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  1. Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
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  2. Click (2016)
    (370 points | Comments)

  3. Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
    (273 points | Comments)

  4. No more JetBrains products for me
    (154 points | Comments)

  5. Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
    (133 points | Comments)

  6. Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions
    (187 points | Comments)

  7. Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
    (567 points | Comments)

  8. The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
    (338 points | Comments)

  9. Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
    (213 points | Comments)

  10. New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC
    (182 points | Comments)

  11. Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE
    (132 points | Comments)

  12. Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model
    (128 points | Comments)

  13. Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
    (323 points | Comments)

  14. We let AIs run radio stations
    (373 points | Comments)

  15. Your Most Improbable Life
    (165 points | Comments)

  16. What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?
    (162 points | Comments)

  17. Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz
    (121 points | Comments)

  18. Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation
    (148 points | Comments)

  19. Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
    (1096 points | Comments)

  20. Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
    (347 points | Comments)

  21. Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
    (289 points | Comments)

  22. Anthropic acquires Stainless
    (531 points | Comments)

  23. Qwen 3.7 Preview
    (253 points | Comments)

  24. We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
    (499 points | Comments)

  25. Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
    (564 points | Comments)

  26. Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)
    (125 points | Comments)

  27. 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries
    (182 points | Comments)

  28. Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
    (143 points | Comments)

  29. Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
    (339 points | Comments)

  30. Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
    (360 points | Comments)

  31. Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
    (727 points | Comments)

  32. 'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'
    (233 points | Comments)

  33. Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO
    (156 points | Comments)

  34. AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]
    (305 points | Comments)

  35. Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
    (216 points | Comments)

  36. Learn Harness Engineering
    (158 points | Comments)

  37. Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)
    (124 points | Comments)

  38. Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
    (140 points | Comments)

  39. Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets
    (106 points | Comments)

  40. Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
    (325 points | Comments)

  41. Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
    (379 points | Comments)

  42. NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
    (101 points | Comments)

  43. Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
    (129 points | Comments)

  44. The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]
    (130 points | Comments)

  45. Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
    (275 points | Comments)

  46. Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
    (167 points | Comments)

  47. Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?
    (118 points | Comments)

  48. Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
    (220 points | Comments)

  49. BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
    (105 points | Comments)

  50. It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
    (316 points | Comments)

  51. How fast is N tokens per second really?
    (492 points | Comments)

  52. Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)
    (133 points | Comments)