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2025-10-07 20:25:08 UTC

Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
Link: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-bill-would-strip-internet-access-from-specified-persons
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502216

2025-09-10 16:50:06 UTC

TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds
Link: https://www.thenexus.media/tiktok-won-now-everything-is-60-seconds/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199760

2025-09-10 16:50:06 UTC

I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
Link: https://sethpurcell.com/writing/screens-in-museums/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199931

2025-09-10 16:05:06 UTC

Performance Improvements in .NET 10
Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-10/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197608

2025-09-10 16:00:06 UTC

Zoox launches its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas
Link: https://zoox.com/journal/las-vegas
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199031

2025-09-10 16:00:06 UTC

The Scam Called "You Don't Have to Remember Anything"
Link: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/the-scam-called-you-dont-have-to-remember-anything/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198420

2025-09-10 15:45:06 UTC

Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
Link: https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45181535

2025-09-10 15:15:06 UTC

Some thoughts on personal Git hosting
Link: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/some-thoughts-on-personal-git-hosting/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45157425
#git

2025-09-10 15:05:06 UTC

Knowledge and memory
Link: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/knowledge-and-memory/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154088

2025-09-10 15:00:06 UTC

Children and young people's reading in 2025
Link: https://literacytrust.org.uk/research-services/research-reports/children-and-young-peoples-reading-in-2025/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45194165

2025-09-10 14:50:06 UTC

Kerberoasting
Link: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/09/10/kerberoasting/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45196437

2025-09-10 14:25:07 UTC

Guy is running a Google rival from his laundry room
Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197187
#google

2025-09-10 13:55:07 UTC

Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls
Link: https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/10/windows-10-resists-its-end-usage-share-climbs-while-windows-11s-falls/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197066

2025-09-10 12:20:06 UTC

Supabase OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community
Link: https://supabase.com/blog/orioledb-patent-free
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45196173
#postgres

2025-09-10 12:10:06 UTC

Made for People, Not Cars: Reclaiming European Cities
Link: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/made-for-people-not-cars-reclaiming-european-cities/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195520

2025-09-10 11:35:06 UTC

R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05004
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45192194

2025-09-10 11:20:06 UTC

A love letter to the CSV format (2024)
Link: https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/news/a-love-letter-to-the-csv-format/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195267

2025-08-14 15:25:06 UTC

Why LLMs Can't Build Software
Link: https://zed.dev/blog/why-llms-cant-build-software
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44900116

2025-08-08 01:50:07 UTC

The Q Programming Language
Link: https://git.urbach.dev/cli/q
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784215

2025-07-28 05:05:06 UTC

VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
Link: https://www.ft.com/content/356674b0-9f1d-4f95-b1d5-f27570379a9b
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44706653
#uk

2025-06-25 20:25:07 UTC

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers
Link: https://crescentro.se/posts/writing-drivers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44345681
#linux

2025-06-25 15:15:06 UTC

OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter
Link: https://george.mand.is/2025/06/openai-charges-by-the-minute-so-make-the-minutes-shorter/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376989

2025-06-12 06:40:06 UTC

AOSP project is coming to an end
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1l8rhon/aosp_project_is_coming_to_an_end/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254540

2025-05-24 19:25:06 UTC

Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/24/police-live-facial-recognition-cameras-england-and-wales
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44082326

2025-05-22 00:00:06 UTC

Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V
Link: https://rockylinux.org/news/rockylinux-support-for-riscv
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44056104
#linux

2025-05-17 19:45:06 UTC

The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it
Link: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/portugal-to-singapore-train/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44015657

2025-05-13 11:50:06 UTC

Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/nextcloud_play_store_complaint/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970959
#google

2025-04-29 22:50:06 UTC

We need more optimistic science fiction
Link: https://craig-russell.co.uk/blog/2024-10-24-optimistic-sci-fi/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814724

2025-04-26 08:35:06 UTC

Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court
Link: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/australian-who-ordered-radioactive-materials-over-the-internet-walks-away-from-court/4021306.article
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43801439

2025-04-22 05:15:06 UTC

101 BASIC Computer Games
Link: https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757341

2025-03-26 21:15:06 UTC

Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485950
#android #google

2025-03-07 10:05:05 UTC

Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled
Link: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/shares-of-starlinks-european-competitor-have-tripled-ceo-says-it-can-do-the-job-in-ukraine-f5e4e1ac
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43287963

2025-03-06 12:35:06 UTC

AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models
Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Intella-Open-Source-LM
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43278845

2025-03-06 02:20:06 UTC

The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide
Link: https://apnews.com/article/us-air-quality-monitors-8270927bbd0f166238243ac9d14bce03
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43274821

