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Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr (washingtonpost.com)

×19.19 29 | 119 points by Tadpole9181 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Designing MCP servers for wide schemas and large result sets (axiom.co)

×7.33 81 | 10 points by ucirello 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August (nytimes.com)

×7.16 25 | 75 points by Erikun 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available (joins.com)

×7.14 4 #75 | 2053 points by ksec 2 days ago | 917 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CodingFox – Open-Source AI Code Review Tool That Works Like Magic (github.com/furudo-erika)

×6.56 76 | 10 points by sunny-beast 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here (theatlantic.com)

×6.41 13 | 70 points by zerosizedweasle 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America is now one big bet on AI (ft.com)

×6.25 | 163 points by saubeidl 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
German government comes out against Chat Control (xcancel.com)

×6.10 18 #32 | 1054 points by SolonIslandus 21 hours ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One-man spam campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill (politico.eu)

×6.03 83 | 87 points by cuu508 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' (404media.co)

×5.55 34 | 296 points by locopati 22 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI (ft.com)

×5.54 6 #9 | 63 points by m-hodges 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid (techdirt.com)

×5.08 24 | 203 points by beardyw 20 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad (bbc.co.uk)

×5.00 22 | 235 points by dijksterhuis 22 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gifted children are special needs children (mleverything.substack.com)

×4.97 36 | 65 points by bko 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut (theregister.com)

×4.89 32 | 334 points by Bender 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy (jacobin.com)

×4.75 37 #65 | 44 points by stareatgoats 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones (techcrunch.com)

×4.68 23 #73 | 308 points by mdhb 21 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant (nationalpost.com)

×4.59 4 #36 | 546 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qualcomm to acquire Arduino (qualcomm.com)

×4.53 9 #8 | 1239 points by janjongboom 1 day ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time (wsj.com)

×4.45 9 | 110 points by thm 23 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Spacelift Intent MCP – Cloud Infra Provisioning for Your AI Agent (github.com/spacelift-io)

×4.32 60 | 6 points by cube2222 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after sales allegedly plummet (guru3d.com)

×4.27 1 #1 | 718 points by baobun 6 hours ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025 (fortune.com)

×4.10 64 #80 | 212 points by ryan_j_naughton 9 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report (theguardian.com)

×4.01 16 #89 | 449 points by fforflo 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Citizen protest halts Chat Control (patrick-breyer.de)

×3.94 29 | 57 points by poly2it 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account (theverge.com)

×3.91 10 | 594 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 1266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality (flux.community)

×3.72 14 #61 | 256 points by gregsadetsky 19 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FizzBee – Formal Model based autonomous testing (fizzbee.io)

×3.67 75 | 13 points by jayaprabhakar 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How I made $300K from an open-source side project using dual licensing (paritydeals.com)

×3.66 69 | 5 points by sachinneravath 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study (surrey.ac.uk)

×3.49 35 | 257 points by giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes (politico.com)

×3.49 2 | 327 points by c420 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CodeLens.AI– Community benchmark comparing 6 LLMs on real code tasks (codelens.ai)

×3.38 48 | 5 points by skrid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tangled – Git collaboration built on AT Protocol (tangled.org)

×3.31 105 | 11 points by icy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe engineering (simonwillison.net)

×3.29 8 #13 | 456 points by janpio 18 hours ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in D.C (spiegel.de)

×3.17 66 | 4 points by nabla9 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: NewsGoat – A terminal-based RSS reader written in Go (github.com/jarv)

×3.16 93 | 8 points by zoidb 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Autism Simulator (autism-simulator.vercel.app)

×3.13 77 | 776 points by joshcsimmons 1 week ago | 855 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker (write-it-down.com)

×3.07 37 | 270 points by LarsenCC 2 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Email They Shouldn't Have Read (dragas.net)

×3.00 2 #3 | 155 points by miniBill 2 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The NIH ordered me to stop my 'dangerous' gain-of-function research (statnews.com)

×2.99 52 | 73 points by maxall4 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services (ca.gov)

×2.98 3 | 82 points by mikhael 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler (cloudflare.com)

×2.80 32 #19 | 5 points by jgrahamc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recursive reasoning with tiny networks (alexiajm.github.io)

×2.62 11 | 68 points by stared 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally (timelinize.com)

×2.61 10 #23 | 523 points by mholt 22 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Samsung released a 7M model that achieved 45% on ARC-AGI-1 (arxiv.org)

