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Show HN: Cursed Browser – a VLM reads the HTML and hallucinates the page (github.com/scosman)

×1.00 | 1 points by scosman 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe Coding Your Infrastructure (ivan.codes)

×1.00 | 1 points by ivandotcodes 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Linear Chess – Normal Chess, on a 1D board (youbee.cloud)

×0.78 | 1 points by MarcellusDrum 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You Were Never Declaring State. You Were Observing by Hand (webframp.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by nickstinemates 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I just sequenced a human genome to 30× coverage at home (twitter.com/SethSHowes)

×0.77 | 1 points by MrBuddyCasino 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (mullvad.net)

×0.79 | 1 points by Cider9986 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bursting My AI Bubble (bearblog.dev)

×1.89 | 2 points by wrxd 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exit IP fingerprinting between VPN servers (mullvad.net)

×0.82 | 1 points by Cider9986 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alexander Horned Sphere (wikipedia.org)

×0.79 | 1 points by thunderbong 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Evaluation Is Biased – By Design (alokit.substack.com)

×0.70 | 1 points by avikalp 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Browser-based Glider Sim (benedictshegog.xyz)

×0.70 | 1 points by bensg 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?

×0.80 | 1 points by yanbinette 16 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Michael Phelps on finding purpose beyond the pool (cnn.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by mooreds 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Big university system is embracing AI. Students/faculty aren't all on board (npr.org)

×0.72 | 1 points by mooreds 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A web to see nearby TFL trains (nexttrain.london)

×0.73 | 1 points by mgranados 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What ClickHouse learned from a year of coding with AI agents (thenewstack.io)

×0.70 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers (hackyexperiments.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by bilater 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google facing court for retaliation against Gaza whistleblower (foxglove.org.uk)

×0.69 | 1 points by lovegrenoble 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker News RSS (hnrss.github.io)

×0.68 | 1 points by mooreds 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
StubZero: $148,337 RCE in Google Cloud Production (brutecat.com)

×0.67 | 1 points by Cider9986 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is it just me or has Gemini enshittified in the last three weeks?

×0.69 | 1 points by EvanMcCormick 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Huawei announced it will have a 1.4nm equivalent density process by 2031 (electronicsweekly.com)

×0.70 | 1 points by yogthos 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pouta.dev – Open-Source Block Editor CMS for Astro, Next.js on Cloudflare (pouta.dev)

×1.50 | 2 points by mohanjith 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are "Real" Catholics as Conservative as Evangelicals? (graphsaboutreligion.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by lordleft 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs? (almartis.xyz)

×0.64 | 1 points by AlassaneSakande 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We need to build cooler things (sammacginty.substack.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by sammacg 27 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Educational Impacts of School Phone Bans: Evidence from Brazil (nber.org)

×0.59 | 1 points by paulpauper 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OnlyFans owner in talks to sell to investor group at about $8B value (reuters.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by elorant 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI Interface for Research Papers (justinross.substack.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by paulpauper 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett (theatlantic.com)

×2.26 58 | 3 points by paulpauper 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PDFearn – Pdfearn.blogspot.com (pdfearn.blogspot.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by iLzKii 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learning Abstractions: A Conversation with Yann LeCun (amacad.org)

×0.59 | 1 points by sonabinu 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gray whale mortality along Pacific Northwest are at an increasing pace (nbcnews.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by hbarka 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits (nytimes.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by mikhael 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Forensic analysis of STM32F7 firmware failure modes in drone swarms

×0.61 | 1 points by ArchiveForensic 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic AI Changes the CPU/GPU Equation (amd.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by theanonymousone 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone is navigating AI security in real time – even Google (techcrunch.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Full Hermes and Obsidian Setup (metedata.substack.com)

×2.07 51 | 3 points by young_mete 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Geek Pride Day (wikipedia.org)

×1.35 | 2 points by ColinWright 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we found in 100 Canadian phone bills (rightward.ca)

×2.18 49 | 3 points by iyketwum 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ukraine now launches more long range strikes than it absorbs (techwars.substack.com)

×2.08 48 | 3 points by znnajdla 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI (theregister.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by root-parent 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr (wired.com)

×1.20 | 2 points by joozio 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?

×0.82 | 2 points by DmitriyBuchilin 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who's Monitoring the Agents? (thenewstack.io)

×0.53 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Their Phones Were Stolen in London. Then the Threats Started (nytimes.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by paulpauper 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sampling DNA from animal skin parchments (archaeologymag.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by paulpauper 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Aesthetics Awards (marginalrevolution.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by paulpauper 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Loops Beta 12 Is Here (joinloops.org)

×1.97 41 | 3 points by ZacnyLos 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If the carrying capacity of the Earth declines, so does the population (phys.org)

×2.01 40 | 3 points by nacho-daddy 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Impatience – measure event latency on peers using synchronised clocks (github.com/xfoa)

×0.56 | 1 points by foax 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What do you do at work while the coding agent is working?

