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

×16.88 104 | 68 points by ExMachina73 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Magit 4.6 Released (emacsair.me)

×7.56 116 | 71 points by signa11 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago (extelligence.substack.com)

×7.38 20 | 114 points by shpat 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (heise.de)

×6.75 26 #38 | 372 points by stavros 10 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car' (msn.com)

×6.25 41 | 88 points by OutOfHere 18 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Europe's new climate in seven charts (bbc.com)

×5.98 39 | 144 points by saikatsg 12 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI has torched the market for junior programmers (seldo.com)

×5.96 73 | 97 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FIFA makes U-turn following call from Trump (reuters.com)

×5.76 72 | 7 points by sxzygz 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)

×5.46 77 | 123 points by deely3 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain–until I met him (cailey.substack.com)

×5.01 5 | 69 points by FinnLobsien 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough (techcrunch.com)

×4.70 80 | 126 points by msolujic 5 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference (irishtimes.com)

×4.47 63 | 119 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The bottleneck might be the air in the room (mikebowler.ca)

×4.46 4 | 806 points by gslin 1 day ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Small Penis Rule (wikipedia.org)

×4.36 32 #36 | 107 points by chistev 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix (localghost.dev)

×4.35 57 | 7 points by gslin 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you guys happy with existing social networkin apps?

×4.34 50 | 8 points by julienreszka 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker (nooneshappy.com)

×3.95 117 | 98 points by njrc 2 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (tomshardware.com)

×3.89 38 | 235 points by sensanaty 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)

×3.68 #2 | 707 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)

×3.44 91 | 107 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles (wsj.com)

×3.44 30 | 74 points by apparent 15 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)

×3.31 30 | 661 points by javxfps 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Driving in China as a Tourist (ian.sh)

×3.28 17 #56 | 24 points by appwiz 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Contributor Visualization for Superset: top contributors own 90% of lines (twitter.com/Principal_ADE)

×3.20 6 | 6 points by fernando-ram 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)

×3.19 17 | 125 points by enz 14 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs (tomshardware.com)

×3.13 19 #28 | 76 points by logickkk1 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bird nests of fibre-optic cables show war's impact on Ukraine (reuters.com)

×3.12 42 | 5 points by joebig 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)

×3.08 13 #51 | 520 points by nozzlegear 20 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)

×3.08 47 | 454 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
This Month in Ladybird: June 2026 (ladybird.org)

×3.07 130 | 63 points by richardboegli 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mental Models I Use to Work with AI (metedata.substack.com)

×2.99 19 #79 | 10 points by young_mete 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)

×2.97 2 #12 | 229 points by popcar2 7 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)

×2.95 #53 | 654 points by asronline 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player's Suspension. Now He's Eligible to Play (nytimes.com)

×2.92 41 | 3 points by ortusdux 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login

×2.89 164 | 87 points by jay_kyburz 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)

×2.87 9 | 492 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)

×2.86 64 | 149 points by adamraudonis 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reparaible and open source paper printer (opentools.studio)

×2.83 #1 | 108 points by bouh 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When will the stock market crash?

×2.82 143 | 12 points by roschdal 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)

×2.82 12 | 511 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crosspoint Reader – A FOSS firmware for Xteink ereaders (crosspointreader.com)

×2.81 55 | 4 points by devonnull 10 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 | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July (nbcchicago.com)

×2.70 44 #32 | 9 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy (segflow.github.io)

×2.68 8 #17 | 16 points by mrngm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eclipse Enclave (eclipse.org)

×2.67 7 | 6 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's (nih.gov)

×2.64 70 | 67 points by natbennett 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of Flipper Zero development (flipper.net)

×2.64 3 #6 | 159 points by croes 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025) (acc.org)

×2.60 28 #61 | 157 points by RickJWagner 10 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slow Tuesday Night (1965) (baen.com)

×2.56 13 | 5 points by et1337 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Therac-25 (wikipedia.org)

×2.55 47 | 9 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Strange Locomotion of Spirocuta (chriskiehl.com)

×2.51 14 | 5 points by goostavos 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)

