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1.
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1161 points by oldnetguy 10 hours ago | 933 comments
2.
Ladybird adopts Rust (ladybird.org)
1040 points by adius 13 hours ago | 570 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 | 95 comments
4.
Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
516 points by qsi 16 hours ago | 96 comments
5.
My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
368 points by jstanley 5 days ago | 177 comments
6.
Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
389 points by mhb 4 days ago | 524 comments
7.
Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
522 points by josephcsible 16 hours ago | 412 comments
8.
0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
328 points by jonbaer 4 days ago | 114 comments
9.
Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
342 points by microflash 16 hours ago | 112 comments
10.
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
538 points by mikece 5 hours ago | 357 comments
11.
The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
239 points by modinfo 21 hours ago | 132 comments
12.
Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
372 points by boplicity 5 hours ago | 157 comments
13.
Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
428 points by doener 12 hours ago | 384 comments
14.
Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
132 points by ai_bot 15 hours ago | 49 comments
15.
The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
218 points by montenegrohugo 10 hours ago | 100 comments
16.
SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
85 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 18 comments
17.
The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
79 points by zdw 4 days ago | 23 comments
18.
How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
77 points by matt_d 5 days ago | 15 comments
19.
femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
116 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 14 comments
20.
ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
238 points by pieterr 7 hours ago | 62 comments
21.
A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
171 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 118 comments
22.
Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology (github.com/jimishol)
47 points by jimishol 3 days ago | 11 comments
23.
Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com/quailyquaily)
71 points by lyricat 22 hours ago | 32 comments
24.
'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study (science.org)
140 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 111 comments
25.
Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
172 points by levkk 8 hours ago | 39 comments
26.
Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
82 points by platzhirsch 1 day ago | 7 comments
27.
Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
257 points by con 20 hours ago | 70 comments
28.
$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (yahoo.com)
222 points by walterbell 22 hours ago | 226 comments
29.
Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations (pyrope.net)
46 points by usually 4 days ago | 16 comments
30.
Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
157 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 52 comments

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