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Waymo recalls 1000s of driverless cars after some failed to avoid flooded roads (latimes.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by petethomas 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool (github.com/pike00)

×1.87 | 2 points by pike00 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Latvian government collapses after Ukrainian drones strike oil facility (theglobeandmail.com)

×1.61 | 2 points by petethomas 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Musk accused of 'selective amnesia,' Altman of lying as OpenAI trial nears end (reuters.com)

×1.69 | 2 points by jnord 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha (tristandc.com)

×0.74 | 1 points by kspacewalk2 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White-collar workers report growing feelings of 'AI brain fry' (ft.com)

×2.52 44 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Do VPNs Protect Your Privacy? VPN Overview (privacyguides.org)

×0.69 | 1 points by Cider9986 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Secrets at Rest: SOPS and Age for Docker Compose Homelabs (pikemd.com)

×2.49 37 | 3 points by pike00 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Self-destructing $2k Nvidia chips for distributed solar data ctrs in lampposts (techradar.com)

×1.50 | 2 points by toss1 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ran forensics on closed models and discovered no one is using dense attention (0xmmo.co)

×0.61 | 1 points by mmoustafa 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Countdown to Apophis Close Approach–Cascading Hazards from Asteroid Impacts (usgs.gov)

×0.63 | 1 points by rolph 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Systematically Auditing AI Agent Benchmarks with BenchJack (arxiv.org)

×0.61 | 1 points by matt_d 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Trailmaps.app – Mobile maps that match the trail (trailmaps.app)

×0.60 | 1 points by c0nsumer 35 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Musk's China trip during OpenAI trial prompts apology from his lawyer (cnbc.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Fix "DMARC Quarantine/Reject Policy Not Enabled" (dmarcguard.io)

×0.60 | 1 points by meysamazad 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do you tell who's thinking? (willhackett.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by meysamazad 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ingest – Capture Anything from Anywhere (edleeman.co.uk)

×1.44 | 2 points by meysamazad 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cowboy files plans for up to 20k orbital data centers (spacenews.com)

×1.39 | 2 points by defrost 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bay Area customers may face warnings, fees under Recology's new camera system (sfgate.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by turtlegrids 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Water on Earth (scientificamerican.com)

×1.38 | 2 points by soupspaces 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Big tech is sacrificing its cashflows to prop up the AI boom (economist.com)

×2.19 27 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 44 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Possible Samsung strike puts more pressure on memory pricing (theregister.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by jnord 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beyond Git: Coordinating humans, agents, and automation in a repo with a ledger (mentu.ai)

×1.39 | 2 points by rashidae 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Audit of Serai's Substrate Blockchain (serai.exchange)

×0.59 | 1 points by Cider9986 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The secretive and lucrative world of orchid breeding (bbc.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by y1n0 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spam Resistant Forges (feld.me)

×0.61 | 1 points by y1n0 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Untangling Communication (2001) [pdf] (dhemery.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by mooreds 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't let your old NVMe gather dust: It's the fastest USB stick you own (xda-developers.com)

×1.36 | 2 points by y1n0 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Wellbeing – Measuring and Improving the Functional Pleasure and Pain of AIs (ai-wellbeing.org)

×0.59 | 1 points by xiaoyu2006 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heads up: new Google support scam uses a REAL email from Google: sysadmin (reddit.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by freediver 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US plans to indict Cuba's Raul Castro, US DOJ official says (reuters.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by tartoran 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Didn't Ask for This Internet (angelabenton.substack.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by ethanplant 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the World Became a Casino (apple.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A defunct email service as a template for campus AI (nathanschneider.info)

×0.49 | 1 points by ntnsndr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (signoz.io)

×1.17 | 2 points by pranay01 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dmitry Senin - I escaped Vladimir Putin in the belly of a dead cow (telegraph.co.uk)

×2.46 26 | 4 points by canucker2016 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops (grapheneos.org)

×1.85 4 | 3 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is shared across participants within "AI-native" environments?

×0.49 | 1 points by juun_roh 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wide-Band Subharmonic Modeling (wordpress.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by q7m 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Browser HTTP Leak Test (raw.githubusercontent.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What if websites were callable like APIs? (github.com/weekend-project-space)

×1.14 | 2 points by zhugeyangyang 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're Building Neal Stephenson's Primer (github.com/hherb)

×0.49 | 1 points by hherb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying (tmctmt.com)

×3.14 #1 | 111 points by RGBCube 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Explore PPP Loans on an interactive map (ppploanmap.com)

×1.18 | 2 points by zarie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no (techcrunch.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by dskrvk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Switch to Codex (chatgpt.com)

×3.73 34 | 6 points by dragonsenseiguy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI co-mathematician: Accelerating mathematicians with agentic AI (arxiv.org)

