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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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)

×9.20 38 | 682 points by AndrewSwift 3 days ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (theregister.com)

×8.08 10 | 309 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)

×6.76 18 #86 | 1210 points by adrianh 2 days ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia won, we all lost (sebin-nyshkim.net)

×5.85 52 | 967 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 568 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X removes posts by Musk chatbot Grok after antisemitism complaints (reuters.com)

×5.72 78 | 7 points by rbanffy 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Truth Table Generator Written in Common Lisp (manoel.dev)

×5.63 53 | 16 points by lerax 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)

×5.26 96 | 589 points by geox 6 days ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 (europa.eu)

×5.24 39 | 265 points by toomuchtodo 20 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)

×5.18 33 | 455 points by bundie 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Rise of Whatever (eev.ee)

×5.15 79 | 622 points by cratermoon 5 days ago | 497 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming

×4.88 43 | 76 points by Eatcats 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let Kids Be Loud (afterbabel.com)

×4.72 11 #12 | 65 points by trevin 1 hour ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump appointees stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts (yahoo.com)

×4.64 47 | 7 points by ivape 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)

×4.51 3 #69 | 494 points by cantdutchthis 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)

×4.32 19 #14 | 503 points by gausswho 22 hours ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (cnbc.com)

×3.96 37 | 513 points by bwfan123 3 days ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap (cnbc.com)

×3.90 42 #61 | 95 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking (dmitriid.com)

×3.84 94 | 297 points by troupo 4 days ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: HN is becoming too political

×3.83 56 | 6 points by redm 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)

×3.77 33 #63 | 803 points by rexpository 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ASCII Fireworks (asciifireworks.com)

×3.74 168 | 18 points by theli0nheart 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I don't think AGI is right around the corner (dwarkesh.com)

×3.71 47 | 368 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi (electrek.co)

×3.65 78 | 263 points by JumpCrisscross 3 days ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean (csic.es)

×3.60 87 | 476 points by riffraff 5 days ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Local-first software (2019) (inkandswitch.com)

×3.51 42 | 861 points by gasull 4 days ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gore – A Doom Engine Port in Go (github.com/AndreRenaud)

×3.50 137 | 8 points by EstIgnavus 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introducing tmux-rs (richardscollin.github.io)

×3.41 77 | 855 points by Jtsummers 6 days ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: HN was much more interesting a year ago

×3.07 101 | 15 points by fud101 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (pinout.xyz)

×3.05 147 | 9 points by gadgetoid 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I'm skeptical of Ground News (sjodle.com)

×3.00 44 #41 | 41 points by blowenopdestoep 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jank Programming Language (jank-lang.org)

×2.98 2 #4 | 115 points by akkad33 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
QRS: Epsilon Wrangling (tbray.org)

×2.95 10 #26 | 3 points by zdw 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Network as an Introvert (bearblog.dev)

×2.92 72 | 367 points by agcat 3 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

×2.79 32 | 472 points by zdw 2 days ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What a Hacker Stole from Me (mynoise.net)

×2.71 71 | 387 points by wonger_ 3 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Picking uncontested private IP subnets with usage data (benjojo.co.uk)

×2.69 53 | 3 points by fanf2 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (github.com/BlueFalconHD)

×2.69 30 | 532 points by BlueFalconHD 3 days ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Perplexity Comet (perplexity.ai)

×2.66 84 | 31 points by birriel 1 hour ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My smartphone died and I'm not replacing it (bearblog.dev)

×2.64 50 | 4 points by speckx 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What to build instead of AI agents (decodingml.substack.com)

×2.62 122 | 239 points by giuliomagnifico 6 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology (blog.google)

×2.56 105 | 338 points by doomroot13 6 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cool Symbols (copysymbol.cc)

×2.55 17 | 4 points by artiomyak 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zorin OS (zorin.com)

×2.52 55 #38 | 170 points by oldfuture 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When politicians gain power, their language becomes garbled (phys.org)

×2.52 45 | 5 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hidden interface controls that affect usability (acm.org)

×2.49 55 | 557 points by cxr 3 days ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tools: Code Is All You Need (pocoo.org)

×2.44 110 | 310 points by Bogdanp 6 days ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Larry (cat) (wikipedia.org)

×2.43 95 | 347 points by dcminter 5 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The first time I was almost fired from Apple (engineersneedart.com)

×2.43 44 | 338 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why English doesn't use accents (deadlanguagesociety.com)

×2.38 50 | 337 points by sandbach 2 days ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stravu – Editable, multi-player AI notebooks with text, tables, diagram

×2.34 31 | 5 points by wek 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017) (crypto101.io)

×2.33 69 | 231 points by pona-a 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data on AI-related Show HN posts (ryanfarley.co)

×2.32 65 | 274 points by rfarley04 5 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)

×2.26 23 #22 | 214 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)

×2.25 6 | 562 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???