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  1. Cloudflare was down (cloudflare.com)
    ×13.38 89 | 782 points by mektrik 5 hours ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros (netflix.com)
    ×5.51 #1 | 391 points by meetpateltech 1 hour ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company (neowin.net)
    ×7.25 60 #68 | 28 points by bundie 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law (somo.nl)
    ×4.45 27 #30 | 365 points by saubeidl 4 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional (apnews.com)
    ×3.68 6 #16 | 116 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
    ×3.45 86 | 301 points by bakigul 5 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Netflix becomes frontrunner in bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery – sources (cnn.com)
    ×5.59 44 | 64 points by mikeweiss 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' (npr.org)
    ×4.38 78 | 201 points by seattle_spring 9 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Most technical problems are people problems (joeschrag.com)
    ×2.15 2 #2 | 48 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Elon Musk's X fined €120M by EU in first clash under new digital laws (theguardian.com)
    ×3.62 51 | 7 points by robin_reala 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Making RSS More Fun (matduggan.com)
    ×1.98 4 #3 | 22 points by salmon 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything (kraa.io)
    ×1.80 10 #5 | 19 points by levmiseri 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples (nasa.gov)
    ×1.64 4 #13 | 35 points by jnord 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why we can’t quit Excel (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.75 19 #37 | 27 points by thm 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Countdown until the AI bubble bursts (pop-the-bubble.xyz)
    ×6.59 3 | 73 points by tapematch 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. New York Times Sues A.I. Startup Perplexity over Use of Copyrighted Work (nytimes.com)
    ×3.15 63 | 5 points by cmiles8 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Turning 40 (andreabergia.com)
    ×1.85 65 | 7 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72B (bbc.com)
    ×2.15 35 | 4 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead (politico.com)
    ×2.08 21 | 4 points by gregorymichael 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Commission fines X €120M under the Digital Services Act (europa.eu)
    ×1.72 13 #71 | 5 points by nabla9 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication (lemonde.fr)
    ×3.74 14 #34 | 6 points by isolli 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Layoutz – Simple, beautiful CLI output for Haskell (flora.pm)
    ×2.68 56 | 4 points by Vosporos 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Nvidia's new AI framework trains an 8B model to manage tools like a pro (venturebeat.com)
    ×1.86 28 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas?
    ×1.53 11 | 3 points by ruairidhwm 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Secret of Latino Teens' Better Mental Health (wsj.com)
    ×1.77 29 | 3 points by impish9208 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Introduction to Plan 9 (9front.org)
    ×1.75 30 | 3 points by finnlab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Nimony (Nim 3.0) Design Principles (nim-lang.org)
    ×1.24 6 #10 | 38 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? (reason.com)
    ×4.26 10 #29 | 687 points by delichon 20 hours ago | 899 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.21 40 | 3 points by amarcheschi 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Django 6 (djangoproject.com)
    ×3.54 22 #46 | 339 points by wilhelmklopp 17 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The RAM shortage comes for us all (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×3.94 58 #85 | 356 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months (aitradearena.com)
    ×3.14 4 #21 | 264 points by cheeseblubber 15 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto (dineshpandiyan.com)
    ×1.34 3 #9 | 81 points by flexdinesh 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Xkcd #2347 lived in my head, so I built the dependency tower for real (stacktower.io)
    ×11.03 47 | 28 points by matzehuels 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The "soft" racism of the well-meaning white liberal, myself included (ncte.org)
    ×2.18 45 | 3 points by volemo 29 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X (fsfe.org)
    ×4.53 9 | 153 points by latexr 22 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig (sinclairtarget.com)
    ×3.02 15 #36 | 384 points by yurivish 16 hours ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (techdirt.com)
    ×3.39 17 | 113 points by alsetmusic 18 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?
