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1.The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
1662 points by oldnetguy 3 days ago | 1295 comments
2.Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
1269 points by adius 3 days ago | 698 comments
3.A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
310 points by speckx 3 days ago | 232 comments
4.Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
491 points by MilkMp 3 days ago | 99 comments
5.Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
321 points by levkk 3 days ago | 61 comments
6.Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
559 points by qsi 3 days ago | 108 comments
7.Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
419 points by mhb 7 days ago | 564 comments
8.UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
205 points by marcodiego 2 days ago | 74 comments
9.Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
572 points by josephcsible 3 days ago | 443 comments
10.My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
382 points by jstanley 7 days ago | 191 comments
11.Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
396 points by microflash 3 days ago | 126 comments
12.0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
345 points by jonbaer 6 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)
433 points by varankinv 2 days ago | 360 comments
14.“Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
365 points by felix089 2 days ago | 443 comments
15.Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
548 points by boplicity 3 days ago | 259 comments
16.Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
703 points by mikece 3 days ago | 493 comments
17.Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
381 points by swolpers 3 days ago | 492 comments
18.ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
370 points by pieterr 3 days ago | 105 comments
19.Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
181 points by Sabrees 3 days ago | 45 comments
20.Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
169 points by ai_bot 3 days ago | 57 comments
21.What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
187 points by zdw 3 days ago | 297 comments
22.Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
147 points by eigen-vector 2 days ago | 47 comments
23.femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
144 points by tosh 3 days ago | 15 comments
24.‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)
178 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 196 comments
25.The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
246 points by modinfo 3 days ago | 139 comments
26. [dupe] Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
456 points by doener 3 days ago | 3 comments
27.The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
263 points by montenegrohugo 3 days ago | 118 comments
28.Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
102 points by platzhirsch 4 days ago | 24 comments
29.SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
89 points by tosh 3 days ago | 23 comments
30.The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
84 points by zdw 7 days ago | 25 comments

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