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All About Cookies▲ 517

Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

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Ariya▲ 364

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

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US Government Accountability Office▲ 172

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

To clean up nuclear waste, the Department of Energy spends billions of taxpayer dollars on large projects, like waste treatment facilities. When...

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Davit▲ 261

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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MIT▲ 107

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)

MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

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Neil▲ 86

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.

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Twitter▲ 80

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday. We’re expanding preview access globally now.

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Chiptune Radio▲ 37

Show HN: Chiptune Radio

A 24/7 chiptune music stream on Twitch — 8-bit soundchips, trackers, and demoscene energy, broadcast by Aleph Void, LLC.

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HN — Best of the Week

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Microsoft▲ 575

Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

Microsoft have fired most if not all of the team at id Software responsible for developing the idTech game engine during Xbox layoffs

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Heise▲ 551

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

With a procedural trick, proponents in the EU Parliament are pushing for reactivation of indiscriminate scans of chat messages shortly before the summer break.

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Street Complete▲ 728

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

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Ariya▲ 359

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

Just a few years ago, realistic local speech generation seemed unimaginable. Today, its quality is exceptional and, crucially, it delivers these results without compromising privacy.

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Amazon▲ 311

Amazon without the knockoffs

A free, fair-source Chrome extension that filters pseudo-brand junk out of Amazon search results.

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BBC▲ 307

China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

The 69-year-old helped companies secure valuable contracts in exchange for money, a court heard.

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Fight Chat Control▲ 528

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

What is the difference between Chat Control 1.0 and Chat Control 2.0? A clear overview of both EU laws, their timelines, and where things stand today.

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Euronews▲ 286

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

The Manifesto Library is located inside Livraria Lello in Porto, and is dedicated to books “that challenge power, censorship, exclusion, and dominant narratives.”

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Ilya▲ 441

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

A curated reading list of foundational AI and deep learning papers, hosted in full with plain-language explanations of difficult terms.

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