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1.The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1419 points by oldnetguy 18 hours ago | 1075 comments
2.Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
1156 points by adius 21 hours ago | 634 comments
3.Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
477 points by MilkMp 1 day ago | 98 comments
4.Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
543 points by qsi 1 day ago | 97 comments
5.Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
403 points by mhb 4 days ago | 539 comments
6.My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
374 points by jstanley 5 days ago | 181 comments
7.Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
546 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 433 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)
379 points by microflash 1 day ago | 122 comments
10.A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
226 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 151 comments
11.Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
495 points by boplicity 13 hours ago | 211 comments
12.Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
646 points by mikece 13 hours ago | 430 comments
13.Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
253 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 15 hours ago | 91 comments
15.Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
158 points by ai_bot 23 hours ago | 55 comments
16.FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (vladimir.varank.in)
350 points by varankinv 11 hours ago | 286 comments
17.Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
150 points by Sabrees 16 hours ago | 41 comments
18.femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
134 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 16 comments
19.UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
173 points by marcodiego 12 hours ago | 53 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 | 159 comments
23.The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
237 points by montenegrohugo 18 hours ago | 112 comments
24.Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
94 points by platzhirsch 1 day ago | 21 comments
25.Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
111 points by eigen-vector 12 hours ago | 40 comments
26.SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
88 points by tosh 22 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.How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
80 points by matt_d 5 days ago | 16 comments
29.The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II (colino.net)
71 points by homarp 11 hours ago | 14 comments
30.What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
135 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 150 comments

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