Everything Hacker News read today

Why are so many young people getting cancer? What researchers do and don't know (nature.com)

AI Is Slowing Down (wheresyoured.at)

OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system (ocamlpro.com)

Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube (old.reddit.com)

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead (404media.co)

GitHub - convictional/souls-only: A font for humans not AI and keyboard firmware to type in it. (github.com)

I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station (old.reddit.com)

Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love (mimo.xiaomi.com)

Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication (aws.amazon.com)

Life is too short for a slow terminal (mijndertstuij.nl)

Horse arses, thumbs and data design of GnuCash — HandsOnMoney Blog (handson.money)

Are you really expected to run five type-checkers now? (pyrefly.org)

The 15-minute city is a dead end — cities must be places of opportunity for everyone - LSE COVID-19 (blogs.lse.ac.uk)

The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun (syndekit.substack.com)

Intuned (intunedhq.com)

Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly (nber.org)

Horse arses, thumbs and data design of GnuCash — HandsOnMoney Blog (handson.money)

GitHub - boringcollege/zig-by-example: Zig by example (github.com)

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate our feeds (bbc.com)

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Update (schneier.com)

NVIDIA and LG Group Build an AI Factory to Advance Physical AI, Mobility and AI Infrastructure (blogs.nvidia.com)

Amber Tree: A Middle Ground Between Red and Green Trees (blog.gplane.win)

Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot (safedep.io)

A Family Project — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER (bittersoutherner.com)

Zig structs of arrays | Andreas Hohmann (andreashohmann.com)

Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post (human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated? (reeserichardson.blog)

Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank (computerweekly.com)

A Family Project — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER (bittersoutherner.com)

The EU Open Source Strategy (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)

Spherical Voronoi Diagram (jasondavies.com)

The World’s Largest Floating Dry Dock Was Towed Across the Atlantic to Bermuda in 1869 (mastermariners.org.au)

Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? (techcrunch.com)

Trusted Computing FAQ TCPA / Palladium / NGCSB (cl.cam.ac.uk)

Cannibalism (b-ark.ca)

Playing with Vision Embeddings (prestonbjensen.com)

Richard Scolyer: Australian doctor who underwent world-first brain tumour treatment dies (bbc.com)

GitHub - markusheimerl/gpt: A generative pretrained transformer implementation (github.com)

SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students (reclaimthenet.org)

NoSuggest (nosuggest.com)

Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm (devblogs.microsoft.com)

Dopamine Fracking (igerman.cc)

1,000 Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever (troyhunt.com)

New drug ‘functionally cures’ many hepatitis B virus infections (science.org)

Man-Computer Symbiosis (groups.csail.mit.edu)

GitHub - Achint08/90210: 90210 - like the show · but you're the showrunner (github.com)

oneworldflag - 1worldflag (1worldflag.com)

Tech sell-off widens as South Korea index plunges (ft.com)

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring (algorithmichiring.github.io)

Your Backend Is Full of Hidden Workflows (unmeshed.io)

GitHub - melastmohican/rust-rpico2-embassy-examples: rust-rpico2-embassy-examples Rust Embassy examples for Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (github.com)

KNN early termination in Manticore Search (manticoresearch.com)

The Smallest Brain You Can Build (ranpara.net)

GitHub - yukiyokotani/office-open-xml-viewer (github.com)

GitHub - yukiyokotani/office-open-xml-viewer (github.com)

Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs? (blog.ydb.tech)

Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really) (fagnerbrack.com)

Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding (phoronix.com)

Crashing cars and improving hover detection (motion.dev)

Ask HN: Are we as society going to let LLM companies take all the values?

GitHub - ninoxAI/nightwatch: Open-source, local-first, read-only AI SRE: clusters alert storms, investigates root cause over your live systems, proposes human-gated fixes. (github.com)

Iran says staff blocked from entering US after players given World Cup visas (bbc.com)

Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank

vibeOS - next generation operating system (vibeos.sh)

An Ohio Valley 100,000-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight (radioworld.com)

Getting Fried Part 1: The Week I Lost the Plot at Cogentiv.ai

The Absurdly Optimized Pancake: Leavening Chemistry, Acid-Base Stoichiometry, and an Interactive Calculator (absurdlyoptimized.com)

AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S. (barchart.com)

Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid. (mojodojo.io)

A Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away. (timesofsandiego.com)

Making Peace With Your Unlived Dreams (nik.art)

Tokens and Tokenization (bearisland.dev)

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II (arxiv.org)

Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs? (blog.ydb.tech)

The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy (science.org)

Beautiful Kernel Functions and How to See Them (kelvinpaschal.com)

Free IPv4 Lookup — Owner, ASN, Geo, PTR (worldip.io)

Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer? (natesilver.net)

Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony (gavinray97.github.io)

How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown (performance.dev)

Making Peace With Your Unlived Dreams (nik.art)

The curious case of low-protein diets (knowablemagazine.org)

You’ll never guess who made the first wireless telephone (signoregalilei.com)

My Automated Doubt Development Process (alexself.dev)

What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (unix.stackexchange.com)

GitHub - yukiyokotani/office-open-xml-viewer (github.com)

What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (unix.stackexchange.com)

Podman 6: machine usability improvements (blog.podman.io)

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 (righto.com)

Founding Engineer at Proliferate | Y Combinator (ycombinator.com)

In 1999 This Was a Federal Crime. In 2026 the Hardware Is $22 and the Software Is Free. (ringmast4r.substack.com)

GitHub - garethgeorge/backrest: Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup. (github.com)