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1.The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1632 points by oldnetguy 1 day ago | 1262 comments
2.Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
1243 points by adius 1 day ago | 691 comments
3.A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
301 points by speckx 1 day ago | 224 comments
4.Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
484 points by MilkMp 2 days ago | 99 comments
5.Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
314 points by levkk 1 day ago | 57 comments
6.Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
551 points by qsi 1 day ago | 105 comments
7.Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
412 points by mhb 5 days ago | 559 comments
8.UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
202 points by marcodiego 1 day ago | 67 comments
9.Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
566 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 440 comments
10.My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
377 points by jstanley 6 days ago | 188 comments
11.0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
343 points by jonbaer 5 days ago | 116 comments
12.Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
389 points by microflash 1 day ago | 126 comments
13.FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (vladimir.varank.in)
416 points by varankinv 1 day ago | 342 comments
14.“Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
357 points by felix089 1 day ago | 423 comments
15.Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
541 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 251 comments
16.Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
689 points by mikece 1 day ago | 467 comments
17.ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
361 points by pieterr 1 day ago | 104 comments
18.Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
337 points by swolpers 1 day ago | 436 comments
19.Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
176 points by Sabrees 1 day ago | 45 comments
20.Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
167 points by ai_bot 1 day ago | 57 comments
21.What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
179 points by zdw 1 day ago | 262 comments
22.Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
140 points by eigen-vector 1 day ago | 45 comments
23.femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
142 points by tosh 1 day ago | 15 comments
24.The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
245 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 136 comments
25.‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)
170 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 179 comments
26. [dupe] Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
454 points by doener 1 day ago | 3 comments
27.The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
256 points by montenegrohugo 1 day ago | 115 comments
28.Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
101 points by platzhirsch 2 days ago | 22 comments
29.SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
89 points by tosh 1 day ago | 23 comments
30.The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
84 points by zdw 5 days ago | 24 comments

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