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  1. The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy (docpop.org)
    ×8.43 90 | 69 points by klez 40 minutes ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon (twitter.com/Free_Ross)
    ×6.04 1 #1 | 1036 points by Ozarkian 9 hours ago | 1063 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations (bsky.app)
    ×4.17 25 #28 | 77 points by BHSPitMonkey 1 hour ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers (apnews.com)
    ×3.82 2 #2 | 651 points by tedsanders 11 hours ago | 694 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms (github.com/hackermondev)
    ×5.04 2 #3 | 1214 points by hackermondev 18 hours ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can? (reddit.com)
    ×2.92 9 #15 | 168 points by mkmk 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Moving on from React, a year later (kellysutton.com)
    ×2.67 #7 | 217 points by yakshaving_jgt 8 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
    ×3.45 12 #20 | 400 points by prettyblocks 14 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Arm releases Chiplet System Architecture spec beta version (arm.com)
    ×0.88 5 #4 | 22 points by fork-bomber 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Infinigen (infinigen.org)
    ×1.82 5 #5 | 111 points by galaxyLogic 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation (github.com/Tencent)
    ×1.60 5 #6 | 207 points by TheGuyWhoCodes 11 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996) (amasci.com)
    ×1.92 2 #10 | 339 points by Simon_O_Rourke 16 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions (chriskrycho.com)
    ×1.40 5 #8 | 98 points by chriskrycho 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 'The gesture speaks for itself': Germans respond to Musk's apparent Nazi salute (theguardian.com)
    ×4.55 77 | 6 points by zfg 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you preparing for PEPPOL?
    ×1.86 76 | 44 points by elric 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 5 #11 | 64 points by eunos 6 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow (cnbc.com)
    ×2.07 26 #43 | 54 points by marban 6 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. First UK patient has tumour removed through eye socket (leedsth.nhs.uk)
    ×2.81 16 #34 | 8 points by HieronymusBosch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Trump's Executive Order Against Trans Technically Makes Every American Female (iflscience.com)
    ×4.75 72 | 8 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
    ×2.82 19 #39 | 365 points by recvonline 20 hours ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×4.71 47 #68 | 495 points by vincent_s 23 hours ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: No-subscription email platform for occasional senders
    ×3.15 69 | 4 points by ohans 42 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Netflix is raising prices again (theverge.com)
    ×3.54 68 | 5 points by isaacfrond 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why is zero plural? (2024) (stackexchange.com)
    ×0.98 10 #14 | 60 points by not_a_boat 8 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech (ieee.org)
    ×2.10 13 #12 | 279 points by headalgorithm 18 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. DeepSeek-R1 (github.com/deepseek-ai)
    ×6.12 11 #37 | 1643 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 607 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation (wiley.com)
    ×2.10 15 #42 | 295 points by freddier 20 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Open-source browser port of Pitfall from the Atari 2600 (meatfighter.com)
    ×0.97 7 #21 | 58 points by OuterVale 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Mercator: Extreme (mrgris.com)
    ×1.28 12 #17 | 156 points by bschne 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. HyperDX (YC S22) is hiring engineers to build open source observability (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Waiting on Red (hey.com)
    ×4.79 60 | 8 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Icelandic turf houses: Laufas, Glaumbaer and others (rachelsruminations.com)
    ×0.64 23 #9 | 18 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AI Tech at Europe's Borders Threatens People Seeking Refuge (wearesolomon.com)
    ×2.39 58 | 3 points by Denkverbot 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. TikTok owner asks Chinese staff in Singapore to pay taxes to Beijing (ft.com)
    ×2.51 57 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions (foqos.app)
    ×1.38 6 #29 | 182 points by awaseem 16 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas (2023) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.00 23 #13 | 29 points by azhenley 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research (science.org)
    ×2.28 10 #47 | 265 points by XzetaU8 21 hours ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. macOS Sequoia 15.3 and iOS 18.3 Enable Apple Intelligence Automatically (macrumors.com)
    ×2.89 39 #77 | 17 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The first release of OpenVox, the OSS implementation of Puppet (overlookinfratech.com)
    ×1.03 20 #19 | 29 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Picking a state library for a React app used by millions and why we picked MobX (photoroom.com)
    ×2.24 51 | 3 points by ea016 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Castle Game Engine: Web target – big progress, first 3 demos to try (castle-engine.io)
    ×0.87 25 #16 | 74 points by zfg 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. JReleaser: quick and effortless way to release your project (jreleaser.org)
    ×1.04 20 #22 | 86 points by saikatsg 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US Constitution disappears from White House website on day two of Trump 2.0 (indiatimes.com)
    ×2.77 48 | 5 points by Al0neStar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024) (lukeplant.me.uk)
    ×2.38 16 #60 | 150 points by hwayne 18 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard (quistgaardpepper.com)
    ×0.68 13 #32 | 71 points by NaOH 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Sigstore: Making sure your software is what it claims to be (sigstore.dev)
    ×1.00 20 #26 | 78 points by saikatsg 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I Met Paul Graham Once (okayfail.com)
    ×11.68 44 | 1028 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 739 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Couriers mystified by the algorithms that control their jobs (theguardian.com)
    ×2.48 2 #46 | 192 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Goodbye Commercial Social Media (coryd.dev)
    ×2.08 42 | 3 points by laktak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rafael Araujo's 20 Mesmerizing Geometrical Masterpieces (2024) (abakcus.com)
    ×0.87 17 #33 | 103 points by NoRagrets 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Geese found dead on UMass Amherst campus test positive for bird flu (cbsnews.com)
    ×2.88 40 | 5 points by this_weekend 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram (chrisalemany.ca)
    ×18.52 39 | 256 points by vool 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?
