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The Fediverse Is Not the Way Forward (trialandfailure.net)

×16.44 102 | 68 points by ExMachina73 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FIFA makes U-turn following call from Trump (reuters.com)

×8.01 74 | 14 points by sxzygz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago (extelligence.substack.com)

×7.32 18 | 114 points by shpat 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Magit 4.6 Released (emacsair.me)

×7.29 111 | 71 points by signa11 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (heise.de)

×6.61 29 #41 | 376 points by stavros 11 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car' (msn.com)

×6.20 41 | 88 points by OutOfHere 19 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Europe's new climate in seven charts (bbc.com)

×6.03 37 | 146 points by saikatsg 13 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI has torched the market for junior programmers (seldo.com)

×5.92 72 | 97 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player's Suspension. Now He's Eligible to Play (nytimes.com)

×5.74 72 | 10 points by ortusdux 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)

×5.43 75 | 123 points by deely3 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The first programmer I know who was murdered in a targeted strike was Haitham (lrb.co.uk)

×5.34 9 #56 | 28 points by bhouston 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain–until I met him (cailey.substack.com)

×4.98 5 | 69 points by FinnLobsien 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough (techcrunch.com)

×4.87 80 | 131 points by msolujic 6 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The bottleneck might be the air in the room (mikebowler.ca)

×4.48 2 | 810 points by gslin 1 day ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference (irishtimes.com)

×4.46 62 | 119 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Small Penis Rule (wikipedia.org)

×4.28 31 #37 | 114 points by chistev 4 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you guys happy with existing social networkin apps?

×4.01 23 | 8 points by julienreszka 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (tomshardware.com)

×3.88 36 | 235 points by sensanaty 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix (localghost.dev)

×3.79 31 | 7 points by gslin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bird nests of fibre-optic cables show war's impact on Ukraine (reuters.com)

×3.73 36 | 7 points by joebig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)

×3.67 1 #3 | 735 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)

×3.43 86 | 107 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles (wsj.com)

×3.42 26 | 74 points by apparent 16 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Driving in China as a Tourist (ian.sh)

×3.34 24 #65 | 28 points by appwiz 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)

×3.32 24 | 662 points by javxfps 1 day ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Small details in my Mastodon client that I wanted more people to notice (on-t.work)

×3.28 21 | 6 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)

×3.20 9 | 126 points by enz 15 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs (tomshardware.com)

×3.11 20 #30 | 88 points by logickkk1 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)

×3.10 13 #52 | 525 points by nozzlegear 21 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reparaible and open source paper printer (opentools.studio)

×3.09 #1 | 212 points by bouh 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)

×3.08 46 | 454 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)

×3.04 6 #15 | 256 points by popcar2 8 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
This Month in Ladybird: June 2026 (ladybird.org)

×2.96 120 | 63 points by richardboegli 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)

×2.95 1 #54 | 656 points by asronline 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login

×2.89 160 | 87 points by jay_kyburz 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)

×2.88 3 | 494 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)

×2.85 64 | 149 points by adamraudonis 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)

×2.82 13 | 511 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When will the stock market crash?

×2.78 141 | 12 points by roschdal 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI (windowslatest.com)

×2.76 12 #35 | 11 points by ninko 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Therac-25 (wikipedia.org)

×2.75 32 | 10 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pioneer of 'extreme male brain' theory of autism now says phrase unhelpful (theguardian.com)

×2.72 35 | 4 points by bookofjoe 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (seattletimes.com)

×2.71 54 | 147 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's (nih.gov)

×2.63 70 | 67 points by natbennett 22 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025) (acc.org)

×2.63 24 #61 | 161 points by RickJWagner 11 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of Flipper Zero development (flipper.net)

×2.58 1 #6 | 185 points by croes 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? (nicole.express)

×2.55 9 #18 | 11 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LaCie drives just contain regular Seagate drives inside (twitter.com/eftegarie)

×2.52 12 | 5 points by amin 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)

×2.48 89 | 145 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 3·6·9 COMMANDER, a turn-based strategy card game (itch.io)

×2.47 42 | 5 points by forgatmachine 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)

×2.44 59 | 66 points by thunderbong 20 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two nasty surprises in Home Assistant's config (frankel.ch)

×2.44 67 #36 | 12 points by edward 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Self-healing review gate and knowledge base for Claude Code (Beta) (verity.md)

×2.34 132 | 5 points by claudiacsf 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray (tamu.edu)

×2.34 9 | 196 points by cybermango 23 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evil tip: avoid "easy" things (2016) (yosefk.com)

×2.30 13 #75 | 5 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hollywood's spent 25 years chasing the wrong lessons from The Lord of the Rings (polygon.com)

×2.27 36 #88 | 10 points by HelloUsername 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes?

