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  1. Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety (reuters.com)
    ×3.01 #1 | 131 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python (protzenko.fr)
    ×1.71 #2 | 270 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Hypertext TV (hypertext.tv)
    ×2.03 8 #11 | 78 points by coloneltcb 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional (404media.co)
    ×4.54 11 #15 | 333 points by bradac56 8 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Full Text Search of US Court records (judyrecords.com)
    ×2.11 2 #3 | 192 points by FigurativeVoid 6 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype (unixdigest.com)
    ×4.79 3 #9 | 140 points by smartmic 5 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code (github.com/Kuberwastaken)
    ×1.97 2 #5 | 345 points by kuberwastaken 10 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.60 20 #28 | 76 points by almog 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Hands-On Large Language Models (github.com/HandsOnLLM)
    ×1.95 5 #4 | 16 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Trump's Tariffs Are Starting to Kill Jobs (reason.com)
    ×7.42 81 | 9 points by emrah 26 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Yale sells up to $6B of its PE portfolio amid federal funding challenge (secondariesinvestor.com)
    ×6.05 80 | 35 points by themgt 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation with Harvard (nytimes.com)
    ×8.20 79 | 10 points by beedeebeedee 52 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. UI tip: maybe don't round percentages to 0% or 100% (evanhahn.com)
    ×7.71 78 | 40 points by goranmoomin 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim (pikuma.com)
    ×1.58 7 #7 | 119 points by amosjyng 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check (cleantechnica.com)
    ×0.93 9 #6 | 25 points by xbmcuser 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Principles for Building One-Shot AI Agents (edgebit.io)
    ×1.17 6 #10 | 55 points by robszumski 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. China has first operational thorium nuclear reactor (scmp.com)
    ×3.83 74 | 7 points by wslh 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. UML diagram for the DDD example in Evans' book (github.com/takaakit)
    ×1.00 6 #12 | 67 points by takaakit 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry (forbes.com)
    ×9.29 72 | 307 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: QwQ AI – Aggregator of free LLMs answer generator (qwq32.com)
    ×2.20 71 | 3 points by zhangchengzc 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge (theregister.com)
    ×3.48 13 #34 | 199 points by rntn 13 hours ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float) Profitably (kumarletter.com)
    ×1.84 15 #37 | 62 points by kumarski 7 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Hextraction, a free and open source board game (playhextraction.com)
    ×0.82 9 #14 | 44 points by chedoku 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. 'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government Covid sites (npr.org)
    ×4.69 67 | 7 points by anigbrowl 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Dot (YC S21) is hiring a sales engineer to automate analytics (fully remote) (ycombinator.com)
    9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Defold: cross-platform game engine (defold.com)
    ×1.85 6 #20 | 334 points by xd 18 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.83 14 #13 | 32 points by docmechanic 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Less Slow C++ (github.com/ashvardanian)
    ×1.62 17 #45 | 182 points by ashvardanian 13 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Gemini 2.5 Flash (googleblog.com)
    ×2.99 10 #39 | 1004 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design (onemetre.net)
    ×1.67 13 #17 | 170 points by stass 13 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ocean Iron Fertilization (whoi.edu)
    ×1.79 23 #8 | 9 points by 1970-01-01 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Kagi Assistant is now available to all users (kagi.com)
    ×2.48 41 #73 | 464 points by angilr 22 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. There's Life Inside Earth's Crust (noemamag.com)
    ×1.56 14 #19 | 64 points by jprohov 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. US will abandon Ukraine peace push if no progress soon (reuters.com)
    ×3.47 57 | 10 points by rzzzwilson 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A New ASN.1 API for Python (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.87 19 #16 | 139 points by woodruffw 12 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cyberpunk 1958: The Early Days of the Polish IT Industry (culture.pl)
    ×1.29 18 #18 | 106 points by StefanBatory 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The most famous carbon dioxide absorber (howequipmentworks.com)
    ×1.63 14 #23 | 123 points by bemmu 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. ICE Is Paying Palantir $30M to Build 'ImmigrationOS' Surveillance Platform (wired.com)
    ×9.84 53 | 19 points by yurivish 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Doge Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants (wired.com)
    ×2.65 52 | 9 points by nickthegreek 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ink and Switch Constraint System (2023) (inkandswitch.com)
    ×0.69 18 #22 | 74 points by mpweiher 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before (theguardian.com)
    ×1.62 14 #55 | 8 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: (bits) of a Libc, Optimized for Wasm (github.com/ncruces)
    ×0.59 21 #21 | 59 points by ncruces 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers (prospect.org)
    ×8.36 48 | 433 points by leotravis10 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud (arxiv.org)
    ×2.36 #44 | 192 points by ColinWright 16 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. RFK Jr. Knows Amazingly Little About Autism (motherjones.com)
    ×6.88 46 | 16 points by zzzeek 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. CISA warns threat hunting staff of end to Google, Censys contracts due to cuts (nextgov.com)
