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  1. Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout (yale.edu)
    ×5.93 6 #7 | 102 points by mrtksn 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Have Taken Up Farming (dylan.gr)
    ×4.51 30 #32 | 138 points by djnaraps 3 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. US freezes visas for 75 nations (mathrubhumi.com)
    ×15.40 45 | 193 points by cdrnsf 18 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Denmark sends military reinforcements to Greenland (dr.dk)
    ×14.39 14 | 113 points by mooreds 20 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI (passo.uno)
    ×2.88 2 #3 | 79 points by theletterf 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home (theguardian.com)
    ×8.78 81 | 904 points by echelon_musk 21 hours ago | 568 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says (reuters.com)
    ×7.92 44 | 146 points by barishnamazov 16 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. X 'acting to comply with UK law' after outcry over sexualised images (theguardian.com)
    ×4.30 38 | 5 points by beardyw 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Minor says ICE took his iPhone, later found in used-electronics vending machine (propublica.org)
    ×15.32 22 | 177 points by spenvo 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.76 3 #1 | 108 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales (electrek.co)
    ×5.47 24 #37 | 598 points by MBCook 18 hours ago | 783 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible (creepylink.com)
    ×2.62 1 #2 | 430 points by dreadsword 8 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (amazon.com)
    ×2.47 9 #81 | 6 points by nickcotter 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Physics of foam resembles AI training (phys.org)
    ×2.33 4 | 3 points by sebg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
    ×2.81 75 | 123 points by rabinovich 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (nothings.org)
    ×2.34 33 | 3 points by suioir 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Commodore 64 Ultimate review (2026) (theguardian.com)
    ×2.31 13 #44 | 4 points by limbicsystem 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. San Remo Pasta Measurer (toxel.com)
    ×1.39 10 #8 | 14 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The <Geolocation> HTML Element (chrome.com)
    ×1.77 8 #17 | 71 points by enz 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The White House just said your life is worth nothing. Yes, literally. (electrek.co)
    ×3.67 19 #84 | 12 points by FabHK 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card (sunrise-ev.com)
    ×1.42 9 #5 | 30 points by exvi 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app (github.com/cjpais)
    ×1.94 3 #11 | 111 points by tin7in 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year (surinenglish.com)
    ×4.00 50 | 167 points by mooreds 15 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Imperial Boomerang (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.48 24 | 3 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode (github.com/R44VC0RP)
    ×2.81 55 #76 | 157 points by ryanvogel 12 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Apple: You (Still) Don't Understand the Vision Pro (stratechery.com)
    ×3.00 14 #66 | 44 points by m463 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.87 3 #14 | 112 points by blahaj 9 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Formbase – open‑source back end for HTML forms (github.com/formbase-dev)
    ×0.57 8 | 3 points by ephraimduncan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×2.01 3 #9 | 188 points by tmaly 10 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts (afterbabel.com)
    ×3.08 20 #49 | 222 points by paulpauper 16 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Test Your Square Brackets (fluca1978.github.io)
    ×0.46 63 #20 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Claude Cowork exfiltrates files (promptarmor.com)
    ×2.86 3 #4 | 704 points by takira 15 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip (nytimes.com)
    ×2.64 55 | 3 points by mynti 25 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Influentists: AI hype without proof (carette.xyz)
    ×2.72 21 #46 | 224 points by LucidLynx 15 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
    ×2.15 45 | 8 points by adamanteye 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Scott Adams has died (usatoday.com)
    ×7.80 | 423 points by schmuckonwheels 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Adding Dependency Injection to PdfDocument in iText (itextpdf.com)
    ×2.70 59 | 3 points by whizzx 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Crafting Interpreters (craftinginterpreters.com)
    ×2.32 18 #22 | 127 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×2.97 1 #10 | 649 points by susam 19 hours ago | 1818 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Flour Hour – I built a bread baking app with Claude Code in 3 hours (yaninatrekhleb.github.io)
    ×1.71 63 | 4 points by yanina_trekhleb 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Python: Tprof, a Targeting Profiler (adamj.eu)
    ×0.50 67 #29 | 4 points by jonatron 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart (npr.org)
    ×2.97 43 | 190 points by srameshc 19 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC
    ×1.62 25 | 12 points by laffOr 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?
