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1.The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1388 points by oldnetguy 16 hours ago | 1051 comments
2.Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
1143 points by adius 19 hours ago | 626 comments
3.Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
474 points by MilkMp 1 day ago | 98 comments
4.Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
543 points by qsi 22 hours ago | 96 comments
5.Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
403 points by mhb 4 days ago | 537 comments
6.My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
373 points by jstanley 5 days ago | 181 comments
7.Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
542 points by josephcsible 23 hours ago | 429 comments
8.0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
333 points by jonbaer 4 days ago | 115 comments
9.Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
373 points by microflash 23 hours ago | 122 comments
10.Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
483 points by boplicity 11 hours ago | 206 comments
11.Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
635 points by mikece 12 hours ago | 424 comments
12.A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
213 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 145 comments
13.Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
236 points by levkk 15 hours ago | 51 comments
14.ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
319 points by pieterr 13 hours ago | 87 comments
15.Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
153 points by ai_bot 22 hours ago | 54 comments
16.Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
147 points by Sabrees 15 hours ago | 41 comments
17.femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
133 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 16 comments
18.FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (vladimir.varank.in)
337 points by varankinv 9 hours ago | 272 comments
19.The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
242 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 133 comments
20.UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
167 points by marcodiego 11 hours ago | 52 comments
21.Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
442 points by doener 19 hours ago | 390 comments
22.‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)
157 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 152 comments
23.The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
235 points by montenegrohugo 16 hours ago | 112 comments
24.Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
92 points by platzhirsch 1 day ago | 13 comments
25.SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
88 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 23 comments
26.The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
82 points by zdw 4 days ago | 24 comments
27.How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
79 points by matt_d 5 days ago | 16 comments
28.Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology (github.com/jimishol)
48 points by jimishol 3 days ago | 11 comments
29.Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com/quailyquaily)
73 points by lyricat 1 day ago | 32 comments
30.Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
93 points by eigen-vector 10 hours ago | 37 comments

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