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1.
Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
905 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 614 comments
2.
Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
1302 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago | 933 comments
3.
Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
979 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 775 comments
4.
Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
826 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 443 comments
5.
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
1075 points by anonymousiam 16 hours ago | 371 comments
6.
An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
456 points by ColinWright 23 hours ago | 158 comments
7.
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
658 points by defrost 22 hours ago | 129 comments
8.
Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
355 points by sbt567 1 day ago | 221 comments
9.
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
1590 points by CliffStoll 2 days ago | 243 comments
10.
Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
227 points by xngbuilds 19 hours ago | 89 comments
11.
Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
347 points by willmeyers 18 hours ago | 108 comments
12.
US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
301 points by david-gpu 22 hours ago | 439 comments
13.
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
343 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 136 comments
14.
Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
299 points by cemsakarya 2 days ago | 129 comments
15.
You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
188 points by MrBruh 15 hours ago | 109 comments
16.
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
349 points by rustoo 3 days ago | 545 comments
17.
Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
387 points by wslh 1 day ago | 343 comments
18.
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
676 points by ribtoks 21 hours ago | 343 comments
19.
AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (cnbc.com)
227 points by christhecaribou 1 day ago | 148 comments
20.
Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
354 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 159 comments
21.
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
571 points by mwheelz 22 hours ago | 281 comments
22.
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
146 points by hhs 1 day ago | 62 comments
23.
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
197 points by hhs 1 day ago | 76 comments
24.
PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
139 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 58 comments
25.
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
125 points by foltik 1 day ago | 57 comments
26.
ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
269 points by Borkdude 1 day ago | 72 comments
27.
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
366 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 287 comments
28.
A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
100 points by timvisee 3 days ago | 30 comments
29.
The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
140 points by cainxinth 2 days ago | 179 comments
30.
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
206 points by gmays 1 day ago | 64 comments

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