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Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (theguardian.com)

×12.39 14 | 517 points by mhga 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)

×9.27 30 | 678 points by AndrewSwift 3 days ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (twitter.com/soham_btw)

×8.94 67 | 919 points by sohzm 5 days ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy (theguardian.com)

×8.55 61 | 220 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (theregister.com)

×7.86 18 | 296 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)

×6.78 17 #78 | 1199 points by adrianh 2 days ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Analyzing Grok's Latest Meltdown Through Public xAI System Prompts (theahura.substack.com)

×6.58 75 | 9 points by theahura 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I’ve decided to step down as CEO of X (twitter.com/lindayax)

×6.19 77 | 9 points by danso 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Truth Table Generator Written in Common Lisp (manoel.dev)

×6.01 15 | 16 points by lerax 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform (nytimes.com)

×5.98 11 #12 | 71 points by donohoe 33 minutes ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia won, we all lost (sebin-nyshkim.net)

×5.88 47 | 965 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sizing up the 5 companies selected for Europe's launcher challenge (arstechnica.com)

×5.36 74 | 7 points by Bluestein 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)

×5.28 98 | 588 points by geox 6 days ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public (honest-broker.com)

×5.24 49 | 445 points by imartin2k 3 days ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Rise of Whatever (eev.ee)

×5.17 77 | 620 points by cratermoon 5 days ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming

×5.14 27 | 71 points by Eatcats 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 (europa.eu)

×5.11 59 | 256 points by toomuchtodo 14 hours ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)

×5.09 50 | 444 points by bundie 23 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes (theverge.com)

×4.99 9 #14 | 200 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge (businessinsider.com)

×4.86 10 | 478 points by pyman 2 days ago | 638 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HN is censoring news about X / Twitter

×4.57 73 | 5 points by tslocum 5 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)

×4.55 3 #62 | 479 points by cantdutchthis 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Cost of an Image: The Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation (arxiv.org)

×4.45 54 | 6 points by GodelInTheShell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pulse – the wearable for n=1 habit experiments (pulse.site)

×4.45 58 | 6 points by msingh_5 56 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success (tjll.net)

×4.41 15 #23 | 54 points by Mond_ 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)

×4.40 24 #10 | 318 points by gausswho 16 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vibechat – A chatroom for people bored waiting for Claude (github.com/antimatter15)

×4.16 145 | 9 points by antimatter15 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (cnbc.com)

×3.96 25 | 511 points by bwfan123 3 days ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (freyaindia.co.uk)

×3.92 16 | 529 points by drankl 2 days ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking (dmitriid.com)

×3.86 93 | 297 points by troupo 4 days ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a website to summarize Tech Twitter each day (todayontechtwitter.com)

×3.83 150 | 11 points by nsomani 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (maalvika.substack.com)

×3.81 63 | 754 points by alihm 4 days ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)

×3.78 7 #28 | 774 points by rexpository 21 hours ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slack is just the worst – and I've used a BBS and 14.4k modem

×3.75 72 | 12 points by sincethebbsera 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ASCII Fireworks (asciifireworks.com)

×3.75 168 | 18 points by theli0nheart 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I don't think AGI is right around the corner (dwarkesh.com)

×3.72 38 | 367 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)

×3.71 11 #11 | 647 points by jonkuipers 19 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is the voice inside my head? (bbc.com)

×3.69 67 | 5 points by Bluestein 24 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi (electrek.co)

×3.68 75 | 263 points by JumpCrisscross 3 days ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean (csic.es)

×3.61 88 | 476 points by riffraff 5 days ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X CEO Linda Yaccarino to step down (axios.com)

×3.59 60 | 5 points by jmsflknr 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago (elpais.com)

×3.57 39 | 435 points by leephillips 3 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gore – A Doom Engine Port in Go (github.com/AndreRenaud)

×3.53 134 | 8 points by EstIgnavus 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Local-first software (2019) (inkandswitch.com)

×3.51 36 | 860 points by gasull 4 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web (websmith.studio)

×3.45 10 #17 | 189 points by pumbaa 6 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introducing tmux-rs (richardscollin.github.io)

×3.40 73 | 853 points by Jtsummers 6 days ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations (retractionwatch.com)

×3.39 19 #44 | 103 points by ArmageddonIt 8 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs (businessinsider.com)

×3.15 #4 | 37 points by pseudolus 46 minutes ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry (venturebeat.com)

×3.14 7 #9 | 77 points by fdaudens 1 hour ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (github.com/jackjackbits)

×3.14 4 | 746 points by ananddtyagi 2 days ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (pinout.xyz)

×3.10 144 | 9 points by gadgetoid 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?

