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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)

×8.51 11 #4 | 2358 points by karpathy 1 day ago | 546 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target (wsj.com)

×7.98 25 | 186 points by timr 2 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947 (fortune.com)

×7.96 45 #46 | 237 points by qlte 4 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The staggering $446M Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized (theguardian.com)

×6.79 12 | 40 points by DeepLogin 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power (theguardian.com)

×6.79 13 | 239 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers (tomshardware.com)

×6.42 15 | 60 points by 0x4e 17 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again (cnn.com)

×6.35 36 | 90 points by dxs 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)

×6.01 7 #73 | 1716 points by kuberwastaken 3 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump Demands a Cut of Alina Habba's $50M Pardon Deal (newrepublic.com)

×5.96 71 | 10 points by techlover14159 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games (mashable.com)

×5.75 7 | 181 points by firesteelrain 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally? (newrepublic.com)

×5.41 39 | 86 points by ck2 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says (techcrunch.com)

×5.31 57 #61 | 205 points by throwoutway 5 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now (eva.ac)

×5.03 72 | 65 points by xyzeva 6 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge (raed.dev)

×4.78 74 | 144 points by Raed667 9 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament (science.org)

×4.77 21 #69 | 900 points by input_sh 1 day ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smear Campaign Towards GrapheneOS (grapheneos.social)

×4.72 16 | 69 points by monneyboi 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models (twitter.com/jiahaoshao1)

×4.54 12 #64 | 457 points by pretext 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence (reddit.com)

×4.50 48 | 59 points by LLcolD 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes (visitnorway.com)

×4.50 39 #53 | 677 points by giuliomagnifico 17 hours ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic (assemblee-nationale.fr)

×4.50 35 | 102 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OccupySaaS (occupysaas.com)

×4.35 10 #13 | 114 points by misswaterfairy 3 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (hackerbooks.org)

×4.33 1 #1 | 1042 points by roansh 11 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Capo-S3 – a typed, async-first S3 client for Python (pypi.org)

×4.31 103 | 17 points by karpetrosyan 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation (thedrive.com)

×4.25 45 #57 | 432 points by entryleveljobsc 13 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power (vox.com)

×4.13 30 #37 | 395 points by rhaynes 10 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare (nurse.org)

×3.91 75 | 168 points by ravetcofx 9 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (phorion.io)

×3.79 33 #55 | 994 points by _chall 2 days ago | 553 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500 (asymco.com)

×3.59 67 | 67 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages (indiatoday.in)

×3.57 46 | 74 points by healsdata 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Quit everything to make one website (hellojomp.com)

×3.52 69 | 19 points by hellojomp 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (rhaas.blogspot.com)

×3.49 2 #3 | 150 points by soheilpro 5 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms (nytimes.com)

×3.49 6 #32 | 16 points by doener 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Muse AI agent is a commercial surveillance network disguised as an AI assistant (paulfwalsh.substack.com)

×3.44 14 #68 | 39 points by Anon84 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them (smithsonianmag.com)

×3.43 1 #30 | 777 points by ecares 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering (tomshardware.com)

×3.40 50 | 73 points by gloxkiqcza 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case (reddit.com)

×3.29 6 #19 | 419 points by entryleveljobsc 13 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 (atlasum.net)

×3.25 2 #42 | 705 points by oger 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fishoid: an ambient fish tank for your screen (fishoid.net)

×3.23 106 | 8 points by koskokos 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging (openai.com)

×2.96 9 #79 | 222 points by Zariel 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hermantown approves controversial Google Data Center during late night meeting (mprnews.org)

×2.87 38 | 39 points by tech-pulse 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks (thebignewsletter.com)

×2.85 58 | 53 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture (eurogamer.net)

×2.76 8 #17 | 32 points by rdmuser 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes (wired.com)

×2.72 12 #86 | 589 points by domhudson 2 days ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Can Write More of the Code. We Still Have to Engineer the System (picon.dev)

×2.65 85 | 43 points by devpicon 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation' (torrentfreak.com)

×2.64 28 | 99 points by WesleyGrant782 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy (tomshardware.com)