    ×1.10 38 | 36 points by ArlenBales 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat (ssno.cc)
    ×2.28 1 #55 | 498 points by deverton 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Dissecting "Tiny Clouds" shadertoy (2017) (demofox.org)
    ×0.80 32 #23 | 44 points by Lammy 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. LWN sluggish due to DDoS onslaughts from AI-scraper bots (kernel.org)
    ×2.11 35 | 4 points by sohkamyung 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Garmin's –$40B Pivot (readtrung.com)
    ×3.40 4 #61 | 227 points by thibautg 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.09 33 #25 | 135 points by georgecmu 19 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Netflix Increases Prices Again (macrumors.com)
    ×1.91 32 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Net vs. Gross Salaries in Europe (euronews.com)
    ×1.92 31 | 3 points by NKosmatos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Concept cells help your brain abstract information and build memories (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.13 30 #31 | 104 points by headalgorithm 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant's paradise to landlord's playground (theguardian.com)
    ×2.18 29 | 4 points by n1b0m 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Mixxx: GPL DJ Software (mixxx.org)
    ×2.58 3 #66 | 616 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts (rongarret.info)
    ×2.59 7 #71 | 516 points by lisper 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Guided by the beauty of our test suite (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.75 30 #35 | 95 points by hasheddan 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Suchir balaji: AGI view 3 8/14/24 (google.com)
    ×2.24 25 | 4 points by hedonhermdev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Life in Another Light, 2024 Infrared-Photography-Contest Winners (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.52 40 #27 | 7 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Kimi K1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs (github.com/MoonshotAI)
    ×1.05 28 #40 | 189 points by noch 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Liam ERD – Automatically generates beautiful ER diagrams [Apache-2.0] (github.com/liam-hq)
    ×2.69 22 | 5 points by MH4GF 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint (printercow.com)
    ×1.11 34 #36 | 127 points by lionpixel 20 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. President Trump Signs Executive Order Revoking Biden-Era EV Targets (caranddriver.com)
    ×1.67 20 | 3 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Liskov Substitution: The real meaning of inheritance (cekrem.github.io)
    ×1.24 19 #53 | 52 points by cekrem 14 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The SDL 3 official release (github.com/libsdl-org)
    ×2.28 18 | 5 points by bwidlar 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How many Alpine packages can you install at once? (2024) (naff.dev)
    ×0.65 33 #41 | 82 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals (nature.com)
    ×2.10 27 #48 | 191 points by ipster_io 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How to navigate and exit the idea maze (michaelrbock.com)
    ×0.84 26 #50 | 32 points by vortex_ape 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Japan's original decluttering guru (no, not that one) (nytimes.com)
    ×1.25 2 #79 | 75 points by whack 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. 417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make (petapixel.com)
    ×1.72 13 #65 | 290 points by wallflower 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Unconventional Adventures (quarter--mile.com)
    ×0.80 41 #38 | 43 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. "...I'm a course designer for PGA2k23" (openstreetmap.org)
    ×2.11 #80 | 20 points by altilunium 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? (jpost.com)
    ×49.55 10 | 304 points by sundaeofshock 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How the strengths of Lisp facilitate complex and flexible applications (2016) (nih.gov)
    ×1.60 3 #85 | 52 points by MonkeyClub 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. IMDB's CEO, who founded the site 35 years ago, is stepping down (theverge.com)
    ×1.64 8 | 3 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Meta will soon let you link your WhatsApp account with Instagram and Facebook (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.67 7 | 3 points by adwmayer 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×1.65 7 #78 | 363 points by proberts 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Mac Terminal command: list Apps with open files on a drive (swissmacuser.ch)
    ×1.74 5 | 3 points by inex 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A submarine combat game in the browser (bearingsonly.net)
    ×1.10 35 #52 | 46 points by cckolon 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. MIT Unveils New Robot Insect, Paving the Way Toward Rise of Robotic Pollinators (thedebrief.org)
    ×1.21 1 #89 | 46 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Amurex – An open source AI meeting copilot (sansyrox.github.io)
    ×0.84 35 #54 | 83 points by jtswole 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) (picaos.com)
    ×1.00 1 | 62 points by moekatib 18 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???