2025-03-01 23:35:06 UTC

Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline
Link: https://lifeweeks.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43183635

2025-02-21 03:10:06 UTC

Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU
Link: https://coral.ai/products/accelerator
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43089727
#google

2025-02-18 17:35:06 UTC

Svelte 5 is not JavaScript
Link: https://hodlbod.npub.pro/post/1739830562159/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43091596
#javascript

2025-02-18 13:30:06 UTC

Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down
Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Wireless-Maintainer-2025
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43088486
#linux

2025-02-16 14:25:06 UTC

Rust Is Eating JavaScript
Link: https://leerob.com/n/rust
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43067585
#rust #javascript

2025-02-12 19:35:06 UTC

Show HN: Mapping the Unix Magic Poster – An Interactive Annotation Project
Link: https://drio.github.io/unixmagic/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43019136

2025-02-12 14:50:07 UTC

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
Link: https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023508

2025-02-12 12:45:06 UTC

Durable plastic gets a sustainability makeover in novel polymerization process
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-01-durable-plastic-sustainability-makeover-polymerization.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999598

2025-02-12 12:30:07 UTC

Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly
Link: https://andrews.substack.com/p/zeroperl-sandboxed-perl-with-webassembly
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017739
#webassembly

2025-02-12 12:15:07 UTC

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000
Link: https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emails
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024221
#youtube

2025-02-12 11:55:05 UTC

Show HN: App that simulates a software engineer's daily job
Link: https://mock-job-mentor.vercel.app/dashboard
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986629

2025-02-12 11:45:06 UTC

I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)
Link: https://localfirstweb.dev/blog/2023-05-29-i-wrote-a-static-web-page
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021677

2025-02-12 11:05:06 UTC

The Pinball Philosophy (1975)
Link: https://pinballnirvana.com/forums/threads/the-pinball-philosophy-john-mcphee-1975.22239/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42997344

2025-02-12 10:20:06 UTC

Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later
Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66431436/pushing-to-github-after-a-shallow-clone-is-horribly-slow
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023283
#git

2025-02-12 09:30:06 UTC

A gracious end to Webb-site
Link: https://webb-site.com/articles/shutdown.asp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023141

2025-02-12 08:55:06 UTC

Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany
Link: https://electrek.co/2025/02/05/tesla-sales-dropped-60-in-germany/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023110
#germany

2025-02-12 07:50:06 UTC

ElevenReader by ElevenLabs
Link: https://elevenreader.io
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022398

2025-02-12 07:40:06 UTC

Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)
Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/90747313/steve-jobs-lessons-tony-fadell-build-book-excerpt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990103

2025-02-12 07:25:06 UTC

No longer writing my own damn HTML
Link: https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/no-html/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021643
#html

2025-02-11 20:25:06 UTC

Database of 750 companies building for people with disabilities
Link: https://data.perkins.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016802

2025-02-10 13:25:06 UTC

AI Tool Found My Autoimmune Disease After $100k and 30 Hospital Visits
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ij7s4m/how_i_built_an_open_source_ai_tool_to_find_my/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999632

2025-01-11 16:50:07 UTC

De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge Bluetooth speaker
Link: https://tomscii.sig7.se/2025/01/De-smarting-the-Marshall-Uxbridge
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42666572

2025-01-11 16:35:07 UTC

Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice
Link: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/narcolepsy-is-weird-but-i-didnt-notice/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653370

2025-01-11 14:40:06 UTC

C++26: A Placeholder with No Name
Link: https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/01/08/cpp26-unnamed-placeholders
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42636571

2024-12-31 00:10:07 UTC

Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition
Link: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.final.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554218
#linux

2024-12-09 14:35:07 UTC

A Year of WordHopper – Modern DOS Game Development Retrospective
Link: https://kokoscript.com/2024/015.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42288561

2024-12-07 08:15:06 UTC

Tell HN: Alaska Airlines website exposes passenger data
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42347432

2024-12-07 08:00:07 UTC

How to Bypass WhatsApp Web's Locked Chat Feature
Link: https://lcat.dev/post.php?id=3cf8e1b9-e5e3-4a6d-af27-12720c5b2d54
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343052

2024-11-22 17:40:08 UTC

Phased Array Microphone
Link: https://benwang.dev/2023/02/26/Phased-Array-Microphone.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42215552

2024-11-22 17:35:07 UTC

Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/amazon-to-invest-another-4-billion-in-anthropic-openais-biggest-rival.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42215126
#amazon

2024-11-22 17:20:07 UTC

FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine
Link: https://www.goto10retro.com/p/faster-atari-st-digital-magazine
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42212412

2024-11-22 16:50:06 UTC

What Made Dostoevsky's Work Immortal
Link: https://thoughts.wyounas.com/p/what-made-dostoevsky-immortal
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42214331