×2.58 85 | 26 points by chintler 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The weaponization of travel blacklists (papersplease.org)

×2.57 8 #12 | 59 points by throw7 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SVG but Dramatic (viraptor.info)

×2.52 134 | 8 points by viraptor 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Uber for Flights (bookmyflight.ai)

×2.50 147 | 12 points by aravseth 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an open-source AI data layer that connects any LLM to any data (github.com/bagofwords1)

×2.49 96 | 18 points by y14 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day (earthsky.org)

×2.48 32 | 259 points by af78 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting (bbc.com)

×2.47 11 #56 | 121 points by breve 12 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Become unbannable from your email (karboosx.net)

×2.44 13 #57 | 217 points by bfoks 17 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doing Rails Wrong (bananacurvingmachine.com)

×2.44 21 #63 | 359 points by treesenthusiast 22 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify (github.com/hunvreus)

×2.44 5 | 251 points by el_hacker 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust (databento.com)

×2.43 39 #15 | 4 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024) (windscribe.com)

×2.42 1 #84 | 660 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades (cbsnews.com)

×2.36 3 #2 | 173 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT is a great tool for investment backtesting (reddit.com)

×2.36 50 | 3 points by wslh 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing?

×2.35 99 | 63 points by razoorka 3 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model (blog.google)

×2.34 8 #11 | 565 points by mfiguiere 19 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vectrex Mini (vectrex.com)

×2.24 45 | 3 points by rbanffy 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Recall: Give Claude perfect memory with Redis-backed persistent context (npmjs.com)

×2.22 20 #6 | 5 points by elfenleid 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023) (thecascade.dev)

×2.21 3 #69 | 735 points by loughnane 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Strikethrough – a daily puzzle where you make words by deleting letters (boondoggle.studio)

×2.19 87 | 6 points by DJSnackySnack 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (nobelprize.org)

×2.17 40 #24 | 443 points by luisb 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An illustrated introduction to linear algebra (ducktyped.org)

×2.16 26 #22 | 394 points by egonschiele 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Keeps Shifting Right: Coping with the Limitations of Large Language Models (sturdystatistics.com)

×2.14 25 | 3 points by kianN 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Python 3.14.0 is now available (python.org)

×2.14 20 | 3 points by zvr 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tooth Fairy certificate generator (toothfairycertificate.com)

×2.11 132 | 13 points by joerock 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Express Auth Boilerplate – Clean Hexagonal Architecture for Node.js APIs (github.com/francemazzi)

×2.10 26 | 3 points by SaverioMazzi 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Senate Confirms 'Sharpiegate' Meteorologist to Lead NOAA (nytimes.com)

×2.09 7 #46 | 6 points by ceejayoz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seeing like a software company (seangoedecke.com)

×2.08 10 #17 | 297 points by praptak 16 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad (kau.sh)

×2.01 30 #50 | 210 points by freetonik 12 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 (ikeamuseum.com)

×2.01 16 #20 | 448 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Encrypt – Ten Years of Community Support (letsencrypt.org)

×2.00 61 #81 | 20 points by milkglass 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Digital Twin of my coffee roaster that runs in the browser (autoroaster.com)

×1.91 118 | 7 points by jvkoch 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64 (readonlymemo.com)

×1.89 | 2 points by cainxinth 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting (github.com/sharkdp)

×1.88 10 #64 | 181 points by Olshansky 20 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code (imbue.com)

×1.88 115 | 175 points by thejash 1 week ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says (france24.com)

×1.87 6 | 121 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How does gradient descent work? (centralflows.github.io)

×1.86 33 #35 | 296 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Calendar0 – System tray app for natural language scheduling (calendar0.app)

×1.85 131 | 4 points by alessandro-a 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers (nullpt.rs)

×1.85 12 #26 | 310 points by nullpt_rs 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript (github.com/irony)

×1.84 6 #5 | 178 points by urvader 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WebRTC LAN Baby Monitor for iOS and iPadOS (apple.com)

×1.83 141 | 53 points by ryan-a 1 week ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Node.js CLI tool to generate ai.txt, llms.txt, robots.txt, humans.txt (npmjs.com)

×1.83 126 | 7 points by cranberryturkey 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry (motor1.com)

×1.82 32 #66 | 191 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy (bloomberg.com)

×1.81 3 | 158 points by speckx 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT (theregister.com)

×1.78 7 #31 | 9 points by rntn 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests (twitter.com/awesomekling)

×1.76 14 | 932 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???