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  1. AI Responses May Include Mistakes (os2museum.com)
    ×3.19 12 #13 | 136 points by userbinator 3 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech (jacobin.com)
    ×5.12 79 | 11 points by jrepinc 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Google Duo will be replaced by Google Meet in Sept 2025 (9to5google.com)
    ×2.65 22 #28 | 19 points by phantomathkg 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children (thetimes.com)
    ×5.05 29 #43 | 7 points by mnewme 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens (microcenter.com)
    ×4.72 25 #30 | 226 points by modeless 10 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's your most unpopular dev opinion?
    ×3.76 64 | 7 points by Sourabhsss1 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.63 26 #50 | 46 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Taylor Swift Buys Back and Will Reissue First Six Albums (variety.com)
    ×3.92 28 #72 | 8 points by homarp 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Beware of Fast-Math (simonbyrne.github.io)
    ×1.76 1 #1 | 57 points by blobcode 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Learn touch typing – it's worth it (typequicker.com)
    ×2.92 49 #69 | 43 points by absoluteunit1 6 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Gradients Are the New Intervals (mattkeeter.com)
    ×1.97 12 #5 | 17 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. People stuck using ancient Windows computers (bbc.com)
    ×5.19 82 | 6 points by rstreefland 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.20 16 #29 | 100 points by kordlessagain 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. She Got an Abortion. So a Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down (eff.org)
    ×3.41 60 | 4 points by mdp2021 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Italian Brainrot (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.80 24 #82 | 5 points by jruohonen 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What's working for YC companies since the AI boom (jamesin.substack.com)
    ×1.76 1 #3 | 60 points by jseidel 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Could AI Make a Scorsese Movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky Discuss (ft.com)
    ×2.04 21 #56 | 5 points by admp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for tourism workers, despite warnings (latimes.com)
    ×1.90 15 #48 | 6 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Photos taken inside musical instruments (dpreview.com)
    ×3.73 1 #2 | 617 points by worik 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI video just took a startling leap in realism (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.02 22 | 3 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B) (cerebras.ai)
    ×1.85 9 #6 | 43 points by ByteAtATime 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Sorry, I Still Think Mr Is Wrong About Usaid (astralcodexten.com)
    ×1.92 17 | 3 points by Michelangelo11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Hardware IDs, HWID Bans, HWID Spoofers, What Are These? (steemit.com)
    ×1.85 19 | 3 points by kulaciz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. C++ to Rust Phrasebook (brown.edu)
    ×3.35 18 #21 | 54 points by wcrichton 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017) (shot97retro.blogspot.com)
    ×1.88 15 | 3 points by benbreen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Losing the War for the Free Internet (anarc.at)
    ×2.24 8 | 4 points by pabs3 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Simpler Backoff (commaok.xyz)
    ×1.48 #7 | 47 points by todsacerdoti 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine (cnn.com)
    ×4.45 9 #9 | 417 points by lwo32k 19 hours ago | 700 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?
    ×1.10 42 | 6 points by juanse 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Every 5x5 Nonogram (pixelogic.app)
    ×2.06 3 #26 | 60 points by eieio 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Robot is 3D-printed upside-down in one piece, then walks out of the printer (newatlas.com)
    ×0.88 6 #31 | 9 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis (gomomento.com)
    ×2.18 6 #4 | 174 points by cebert 10 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is it all becoming ChatGPT now?
    ×1.07 12 | 3 points by doctorpangloss 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI (bondcap.com)
    ×2.02 #16 | 138 points by kjhughes 10 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine (github.com/wzhudev)
    ×1.74 7 #12 | 99 points by flashblaze 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet (stanford.edu)
    ×2.17 #8 | 272 points by mfiguiere 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Randomness Requirements for Security (ietf.org)
    ×0.73 28 #22 | 8 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
    ×3.31 40 | 145 points by leeny 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal (bloomberg.com)
    ×9.31 12 | 562 points by master_crab 2 days ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I made a metabolic coach chatbot for weight loss
    ×2.38 47 | 5 points by mac-mc 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Vrs: Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia (github.com/leoshimo)
    ×2.51 17 #60 | 121 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.74 12 #20 | 99 points by GreenWatermelon 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Oldest known tools made from whale bones dated to 20k years ago (apnews.com)
    ×0.63 27 #37 | 6 points by gmays 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Microcenter Is Back in California
    ×3.90 52 | 12 points by jedberg 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How large should your sample size be? (vickiboykis.com)
    ×1.01 12 #24 | 25 points by sebg 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Jerry Lewis's “The Day the Clown Cried” discovered in Sweden after 53 years (thenationalnews.com)
    ×1.70 13 #35 | 156 points by danso 12 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers (github.com/onlook-dev)
    ×5.85 15 #74 | 205 points by hoakiet98 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent (github.com/cheyao)
    ×1.69 8 #15 | 151 points by Cyao 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers (github.com/microsandbox)
    ×2.49 11 #17 | 298 points by makeboss 20 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic (wave3.social)
    ×4.30 29 | 286 points by nswizzle31 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Human coders are still better than LLMs (antirez.com)
    ×5.13 29 #76 | 602 points by longwave 1 day ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Leap – Full-stack AI developer agent that deploys to AWS (leap.new)
    ×0.85 #59 | 14 points by machekb 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code (sakana.ai)
    ×2.34 15 #27 | 180 points by birriel 21 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: MCP Defender – OSS AI Firewall for Protecting MCP in Cursor/Claude etc (mcpdefender.com)
    ×0.81 16 #14 | 34 points by gsundeep 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why is the Microsoft Store delivering downloads with different hashes?
