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  1. U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947 (fortune.com)
    ×7.95 45 #46 | 237 points by qlte 4 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (hackerbooks.org)
    ×4.33 1 #1 | 1044 points by roansh 12 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. OccupySaaS (occupysaas.com)
    ×4.40 8 #11 | 116 points by misswaterfairy 3 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.31 57 #61 | 205 points by throwoutway 5 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (rhaas.blogspot.com)
    ×3.46 2 #3 | 150 points by soheilpro 5 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AI Can Write More of the Code. We Still Have to Engineer the System (picon.dev)
    ×2.65 85 | 43 points by devpicon 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power (vox.com)
    ×4.13 30 #37 | 395 points by rhaynes 10 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix (fosscomics.com)
    ×0.96 6 #2 | 30 points by joonehur 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture (eurogamer.net)
    ×2.72 8 #17 | 32 points by rdmuser 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×2.18 5 #5 | 197 points by LecroJS 8 hours ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it (wordpress.com)
    ×2.21 5 #16 | 243 points by smilelamp 9 hours ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation (thedrive.com)
    ×4.25 45 #57 | 432 points by entryleveljobsc 13 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case (reddit.com)
    ×3.29 6 #19 | 420 points by entryleveljobsc 13 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes (visitnorway.com)
    ×4.50 39 #53 | 677 points by giuliomagnifico 17 hours ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×8.51 11 #4 | 2359 points by karpathy 1 day ago | 546 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare (nurse.org)
    ×3.91 75 | 168 points by ravetcofx 9 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge (raed.dev)
    ×4.78 74 | 144 points by Raed667 9 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed (trigger.dev)
    ×2.39 9 #9 | 22 points by anurag 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now (eva.ac)
    ×5.03 72 | 65 points by xyzeva 6 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Frontier Airlines Likely Breached (reddit.com)
    ×2.29 11 #31 | 188 points by 999900000999 11 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. America on Data Centers: listen to 10,000+ city council comments (americansentiment.com)
    ×2.42 70 | 29 points by afandrew 3 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Trump Demands a Cut of Alina Habba's $50M Pardon Deal (newrepublic.com)
    ×5.92 69 | 10 points by techlover14159 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed (github.com/raphlinus)
    ×0.95 16 #7 | 111 points by raphlinus 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500 (asymco.com)
    ×3.59 67 | 67 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved (fz-juelich.de)
    ×1.68 19 #6 | 31 points by _Microft 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter (semiconductor-today.com)
    ×1.25 1 #27 | 147 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++ (nullprogram.com)
    ×0.87 19 #8 | 91 points by luu 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions (theregister.com)
    ×2.18 7 #35 | 141 points by edward 12 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.44 1 #30 | 778 points by ecares 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.90 17 #13 | 58 points by stevenalowe 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (github.com/ivankovic)
    ×1.67 19 #12 | 183 points by FabCH 14 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.50 17 #49 | 157 points by entryleveljobsc 14 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics (tibleiz.net)
    ×1.11 23 #10 | 145 points by bogdanoff_2 13 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry (lareviewofbooks.org)
    ×0.71 20 #14 | 32 points by TMWNN 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A Chemical Hunger (2021) (slimemoldtimemold.com)
    ×0.86 1 #34 | 22 points by bilsbie 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (nolanlawson.com)
    ×2.23 18 #18 | 320 points by luu 21 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. John Leeson (the voice of K9) has died (doctorwhonews.net)
    ×1.10 47 #84 | 38 points by slyrus 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms (nytimes.com)
    ×3.44 6 #32 | 16 points by doener 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 (atlasum.net)
    ×3.25 3 #42 | 705 points by oger 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A hidden brain rhythm challenges ideas about where consciousness comes from (medicalxpress.com)
    ×2.46 51 | 3 points by wglb 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Novellas with Groff (movq.de)
    ×0.85 17 #24 | 115 points by dverlaeckt80 14 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs (arxiv.org)
    ×0.74 27 #15 | 120 points by Anon84 14 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Postmortem on Claude Code Cursor extension hack (microsoft.com)
    ×2.25 48 | 4 points by soundworlds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Retro Gaming Has a Port-Slop Problem (gardinerbryant.com)
    ×1.86 16 #60 | 8 points by ecliptik 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems (nature.com)
