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Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP (atlantafed.org)

×9.24 73 #75 | 187 points by awnird 2 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dow tumbles 800 points as Trump confirms tariffs on Mexico/Canada start Tuesday (cnn.com)

×11.71 78 | 33 points by voisin 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe (lemonde.fr)

×9.80 76 | 24 points by doener 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died (npr.org)

×5.93 24 #28 | 167 points by anigbrowl 4 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple's Software Quality Crisis (eliseomartelli.it)

×5.79 14 #24 | 221 points by ajdude 6 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla owners get creative to distance themselves from Elon Musk (electrek.co)

×7.11 63 | 13 points by zfg 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A New AI Worry: Many Young Coders No Longer Know How Their Code Works (inc.com)

×4.11 16 #42 | 31 points by namanyayg 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PFAS in fertilisers blamed for killing livestock in Texas and wreaking havoc (chemistryworld.com)

×3.63 19 #35 | 56 points by chiffre01 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Repairable Flatpack Toaster (kaseyhou.com)

×2.76 #1 | 157 points by t-3 1 hour ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A crypto mogul who bought Trump coins is getting a reprieve on fraud charges (cnn.com)

×6.26 35 | 12 points by TheAlchemist 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia shares fall 9% or $265B off on tariff fears (cnbc.com)

×6.98 66 | 11 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tianjin robot incident raises alarm over public safety and robotics (businesskorea.co.kr)

×2.40 88 | 72 points by hkmaxpro 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal (theregister.com)

×3.32 23 #40 | 101 points by rntn 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Youth and what happens when it's gone (tolstoyan.substack.com)

×3.80 79 #87 | 281 points by mattgreenrocks 7 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Treasury ends enforcement of business ownership database (nbcnews.com)

×3.88 40 | 9 points by dralley 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transgender troops will be removed from the military (nbcnews.com)

×4.70 47 | 8 points by fulladder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Urban Dead is shutting down (urbandead.com)

×3.13 15 #31 | 30 points by ColinWright 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You can't build a cloud on a cloud (railway.com)

×4.63 50 | 8 points by justjake 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China came to dominate the world in renewable energy (washingtonpost.com)

×5.58 71 | 10 points by boshomi 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bocoup Is Now Worker-Owned (bocoup.com)

×2.88 29 #60 | 55 points by jugglinmike 4 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Order Doesn’t Matter, But Reasoning Does (arxiv.org)

×2.62 59 | 14 points by spaintech 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Call centres using AI to 'whiten' Indian accents (telegraph.co.uk)

×3.77 23 | 8 points by hkmaxpro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Options traders are bracing for a stock-market crash (marketwatch.com)

×2.79 10 #65 | 17 points by hjjkjhkj 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Treasury ends enforcement of database meant to stop shell company formation (go.com)

×3.33 22 | 6 points by srameshc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967 (stlartsupply.com)

×2.63 #12 | 161 points by apokryptein 5 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Citi group accidentally sends someone $81T (bloomberg.com)

×2.75 5 #81 | 13 points by hurrell 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TSMC will reportedly invest $100B to expand US chip fab buildouts (arstechnica.com)

×1.95 3 #51 | 18 points by whiteboardr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MIT IAP open education courses on diffusion and data-centric AI (mitsoul.org)

×2.79 17 | 5 points by ashayathalye 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video] (fosdem.org)

×1.57 3 #2 | 46 points by bestorworse 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Technology specialists who worked across the federal government are fired (nytimes.com)

×2.36 20 | 6 points by asnyder 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?

×2.12 37 | 34 points by NewUser76312 5 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar (reuters.com)

×6.33 17 #55 | 738 points by boguscoder 21 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opera becomes the first major browser with AI-based agentic browsing (opera.com)

×2.25 8 | 4 points by dizzydes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403 (aoli.al)

×1.88 3 #16 | 79 points by aoli-al 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TSMC announces $100B investment in US chipmaking (theverge.com)

×2.18 10 | 4 points by fosterfriends 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ronald Read – Philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant (wikipedia.org)

×1.64 28 | 10 points by thecosas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread (apnews.com)

×1.84 12 #10 | 69 points by geox 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Enabling Touch ID for sudo on macOS, before and after Sonoma (2023) (adriankwiatkowski.eu)

×2.16 16 | 4 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NLnet Foundation: We fund projects that help fix the internet (nlnet.nl)

×2.10 18 | 4 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022) (tmm.cx)

×1.66 12 #17 | 47 points by wibbily 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BYD cars now have an on-vehicle DJI drone launch platform (theverge.com)

×1.95 4 #68 | 22 points by nickthegreek 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Banking's critical functions are vanishing into the cloud (ft.com)

×1.96 10 #57 | 4 points by anigbrowl 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wanna save Intel? Fire the board, bring back Pat, ex-CEO Craig Barrett says (theregister.com)

×7.34 77 | 10 points by rntn 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects (wired.com)

×1.67 3 #80 | 12 points by jonbaer 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA shows shock waves as Boom's supersonic demonstrator breaks sound barrier (boomsupersonic.com)

×1.61 7 | 3 points by amichail 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Have any of you switched away from Dropbox?