×2.01 38 | 3 points by py4 59 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. neutrino megaproject takes shape in abandoned gold mine (scientificamerican.com)

×1.28 | 2 points by lorenzohess 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop Doing Easy Things (bearblog.dev)

×2.66 56 | 4 points by xendo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ideology: A talk by Gary Bernhardt from Loop 2015 (destroyallsoftware.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by ksec 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Swarm – A design protocol for nonlinear creativity (github.com/cardeo)

×0.54 | 1 points by cardeo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flunes – Turn bug reports from non-technical users into GitHub issues (flunes.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by vytrox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle non-technical people dumping vibecoded changes on you?

×2.69 54 | 4 points by ex-aws-dude 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic onboarding day: Michael Scott introducing Karpathy (twitter.com/siddsax)

×1.24 | 2 points by ksec 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Will It Take to Get Young People to Stop Tanning (Again)? (allure.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Brain Fry – the cognitive overload (driftlens.substack.com)

×1.30 | 2 points by driftlensOS 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Memory Allocation (2023) (samwho.dev)

×2.00 35 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing (businessinsider.com)

×6.04 14 #15 | 102 points by _____k 1 hour ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Musts – Open-source validation loops for AI coding agents (github.com/bitomule)

×0.55 | 1 points by bitomule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Protect your Mac from invisible AI tool behaviour now (coworkguard.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by coworkguard 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Astronauts won't be the ones building the moon's first permanent base (spacedaily.com)

×1.32 | 2 points by smooke 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Huawei proposes Tau Scaling Law to replace geometric scaling in semiconductors (huawei.com)

×1.35 | 2 points by lucamark 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why you should consider sending earnest spam (nair.sh)

×0.58 | 1 points by nilirl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol for Linux – Opening Up Some Nifty Uses for USB4 (phoronix.com)

×1.33 | 2 points by voxadam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RSS2BSKY (codeberg.org)

×1.32 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is it too soon to built software factories?

×2.85 50 | 4 points by Bnowako 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Eavesdrop on Frog Conversations (nature.com)

×2.03 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Icon Network shuts down on December 31, 2026 (icon.foundation)

×1.28 | 2 points by matonias 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lessons I Learned from Creating Searx (hister.org)

×2.08 33 | 3 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I was likely targeted by DPRK in a sophisticated developer malware campaign (denv.it)

×2.86 60 | 5 points by denysvitali 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is AI flattening your team's creativity? (atlassian.com)

×2.12 32 | 3 points by ilalex 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Feynman AI research Assistant plugin for Obsidian (obsidian.md)

×1.32 | 2 points by arogers17 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SynapCores – AI-native database (vector, graph, SQL, AutoML, LLM) (synapcores.com)

×1.27 | 2 points by SQLv2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dimensions of the Geiger-Muller Tube Holder on the GGreg20_V3 Geiger Counter PCB (iot-devices.com.ua)

×1.26 | 2 points by iotdevicesdev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Complete Family Tree Viewer (github.com/erikshelley)

×1.97 30 | 3 points by shellerik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Persistent multiplayer state without chaos (packagemain.tech)

×1.20 | 2 points by der_gopher 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free Quick Developer Online Tools (quickfix.tools)

×1.17 | 2 points by mlongo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Founder of 7/11 Japan, Toshifumi Suzuki, has died at age 93 (referenceforbusiness.com)

×3.72 63 | 6 points by L_Rahman 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the engineer behind Claude Cowork uses Claude (lennysnewsletter.com)

×1.86 26 | 3 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evaluating Large Language Models in a Complex Hidden Role Game (arxiv.org)

×0.50 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you managing cloud cost? (getnable.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by chaandannn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
David Blackwells Enduring Legacy (berkeley.edu)

×0.49 | 1 points by nothrowaways 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nordtheme/Nord: An Arctic, north-bluish color palette (github.com/nordtheme)

×0.50 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AutoMaxFix – controlled AI repair loop that won't eat your migrations (github.com/Noumenon-ai)

×0.50 | 1 points by Noumenon_AI 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm the CEO of Goldman Sachs. The AI Job Apocalypse Is Overblown (nytimes.com)

×3.37 44 #60 | 13 points by ent101 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???