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1.
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (dywa.ng)
490 points by cbeuw 10 hours ago | 320 comments
2.
Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones (simedw.com)
434 points by simedw 1 day ago | 133 comments
3.
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native (theregister.com)
721 points by jamesblonde 17 hours ago | 617 comments
4.
Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)
522 points by Teever 10 hours ago | 373 comments
5.
We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency (globalping.io)
210 points by jimaek 18 hours ago | 53 comments
6.
The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice (wsj.com)
342 points by pixelesque 1 day ago | 272 comments
7.
My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition) (jaisenmathai.com)
262 points by jmathai 3 days ago | 116 comments
8.
Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010) (mvdirona.com)
78 points by onurkanbkrc 1 day ago | 44 comments
9.
Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024) (archaeologyworlds.com)
139 points by griffzhowl 20 hours ago | 47 comments
10.
Show HN: Phage Explorer (phage-explorer.org)
115 points by eigenvalue 22 hours ago | 26 comments
11.
NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston (arstechnica.com)
158 points by verzali 3 days ago | 81 comments
12.
Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User (nemin.hu)
160 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 68 comments
13.
CPython Internals Explained (github.com/zpoint)
176 points by yufiz 4 days ago | 42 comments
14.
Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up (openjdk.org)
141 points by csmantle 16 hours ago | 72 comments
15.
Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
218 points by item007 1 day ago | 184 comments
16.
Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023) (lareviewofbooks.org)
112 points by OgsyedIE 23 hours ago | 25 comments
17.
A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev (somehowmanage.com)
142 points by Ozzie_osman 2 days ago | 78 comments
18.
A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived (thetimes.com)
85 points by Thevet 3 days ago | 77 comments
19.
An anecdote about backward compatibility (plover.com)
80 points by speckx 5 days ago | 27 comments
20.
How to explain Generative AI in the classroom (dalelane.co.uk)
75 points by thinkingaboutit 2 days ago | 21 comments
21.
I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
99 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 33 comments
22.
Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
152 points by schlichtm 3 days ago | 806 comments
23.
Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers (github.com/sproutpanel)
48 points by Kerrick 4 days ago | 12 comments
24.
Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS (genode.org)
111 points by doener 9 hours ago | 18 comments
25.
Designing a Passively Safe API (danealbaugh.com)
65 points by dalbaugh 5 days ago | 26 comments
26.
CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider (physicsworld.com)
137 points by zeristor 17 hours ago | 104 comments
27.
Ashcan Comic (wikipedia.org)
52 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 18 comments
28.
US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private (bloomberg.com)
169 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 hours ago | 325 comments
29.
Quaternion Algebras (jvoight.github.io)
84 points by teleforce 4 days ago | 35 comments
30.
Swift is a more convenient Rust (nmn.sh)
237 points by behnamoh 5 hours ago | 212 comments

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