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  1. A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras (cltampa.com)
    ×3.70 86 | 131 points by UmYeahNo 5 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz (abcnews.com)
    ×2.97 14 #22 | 22 points by russfink 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. 'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making' (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.80 66 | 53 points by robenkleene 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras (theguardian.com)
    ×4.14 25 #34 | 202 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Did They Ghost You? (didtheyghostyou.com)
    ×3.35 20 #21 | 306 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality (stanford.edu)
    ×2.53 39 #49 | 57 points by pod_krad 3 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters (huggingface.co)
    ×2.46 11 #11 | 15 points by nateb2022 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf] (github.com/demo-zexuan)
    ×2.14 5 #7 | 88 points by oliculipolicula 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added (bribes.fyi)
    ×3.76 57 | 69 points by neverenderr 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Turn And Face The Strange (fly.io)
    ×2.89 6 #12 | 146 points by subarctic 5 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Git rebase -I is not that scary (cachebag.sh)
    ×2.47 9 #19 | 13 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Apple seeks U.S. approval to buy memory chips from blacklisted CXMT (fortune.com)
    ×3.09 24 #67 | 33 points by walterbell 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Brazil denies visas to U.S. officials who aimed to impugn electoral system (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.37 29 | 7 points by matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Silicon Valley Splits over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I (nytimes.com)
    ×2.90 30 | 6 points by dkobia 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more (osnews.com)
    ×1.77 27 #42 | 23 points by iamnothere 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Politician reads AI prompt during assembly (youtube.com)
    ×4.05 42 | 66 points by root-parent 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI (wsj.com)
    ×5.09 12 | 59 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.77 12 #4 | 42 points by alphabetatango 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller (github.com/slvDev)
    ×2.67 20 #9 | 85 points by boveyking 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers (adafruit.com)
    ×2.77 32 #50 | 146 points by sambellll 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser (kimi.site)
    ×1.90 74 | 55 points by boveyking 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Quantum internet leaves the lab (northwestern.edu)
    ×2.63 4 | 6 points by hhs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes Was Murdered in Ecuador (dropsitenews.com)
    ×3.88 35 | 74 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Everything Is a File (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.14 13 | 4 points by iacguy 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Phaistos Disc (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.09 15 | 4 points by hypertexthero 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.36 20 #89 | 11 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Kenmore Air crash: How civilians 'saved the day' (seattletimes.com)
    ×2.17 10 #82 | 9 points by ynac 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. George Hotz talk at AMD Advancing AI 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.90 7 | 4 points by chrsw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Nepo – the largest database of nepotism and nepo babies (nepodb.com)
    ×1.82 43 #37 | 5 points by poppypetalmask 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals (debian.org)
    ×2.18 10 #14 | 82 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Who does Anubis actually stop? (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.97 34 #66 | 43 points by type0 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Books can't piss me off
    ×1.96 7 | 4 points by emerongi 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era (uchicago.edu)
    ×1.43 18 #29 | 7 points by jjwiseman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Htmx 4: The Game (htmx.org)
    ×1.99 5 | 5 points by geophph 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The South Carolina town in turmoil over a $545,000 email phishing scam (msn.com)
    ×1.67 3 | 3 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Assumption of Maria (near future sci-fi) (lightspeedmagazine.com)
    ×2.02 8 | 5 points by swernli 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AMD publishes machine-readable ISA so frontier models can write its GPU kernels (theregister.com)
    ×2.16 13 #88 | 13 points by logickkk1 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Zig by Example (neocities.org)
    ×1.67 9 | 3 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (claude.com)
    ×1.81 4 #8 | 173 points by mellosouls 5 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Google Maps Platform adds Isochrones API for travel-time reachability polygons (google.com)
    ×1.53 2 | 3 points by 882542F3884314B 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Desktui – a remote desktop client for your terminal (github.com/mishushakov)
    ×1.69 14 | 4 points by ushakov 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Rudoc – a 4.5MB Rust document converter (github.com/asong56)
    ×1.77 42 #40 | 9 points by sideras56 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Star Axis (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.22 38 #68 | 17 points by Thevet 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Trump's Push to Build Data Centers for the US Military (motherjones.com)
    ×1.77 23 | 4 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Stolen Buttons (anatolyzenkov.com)
