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1.		The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
		1074 points by oldnetguy 8 hours ago \| 849 comments
2.		Ladybird adopts Rust (ladybird.org)
		987 points by adius 11 hours ago \| 542 comments
3.		Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
		456 points by MilkMp 1 day ago \| 95 comments
4.		Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
		516 points by josephcsible 15 hours ago \| 408 comments
5.		My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
		363 points by jstanley 5 days ago \| 175 comments
6.		Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
		376 points by mhb 4 days ago \| 511 comments
7.		0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
		328 points by jonbaer 4 days ago \| 114 comments
8.		Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
		501 points by qsi 14 hours ago \| 91 comments
9.		Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
		330 points by microflash 15 hours ago \| 106 comments
10.		The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
		237 points by modinfo 20 hours ago \| 132 comments
11.		Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
		421 points by doener 11 hours ago \| 380 comments
12.		Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
		450 points by mikece 3 hours ago \| 272 comments
13.		SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
		85 points by tosh 12 hours ago \| 18 comments
14.		Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
		123 points by ai_bot 13 hours ago \| 48 comments
15.		The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
		78 points by zdw 4 days ago \| 23 comments
16.		How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
		76 points by matt_d 5 days ago \| 15 comments
17.		Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology (github.com/jimishol)
		47 points by jimishol 3 days ago \| 11 comments
18.		Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com/quailyquaily)
		71 points by lyricat 20 hours ago \| 32 comments
19.		The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
		205 points by montenegrohugo 8 hours ago \| 93 comments
20.		Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
		292 points by boplicity 3 hours ago \| 135 comments
21.		femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
		106 points by tosh 10 hours ago \| 14 comments
22.		Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
		253 points by con 19 hours ago \| 70 comments
23.		A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
		156 points by speckx 6 hours ago \| 105 comments
24.		$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (yahoo.com)
		221 points by walterbell 21 hours ago \| 225 comments
25.		'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study (science.org)
		127 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago \| 104 comments
26.		Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
		151 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago \| 52 comments
27.		What I learned designing a barebones UI engine (madebymohammed.com)
		72 points by teleforce 18 hours ago \| 41 comments
28.		ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
		194 points by pieterr 5 hours ago \| 49 comments
29.		What Is a Centipawn Advantage? (win-vector.com)
		54 points by jmount 4 days ago \| 26 comments
30.		Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
		73 points by platzhirsch 1 day ago \| 6 comments
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