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1.The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1438 points by oldnetguy 19 hours ago | 1093 comments
2.Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
1164 points by adius 21 hours ago | 639 comments
3.Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
478 points by MilkMp 1 day ago | 99 comments
4.Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
543 points by qsi 1 day ago | 99 comments
5.Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
404 points by mhb 4 days ago | 541 comments
6.My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
374 points by jstanley 5 days ago | 182 comments
7.Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
547 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 434 comments
8.0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
337 points by jonbaer 4 days ago | 115 comments
9.Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
380 points by microflash 1 day ago | 122 comments
10.A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
233 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 154 comments
11.Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
498 points by boplicity 14 hours ago | 213 comments
12.Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
648 points by mikece 14 hours ago | 437 comments
13.Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
256 points by levkk 17 hours ago | 51 comments
14.ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
330 points by pieterr 16 hours ago | 93 comments
15.FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (vladimir.varank.in)
357 points by varankinv 11 hours ago | 291 comments
16.Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
159 points by ai_bot 1 day ago | 55 comments
17.Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
153 points by Sabrees 17 hours ago | 42 comments
18.UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
173 points by marcodiego 13 hours ago | 53 comments
19.femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
134 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 16 comments
20.The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
242 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 133 comments
21.Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
446 points by doener 21 hours ago | 390 comments
22.‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)
158 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 163 comments
23.Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
115 points by eigen-vector 12 hours ago | 41 comments
24.The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
238 points by montenegrohugo 19 hours ago | 112 comments
25.Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
95 points by platzhirsch 1 day ago | 21 comments
26.SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
88 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 23 comments
27.The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
83 points by zdw 4 days ago | 24 comments
28.What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
141 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 155 comments
29.How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
80 points by matt_d 5 days ago | 16 comments
30.The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II (colino.net)
71 points by homarp 12 hours ago | 14 comments

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