    ×2.95 6 #1 | 594 points by Gecko4072 12 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Waymo's driverless cars involved in 68% fewer crashes than human drivers (cbc.ca)
    ×1.84 30 | 4 points by uladzislau 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Should you use AI for a task? Here's a simple way to decide (theguardian.com)
    ×1.40 26 | 3 points by flopsamjetsam 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Systems and Delays (janiczek.cz)
    ×1.06 12 #2 | 20 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage (ieee.org)
    ×1.38 2 #5 | 131 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes (science.org)
    ×1.21 8 #3 | 49 points by EA-3167 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Dark Night of Mathematics (kirwinhampshire.substack.com)
    ×2.43 6 #32 | 174 points by rmdmphilosopher 10 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: SpinWin – A macOS menu bar app to visually rotate or spin any window (github.com/alokdhir)
    ×1.16 8 #27 | 22 points by dbm5 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (knaup.me)
    ×2.41 2 #15 | 316 points by tknaup 11 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Littleman Programming (icfpcontest2026.com)
    ×1.31 51 | 3 points by irs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB (kitsumed.github.io)
    ×3.81 14 #26 | 882 points by shscs911 19 hours ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Hubo – two agents that implement and review code until they agree (github.com/h0ngcha0)
    ×1.24 49 | 3 points by hongchao 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Algorithm-designed photonic circuits beyond human intuition (harvard.edu)
    ×1.16 44 | 3 points by hhs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Claude Opus 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.49 47 #74 | 1740 points by alvis 1 day ago | 1264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI isn't killing consulting. It's killing time as a proxy for value (markwilson.co.uk)
    ×1.40 60 #71 | 4 points by disillusioned1 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of Independent Work (mercatus.org)
    ×1.27 63 #65 | 4 points by dctoedt 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site (brolly.sh)
    ×1.78 3 #18 | 137 points by jsax 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed (karimjedda.com)
    ×2.18 15 #55 | 117 points by kiyanwang 11 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Memory Safety Absolutists (itsallaboutthebit.com)
    ×1.67 25 #17 | 61 points by drogus 8 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News (hnglance.com)
    ×2.25 61 | 5 points by valentinvieriu 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings (mongabay.com)
    ×3.04 17 #20 | 301 points by hn_acker 17 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab (maxmynter.com)
    ×1.17 25 #30 | 19 points by felixdoerp 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Rise of the "Scenario," a Trendy Way of Forecasting Our Dystopian Future (newyorker.com)
    ×1.00 40 #64 | 6 points by lermontov 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. SIMD for Collision (box2d.org)
    ×1.15 14 #6 | 64 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall (wsj.com)
    ×3.84 38 | 315 points by JumpCrisscross 23 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits (coindesk.com)
    ×1.82 34 | 59 points by paulpauper 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN (korben.info)
    ×1.72 22 #16 | 111 points by rfarley04 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Working Async – The new wave of remote work is async-first (workingasync.io)
    ×1.72 58 | 7 points by Log007 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach (cam.ac.uk)
    ×3.65 17 #56 | 565 points by agnishom 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. What if we made advertising illegal? (simone.org)
    ×5.74 56 | 78 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
    ×1.55 20 | 37 points by missmoss 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I made some transistor animations (brandonli.net)
    ×1.38 10 #13 | 137 points by stunningllama 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate? (xn--vk5b17r.online)
    ×2.33 55 #63 | 32 points by theoneone 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. ESP32-C6 Power Consumption: Arduino vs. Zephyr vs. ESP-IDF Comparison (qoitech.com)
    ×1.36 65 #61 | 10 points by hasheddan 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What is the status on continual learning for LLMs?
    ×1.49 70 | 5 points by fred123123 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Harddrive Is Probably Full (marginalia.nu)
    ×1.91 34 #52 | 49 points by ilreb 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks from Current CT Scans (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.23 47 #85 | 8 points by gurjeet 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bitchat is now on Radicle (radicle.network)
    ×1.78 6 #25 | 214 points by h1watt 13 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: new DOS paint app
    ×1.71 85 | 4 points by nourdude 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Pastport – Your iPhone Left an Airbnb (github.com/anupamchugh)
    ×1.18 93 | 3 points by anupamchugh 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I built a blind taste test for Claude and Codex designs (rubenflamshepherd.com)
    ×1.58 86 | 4 points by rubenflamshep 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? (ptrchm.com)
    ×5.44 18 #78 | 842 points by pchm 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: What other professions are software programmers considering?
    ×1.25 98 | 3 points by i_idiot 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota (ammoniaenergy.org)
    ×0.99 9 #10 | 97 points by gritzko 7 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story (theguardian.com)
    ×4.27 28 | 523 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?
    ×1.41 87 | 4 points by mavsman 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???