For the first time since April's fragile ceasefire, Iran and Israel traded direct strikes on Sunday — markets flinched, oil moved, and any remaining illusion that the Middle East had pulled back from the brink was answered with missile fire and retaliatory jets.
Israel launched retaliatory strikes against military targets in central and western Iran on Sunday after Iran fired its first missiles at Israel since the April ceasefire broke down, with President Trump calling Netanyahu to urge restraint even as the IDF confirmed the attacks were underway.
Donald Trump ended an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker after she pressed him on unsubstantiated claims that the California governor's race and the 2020 presidential election were rigged.
Nithya Raman pulled into second place in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, surpassing Spencer Pratt as mail-in ballots continued to be counted and setting up a likely runoff against Mayor Karen Bass.
Two men opened fire on each other during a festival in Toledo's historic Old West End neighborhood Sunday, wounding bystanders; police were still searching for both gunmen by evening.
A patient received two kidneys and a whole liver from a pig — the first multi-organ xenotransplantation — marking a significant step in the effort to address the chronic shortage of human donor organs.
Joe Mantello's stark revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman swept the 79th Tony Awards with six wins, while John Lithgow won best actor for Giant and Lesley Manville claimed best actress in a ceremony celebrating Broadway's strongest season in recent memory.
Iran launched missiles at Israel in retaliation for an earlier Israeli strike in Lebanon; hours later, the IDF struck military targets in central and western Iran — the first direct exchange between the two countries since the April ceasefire, raising fears of a widening regional conflict.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Sunday, toppling buildings in General Santos City and triggering tsunami warnings across the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, and Indonesia, with waves of up to three meters forecast.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang for his first visit in seven years, seeking to reinforce ties with Kim Jong Un as North Korea has escalated nuclear rhetoric and raised its profile as a strategic partner to Russia.
South Korean and Japanese markets slid sharply as investors retreated from the recent AI-driven tech rally, with the Kospi index falling hard as renewed Iran-Israel hostilities sent oil higher and risk appetite lower.
Peru's presidential runoff is deadlocked between a leftist seeking centrist support and a right-wing tough-on-crime candidate, in a race that will determine the country's economic direction amid a deeply polarized electorate.
U.S. Treasuries fell as investors ramped up bets that the Federal Reserve will need to raise interest rates, with strong jobs data combining with Iran-Israel escalation to push yields higher and complicate the outlook for equities.
A long-form essay on how AI coding tools have hollowed out the author's professional identity and reduced complex engineering to direction-giving — touched the deepest nerve on HN today with 800+ comments.
A developer's first-person account of rebuilding a life and a technical career from scratch after incarceration — unusually candid and widely read.
The 2025 IOCCC winners are out — technically valid C programs that are maximally incomprehensible, as tradition demands.
Deep dive into how Linear achieves sub-100ms interactions: optimistic updates, a custom sync engine, local-first data, and aggressive prefetching.
A Go CLI that generates source-backed hands-on tutorials for obscure technical topics — designed to make you actually read and type rather than letting AI do it for you.
Someone physically cut the transmission line of a 100,000-watt FM station in Ohio in broad daylight; motive is unclear and the case is unsolved.
A 2023 essay on accepting the paths not taken that keeps resurfacing on HN — sparking a long thread about ambition, regret, and the gap between who you planned to be and who you are.
A web app that computes optimal pancake recipes from whatever ingredients you have on hand using acid/CO2/stoichiometry — the author's favorite is yeast-raised lemon ricotta kefir.
A 12-year-old Stack Exchange answer explaining /lost+found resurfaces — turns out a lot of Linux users encounter it daily without ever understanding what fsck puts there.
New benchmarks show DeepSeek V4 Pro outperforming GPT-5.5 Pro on precision metrics — more competitive pressure on OpenAI's top models from the Chinese lab.
Teenage Engineering launches a home vinyl record cutting machine — expensive, beautifully designed, and exactly the kind of thing Teenage Engineering makes.
Firefox landed hardware-accelerated Vulkan video decoding, a long-awaited improvement that should significantly reduce GPU load for Linux users.
Ken Shirriff reverse-engineers and powers up a thyratron tube module from a 1948 IBM 604 electronic calculator — patient hardware archaeology.
ERCOT flagged that data centers and crypto mining facilities are failing voltage stability tests and could destabilize the Texas grid during peak summer demand.
A new antiviral appears to functionally cure hepatitis B in a significant share of patients — a disease that has evaded curative treatment for decades.