×2.26 33 | 3 points by g-b-r 20 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Social and context-aware AI platform to do math (prooftree.ai)

×2.26 27 | 5 points by lemma1729 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Bureaucratic Hell of Getting a Job in 2026 (nytimes.com)

×2.20 28 | 3 points by mooreds 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Minicraft - Running Minecraft Classic from a Single Twitter Post (github.com/Kuberwastaken)

×2.19 126 | 4 points by kuberwastaken 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July (nbcchicago.com)

×2.18 22 #20 | 22 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I hated how much my 12-year-old played Roblox, so we built our own FPS (cooked.house)

×2.18 79 | 5 points by davitb 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Y Combinator.singles (ycombinator.singles)

×2.17 47 | 11 points by nadermx 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)

×2.15 5 #72 | 354 points by maille 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Here here, there is no there, there (silvestro2026.substack.com)

×2.14 4 | 4 points by silvestromedia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)

×2.14 38 | 228 points by tosh 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I scored every FOMC statement since 1994 and put it behind an API (financialdatapi.com)

×2.13 8 | 4 points by Neith12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EasyJet reaches 'agreement in principle' over potential takeover (bbc.com)

×2.12 6 | 4 points by a_paddy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I measured the half-life of 41,301 Show HN launches. It's 7 hours (jonno.nz)

×2.12 173 | 37 points by jonnonz 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Isthistechdead.com got a full UI revamp (isthistechdead.com)

×2.11 158 | 6 points by jobehi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tripadvisor AI summaries give glowing reviews to dangerous hotels (euronews.com)

×2.10 20 #51 | 22 points by jethronethro 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Calm Engineering Dashboard (gitbiased.com)

×2.10 104 | 6 points by skyfantom 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surveillance Companionship Entertainment: Intelligent Machines Ancient History (mit.edu)

×2.09 30 | 4 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)

×2.08 78 | 252 points by stock_toaster 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Backstory of Jiki (jiki.io)

×2.06 19 | 3 points by lrae 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ARRR: Pirate MMO vibecoded by its players (arrr.fun)

×2.06 45 | 4 points by m0dE 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TrainSim – a browser train tycoon (aashishh15.github.io)

×2.06 63 | 4 points by aashishharishch 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)

×2.04 45 | 70 points by neilfrndes 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone loves apprenticeships. So why can't Britain create more of them? (ft.com)

×2.02 8 | 4 points by mmarian 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy (segflow.github.io)

×2.01 7 #7 | 36 points by mrngm 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Small World – The "Preact" of 3D Web Engines (TypeScript, WebGPU) (rottensteiner-stefan.github.io)

×2.00 85 | 7 points by DragonZoul 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A bedside camera detects REM sleep and agrees with a clinical EEG (lucidcode.com)

×2.00 40 | 4 points by MichaelCoder 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Design System Prompt (github.com/Trystan-SA)

×1.99 16 | 115 points by handfuloflight 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Organic Maps open source dispute (isitreallyfoss.com)

×1.98 23 | 4 points by maxloh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is the next step after Nora Sandler's "Writing a C compiler"?

×1.97 10 | 3 points by xqb64 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oh, so that's what a touchstone is [video] (youtube.com)

×1.97 15 | 3 points by lifeisstillgood 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source guided code reviews (twitter.com/plannotator)

×1.96 44 | 4 points by ramoz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)

×1.96 127 | 141 points by MegagramEnjoyer 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why New Jersey's balcony solar bill is a huge deal for renters (cnn.com)

×1.95 9 #49 | 12 points by breve 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?

×1.92 155 | 66 points by seattle_spring 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???