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Claude Opus 5 (anthropic.com)

×6.49 47 #74 | 1740 points by alvis 1 day ago | 1265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What if we made advertising illegal? (simone.org)

×5.74 56 | 78 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? (ptrchm.com)

×5.44 18 #78 | 842 points by pchm 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI (wsj.com)

×5.09 12 | 59 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries (bbc.com)

×4.70 95 | 71 points by slow_typist 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

×4.50 25 | 482 points by Thrashed 2 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story (theguardian.com)

×4.27 29 | 523 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's getting harder to focus every day (glyphack.com)

×4.24 23 | 760 points by peykar 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras (theguardian.com)

×4.13 25 #34 | 202 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)

×4.11 38 | 1018 points by starfallg 3 days ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey (thehindu.com)

×4.10 21 | 515 points by rootkea 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I regret migrating to Codeberg (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

×4.06 37 #87 | 541 points by boramalper 2 days ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Politician reads AI prompt during assembly (youtube.com)

×4.05 42 | 66 points by root-parent 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes Was Murdered in Ecuador (dropsitenews.com)

×3.88 35 | 74 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall (wsj.com)

×3.84 37 | 315 points by JumpCrisscross 23 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB (kitsumed.github.io)

×3.81 14 #26 | 882 points by shscs911 19 hours ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making' (daringfireball.net)

×3.80 66 | 53 points by robenkleene 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added (bribes.fyi)

×3.76 56 | 69 points by neverenderr 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Opus 5 (anthropic.com)

×3.74 69 | 73 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras (cltampa.com)

×3.70 86 | 131 points by UmYeahNo 5 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models (cnbc.com)

×3.69 38 | 646 points by louiereederson 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach (cam.ac.uk)

×3.64 17 #56 | 565 points by agnishom 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Did They Ghost You? (didtheyghostyou.com)

×3.38 18 #19 | 310 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brazil denies visas to U.S. officials who aimed to impugn electoral system (washingtonpost.com)

×3.36 28 | 7 points by matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis (wheresyoured.at)

×3.35 109 | 54 points by benwen 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Patreon laying off 20% of staff (patreon.com)

×3.30 44 | 161 points by gpi 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] (spacex.com)

×3.29 28 | 118 points by cryptoz 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AIs don't do what you want. This is bad (rewardhacking.org)

×3.14 48 | 84 points by kking23 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple seeks U.S. approval to buy memory chips from blacklisted CXMT (fortune.com)

×3.09 23 #67 | 33 points by walterbell 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending (jpost.com)

×3.09 74 | 77 points by DemiGuru 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings (mongabay.com)

×3.05 17 #20 | 302 points by hn_acker 17 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) (sive.rs)

×3.04 43 | 205 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications (reuters.com)

×3.03 83 | 68 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Em dashes are amazing (psychotechnology.substack.com)

×3.01 3 | 376 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf] (nvidia.com)

×2.97 59 | 111 points by lairv 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Police removed prominent scientists from American Diabetes Association meeting (the-scientist.com)

×2.96 99 | 77 points by fosco 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stolen Buttons (anatolyzenkov.com)

×2.94 6 #1 | 594 points by Gecko4072 12 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn And Face The Strange (fly.io)

×2.91 6 #12 | 148 points by subarctic 5 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch (arstechnica.com)

×2.90 15 #79 | 674 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Silicon Valley Splits over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I (nytimes.com)

×2.89 30 | 6 points by dkobia 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin (reprodev.com)

×2.87 103 | 68 points by reprodev 2 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz (abcnews.com)

×2.87 14 #22 | 22 points by russfink 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers (adafruit.com)

×2.76 32 #50 | 146 points by sambellll 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller (github.com/slvDev)

×2.71 20 #8 | 87 points by boveyking 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flux 3 (bfl.ai)

×2.66 2 | 568 points by ThouYS 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantum internet leaves the lab (northwestern.edu)

×2.62 4 | 6 points by hhs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hetzner is working on LLM Inference (sliplane.io)

