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1.
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
713 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 388 comments
2.
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
208 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 35 comments
3.
Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
646 points by tsak 1 day ago | 511 comments
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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)
849 points by defrost 14 hours ago | 813 comments
5.
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
202 points by Audiophilip 1 day ago | 61 comments
6.
I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
253 points by baranul 4 days ago | 242 comments
7.
São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)
330 points by rmason 6 days ago | 119 comments
8.
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
142 points by sebg 1 day ago | 9 comments
9.
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)
362 points by petercooper 9 hours ago | 341 comments
10.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
419 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 251 comments
11.
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
367 points by delduca 6 hours ago | 246 comments
12.
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
235 points by poly2it 13 hours ago | 107 comments
13.
Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
143 points by koolhead17 3 days ago | 55 comments
14.
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
157 points by m3h 13 hours ago | 42 comments
15.
Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/wyzer-lang)
168 points by v0id_isgood 12 hours ago | 100 comments
16.
What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
378 points by RickJWagner 11 hours ago | 515 comments
17.
Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
129 points by stagas 13 hours ago | 58 comments
18.
2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
212 points by inigyou 16 hours ago | 203 comments
19.
Atomic Clocks (nist.gov)
127 points by teleforce 7 days ago | 77 comments
20.
A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] (youtube.com)
75 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 9 comments
21.
U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal (nbcnews.com)
338 points by ceejayoz 11 hours ago | 338 comments
22.
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)
134 points by MarcoDewey 9 hours ago | 35 comments
23.
Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
234 points by piotrgrabowski 6 hours ago | 51 comments
24.
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
147 points by artninja1988 7 hours ago | 166 comments
25.
Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer (stackdump.com)
65 points by m_kos 4 days ago | 21 comments
26.
Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day (frame.work)
141 points by RobinHirst11 19 hours ago | 53 comments
27.
USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (niemanlab.org)
183 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago | 70 comments
28.
TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (typestax.com)
50 points by jasim 8 days ago | 18 comments
29.
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)
267 points by _da_ 5 hours ago | 157 comments
30.
Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)
52 points by bookofjoe 4 days ago | 26 comments

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