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  1. Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union (reuters.com)
    ×4.15 14 #15 | 156 points by onemoresoop 1 hour ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GitHub Actions was down (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.63 64 #66 | 637 points by cebert 6 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (reuters.com)
    ×5.96 3 #6 | 335 points by thm 4 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Language Models Need Sleep (arxiv.org)
    ×1.80 #4 | 102 points by juxtapose 2 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (politico.eu)
    ×4.25 8 #13 | 366 points by vrganj 6 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn (seuros.com)
    ×5.68 85 | 181 points by berlianta 4 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The real cost of owning a home (ericturner.dev)
    ×3.49 5 #12 | 46 points by ggcr 1 hour ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Don't Subscribe So Casually (thebestworstcase.substack.com)
    ×1.06 14 #23 | 76 points by shmublu 2 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care (dw.com)
    ×5.07 81 | 41 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"? (dynomight.net)
    ×3.42 9 #2 | 34 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive (theguardian.com)
    ×2.63 10 #22 | 23 points by coffeeyesplease 1 hour ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What color is your function? (2015) (stuffwithstuff.com)
    ×1.14 8 #5 | 32 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Ballad of TIGIT (owlposting.com)
    ×0.77 13 #1 | 35 points by crescit_eundo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Sweden becomes a smoke-free country (thelocal.se)
    ×2.34 40 #55 | 36 points by Teever 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs (signalbloom.ai)
    ×1.68 1 #17 | 130 points by GodelNumbering 5 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify' (theverge.com)
    ×4.80 15 #32 | 208 points by berlianta 7 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)
    ×4.27 9 #9 | 1016 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale (minicor.com)
    ×0.52 16 #3 | 39 points by fchishtie 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD (dynip.dev)
    ×1.47 6 #14 | 261 points by dynip 10 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead "Camera View" (retrogamecoders.com)
    ×0.59 14 #7 | 44 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player (intelligenceonline.com)
    ×1.03 9 #31 | 30 points by alephnerd 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (tomshardware.com)
    ×5.37 16 #39 | 1020 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Opaque Types in Python (glyph.im)
    ×0.93 13 #11 | 75 points by lumpa 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)
    ×3.38 19 #44 | 338 points by Cider9986 13 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2k a Month to Masturbate (decrypt.co)
    ×2.63 20 #46 | 22 points by ajay-d 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Magnifica Humanitas (vatican.va)
    ×6.36 18 #45 | 1553 points by theletterf 1 day ago | 879 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Are we self-sovereign PKI yet? (buffrr.dev)
    ×0.99 9 #19 | 30 points by ca98am79 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Google, I Dump Your Ass (jaredwhite.com)
    ×2.82 13 #42 | 10 points by abnercoimbre 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99% (xiaomimimo.com)
    ×3.90 61 | 5 points by gainsurier 27 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Incident with Actions and Pages (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.06 6 #25 | 70 points by hakube 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)
    ×2.63 14 #18 | 515 points by bilsbie 19 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team (vllm.ai)
    ×0.68 7 #26 | 58 points by berlianta 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty (theguptalog.blogspot.com)
    ×1.76 57 | 87 points by tjek 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately (theregister.com)
    ×2.82 56 | 4 points by Bender 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Rise of the AI Script Kiddie
    ×3.95 55 | 5 points by erminpour 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The User Is Visibly Frustrated (pscanf.com)
    ×2.03 21 #58 | 221 points by croes 13 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd (osnews.com)
    ×4.28 53 | 84 points by birdculture 8 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. It's not just SpaceX: Big Tech is dominating bond markets too (ft.com)
    ×1.39 4 #35 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)
    ×1.10 20 #20 | 113 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Revenge of the Business Idiot (wheresyoured.at)
    ×2.24 3 #38 | 6 points by 7777777phil 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (pluralistic.net)
    ×5.44 49 | 61 points by doener 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Xiaomi Mimo-v2.5 pricing is now permanently reduced (twitter.com/XiaomiMiMo)
    ×3.02 48 | 4 points by ammar_x 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Board Game Agent Built Using Sanity Context and Vercel's AI SDK (sanity.io)
    ×3.55 47 | 5 points by crabasa 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ferrari Luce (ferrari.com)
    ×2.87 17 #28 | 433 points by jumploops 20 hours ago | 801 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs (matuzo.at)
