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  1. My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary (square.site)
    ×3.59 #3 | 108 points by wallflower 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  2. Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access (theregister.com)
    ×3.15 12 #19 | 38 points by beardyw 2 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  3. All of DOGE's work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.98 80 | 11 points by doener 56 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  4. Local LLM App by Ente (ente.com)
    ×2.37 #1 | 95 points by matthiaswh 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  5. Miscellanea: The War in Iran (acoup.blog)
    ×4.71 68 | 118 points by decimalenough 10 hours ago | 147 comments | ??? ???
  6. Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety (bbc.com)
    ×2.72 #2 | 305 points by testrun 5 hours ago | 167 comments | ??? ???
  7. Is anybody else bored of talking about AI? (jakesaunders.dev)
    ×6.21 45 #58 | 677 points by jakelsaunders94 17 hours ago | 463 comments | ??? ???
  8. Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains (xda-developers.com)
    ×6.46 19 #28 | 1086 points by felineflock 19 hours ago | 389 comments | ??? ???
  9. Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change (army.mil)
    ×3.71 71 | 148 points by Jimmc414 10 hours ago | 170 comments | ??? ???
  10. Claude Is Down
    ×5.22 85 | 11 points by haebom 28 minutes ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Slow Down
    ×1.99 48 | 9 points by jacquesm 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  12. Why I forked httpx (tildeweb.nl)
    ×2.31 3 #8 | 166 points by roywashere 6 hours ago | 114 comments | ??? ???
  13. Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×5.36 39 | 204 points by timpera 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How does one get rich in 2026?
    ×2.37 20 | 7 points by roschdal 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  15. Oil at $150 will trigger global recession, says boss of financial BlackRock (bbc.com)
    ×4.09 26 | 69 points by tartoran 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  16. Changing One Constant Reduced Our CI Memory Usage by 70% (coder.com)
    ×2.88 62 | 5 points by spikecurtis1 48 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  17. Polymarket Bets on Trump Actions Under Scrutiny (aljazeera.com)
    ×2.20 23 | 3 points by ordu 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  18. Goodbye to Sora (twitter.com/soraofficialapp)
    ×4.78 4 #6 | 877 points by mikeocool 18 hours ago | 639 comments | ??? ???
  19. I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced (bbc.com)
    ×1.49 14 #18 | 103 points by dabinat 3 hours ago | 112 comments | ??? ???
  20. Eulogy for Open Source (opensourcesecurity.io)
    ×2.03 25 | 3 points by donutshop 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  21. Meta ordered to pay $375M in New Mexico trial over child exploitation (reuters.com)
    ×3.01 37 | 74 points by gostsamo 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  22. RustDesk gets removed from WinGet after ESET marks it as potentially unsafe (twitter.com/rustdesk)
    ×2.08 28 | 3 points by super256 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  23. The AI Industry Is Lying to You (wheresyoured.at)
    ×5.70 19 | 155 points by spking 20 hours ago | 124 comments | ??? ???
  24. A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully. (nytimes.com)
    ×2.05 42 | 4 points by bookofjoe 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  25. The Terminal I Wished Existed, So I Built It (yaw.sh)
    ×3.92 73 | 5 points by tkjef 30 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  26. Show HN: I built a free CharacterAI that runs locally (github.com/akdeb)
    ×2.19 14 | 5 points by akadeb 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  27. Europe facing fuel shortage within days, warns Shell boss (yahoo.com)
    ×3.08 60 | 4 points by alecco 32 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  28. Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny (bbc.com)
    ×4.97 22 #54 | 504 points by psim1 23 hours ago | 364 comments | ??? ???
