Daily Top Stories
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Ladybird Browser adopts Rust (ladybird.org)
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The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw (discuss.ai.google.dev)
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Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
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Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
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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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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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The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
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$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (yahoo.com)
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Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov (twitter.com)
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Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love (hackernews.love)
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The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
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Global Intelligence Crisis (citriniresearch.com)
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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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Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database (warnfirehose.com)
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A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
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AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human
21.
Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15 (blog.feld.me)
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Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative (old.reddit.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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Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived (github.com)
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Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss (nytimes.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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Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com)
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femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com)
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Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt (blog.nytsoi.net)
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The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (cacm.acm.org)