    ×0.90 25 #21 | 73 points by cyanbane 8 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DoomBench – Can Your Data Stack Run Doom? (cedardb.com)
    ×2.63 44 | 5 points by SchwKatze 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)
    ×1.98 24 #24 | 334 points by subract 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×1.66 42 | 131 points by widenrun 12 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Does anybody like React? (jsx.lol)
    ×2.69 11 #61 | 221 points by brazukadev 15 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. One-and-Done Heart Disease Prevention? Scientists Show It May Be Possible (nytimes.com)
    ×1.75 4 #47 | 5 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hacker News front page as a site (thefrontpage.dev)
    ×3.12 9 #43 | 393 points by thatxliner 21 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free? (siliconimist.com)
    ×0.87 26 #27 | 57 points by johncole 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A few interesting modern pixel fonts (aresluna.org)
    ×1.15 38 #16 | 8 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore (unix.foo)
    ×2.70 3 #52 | 270 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Booz Allen Hamilton Conducts Fraud Against the Government (google.com)
    ×2.10 35 | 3 points by cochranblock 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.71 17 #74 | 37 points by joozio 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (mullvad.net)
    ×1.87 24 #34 | 412 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. SpaceX to drive a Cybertruck through corporate governance norms (ft.com)
    ×2.18 32 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (blocksandfiles.com)
    ×1.65 20 #40 | 315 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up (earthiongame.com)
    ×0.91 28 #33 | 127 points by MrBuddyCasino 14 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI (wiert.me)
    ×2.28 29 | 3 points by geerlingguy 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (promptarmor.com)
    ×2.15 2 #65 | 254 points by Kneenex 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.20 27 | 556 points by elorant 1 day ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)
    ×3.42 36 #29 | 467 points by obscurette 1 day ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. You Can Start Building LLM Skills Before You Know the Whole Shape (sosuke.com)
    ×2.31 25 | 3 points by sosuke 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal (ni5arga.com)
    ×0.72 30 #37 | 41 points by dsr12 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AI may fuel US business creation, but few signs of similar trend in Canada (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×2.13 23 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What the Hantavirus Story Reveals About Medical Mistrust (undark.org)
    ×2.18 22 | 3 points by speckx 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes (kadoa.com)
    ×1.24 21 | 4 points by hubraumhugo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How Xerox invented the GUI and watched Apple and Microsoft win (generationamiga.com)
    ×2.14 20 | 3 points by ibobev 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War (jstribune.com)
    ×1.30 5 #67 | 29 points by bryanrasmussen 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude (apple.com)
    ×2.05 10 #63 | 164 points by dragonsenseiguy 18 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Fake ChatGPT installers on GitHub are dropping Deno RATs (vechron.com)
    ×2.20 17 | 3 points by GeorgeWoff25 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Use Boring Languages with LLMs (jry.io)
    ×1.41 5 #70 | 66 points by evakhoury 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop (github.com/logannye)
    ×0.78 66 #10 | 5 points by samuell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Multimodal adaptive optical microscope: in vivo imaging, molecules to organisms (nature.com)
    ×0.68 36 #41 | 48 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft (bgr.com)
    ×1.43 48 #30 | 221 points by rmason 22 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.74 2 #77 | 272 points by _____k 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Reviving older hardware into a minimally viable homelab (james.network)
    ×1.84 11 | 3 points by kitlop 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties (techxplore.com)
    ×2.37 12 #69 | 187 points by Lihh27 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few (religionnews.com)
    ×5.07 9 | 341 points by benwerd 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month (eualternative.eu)
    ×3.59 8 | 222 points by sparkling 23 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died (referenceforbusiness.com)
    ×1.61 48 #36 | 257 points by L_Rahman 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Leave Me Behind (androidessence.com)
    ×3.59 6 | 345 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What it takes to transpose a matrix (gudok.xyz)
    ×1.23 26 #60 | 94 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.88 15 #72 | 283 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.05 3 | 58 points by pretext 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. AI Is Taking over the Most Cursed Job in the World (wired.com)
    ×1.24 8 #81 | 5 points by srameshc 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Eternal Sloptember (geohot.github.io)
    ×6.23 1 | 475 points by razin 1 day ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???