Daily Top Stories
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The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Ladybird adopts Rust (ladybird.org)
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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
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Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
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Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
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Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (old.reddit.com)
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Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
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Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
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Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
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ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
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The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
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Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight (thenevadaindependent.com)
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$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (yahoo.com)
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The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
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FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me (vladimir.varank.in)
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Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love (hackernews.love)
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Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com)
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A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
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Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% (docs.hetzner.com)
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Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
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UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (forums.atariage.com)
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Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
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femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com)
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Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot (twitter.com)
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VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf] (pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev)
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AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says (gizmodo.com)
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Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives (old.reddit.com)
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Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
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What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
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Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances (videocardz.com)