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Hacker News (18 Jul 2025)

  1. Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

    616 points • 595 comments • jul 18, 2025

  2. Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

    423 points • 190 comments • jul 18, 2025

  3. lsr: ls with io_uring

    332 points • 158 comments • jul 18, 2025

  4. AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics

    322 points • 314 comments • jul 18, 2025

  5. NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency

    294 points • 187 comments • jul 18, 2025

  6. NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester

    277 points • 164 comments • jul 18, 2025

  7. Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis

    270 points • 129 comments • jul 18, 2025

  8. Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

    263 points • 255 comments • jul 18, 2025

  9. Asynchrony is not concurrency

    261 points • 185 comments • jul 18, 2025

  10. Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach

    260 points • 331 comments • jul 18, 2025