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  1. Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda (theguardian.com)
    ×5.60 85 | 199 points by n1b0m 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children (reuters.com)
    ×4.90 4 #7 | 189 points by bhouston 1 hour ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AWS Acquires DuckDB (ducklabs.com)
    ×3.75 #1 | 436 points by onderkalaci 1 hour ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
    ×4.58 #2 | 166 points by Philpax 43 minutes ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues (happyfellow.dev)
    ×3.80 86 | 249 points by arn3n 2 hours ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.49 24 #37 | 136 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada (theguardian.com)
    ×3.89 1 #15 | 42 points by mikhael 1 hour ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency (qwen.ai)
    ×3.02 1 #3 | 241 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
    ×3.04 66 #74 | 101 points by ilamont 2 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Dolly Parton has died (theguardian.com)
    ×11.29 27 #43 | 1519 points by helsinkiandrew 20 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.46 3 #10 | 320 points by garo-pro 4 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
    ×3.56 82 | 261 points by mobilio 5 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Frontier Reasoning Agents Fail on Interactive 2D Mazes (multinet.ai)
    ×6.60 73 | 11 points by jiggle123 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia (openai.com)
    ×4.67 65 | 86 points by sam_lowry_ 7 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. More Fucked Today Than Yesterday (climatecasino.substack.com)
    ×11.51 5 | 85 points by CharlesW 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off (macrumors.com)
    ×2.70 14 #39 | 25 points by robtherobber 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account (twitterwebviewer.com)
    ×2.97 2 #8 | 27 points by motownphilly 40 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. 90% of executives say AI hasn't boosted productivity (fortune.com)
    ×3.84 56 | 6 points by champagnepapi 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF (huggingface.co)
    ×2.61 9 #70 | 6 points by Philpax 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements (documentfoundation.org)
    ×1.63 3 #24 | 22 points by DemiGuru 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. XCancel also down, at least for time being
    ×5.40 47 | 235 points by orange999 17 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AI Is a Harsh Mistress (acm.org)
    ×1.82 21 #9 | 7 points by fscaramuzza 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices (github.com/zedeus)
    ×6.11 10 #29 | 1083 points by Banditoz 21 hours ago | 912 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Meta agrees to settle social media addiction suit with states for up to $16B (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.59 6 #42 | 8 points by psychanarch 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds (bbc.com)
    ×2.47 57 #30 | 7 points by dazhbog 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy (noahpinion.blog)
    ×2.39 46 | 4 points by megamike 55 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com)
    ×1.89 7 #4 | 267 points by j0selit0 6 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Remap – bike routing that builds loops from the best roads, on-device (remap.earth)
    ×1.38 19 | 5 points by basil 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Meta settles social media addiction case with CA, other states for $16.7B (cnbc.com)
    ×1.85 20 | 3 points by jbredeche 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Intent to Unship: XSLT (google.com)
    ×1.74 17 | 3 points by tambourine_man 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The great American road trip is in peril (grist.org)
    ×1.47 6 #53 | 4 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: EBM Lens, searches biomedical papers, ranks evidence, grounds claims (github.com/mauroforlin)
    ×1.36 6 | 3 points by mauroforlin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Meta agrees multi-billion settlement to claims that its platforms harm children (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.24 12 #50 | 6 points by c-oreills 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: AgentConnect, shared agents with separate permissions (github.com/agentconnect-md)
    ×1.78 23 | 3 points by k_kiki 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Snakes and Ladders (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.74 27 | 3 points by surprisetalk 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. US removes Syria from terrorism sponsor list, lifting major investment obstacle (reuters.com)
    ×1.99 9 #63 | 32 points by imadj 7 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A Citation to Asimov (bookandsword.com)
    ×1.70 31 | 3 points by speckx 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Microsoft Paint and Photos add invisible watermarks to AI-generated content (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.63 33 | 3 points by sbulaev 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. SSH Sshfighter.com (sshfighter.com)
    ×1.68 49 | 4 points by thomasfromcdnjs 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash (huggingface.co)
    ×1.62 35 | 3 points by Philpax 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Seneca: On Anger, Book I (stoacentral.com)
    ×1.58 34 | 3 points by 0xmattf 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: A local tool that logs every time you swear at your AI coding assistant (github.com/fireinbelly)
    ×1.28 30 | 3 points by lokinkl 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice (xcancel.com)
