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  1. Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout (yale.edu)
    ×5.95 6 #7 | 97 points by mrtksn 2 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Have Taken Up Farming (dylan.gr)
    ×4.55 29 #31 | 138 points by djnaraps 3 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible (creepylink.com)
    ×2.62 1 #2 | 427 points by dreadsword 8 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.77 3 #1 | 105 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI (passo.uno)
    ×2.92 2 #3 | 76 points by theletterf 4 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (jiga.io)
    4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude Cowork exfiltrates files (promptarmor.com)
    ×2.85 3 #4 | 702 points by takira 15 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app (github.com/cjpais)
    ×1.95 2 #10 | 110 points by tin7in 6 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The <Geolocation> HTML Element (chrome.com)
    ×1.76 8 #17 | 70 points by enz 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home (theguardian.com)
    ×8.78 81 | 904 points by echelon_musk 21 hours ago | 567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×2.97 2 #9 | 648 points by susam 18 hours ago | 1816 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×2.01 4 #8 | 187 points by tmaly 10 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales (electrek.co)
    ×5.46 23 #36 | 596 points by MBCook 18 hours ago | 781 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card (sunrise-ev.com)
    ×1.51 9 #5 | 30 points by exvi 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s (furiosa.ai)
    ×1.39 #15 | 181 points by written-beyond 11 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
    ×2.81 75 | 123 points by rabinovich 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.88 3 #14 | 111 points by blahaj 9 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Scaling long-running autonomous coding (cursor.com)
    ×1.39 5 #13 | 213 points by samwillis 13 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR (tavus.io)
    ×1.06 1 #18 | 80 points by code_brian 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode (github.com/R44VC0RP)
    ×2.82 54 #74 | 157 points by ryanvogel 12 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files (patrickmccanna.net)
    ×1.54 5 #16 | 112 points by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 10 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation (sparkfun.com)
    ×2.65 2 #24 | 471 points by yaleman 21 hours ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes (webkit.org)
    ×1.08 11 #12 | 73 points by feross 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Influentists: AI hype without proof (carette.xyz)
    ×2.71 21 #45 | 223 points by LucidLynx 15 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them (swinburne.edu.au)
    ×2.21 18 #43 | 504 points by OptionOfT 22 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now? (eff.org)
    ×1.85 27 #53 | 334 points by hn_acker 18 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home) (ianservin.com)
    ×1.14 8 #19 | 60 points by jjwiseman 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. San Remo Pasta Measurer (toxel.com)
    ×1.11 17 #11 | 11 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts (afterbabel.com)
    ×3.07 19 #48 | 221 points by paulpauper 16 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Adding Dependency Injection to PdfDocument in iText (itextpdf.com)
    ×2.86 61 | 3 points by whizzx 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip (nytimes.com)
    ×2.79 60 | 3 points by mynti 21 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Verizon outages reported across U.S. (firstcoastnews.com)
    ×2.38 59 | 224 points by Scubabear68 17 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Find a pub that needs you (ismypubfucked.com)
    ×2.05 11 #22 | 313 points by thinkingemote 20 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography (cryptography.io)
    ×1.15 14 #20 | 147 points by SGran 14 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you (kicya.net)
    ×1.32 12 #23 | 192 points by dimden 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source (greg.technology)
    ×2.73 3 #39 | 279 points by evakhoury 19 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I hate GitHub Actions with passion (xlii.space)
    ×2.71 15 #52 | 457 points by xlii 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB (starlink.com)
    ×1.76 5 #33 | 277 points by bahmboo 20 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Crafting Interpreters (craftinginterpreters.com)
    ×2.32 18 #21 | 126 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year (surinenglish.com)
    ×4.01 51 | 167 points by mooreds 15 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) (popovicu.com)
    ×0.96 15 #26 | 30 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.99 7 #35 | 56 points by nemath 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape (jgc.org)
    ×2.98 6 #49 | 729 points by abnercoimbre 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Sun Position Calculator (drajmarsh.bitbucket.io)
    ×1.01 19 #25 | 121 points by sanbor 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. US freezes visas for 75 nations (mathrubhumi.com)
    ×15.41 46 | 193 points by cdrnsf 18 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says (reuters.com)
    ×7.93 45 | 146 points by barishnamazov 16 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Commodore 64 Ultimate review (2026) (theguardian.com)
