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1.
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
885 points by oldnetguy 6 hours ago | 726 comments
2.
Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
493 points by josephcsible 12 hours ago | 395 comments
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Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
449 points by MilkMp 23 hours ago | 94 comments
4.
Ladybird adopts Rust (ladybird.org)
876 points by adius 8 hours ago | 459 comments
5.
My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
350 points by jstanley 4 days ago | 168 comments
6.
0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
302 points by jonbaer 4 days ago | 108 comments
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Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
341 points by mhb 4 days ago | 451 comments
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Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
453 points by qsi 12 hours ago | 91 comments
9.
Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
282 points by microflash 12 hours ago | 101 comments
10.
The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
236 points by modinfo 17 hours ago | 125 comments
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Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
400 points by doener 8 hours ago | 367 comments
12.
The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
73 points by zdw 4 days ago | 22 comments
13.
How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
74 points by matt_d 4 days ago | 15 comments
14.
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
15.
SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
73 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 17 comments
16.
Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com/quailyquaily)
66 points by lyricat 18 hours ago | 32 comments
17.
Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
93 points by ai_bot 11 hours ago | 43 comments
18.
Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
244 points by con 16 hours ago | 65 comments
19.
$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (yahoo.com)
218 points by walterbell 18 hours ago | 218 comments
20.
What I learned designing a barebones UI engine (madebymohammed.com)
70 points by teleforce 16 hours ago | 41 comments
21.
Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
138 points by pseudolus 16 hours ago | 46 comments
22.
The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
187 points by montenegrohugo 5 hours ago | 79 comments
23.
femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
90 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 14 comments
24.
What Is a Centipawn Advantage? (win-vector.com)
44 points by jmount 4 days ago | 18 comments
25.
Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
42 points by techteach00 1 day ago | 42 comments
26.
How close are we to a vision for 2010? (shkspr.mobi)
60 points by ColinWright 16 hours ago | 35 comments
27.
VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf] (r2.dev)
106 points by sagyam 7 hours ago | 89 comments
28.
Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database (warnfirehose.com)
128 points by sendkamal 20 hours ago | 15 comments
29.
Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love (hackernews.love)
180 points by ohong 10 hours ago | 133 comments
30.
A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
124 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 78 comments

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