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  1. Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros (netflix.com)
    ×5.51 #1 | 397 points by meetpateltech 1 hour ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Cloudflare was down (cloudflare.com)
    ×13.38 89 | 782 points by mektrik 5 hours ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law (somo.nl)
    ×4.45 27 #30 | 366 points by saubeidl 4 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Most technical problems are people problems (joeschrag.com)
    ×2.20 2 #2 | 51 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
    ×3.45 86 | 301 points by bakigul 5 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Making RSS More Fun (matduggan.com)
    ×2.11 4 #3 | 25 points by salmon 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company (neowin.net)
    ×7.20 61 #69 | 28 points by bundie 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples (nasa.gov)
    ×1.62 5 #14 | 35 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional (apnews.com)
    ×3.68 7 #17 | 117 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. UniFi 5G (ui.com)
    ×1.29 7 #4 | 181 points by janandonly 7 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto (dineshpandiyan.com)
    ×1.34 2 #10 | 81 points by flexdinesh 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' (npr.org)
    ×4.38 78 | 201 points by seattle_spring 9 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×2.03 7 #7 | 424 points by CharlesW 14 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Nimony (Nim 3.0) Design Principles (nim-lang.org)
    ×1.30 6 #9 | 40 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything (kraa.io)
    ×1.69 11 #5 | 19 points by levmiseri 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive (evclinic.eu)
    ×1.96 9 #8 | 310 points by mikelabatt 13 hours ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why we can’t quit Excel (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.74 19 #37 | 27 points by thm 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? (reason.com)
    ×4.26 10 #29 | 688 points by delichon 20 hours ago | 899 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication (lemonde.fr)
    ×3.51 16 #36 | 6 points by isolli 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig (sinclairtarget.com)
    ×3.02 14 #35 | 384 points by yurivish 16 hours ago | 459 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.33 11 #11 | 168 points by benbreen 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks (lyra.horse)
    ×1.70 11 #12 | 247 points by spartanatreyu 14 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Turning 40 (andreabergia.com)
    ×2.12 67 | 8 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Django 6 (djangoproject.com)
    ×3.54 21 #46 | 339 points by wilhelmklopp 17 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months (aitradearena.com)
    ×3.13 5 #21 | 264 points by cheeseblubber 15 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The RAM shortage comes for us all (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×3.93 58 #85 | 356 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.17 13 #15 | 122 points by mikhael 11 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. New York Times Sues A.I. Startup Perplexity over Use of Copyrighted Work (nytimes.com)
    ×3.14 62 | 5 points by cmiles8 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards (neurips.cc)
    ×1.24 6 #24 | 135 points by ivansavz 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat (bbc.com)
    ×2.06 39 #70 | 238 points by toss1 17 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.81 28 #60 | 413 points by OptionOfT 22 hours ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) (javascript.tm)
    ×2.93 7 #40 | 697 points by pavelai 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. CSS now has an if() conditional function (caniuse.com)
    ×2.10 14 #20 | 198 points by aanthonymax 15 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?
