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US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU (bbc.com)

×10.45 24 #36 | 1656 points by belter 23 hours ago | 3084 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack (krebsonsecurity.com)

×10.28 33 | 1150 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 905 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Server to let agents control the browser (github.com/Skyvern-AI)

×8.75 36 | 13 points by suchintan 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado (arstechnica.com)

×8.39 50 | 988 points by JaimeThompson 4 days ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed (theguardian.com)

×8.36 123 | 265 points by giuliomagnifico 5 days ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Arrakis – Open-source, self-hostable sandboxing service for AI Agents (github.com/abshkbh)

×8.20 91 | 26 points by abshkbh 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Exponent, a collaborative AI programming agent (exponent.run)

×7.89 86 | 24 points by sthupukari 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)

×7.85 13 #19 | 137 points by Tenoke 4 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com)

×7.31 9 #11 | 342 points by adrianvoica 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Critics suspect Trump's weird tariff math came from chatbots (arstechnica.com)

×7.08 71 | 14 points by cratermoon 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

×6.48 30 #48 | 1752 points by dang 1 day ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world (politico.com)

×6.30 20 | 291 points by mdhb 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Et Tu, Grammarly? (dbushell.com)

×6.19 128 | 273 points by dbushell 5 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account (infosec.exchange)

×6.18 133 | 265 points by tech234a 5 days ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The average college student today (hilariusbookbinder.substack.com)

×5.88 74 | 750 points by Jyaif 4 days ago | 973 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B (twitter.com/elonmusk)

×5.71 95 | 797 points by rvz 5 days ago | 1262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texas children treated for Vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads (texasstandard.org)

×5.48 75 | 7 points by croes 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone (peabee.substack.com)

×5.09 61 | 1186 points by gniting 4 days ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension (cloudisland.nz)

×5.01 134 | 237 points by robin_reala 5 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture (reuters.com)

×4.68 80 #83 | 49 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers? (doublepulsar.com)

×4.66 45 | 631 points by 2bluesc 3 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows debloat script made by Microsoft (github.com/microsoft)

×4.63 68 #87 | 32 points by homebrewer 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened? (vizio.com)

×4.52 108 | 373 points by decimalenough 4 days ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America's astonishing act of self-harm (ft.com)

×4.49 70 | 6 points by helloworld 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 (techradar.com)

×4.47 11 #67 | 400 points by bentobean 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed (9to5google.com)

×4.44 39 | 662 points by tantalor 3 days ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI Supported Workout Planner (repsome.com)

×4.35 132 | 11 points by wunderlab 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TV Garden (tv.garden)

×4.16 58 | 750 points by vkdelta 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic (sgnt.ai)

×3.89 63 | 322 points by petesergeant 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Guided Tours for Pull Requests (haystackeditor.com)

×3.85 6 | 7 points by akshaysg 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cursor's one-click deploy for multiplayer games (container.inc)

×3.84 52 | 7 points by lentinidante 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oracle Tells Clients of Second Recent Hack, Log-In Data Stolen (bloomberg.com)

×3.77 55 | 6 points by decimalenough 57 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I don't discuss politics with friends (shwin.co)

×3.76 22 #35 | 451 points by shw1n 1 day ago | 872 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

×3.67 31 | 511 points by goldenskye 2 days ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model (github.com/getomni-ai)

×3.64 58 | 208 points by themanmaran 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
European Commission takes aim at end-to-end encryption (therecord.media)

×3.62 69 | 7 points by janandonly 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) (wisc.edu)

×3.52 5 | 896 points by tux3 2 days ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Share what you dreamt about and see if others had the same one (share-dreams-app.vercel.app)

×3.45 140 | 9 points by bchhabra2490 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bikes in the Age of Tariffs (renehersecycles.com)

×3.44 5 #10 | 40 points by bobchadwick 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)

×3.44 3 #1 | 93 points by participant3 2 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Effects of the front page on a non-profit

×3.43 5 | 13 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bolt/Loveable for Video Editing (kozy.studio)

×3.42 153 | 6 points by tonikami 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Guardian flourishes without a paywall (nymag.com)

×3.33 42 | 614 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

×3.32 69 | 183 points by spacebanana7 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ToS;DR (tosdr.org)

×3.32 84 | 295 points by ColinWright 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) (reactormag.com)

