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  1. X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform (nytimes.com)
    ×4.77 22 #24 | 267 points by donohoe 4 hours ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome (reuters.com)
    ×5.22 42 #55 | 17 points by jmsflknr 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Solar becomes top source of electricity in California (pv-magazine-usa.com)
    ×3.54 32 #43 | 24 points by martinpw 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Jank Programming Language (jank-lang.org)
    ×2.98 1 #5 | 71 points by akkad33 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.69 64 #71 | 114 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap (cnbc.com)
    ×3.92 43 #57 | 90 points by mfiguiere 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes (theverge.com)
    ×4.54 21 #31 | 323 points by thunderbong 10 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.15 66 | 7 points by azinman2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A simple monthly injection allows mice to live 25% longer and free from diseases (elpais.com)
    ×2.47 16 #48 | 8 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Managed Postgres Overview (fly.io)
    ×3.08 41 | 5 points by sergiotapia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Guixotic, a Guix/Guile worker cooperative (gnu.org)
    ×3.77 52 | 5 points by alexkehayias 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Knowing Steam players are hoarders explains why you give Valve that 30% (pcgamer.com)
    ×1.88 29 #49 | 22 points by musha68k 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone (github.com/lraton)
    ×1.60 1 #2 | 75 points by iraton 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car (nytimes.com)
    ×2.20 31 #79 | 9 points by breadwinner 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Major autism study uncovers biologically distinct subtypes (princeton.edu)
    ×3.43 53 | 5 points by bookofjoe 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (tedium.co)
    ×1.75 12 #7 | 13 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Trump appointees stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts (yahoo.com)
    ×4.37 68 | 6 points by ivape 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Perplexity Comet (perplexity.ai)
    ×2.42 23 #28 | 18 points by birriel 35 minutes ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What Trump's Big Beautiful Bill means for Wi-Fi 6E and 7 users: It's not pretty (zdnet.com)
    ×2.77 36 | 4 points by CrankyBear 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Nvidia-backed Perplexity takes on Google with new AI-powered browser (qz.com)
    ×2.92 42 | 4 points by mikece 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tree Borrows (ethz.ch)
    ×1.91 #1 | 288 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Magenta: Infinite Crate – Live Generative Music VST (magenta.withgoogle.com)
    ×2.88 44 | 4 points by ukd1 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. (ieee.org)
    ×1.92 19 #14 | 26 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Build visual AI workflows from a prompt – OCR, detection, editing and more (google.com)
    ×3.77 64 | 5 points by fzysingularity 38 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web (websmith.studio)
    ×3.09 22 #34 | 250 points by pumbaa 10 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (theguardian.com)
    ×12.20 1 | 518 points by mhga 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AI Makes It Look Good. Craft Makes It Matter (vjy.me)
    ×1.59 30 #88 | 5 points by realvjy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Symbolic 'science fair' showcases research cut by Trump team (nature.com)
    ×1.91 5 | 3 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Cool Symbols (copysymbol.cc)
    ×2.60 18 | 4 points by artiomyak 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Inertia.js in Rails: a new era of effortless integration (2024) (evilmartians.com)
    ×2.00 10 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Architecture Behind Lovable and Bolt (beam.cloud)
    ×1.53 5 #12 | 32 points by Mernit 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Robot surgery on humans could be trialled within decade after success on pigs (theguardian.com)
    ×1.92 9 | 3 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Ghost of Muriel Spark (newstatesman.com)
    ×2.11 17 | 3 points by Caiero 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Proposing: The American Autonomy Initiative (boydinstitute.org)
    ×2.13 39 | 4 points by jeffgiesea 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 (europa.eu)
    ×5.21 46 | 263 points by toomuchtodo 19 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Evolution Mail Users Easily Trackable (grepular.com)
    ×1.29 2 #4 | 52 points by mike-cardwell 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI Agents ≠ Zapier–A Better Mental Model
    ×1.97 12 | 3 points by chandan_maruthi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Reverse-engineering 100 devtool landing pages (evilmartians.com)
    ×2.10 18 | 3 points by vicamelnikova 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. TikTok Sans (google.com)
    ×1.80 7 | 3 points by Tiberium 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Unpatchable Vulnerabilities in Windows 10/11: Security Report 2025 (zenodo.org)
    ×1.79 8 | 3 points by vinhatson 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. California achieved significant groundwater recharge last year (latimes.com)
    ×1.96 15 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How CPython 3.11 quietly made a popular optimization irrelevant (codingconfessions.com)
    ×2.06 21 | 3 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Perplexity just launched Comet, an AI web browser (theverge.com)
