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Hacker News

20 items

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London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
352 points · 434 comments
2
Making holograms with a pen plotter
168 points · 17 comments
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The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood
90 points · 25 comments
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Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
294 points · 272 comments
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DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio
50 points · 34 comments
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Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials
20 points · 6 comments
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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
633 points · 284 comments
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The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)
233 points · 40 comments
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Mojo 1.0
395 points · 203 comments
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Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
236 points · 123 comments
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Grok Bot
301 points · 266 comments
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Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?
23 points · 26 comments
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The Human Is the Loop
123 points · 58 comments
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Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
121 points · 58 comments
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OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
455 points · 430 comments
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Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today
68 points · 21 comments
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llama.cpp
254 points · 113 comments
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A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
94 points · 40 comments
19
WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
236 points · 72 comments
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Compression is prediction
557 points · 227 comments

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Jenna Ortega recentr/HolUp
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Top adviser to Iran's Revolutionary Guard leader says US military 'weaker than what we perceived'r/worldnews
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She’s not a nurse
r/stupidpeoplefacebook
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of a bouncerr/AbsoluteUnits
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Cineplex CEO Says Gen Z Is Ready to Go to the Movies; Says They’re Tired of Looking at Small Screensr/movies
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Any other millennials discover something completely new about themselves around 40?r/Millennials
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He's the best, gets me Seal of approvalr/MadeMeSmile
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An iq too highr/memes
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1 goose vs U.S military
r/interestingasfuck
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This trend is expected to rise.r/SipsTea
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My dad asked me to make breakfast, and he didn’t eat it because it was “burnt.”
r/mildlyinfuriating
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This woman, after missing her flight, shouting at the plane to come backr/funny
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Several of these fell out of my clients bagr/whatisit
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A shocking 92 percent of US adults are not going to the doctor because it’s too expensiver/antiwork
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Is this accurate ?r/PoursTea
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Afghani-British Chef Mursal Saiq gives her critique of "authenticity" for non-white chefs in cookingr/TikTokCringe
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What’s a “common knowledge” fact that you genuinely had no idea about?r/AskReddit
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"If they are license plate readers, why are they pointed at a splash pad?" — Parents raise concerns as 8 government Flock cameras monitor children's play areas in Slayter Creek Park, Texas.r/PopCultureV2
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of a baby Water Buffalor/AbsoluteUnits
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Good people still existr/MadeMeSmile

Google Trends

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omaha weather200+ searches
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steven vandervelden special grand jury200+ searches
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ios 26.6100+ searches
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cryptocurrency100+ searches
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google store5000+ searches
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servicio de ciudadanía e inmigración de los estados unidos200+ searches
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jackie big bear eagle5000+ searches
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seth trimble200+ searches
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travis kelce1000+ searches
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xbox elite 3 leaked prototype100+ searches
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wsaz2000+ searches

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