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  1. No right to relicense this project (github.com/chardet)
    ×5.24 8 #9 | 102 points by robin_reala 1 hour ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign (newrepublic.com)
    ×5.62 15 #17 | 36 points by TrackerFF 53 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases (bepurple.ai)
    ×33.83 | 89 points by arndt 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying (acko.net)
    ×4.34 5 #4 | 142 points by LorenDB 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’ (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.51 13 #18 | 568 points by SilverElfin 9 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.64 21 #34 | 166 points by jnord 7 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Sam Altman admits OpenAI can't control Pentagon's use of AI (theguardian.com)
    ×4.28 48 | 7 points by iamflimflam1 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model (microsoft.com)
    ×3.57 36 #76 | 8 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents (poehnelt.com)
    ×2.58 27 #42 | 86 points by justinwp 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. MacBook Neo (apple.com)
    ×6.72 9 #16 | 1780 points by dm 19 hours ago | 2089 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite (tuananh.net)
    ×2.14 7 #3 | 100 points by tuananh 4 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Iran says targeted AWS Data Centers for support of U.S. military (cnbc.com)
    ×2.96 18 #66 | 24 points by johnbarron 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Google Workspace CLI (github.com/googleworkspace)
    ×3.26 2 #2 | 569 points by gonzalovargas 9 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. You Just Reveived (dylan.gr)
    ×2.15 9 #15 | 162 points by djnaraps 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores (engadget.com)
    ×4.79 62 | 212 points by _____k 14 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Major airline bans 'barebeaters' across all 24 daily flights from UK airports (metro.co.uk)
    ×2.63 21 #43 | 7 points by sieste 54 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Gulf insurance costs soar 12-fold despite US president's guarantee (ft.com)
    ×2.31 24 | 4 points by divbzero 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. "Microsoft Clairty" Isn't Microsoft Clarity: Deobfuscating Ad Fraud Script (cside.com)
    ×2.22 31 | 4 points by swijck 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift (ivan.digital)
    ×1.37 2 #1 | 72 points by ipotapov 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. MacBook Neo (apple.com)
    ×6.10 37 | 188 points by meetpateltech 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control (petermann-digital.de)
    ×1.50 13 #12 | 14 points by vermaden 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me (tim.blog)
    ×1.42 3 #5 | 52 points by bonefishgrill 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king (phys.org)
    ×1.39 10 #10 | 19 points by wglb 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters (theguardian.com)
    ×2.39 9 #19 | 71 points by geox 7 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses recordings aren't private (mashable.com)
    ×1.72 2 | 3 points by ivell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AI model trained on 9.3T base pairs can now design novel genes (dongascience.com)
    ×1.77 6 | 3 points by benewton 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B (huggingface.co)
    ×1.78 8 | 3 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. No exit – an AI doomsday WebGL scroll experience (framer.ai)
    ×1.53 11 | 3 points by fredmoon 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story (online.fr)
    ×1.54 30 #29 | 9 points by brynet 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Poor Man's Polaroid (boxart.lt)
    ×1.28 58 #35 | 3 points by ZacnyLos 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough (lorenzano.eu)
    ×1.08 5 #6 | 28 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Building a new Flash (newgrounds.com)
    ×3.09 4 #8 | 539 points by TechPlasma 13 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Your AI Slop Bores Me (youraislopbores.me)
    ×1.44 26 | 3 points by mikidoodle 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral (bbc.com)
    ×3.24 58 | 182 points by tartoran 14 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Agentic Engineering Anti Patterns (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.55 31 #80 | 8 points by pchristensen 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.51 11 #7 | 71 points by Bender 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. An interactive map of Flock Cams (deflock.org)
    ×3.15 31 #45 | 575 points by anjel 14 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Espflash – Go CLI/library for flashing ESP8266/ESP32 with no dependencies (github.com/tinygo-org)
    ×1.29 52 #46 | 5 points by deadprogram 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. No Silver Bullet [pdf] (dartmouth.edu)
    ×2.24 45 | 3 points by abrbhat 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal (euronews.com)
    ×8.24 34 | 155 points by nothrowaways 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships (poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app)
    ×1.37 3 #13 | 84 points by mahirhiro 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Dulce et Decorum Est (1921) (poetryfoundation.org)
    ×2.38 14 #21 | 132 points by bikeshaving 12 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.15 3 #14 | 661 points by simonw 17 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. We don't need continual learning for AGI. What top labs are currently doing
    ×0.94 41 | 3 points by kok14 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×3.80 72 | 847 points by aamederen 22 hours ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Fast Chladni figure simulation in Python with NumPy vectorization (github.com/ratwolfzero)
