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  1. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now available for internal beta testing
    ×2.47 65 | 9 points by dares2573 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.63 2 | 289 points by jmpman 2 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×1.00 7 | 111 points by maxim-fin 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.73 1 | 301 points by imadtaieber 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.33 41 | 105 points by usernametaken29 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI?
    ×0.91 18 | 9 points by sensitivekt9q3 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.99 35 | 125 points by spwa4 17 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.04 85 | 196 points by sukit 4 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×1.07 87 | 19 points by genekrapivin 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.00 78 | 404 points by halcdev 4 days ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×1.68 88 | 6 points by rietta 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.71 113 | 6 points by chipfixer 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.39 103 | 8 points by pkos98 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.52 83 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage
    ×0.94 84 | 5 points by Zsfe510asG 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.36 124 | 4 points by rogerrogerr 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Is OpenAI silently routing GPT‑6 requests to GPT‑4o?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by skaiuijing 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×1.02 117 | 16 points by UnderABlueMoon 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.56 135 | 19 points by fastest963 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
    ×0.42 138 | 3 points by muddi900 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Do you ever struggle to find another programmer to work on a project/pair with?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by rizsyed1 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do People Care About Image Optimisation Anymore?
    ×0.61 95 | 4 points by CM30 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you keep AI coding agents in sync with a changing Figma file?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by rjvidentia 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. tuhat: Home for all your reading
    ×0.75 97 | 4 points by 8by3 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why can I use macOS passkeys without biometrics
    ×0.82 98 | 4 points by 0xnico 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.44 96 | 72 points by Animats 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author
    ×0.86 99 | 5 points by xeonax 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture
    ×1.10 94 | 6 points by annex-winged-cr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What are other "uncrackable benchmarks"?
    ×0.59 118 | 3 points by Nail2680 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Perplexity Pro vs. Claude – what are you paying for?
    ×0.93 112 | 4 points by daytonflyers 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle while learning?
    ×0.80 125 | 3 points by Cursed666 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.54 156 | 10 points by softwarewright 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.42 142 | 18 points by asim 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×0.87 108 | 6 points by meerita 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Model sycophancy benchmarks?
    ×1.02 116 | 5 points by gradus_ad 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.76 137 | 8 points by hebelehubele 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Are we normalizing surveillance in the name of safety?
    ×0.40 130 | 4 points by dennysora-main 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.69 163 | 7 points by bix6 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
    ×3.01 63 | 44 points by firefax 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram
    ×0.20 144 | 3 points by das_vicky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.40 110 | 43 points by MontagFTB 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×1.00 140 | 6 points by mahdihabibi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.66 167 | 7 points by Gecko4072 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.12 181 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Do you route only certain websites through a VPN?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by dennysora-main 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.73 153 | 14 points by quaintdev 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.57 126 | 15 points by dschwartz18 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. APAC Alpha – Zero-lag Intel terminal for Asian markets
    ×0.52 | 2 points by apacalpha 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.00 150 | 7 points by washelterskelte 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.78 145 | 8 points by zof3 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?
    ×0.67 128 | 7 points by charm137 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Outside of work, what are your social groups?
    ×1.81 146 | 5 points by Gecko4072 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.27 115 | 12 points by mikodin 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.79 165 | 5 points by rce123 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.40 157 | 4 points by dfps 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone
    ×0.54 155 | 5 points by marcushyett 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.37 171 | 3 points by coderinsan 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.19 160 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.53 159 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Emacs Bedrock 2.0 (lambdaland.org)
    ×2.35 10 #28 | 118 points by ashton314 13 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: How to spend $100? (Claude vs. ChatGPT)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by SiebeBaree 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Tagging AI-Related Posts
    ×1.28 | 2 points by IdiotSavage 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta (theguardian.com)
    ×5.07 22 | 105 points by domhudson 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Golden hour API and a 3D globe of the best light (sendafun.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by gpszys 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Sentrint, Ship AI features without losing sleep (sentrint.com)
    ×0.74 172 | 4 points by xEcho 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Stuxnet – A reconstructed source code of the infamous cyber-weapon (github.com/Sadpainy)
    ×1.67 17 #37 | 155 points by CMDDestory 11 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark (kuber.studio)
    ×1.26 66 | 73 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry (economist.com)
    ×0.66 72 | 64 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: OpenMonitor – vendor neutral web monitoring cloud agent (openmonitor.website)
    ×1.37 133 | 6 points by iacguy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Try DuckDB v2.0-Alpha (duckdb.org)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by tamnd 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Canada's counter-tariffs take effect on various US goods (france24.com)
    ×2.42 11 #45 | 29 points by geox 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Do tech billionaires dream of shared abundance? We should probably just tax them (theconversation.com)
    ×4.99 61 #88 | 22 points by billybuckwheat 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Chinese tech giants Huawei and Xiaomi launch new foldable phones ahead of Apple (nbcnews.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by ksec 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Pomeroy v1, give any AI assistant secure access to native macOS apps (pomeroy.app)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by joesaunderson 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Server hardening playbook where every item is failure/fix/verify (github.com/Sanexxxx777)
    ×1.09 102 | 4 points by Aleksandr_NFA 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics (arm.com)
    ×0.64 16 #9 | 41 points by Re-Tails 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. PostgreSQL 19 Interactive Tour (victoriametrics.com)
    ×1.80 | 71 points by valyala 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I have created a browser FPS game with kamikaze drones (sectorlock.com)
    ×0.56 92 | 3 points by canerg 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Clustta – Open-source version control for creative work (clustta.com)
    ×0.85 178 | 3 points by taiwofolu 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Dataflow Model Revisited (vldb.org)
    ×0.91 39 #39 | 102 points by scott_s 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer (claytonwramsey.com)
    ×0.91 68 #55 | 109 points by claytonwramsey 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Which platform to use for idea validation? (proventrips.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by rohitnrll 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Hybrid Nav2 and PPO RL for indoor Lidar-only robot navigation (github.com/Sourav29-2)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by Ros_Sourav 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one (kepter.app)
    ×2.57 45 | 131 points by maltch 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I wrote a guide to rendering video from plain HTML/CSS/GSAP (gumroad.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by SifatAhmed 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Extinct Tasmanian tiger's 'snap' unlike any living mammal's bite (cnn.com)
    ×0.59 24 #25 | 29 points by cisc 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Machine learning of artistic fingerprints in jazz (nature.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by tobr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. "Hammock Driven Development" (2010) (youtube.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Caveat, a self-hosted publishing and newsletter tool (github.com/CaveatJS)
    ×2.69 42 | 6 points by jonas_kgomo 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Titles – Can you write a better Hacker News title? (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by oyster143 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???