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US freezes visas for 75 nations (mathrubhumi.com)

×15.41 46 | 193 points by cdrnsf 18 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Minor says ICE took his iPhone, later found in used-electronics vending machine (propublica.org)

×15.33 22 | 177 points by spenvo 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Denmark sends military reinforcements to Greenland (dr.dk)

×14.40 14 | 113 points by mooreds 20 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home (theguardian.com)

×8.78 81 | 904 points by echelon_musk 21 hours ago | 568 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says (reuters.com)

×7.93 45 | 146 points by barishnamazov 16 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scott Adams has died (usatoday.com)

×7.80 | 423 points by schmuckonwheels 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scott Adams has died (youtube.com)

×6.59 39 | 1050 points by ekianjo 1 day ago | 1728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout (yale.edu)

×5.79 6 #7 | 97 points by mrtksn 2 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales (electrek.co)

×5.47 24 #37 | 598 points by MBCook 18 hours ago | 782 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (reddit.com)

×5.15 42 | 929 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 711 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)

×5.03 69 | 13 points by MrTravisB 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)

×4.77 9 #84 | 1290 points by adocomplete 2 days ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman (garymarcus.substack.com)

×4.59 65 | 91 points by treadump 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Have Taken Up Farming (dylan.gr)

×4.53 30 #32 | 138 points by djnaraps 3 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet (whisper.security)

×4.37 23 | 280 points by silencednetizen 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout (heraldscotland.com)

×4.34 32 | 314 points by TiredOfLife 2 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X 'acting to comply with UK law' after outcry over sexualised images (theguardian.com)

×4.31 38 | 5 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year (surinenglish.com)

×4.00 51 | 167 points by mooreds 15 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists (lewiscampbell.tech)

×3.98 14 | 247 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation (python.org)

×3.93 12 | 402 points by ayhanfuat 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever (github.com/19-84)

×3.84 28 | 271 points by 19-84 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The White House just said your life is worth nothing. Yes, literally. (electrek.co)

×3.72 18 #83 | 12 points by FabHK 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick (tomrenner.com)

×3.71 21 | 109 points by Growtika 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers (metabrainz.org)

×3.60 23 | 459 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Games Workshop bans staff from using AI (ign.com)

×3.56 24 | 231 points by jsheard 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why we don’t use AI (yarnspinner.dev)

×3.53 51 | 113 points by parisidau 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software (marcia.no)

×3.46 15 | 391 points by Marciplan 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well (garymarcus.substack.com)

×3.45 30 | 224 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025) (freedomnews.org.uk)

×3.08 44 | 231 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts (afterbabel.com)

×3.07 20 #49 | 221 points by paulpauper 16 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple: You (Still) Don't Understand the Vision Pro (stratechery.com)

×3.01 14 #66 | 44 points by m463 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape (jgc.org)

×2.98 7 #50 | 729 points by abnercoimbre 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart (npr.org)

×2.97 43 | 190 points by srameshc 19 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Share your personal website

×2.96 1 #10 | 648 points by susam 18 hours ago | 1816 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI (passo.uno)

×2.94 2 #3 | 78 points by theletterf 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Creator Studio (apple.com)

×2.93 4 | 512 points by lemonlime227 1 day ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude Code Scheduler (github.com/jshchnz)

×2.93 75 | 7 points by jshchnz 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Cowork exfiltrates files (promptarmor.com)

×2.86 3 #4 | 703 points by takira 15 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases (nos.nl)

×2.83 24 | 121 points by hvb2 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode (github.com/R44VC0RP)

×2.82 56 #76 | 157 points by ryanvogel 12 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?

×2.81 75 | 123 points by rabinovich 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear (specr.net)

×2.80 87 | 560 points by vunderba 5 days ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adding Dependency Injection to PdfDocument in iText (itextpdf.com)

×2.78 61 | 3 points by whizzx 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source (greg.technology)

×2.73 4 #40 | 279 points by evakhoury 19 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Influentists: AI hype without proof (carette.xyz)

×2.72 22 #46 | 224 points by LucidLynx 15 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip (nytimes.com)

×2.71 58 | 3 points by mynti 23 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I hate GitHub Actions with passion (xlii.space)

×2.71 16 #53 | 457 points by xlii 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests (theguardian.com)

×2.70 4 | 409 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk (coywolf.com)

×2.67 11 | 342 points by speckx 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?