×1.48 5 | 6 points by barbequeer 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nukes are not going to save Taiwan (taipology.substack.com)

×1.46 13 | 3 points by eagleislandsong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Letter to the American People (18f.org)

×12.63 3 | 1013 points by erentz 2 days ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AgenticMemory: Zettelkasten inspired agentic memory system (github.com/WujiangXu)

×1.55 4 #29 | 49 points by simonpure 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: XsAI – A < 6KB Vercel AI SDK Alternative (moeru.ai)

×3.67 37 | 7 points by kwaa 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
23andMe Special Committee Rejects Acquisition Proposal from CEO Anne Wojcicki (23andme.com)

×2.56 9 #70 | 4 points by ilamont 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting (bbc.com)

×19.15 2 | 2891 points by yakkomajuri 3 days ago | 4989 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SQLite-on-the-Server Is Misunderstood: Better at Hyper-Scale Than Micro-Scale (rivet.gg)

×1.54 4 #7 | 136 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DARPA Project Reveals One Person Can Control Dozens of Robots (ieee.org)

×1.37 14 #9 | 59 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opera's AI Browser Operator (opera.com)

×1.41 5 | 3 points by xnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oil crisis two point oh (pluralistic.net)

×1.71 12 | 3 points by daralthus 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Over 60k Volkswagen and Audi electric cars recalled for risk of rollaway (nbcnews.com)

×1.74 13 | 3 points by huang_chung 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coreweave S-1 (sec.gov)

×2.65 31 | 4 points by calvinfo 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office (twitter.com/EthanEvansVP)

×6.88 18 | 579 points by kappi 1 day ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Generating Random Art in Haskell (github.com/jamesma100)

×2.07 41 | 4 points by battle-racket 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Socrates is a state machine: sans IO with async Rust (sminez.dev)

×1.46 16 #89 | 8 points by fanf2 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LeetGPU – LeetCode for GPU Programming (leetgpu.com)

×1.52 43 | 3 points by kmans 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nomadic infrastructure design for AI workloads (tigrisdata.com)

×0.98 7 #47 | 12 points by xena 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One Logo, Three Companies (estilofilos.blogspot.com)

×1.20 13 #8 | 54 points by ghc 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debunking the Myth of Join Ordering: Toward Robust SQL Analytics (arxiv.org)

×1.47 53 #58 | 7 points by ksec 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is X.com's (Twitter) Tor Broken?

×0.93 9 | 5 points by tonymet 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The power of interning: making a time series database smaller (gendignoux.com)

×1.40 2 #5 | 198 points by todsacerdoti 5 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)

×1.55 5 #4 | 226 points by whoishiring 6 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon’s delivery drones are grounded in College Station, Texas (wired.com)

×2.14 5 #62 | 108 points by impish9208 10 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Nabataeans Are Coming (historytoday.com)

×0.90 24 #23 | 14 points by diodorus 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit (icode4.coffee)

×1.17 3 #3 | 146 points by kevincox 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v Confirm ID (ericgoldman.org)

×0.67 56 #26 | 5 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Why spend $$$ on data when robots can learn from us? (point-policy.github.io)

×1.76 63 | 4 points by siddhanthaldar 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: von Neumann could have invented quantum computing in 1946 [pdf] (torsor.io)

×1.84 78 | 3 points by caedrix 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cautious Optimizers: Improving Training with One Line of Code (arxiv.org)

×1.10 15 #30 | 38 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Go-attention: A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure Go (github.com/takara-ai)

×1.28 18 #21 | 70 points by PaulHoule 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VT220 Font Emulation in Browser (janiczek.cz)

×0.63 80 #45 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

×1.31 10 #20 | 103 points by whoishiring 6 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Origins of the "++" and "--" Operators

×1.69 1 | 36 points by wpollock 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US to halt offensive cyber operations against Russia (techcrunch.com)

×2.93 41 | 4 points by Bhilai 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Regulatory gridlock in the U.S. risks losing the drone arms race (seanobannon.substack.com)

×1.29 29 #36 | 43 points by seanobannon 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dash AI – open-source Superhuman alternative for email productivity (getdash.ai)

×1.22 74 | 3 points by bobdaren76 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees (techcrunch.com)

×5.16 11 | 369 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-Source Windows AI assistant that uses Word, Excel through COM (github.com/Alkali-Sim)

×1.20 25 #33 | 51 points by edmgood 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable [fixed] (nslookup.io)

×5.45 10 | 486 points by raphman 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking Back at Speculative Decoding (research.google)

×0.72 27 #25 | 19 points by veryluckyxyz 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll (focusfurnace.com)

×2.96 8 #50 | 583 points by hello12343214 20 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evals are not all you need (marble.onl)

×0.87 26 #27 | 31 points by amarble 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs (github.com/wild-card-ai)

×1.00 23 #13 | 64 points by yompal 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Slashdot?

×1.48 55 | 7 points by logicallee 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???