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Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral (reuters.com)

×9.59 73 | 114 points by lr0 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hungary's Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition (reuters.com)

×8.42 74 | 114 points by markerbrod 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat (nytimes.com)

×7.06 80 | 82 points by doener 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack (sfstandard.com)

×6.94 61 | 153 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes (ziglang.org)

×6.43 23 #41 | 86 points by ska80 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others (rareese.com)

×5.54 8 #18 | 830 points by rrreese 12 hours ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist' (404media.co)

×5.37 25 | 161 points by wibbily 17 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

×5.25 72 #83 | 153 points by Cider9986 4 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Do All the Things (doallthethings.app)

×5.22 141 | 27 points by brainbun 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)

×5.16 34 | 251 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

×5.02 5 | 1129 points by littlecranky67 2 days ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)

×4.80 57 | 197 points by teichmann 12 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions (sebastian-jais.de)

×4.80 61 | 85 points by gleipnircode 7 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings (theverge.com)

×4.72 56 | 81 points by temphaaa 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A CLI that writes its own integration code (superglue.cloud)

×4.48 53 | 14 points by adinagoerres 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says (theregister.com)

×4.45 5 #8 | 95 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)

×4.37 8 #36 | 1130 points by speckx 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal (politico.com)

×4.22 36 | 129 points by impish9208 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal (iop.org)

×4.20 20 #25 | 117 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)

×4.14 7 #24 | 1003 points by thebiblelover7 18 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone (techcrunch.com)

×4.10 20 | 253 points by ZeidJ 23 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)

×4.00 85 | 483 points by anonfunction 5 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Stacked PRs (github.com/gh-stack)

×3.92 11 #42 | 860 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)

×3.78 17 | 426 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play (bsky.app)

×3.77 24 | 518 points by super256 2 days ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We scanned uscis.gov for third-party trackers. The results are jarring (varlog.in)

×3.70 157 | 7 points by simple_elephant 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (google.com)

×3.65 9 #28 | 781 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)

×3.46 1 #81 | 830 points by pizza 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude.ai down (claude.com)

×3.43 35 | 132 points by rob 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times (bandaancha.eu)

×3.42 3 #5 | 353 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney (hollywoodreporter.com)

×3.35 2 #2 | 153 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to (substack.substack.com)

×3.25 25 | 196 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)

×3.24 3 | 330 points by laurex 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas (yale.edu)

×3.14 46 #58 | 144 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program (honeypot.net)

×3.13 #1 | 357 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture

×3.11 52 | 106 points by barratia 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior" (reddit.com)

×3.09 67 | 88 points by crmrc114 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)

×2.96 4 | 364 points by bundie 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) (economist.com)

×2.92 22 | 115 points by andsoitis 23 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work (aphyr.com)

×2.91 28 #37 | 225 points by aphyr 5 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.

×2.89 35 | 19 points by ssiddharth 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sony Boss Urges Theaters to Stop 30 Minutes of Trailers and Ads Before Movies (variety.com)

×2.85 39 | 4 points by randycupertino 42 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

×2.85 19 #33 | 32 points by morpheuskafka 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
They See Your Photos (theyseeyourphotos.com)

×2.80 42 | 132 points by cyberlurker 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSL 4.0.0 (github.com/openssl)

×2.76 6 #13 | 112 points by petecooper 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
jj – the CLI for Jujutsu (steveklabnik.github.io)

×2.69 7 #20 | 439 points by tigerlily 10 hours ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge (kampfinsel.com)

×2.65 155 | 8 points by parzivalt 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The peril of laziness lost (dtrace.org)

×2.56 26 | 468 points by gpm 2 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programming Used to Be Free (purplesyringa.moe)

×2.53 70 | 77 points by yeputons 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
European AI. A playbook to own it (mistral.ai)

×2.53 58 | 200 points by hjouneau 2 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)

×2.52 8 #68 | 441 points by t-3 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Routines (claude.com)

×2.47 2 #4 | 204 points by matthieu_bl 3 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

×2.44 66 | 497 points by vidluther 3 days ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing (wordpress.com)

×2.41 29 | 181 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We built an MCP for Windows – ask Claude about CPU, temps, and privacy (github.com/AppControlLabs)

×2.40 33 | 7 points by suprnurd 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks (berkeley.edu)

×2.40 54 #89 | 581 points by Anon84 3 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)

×2.39 13 #90 | 201 points by tie-in 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample (theconversation.com)

×2.38 26 #59 | 20 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mamdani Plans to Open City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem (nytimes.com)

×2.37 50 | 4 points by paulpauper 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tax Wrapped 2025 (taxwrapped.com)

×2.35 30 | 123 points by entrapi 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: pg_grpc – Call gRPC services directly from PostgreSQL (github.com/CSenshi)

×2.31 97 | 7 points by csenshi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)

×2.30 49 | 272 points by dvaughan 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)

×2.29 6 #78 | 424 points by speckx 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git why – log your agent reasoning trace along your code (hexapode.github.io)

×2.29 146 | 11 points by pierre 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)

×2.28 1 #77 | 467 points by ffin 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mdpdf a 2k line C CLI to convert Markdown to tiny PDFs (github.com/schicho)

×2.28 162 | 15 points by bastscho 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024) (quantamagazine.org)

×2.26 7 | 102 points by paulpauper 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain (arstechnica.com)

×2.26 10 #64 | 35 points by ckemere 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels (apollo.com)

×2.24 62 | 149 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A 24/7 live stream where AI writes a new song about the current time (youtube.com)

×2.23 94 | 5 points by mmp7700 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)

×2.22 6 | 317 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence (campbellramble.ai)

×2.22 47 | 92 points by thedudeabides5 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS (boringbar.app)

×2.21 27 | 511 points by a-ve 2 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)

×2.19 5 #3 | 394 points by jrm-veris 6 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)

×2.18 5 #84 | 404 points by edent 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind (viktorcessan.com)

×2.17 13 | 407 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ILTY – AI mental health companion that does not pat your back

×2.14 | 1 points by sklyarov 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Single-Dose Creatine Reduces Sleep Deprivation-Induced Deterioration (mdpi.com)

×2.11 12 #75 | 34 points by pvsukale3 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug (kirancodes.me)

×2.10 18 #30 | 368 points by bumbledraven 20 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The looming college-enrollment death spiral (theatlantic.com)

×2.09 28 | 114 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Claude Code–driven tutor for learning algorithms in Go (github.com/zuzuleinen)

×2.08 20 | 4 points by zuzuleinen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0 (medium.com)

×2.01 2 #17 | 25 points by martythemaniak 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? (propublica.org)

×2.01 39 | 119 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)

×1.99 #67 | 459 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI revolution in math has arrived (quantamagazine.org)

×1.98 20 #86 | 105 points by sonabinu 21 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The secrets of the Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)

×1.98 20 #79 | 149 points by WillDaSilva 14 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amex Debuts Ace Developer Kit with Registered Agent Protection (americanexpress.com)

×1.97 26 | 3 points by amex_tech 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue (theguardian.com)

×1.95 46 | 83 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Reddit now demands to know why you won't use their app

×1.94 90 | 20 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinese Electrotech Is the Big Winner in the Iran War (paulkrugman.substack.com)

×1.93 21 | 3 points by dxs 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???