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1.The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1670 points by oldnetguy 12 days ago | 1301 comments
2.Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
1274 points by adius 12 days ago | 698 comments
3.A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
312 points by speckx 12 days ago | 233 comments
4.Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
496 points by MilkMp 13 days ago | 99 comments
5.Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
326 points by levkk 12 days ago | 64 comments
6.Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
561 points by qsi 12 days ago | 108 comments
7.Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
422 points by mhb 16 days ago | 564 comments
8.UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
206 points by marcodiego 12 days ago | 74 comments
9.Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
573 points by josephcsible 12 days ago | 445 comments
10.My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
385 points by jstanley 17 days ago | 191 comments
11.Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
398 points by microflash 12 days ago | 129 comments
12.0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
348 points by jonbaer 16 days ago | 117 comments
13.FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (vladimir.varank.in)
434 points by varankinv 12 days ago | 361 comments
14.“Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
371 points by felix089 12 days ago | 446 comments
15.Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
551 points by boplicity 12 days ago | 265 comments
16.Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
706 points by mikece 12 days ago | 499 comments
17.Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
384 points by swolpers 12 days ago | 499 comments
18.ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
371 points by pieterr 12 days ago | 106 comments
19.Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
181 points by Sabrees 12 days ago | 45 comments
20.Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
173 points by ai_bot 12 days ago | 57 comments
21.What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
189 points by zdw 12 days ago | 302 comments
22.Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
151 points by eigen-vector 12 days ago | 47 comments
23.femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
146 points by tosh 12 days ago | 15 comments
24.‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)
179 points by bookofjoe 14 days ago | 196 comments
25.The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
248 points by modinfo 13 days ago | 139 comments
26. [dupe] Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
457 points by doener 12 days ago | 3 comments
27.The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
267 points by montenegrohugo 12 days ago | 119 comments
28.Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
102 points by platzhirsch 13 days ago | 24 comments
29.SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
93 points by tosh 12 days ago | 23 comments
30.The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
84 points by zdw 16 days ago | 26 comments

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