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  1. Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.57 12 #15 | 439 points by stalfosknight 8 hours ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux (tomshardware.com)
    ×5.92 24 #30 | 299 points by jamesgill 9 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web (anildash.com)
    ×3.12 7 #2 | 54 points by AndrewDucker 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Grokipedia and the coup against reality itself (thedissident.news)
    ×6.56 62 | 93 points by coloneltcb 8 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. An ex-Intel CEO's mission to build a Christian AI: Hasten the return of Christ (theguardian.com)
    ×3.81 20 #52 | 26 points by teleforce 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology (mcsweeneys.net)
    ×6.92 63 | 191 points by imichael 13 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Posting your property on Airbnb is now punishable offense in Sausalito, Bay Area (sfgate.com)
    ×3.58 26 #49 | 9 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×20.25 36 | 177 points by zerosizedweasle 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Men need twice as much exercise as women to lower heart disease risk (theguardian.com)
    ×2.78 26 #46 | 19 points by rdhyee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division (bbc.com)
    ×6.07 69 | 358 points by mosura 16 hours ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. US Senate passes bill with Republican support to rescind Trump's Brazil tariffs (theguardian.com)
    ×4.48 75 | 8 points by mitchbob 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Meta layoff to hit 318 AI team workers around Bay Area headquarters (sfgate.com)
    ×3.54 34 | 5 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome (samsaffron.com)
    ×6.51 49 | 226 points by keybits 16 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ubuntu Unity faces possible shutdown as team member cries for help (neowin.net)
    ×2.63 23 #76 | 8 points by jnord 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Airplane Captures Striking 'Stadium Effect' Inside Hurricane Melissa's Eye (petapixel.com)
    ×2.99 29 #64 | 6 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What we talk about when we talk about sideloading (f-droid.org)
    ×3.25 #1 | 789 points by rom1v 9 hours ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tor Browser 15.0 (torproject.org)
    ×2.52 19 #32 | 90 points by pentagrama 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Project Shadowglass (shadowglassgame.com)
    ×1.67 3 #7 | 40 points by layer8 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Guidelines for User Age-Verification and Responsible Dialogue Act (Guard Act) [pdf] (senate.gov)
    ×2.75 6 #72 | 4 points by hedora 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k (threads.com)
    ×3.62 9 #11 | 850 points by stevenhubertron 11 hours ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Volunteers Step in to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa (nytimes.com)
    ×2.24 21 #73 | 15 points by perihelions 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Friend or Foe: Delegating to an AI Whose Alignment Is Unknown (arxiv.org)
    ×2.83 10 | 5 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order (1x.tech)
    ×3.31 11 #20 | 107 points by denysvitali 9 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties (npr.org)
    ×3.80 26 #37 | 549 points by ilamont 13 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. China Pushes Boundaries with Animal Testing to Win Global Biotech Race (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.08 15 | 4 points by latchkey 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Pipelex – declarative language for repeatable AI workflows (MIT) (github.com/Pipelex)
    ×8.60 28 | 24 points by lchoquel 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Police used Flock cameras to accuse a woman of theft, she had to prove innocence (coloradosun.com)
    ×3.90 30 | 79 points by stevenhubertron 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. John Carmack: "DGX Spark has only half the advertised performance" (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×2.63 26 #38 | 20 points by behnamoh 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. X-59 Soars: A New Era in Supersonic Flight Begins – Oct 28, 2025 (lockheedmartin.com)
    ×2.49 8 | 5 points by bpierre 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Truth is not the same as Fact (secondvoice.substack.com)
    ×1.97 23 | 3 points by jger15 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. No License: The Only Non-Violent License (github.com/uzkbwza)
    ×2.10 30 | 3 points by ivysly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: PDF to Text Without OCR (signmypdf.com)
    ×2.14 35 | 3 points by aqrashik 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Univ of Miami scientists launch accessible global climate modeling framework (miami.edu)
    ×2.22 40 | 3 points by susiecambria 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. FCC Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners' Phone Calls (nytimes.com)
    ×1.93 22 | 8 points by coloneltcb 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste (seated.ro)
    ×1.91 #4 | 173 points by jxmorris12 6 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Texas Attorney General sues Tylenol makers over autism claims (bbc.com)
    ×3.57 33 | 75 points by throw0101a 11 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Senator Cotton blocks effort to make daylight saving time permanent (politico.com)
    ×2.17 41 | 4 points by rurp 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.68 4 #8 | 80 points by tatersolid 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Galactic Empires May Live at the Center of Our Galaxy, Hence Why We Don't Hear (universetoday.com)
    ×2.04 | 5 points by atilimcetin 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. 23% of U.S. adults live with a mental illness (2022) (nih.gov)
    ×1.56 5 #77 | 6 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. OpenAI Completes For-Profit Transition, Pushing Microsoft Above $4T (wsj.com)
    ×1.22 8 #63 | 7 points by doener 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Managing your facial likeness with likeness detection (google.com)
    ×1.30 4 | 3 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud (itsfoss.com)
    ×3.36 26 #40 | 420 points by buyucu 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Rockylinux.org not hosted on Rocky Linux (rockylinux-org.vercel.app)
