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1.
Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
893 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 605 comments
2.
Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
1277 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago | 911 comments
3.
Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
815 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 428 comments
4.
Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
883 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 726 comments
5.
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
1484 points by CliffStoll 2 days ago | 229 comments
6.
Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
289 points by cemsakarya 2 days ago | 125 comments
7.
An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
362 points by ColinWright 12 hours ago | 137 comments
8.
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
639 points by ribtoks 10 hours ago | 322 comments
9.
Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
269 points by sbt567 21 hours ago | 173 comments
10.
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
143 points by hhs 1 day ago | 61 comments
11.
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
522 points by mwheelz 11 hours ago | 263 comments
12.
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
191 points by hhs 1 day ago | 75 comments
13.
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
491 points by anonymousiam 5 hours ago | 163 comments
14.
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
118 points by foltik 1 day ago | 55 comments
15.
ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
259 points by Borkdude 17 hours ago | 67 comments
16.
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
327 points by rustoo 2 days ago | 517 comments
17.
Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
376 points by wslh 1 day ago | 331 comments
18.
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
412 points by defrost 12 hours ago | 81 comments
19.
A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
97 points by timvisee 3 days ago | 27 comments
20.
Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
337 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 148 comments
21.
The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
122 points by cainxinth 2 days ago | 161 comments
22.
Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
184 points by xngbuilds 9 hours ago | 75 comments
23.
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
193 points by gmays 23 hours ago | 60 comments
24.
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
286 points by mittermayr 16 hours ago | 251 comments
25.
Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
263 points by willmeyers 7 hours ago | 89 comments
26.
Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit (garrido.io)
116 points by ggpsv 10 hours ago | 23 comments
27.
GeoJSON (geojson.org)
146 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 68 comments
28.
PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
116 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 51 comments
29.
US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
216 points by david-gpu 12 hours ago | 333 comments
30.
Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com/graemeg)
96 points by peter_d_sherman 19 hours ago | 50 comments

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