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  1. Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI (ft.com)
    ×5.37 5 #8 | 60 points by m-hodges 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  2. One-man spam campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill (politico.eu)
    ×6.04 83 | 87 points by cuu508 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ??? ???
  3. Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr (washingtonpost.com)
    ×19.20 30 | 119 points by Tadpole9181 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  4. The Email They Shouldn't Have Read (dragas.net)
    ×3.02 2 #3 | 155 points by miniBill 2 hours ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  5. Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after sales allegedly plummet (guru3d.com)
    ×4.27 1 #1 | 717 points by baobun 6 hours ago | 433 comments | ??? ???
  6. Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy (jacobin.com)
    ×4.76 36 #63 | 44 points by stareatgoats 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  7. The weaponization of travel blacklists (papersplease.org)
    ×2.59 8 #12 | 59 points by throw7 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  8. Show HN: CodingFox – Open-Source AI Code Review Tool That Works Like Magic (github.com/furudo-erika)
    ×6.57 76 | 10 points by sunny-beast 54 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  9. Samsung released a 7M model that achieved 45% on ARC-AGI-1 (arxiv.org)
    ×2.58 85 | 26 points by chintler 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  10. Designing MCP servers for wide schemas and large result sets (axiom.co)
    ×7.35 81 | 10 points by ucirello 35 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  11. Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025 (fortune.com)
    ×4.10 62 #78 | 212 points by ryan_j_naughton 9 hours ago | 198 comments | ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Spacelift Intent MCP – Cloud Infra Provisioning for Your AI Agent (github.com/spacelift-io)
    ×4.32 61 | 6 points by cube2222 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  13. SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades (cbsnews.com)
    ×2.36 3 #2 | 172 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 114 comments | ??? ???
  14. The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here (theatlantic.com)
    ×6.41 13 | 70 points by zerosizedweasle 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  15. Show HN: CodeLens.AI– Community benchmark comparing 6 LLMs on real code tasks (codelens.ai)
    ×3.38 48 | 5 points by skrid 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  16. Senate Confirms 'Sharpiegate' Meteorologist to Lead NOAA (nytimes.com)
    ×2.12 4 #44 | 6 points by ceejayoz 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  17. Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT (theregister.com)
    ×1.81 10 #34 | 9 points by rntn 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  18. German government comes out against Chat Control (xcancel.com)
    ×6.09 15 #29 | 1053 points by SolonIslandus 21 hours ago | 466 comments | ??? ???
  19. X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries (theverge.com)
    ×1.54 12 #6 | 28 points by CharlesW 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  20. CachyOS Keeps Spreading and Takes Second Place Among Linux Distros (boilingsteam.com)
    ×1.51 8 #46 | 10 points by ekianjo 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  21. We didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust (databento.com)
    ×1.98 14 | 3 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Mirrow – Build SVGs with TypeScript, get syntax checking for free (mirrow.app)
    ×1.49 17 | 4 points by era37 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  23. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.69 3 #4 | 170 points by pykello 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  24. Python 3.14.0 is now available (python.org)
    ×2.14 21 | 3 points by zvr 57 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  25. How I made $300K from an open-source side project using dual licensing (paritydeals.com)
    ×3.67 70 | 5 points by sachinneravath 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  26. Say Goodbye (mooreds.com)
    ×1.41 12 #19 | 16 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  27. AI Keeps Shifting Right: Coping with the Limitations of Large Language Models (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×2.14 27 | 3 points by kianN 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  28. Express Auth Boilerplate – Clean Hexagonal Architecture for Node.js APIs (github.com/francemazzi)
    ×2.10 28 | 3 points by SaverioMazzi 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  29. Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid (techdirt.com)
    ×5.08 25 | 203 points by beardyw 20 hours ago | 143 comments | ??? ???
  30. Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' (404media.co)
    ×5.55 35 | 296 points by locopati 22 hours ago | 153 comments | ??? ???
