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1.The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1494 points by oldnetguy 21 hours ago | 1147 comments
2.Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
1189 points by adius 1 day ago | 659 comments
3.Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
480 points by MilkMp 1 day ago | 99 comments
4.Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
545 points by qsi 1 day ago | 99 comments
5.A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
259 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 173 comments
6.Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
408 points by mhb 4 days ago | 542 comments
7.My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
374 points by jstanley 5 days ago | 182 comments
8.Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
549 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 436 comments
9.0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
340 points by jonbaer 4 days ago | 115 comments
10.Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
384 points by microflash 1 day ago | 123 comments
11.Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
276 points by levkk 20 hours ago | 53 comments
12.FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (vladimir.varank.in)
381 points by varankinv 14 hours ago | 307 comments
13.Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
511 points by boplicity 16 hours ago | 226 comments
14.Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
658 points by mikece 16 hours ago | 440 comments
15.ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
335 points by pieterr 18 hours ago | 96 comments
16.UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
182 points by marcodiego 15 hours ago | 56 comments
17.Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
158 points by Sabrees 20 hours ago | 46 comments
18.Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
160 points by ai_bot 1 day ago | 55 comments
19.femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
134 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 16 comments
20.Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
125 points by eigen-vector 15 hours ago | 43 comments
21.What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
151 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 190 comments
22.The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
243 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 134 comments
23.‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)
161 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 167 comments
24. [dupe] Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
450 points by doener 1 day ago | 3 comments
25.“Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
252 points by felix089 15 hours ago | 315 comments
26.The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
244 points by montenegrohugo 21 hours ago | 113 comments
27.Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
97 points by platzhirsch 1 day ago | 22 comments
28.Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
211 points by swolpers 18 hours ago | 275 comments
29.SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
88 points by tosh 1 day ago | 23 comments
30.The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
83 points by zdw 4 days ago | 24 comments

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