  29. Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms (cnn.com)
    ×3.72 36 | 158 points by billfor 16 hours ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  30. VNDB founder Yorhel has died (vndb.org)
    ×1.89 5 #12 | 94 points by indrora 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  31. Show HN: CI/CD in your terminal, zero YAML (zippy.sh)
    ×2.03 25 | 4 points by svanderbijl 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  32. Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines (mropert.github.io)
    ×1.48 8 #20 | 83 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  33. NASA Lays Out Ambitious Plans for Moon Base and Nuclear Mars Mission (universetoday.com)
    ×1.27 33 | 3 points by inaros 51 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  34. Today's Layoffs (epicgames.com)
    ×6.07 23 | 67 points by adrianhon 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  35. US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×3.82 12 #86 | 106 points by cdrnsf 17 hours ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  36. TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression (research.google)
    ×1.97 4 #4 | 300 points by ray__ 9 hours ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  37. Show HN: PSFuturemail – Write a letter and forget it until it arrives (psfuturemail.com)
    ×2.20 37 | 4 points by itspawanhere 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  38. The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI (danielhomola.com)
    ×4.77 30 | 263 points by dankai 23 hours ago | 390 comments | ??? ???
  39. FCC has banned the import of all new foreign-made routers here's what you can do (adafruit.com)
    ×4.33 2 | 105 points by ptorrone 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  40. GitHub is once again down (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.29 50 #76 | 365 points by MattIPv4 18 hours ago | 189 comments | ??? ???
  41. Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers (theregister.com)
    ×3.94 14 | 141 points by beardyw 20 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  42. Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11 (sambent.com)
    ×4.82 21 #43 | 993 points by h0ek 1 day ago | 718 comments | ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller (videojs.org)
    ×2.72 6 #10 | 493 points by Heff 17 hours ago | 98 comments | ??? ???
  44. Flighty Airports (flighty.com)
    ×2.23 7 #7 | 390 points by skogstokig 13 hours ago | 144 comments | ??? ???
  45. ApiArk – an open-source, local-first Postman alternative (github.com/berbicanes)
    ×2.31 67 | 4 points by matijash 22 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  46. Young Graduates Face the Grimmest Job Market in Years (nytimes.com)
    ×3.44 8 | 73 points by koolba 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  47. So where are all the AI apps? (answer.ai)
    ×3.78 14 #60 | 420 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 386 comments | ??? ???
  48. Building a coding agent in Swift from scratch (github.com/ivan-magda)
    ×0.79 37 #13 | 14 points by vanyaland 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  49. Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised (github.com/BerriAI)
    ×3.93 16 #9 | 795 points by dot_treo 1 day ago | 450 comments | ??? ???
  50. Apple Rolls Out Age Verification Requirements for UK Users (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.40 44 | 3 points by miohtama 26 minutes ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  51. Apple introduces age verification for iCloud accounts in the UK (engadget.com)
    ×0.59 58 | 4 points by scrlk 35 minutes ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  52. VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS (v-os.dev)
    ×1.66 10 #5 | 234 points by felixding 11 hours ago | 138 comments | ??? ???
  53. Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls (reuters.com)
    ×2.86 12 #46 | 343 points by doughnutstracks 19 hours ago | 530 comments | ??? ???
  54. The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV (historytoday.com)
    ×1.07 15 #22 | 42 points by Petiver 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  55. Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 PyPI package – credential stealer (github.com/BerriAI)
    ×3.53 64 | 730 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  56. OLAP GraphDB: CSR analytical views coexisting with OLTP (with LDBC benchmarks) (arcadedb.com)
    ×1.49 49 | 3 points by lvca 22 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  57. The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent (fortune.com)
    ×7.58 58 | 69 points by cols 1 day ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  58. Why did the chicken cross the road? (taylor.town)
    ×0.87 29 #67 | 35 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  59. Apple Business (apple.com)
    ×2.83 5 #14 | 674 points by soheilpro 22 hours ago | 379 comments | ??? ???
  60. LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash (theguardian.com)
    ×2.77 4 #52 | 377 points by m_fayer 23 hours ago | 291 comments | ??? ???
  61. In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC (ieee.org)
    ×1.65 17 #11 | 201 points by jnord 13 hours ago | 241 comments | ??? ???