    ×1.18 18 #22 | 6 points by indigodaddy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Mullvad DNS (mullvad.net)
    ×4.28 24 #86 | 29 points by napolux 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.21 7 | 4 points by moneycantbuy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Westinghouse is claiming a nuclear deal would see $80B of new reactors (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.46 1 #80 | 8 points by atilimcetin 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. KDE Linux deep dive: package mgmt is amazing, which is why we don't include it (pointieststick.com)
    ×1.39 32 | 3 points by MaximilianEmel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Boring is what we wanted (512pixels.net)
    ×1.93 1 #6 | 221 points by Amorymeltzer 7 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: UndatasIO's document parser MCP server is online (undatas.io)
    ×1.04 12 | 3 points by jojogh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Database backups, dump files and restic (strugglers.net)
    ×1.21 26 #21 | 14 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI's labor market squeeze tightens (axios.com)
    ×1.30 41 | 3 points by moneycantbuy 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Open AI Restructures as a For-Profit (nytimes.com)
    ×1.39 21 | 3 points by kumarvvr 54 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Trial investigates how smart flooring could protect from fall-related injuries (surrey.ac.uk)
    ×1.51 51 #55 | 5 points by 1659447091 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Gluing and framing a 9000-piece jigsaw (river.me)
    ×0.93 77 #24 | 3 points by busymom0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts (pabloecortez.com)
    ×7.42 20 #29 | 1002 points by speckx 1 day ago | 459 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia (cnbc.com)
    ×2.44 18 #16 | 145 points by kjhughes 11 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem (basicappleguy.com)
    ×2.58 5 #10 | 343 points by andrem 13 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The decline of deviance (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.38 24 #19 | 109 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Return to Silicon Valley (substrate.com)
    ×0.55 21 | 3 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Discovering state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms (nature.com)
    ×0.93 25 | 4 points by lawrenceyan 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Generative AI Image Editing Showdown (specr.net)
    ×1.38 #5 | 180 points by gaws 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Extinction rates have slowed across many plant and animal groups, study shows (arizona.edu)
    ×0.63 5 #70 | 7 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Red Hat to Distribute Nvidia CUDA Across RHEL, Red Hat AI and OpenShift (phoronix.com)
    ×0.57 46 | 3 points by ashvardanian 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: AI has changed my job for the worse
    ×0.98 28 | 13 points by yodsanklai 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Understanding Docker Internals: Building a Container Runtime in Python (muhammadraza.me)
    ×1.98 58 #87 | 6 points by mr_o47 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Grokipedia by xAI (grokipedia.com)
    ×12.03 18 | 185 points by thsName 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tailscale Services (tailscale.com)
    ×3.20 18 #71 | 66 points by xd1936 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages (eurollm.io)
    ×2.13 5 #3 | 537 points by NotInOurNames 12 hours ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation (lwn.net)
    ×1.80 9 #12 | 152 points by chmaynard 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Tough truths about climate (gatesnotes.com)
    ×4.36 26 | 96 points by ezequiel-garzon 23 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. SuperSonic: SuperCollider in the Browser (sonic-pi.net)
    ×0.91 19 #41 | 15 points by mstep 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Detour: Dynamic linking on Linux without Libc (github.com/graphitemaster)
    ×0.97 78 #47 | 6 points by generichuman 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership (openai.com)
    ×2.26 27 #45 | 338 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The human only public license (vanderessen.com)
    ×1.79 8 #31 | 109 points by zoobab 11 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (simonwillison.net)
    ×5.03 6 | 238 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (pyfound.blogspot.com)
    ×5.63 23 | 704 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 699 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Permit Watch, Turning Ireland's work permits into a job-demand proxy (permitwatch.ie)
    ×1.24 71 | 3 points by fredthedeve 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. HTTPS by default (googleblog.com)
    ×1.51 13 #13 | 122 points by jhalderm 9 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Apache Fory Rust – 10-20x faster serialization than JSON/Protobuf (apache.org)
    ×1.56 34 #88 | 62 points by chaokunyang 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.56 16 #53 | 1525 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 602 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Passkeys: They're not perfect but they're getting better (ncsc.gov.uk)
    ×1.46 15 #58 | 38 points by ashergill 9 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. SwirlDB: Modular-first, CRDT-based embedded database (swirldb.org)
    ×0.88 65 #59 | 7 points by owenm 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Inside Amazon's engineering culture: Lessons from their senior principals (olshansky.substack.com)
    ×1.16 4 #42 | 46 points by Olshansky 7 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels (ijmpr.in)
    ×1.91 35 #54 | 307 points by cachecrab 14 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tell HN: Posteo.de email provider is down
    ×1.17 76 | 3 points by npteljes 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I've been loving Claude Code on the web (ben.page)
    ×1.48 18 #23 | 100 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance (lorenstew.art)
    ×2.95 20 | 227 points by 0xblinq 22 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I made semantic search engine for engineering blogs and conferences (devblogs.sh)
    ×2.11 58 | 9 points by iillexial 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI (noyb.eu)
    ×2.45 17 | 153 points by latexr 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???