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1.		The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
		1670 points by oldnetguy 49 days ago \| 1301 comments
2.		Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
		1274 points by adius 50 days ago \| 698 comments
3.		A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
		312 points by speckx 49 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 50 days ago \| 99 comments
5.		Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
		326 points by levkk 49 days ago \| 63 comments
6.		Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
		561 points by qsi 50 days ago \| 108 comments
7.		Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
		422 points by mhb 53 days ago \| 564 comments
8.		UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
		206 points by marcodiego 49 days ago \| 74 comments
9.		Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
		573 points by josephcsible 50 days ago \| 445 comments
10.		My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
		385 points by jstanley 54 days ago \| 191 comments
11.		Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
		398 points by microflash 50 days ago \| 129 comments
12.		0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
		348 points by jonbaer 53 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 49 days ago \| 361 comments
14.		“Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
		371 points by felix089 49 days ago \| 447 comments
15.		Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
		552 points by boplicity 49 days ago \| 265 comments
16.		Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
		706 points by mikece 49 days ago \| 499 comments
17.		Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
		384 points by swolpers 49 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 49 days ago \| 106 comments
19.		Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
		181 points by Sabrees 49 days ago \| 45 comments
20.		Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
		174 points by ai_bot 50 days ago \| 57 comments
21.		What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
		189 points by zdw 49 days ago \| 302 comments
22.		Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
		151 points by eigen-vector 49 days ago \| 47 comments
23.		femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)
		146 points by tosh 50 days ago \| 15 comments
24.		‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)
		179 points by bookofjoe 51 days ago \| 196 comments
25.		The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
		248 points by modinfo 50 days ago \| 139 comments
26.		[dupe] Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
		457 points by doener 50 days ago \| 3 comments
27.		The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
		267 points by montenegrohugo 49 days ago \| 119 comments
28.		Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
		102 points by platzhirsch 50 days ago \| 24 comments
29.		SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
		93 points by tosh 50 days ago \| 23 comments
30.		The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
		84 points by zdw 53 days ago \| 26 comments
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