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Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries (cnbc.com)
HN 720 pts 1413 comments by bhouston Apr 9, 2025 thread
I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either (benhouston3d.com)
HN 354 pts 424 comments by bhouston Nov 27, 2024 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (githubstatus.com)
HN 265 pts 108 comments by bhouston Feb 2, 2026 Programming (General) thread
Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars (medium.com)
HN 198 pts 169 comments by bhouston Sep 9, 2025 thread
Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative (github.com)
HN 125 pts 53 comments by bhouston Feb 25, 2025 AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
RISC-V is currently slow compared to modern CPUs (benhouston3d.com)
HN 110 pts 120 comments by bhouston Oct 23, 2024 thread
TikTok removing posts for violating the "joy of TikTok" (twitter.com)
HN 103 pts 108 comments by bhouston Oct 11, 2025 thread
Sam Altman's sister files lawsuits against Sam alleging sexual abuse (cnbc.com)
HN 86 pts 38 comments by bhouston Jan 8, 2025 thread
University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects" (texastribune.org)
HN 74 pts 22 comments by bhouston Feb 19, 2026 thread
Google partners with Internet Archive to link to archives in search (9to5google.com)
HN 64 pts 22 comments by bhouston Sep 11, 2024 thread
OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia (engadget.com)
HN 49 pts 20 comments by bhouston Jan 25, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media (fair.org)
HN 49 pts 17 comments by bhouston Sep 21, 2025 thread
'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine (nytimes.com)
HN 49 pts 6 comments by bhouston Dec 21, 2024 thread
San Francisco's pro-billionaire march draws dozens (techcrunch.com)
HN 44 pts 15 comments by bhouston Feb 9, 2026 thread
Google AI helped IDF drones with targeting in 2024 breaching its own policies (washingtonpost.com)
HN 32 pts 7 comments by bhouston Feb 2, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
No place in children's hands: <16s in UK to be banned from buying energy drinks (theguardian.com)
HN 32 pts 82 comments by bhouston Sep 3, 2025 thread
TikTok users flock to UpScrolled in response to new U.S. owners (mashable.com)
HN 31 pts 2 comments by bhouston Jan 30, 2026 thread
Mark Zuckerberg's stops funding the pro-immigration group he founded (businessinsider.com)
HN 29 pts 5 comments by bhouston Dec 19, 2025 thread
Open-source OpenWrt One router released at $89 – 'hacker-friendly device' (tomshardware.com)
HN 26 pts 5 comments by bhouston Dec 2, 2024 Programming (General) thread
The Plot to Poison Children's Minds (paulkrugman.substack.com)
HN 24 pts 28 comments by bhouston Jan 2, 2025 thread
China responses to Trump's 105% taffies with its own 84% tariffs on US goods (bbc.com)
HN 23 pts 1 comments by bhouston Apr 9, 2025 thread
What Is the Most Minimal Agentic Coder You Can Write? (benhouston3d.com)
HN 23 pts 13 comments by bhouston Mar 21, 2025 thread
Nature: The political effects of X's feed algorithm (nature.com)
HN 22 pts 3 comments by bhouston Feb 18, 2026 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
US may ban TP-Link routers/switches over links to Chinese government (theverge.com)
HN 22 pts 7 comments by bhouston Dec 18, 2024 thread
Trump executive action targets ActBlue, the main Democratic fundraising platform (nbcnews.com)
HN 21 pts 1 comments by bhouston Apr 25, 2025 thread
Ford 'ripping up' Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink (cbc.ca)
HN 21 pts 0 comments by bhouston Feb 3, 2025 thread
Anthropic and DeepMind researchers more likely to reject Meta offers than OpenAI (theverge.com)
HN 20 pts 5 comments by bhouston Jul 10, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
After pro-Palestinian students, now foreign students being targeted by Trump (theintercept.com)
HN 19 pts 1 comments by bhouston Apr 8, 2025 thread
HDRify: True HDR image viewer, and tool set in pure JavaScript (hdrify.benhouston3d.com)
HN 18 pts 12 comments by bhouston Feb 12, 2026 Web Development thread
Researchers ran an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users (404media.co)
HN 17 pts 3 comments by bhouston Apr 28, 2025 AI / Machine LearningInternet / Digital Culture thread