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Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting (bbc.com)

×19.15 4 | 2891 points by yakkomajuri 3 days ago | 4989 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Letter to the American People (18f.org)

×12.62 2 | 1012 points by erentz 2 days ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers

×12.42 102 | 615 points by latexr 6 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dow tumbles 800 points as Trump confirms tariffs on Mexico/Canada start Tuesday (cnn.com)

×11.80 81 | 33 points by voisin 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe (lemonde.fr)

×9.98 78 | 24 points by doener 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP (atlantafed.org)

×9.21 64 #66 | 185 points by awnird 2 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data (twitter.com/LundukeJournal)

×9.15 49 | 872 points by notRobot 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds (berthub.eu)

×8.69 93 | 1393 points by Sami_Lehtinen 1 week ago | 799 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code (anthropic.com)

×7.59 77 | 2123 points by bakugo 1 week ago | 954 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes (nytimes.com)

×7.42 115 | 1089 points by belter 1 week ago | 1459 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia shares fall 9% or $265B off on tariff fears (cnbc.com)

×7.30 70 | 11 points by speckx 52 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla owners get creative to distance themselves from Elon Musk (electrek.co)

×7.30 67 | 13 points by zfg 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license" (mozilla.org)

×6.98 56 | 819 points by tomp 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office (twitter.com/EthanEvansVP)

×6.88 21 | 579 points by kappi 1 day ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Hey Number 17 ' (404media.co)

×6.44 116 | 423 points by Amorymeltzer 6 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar (reuters.com)

×6.33 15 #53 | 736 points by boguscoder 21 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A crypto mogul who bought Trump coins is getting a reprieve on fraud charges (cnn.com)

×6.33 41 | 12 points by TheAlchemist 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row (bbc.com)

×6.19 100 | 1766 points by helsinkiandrew 1 week ago | 1068 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GSA Eliminates 18F (nextgov.com)

×6.17 30 | 519 points by patcon 2 days ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

×6.14 57 | 1568 points by newobj 5 days ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion (deadline.com)

×6.13 103 | 389 points by nickthegreek 5 days ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games (github.com/electronicarts)

×6.00 47 | 1226 points by Klaster_1 4 days ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died (npr.org)

×5.97 22 #26 | 160 points by anigbrowl 4 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We are the builders (wethebuilders.org)

×5.65 159 | 515 points by ChrisArchitect 1 week ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China came to dominate the world in renewable energy (washingtonpost.com)

×5.48 73 | 9 points by boshomi 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable [fixed] (nslookup.io)

×5.45 6 | 486 points by raphman 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I found a backdoor into my bed (trufflesecurity.com)

×5.34 130 | 980 points by riverdroid 1 week ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees (techcrunch.com)

×5.17 7 | 369 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes (swedenherald.com)

×5.03 110 | 484 points by km 6 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser (github.com/LadybirdBrowser)

×5.01 54 | 961 points by goplayoutside 3 days ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] (youtube.com)

×4.96 70 | 1322 points by franky47 5 days ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge (neowin.net)

×4.88 60 | 768 points by thombles 3 days ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transgender troops will be removed from the military (nbcnews.com)

×4.85 51 | 8 points by fulladder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass (touchgrass.now)

×4.68 92 | 1196 points by risquer 1 week ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox (mozilla.org)

×4.61 48 | 572 points by ReadCarlBarks 2 days ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Went to SQL Injection Court (sockpuppet.org)

×4.61 83 | 1221 points by mrkurt 6 days ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft is killing Skype (windowscentral.com)

×4.41 64 | 731 points by thund 3 days ago | 656 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working (economist.com)

×4.40 44 | 644 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 888 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised (theguardian.com)

×4.38 136 | 785 points by zeristor 1 week ago | 839 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You can't build a cloud on a cloud (railway.com)

×4.32 50 | 7 points by justjake 52 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-4.5 (openai.com)

×4.27 52 | 1125 points by meetpateltech 4 days ago | 982 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure (azsh.it)

×4.26 45 | 674 points by SlyHive 3 days ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps (kibty.town)

×4.23 27 | 1129 points by xyzeva 3 days ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wanna save Intel? Fire the board, bring back Pat, ex-CEO Craig Barrett says (theregister.com)

×4.02 52 | 4 points by rntn 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding (arstechnica.com)

×4.01 147 | 696 points by isaacfrond 1 week ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Treasury ends enforcement of business ownership database (nbcnews.com)

×3.95 44 | 9 points by dralley 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A New AI Worry: Many Young Coders No Longer Know How Their Code Works (inc.com)