    ×3.90 | 86 points by bio-s 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Dolly Parton Has Died (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.37 8 | 89 points by ColinWright 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: DBLift – database migration management for Python teams (dblift.com)
    ×1.02 25 | 3 points by cmodiano 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Using TouchID to login to SSH with sod (botanica.software)
    ×1.98 43 | 3 points by botanica_labs 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding (psu.edu)
    ×1.81 33 #60 | 124 points by giuliomagnifico 9 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. My Friend Aaron (rorz.io)
    ×3.99 12 #41 | 608 points by sarreph 21 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hot in Here: Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Disability (crystalprestonwatson.com)
    ×0.67 39 #51 | 4 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Routebase – One OpenAPI spec drives your docs, mocks, tests, monitors (routebase.dev)
    ×0.83 20 | 3 points by driedl 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra (apple.com)
    ×4.54 11 #11 | 1252 points by interpol_p 1 day ago | 1194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How much of HN is AI? (coredump.cx)
    ×4.17 26 | 271 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958) (archive.org)
    ×1.03 18 #59 | 22 points by irdc 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ankit Gupta's "Flyover Country" Comments (twitter.com/santiagopliego)
    ×1.85 45 | 3 points by Tabular-Iceberg 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms (google.com)
    ×3.54 9 #48 | 406 points by yboris 20 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI? (hnstats.com)
    ×1.03 41 | 3 points by beekthos 37 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: Opus 5 is unusable for writing, even internal use. Alternatives/fix?
    ×1.21 43 | 4 points by m3h 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth (macrumors.com)
    ×4.59 19 | 89 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment (economist.com)
    ×2.24 22 | 92 points by Anon84 14 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence (var0.xyz)
    ×0.92 7 #13 | 58 points by tuxie_ 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How to Build a McKinsey-Style PowerPoint with AI: 8 Rules for Consulting Slides (medium.com)
    ×1.09 7 #90 | 11 points by chenxi030826 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Queryable Executables (fzakaria.com)
    ×2.08 10 #18 | 268 points by rguiscard 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A curmudgeon tries a language server (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×0.64 10 #5 | 38 points by crescit_eundo 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Just say something people want (gkogan.co)
    ×0.65 11 #65 | 8 points by gk1 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)
    ×0.94 11 #6 | 124 points by altilunium 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.33 3 | 142 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.44 9 #14 | 184 points by zoenolan 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why some US restaurants are banning tips (bbc.com)
    ×3.89 7 | 192 points by rock_artist 1 day ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (semianalysis.com)
    ×2.65 15 #19 | 551 points by bmulholland 21 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (apple.com)
    ×3.14 13 #20 | 804 points by interpol_p 1 day ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.21 11 | 122 points by DGAP 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Starbase, LA (spacex.com)
    ×2.65 36 | 275 points by bilsbie 22 hours ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Multiplayer Laser Simulator (prismaduel.com)
    ×1.26 71 | 4 points by maxberggren 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Oceans hit highest temperature on record (bbc.com)
    ×5.15 8 | 696 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer (hbs.edu)
    ×3.07 53 #36 | 225 points by conbrian 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy (johan-sjolen.github.io)
    ×0.74 7 #17 | 61 points by lichtenberger 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels (fda.gov)
    ×1.96 16 #16 | 466 points by sunnynagra 19 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.69 39 | 177 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK) (rupertlinacre.com)
    ×0.77 5 #26 | 70 points by RobinL 7 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (apple.com)
    ×2.44 20 #23 | 525 points by runako 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Try Omarchy as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac (github.com/themartiano)
    ×2.09 74 #78 | 20 points by jbverschoor 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance (larsfaye.com)
    ×4.65 5 | 552 points by larsfaye 1 day ago | 540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) (modelscope.cn)
    ×2.46 5 #75 | 330 points by garo-pro 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown (imkylelambert.com)
    ×2.21 21 #28 | 398 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Who Makes Your Supplements? (worseonpurpose.com)
    ×1.60 9 #31 | 3 points by speckx 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems (arxiv.org)
    ×1.04 21 #45 | 73 points by gdad 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Looking for people to follow designing systems to ship code with AI agents
    ×0.59 53 | 6 points by mutahn 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.19 14 | 116 points by MC995 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Reachpad CLI – Spin up free sandboxes in seconds to develop apps (github.com/Reachpad)
    ×1.52 79 | 4 points by sakuraiben 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
    ×5.53 9 #79 | 1427 points by schlarpc 2 days ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???