    ×1.04 25 #20 | 129 points by croes 15 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Bidirectional charging during grid outages (jefftk.com)
    ×0.76 25 #21 | 90 points by luu 13 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard (github.com/guregodevo)
    ×2.44 3 #44 | 432 points by guregodevo 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament (science.org)
    ×4.77 21 #69 | 900 points by input_sh 1 day ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing (jetstream.security)
    ×1.88 8 #41 | 318 points by doodlesdev 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Radiation Map of the World (radiaverse.com)
    ×1.18 28 #22 | 140 points by slater 17 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology (outcrop.rocks)
    ×1.32 28 #23 | 163 points by headsupernova 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models (twitter.com/jiahaoshao1)
    ×4.54 12 #64 | 457 points by pretext 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother (zamzar.com)
    ×1.72 17 #36 | 228 points by whyleyc 23 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Muse AI agent is a commercial surveillance network disguised as an AI assistant (paulfwalsh.substack.com)
    ×3.44 12 #66 | 39 points by Anon84 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release (enlightenment.org)
    ×1.26 12 #67 | 63 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019) (tedium.co)
    ×0.62 28 #28 | 43 points by colinprince 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.78 5 #52 | 139 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2 (kevs3d.co.uk)
    ×0.71 32 #26 | 78 points by kevs3d 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Martian dust presents additional risks for future crewed missions to Mars (pnas.org)
    ×1.15 1 #58 | 8 points by gnabgib 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.36 21 #81 | 9 points by Gaishan 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The She-Wolves of Jülich (historytoday.com)
    ×0.34 36 #25 | 17 points by Thevet 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income (economist.com)
    ×1.63 29 | 95 points by motionlessveloc 17 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily the Largest in Kernel History (phoronix.com)
    ×1.97 #63 | 19 points by acossta 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face
    ×2.34 27 | 45 points by handfuloflight 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Understanding Email Encryption (2025) (fastmail.com)
    ×1.17 27 #38 | 128 points by nmjenkins 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. In LLM era, can software startup survive?
    ×0.93 19 #47 | 8 points by sjia 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.40 34 #33 | 186 points by hapax_legomena 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A playable version of Portal prequel F-Stop leaked (theverge.com)
    ×1.60 7 #75 | 32 points by rarisma 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 (jepsen.io)
    ×2.08 8 #77 | 340 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging (openai.com)
    ×2.96 9 #79 | 222 points by Zariel 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. noyb win: French electronics retailer Fnac Darty fined €7M (noyb.eu)
    ×1.82 20 | 63 points by latexr 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. It's the memory latency, stupid (pivotlake.io)
    ×1.49 29 #43 | 254 points by ntur1337 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats (chaosmanage.github.io)
    ×2.44 34 #39 | 27 points by gulmothrowaway 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) (shkspr.mobi)
    ×0.60 45 #29 | 62 points by n_plus_1_acc 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Junk debt rout sparks 'bloodbath' for credit investors (ft.com)
    ×1.40 16 | 3 points by angry_impala 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers (tomshardware.com)
    ×6.42 15 | 60 points by 0x4e 17 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts (parameter.ai)
    ×1.82 11 #88 | 357 points by armcat 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power (theguardian.com)
    ×6.79 13 | 239 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The staggering $446M Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized (theguardian.com)
    ×6.79 12 | 40 points by DeepLogin 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×6.01 7 #73 | 1716 points by kuberwastaken 3 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020 (maketecheasier.com)
    ×1.30 41 #40 | 170 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half (fullycharged.show)
    ×2.34 9 | 208 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Altoids Project (uvdn7.github.io)
    ×1.16 38 #45 | 160 points by uvdn7 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games (mashable.com)
    ×5.75 7 | 181 points by firesteelrain 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span (science.org)
    ×1.50 6 | 3 points by EA-3167 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Casio Watches of the 1980s (casio.com)
    ×2.44 5 | 248 points by karagenit 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.81 4 | 16 points by razster 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (phorion.io)
    ×3.79 33 #55 | 994 points by _chall 2 days ago | 553 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable (piefed.world)
    ×1.61 11 #78 | 332 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth (talosintelligence.com)
    ×2.13 1 | 258 points by khalidkhair 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???