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1.
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
782 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 417 comments
2.
What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
872 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 1011 comments
3.
Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
678 points by tsak 2 days ago | 530 comments
4.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
722 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 434 comments
5.
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
506 points by delduca 23 hours ago | 367 comments
6.
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
311 points by poly2it 1 day ago | 157 comments
7.
São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)
348 points by rmason 6 days ago | 124 comments
8.
2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
457 points by inigyou 1 day ago | 438 comments
9.
Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
391 points by piotrgrabowski 23 hours ago | 96 comments
10.
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
210 points by Audiophilip 1 day ago | 62 comments
11.
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
239 points by aagha 22 hours ago | 76 comments
12.
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
209 points by m3h 1 day ago | 57 comments
13.
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)
182 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago | 40 comments
14.
US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)
887 points by defrost 1 day ago | 857 comments
15.
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
215 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 35 comments
16.
Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)
179 points by jnord 1 day ago | 110 comments
17.
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)
289 points by moonikakiss 23 hours ago | 242 comments
18.
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
194 points by artninja1988 1 day ago | 186 comments
19.
Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
215 points by cckolon 7 days ago | 27 comments
20.
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)
436 points by petercooper 1 day ago | 403 comments
21.
Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/wyzer-lang)
209 points by v0id_isgood 1 day ago | 109 comments
22.
I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
258 points by baranul 5 days ago | 256 comments
23.
Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
183 points by stagas 1 day ago | 72 comments
24.
Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
153 points by koolhead17 4 days ago | 54 comments
25.
Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)
230 points by Bender 20 hours ago | 150 comments
26.
Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
75 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 10 comments
27.
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
145 points by sebg 1 day ago | 10 comments
28.
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
79 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 4 comments
29.
Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)
77 points by birdculture 5 days ago | 7 comments
30.
Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)
61 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 40 comments

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