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1.
Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
900 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 611 comments
2.
Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
1285 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago | 927 comments
3.
Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
821 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 439 comments
4.
Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
938 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 746 comments
5.
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
828 points by anonymousiam 10 hours ago | 272 comments
6.
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
1575 points by CliffStoll 2 days ago | 242 comments
7.
An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
392 points by ColinWright 18 hours ago | 153 comments
8.
Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
323 points by sbt567 1 day ago | 199 comments
9.
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
531 points by defrost 17 hours ago | 101 comments
10.
Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
297 points by cemsakarya 2 days ago | 127 comments
11.
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
661 points by ribtoks 15 hours ago | 336 comments
12.
Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
200 points by xngbuilds 14 hours ago | 87 comments
13.
Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
311 points by willmeyers 12 hours ago | 102 comments
14.
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
550 points by mwheelz 16 hours ago | 275 comments
15.
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
146 points by hhs 1 day ago | 62 comments
16.
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
337 points by rustoo 2 days ago | 532 comments
17.
Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
382 points by wslh 1 day ago | 335 comments
18.
US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
252 points by david-gpu 17 hours ago | 416 comments
19.
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
193 points by hhs 1 day ago | 75 comments
20.
Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
344 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 154 comments
21.
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
300 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 125 comments
22.
PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
137 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 57 comments
23.
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
124 points by foltik 1 day ago | 56 comments
24.
ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
265 points by Borkdude 22 hours ago | 70 comments
25.
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
341 points by mittermayr 21 hours ago | 274 comments
26.
A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
99 points by timvisee 3 days ago | 28 comments
27.
The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
135 points by cainxinth 2 days ago | 173 comments
28.
You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
163 points by MrBruh 9 hours ago | 90 comments
29.
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
205 points by gmays 1 day ago | 63 comments
30.
Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit (garrido.io)
122 points by ggpsv 16 hours ago | 23 comments

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