×2.61 55 | 152 points by jonas_scholz 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page (hhh.hn)

×2.56 18 #85 | 635 points by hhh 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nostalgia – A shareable Windows 98 desktop builder (zocomputer.io)

×2.55 112 | 7 points by tsachin 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality (stanford.edu)

×2.52 39 #49 | 57 points by pod_krad 3 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Future euro banknote design proposals (europa.eu)

×2.52 17 | 275 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters (huggingface.co)

×2.48 10 #11 | 16 points by nateb2022 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it (openparser.dev)

×2.45 116 | 16 points by TimurKramar 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Dark Night of Mathematics (kirwinhampshire.substack.com)

×2.43 6 #32 | 174 points by rmdmphilosopher 10 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (knaup.me)

×2.41 2 #15 | 317 points by tknaup 11 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard (artificialanalysis.ai)

×2.41 10 #84 | 365 points by aarondong 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git rebase -I is not that scary (cachebag.sh)

×2.36 8 #21 | 13 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught (techcrunch.com)

×2.35 20 #89 | 11 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate? (xn--vk5b17r.online)

×2.32 54 #63 | 32 points by theoneone 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center (houseofsaud.com)

×2.32 18 | 334 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 449 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Cookbook (claude.com)

×2.29 39 #81 | 330 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News (hnglance.com)

×2.25 61 | 5 points by valentinvieriu 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mboxreader – easily view your Gmail Takeouts (mboxreader.com)

×2.24 153 | 6 points by scottilee 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals (debian.org)

×2.19 10 #14 | 83 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed (karimjedda.com)

×2.18 15 #55 | 117 points by kiyanwang 11 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD publishes machine-readable ISA so frontier models can write its GPU kernels (theregister.com)

×2.16 13 #88 | 13 points by logickkk1 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kenmore Air crash: How civilians 'saved the day' (seattletimes.com)

×2.15 10 #82 | 9 points by ynac 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf] (github.com/demo-zexuan)

×2.14 5 #7 | 89 points by oliculipolicula 3 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everything Is a File (wikipedia.org)

×2.13 13 | 4 points by iacguy 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phaistos Disc (wikipedia.org)

×2.08 14 | 4 points by hypertexthero 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cygnus – A fast, lightweight self-hostable serverless runtime and PaaS (cygnus.run)

×2.04 92 | 8 points by ccheshirecat 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Assumption of Maria (near future sci-fi) (lightspeedmagazine.com)

×2.02 7 | 5 points by swernli 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds (ziggit.dev)

×2.00 22 | 298 points by kristoff_it 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Htmx 4: The Game (htmx.org)

×1.99 5 | 5 points by geophph 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

×1.98 32 | 467 points by adam_rida 2 days ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Take the Black Pill [video] (youtube.com)

×1.97 15 | 237 points by signa11 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who does Anubis actually stop? (fzakaria.com)

×1.97 32 #66 | 43 points by type0 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Books can't piss me off

×1.95 8 | 4 points by emerongi 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codeberg Divides (pocoo.org)

×1.92 47 | 139 points by ashdnazg 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad (augmental.tech)

×1.91 16 #43 | 167 points by ZaninAndrea 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harddrive Is Probably Full (marginalia.nu)

×1.91 34 #52 | 49 points by ilreb 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser (kimi.site)

×1.90 74 | 55 points by boveyking 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
George Hotz talk at AMD Advancing AI 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

×1.89 7 | 4 points by chrsw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld (itch.io)

×1.87 14 #62 | 244 points by g0xA52A2A 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS (haiku-os.org)

×1.84 10 | 329 points by m0do1 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waymo's driverless cars involved in 68% fewer crashes than human drivers (cbc.ca)

×1.84 30 | 4 points by uladzislau 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year (alexhyett.com)

×1.82 65 | 107 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits (coindesk.com)

×1.82 34 | 59 points by paulpauper 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (claude.com)

×1.80 5 #9 | 173 points by mellosouls 5 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener (mit.edu)

×1.79 61 #46 | 272 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???