Hacker News digest

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Gemini 2.5 Flash (developers.googleblog.com)

541 comments 38 hours, 1557 points

Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules (www.nytimes.com)

456 comments 42 hours, 1278 points

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale (www.afterbabel.com)

566 comments 43 hours, 1082 points

OpenAI o3 and o4-mini (openai.com)

493 comments 2 days, 1030 points

Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain (status.zoom.us)

296 comments 2 days, 918 points

Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative (coppolaemilio.com)

467 comments 2 days, 906 points

OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal (github.com)

278 comments 2 days, 782 points

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022) (arstechnica.com)

221 comments 2 days, 771 points

Potatoes in the Mail (facts.usps.com)

247 comments 35 hours, 741 points

Kagi Assistant is now available to all users (blog.kagi.com)

267 comments 29 hours, 738 points

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' (www.bbc.com)

414 comments 44 hours, 733 points

“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System (www.skyatnightmagazine.com)

326 comments 2 days, 721 points

An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system (maknee.github.io)

102 comments 44 hours, 707 points

US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban (www.bbc.com)

347 comments 46 hours, 667 points

Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014) (theappendix.net)

133 comments 2 days, 629 points

Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers (prospect.org)

205 comments 31 hours, 601 points

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge (www.theregister.com)

396 comments 20 hours, 598 points

Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional (www.404media.co)

157 comments 15 hours, 565 points

show Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code (github.com)

118 comments 16 hours, 533 points

CVE Foundation (www.thecvefoundation.org)

73 comments 2 days, 521 points

Defold: cross-platform game engine (defold.com)

151 comments 25 hours, 513 points

AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu (www.dwarkesh.com)

341 comments 40 hours, 511 points

Kermit: A typeface for kids (microsoft.design)

164 comments 2 days, 510 points

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting (antirez.com)

152 comments 2 days, 470 points

Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry (www.forbes.com)

189 comments 23 hours, 462 points

15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python (jonathan.protzenko.fr)

93 comments 13 hours, 446 points

I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs (www.cantgetmuchhigher.com)

140 comments 34 hours, 438 points

Attention K-Mart Shoppers (archive.org)

111 comments 2 days, 434 points

This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops (www.wired.com)

215 comments 43 hours, 432 points

HDR‑Infused Emoji (sharpletters.net)

142 comments 42 hours, 408 points

arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud (info.arxiv.org)

154 comments 23 hours, 365 points

Encryption Is Not a Crime (www.privacyguides.org)

169 comments 44 hours, 354 points

How Nintendo bled Atari games to death (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

143 comments 2 days, 349 points

AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive (buttondown.com)

140 comments 25 hours, 347 points

What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code? (blog.luden.io)

130 comments 34 hours, 342 points

Full Text Search of US Court records (www.judyrecords.com)

54 comments 13 hours, 337 points

Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering (quagmirerepair.com)

102 comments 41 hours, 318 points

show Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks (github.com)

77 comments 2 days, 311 points

I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024) (www.bugsink.com)

135 comments 26 hours, 310 points

ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser (flausch.social)

145 comments 33 hours, 309 points

mIRC 7.81 (www.mirc.com)

135 comments 45 hours, 290 points

Damn Vulnerable MCP Server (github.com)

61 comments 2 days, 286 points

Less Slow C++ (github.com)

94 comments 20 hours, 279 points

A Postmortem of a Startup (buildwithtract.com)

122 comments 2 days, 278 points

Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale? (www.afterbabel.com)

125 comments 2 days, 268 points

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (www.nytimes.com)

111 comments 2 days, 259 points

Walled Gardens Can Kill (aneesiqbal.ai)

116 comments 22 hours, 259 points

Passing planes and other whoosh sounds (www.windytan.com)

55 comments 2 days, 258 points

Why is Good Friday called Good Friday? (www.historyextra.com)

137 comments 29 hours, 244 points

Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH (nvd.nist.gov)

51 comments 43 hours, 243 points

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