    ×1.22 44 | 4 points by ratwolf 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Does that use a lot of energy? (hannahritchie.github.io)
    ×2.28 51 #77 | 210 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays (theregister.com)
    ×3.84 3 | 97 points by Bender 21 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals (experimental-history.com)
    ×3.01 38 #69 | 368 points by sito42 18 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors (fubardaily.com)
    ×1.40 5 #26 | 97 points by anonnona8878 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (ifixit.com)
    ×5.49 28 | 490 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Iran War Cost Tracker (iran-cost-ticker.com)
    ×6.36 10 | 316 points by TSiege 1 day ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death (politico.eu)
    ×5.82 28 | 184 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config (joshua.hu)
    ×2.28 31 #54 | 303 points by mmsc 15 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Relax NG is a schema language for XML (2014) (relaxng.org)
    ×0.77 13 #11 | 25 points by Frotag 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Bet on German Train Delays (bahn.bet)
    ×3.40 36 | 286 points by indiantinker 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Potatoverse, home for your vibecoded apps (github.com/blue-monads)
    ×2.36 61 | 6 points by born-jre 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.55 20 #47 | 1232 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 520 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs (github.com/nabroleonx)
    ×0.66 15 #27 | 13 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter (sixstepstobetterhealth.com)
    ×1.49 5 #25 | 116 points by colinbartlett 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Large-Scale Agentic RL for CUDA Kernel Generation (cuda-agent.github.io)
    ×0.63 71 #63 | 4 points by gmays 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip (macrumors.com)
    ×2.61 4 | 80 points by vanburen 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Terminal Graphics Protocol (kovidgoyal.net)
    ×0.76 68 #83 | 3 points by vinhnx 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Once Upon a Boot - visual tracing of boot process (once-upon-a-boot.github.io)
    ×0.97 49 #78 | 8 points by pbou 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction (retractionwatch.com)
    ×2.26 35 | 169 points by Tomte 18 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? (venturebeat.com)
    ×2.50 13 | 136 points by GTP 20 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×3.64 3 | 228 points by SerCe 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments (nature.com)
    ×2.02 17 | 102 points by jacquesm 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time (bmwgroup.com)
    ×1.45 17 #20 | 132 points by JeanKage 12 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Paste a URL and watch multiple AI models redesign it side-by-side (shuffle.dev)
    ×1.73 74 | 4 points by kemyd 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: DJ Claude – 6 Claude Codes in a jam band (loom.com)
    ×1.05 73 | 3 points by p-poss 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Someone needs to go to jail (edwardelson.substack.com)
    ×5.39 53 | 110 points by shimm723 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Xkcd thing, now interactive (p5js.org)
    ×5.08 40 | 1295 points by memalign 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I put HN discussions next to the article where it belongs (railway.app)
    ×3.48 78 | 8 points by krenerd 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state (inngest.com)
    ×0.79 10 #22 | 53 points by goodoldneon 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A universal protocol for AI agents to interact with any desktop UI (github.com/computeruseprotocol)
    ×1.33 83 | 3 points by k4cper-g 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.91 22 #71 | 514 points by r4um 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program (moss.town)
    ×1.66 6 #28 | 253 points by smusamashah 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Completing the formal proof of higher-dimensional sphere packing (math.inc)
    ×0.68 12 #56 | 17 points by salkahfi 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff (wsj.com)
    ×4.36 54 | 83 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf] (nrc.gov)
    ×1.18 15 #24 | 108 points by Anon84 11 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Stathat Is Shutting Down
    ×1.01 59 | 6 points by jervant 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.98 9 #32 | 336 points by bilsbie 21 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Open-sourced a web client that lets any device use Apple's on-device AI (github.com/Techopolis)
    ×2.28 76 | 10 points by tayarndt 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I built a browser game where you compete against OpenAI, Anthropic, etc (thefrontier.pages.dev)
    ×1.04 87 | 3 points by adityapatni 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: FiveW – Stay current on AI in 5 minutes a day (fivew.xyz)
    ×3.66 66 | 15 points by ethanmlam 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Great Online Game (2021) (notboring.co)
    ×0.28 48 #60 | 5 points by simonebrunozzi 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Qlog – grep for logs, but 100x faster (github.com/Cosm00)
    ×1.19 51 | 13 points by cosm00 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The View from RSS (carolinecrampton.com)
    ×1.10 12 #33 | 117 points by Curiositry 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules (theregister.com)
    ×1.76 22 #51 | 168 points by Bender 22 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???