    ×2.90 45 | 4 points by palebluedot 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Attune - Build and publish APT repositories in seconds (github.com/attunehq)
    ×0.74 21 #26 | 72 points by ilikebits 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules (nytimes.com)
    ×4.28 17 #65 | 814 points by IdealeZahlen 1 day ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Trump Has for Months Privately Discussed Firing Fed Chair Powell (wsj.com)
    ×6.64 42 | 16 points by kamaraju 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Potatoes in the Mail (usps.com)
    ×1.95 21 #29 | 483 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Walled Gardens Can Kill (aneesiqbal.ai)
    ×3.25 34 #85 | 143 points by steelbrain 16 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15B Miles Away [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.09 9 #43 | 12 points by noselasd 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era (governance.fyi)
    ×1.16 20 #33 | 57 points by toomuchtodo 10 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: The Moral Universe of Tolkien (acoup.blog)
    ×1.98 18 #72 | 10 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive (buttondown.com)
    ×1.85 24 #31 | 187 points by maguay 19 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. White House replaces covid.gov website with 'lab leak' theory (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.10 35 | 9 points by gpi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Good Karma Kit (archivebox.github.io)
    ×0.84 30 #27 | 34 points by jedeusus 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Loglan'82: programming language for object-oriented and distributed programming (uksw.edu.pl)
    ×0.61 34 #24 | 33 points by danielam 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale (afterbabel.com)
    ×6.40 32 | 585 points by cwwc 1 day ago | 668 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system (maknee.github.io)
    ×1.93 4 #64 | 596 points by sebg 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Apple now uses data from bug reports for AI training (appleinsider.com)
    ×4.28 30 | 9 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Italian coffee pot maker Bialetti to be sold to Chinese business NUO Capital (theguardian.com)
    ×5.11 29 | 9 points by ValentineC 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. North Korea's Favorite Crypto Laundering Tool: THORChain (coindesk.com)
    ×3.07 11 #74 | 6 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs (cantgetmuchhigher.com)
    ×1.54 32 #32 | 291 points by jnord 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Apple Lied about Siri (youtube.com)
    ×3.62 26 | 8 points by nailer 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle? (oup.com)
    ×2.25 25 | 3 points by toss1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Making Software (makingsoftware.com)
    ×3.85 16 #83 | 711 points by calme_toi 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive (archive.org)
    ×4.16 23 | 7 points by miles 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness (nature.com)
    ×1.89 27 #42 | 328 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding (anthropic.com)
    ×2.27 21 | 3 points by meetpateltech 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. "Just Keep Applying" Isn't Persistence, It's Insanity (smustafa.blog)
    ×2.05 20 | 4 points by vipermark7 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. News from Bluesky (0x0.boo)
    ×3.23 19 | 8 points by 0x0boo 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. PDCurses – for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model (github.com/wmcbrine)
    ×0.51 43 #30 | 23 points by smartmic 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Four Years of Jai (2024) (smarimccarthy.is)
    ×1.62 38 #36 | 128 points by xixixao 20 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. New Color Is So Rare That Only Five People Have Seen It (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.23 2 #77 | 13 points by CharlesW 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Unique bacteria that survive by employing multicellular behavior (phys.org)
    ×0.55 23 #53 | 27 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated] (csoonline.com)
    ×7.74 14 | 1903 points by healsdata 3 days ago | 1087 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Unikernel Linux (UKL) (2023) (acm.org)
    ×0.93 38 #40 | 98 points by pabs3 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code? (luden.io)
    ×1.46 20 #59 | 210 points by JSLegendDev 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Curiosity rover finds large carbonate deposits on Mars (phys.org)
    ×1.22 2 #82 | 62 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Chicken-or-egg evolutionary problem solved by missing link molecule (cosmosmagazine.com)
    ×1.32 10 | 3 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Caddy v2.10 (github.com/caddyserver)
    ×1.68 9 | 6 points by NicolaiS 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. SDFs from Unoriented Point Clouds Using Neural Variational Heat Distances (arxiv.org)
    ×0.53 48 #35 | 31 points by haxiomic 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Coconut can be mailed via USPS without a box (usps.com)
    ×2.53 7 | 6 points by MarlonPro 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain (zoom.us)
    ×2.44 4 #81 | 619 points by RVRX 2 days ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Subjective Charms of Objective-C (wired.com)
    ×1.08 3 #89 | 69 points by wmlive 17 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban (bbc.com)
    ×13.82 4 | 368 points by intunderflow 1 day ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The physics of bowling strike after strike (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.59 40 #48 | 44 points by noleary 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Moon, Mars: China leads to both (spacenews.com)
    ×1.86 2 | 4 points by defrost 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. “Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System (skyatnightmagazine.com)
    ×4.39 1 | 409 points by fuidani 1 day ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???