×3.09 8 | 83 points by pedrodelfino 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I'm skeptical of Ground News (sjodle.com)

×3.09 32 #73 | 8 points by blowenopdestoep 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why XSS Persists in This Frameworks Era? (flatt.tech)

×3.02 44 | 3 points by y0n3uchy 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HN is how I know we've reached peak hype saturation

×3.02 37 | 4 points by zerosizedweasle 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Network as an Introvert (bearblog.dev)

×2.93 69 | 367 points by agcat 3 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: HN was much more interesting a year ago

×2.93 90 | 14 points by fud101 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stravu – Editable, multi-player AI notebooks with text, tables, diagram

×2.84 38 | 4 points by wek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linda Yaccarino to step down as CEO of X (nbcnews.com)

×2.83 45 | 3 points by ceejayoz 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand (zdnet.com)

×2.81 13 #36 | 108 points by saubeidl 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? (jeffgeerling.com)

×2.80 103 | 300 points by transpute 5 days ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

×2.78 23 | 470 points by zdw 2 days ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zorin OS (zorin.com)

×2.75 52 #30 | 140 points by oldfuture 23 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings (washingtonpost.com)

×2.74 117 | 318 points by tysone 6 days ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What a Hacker Stole from Me (mynoise.net)

×2.72 65 | 387 points by wonger_ 3 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source transcription that costs $0.02/hour instead of $30/month (github.com/braden-w)

×2.72 153 | 6 points by braden-w 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (github.com/BlueFalconHD)

×2.69 19 | 532 points by BlueFalconHD 2 days ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers (nikkei.com)

×2.64 89 | 227 points by ohjeez 4 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What to build instead of AI agents (decodingml.substack.com)

×2.63 120 | 239 points by giuliomagnifico 6 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap (cnbc.com)

×2.63 1 #37 | 8 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kuvasz – an open-source uptime and SSL monitoring service (kuvasz-uptime.dev)

×2.63 159 | 29 points by csirkezuza 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a single API to post on all social platforms (postforme.dev)

×2.58 138 | 7 points by calebpanza 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology (blog.google)

×2.57 106 | 338 points by doomroot13 5 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)

×2.51 22 #13 | 140 points by todsacerdoti 11 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights? (arxiv.org)

×2.50 83 | 237 points by lexandstuff 3 days ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hidden interface controls that affect usability (acm.org)

×2.49 46 | 556 points by cxr 3 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tools: Code Is All You Need (pocoo.org)

×2.45 110 | 310 points by Bogdanp 6 days ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Larry (cat) (wikipedia.org)

×2.43 94 | 346 points by dcminter 5 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The first time I was almost fired from Apple (engineersneedart.com)

×2.42 33 | 336 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (noperator.dev)

×2.39 1 | 513 points by noperator 2 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What old or outdated software have you never found a replacement for?

×2.37 132 | 34 points by prisenco 3 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why English doesn't use accents (deadlanguagesociety.com)

×2.36 43 | 334 points by sandbach 2 days ago | 585 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data on AI-related Show HN posts (ryanfarley.co)

×2.33 57 | 274 points by rfarley04 5 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dashboard tracking all GitHub PRs and analyzing Code Agent activity (github.com/logic-star-ai)

×2.33 105 | 8 points by mnmueller 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Built a lovable clone to see what makes agentic apps tick (github.com/beam-cloud)

×2.33 197 | 7 points by llom2600 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017) (crypto101.io)

×2.32 61 | 229 points by pona-a 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D (kbkg.com)

×2.29 79 | 422 points by tareqak 4 days ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made this free tool in 4 days to make your screenshots 10x better. (shotcanvas.com)

×2.27 175 | 6 points by stjernberg 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)

×2.26 6 | 562 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs should not replace therapists (arxiv.org)

×2.26 48 | 292 points by layer8 2 days ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???