  31. Show HN: A 100% free and open source online tool to make tier list (tierlist-maker.com)
    ×1.33 13 | 3 points by pekingzcc 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  32. Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August (nytimes.com)
    ×7.16 26 | 75 points by Erikun 1 day ago | 102 comments | ??? ???
  33. America is now one big bet on AI (ft.com)
    ×6.25 1 | 163 points by saubeidl 1 day ago | 182 comments | ??? ???
  34. Empathy for Dummies (quarter--mile.com)
    ×1.15 28 #40 | 40 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Recall: Give Claude perfect memory with Redis-backed persistent context (npmjs.com)
    ×2.00 24 #9 | 4 points by elfenleid 35 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  36. Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad (bbc.co.uk)
    ×5.00 23 | 235 points by dijksterhuis 22 hours ago | 197 comments | ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Speak to AI – offline speech-to-text for Linux (alternative to Dragon) (github.com/AshBuk)
    ×1.64 31 | 3 points by AshBuk 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  38. Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript (github.com/irony)
    ×1.85 6 #5 | 178 points by urvader 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  39. ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.68 20 #71 | 308 points by mdhb 21 hours ago | 186 comments | ??? ???
  40. Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar (grumpygamer.com)
    ×1.65 47 #70 | 66 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 73 comments | ??? ???
  41. Naveen Rao's new AI hardware startup targets $5B valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.02 5 #88 | 4 points by fcpguru 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  42. Legal Contracts Built for AI Agents (paid.ai)
    ×0.94 5 #14 | 28 points by arnon 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  43. No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut (theregister.com)
    ×4.89 33 | 334 points by Bender 1 day ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  44. A Clausewitzian Lens on Modern Urban Warfare (westpoint.edu)
    ×1.00 29 #42 | 36 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  45. User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality (flux.community)
    ×3.72 12 #60 | 256 points by gregsadetsky 19 hours ago | 348 comments | ??? ???
  46. State of the Bird 2024/25 (thunderbird.net)
    ×0.77 8 #45 | 6 points by mzur 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  47. Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting (bbc.com)
    ×2.47 8 #54 | 121 points by breve 12 hours ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  48. Vectrex Mini (vectrex.com)
    ×2.25 44 | 3 points by rbanffy 27 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  49. Vibe engineering (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.29 9 #13 | 455 points by janpio 18 hours ago | 499 comments | ??? ???
  50. A new bone substitute made out of 3D-printed glass (phys.org)
    ×0.98 4 #39 | 4 points by PaulHoule 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  51. Qualcomm to acquire Arduino (qualcomm.com)
    ×4.53 10 #7 | 1239 points by janjongboom 1 day ago | 509 comments | ??? ???
  52. Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time (wsj.com)
    ×4.45 10 | 110 points by thm 23 hours ago | 134 comments | ??? ???
  53. Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant (nationalpost.com)
    ×4.59 9 #33 | 546 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 316 comments | ??? ???
  54. Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study (surrey.ac.uk)
    ×3.49 36 | 257 points by giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago | 285 comments | ??? ???
  55. Gifted children are special needs children (mleverything.substack.com)
    ×4.97 37 | 65 points by bko 1 day ago | 132 comments | ??? ???
  56. A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad (kau.sh)
    ×2.02 28 #48 | 210 points by freetonik 12 hours ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  57. ChatGPT is a great tool for investment backtesting (reddit.com)
    ×2.37 50 | 3 points by wslh 22 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  58. Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in D.C (spiegel.de)
    ×3.20 66 | 4 points by nabla9 18 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  59. California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services (ca.gov)
    ×2.98 2 | 82 points by mikhael 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  60. Citizen protest halts Chat Control (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×3.94 30 | 57 points by poly2it 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  61. How To Start Bug Bounties (2021) (medium.com)
    ×0.64 44 #10 | 3 points by redbell 38 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  62. Become unbannable from your email (karboosx.net)
    ×2.44 10 #55 | 217 points by bfoks 17 hours ago | 174 comments | ??? ???