×2.50 17 #49 | 157 points by entryleveljobsc 14 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A hidden brain rhythm challenges ideas about where consciousness comes from (medicalxpress.com)

×2.49 52 | 3 points by wglb 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed (trigger.dev)

×2.46 9 #9 | 22 points by anurag 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats (chaosmanage.github.io)

×2.45 34 #39 | 27 points by gulmothrowaway 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard (github.com/guregodevo)

×2.44 3 #44 | 432 points by guregodevo 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Casio Watches of the 1980s (casio.com)

×2.44 5 | 248 points by karagenit 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America on Data Centers: listen to 10,000+ city council comments (americansentiment.com)

×2.42 69 | 29 points by afandrew 3 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Digital minimalism (eth.limo)

×2.38 2 | 344 points by wilbertliu 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble (arstechnica.com)

×2.37 21 #81 | 9 points by Gaishan 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half (fullycharged.show)

×2.34 9 | 208 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face

×2.34 27 | 45 points by handfuloflight 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rust based window switcher for macOS (alt-tabr.com)

×2.32 112 | 6 points by nima999 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frontier Airlines Likely Breached (reddit.com)

×2.29 10 #31 | 188 points by 999900000999 11 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postmortem on Claude Code Cursor extension hack (microsoft.com)

×2.27 48 | 4 points by soundworlds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (nolanlawson.com)

×2.23 18 #18 | 320 points by luu 21 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it (wordpress.com)

×2.21 5 #16 | 243 points by smilelamp 9 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions (theregister.com)

×2.19 7 #35 | 141 points by edward 12 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

×2.18 5 #5 | 197 points by LecroJS 8 hours ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Multi-Layer ASCII Art (mitpit.com)

×2.14 70 | 7 points by MitPitt 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Radix - A WebGPU-powered 3D Gaussian Splat renderer built on Three.js (sparkjs.dev)

×2.13 115 | 11 points by dmarcos 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth (talosintelligence.com)

×2.13 1 | 258 points by khalidkhair 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn (cairoreport.org)

×2.08 40 | 64 points by entryleveljobsc 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 (jepsen.io)

×2.08 8 #77 | 340 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC? (osnews.com)

×2.06 60 | 59 points by Arodex 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age (nullprogram.com)

×2.03 9 | 204 points by fovc 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode (ryanmadden.net)

×2.01 1 | 176 points by ryanmadden 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily the Largest in Kernel History (phoronix.com)

×1.97 #63 | 19 points by acossta 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard? (vinibrasil.com)

×1.97 11 | 39 points by vnbrs 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get (pluralistic.net)

×1.96 43 | 64 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent-arcade – Terminal games that pause when Claude Code/Codex is done (github.com/Kuldeep-045)

×1.92 105 | 5 points by Kuldeep045 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry (ycombinator.com)

×1.88 41 #87 | 418 points by sandslash 3 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing (jetstream.security)

×1.88 8 #41 | 318 points by doodlesdev 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retro Gaming Has a Port-Slop Problem (gardinerbryant.com)

×1.87 16 #60 | 8 points by ecliptik 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A browser game where you navigate home to Earth using pulsars (lightyears-home.pages.dev)

×1.85 56 | 5 points by gagarwal123 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts (parameter.ai)

×1.82 11 #88 | 357 points by armcat 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
noyb win: French electronics retailer Fnac Darty fined €7M (noyb.eu)

×1.82 20 | 63 points by latexr 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a crawler that finds personal websites by a /.well-known/josh (joshternet.org)

×1.81 100 | 4 points by TheWoollyBully 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning (research.google)

×1.81 35 #90 | 264 points by acossta 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Similarity, a spiritual successor to 2000s-era OkCupid (similarity.com)

×1.81 99 | 4 points by stickfigure 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: No moat – Software is dead. Nobody told these companies (nomoat.app)

×1.80 111 | 4 points by olijboyd 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025) (acm.org)

×1.79 29 | 79 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video] (youtube.com)

×1.78 5 #52 | 139 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shiny Object Syndrome (wikipedia.org)

×1.75 55 | 66 points by janisz 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother (zamzar.com)

×1.72 17 #36 | 228 points by whyleyc 23 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on (nasa.gov)

×1.72 26 | 96 points by geox 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???