×3.32 3 | 324 points by MPSimmons 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button (nuejs.org)

×3.32 20 | 730 points by tipiirai 2 days ago | 560 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water (bbc.com)

×3.31 99 | 500 points by Jimmc414 5 days ago | 1246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aperture -Flip your phone case for a less distracting minimal interface (specialprojects.studio)

×3.25 131 | 11 points by cheesetoastie 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake (postandcourier.com)

×3.17 100 | 246 points by po 3 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill Gates on first OS he wrote: 'Code remains the coolest I've ever written' (fortune.com)

×3.13 43 | 6 points by CharlesW 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? (annehelen.substack.com)

×3.12 5 #72 | 259 points by moonka 22 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France Eyes US Big Tech in EU Retaliation to Trump's Tariffs (bloomberg.com)

×3.08 38 | 6 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Monkeys.zip (Infinite Monkeys Writing Shakespeare) (monkeys.zip)

×3.08 163 | 8 points by yathern 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison (composio.dev)

×3.04 65 | 470 points by mraniki 3 days ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to write blog posts that developers read (refactoringenglish.com)

×3.02 116 | 592 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)

×2.98 44 | 333 points by mackopes 2 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly (isomorphism.xyz)

×2.97 25 #39 | 243 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (utexas.edu)

×2.94 13 #22 | 336 points by nimbleplum40 17 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car (cardinalnews.org)

×2.91 111 | 651 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop syncing everything (sqlsync.dev)

×2.90 4 #85 | 636 points by neilk 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The <select> element can now be customized with CSS (chrome.com)

×2.86 66 | 499 points by tosh 3 days ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader (github.com/koreader)

×2.85 60 | 413 points by charleshan 3 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders (leanrada.com)

×2.84 7 #33 | 433 points by ChiptuneIsCool 21 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software (tedium.co)

×2.82 96 | 565 points by shortformblog 5 days ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking (arstechnica.com)

×2.82 83 | 249 points by sebastian_z 3 days ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brave Wallet adds shielded Zcash transactions (brave.com)

×2.82 47 | 4 points by madars 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans (techcrunch.com)

×2.81 45 | 6 points by pera 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers (pico.sh)

×2.77 9 #32 | 563 points by TheTaytay 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) (landh.tech)

×2.75 106 | 664 points by topsycatt 6 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Life of a Dairy Cow (vox.com)

×2.73 #47 | 5 points by Luc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Office of the United States Trade Representative Reciprocal Tariff Calculations (ustr.gov)

×2.72 34 #62 | 5 points by shidoshi 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is the world losing color? (culture-critic.com)

×2.69 14 #69 | 306 points by trevin 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix (github.com/pdtpartners)

×2.68 10 | 23 points by hinshun 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Self-contained Python scripts with uv (dusktreader.dev)

×2.65 113 | 354 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 (tailscale.com)

×2.62 2 #79 | 353 points by adriangrigore 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) (dorithegiant.com)

×2.61 13 #38 | 617 points by jihadjihad 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How will Trump tarrifs affect remote workers outside US?

×2.58 15 | 12 points by reimertz 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Generate Anki Decks from YouTube Videos to Anki Converter (asimpleai.com)

×2.58 170 | 6 points by lengxzai 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org now require proof of work (kernel.org)

×2.57 39 | 5 points by Aissen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020) (vox.com)

×2.56 94 | 308 points by tangjurine 3 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dave Täht has died (libreqos.io)

×2.54 46 | 241 points by mhandley 2 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Calculation Hub: Every Calculation Tool You'll Ever Need (calculation-hub.com)

×2.53 149 | 15 points by saguiitay 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden (goto80.com)

×2.53 54 | 632 points by robin_reala 3 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news (fluentsubs.com)

×2.50 40 | 456 points by ph4evers 2 days ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up (captrice.io)

×2.48 52 | 454 points by adityaathalye 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres Language Server: Initial Release (github.com/supabase-community)

×2.45 120 | 355 points by steinroe 5 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room (github.com/winblues)

×2.44 76 | 566 points by elvis70 4 days ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A university president makes a case against cowardice (newyorker.com)

×2.44 7 #24 | 92 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Go Optimization Guide (goperf.dev)

×2.43 55 | 477 points by jedeusus 3 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???