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  1. Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×3.05 1 #2 | 236 points by SergeAx 2 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%) (daringfireball.net)
    ×8.71 12 #14 | 156 points by gyomu 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) (margaretstorey.com)
    ×1.70 2 #1 | 59 points by raphaelcosta 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N)
    ×4.07 12 #16 | 458 points by cft 9 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)
    ×5.51 8 #13 | 1232 points by thitran 16 hours ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)
    ×1.83 3 #3 | 324 points by Sean-Der 8 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting (pulitzer.org)
    ×1.88 3 #4 | 27 points by jay_kyburz 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.91 20 #28 | 448 points by ZeidJ 10 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)
    ×2.31 4 #5 | 158 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I am worried about Bun (wwj.dev)
    ×2.36 9 #19 | 434 points by remote-dev 11 hours ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (ecopv-eu.com)
    ×3.63 80 | 552 points by rdeboo 12 hours ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Days without GitHub incidents (dayswithoutgithubincident.com)
    ×4.02 79 | 361 points by goalieca 10 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Apple Explores Using Intel and Samsung to Build Main Device Chips in the US (bloomberg.com)
    ×5.17 32 #45 | 11 points by tambourine_man 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.56 77 | 421 points by gen220 12 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level (theguardian.com)
    ×3.53 21 #36 | 112 points by dmm 6 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight (stripe.dev)
    ×1.69 5 #21 | 137 points by r00k 7 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to (economist.com)
    ×1.93 13 #30 | 242 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender (theguardian.com)
    ×3.98 73 | 7 points by prawn 29 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Heat pump sales rise across Europe (pv-magazine.com)
    ×2.60 15 #34 | 223 points by doener 10 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.93 5 #25 | 653 points by n1b0m 18 hours ago | 622 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×3.90 29 #50 | 588 points by maxloh 18 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers (dragonsreach.it)
    ×1.28 16 #6 | 5 points by averi 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability (strix.ai)
    ×1.08 15 #8 | 179 points by bearsyankees 10 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026 (pulitzer.org)
    ×1.69 24 #48 | 81 points by brightbeige 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. When Networking Doesn't Work (os2museum.com)
    ×0.79 18 #7 | 20 points by kencausey 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks (nber.org)
    ×1.56 15 #11 | 234 points by littlexsparkee 12 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. “Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025) (space.com)
    ×2.37 20 #47 | 151 points by Tomte 10 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×1.00 18 #10 | 69 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Redis array: short story of a long development process (antirez.com)
    ×1.44 17 #12 | 250 points by antirez 13 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How Monero’s proof of work works (alcazarsec.com)
    ×1.86 10 #20 | 254 points by alcazar 13 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Let's talk about LLMs (b-list.org)
    ×1.86 20 #51 | 149 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Musk Settles SEC Suit for Underpaying Twitter Investors by $150M for Just $1.5M (law.com)
    ×3.77 59 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 50 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts (wired.com)
    ×3.66 25 #58 | 101 points by HotGarbage 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks (independent.co.uk)
    ×2.75 5 #39 | 12 points by latexr 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC (taipeitimes.com)
    ×1.64 14 #49 | 114 points by ironyman 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (nytimes.com)
    ×5.58 55 | 89 points by jbegley 8 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars (nobodyaskedforthis.lol)
    ×1.19 28 #9 | 10 points by cadito 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. PyInfra 3.8.0 (github.com/pyinfra-dev)
    ×1.69 15 #23 | 238 points by wowi42 15 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI and the Danger of Cognitive Surrender (economist.com)
    ×3.49 52 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations (fuelinsight.co.uk)
    ×1.28 14 #26 | 167 points by theazureguy 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Grove.el – An Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs (jonathanchu.is)
    ×9.30 50 | 15 points by tolerance 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Meta, TikTok Recv Personal Data from Health Exchanges Alarming Privacy Experts (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.45 1 #41 | 5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.38 10 #53 | 23 points by Zeidd 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.62 12 #56 | 107 points by koolhead17 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. An LLM agent that runs on any Linux box (getclaw.site)
    ×2.92 46 | 5 points by kilian-ai 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving' (electrek.co)
