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  1. Lobbying is corruption (carette.xyz)
    ×7.61 87 | 462 points by LucidLynx 10 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't (over.pizza)
    ×3.07 2 #3 | 113 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Trump calls for stop to attacks on Russian oil refineries, Zelenskyy replacement (politico.com)
    ×7.11 54 | 13 points by MilnerRoute 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Takeshi's Castle (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.81 22 #30 | 88 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review (theguardian.com)
    ×4.27 33 #47 | 164 points by NewJazz 8 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
    ×3.12 45 #57 | 82 points by astlouis44 5 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (wsj.com)
    ×4.14 47 #66 | 123 points by utiiiD 8 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Grieving the loss of details (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×3.38 11 #14 | 319 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team (cockroachlabs.com)
    ×2.15 6 #9 | 24 points by rafiss 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A Stark Warning from a Former AI Doomer (apple.com)
    ×2.65 18 #46 | 8 points by _virtu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.77 18 #31 | 24 points by PicardManeuver 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. 2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
    ×2.58 #2 | 322 points by Michelangelo11 6 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
    ×2.71 5 #6 | 169 points by oskarth 7 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Lobbying (geohot.github.io)
    ×6.05 41 | 183 points by smilelamp 19 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.76 29 #63 | 12 points by ron_k 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Software's centaur age may last decades (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.22 25 | 4 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI (ft.com)
    ×1.80 8 #15 | 101 points by arkj 4 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. 50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.64 14 #34 | 30 points by makerdiety 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Nix wrote half of my debugger (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.84 6 #4 | 98 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.84 51 | 59 points by bhrlady 8 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Bitwarden Dual License Model (bitwarden.com)
    ×2.63 15 #21 | 329 points by Cider9986 9 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform' (barchart.com)
    ×2.64 30 #16 | 40 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Alien Crash Site (aliencrashsite.org)
    ×1.76 9 | 3 points by sebg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. High console prices push PlayStation and Xbox sales to new lows (polygon.com)
    ×1.70 15 | 3 points by GeekyBear 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Sexually transmitted diarrhea: The infection that's becoming more drug resistant (kcra.com)
    ×1.65 13 | 3 points by penskymaterial 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of data center GPUs (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.84 3 | 4 points by elorant 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)
    ×1.42 4 #1 | 17 points by softwaredoug 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History (2019) (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.73 8 | 3 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I'm Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget (wired.com)
    ×1.70 9 | 3 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Gase – Educational multi-platform Genesis / Mega Drive emulator written in Rust (bthuner.github.io)
    ×1.67 7 | 3 points by otistropo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Truck Parking Solver (joshu.dev)
    ×1.57 4 | 3 points by mbokinala 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. ERCOT batteries: Boom, bust, or rebound? (latitudemedia.com)
    ×1.65 11 | 3 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Effective Spaced Repetition (2023) (borretti.me)
    ×1.56 16 | 3 points by wslh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×1.58 19 | 3 points by coherenttemple 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall (conversableeconomist.com)
    ×2.50 8 #26 | 196 points by colinprince 10 hours ago | 467 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. PwnPad – hardware hacking platform built for practical learning (github.com/twelvesec)
    ×1.84 42 | 3 points by therepanic 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: ManimGX – Manim's API on a Rust/wgpu engine, for 3D videos in Python (github.com/academa-labs)
    ×1.32 34 | 3 points by sinaatalay 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial (popvax.com)
    ×2.13 14 #35 | 115 points by jajoosam 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
    ×1.53 4 #5 | 117 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize (reuters.com)
    ×7.64 37 | 513 points by poly2it 1 day ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A functioning Celery Man computer (celeryman.fun)
    ×1.90 6 | 9 points by turtlesoup 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cyber Resilience Guide: Zero Trust, AI Security and Ransomware Recovery (phpscientist.com)
    ×1.48 27 | 3 points by senthil_kr 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Try Free Long-Term Memory for AI 50M-Token Window (github.com/corbenicai)
    ×0.96 7 | 3 points by Corbenic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Convertix – A free, client-side QR code generator with customization (convertix-fast-imager-co.blogspot.com)
    ×1.13 36 | 3 points by tanjirods 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job?