×0.45 | 1 points by aoki 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Efficiency Moat: Why China Is Beating the U.S. on AI and Everything Else (thebignewsletter.com)

×2.68 21 | 5 points by connor11528 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI music generator so YouTubers never get copyright strikes (dmitrithegamer.github.io)

×0.41 | 1 points by soundcraftai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs can't read PDFs in 2026? (musings-mr.net)

×0.97 | 2 points by mrkiouak 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WordPress Lost 19% of the Internet to AI [video] (youtube.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Search Models (softwaredoug.com)

×0.98 | 2 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gargoyle, a Decade Later (lospino.so)

×0.43 | 1 points by jalospinoso 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Big Shot On The East Coast: The History of the Zoo York Mixtape (redbullmusicacademy.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by marysminefnuf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Monero's Biggest Privacy Upgrade Is Almost Here: Justin Berman on FCMP Stressnet (youtube.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by Cider9986 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT convinced me there was a bug in my code before a freeze (droppedasbaby.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by offbyone42 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I resurrected the web from the past and it got weird (slopcities.com)

×1.65 23 | 3 points by ZenBlender 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bumble Is Removing the Swipe Feature, Will Use AI in New Launch (eonline.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Find vendors used by any company (sub-processors.com)

×0.92 52 #28 | 5 points by chatmasta 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When will you be concerned on layoffs?

×1.53 7 | 4 points by piratesAndSons 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Restartable Sequences, TCMalloc, and Hyrum's Law (lwn.net)

×0.42 | 1 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Caltrans Explores High-Speed Bus Network to Complement Rail System (kqed.org)

×1.55 32 | 3 points by rawgabbit 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Popular node-ipc NPM Package Infected with Credential Stealer (socket.dev)

×1.60 34 | 3 points by csmantle 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Latencies and BEIR – Typesense, Meilisearch, Elasticsearch, Amgix Now (amgix.io)

×0.65 | 2 points by kvasserman 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kill Canvas. Now (chronicle.com)

×3.68 25 | 7 points by incomplete 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Tested DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash Against Claude Opus 4.7 and Kimi K2.6 (kilo.ai)

×0.42 | 1 points by nl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Temper – A programming language for libraries translated to all the others (temperlang.dev)

×0.38 | 1 points by nikolay 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex Harness in OpenClaw (openclaw.ai)

×2.06 5 | 5 points by sjf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Slopification and Writing (ordinaryintelligence.substack.com)

×1.29 42 | 3 points by mldev_exe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities (washingtonpost.com)

×4.30 46 #53 | 49 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hey You, Start Communicating (kevquirk.com)

×1.29 44 | 3 points by Curiositry 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm trying to optimize in person recruiting (get-resume.app)

×0.81 | 2 points by JaiJC 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Princeton will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI (independent.co.uk)

×0.84 | 2 points by smurda 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints (antonleicht.me)

×3.00 24 #9 | 15 points by thoughtpeddler 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Savepoint – A CLI for TDD (github.com/NamtaoProductions)

×0.85 | 2 points by rrvsh 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Plain Text. Paper, Less (PTPL) (ellanew.com)

×3.60 31 | 10 points by jethronethro 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UFerris a Versatile Learner Board for Rust Embedded Beginners (theembeddedrustacean.com)

×0.64 29 #17 | 13 points by stmw 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Linux LPE, 5.10 and above (ptrace_may_access mm-NULL + pidfd_getfd) (github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork)

×3.81 36 | 12 points by Tiberium 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Velonus – Open-source AppSec scanner that deduplicates SAST noise (github.com/AliAmmar15)

×0.49 43 #25 | 9 points by AliAmmar15 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI Considers Legal Action Against Apple in Strained Relationship (nytimes.com)

×1.84 29 | 4 points by donohoe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XS Programming Language

×0.81 29 | 4 points by xs-lang 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Easy Locality Domain Lookup (locality-domains.pages.dev)

×0.89 | 2 points by ronbenton 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
15% of AI agent skill files carry hardcoded credentials with DB write access (securityboulevard.com)

×1.79 38 | 4 points by Armor1AI 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Supply Chain Inheritance (citriniresearch.com)

×0.86 | 2 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Private Way to Chat with AI (fb.com)

×0.78 | 2 points by spullara 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic agrees terms of $30B funding deal at $900B valuation (ft.com)

×2.65 12 | 6 points by mmmmmbop 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Issue that important facts were forgotten when sessions were reseted (github.com/rkceve)

×0.30 | 1 points by rkceve 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7 (claude.com)

×1.94 37 #50 | 55 points by rob 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Interactive explorer for Bun's Rust migration (zocomputer.io)

×0.32 | 1 points by FanaHOVA 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Build iterative repair loops with Codex (openai.com)

×2.07 26 | 5 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???