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The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app [discussion]

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf] [discussion]

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Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines [discussion]

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Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them [discussion]

Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware [discussion]

A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela [discussion]

The Jeff Dean Facts [discussion]

Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout [discussion]

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Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team [discussion]

Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016) [discussion]

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes [discussion]

Shipmap.org [discussion]

Eat Real Food [discussion]

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Vietnam bans unskippable ads [discussion]

Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? [discussion]

Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities [discussion]

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far [discussion]

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It's hard to justify Tahoe icons [discussion]

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review [discussion]

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die [discussion]

There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout [discussion]

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Neural Networks: Zero to Hero [discussion]

Lessons from 14 Years at Google [discussion]

The Unbearable Joy of Sitting Alone in a Café [discussion]

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) [discussion]

Web development is fun again [discussion]

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Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes [discussion]

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop [discussion]

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 [discussion]

Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet [discussion]

The C3 Programming Language [discussion …

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FracturedJson [discussion]

HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark [discussion]

10 years of personal finances in plain text files [discussion]

39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos [discussion]

Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature [discussion]

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Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] [discussion]

Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust [discussion]

iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan [discussion]

Cameras and Lenses (2020) [discussion]

I rebooted my social life [discussion]

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