    ×1.13 26 #62 | 27 points by dfasoro 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.81 28 #60 | 413 points by OptionOfT 22 hours ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Volcanic eruption led to the Black Death, new research suggests (cnn.com)
    ×0.62 3 #65 | 4 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. UniFi 5G (ui.com)
    ×1.29 7 #4 | 180 points by janandonly 7 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive (evclinic.eu)
    ×1.96 9 #8 | 310 points by mikelabatt 13 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×2.03 7 #7 | 424 points by CharlesW 14 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung (pcworld.com)
    ×3.45 11 #61 | 392 points by sethops1 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Unreal Tournament 2004 is back (reddit.com)
    ×3.80 21 #73 | 446 points by keithoffer 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. CSS now has an if() conditional function (caniuse.com)
    ×2.10 14 #20 | 198 points by aanthonymax 15 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Everyone in Seattle hates AI (jonready.com)
    ×5.47 36 | 935 points by mips_avatar 1 day ago | 1035 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void (askmike.org)
    ×1.45 22 #32 | 67 points by askmike 11 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Programming peaked (functional.computer)
    ×3.54 1 | 210 points by Antibabelic 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat (bbc.com)
    ×2.06 39 #70 | 238 points by toss1 17 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks (lyra.horse)
    ×1.69 11 #12 | 246 points by spartanatreyu 14 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.33 11 #11 | 168 points by benbreen 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025 (nnethercote.github.io)
    ×1.25 47 #77 | 7 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Flooder – Making Persistent Homology Practical for Industrial Use Cases (plus-rkwitt.github.io)
    ×1.73 57 | 6 points by elektm 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ghostty is now non-profit (mitchellh.com)
    ×4.83 2 #51 | 1304 points by vrnvu 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame (github.com/zenfyrdev)
    ×2.45 15 | 161 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Who is hiring" search tool with chat / other features (nthesis.ai)
    ×1.05 64 | 3 points by osigurdson 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. PGlite – Embeddable Postgres (pglite.dev)
    ×2.91 2 #43 | 558 points by dsego 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Anthropic acquires Bun (bun.com)
    ×7.78 4 #69 | 2170 points by ryanvogel 2 days ago | 1065 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi (airoboticist.blog)
    ×0.88 16 #23 | 52 points by observer2022 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.62 17 #54 | 192 points by anjneymidha 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs (arxiv.org)
    ×3.03 26 #19 | 612 points by 50kIters 1 day ago | 567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.17 15 #14 | 121 points by mikhael 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. It's time to buy short positions for Cloudflare stocks again
    ×0.36 37 | 3 points by mensoi 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Fat-Tailed Sheep on the First Fleet; Australia's First Sheep (singletonmills.com)
    ×0.49 38 #48 | 8 points by Y_Y 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta (cnbc.com)
    ×4.45 46 | 76 points by Noaidi 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) (javascript.tm)
    ×2.93 7 #40 | 697 points by pavelai 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ephemeral Infrastructure: Why Short-Lived Is a Good Thing (medium.com)
    ×0.29 67 #17 | 5 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Autism should not be treated as a single condition (economist.com)
    ×2.14 #53 | 246 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How Brussels writes so many laws (siliconcontinent.com)
    ×1.25 38 #45 | 47 points by amadeuspagel 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards (neurips.cc)
    ×1.24 6 #24 | 135 points by ivansavz 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
    ×2.48 13 #31 | 504 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Russia Bans Roblox (bbc.com)
    ×3.63 44 | 68 points by disqard 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tunnl.gg (tunnl.gg)
    ×2.59 45 #42 | 217 points by klipitkas 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.93 49 | 70 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available (proxmox.com)
    ×2.11 | 133 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm (theverge.com)
    ×3.91 5 #52 | 936 points by evolve2k 1 day ago | 795 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" (archive.org)
    ×2.32 5 #90 | 203 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Do we need MCPs? Reverse-engineered Slack and Linear API for Evals & RL (agentdiff.dev)
    ×3.27 69 | 10 points by hubertmarek 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (micron.com)
    ×3.67 2 #75 | 742 points by simlevesque 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Transparent leadership beats servant leadership (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.91 20 #18 | 471 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill (nber.org)
    ×3.86 13 | 821 points by mhb 2 days ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months (pcpartpicker.com)
    ×2.94 11 #66 | 494 points by zekrioca 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Fighting the age-gated internet (wired.com)
    ×1.85 39 #28 | 242 points by geox 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable (noeticmap.com)
    ×2.05 54 | 22 points by mikias 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID? (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×3.21 40 | 95 points by thomasjb 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files (alexschapiro.com)
    ×3.31 6 #63 | 803 points by bearsyankees 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again (prestonbyrne.com)
    ×0.97 10 #49 | 81 points by parliament32 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s (uncloud.run)
    ×2.32 33 #39 | 387 points by rgun 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???