Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.
YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit Comments ⌘ Read more
Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests Comments ⌘ Read more
YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops Comments ⌘ Read more
Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties Comments ⌘ Read more
Germany turning abandoned coal mines into 23 lakes, becoming artificial wetland Comments ⌘ Read more
Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim Comments ⌘ Read more
Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI Comments ⌘ Read more
4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe Comments ⌘ Read more
AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to train robots Comments ⌘ Read more
Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says Comments ⌘ Read more
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services Comments ⌘ Read more
Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight Comments ⌘ Read more
FBI Tracked Susie Wiles Phone, Emails with Journalists & Lawyers, New Docs Show Comments ⌘ Read more
US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia Comments ⌘ Read more
Altman: The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI Comments ⌘ Read more
Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude Comments ⌘ Read more
AI godfather Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO deluded, doesn't understand cybersecurity Comments ⌘ Read more
Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia Comments ⌘ Read more
Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be "dead zones" but clue to early life Comments ⌘ Read more
Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 Comments ⌘ Read more
Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program Comments ⌘ Read more
EDG C++ front-end goes public Comments ⌘ [Read more](https://edgcpp.org/#transition)
Electrification efficiency: The world will need less energy after the transition Comments ⌘ Read more
Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? Comments ⌘ Read more
SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video] Comments ⌘ Read more
Kidnapping kids remains legal in USA, this site has you experience it first-hand Comments ⌘ Read more
Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people's data to the web Comments ⌘ Read more
New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely Comments ⌘ Read more
Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity Comments ⌘ Read more
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – an open-source IDE for thoughtful software design Comments ⌘ Read more
DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why Comments ⌘ Read more
The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea Comments ⌘ Read more
Obscura: The first VPN that can't log your activity Comments ⌘ [Read more](https://obscura.com/#faq-technical)
Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking Comments ⌘ Read more
Economics Nobel Laureates' Letter Supporting the California Billionaire Tax [pdf] Comments ⌘ Read more
Learning Another Language May Be One of the Best Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy Comments ⌘ Read more
US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments Comments ⌘ Read more
Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' Comments ⌘ Read more
OpenAI's Misalignment Framework: A Tactical Bid to Preempt Global AI Governance Comments ⌘ Read more
Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes Comments ⌘ Read more
PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand" Comments ⌘ Read more
LLMs are real, AI is fake Comments ⌘ [Read more](https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake)
David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models Comments ⌘ Read more
Matt Mullenweg reportedly returns as Automattic CEO 2 days after getting booted Comments ⌘ Read more
American Medical Association Backs Classification of Nearsightedness as Disease Comments ⌘ Read more
Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist Comments ⌘ Read more
We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out Comments ⌘ Read more
Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography Comments ⌘ Read more
Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou Comments ⌘ Read more
Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021 Comments ⌘ Read more
Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety Comments ⌘ Read more
The far right's win in Germany is sending a chill through Europe's establishment Comments ⌘ Read more
PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD Comments ⌘ Read more
Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics Comments ⌘ Read more
Show HN: NYC MapTap – Learn NYC neighborhoods (with subway routes when you miss) Comments ⌘ Read more
Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace Comments ⌘ Read more
Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+ Comments ⌘ Read more
Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year Comments ⌘ Read more
No–AI Agents Did Not Build Secret Civilizations Stop Anthropomorphizing Malware Comments ⌘ Read more
Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest' Comments ⌘ Read more
METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident Comments ⌘ [Read more](https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about-this-incident)
Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x Comments ⌘ Read more
US lawmakers demand investigation into admin's secret surveillance of Americans Comments ⌘ Read more
European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy Comments ⌘ Read more
I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's AI Comments ⌘ Read more
Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research Comments ⌘ Read more
Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation Comments ⌘ Read more
"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens Comments ⌘ Read more
Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022 Comments ⌘ Read more
Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies Comments ⌘ Read more
One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed Comments ⌘ Read more
I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines and ported it to Windows Comments ⌘ Read more
Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar Comments ⌘ Read more
Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device Comments ⌘ Read more
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late Comments ⌘ Read more
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence Comments ⌘ Read more
Netherlands lists Israel as a threat to its national security for the first time Comments ⌘ Read more
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint Comments ⌘ Read more
Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a Comments ⌘ Read more
Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state Comments ⌘ Read more
Micron, SK Commit Billions to RAM Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028 Comments ⌘ Read more
I've built a free, open-source local and remote memory system for agentw and CL Comments ⌘ Read more
Cornell: Pro Palestine Students Targeted by ICE: Come Back to US or Lose Funding Comments ⌘ Read more
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case Comments ⌘ Read more
In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half Comments ⌘ Read more
Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes Comments ⌘ Read more
McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There Comments ⌘ Read more
CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York Comments ⌘ Read more
Wisconsin Tracks Man Across State Line with Flock Cameras to Arrest Him for Weed Comments ⌘ Read more
University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades To'Curb Mental Health Crisis' Comments ⌘ Read more
Claude Code is leaking real email address as a User-Agent string in curl command Comments ⌘ Read more
CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them Comments ⌘ Read more
Apple lied under oath to a federal court. The decision to lie came from Tim Cook Comments ⌘ Read more
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza Comments ⌘ Read more
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza Comments ⌘ Read more
"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011) Comments ⌘ Read more
Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating Comments ⌘ Read more
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. Comments ⌘ Read more
Stack Overflow new questions are down 98.5% since ChatGPT (+ 5 other platforms) Comments ⌘ Read more
Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support Comments ⌘ Read more
ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests' Comments ⌘ Read more
Sailors on USS Lincoln outside Iran are exhausted and suffering from poor morale Comments ⌘ Read more
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks Comments ⌘ Read more
Former Federal Prosecutors to Senate: Stop Confirming Election Deniers as Judges Comments ⌘ Read more
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs Comments ⌘ Read more
Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) Comments ⌘ Read more
GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance Comments ⌘ Read more
Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable Comments ⌘ Read more
“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky Comments ⌘ Read more
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