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1.
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1185 points by oldnetguy 11 hours ago | 959 comments
2.
Ladybird adopts Rust (ladybird.org)
1063 points by adius 13 hours ago | 580 comments
3.
Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
458 points by MilkMp 1 day ago | 96 comments
4.
Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
525 points by qsi 17 hours ago | 96 comments
5.
My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
369 points by jstanley 5 days ago | 179 comments
6.
Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
389 points by mhb 4 days ago | 526 comments
7.
Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
526 points by josephcsible 17 hours ago | 416 comments
8.
0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
329 points by jonbaer 4 days ago | 114 comments
9.
Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
355 points by microflash 17 hours ago | 120 comments
10.
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
569 points by mikece 6 hours ago | 382 comments
11.
Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
402 points by boplicity 6 hours ago | 171 comments
12.
The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
240 points by modinfo 22 hours ago | 132 comments
13.
Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
430 points by doener 13 hours ago | 384 comments
14.
Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
135 points by ai_bot 16 hours ago | 49 comments
15.
The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
223 points by montenegrohugo 10 hours ago | 101 comments
16.
ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
253 points by pieterr 8 hours ago | 65 comments
17.
femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
118 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 14 comments
18.
A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
180 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 120 comments
19.
SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
85 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 18 comments
20.
The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
80 points by zdw 4 days ago | 24 comments
21.
'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study (science.org)
149 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 124 comments
22.
How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
77 points by matt_d 5 days ago | 16 comments
23.
Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology (github.com/jimishol)
48 points by jimishol 3 days ago | 11 comments
24.
Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
186 points by levkk 9 hours ago | 44 comments
25.
Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com/quailyquaily)
71 points by lyricat 23 hours ago | 32 comments
26.
Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
83 points by platzhirsch 1 day ago | 9 comments
27.
Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
111 points by Sabrees 9 hours ago | 38 comments
28.
Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations (pyrope.net)
48 points by usually 4 days ago | 16 comments
29.
Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
257 points by con 21 hours ago | 70 comments
30.
$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (yahoo.com)
222 points by walterbell 23 hours ago | 226 comments

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