  62. Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.74 29 #16 | 25 points by zdw 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  63. Minutes before Trump's announcement, $800M in trades made on oil prices (9news.com.au)
    ×7.98 56 | 68 points by inaros 1 day ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  64. USA bans all new routers for consumers (heise.de)
    ×3.95 36 | 66 points by esher 1 day ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  65. You can run a DNS server (2025) (simonsafar.com)
    ×1.34 14 #21 | 109 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 72 comments | ??? ???
  66. Apple launches age verification for UK iPhone users (politico.eu)
    ×1.48 50 | 3 points by miohtama 17 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  67. Algorithm Visualizer (algorithm-visualizer.org)
    ×1.66 21 #23 | 154 points by vinhnx 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  68. March, 19-21: God is a comedian (no01.substack.com)
    ×3.77 26 | 102 points by tastyface 1 day ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: How do you feel when your coding assistant loses context?
    ×0.30 4 | 3 points by noduerme 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  70. Fiber optic cables reveal a serious problem at the heart of modern farming (grist.org)
    ×1.39 9 #31 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 16 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  71. I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job (onhand.pro)
    ×1.80 6 #15 | 356 points by tezclarke 17 hours ago | 146 comments | ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Herd – A Go sidecar to stop stateful processes Puppeteer/LLMs from OOM
    ×1.97 62 | 6 points by sankalpnarula 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  73. Claude Code Cheat Sheet (storyfox.cz)
    ×4.34 2 #72 | 658 points by phasE89 1 day ago | 185 comments | ??? ???
  74. Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts (theguardian.com)
    ×4.76 31 | 191 points by trocado 1 day ago | 183 comments | ??? ???
  75. A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf] (caltech.edu)
    ×0.90 12 #73 | 20 points by kristianp 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  76. Show HN: TopMail – LaunchFest Winner, $20/Mo Unlimited Email, Coding Agents API (topmail.so)
    ×3.87 63 | 12 points by njarecki 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  77. Implementing automatic eSIM installation on Android (medium.com)
    ×0.87 14 #55 | 33 points by nesterenkopavel 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  78. Show HN: RentDataNow – free rent data for 4k US cities and 8k ZIP codes (rentdatanow.com)
    ×2.32 67 | 6 points by misterinfo 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search (github.com/ssrajadh)
    ×2.12 24 #27 | 375 points by sohamrj 23 hours ago | 95 comments | ??? ???
  80. Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question (opper.ai)
    ×1.55 43 #39 | 77 points by felix089 16 hours ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  81. Show HN: RemoteDevJobs – AI-curated remote developer positions with scoring (remotedvjobs.com)
    ×1.38 64 | 5 points by remotedvjons 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  82. Missile defense is NP-complete (smu160.github.io)
    ×2.20 25 #32 | 360 points by O3marchnative 1 day ago | 382 comments | ??? ???
  83. Does nobody care about not being able to copy from Slack anymore?
    ×1.80 71 | 5 points by neal_caffrey 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  84. American aviation is near collapse? (theatlantic.com)
    ×4.01 49 | 110 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 101 comments | ??? ???
  85. Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem (epoch.ai)
    ×3.10 14 #61 | 463 points by in-silico 1 day ago | 673 comments | ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML (emailmd.dev)
    ×1.81 29 #24 | 327 points by dancablam 22 hours ago | 85 comments | ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Vedic Astroglogy (rasiandrise.com)
    ×1.20 70 | 4 points by simple_elephant 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  88. Arm AGI CPU (arm.com)
    ×1.70 22 #17 | 369 points by RealityVoid 20 hours ago | 279 comments | ??? ???
  89. US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects (lemonde.fr)
    ×3.72 6 | 439 points by lode 1 day ago | 376 comments | ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Mapping the most convenient ways to meet someone with public transit (commutometer.com)
    ×2.32 66 | 12 points by acavailhez 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???