122 points by saubeidl 13 hours ago | 60 comments | ??? ???
  73. Zorin OS (zorin.com)
    ×2.52 55 #38 | 170 points by oldfuture 1 day ago | 149 comments | ??? ???
  74. When politicians gain power, their language becomes garbled (phys.org)
    ×2.52 45 | 5 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  75. Hidden interface controls that affect usability (acm.org)
    ×2.49 55 | 557 points by cxr 3 days ago | 438 comments | ??? ???
  76. Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights? (arxiv.org)
    ×2.49 84 | 237 points by lexandstuff 3 days ago | 242 comments | ??? ???
  77. Tools: Code Is All You Need (pocoo.org)
    ×2.44 110 | 310 points by Bogdanp 6 days ago | 225 comments | ??? ???
  78. Larry (cat) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.43 95 | 347 points by dcminter 5 days ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  79. The first time I was almost fired from Apple (engineersneedart.com)
    ×2.43 44 | 338 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 148 comments | ??? ???
  80. I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (noperator.dev)
    ×2.40 9 | 516 points by noperator 2 days ago | 199 comments | ??? ???
  81. Why English doesn't use accents (deadlanguagesociety.com)
    ×2.38 50 | 337 points by sandbach 2 days ago | 587 comments | ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: What old or outdated software have you never found a replacement for?
    ×2.35 135 | 34 points by prisenco 3 days ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Stravu – Editable, multi-player AI notebooks with text, tables, diagram
    ×2.34 31 | 5 points by wek 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  84. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017) (crypto101.io)
    ×2.33 69 | 231 points by pona-a 2 days ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  85. Data on AI-related Show HN posts (ryanfarley.co)
    ×2.32 65 | 274 points by rfarley04 5 days ago | 155 comments | ??? ???
  86. OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D (kbkg.com)
    ×2.29 80 | 424 points by tareqak 4 days ago | 369 comments | ??? ???
  87. Section-174 is reversed: all US-based R&D expenses are now deductible (afternoon.co)
    ×2.27 26 #66 | 6 points by romanzubenko 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I made this free tool in 4 days to make your screenshots 10x better. (shotcanvas.com)
    ×2.26 176 | 6 points by stjernberg 3 days ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  89. Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×2.26 23 #22 | 214 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 153 comments | ??? ???
  90. Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)
    ×2.25 6 | 562 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 237 comments | ??? ???