    ×1.89 5 #42 | 3 points by limbicsystem 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart (npr.org)
    ×2.97 43 | 190 points by srameshc 19 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (reddit.com)
    ×5.15 42 | 929 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 711 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018) (figma.com)
    ×0.32 12 #38 | 15 points by kjeetgill 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021) (adventure.com)
    ×1.62 #51 | 143 points by gyomu 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Scott Adams has died (youtube.com)
    ×6.59 39 | 1050 points by ekianjo 1 day ago | 1728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. X 'acting to comply with UK law' after outcry over sexualised images (theguardian.com)
    ×4.32 38 | 5 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Is Rust faster than C? (steveklabnik.com)
    ×2.20 22 #32 | 285 points by vincentchau 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL (tanelpoder.com)
    ×1.04 26 #29 | 94 points by tanelpoder 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK (bbc.com)
    ×2.00 12 #68 | 180 points by FridayoLeary 20 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue (simplethread.com)
    ×1.70 18 #75 | 305 points by amalinovic 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (nothings.org)
    ×2.37 33 | 3 points by suioir 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin (the-berliner.com)
    ×1.80 26 #85 | 140 points by mrzool 19 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How can I build a simple pulse generator to demonstrate transmission lines (stackexchange.com)
    ×0.95 30 #30 | 57 points by alphabetter 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP (github.com/cosinusalpha)
    ×0.89 34 #27 | 101 points by cosinusalpha 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit) (zettalane.com)
    ×1.23 22 #40 | 107 points by suprasam 17 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille? (github.com/NishantJoshi00)
    ×0.39 19 #44 | 26 points by cat-whisperer 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 1000 Blank White Cards (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.97 15 #79 | 354 points by eieio 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The White House just said your life is worth nothing. Yes, literally. (electrek.co)
    ×3.75 17 #82 | 12 points by FabHK 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Imperial Boomerang (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.50 25 | 3 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases (nos.nl)
    ×2.83 24 | 121 points by hvb2 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers (metabrainz.org)
    ×3.60 23 | 459 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. ChromaDB Explorer (chroma-explorer.com)
    ×0.68 32 #37 | 54 points by arsentjev 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (amazon.com)
    ×2.52 10 #80 | 6 points by nickcotter 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Servo 2025 Stats (igalia.com)
    ×2.14 20 | 166 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. ASCII Clouds (caidan.dev)
    ×1.92 19 | 338 points by majkinetor 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How much of my observability data is waste? (usetero.com)
    ×1.22 12 #61 | 109 points by binarylogic 19 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical" (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.73 17 | 125 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)
    ×4.77 9 #84 | 1290 points by adocomplete 2 days ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software (marcia.no)
    ×3.46 15 | 391 points by Marciplan 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Denmark sends military reinforcements to Greenland (dr.dk)
    ×14.40 14 | 113 points by mooreds 20 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.88 22 #56 | 75 points by nico 16 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap (questdb.com)
    ×1.69 9 #88 | 359 points by bluestreak 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Apple: You (Still) Don't Understand the Vision Pro (stratechery.com)
    ×3.01 15 #65 | 44 points by m463 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020) (shonumi.github.io)
    ×0.78 34 #47 | 112 points by mosura 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore (2019) (nuclearsecrecy.com)
    ×1.60 9 | 130 points by fanf2 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (owlposting.com)
    ×2.40 8 | 323 points by abhishaike 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Eigent: An open source Claude Cowork alternative (github.com/eigent-ai)
    ×0.99 30 #54 | 18 points by WorldPeas 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. You Can Just Buy Far-UVC (jefftk.com)
    ×1.14 30 #55 | 74 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Apple Creator Studio (apple.com)
    ×2.93 5 | 512 points by lemonlime227 1 day ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Every GitHub object has two IDs (greptile.com)
    ×1.70 4 | 322 points by dakshgupta 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Gleam Programming Language (gleam.run)
    ×1.92 42 #46 | 256 points by Alupis 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Rubik's Cube in Prolog – Order (medium.com)
    ×0.65 48 #41 | 39 points by myth_drannon 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Scott Adams has died (usatoday.com)
    ×7.80 1 | 423 points by schmuckonwheels 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???