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1.
Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
898 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 609 comments
2.
Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
1282 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago | 923 comments
3.
Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
820 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 437 comments
4.
Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
924 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 738 comments
5.
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
1564 points by CliffStoll 2 days ago | 241 comments
6.
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
732 points by anonymousiam 9 hours ago | 255 comments
7.
An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
383 points by ColinWright 16 hours ago | 152 comments
8.
Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
293 points by cemsakarya 2 days ago | 125 comments
9.
Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
308 points by sbt567 1 day ago | 190 comments
10.
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
495 points by defrost 15 hours ago | 98 comments
11.
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
656 points by ribtoks 13 hours ago | 334 comments
12.
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
146 points by hhs 1 day ago | 62 comments
13.
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
539 points by mwheelz 15 hours ago | 275 comments
14.
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
192 points by hhs 1 day ago | 75 comments
15.
Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
200 points by xngbuilds 12 hours ago | 84 comments
16.
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
335 points by rustoo 2 days ago | 528 comments
17.
Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
379 points by wslh 1 day ago | 333 comments
18.
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
121 points by foltik 1 day ago | 56 comments
19.
Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
300 points by willmeyers 11 hours ago | 99 comments
20.
Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
343 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 153 comments
21.
US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
245 points by david-gpu 15 hours ago | 393 comments
22.
ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
264 points by Borkdude 20 hours ago | 68 comments
23.
PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
129 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 57 comments
24.
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
273 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 118 comments
25.
A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
99 points by timvisee 3 days ago | 28 comments
26.
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
317 points by mittermayr 19 hours ago | 263 comments
27.
The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
133 points by cainxinth 2 days ago | 171 comments
28.
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
202 points by gmays 1 day ago | 63 comments
29.
Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit (garrido.io)
119 points by ggpsv 14 hours ago | 23 comments
30.
GeoJSON (geojson.org)
149 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 71 comments

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