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1.
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1137 points by oldnetguy 9 hours ago | 915 comments
2.
Ladybird adopts Rust (ladybird.org)
1024 points by adius 12 hours ago | 565 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)
514 points by qsi 15 hours ago | 95 comments
5.
My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
367 points by jstanley 5 days ago | 177 comments
6.
Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
388 points by mhb 4 days ago | 522 comments
7.
Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
520 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 | 111 comments
10.
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
525 points by mikece 5 hours ago | 346 comments
11.
The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
238 points by modinfo 21 hours ago | 132 comments
12.
Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
426 points by doener 12 hours ago | 383 comments
13.
Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
350 points by boplicity 4 hours ago | 154 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.
SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
85 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 18 comments
16.
The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
78 points by zdw 4 days ago | 23 comments
17.
The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
214 points by montenegrohugo 9 hours ago | 98 comments
18.
How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
76 points by matt_d 5 days ago | 15 comments
19.
femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
114 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 14 comments
20.
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
21.
Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com/quailyquaily)
71 points by lyricat 22 hours ago | 32 comments
22.
ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
231 points by pieterr 6 hours ago | 59 comments
23.
A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
167 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 113 comments
24.
'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study (science.org)
137 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 109 comments
25.
Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
256 points by con 20 hours ago | 70 comments
26.
$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (yahoo.com)
222 points by walterbell 22 hours ago | 226 comments
27.
Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
166 points by levkk 8 hours ago | 37 comments
28.
Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
78 points by platzhirsch 1 day ago | 7 comments
29.
Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
154 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 52 comments
30.
Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations (pyrope.net)
45 points by usually 4 days ago | 16 comments

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