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Small Penis Rule (wikipedia.org)

×4.39 31 #35 | 107 points by chistev 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)

×5.46 77 | 123 points by deely3 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough (techcrunch.com)

×4.70 81 | 126 points by msolujic 5 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (heise.de)

×6.75 26 #38 | 371 points by stavros 10 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reparaible and open source paper printer (opentools.studio)

×2.77 #1 | 99 points by bouh 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs (tomshardware.com)

×3.11 18 #27 | 74 points by logickkk1 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Driving in China as a Tourist (ian.sh)

×3.33 20 #56 | 24 points by appwiz 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of Flipper Zero development (flipper.net)

×2.63 3 #6 | 156 points by croes 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy (segflow.github.io)

×2.81 9 #17 | 15 points by mrngm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Europe's new climate in seven charts (bbc.com)

×5.98 41 | 144 points by saikatsg 12 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you guys happy with existing social networkin apps?

×4.37 52 | 8 points by julienreszka 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)

×3.68 #2 | 704 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tripadvisor AI summaries give glowing reviews to dangerous hotels (euronews.com)

×2.34 27 #46 | 20 points by jethronethro 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mental Models I Use to Work with AI (metedata.substack.com)

×3.04 21 #78 | 10 points by young_mete 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix (localghost.dev)

×4.43 59 | 7 points by gslin 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July (nbcchicago.com)

×2.91 41 #31 | 9 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)

×2.92 #11 | 224 points by popcar2 7 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Contributor Visualization for Superset: top contributors own 90% of lines (twitter.com/Principal_ADE)

×3.21 4 | 6 points by fernando-ram 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Y Combinator.singles (ycombinator.singles)

×2.26 66 | 11 points by nadermx 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Therac-25 (wikipedia.org)

×2.27 44 | 8 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why New Jersey's balcony solar bill is a huge deal for renters (cnn.com)

×2.15 10 #45 | 9 points by breve 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago (extelligence.substack.com)

×7.38 18 | 114 points by shpat 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier (lcamtuf.substack.com)

×1.78 9 #15 | 19 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain–until I met him (cailey.substack.com)

×5.01 3 | 69 points by FinnLobsien 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hollywood's spent 25 years chasing the wrong lessons from The Lord of the Rings (polygon.com)

×2.19 38 #79 | 8 points by HelloUsername 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eclipse Enclave (eclipse.org)

×2.68 5 | 6 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slow Tuesday Night (1965) (baen.com)

×2.57 11 | 5 points by et1337 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Strange Locomotion of Spirocuta (chriskiehl.com)

×2.52 12 | 5 points by goostavos 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 3D-printed Raman spectrometer (hackaday.com)

×2.39 17 | 5 points by ikbdsk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State Sponsored Media? No Thanks [video] (youtube.com)

×2.24 14 | 5 points by dp-hackernews 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata (aalto.fi)

×1.67 5 #8 | 62 points by jfil 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Completing a Computer Science Degree on Coursera (notesbylex.com)

×1.60 #5 | 27 points by lexandstuff 54 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ARRR: Pirate MMO vibecoded by its players (arrr.fun)

×2.17 10 | 4 points by m0dE 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bird nests of fibre-optic cables show war's impact on Ukraine (reuters.com)

×3.20 45 | 5 points by joebig 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3D-print your own modular eyeglasses frames (eiga.works)

×2.10 13 | 4 points by thinkalone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car' (msn.com)

×6.25 39 | 88 points by OutOfHere 18 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years (homegames.io)

×1.77 3 #4 | 19 points by homegamesjoseph 42 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebGlean – API that turns any site into clean Markdown for LLMs (webglean.com)

×2.11 32 | 4 points by qubomax 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI is fast-tracking its own "AI Agent Phone" for 2027 to challenge iPhone (reddit.com)

×1.72 17 #88 | 5 points by rmason 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fugu – A multi-agent LLM orchestrator delivered as a single API (github.com/SakanaAI)

×1.94 1 | 5 points by terminalchai 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Immich v3.0.0 Released (immich.app)

×1.95 21 | 4 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Social and context-aware AI platform to do math (prooftree.ai)

×1.93 22 | 4 points by lemma1729 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Small details in my Mastodon client that I wanted more people to notice (on-t.work)

×2.41 28 | 4 points by birdculture 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone loves apprenticeships. So why can't Britain create more of them? (ft.com)

×2.26 24 | 4 points by mmarian 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 3·6·9 COMMANDER, a turn-based strategy card game (itch.io)

×2.01 35 | 4 points by forgatmachine 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EasyJet reaches 'agreement in principle' over potential takeover (bbc.com)

×2.42 31 | 4 points by a_paddy 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The full stack of terminals explained (ahmadawais.com)

×1.44 32 #26 | 11 points by ludicrousdispla 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Would you trust encryption at the mobile keyboard layer?