    ×1.12 27 #62 | 27 points by dfasoro 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Layoutz – Simple, beautiful CLI output for Haskell (flora.pm)
    ×2.67 55 | 4 points by Vosporos 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.62 17 #54 | 192 points by anjneymidha 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Transparent leadership beats servant leadership (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.91 20 #18 | 471 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi (airoboticist.blog)
    ×0.88 16 #23 | 52 points by observer2022 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Elon Musk's X fined €120M by EU in first clash under new digital laws (theguardian.com)
    ×3.61 51 | 7 points by robin_reala 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. PGlite – Embeddable Postgres (pglite.dev)
    ×2.91 2 #43 | 558 points by dsego 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.93 49 | 70 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
    ×2.48 12 #31 | 504 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Tacopy – Tail Call Optimization for Python (github.com/raaidrt)
    ×0.56 28 #16 | 58 points by raaid-rt 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs (arxiv.org)
    ×3.03 26 #19 | 613 points by 50kIters 1 day ago | 567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Netflix becomes frontrunner in bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery – sources (cnn.com)
    ×5.59 45 | 64 points by mikeweiss 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Multivox: Volumetric Display (github.com/AncientJames)
    ×1.42 25 #22 | 297 points by jk_tech 21 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The "soft" racism of the well-meaning white liberal, myself included (ncte.org)
    ×2.15 43 | 3 points by volemo 32 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ghostty is now non-profit (mitchellh.com)
    ×4.83 2 #51 | 1304 points by vrnvu 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung (pcworld.com)
    ×3.45 11 #61 | 392 points by sethops1 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.20 40 | 3 points by amarcheschi 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Unreal Tournament 2004 is back (reddit.com)
    ×3.80 21 #73 | 446 points by keithoffer 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Autism should not be treated as a single condition (economist.com)
    ×2.14 #53 | 246 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void (askmike.org)
    ×1.45 22 #32 | 67 points by askmike 11 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Everyone in Seattle hates AI (jonready.com)
    ×5.47 36 | 935 points by mips_avatar 1 day ago | 1035 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm (theverge.com)
    ×3.91 4 #52 | 936 points by evolve2k 1 day ago | 795 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72B (bbc.com)
    ×2.14 34 | 4 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Commission fines X €120M under the Digital Services Act (europa.eu)
    ×1.70 13 #71 | 5 points by nabla9 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again (prestonbyrne.com)
    ×0.97 10 #49 | 81 points by parliament32 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. At IT School with Apple Lisa (wordpress.com)
    ×0.50 35 #25 | 35 points by fabiojava 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Introduction to Plan 9 (9front.org)
    ×1.74 30 | 3 points by finnlab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Secret of Latino Teens' Better Mental Health (wsj.com)
    ×1.77 29 | 3 points by impish9208 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL (github.com/deepreinforce-ai)
    ×0.72 36 #27 | 120 points by dzign 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Nvidia's new AI framework trains an 8B model to manage tools like a pro (venturebeat.com)
    ×1.85 27 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Anthropic acquires Bun (bun.com)
    ×7.78 3 #68 | 2170 points by ryanvogel 2 days ago | 1065 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels (github.com/StardustOS)
    ×0.94 40 #26 | 93 points by transpute 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Fighting the age-gated internet (wired.com)
    ×1.84 39 #28 | 242 points by geox 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files (alexschapiro.com)
    ×3.31 5 #63 | 803 points by bearsyankees 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Volcanic eruption led to the Black Death, new research suggests (cnn.com)
    ×0.62 3 #66 | 4 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Fast trigram based code search (github.com/sourcegraph)
    ×0.64 36 #34 | 40 points by cv_h 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead (politico.com)
    ×2.08 20 | 4 points by gregorymichael 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s (uncloud.run)
    ×2.32 33 #39 | 387 points by rgun 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (micron.com)
    ×3.67 2 #75 | 742 points by simlevesque 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ephemeral Infrastructure: Why Short-Lived Is a Good Thing (medium.com)
    ×0.38 61 #13 | 6 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (techdirt.com)
    ×3.39 16 | 113 points by alsetmusic 18 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame (github.com/zenfyrdev)
    ×2.45 15 | 161 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months (pcpartpicker.com)
    ×2.94 12 #65 | 494 points by zekrioca 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill (nber.org)
    ×3.86 13 | 821 points by mhb 2 days ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later (onlyrecipeapp.com)
    ×1.10 41 #38 | 168 points by AwkwardPanda 23 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What's the deal with Euler's identity? (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×0.57 47 #33 | 34 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas?
    ×1.53 10 | 3 points by ruairidhwm 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X (fsfe.org)
    ×4.53 9 | 153 points by latexr 22 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How Brussels writes so many laws (siliconcontinent.com)
    ×1.24 38 #45 | 47 points by amadeuspagel 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" (archive.org)
    ×2.32 6 #90 | 203 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Fat-Tailed Sheep on the First Fleet; Australia's First Sheep (singletonmills.com)
    ×0.49 37 #48 | 8 points by Y_Y 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tunnl.gg (tunnl.gg)
    ×2.59 44 #42 | 217 points by klipitkas 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Countdown until the AI bubble bursts (pop-the-bubble.xyz)
    ×6.58 4 | 73 points by tapematch 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js (github.com/vercel)
    ×3.05 3 | 601 points by rayhaanj 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Programming peaked (functional.computer)
    ×3.54 2 | 210 points by Antibabelic 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available (proxmox.com)
    ×2.11 1 | 133 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???