×2.47 94 | 144 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)

×2.45 58 | 66 points by thunderbong 19 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EasyJet reaches 'agreement in principle' over potential takeover (bbc.com)

×2.40 28 | 4 points by a_paddy 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Small details in my Mastodon client that I wanted more people to notice (on-t.work)

×2.39 24 | 4 points by birdculture 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 3D-printed Raman spectrometer (hackaday.com)

×2.38 19 | 5 points by ikbdsk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Self-healing review gate and knowledge base for Claude Code (Beta) (verity.md)

×2.35 135 | 5 points by claudiacsf 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray (tamu.edu)

×2.34 11 | 196 points by cybermango 22 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two nasty surprises in Home Assistant's config (frankel.ch)

×2.32 85 #45 | 7 points by edward 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tripadvisor AI summaries give glowing reviews to dangerous hotels (euronews.com)

×2.30 28 #48 | 20 points by jethronethro 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Y Combinator.singles (ycombinator.singles)

×2.25 65 | 11 points by nadermx 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State Sponsored Media? No Thanks [video] (youtube.com)

×2.24 16 | 5 points by dp-hackernews 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone loves apprenticeships. So why can't Britain create more of them? (ft.com)

×2.23 22 | 4 points by mmarian 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I hated how much my 12-year-old played Roblox, so we built our own FPS (cooked.house)

×2.21 74 | 5 points by davitb 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Minicraft - Running Minecraft Classic from a Single Twitter Post (github.com/Kuberwastaken)

×2.19 127 | 4 points by kuberwastaken 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ARRR: Pirate MMO vibecoded by its players (arrr.fun)

×2.16 12 | 4 points by m0dE 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Software, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)

×2.15 109 | 141 points by faza 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hollywood's spent 25 years chasing the wrong lessons from The Lord of the Rings (polygon.com)

×2.15 37 #83 | 8 points by HelloUsername 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)

×2.13 43 | 227 points by tosh 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)

×2.13 3 #74 | 350 points by maille 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I measured the half-life of 41,301 Show HN launches. It's 7 hours (jonno.nz)

×2.12 176 | 37 points by jonnonz 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Here here, there is no there, there (silvestro2026.substack.com)

×2.12 23 | 3 points by silvestromedia 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI (windowslatest.com)

×2.11 48 | 4 points by ninko 21 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Isthistechdead.com got a full UI revamp (isthistechdead.com)

×2.11 161 | 6 points by jobehi 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Calm Engineering Dashboard (gitbiased.com)

×2.10 102 | 6 points by skyfantom 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Can Steal Your Bank Account in Hours (jmagineuniverse.blogspot.com)

×2.10 21 #10 | 4 points by odilelof 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebGlean – API that turns any site into clean Markdown for LLMs (webglean.com)

×2.10 34 | 4 points by qubomax 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3D-print your own modular eyeglasses frames (eiga.works)

×2.09 15 | 4 points by thinkalone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why New Jersey's balcony solar bill is a huge deal for renters (cnn.com)

×2.07 10 #47 | 9 points by breve 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)

×2.07 83 | 251 points by stock_toaster 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Small World – The "Preact" of 3D Web Engines (TypeScript, WebGPU) (rottensteiner-stefan.github.io)

×2.01 85 | 7 points by DragonZoul 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 3·6·9 COMMANDER, a turn-based strategy card game (itch.io)

×2.00 37 | 4 points by forgatmachine 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Design System Prompt (github.com/Trystan-SA)

×2.00 20 | 115 points by handfuloflight 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)

×1.99 44 | 68 points by neilfrndes 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)

×1.96 131 | 141 points by MegagramEnjoyer 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? (nicole.express)

×1.94 21 | 3 points by zdw 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Immich v3.0.0 Released (immich.app)

×1.94 23 | 4 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fugu – A multi-agent LLM orchestrator delivered as a single API (github.com/SakanaAI)

×1.93 4 | 5 points by terminalchai 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?

×1.92 159 | 66 points by seattle_spring 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Better Models: Worse Tools (pocoo.org)

×1.92 22 | 217 points by leemoore 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???