    ×2.57 71 | 5 points by nilslindemann 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection (ssrn.com)
    ×1.87 16 #64 | 99 points by marojejian 17 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tell HN: eBay doesn't allow changing country
    ×1.39 42 | 7 points by peterburkimsher 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 (anemato.de)
    ×1.72 11 #10 | 282 points by anematode 17 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Java Virtual Threads Ate My Memory: A Web Crawler's Tale of Speed vs. Memory (medium.com)
    ×1.17 15 #19 | 70 points by dariobalinzo 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to improve interview skill?
    ×0.71 41 | 4 points by gogo61 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?
    ×2.16 21 #61 | 210 points by VladVladikoff 22 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work (capjs.js.org)
    ×1.57 14 #23 | 132 points by tiagorangel 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Glyde – MCP based AI website builder that uses 21st.dev (glyde.world)
    ×1.36 91 | 3 points by AdewoleJasper 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services (acm.org)
    ×1.89 8 #18 | 328 points by tanelpoder 20 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups (thriftytraveler.com)
    ×3.71 21 | 299 points by _tqr3 1 day ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Smart Silence – Remind your iPhone to stay quiet in quiet places (apple.com)
    ×1.00 21 #33 | 36 points by ebagsnave 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. When will M&S take online orders again? (moneyweek.com)
    ×1.47 9 #47 | 74 points by fredley 16 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Identifying Unmarked Iron (castironcollector.com)
    ×0.38 41 #34 | 6 points by lelandfe 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Who Cares Era (dansinker.com)
    ×6.77 5 | 681 points by NotInOurNames 2 days ago | 709 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. We'll backtest your trading strategy for you
    ×2.44 74 | 8 points by growbell_social 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Lumina Functional Programming Language (github.com/luminalang)
    ×2.61 87 | 6 points by simvux 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Personal Ambient Computing (chrbutler.com)
    ×1.30 38 #81 | 14 points by delaugust 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa) (thisdavej.com)
    ×1.35 20 #32 | 87 points by thisdavej 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure (wasp.sh)
    ×1.12 17 #38 | 62 points by Liriel 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Adam Riess and the Hubble tension (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.39 25 #36 | 84 points by samizdis 18 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ray Tracing in J (nprescott.com)
    ×0.99 21 #25 | 64 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return (wordpress.com)
    ×3.41 11 | 313 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 598 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Website Does Not Exist (thiswebsitedoesnotexist.net)
    ×7.77 106 | 15 points by jehna1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.31 16 #57 | 177 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator (netbymatt.com)
    ×3.00 33 #78 | 687 points by adam_gyroscope 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: Hardware for 1k RPS?
    ×0.46 66 | 3 points by gsky 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The radix 2^51 trick (2017) (chosenplaintext.ca)
    ×2.02 14 #52 | 403 points by blobcode 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Public transportation departure board (stationdisplay.com)
    ×1.42 39 | 20 points by sschueller 19 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. TinyAPL part 1: Introduction and Arrays (rubenverg.com)
    ×0.83 33 #83 | 12 points by ofalkaed 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. FLUX.1 Kontext (bfl.ai)
    ×2.69 17 #70 | 504 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful (blueberrywren.dev)
    ×1.14 2 #39 | 127 points by blueberry87 17 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tell HN: Namecheap pre-purchasing searched domain names?
    ×1.79 60 | 19 points by iamtoomas 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. My website is ugly because I made it (goodinternetmagazine.com)
    ×3.20 23 | 533 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. AI: Accelerated Incompetence (slater.dev)
    ×4.88 37 | 301 points by stevekrouse 2 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Deepseek R1-0528 (huggingface.co)
    ×4.07 5 | 430 points by error404x 2 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???