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Cloudflare was down (cloudflare.com)

×13.38 89 | 782 points by mektrik 5 hours ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Xkcd #2347 lived in my head, so I built the dependency tower for real (stacktower.io)

×11.03 47 | 28 points by matzehuels 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic acquires Bun (bun.com)

×7.78 3 #68 | 2170 points by ryanvogel 2 days ago | 1065 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company (neowin.net)

×7.25 61 #69 | 28 points by bundie 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Countdown until the AI bubble bursts (pop-the-bubble.xyz)

×6.59 3 | 73 points by tapematch 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time

×6.35 74 | 256 points by anonymous_ibex 5 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix becomes frontrunner in bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery – sources (cnn.com)

×5.59 45 | 64 points by mikeweiss 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros (netflix.com)

×5.50 #1 | 391 points by meetpateltech 1 hour ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone in Seattle hates AI (jonready.com)

×5.47 36 | 935 points by mips_avatar 1 day ago | 1035 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen

×5.25 62 | 368 points by SmolCloud 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ghostty is now non-profit (mitchellh.com)

×4.83 2 #51 | 1304 points by vrnvu 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X (fsfe.org)

×4.53 9 | 153 points by latexr 22 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta (cnbc.com)

×4.45 46 | 76 points by Noaidi 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law (somo.nl)

×4.45 27 #30 | 365 points by saubeidl 4 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' (npr.org)

×4.38 78 | 201 points by seattle_spring 9 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? (reason.com)

×4.26 10 #29 | 687 points by delichon 20 hours ago | 899 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The RAM shortage comes for us all (jeffgeerling.com)

×3.94 58 #85 | 356 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm (theverge.com)

×3.91 5 #52 | 936 points by evolve2k 1 day ago | 795 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill (nber.org)

×3.86 13 | 821 points by mhb 2 days ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas (arstechnica.com)

×3.81 28 #60 | 413 points by OptionOfT 22 hours ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unreal Tournament 2004 is back (reddit.com)

×3.80 21 #73 | 446 points by keithoffer 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication (lemonde.fr)

×3.72 16 #36 | 6 points by isolli 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional (apnews.com)

×3.68 7 #17 | 116 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (micron.com)

×3.67 2 #75 | 742 points by simlevesque 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia Bans Roblox (bbc.com)

×3.63 44 | 68 points by disqard 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Elon Musk's X fined €120M by EU in first clash under new digital laws (theguardian.com)

×3.62 51 | 7 points by robin_reala 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programming peaked (functional.computer)

×3.54 1 | 210 points by Antibabelic 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Django 6 (djangoproject.com)

×3.54 21 #46 | 339 points by wilhelmklopp 17 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Boing (greg.technology)

×3.46 58 | 778 points by gregsadetsky 5 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung (pcworld.com)

×3.45 11 #61 | 392 points by sethops1 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

×3.45 86 | 301 points by bakigul 5 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (techdirt.com)

×3.39 17 | 113 points by alsetmusic 18 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending

×3.38 55 | 193 points by Javin007 2 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files (alexschapiro.com)

×3.31 5 #63 | 803 points by bearsyankees 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Do we need MCPs? Reverse-engineered Slack and Linear API for Evals & RL (agentdiff.dev)

×3.27 69 | 10 points by hubertmarek 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID? (jeffgeerling.com)

×3.21 40 | 95 points by thomasjb 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB (tomshardware.com)

×3.15 11 | 428 points by doener 2 days ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New York Times Sues A.I. Startup Perplexity over Use of Copyrighted Work (nytimes.com)

×3.15 62 | 5 points by cmiles8 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months (aitradearena.com)

×3.14 5 #21 | 264 points by cheeseblubber 15 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js (github.com/vercel)

×3.05 2 | 601 points by rayhaanj 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs (arxiv.org)

×3.03 26 #19 | 612 points by 50kIters 1 day ago | 567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig (sinclairtarget.com)

×3.02 14 #35 | 384 points by yurivish 16 hours ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RAG in 3 Lines of Python (pypi.org)

×2.99 67 | 31 points by init0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months (pcpartpicker.com)