    ×1.16 21 | 4 points by bumicodes 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Triple-A Minesweeper (mikelacher.com)
    ×5.92 14 #39 | 1355 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.42 50 | 3 points by zdw 27 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Is AI Killing the Value of Human Writing? (transitions.substack.com)
    ×1.09 #70 | 7 points by fsndz 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI Data Centers Not Paying Their Costs, Will Keep Using NDAs and Seek Tax Breaks (senate.gov)
    ×2.93 1 #72 | 51 points by DeepLogin 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
    ×1.83 22 #13 | 73 points by ghuntley 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology (newyorker.com)
    ×5.52 29 | 76 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Apple may have an iPhone 18 Pro demand problem (androidauthority.com)
    ×1.27 6 #78 | 10 points by raffael_de 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th (nature.com)
    ×0.86 7 #29 | 13 points by sbulaev 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry (opengroup.org)
    ×2.23 4 #19 | 235 points by john_alan 12 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach (cphpost.dk)
    ×2.29 17 #33 | 375 points by baal80spam 13 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller (openscad.org)
    ×1.41 8 #18 | 84 points by b-man 7 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)
    ×4.21 29 #62 | 659 points by gumby 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload (tonym.us)
    ×2.34 14 #44 | 222 points by tonymet 14 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How Protein Took over the World (ft.com)
    ×1.35 7 #32 | 52 points by thm 7 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors (righto.com)
    ×1.24 28 #41 | 15 points by pwg 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside (shnatsel.github.io)
    ×2.08 66 #79 | 6 points by ravenical 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation (epoch.ai)
    ×1.04 11 #11 | 65 points by merksittich 6 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: World Watcher – a map to seamlessly watch public webcam streams (worldwatcher.live)
    ×1.97 51 | 8 points by quinito 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cloudflare acquires Deno (deno.com)
    ×4.79 9 #38 | 1337 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 688 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: An agent harness for long-running pentests and code audits (github.com/VigilOSS)
    ×1.34 73 | 3 points by VigilOSS 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
    ×2.97 15 #12 | 679 points by modinfo 23 hours ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: OpenWants – A Simulated City Where AI Agents Handle Residents Needs (openwants.com)
    ×1.93 67 | 6 points by ddaniel10 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work (nature.com)
    ×5.30 59 | 82 points by bluenose69 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.40 25 | 3 points by sankde 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. C for Rust programmers (bd103.dev)
    ×1.45 21 #23 | 89 points by xyproto 11 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Computers Cannot Make Decisions (cateat.fish)
    ×2.07 13 #58 | 193 points by heavensteeth 17 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Sorry, I'm in a meeting (iminafleeting.com)
    ×4.49 8 #51 | 999 points by splintersio 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Python 3.15 (python.org)
    ×3.93 23 | 308 points by ngoldbaum 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (windows.com)
    ×1.46 21 #10 | 149 points by smokel 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)
    ×2.34 10 #22 | 398 points by g-b-r 20 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Sibuna an open source web application firewall with proof of work (github.com/insanai)
    ×1.03 65 | 4 points by vikrantrathore 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say (nbcphiladelphia.com)
    ×2.94 18 #81 | 206 points by Zambyte 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Peer-to-peer instant messaging with proof-of-work spam protection (github.com/iljah)
    ×1.15 77 | 3 points by iljah 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. No Man Is an Island (borretti.me)
    ×2.99 33 | 314 points by zetalyrae 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI (bsky.app)
    ×3.84 39 | 94 points by doener 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court (state.gov)
    ×3.65 12 | 179 points by TechTechTech 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com/rociiu)
    ×1.37 16 #8 | 230 points by rociiu 12 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Knuth reward check (thomas-huehn.com)
    ×0.88 10 #7 | 129 points by Curiositry 7 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.13 22 | 53 points by mfiguiere 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity (vt.edu)
    ×1.44 28 #24 | 93 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How strong is the strong interaction? (cerncourier.com)
    ×0.79 18 #20 | 42 points by EA-3167 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Chrome Relay – background tabs in your real Chrome for coding agents (github.com/aindeev)
    ×2.46 76 | 7 points by alexeyindeev 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad (techdirt.com)
    ×3.39 52 | 60 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Open Components – UI Components standard for people, devs and AI agents (opencomponents.dev)
    ×2.01 75 | 7 points by alexgrozav 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots (theverifiedpost.com)
    ×1.00 26 #25 | 52 points by kgolubic 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???