×3.93 16 #43 | 28 points by namanyayg 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022) (mooreds.com)

×3.83 129 | 744 points by mooreds 1 week ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Call centres using AI to 'whiten' Indian accents (telegraph.co.uk)

×3.80 28 | 8 points by hkmaxpro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Youth and what happens when it's gone (tolstoyan.substack.com)

×3.79 73 #80 | 280 points by mattgreenrocks 6 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: XsAI – A < 6KB Vercel AI SDK Alternative (moeru.ai)

×3.69 33 | 7 points by kwaa 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Core Git Developers Configure Git (gitbutler.com)

×3.67 106 | 563 points by lnkl 6 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns (wsj.com)

×3.65 31 | 436 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PFAS in fertilisers blamed for killing livestock in Texas and wreaking havoc (chemistryworld.com)

×3.57 18 #33 | 53 points by chiffre01 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
20 years working on the same software product (successfulsoftware.net)

×3.50 157 | 532 points by hermitcrab 1 week ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC (arstechnica.com)

×3.42 101 | 551 points by perihelions 6 days ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Treasury ends enforcement of database meant to stop shell company formation (go.com)

×3.41 29 | 6 points by srameshc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FFmpeg School of Assembly Language (github.com/FFmpeg)

×3.39 124 | 869 points by davikr 1 week ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace (github.com/material-theme)

×3.35 105 | 477 points by Inityx 5 days ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone (discuss.systems)

×3.31 131 | 404 points by luu 6 days ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US (bloomberg.com)

×3.30 117 | 620 points by helsinkiandrew 1 week ago | 613 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal (theregister.com)

×3.30 24 #38 | 99 points by rntn 4 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Find a Team for your startup/join as a Cofounder – Feedback Welcome:) (stupconnect.com)

×3.28 18 | 7 points by GZPardo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states (ifixit.com)

×3.27 125 | 500 points by LorenDB 1 week ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hyperspace (hypercritical.co)

×3.25 91 | 843 points by tobr 6 days ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks (the-ebook-reader.com)

×3.24 153 | 466 points by DavideNL 1 week ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse (mozilla.org)

×3.06 107 | 609 points by DanAtC 6 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solarpunk (wikipedia.org)

×3.01 26 | 407 points by nis0s 23 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon (cnn.com)

×3.00 4 #42 | 731 points by complexpass 23 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024) (wildfirelabs.substack.com)

×2.97 35 | 379 points by herbertl 2 days ago | 521 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty (annas-archive.org)

×2.96 89 | 599 points by yamrzou 6 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll (focusfurnace.com)

×2.96 7 #49 | 582 points by hello12343214 20 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Urban Dead is shutting down (urbandead.com)

×2.95 25 #28 | 25 points by ColinWright 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Repairable Flatpack Toaster (kaseyhou.com)

×2.91 #1 | 145 points by t-3 1 hour ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Options traders are bracing for a stock-market crash (marketwatch.com)

×2.88 10 #61 | 17 points by hjjkjhkj 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) (saurabhs.org)

×2.88 73 | 575 points by pavel_lishin 3 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MIT IAP open education courses on diffusion and data-centric AI (mitsoul.org)

×2.87 24 | 5 points by ashayathalye 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone (ericdaigle.ca)

×2.85 126 | 507 points by ChrisArchitect 1 week ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design (github.com/johnousterhout)

×2.77 121 | 481 points by recursivedoubts 6 days ago | 541 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life (johnnydecimal.com)

×2.76 155 | 577 points by debone 1 week ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bocoup Is Now Worker-Owned (bocoup.com)

×2.72 27 #57 | 51 points by jugglinmike 4 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Half-Life (filfre.net)

×2.70 140 | 547 points by dmazin 1 week ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967 (stlartsupply.com)

×2.70 1 #12 | 160 points by apokryptein 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study” (jmspae.se)

×2.66 111 | 584 points by TeMPOraL 1 week ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Order Doesn’t Matter, But Reasoning Does (arxiv.org)

×2.63 63 | 14 points by spaintech 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says (bloomberg.com)

×2.62 141 | 402 points by suraci 1 week ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Citi group accidentally sends someone $81T (bloomberg.com)

×2.60 #77 | 12 points by hurrell 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Ruby on Rails still matters (contraption.co)

×2.57 160 | 524 points by philip1209 1 week ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference (github.com/deepseek-ai)

×2.53 114 | 536 points by helloericsf 6 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Image comparison slider in 6 lines of JavaScript (muffinman.io)

×2.45 90 | 20 points by stankot 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???