2024-11-22 12:45:08 UTC

Traits are a local maximum
Link: https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/traits-are-a-local-maxima/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177984

2024-08-07 21:30:06 UTC

macOS Sequoia makes it harder to run not notarized or signed apps
Link: https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/06/macos-sequoia-makes-it-harder-to-run-apps-that-dont-follow-apples-security-rules/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184553

2024-06-21 23:20:06 UTC

Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40754229

2024-05-24 17:50:06 UTC

Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13817
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466826

2024-05-24 17:45:06 UTC

Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse-Engineering
Link: https://op-co.de/blog/posts/samsung_wb850f_firmware/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467232

2024-05-24 17:40:06 UTC

Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
Link: https://gizmodo.com/google-search-ai-overview-giant-hallucination-1851499031
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40468230
#google

2024-05-24 16:45:06 UTC

Writing a Unix clone in about a month
Link: https://drewdevault.com/2024/05/24/2024-05-24-Bunnix.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467297

2024-05-24 16:30:06 UTC

ICQ will stop working from June 26
Link: https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467625

2024-05-24 14:35:05 UTC

Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic
Link: https://blog.danielschroeder.me/2024/05/voxel-displacement-modernizing-retro-3d/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464558

2024-05-24 14:00:06 UTC

Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography
Link: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/advancing-our-amazing-bet-on-asymmetric.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457500

2024-05-24 13:30:06 UTC

New Regular expression (Regex) functions in Excel
Link: https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/new-regular-expression-regex-functions-in-excel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426720

2024-05-24 13:30:05 UTC

Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)
Link: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/24/day-tripper/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464303

2024-05-24 13:10:06 UTC

Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize
Link: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/anger-health-effects-risks-heart-brain-mental-f4105ed7
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464887

2024-05-24 13:00:07 UTC

Go's old $GOPATH story for development and dependencies
Link: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoTheGopathDevelopmentStory
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40438007

2024-05-24 12:20:06 UTC

"Unacceptable": Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/pleas-for-open-sourcing-refunds-as-spotify-plans-to-brick-car-thing-devices/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40465102

2024-05-24 10:35:06 UTC

Kabosu, the Dog Behind the 'Doge' Meme, Has Died
Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/kabosu-the-dog-behind-the-doge-meme-has-died
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464495

2024-05-24 08:55:05 UTC

LunarML – The Standard ML compiler that produces Lua/JavaScript
Link: https://github.com/minoki/LunarML
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40440436
#javascript

2024-05-24 08:40:05 UTC

2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution
Link: https://www.sassnow.ski/rigid-body-collisions/1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463764

2024-05-24 07:00:06 UTC

Perplexica: Open-Source Perplexity Alternative
Link: https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40462369

2024-05-11 12:15:06 UTC

You Can Hear the Temperature of Water
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/science/hot-water-sound-cold.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40317629

2024-04-17 17:55:07 UTC

How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
Link: https://stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067575

2024-04-03 21:05:06 UTC

Land Use Policies Make Urban Childcare Expensive and Rare
Link: https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/who-cares-about-childcare
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922294

2024-03-15 10:50:06 UTC

Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39713323

2024-03-15 04:50:06 UTC

TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
Link: https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39711621
#linux

2023-12-07 04:45:06 UTC

Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
Link: https://messengernews.fb.com/2023/12/06/launching-default-end-to-end-encryption-on-messenger/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38551993

2023-11-18 10:15:06 UTC

Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
Link: https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/sixteen
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316846

2023-09-01 11:20:06 UTC

Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in iCloud Photos
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37348914
#apple

2023-08-31 14:05:06 UTC

Random Load Balancing Is Unevenly Distributed
Link: https://www.evanjones.ca/random-load-balancing-is-uneven.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308469

2023-08-16 23:55:07 UTC

Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud
Link: https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37154138

2023-08-16 07:20:06 UTC

How the iMac Saved Apple
Link: https://www.theverge.com/23830432/imac-twenty-five-years-ago-saved-apple
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133908
#apple

2023-08-15 12:45:06 UTC

Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office
Link: https://fortune.com/2023/08/14/bosses-regretting-return-to-office-mandates/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37131854

2023-08-14 18:55:06 UTC

Lack of Walkability in the US is destroying mental health
Link: https://makeamericawalkable.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37124015

2023-08-13 07:55:06 UTC

Flying Toasters Screensaver After Dark in CSS
Link: https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/all/flying-toasters.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106550
#css

2023-08-12 13:15:06 UTC

What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)
Link: https://blog.janestreet.com/what-is-gained-and-lost-with-63-bit-integers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37097973