×1.85 48 | 3 points by dkatsura 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A bedside camera detects REM sleep and agrees with a clinical EEG (lucidcode.com)

×1.67 37 | 3 points by MichaelCoder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surveillance Companionship Entertainment: Intelligent Machines Ancient History (mit.edu)

×1.64 30 | 3 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Organic Maps open source dispute (isitreallyfoss.com)

×1.57 19 | 3 points by maxloh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source guided code reviews (twitter.com/plannotator)

×1.52 40 | 3 points by ramoz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)

×1.89 23 #50 | 81 points by amichail 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The new Teddy Roosevelt library is a gorgeous extension of the prairie (fastcompany.com)

×1.30 #64 | 5 points by eatonphil 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starring the Computer (starringthecomputer.com)

×1.51 1 #9 | 136 points by gitowiec 4 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sidenote – comment on your rendered blog, an LLM writes the Git diff (github.com/bharadwaj-pendyala)

×1.36 88 #32 | 3 points by bharadwajp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding B-Tree Indexes in PostgreSQL: A Comprehensive Guide– Part 1 (medium.com)

×1.48 51 | 3 points by corvus-cornix 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Get a Healthy, Shiny Coat on Your Dog: The Ultimate Guide (pawcaremedia.com)

×1.49 52 | 3 points by Han25 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Fediverse Is Not the Way Forward (trialandfailure.net)

×16.92 105 | 68 points by ExMachina73 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Social media management for AI Agents (schedpilot.com)

×1.56 59 | 3 points by schedpilot 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
View from the Shifting Mound (thesolarprincess.github.io)

×1.53 57 | 3 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Should We Optimize Away? (autodidacts.io)

×1.30 31 #85 | 3 points by Curiositry 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025) (acc.org)

×2.60 26 #60 | 157 points by RickJWagner 10 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two nasty surprises in Home Assistant's config (frankel.ch)

×2.03 88 #49 | 6 points by edward 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CommaAgents V2 Sharable Agent Orchestrator Release Candidate (github.com/CloAI)

×1.53 61 | 3 points by NateAGeek 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RPB – Raylib Project Builder (itch.io)

×1.82 6 | 3 points by Erenay09 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RPC – Raylib Project Creator (itch.io)

×1.80 5 | 3 points by Erenay09 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf] (uu.nl)

×1.27 3 #3 | 96 points by jonahbard 3 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WhaleCap: Keep your DeepSeek API credits from running out on day one (npmjs.com)

×1.87 7 | 3 points by wayepoint 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Make No Mistakes – AI coding agents must prove their work (github.com/momomuchu)

×1.61 69 | 3 points by mohamedmaache 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Speech and Noise Corpora for Pitch Estimation of Human Speech (zenodo.org)

×1.20 53 #30 | 6 points by q7m 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TrainSim – a browser train tycoon (aashishh15.github.io)

×1.57 67 | 3 points by aashishharishch 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FIFA makes U-turn following call from Trump (reuters.com)

×5.13 69 | 6 points by sxzygz 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Live Image/Video Translation (davidv.dev)

×1.83 9 | 3 points by wonger_ 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)

×1.99 47 | 68 points by neilfrndes 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LaCie drives just contain regular Seagate drives inside (twitter.com/eftegarie)

×1.87 10 | 3 points by amin 47 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty (adexchanger.com)

×1.31 15 #18 | 30 points by WaitWaitWha 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New contributors to GNU Emacs over time (reddit.com)

×1.14 3 | 6 points by srijan4 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Loss of Cognitive Flexibility, Not Memory, May Be Earliest Sign of Alzheimer's (nautil.us)

×1.87 80 #66 | 5 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs? (danielstanica.com)

×1.71 6 #21 | 135 points by thm 6 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm an obsessed hobby cheesemaker. [AMA] (reddit.com)

×1.80 11 | 3 points by consumer451 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pacerift – I built a motorcycle telemetry app using only phone sensors (google.com)

×1.75 12 | 3 points by sauravXzent 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do you hate XML? (2010) (sigfrid-lundberg.se)

×1.27 19 #57 | 29 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The first programmer I know who was murdered in a targeted strike was Haitham (lrb.co.uk)

×1.51 94 #47 | 5 points by bhouston 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I hated how much my 12-year-old played Roblox, so we built our own FPS (cooked.house)

×2.21 74 | 5 points by davitb 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe-coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility (techcrunch.com)

×0.95 15 | 4 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)

×3.19 17 | 125 points by enz 14 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices (arxiv.org)

×1.36 38 #54 | 79 points by dijksterhuis 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Handoff – a verified context bridge between Claude Code sessions (github.com/ostikwhy-blip)

×1.67 75 #76 | 6 points by ostik 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why are the upvote arrows so small?

×1.32 79 | 3 points by guilhermeasper 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???