    ×1.45 11 #86 | 16 points by throwaway89201 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Scott Adams has died (youtube.com)
    ×6.59 39 | 1050 points by ekianjo 1 day ago | 1728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files (patrickmccanna.net)
    ×1.53 6 #16 | 112 points by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 10 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source (greg.technology)
    ×2.73 2 #39 | 279 points by evakhoury 19 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Verizon outages reported across U.S. (firstcoastnews.com)
    ×2.38 61 | 224 points by Scubabear68 17 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases (nos.nl)
    ×2.83 25 | 121 points by hvb2 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home) (ianservin.com)
    ×1.15 9 #19 | 61 points by jjwiseman 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Microsoft-Activision deal was meant to help The Embracer Grou (gamefile.news)
    ×1.38 76 #82 | 4 points by firesteelrain 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) (popovicu.com)
    ×0.94 16 #27 | 30 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick (tomrenner.com)
    ×3.71 21 | 109 points by Growtika 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)
    ×5.03 69 | 13 points by MrTravisB 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation (sparkfun.com)
    ×2.65 2 #25 | 471 points by yaleman 21 hours ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: IMSAI/Altair inspired microcomputer with web emulator (gzalo.github.io)
    ×1.94 77 | 4 points by gzalo 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s (furiosa.ai)
    ×1.40 #15 | 183 points by written-beyond 11 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (reddit.com)
    ×5.15 42 | 929 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 711 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Commosta – marketplace to share computing resources (commosta.io)
    ×1.80 76 | 4 points by gkm25 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes (webkit.org)
    ×1.07 12 #12 | 73 points by feross 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR (tavus.io)
    ×1.06 2 #18 | 81 points by code_brian 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Flashlight: Android app that lets you control torch brightness (github.com/rtvkiz)
    ×1.06 74 | 3 points by ritvikarya98 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Claude Code Scheduler (github.com/jshchnz)
    ×2.93 75 | 7 points by jshchnz 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Eigent: An open source Claude Cowork alternative (github.com/eigent-ai)
    ×0.98 31 #55 | 18 points by WorldPeas 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I hate GitHub Actions with passion (xlii.space)
    ×2.71 15 #53 | 457 points by xlii 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×2.20 66 | 12 points by xylo 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.98 6 #36 | 56 points by nemath 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I built a local RAG pipeline to index 28 years of my personal data [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.96 93 | 4 points by botwork 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×3.98 14 | 247 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Find a pub that needs you (ismypubfucked.com)
    ×2.05 10 #23 | 313 points by thinkingemote 20 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Chklst – A Minimalist Checklist (chklst.xyz)
    ×1.20 94 | 3 points by rgbjoy 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now? (eff.org)
    ×1.85 27 #54 | 334 points by hn_acker 18 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Scaling long-running autonomous coding (cursor.com)
    ×1.39 6 #13 | 214 points by samwillis 13 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Beni AI – video call with your AI companion (thebeni.ai)
    ×1.43 99 | 3 points by chaeeunlee9611 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them (swinburne.edu.au)
    ×2.21 17 #43 | 504 points by OptionOfT 22 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK (bbc.com)
    ×2.00 13 #69 | 180 points by FridayoLeary 20 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet (whisper.security)
    ×4.37 23 | 280 points by silencednetizen 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021) (adventure.com)
    ×1.62 2 #52 | 143 points by gyomu 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×0.78 64 | 5 points by powerwordtree 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×4.59 65 | 91 points by treadump 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin (the-berliner.com)
    ×1.80 26 #85 | 140 points by mrzool 19 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers (metabrainz.org)
    ×3.60 23 | 459 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software (marcia.no)
    ×3.46 15 | 391 points by Marciplan 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Servo 2025 Stats (igalia.com)
    ×2.14 22 | 166 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Is Rust faster than C? (steveklabnik.com)
    ×2.19 21 #33 | 285 points by vincentchau 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB (starlink.com)
    ×1.76 5 #34 | 277 points by bahmboo 20 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape (jgc.org)
    ×2.98 6 #50 | 729 points by abnercoimbre 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Games Workshop bans staff from using AI (ign.com)
    ×3.56 24 | 231 points by jsheard 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Introducing tempo (github.com/galaxy-io)
    ×1.00 74 #74 | 9 points by ikswolzok 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Why we don’t use AI (yarnspinner.dev)
    ×3.53 51 | 113 points by parisidau 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???