×2.94 11 #66 | 494 points by zekrioca 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) (javascript.tm)

×2.93 7 #40 | 697 points by pavelai 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PGlite – Embeddable Postgres (pglite.dev)

×2.91 2 #43 | 558 points by dsego 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced

×2.90 85 | 23 points by bunnybomb2 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers (arstechnica.com)

×2.78 56 | 68 points by downrightmike 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vanilla CSS is all you need (zolkos.com)

×2.77 36 | 107 points by dchest 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder (microlandia.city)

×2.76 39 | 128 points by phaser 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games (frvr.com)

×2.71 17 | 297 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Layoutz – Simple, beautiful CLI output for Haskell (flora.pm)

×2.68 55 | 4 points by Vosporos 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MinIO is now in maintenance-mode (github.com/minio)

×2.68 3 | 494 points by hajtom 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js (wiz.io)

×2.66 43 | 133 points by gonepivoting 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components (react.dev)

×2.65 60 | 68 points by nomaxx117 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tunnl.gg (tunnl.gg)

×2.59 45 #42 | 217 points by klipitkas 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)

×2.48 13 #31 | 504 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest

×2.48 79 | 298 points by alecco 6 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame (github.com/zenfyrdev)

×2.45 15 | 161 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ARM's Barrel Shifting Tricks (xania.org)

×2.35 16 | 4 points by hasheddan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras (github.com/NullPxl)

×2.34 73 | 507 points by nullpxl 1 week ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s (uncloud.run)

×2.32 33 #39 | 387 points by rgun 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" (archive.org)

×2.32 5 #90 | 203 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long (conwaylife.com)

×2.32 4 #89 | 517 points by nooks 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains (air.dev)

×2.22 53 | 72 points by NumerousProcess 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows (healthisotherpeople.substack.com)

×2.22 34 | 178 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin (techcrunch.com)

×2.21 40 | 3 points by amarcheschi 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions (finfam.app)

×2.19 4 | 378 points by mhashemi 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI music and auto-charting and custom rhythm minigame sandbox (rhythm-seodang-web.vercel.app)

×2.19 93 | 6 points by sputnikwrkshp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The "soft" racism of the well-meaning white liberal, myself included (ncte.org)

×2.18 44 | 3 points by volemo 31 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72B (bbc.com)

×2.15 35 | 4 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets (yahoo.com)

×2.14 48 | 129 points by ramoz 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autism should not be treated as a single condition (economist.com)

×2.14 #53 | 246 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most technical problems are people problems (joeschrag.com)

×2.14 2 #2 | 48 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Avolal – Book routine flights in 60 seconds (avolal.com)

×2.13 95 | 9 points by midito 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turning 40 (andreabergia.com)

×2.12 67 | 8 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available (proxmox.com)

×2.11 | 133 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CSS now has an if() conditional function (caniuse.com)

×2.10 14 #20 | 198 points by aanthonymax 15 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead (politico.com)

×2.08 20 | 4 points by gregorymichael 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat (bbc.com)

×2.06 39 #70 | 238 points by toss1 17 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable (noeticmap.com)

×2.05 54 | 22 points by mikias 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond (netflixtechblog.com)

×2.03 7 #7 | 424 points by CharlesW 14 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A $20/year invoicing tool for solo developers (simple, fast, no bloat) (sidepay.app)

×1.98 88 | 12 points by mightbefun 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making RSS More Fun (matduggan.com)

×1.96 4 #3 | 22 points by salmon 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive (evclinic.eu)

×1.96 9 #8 | 310 points by mikelabatt 13 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transparent leadership beats servant leadership (entropicthoughts.com)

×1.91 20 #18 | 471 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Doomscrolling Research Papers (openpaperdigest.com)

×1.88 118 | 13 points by davailan 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Gateway – Unifying Access to MCP Servers Without N×M Integrations (truefoundry.com)

×1.88 92 | 10 points by supreetgupta 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia's new AI framework trains an 8B model to manage tools like a pro (venturebeat.com)

×1.86 28 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fighting the age-gated internet (wired.com)

×1.85 39 #28 | 242 points by geox 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???