    ×1.73 3 | 3 points by cpeterso 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Goldman Wants Quarterly Loyalty Updates (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.18 25 | 3 points by ioblomov 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. All These Notes Don't Pay My Needs, Beethoven's Income (beethoven.de)
    ×2.13 26 | 3 points by brudgers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale (bentasker.co.uk)
    ×1.28 8 #8 | 23 points by gm678 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 (abortretry.fail)
    ×2.04 27 | 3 points by rbanffy 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.95 28 | 3 points by _tk_ 59 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent (github.com/snap-stanford)
    ×2.17 6 #3 | 11 points by GavCo 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (theregister.com)
    ×8.08 2 | 308 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Let Kids Be Loud (afterbabel.com)
    ×2.85 55 | 4 points by trevin 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations (retractionwatch.com)
    ×3.10 18 #64 | 116 points by ArmageddonIt 12 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Product Categories Supporting Option Breadth (varietyiq.com)
    ×1.41 24 | 3 points by efavdb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A fast 3D collision detection algorithm (cairno.substack.com)
    ×1.49 2 #6 | 126 points by OlympicMarmoto 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why I'm skeptical of Ground News (sjodle.com)
    ×3.12 49 #46 | 37 points by blowenopdestoep 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI (jacob.gold)
    ×1.95 52 #76 | 103 points by feep 8 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.34 18 #13 | 480 points by gausswho 21 hours ago | 449 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Stravu – Editable, multi-player AI notebooks with text, tables, diagram
    ×2.46 32 | 5 points by wek 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. From MIT, an instruction manual for turning research into startups (mit.edu)
    ×1.96 40 | 3 points by gnabgib 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand (zdnet.com)
    ×2.60 9 #52 | 122 points by saubeidl 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Todo2 – AI Project Manager Inside Cursor (todo2.pro)
    ×0.88 16 | 3 points by adam-pavlat 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)
    ×5.17 38 | 453 points by bundie 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A Truth Table Generator Written in Common Lisp (manoel.dev)
    ×5.68 62 | 16 points by lerax 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Comet Browser by Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
    ×0.96 47 #44 | 7 points by RobinL 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. TaIrTe₄ photodetectors show promise for sensitive room-temperature THz sensing (phys.org)
    ×0.51 80 #21 | 3 points by wglb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)
    ×3.80 9 #17 | 733 points by jonkuipers 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (florian-kraemer.net)
    ×2.04 6 #15 | 241 points by BerislavLopac 12 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops 1k facial recognition arrests (theregister.com)
    ×1.35 17 #85 | 14 points by rntn 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.22 18 #10 | 64 points by neversaydie 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow (github.com/oisee)
    ×1.29 2 #16 | 104 points by weinzierl 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I built "Schnippi", my dream screenshot Chrome extension (google.com)
    ×1.62 83 | 3 points by sagering 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)
    ×3.78 7 #37 | 802 points by rexpository 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×2.24 21 #20 | 200 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Snub – A fast, lightweight file search CLI for Windows (written in C) (github.com/seeyebe)
    ×1.61 66 | 5 points by seeyebe 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Capacity, Performance, and Reliability of MicroSD Cards (bahjeez.com)
    ×1.61 1 #78 | 48 points by userbinator 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression (7-zip.org)
    ×1.95 17 #18 | 220 points by doener 15 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
    ×4.97 52 | 76 points by Eatcats 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?
    ×3.17 21 | 86 points by pedrodelfino 23 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Section-174 is reversed: all US-based R&D expenses are now deductible (afternoon.co)
    ×2.84 51 | 3 points by romanzubenko 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: Does your on-call rotation suck? Can I join it?
    ×1.17 49 | 6 points by asciifree 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)
    ×4.50 9 #69 | 490 points by cantdutchthis 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)
    ×6.76 12 #87 | 1209 points by adrianh 2 days ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Splice: Cable Harness Design Made Simple (splice-cad.com)
    ×0.61 20 #36 | 12 points by nateb2022 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: Is every company's internal wiki just broken by default?
    ×1.38 9 | 28 points by NanaAmun 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know (prateekcodes.dev)
    ×1.23 11 #11 | 176 points by thomas_witt 10 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left (medium.com)
    ×1.00 6 #9 | 150 points by gabiteodoru 8 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. ESIM Security (security-explorations.com)
    ×1.14 8 #29 | 107 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Slack is just the worst – and I've used a BBS and 14.4k modem
    ×3.90 95 | 13 points by sincethebbsera 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Is the doc bot docs, or not? (robinsloan.com)
    ×1.24 3 #26 | 176 points by tobr 12 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)
    ×9.20 50 | 680 points by AndrewSwift 3 days ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???