    ×1.39 28 #18 | 144 points by Brajeshwar 12 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tokens and Dreams (charlesleifer.com)
    ×2.97 44 | 5 points by xngbuilds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A constrained approach to coding agents (github.com/brainless)
    ×2.40 43 | 4 points by brainless 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Jonathan Swift's Last Joke (newyorker.com)
    ×0.99 12 #37 | 36 points by samizdis 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×2.51 41 | 4 points by devstein 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools (404media.co)
    ×1.83 12 #63 | 115 points by cdrnsf 11 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.93 2 #54 | 39 points by ColinWright 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Biscuit (github.com/yattsu)
    ×2.41 38 | 4 points by unixfg 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Re: Slow USB storage device? (util-Linux-ng, 2010) (marc.info)
    ×0.97 16 #38 | 12 points by juliusdavies 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster (globalnews.ca)
    ×1.56 26 #81 | 114 points by Teever 12 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) (shonczinner.github.io)
    ×2.49 35 | 4 points by kjshsh123 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Making the Marlboro Man (quartr.com)
    ×1.84 34 | 3 points by _vaporwave_ 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (github.com/aattaran)
    ×3.34 22 #80 | 653 points by alattaran 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Let's Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)
    ×3.73 2 #57 | 579 points by bjhess 1 day ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Art of Operating Systems (2019) (denninginstitute.com)
    ×2.01 31 | 5 points by aragonite 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Safari 26.4 Supports WebTransport (webkit.org)
    ×1.89 30 | 3 points by nazcan 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Amp's GPT 5.5 Model Analysis (ampcode.com)
    ×2.61 29 | 5 points by goranmoomin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.45 1 #62 | 30 points by latchkey 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Pennsylvania Health Insurance independent research report for Q2 May 2026 (archive.org)
    ×1.94 27 | 3 points by Steaglsz 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation (sierra.ai)
    ×1.16 36 #29 | 97 points by doppp 12 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Adobe's 'Modern' User Interface Is Just Webpages – Pixel Envy (pxlnv.com)
    ×2.06 25 | 3 points by tambourine_man 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Woman's Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court (proofnews.org)
    ×2.52 8 #59 | 8 points by g8oz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Buffon's needle problem visualized (ivanludvig.dev)
    ×0.72 35 #33 | 14 points by IvanLudvig 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database (pomiferous.com)
    ×0.85 47 #22 | 108 points by Ariarule 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.90 46 #24 | 42 points by bearseascape 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (science.org)
    ×0.97 36 #35 | 140 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. pgxbackup: Continuity Support for pgBackRest (thebuild.com)
    ×0.65 57 #15 | 7 points by Wingy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers (heise.de)
    ×2.07 8 #65 | 47 points by hmokiguess 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)
    ×0.75 43 #31 | 59 points by lsferreira42 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026? (lucasaguiar.xyz)
    ×2.05 58 #17 | 4 points by isfttr 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)
    ×4.22 2 #74 | 840 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. File Approved – File approvals without the back-and-forth (fileapproved.com)
    ×2.15 14 | 4 points by vannventures 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why AI Agents Need Proof Chains, Not Just Logs (github.com/rodriguezaa22ar-boop)
    ×2.30 13 | 5 points by astra_omnia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. An Analysis of the PocketOS Debacle (thedailywtf.com)
    ×1.78 12 | 3 points by pseudohadamard 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 'Staggering' number of people believe unproven health claims (nature.com)
    ×2.34 4 #76 | 40 points by anigbrowl 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Visible Zorker: Zork 3 (eblong.com)
    ×1.05 49 #32 | 62 points by zarlez 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit (knhash.in)
    ×0.53 55 #27 | 17 points by kn81198 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)
    ×5.04 8 | 427 points by ayoisaiah 1 day ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets (engadget.com)
    ×2.09 7 | 106 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.78 7 #78 | 550 points by dryadin 1 day ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Continually improving our agent harness (cursor.com)
    ×1.70 5 | 3 points by gmays 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)
    ×1.73 15 #72 | 364 points by samcollins 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A minimalist personal homepage I designed from scratch (olzhasshaikenov.com)
    ×1.67 3 | 3 points by olzhas23 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Flock Holding Closed Police Conference, Requires Police Consent for Marketing (ipvm.com)
    ×2.37 2 | 49 points by jhonovich 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Process-Level Reward Modeling for Agentic Data Analysis (arxiv.org)
    ×1.73 1 | 4 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???