×2.66 49 | 113 points by chriswright1664 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation (sparkfun.com)

×2.65 3 #25 | 471 points by yaleman 21 hours ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals (404media.co)

×2.64 58 | 107 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible (creepylink.com)

×2.63 2 #2 | 430 points by dreadsword 8 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cadence Spanish – AI audio lessons to learn Spanish (cadencespanish.com)

×2.57 101 | 7 points by aliclark 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (amazon.com)

×2.50 10 #81 | 6 points by nickcotter 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books (pieterma.es)

×2.40 73 | 499 points by pmaze 4 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (owlposting.com)

×2.40 7 | 323 points by abhishaike 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Verizon outages reported across U.S. (firstcoastnews.com)

×2.38 60 | 224 points by Scubabear68 17 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Indifference is a power (aeon.co)

×2.37 46 | 205 points by suioir 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home (buckscountybeacon.com)

×2.37 16 | 386 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok (sdan.io)

×2.36 102 | 328 points by sdan 5 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (nothings.org)

×2.36 33 | 3 points by suioir 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Physics of foam resembles AI training (phys.org)

×2.34 2 | 3 points by sebg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crafting Interpreters (craftinginterpreters.com)

×2.34 17 #22 | 127 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI slop: A todo app built in bash with microservices (github.com/andi0b)

×2.31 120 | 4 points by andix 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down

×2.24 109 | 25 points by dfajgljsldkjag 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them (swinburne.edu.au)

×2.21 18 #44 | 504 points by OptionOfT 22 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife

×2.20 66 | 12 points by xylo 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Rust faster than C? (steveklabnik.com)

×2.19 21 #33 | 285 points by vincentchau 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?

×2.16 45 | 8 points by adamanteye 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Servo 2025 Stats (igalia.com)

×2.14 22 | 166 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams (ablg.io)

×2.11 13 | 303 points by tonioab 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mozilla's open source AI strategy (mozilla.org)

×2.10 52 | 191 points by nalinidash 2 days ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Find a pub that needs you (ismypubfucked.com)

×2.05 9 #23 | 313 points by thinkingemote 20 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

×2.01 4 #8 | 187 points by tmaly 10 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK (bbc.com)

×2.00 13 #69 | 180 points by FridayoLeary 20 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1000 Blank White Cards (wikipedia.org)

×1.97 16 #80 | 354 points by eieio 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a local RAG pipeline to index 28 years of my personal data [video] (youtube.com)

×1.96 92 | 4 points by botwork 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Geoguess Lite – open-source, subscription free GeoGuessr alternative (geoguesslite.com)

×1.95 146 | 16 points by spider-hand 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: IMSAI/Altair inspired microcomputer with web emulator (gzalo.github.io)

×1.94 77 | 4 points by gzalo 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia

×1.94 103 | 9 points by inatreecrown2 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app (github.com/cjpais)

×1.94 3 #11 | 110 points by tin7in 6 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: How NBA teams perform vs. prediction market expectations

×1.93 121 | 4 points by helloiamvu 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ASCII Clouds (caidan.dev)

×1.92 19 | 338 points by majkinetor 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Gleam Programming Language (gleam.run)

×1.92 42 #47 | 256 points by Alupis 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

×1.87 3 #14 | 111 points by blahaj 9 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now? (eff.org)

×1.85 27 #54 | 334 points by hn_acker 18 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs (jeffgeerling.com)

×1.80 2 #1 | 108 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Commosta – marketplace to share computing resources (commosta.io)

×1.80 76 | 4 points by gkm25 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin (the-berliner.com)

×1.80 27 #86 | 140 points by mrzool 19 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???