  63. Recursive reasoning with tiny networks (alexiajm.github.io)
    ×2.62 12 | 68 points by stared 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  64. Seeing like a software company (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.08 10 #16 | 297 points by praptak 16 hours ago | 87 comments | ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons (ohyahapp.com)
    ×0.98 39 #68 | 57 points by gantengx 6 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  66. Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report (theguardian.com)
    ×4.01 15 #87 | 449 points by fforflo 1 day ago | 224 comments | ??? ???
  67. The First 6100 Qubit Array at Room Temperature (caltech.edu)
    ×0.86 47 #69 | 7 points by oldfuture 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  68. Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model (blog.google)
    ×2.34 8 #11 | 565 points by mfiguiere 19 hours ago | 283 comments | ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally (timelinize.com)
    ×2.61 11 #21 | 522 points by mholt 22 hours ago | 132 comments | ??? ???
  70. Doing Rails Wrong (bananacurvingmachine.com)
    ×2.44 17 #61 | 359 points by treesenthusiast 22 hours ago | 249 comments | ??? ???
  71. Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fractal chaos (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.27 19 #17 | 118 points by baruchel 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  72. Let's Encrypt – Ten Years of Community Support (letsencrypt.org)
    ×2.00 64 #79 | 20 points by milkglass 17 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  73. The Brain Navigates New Spaces by 'Darting' Between Reality and Mental Maps (yale.edu)
    ×0.92 62 #53 | 13 points by XzetaU8 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  74. California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes (politico.com)
    ×3.49 1 | 327 points by c420 1 day ago | 140 comments | ??? ???
  75. Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available (joins.com)
    ×7.14 6 #73 | 2053 points by ksec 2 days ago | 917 comments | ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers (nullpt.rs)
    ×1.85 15 #24 | 310 points by nullpt_rs 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  77. Show HN: FizzBee – Formal Model based autonomous testing (fizzbee.io)
    ×3.67 76 | 13 points by jayaprabhakar 1 day ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  78. Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting (github.com/sharkdp)
    ×1.88 11 #62 | 181 points by Olshansky 20 hours ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  79. Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account (theverge.com)
    ×3.91 9 | 594 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 1266 comments | ??? ???
  80. An illustrated introduction to linear algebra (ducktyped.org)
    ×2.16 29 #20 | 394 points by egonschiele 1 day ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  81. IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 (ikeamuseum.com)
    ×2.01 19 #18 | 448 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 108 comments | ??? ???
  82. Monumental rock art: humans thrived in Arab. Desert during Pleistocene-Holocene (nature.com)
    ×0.55 35 #15 | 26 points by ano-ther 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  83. Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify (github.com/hunvreus)
    ×2.44 4 | 251 points by el_hacker 1 day ago | 87 comments | ??? ???
  84. Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks (alexiajm.github.io)
    ×1.71 25 #27 | 271 points by guybedo 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  85. Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says (france24.com)
    ×1.87 7 | 121 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 93 comments | ??? ???
  86. How does gradient descent work? (centralflows.github.io)
    ×1.86 35 #32 | 296 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  87. TiVo exiting legacy DVR business (mediaplaynews.com)
    ×0.88 2 #59 | 75 points by TMWNN 11 hours ago | 70 comments | ??? ???
  88. Packing the world for longest lines of sight (tombh.co.uk)
    ×1.18 44 #25 | 115 points by tombh 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  89. High-fat diet impairs memory by autophagic-lysosomal dysfunction in Drosophila (plos.org)
    ×1.27 65 #72 | 22 points by PaulHoule 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  90. Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (nobelprize.org)
    ×2.17 43 #22 | 443 points by luisb 1 day ago | 90 comments | ??? ???