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Hungary's Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Election (wsj.com)

×8.24 80 | 73 points by JumpCrisscross 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack (sfstandard.com)

×6.89 64 | 153 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes (ziglang.org)

×6.15 18 #39 | 100 points by ska80 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others (rareese.com)

×5.57 6 #17 | 867 points by rrreese 13 hours ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist' (404media.co)

×5.40 20 | 163 points by wibbily 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

×5.36 77 | 159 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers (techtrenches.dev)

×5.23 39 | 73 points by forks 23 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Do All the Things (doallthethings.app)

×5.22 142 | 27 points by brainbun 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tom7: No one can force me to have a secure website [video] (youtube.com)

×5.21 34 | 72 points by Audiophilip 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)

×5.19 35 | 253 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

×5.12 9 #13 | 133 points by morpheuskafka 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

×5.03 4 | 1131 points by littlecranky67 2 days ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions (sebastian-jais.de)

×4.82 57 | 86 points by gleipnircode 8 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)

×4.78 56 | 197 points by teichmann 13 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A CLI that writes its own integration code (superglue.cloud)

×4.76 56 | 15 points by adinagoerres 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings (theverge.com)

×4.67 60 | 81 points by temphaaa 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock (theatlantic.com)

×4.57 60 | 7 points by breve 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)

×4.39 1 #31 | 1136 points by speckx 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing (eff.org)

×4.20 2 #12 | 51 points by salkahfi 1 hour ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal (politico.com)

×4.20 37 | 129 points by impish9208 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)

×4.18 4 #24 | 1021 points by thebiblelover7 19 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says (theregister.com)

×4.16 86 | 119 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal (iop.org)

×4.13 41 #48 | 131 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone (techcrunch.com)

×4.09 10 | 253 points by ZeidJ 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)

×4.00 86 | 483 points by anonfunction 6 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Stacked PRs (github.com/gh-stack)

×3.91 5 #38 | 861 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)

×3.77 20 | 426 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We scanned uscis.gov for third-party trackers. The results are jarring (varlog.in)

×3.70 158 | 7 points by simple_elephant 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (google.com)

×3.68 5 #27 | 796 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)

×3.46 3 #80 | 831 points by pizza 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude.ai down (claude.com)

×3.42 35 | 132 points by rob 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times (bandaancha.eu)

×3.39 89 | 390 points by akyuu 4 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney (hollywoodreporter.com)

×3.37 17 #20 | 217 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to (substack.substack.com)

×3.26 26 | 197 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)

×3.23 2 | 330 points by laurex 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program (honeypot.net)

×3.17 6 #7 | 406 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture

×3.11 51 | 107 points by barratia 10 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas (yale.edu)

×3.09 56 #72 | 145 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mamdani Plans to Open City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem (nytimes.com)

×3.09 40 | 6 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior" (reddit.com)

×3.08 70 | 88 points by crmrc114 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)

×2.97 | 366 points by bundie 1 day ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) (economist.com)

×2.91 25 | 115 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work (aphyr.com)

×2.90 24 #36 | 231 points by aphyr 6 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.

×2.80 26 | 20 points by ssiddharth 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
They See Your Photos (theyseeyourphotos.com)

×2.79 44 | 132 points by cyberlurker 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
jj – the CLI for Jujutsu (steveklabnik.github.io)

×2.72 4 #19 | 457 points by tigerlily 11 hours ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSL 4.0.0 (github.com/openssl)

×2.71 3 #11 | 143 points by petecooper 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge (kampfinsel.com)

×2.65 156 | 8 points by parzivalt 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programming Used to Be Free (purplesyringa.moe)

×2.56 74 | 78 points by yeputons 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)

×2.53 15 #67 | 443 points by t-3 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TN's Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers (wpln.org)

×2.49 41 | 4 points by bediger4000 49 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

×2.44 67 | 497 points by vidluther 3 days ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran (warontherocks.com)

×2.42 36 | 4 points by colonCapitalDee 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing (wordpress.com)

×2.41 30 | 181 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks (berkeley.edu)

×2.40 61 #84 | 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 15 #89 | 202 points by tie-in 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Routines (claude.com)

×2.35 5 #1 | 269 points by matthieu_bl 4 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tax Wrapped 2025 (taxwrapped.com)

×2.34 31 | 123 points by entrapi 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We built an MCP for Windows – ask Claude about CPU, temps, and privacy (github.com/AppControlLabs)

×2.33 47 | 7 points by suprnurd 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain (arstechnica.com)

×2.33 3 #62 | 39 points by ckemere 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)

×2.30 55 #88 | 273 points by dvaughan 2 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: pg_grpc – Call gRPC services directly from PostgreSQL (github.com/CSenshi)

×2.30 99 | 7 points by csenshi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024) (quantamagazine.org)

×2.30 2 | 104 points by paulpauper 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)

×2.29 3 #77 | 425 points by speckx 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git why – log your agent reasoning trace along your code (hexapode.github.io)

×2.28 147 | 11 points by pierre 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)

×2.28 8 #76 | 468 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)

×2.28 163 | 15 points by bastscho 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)

×2.24 7 #2 | 432 points by jrm-veris 8 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A 24/7 live stream where AI writes a new song about the current time (youtube.com)

×2.23 96 | 5 points by mmp7700 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels (apollo.com)

×2.23 65 | 149 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)

×2.22 3 | 317 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence (campbellramble.ai)

×2.21 51 | 92 points by thedudeabides5 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS (boringbar.app)

×2.21 28 | 511 points by a-ve 2 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)

×2.18 10 #82 | 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 14 | 407 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0 (medium.com)

×2.11 2 #15 | 50 points by martythemaniak 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The looming college-enrollment death spiral (theatlantic.com)

×2.09 29 | 114 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample (theconversation.com)

×2.09 22 #66 | 21 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug (kirancodes.me)

×2.08 20 #28 | 372 points by bumbledraven 21 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Single-Dose Creatine Reduces Sleep Deprivation-Induced Deterioration (mdpi.com)

×2.07 5 #78 | 35 points by pvsukale3 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stack Overflow moderator publicly leaks private flagger information (stackoverflow.com)

×2.03 4 #42 | 4 points by hskdididn 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? (propublica.org)

×2.01 42 | 119 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Went to China to See Its Progress on A.I. We Can't Beat It (nytimes.com)

×1.99 25 | 3 points by suvan 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)

×1.99 7 #65 | 459 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue (theguardian.com)

×1.97 50 | 84 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The secrets of the Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)

×1.96 27 #87 | 149 points by WillDaSilva 15 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Claude Code–driven tutor for learning algorithms in Go (github.com/zuzuleinen)

×1.95 41 | 4 points by zuzuleinen 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI revolution in math has arrived (quantamagazine.org)

×1.95 27 #86 | 105 points by sonabinu 22 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech–Again (eff.org)

×1.94 2 #55 | 39 points by hn_acker 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Reddit now demands to know why you won't use their app

×1.93 91 | 20 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???