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  1. Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node?
    ×0.42 4 | 4 points by rearview 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.39 65 | 282 points by mlaux 3 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: JEV for K1 Tax Forms
    ×0.17 51 | 3 points by GoRudy 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.63 73 | 16 points by will10pa 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Management is forcing us to use AI
    ×0.67 64 | 12 points by aksjfveoq 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address
    ×0.24 104 | 4 points by luckman212 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be
    ×0.71 83 | 12 points by effisfor 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?
    ×0.15 110 | 4 points by beerglass 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.44 99 | 31 points by shriy-singh 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.34 128 | 12 points by sathomasga 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by variety8675 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.49 112 | 28 points by GustavHartz 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.84 119 | 16 points by consumer451 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?
    ×0.54 102 | 10 points by SMAAART 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.33 144 | 4 points by iambateman 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.39 139 | 7 points by cehgmaster 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×0.72 138 | 8 points by george_max 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.46 143 | 19 points by xnx 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.33 140 | 7 points by jviotti 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How to Freelance Now?
    ×0.98 101 | 18 points by Alexadar 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.45 141 | 24 points by itsjeremiahs 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview (mgrebler.substack.com)
    ×1.71 72 | 69 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Impressive hand detection AI algorithm (github.com/aryafarkhondeh)
    ×0.84 81 | 3 points by sia_xi 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do you have small victories to share for us to celebrate?
    ×0.82 | 1 points by jamwise 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts (github.com/maximilianfeix)
    ×1.81 116 | 10 points by taventix 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)
    ×1.59 6 #20 | 36 points by HugoDz 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 (github.com/dashersw)
    ×1.22 48 #40 | 157 points by arbayi 20 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
    ×1.11 55 #52 | 206 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Singer: The Downfall of a Great American Manufacturer (worseonpurpose.com)
    ×1.83 20 #83 | 4 points by cainxinth 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: InstinctFlash – High-Performance Serving Runtime for Robotics Models (github.com/General-Instinct)
    ×0.33 142 | 27 points by guanming0717 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (openai.com)
    ×1.64 59 #85 | 191 points by apsec112 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Exemplary Endpoint (onreflection.dev)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by gpradeepkrishna 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I made Boonful, you can build with your assistant, sell it, and schedule. (boonful.io)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by atifhub 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Allegations of US interference in Quebec election (globalnews.ca)
    ×4.11 43 | 65 points by Teever 23 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Fool's Expertise (dtrace.org)
    ×1.38 51 #82 | 37 points by elffjs 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How to Build a Fine-Grained City: Party Walls, Point Access, and Granular Blocks (courtyardurbanist.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by cainxinth 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: An interactive debugger for the Mornington Crescent esolang (codeberg.org)
    ×0.95 133 | 3 points by Two9A 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Which Diet Is Best to Lower Liver Fat and Improve Insulin Sensitivity? (nourishedbyscience.com)
    ×1.24 59 #41 | 17 points by llm_nerd 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Recurse – Develop and deploy specialist agents faster (recurse.run)
    ×0.48 136 | 8 points by ozankabak 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
    ×1.29 66 | 278 points by pancomplex 3 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: OpenAPPA – open-source deterministic guardrails that don't break agents (openappa.com)
    ×8.34 16 | 23 points by motakuk 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
    ×1.50 6 #5 | 100 points by mrborgen 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Coding Is Not Solved (alexewerlof.com)
    ×3.64 19 #25 | 361 points by firstSpeaker 5 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I Paid an AI Agent $8 to Write About Its 'Life' (chainofthought.show)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by cliffclimber 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Stephan Wolfram on the Future for Math Research in the Age of AI (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×1.88 22 | 3 points by alok-g 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) (inkandswitch.com)
    ×1.07 49 #36 | 148 points by evakhoury 18 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (codinghorror.com)
    ×4.95 41 | 207 points by signa11 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK (carbonbrief.org)
    ×5.57 25 | 62 points by xbmcuser 10 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: AstraBox – an open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents (github.com/Colton-z)
    ×0.99 111 | 3 points by coltonz 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
    ×2.47 8 #48 | 6 points by viraj_shah 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Work messaging hasn't changed in a decade, I built something different (getbema.app)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by ben_d 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Jensen Huang: All systems around AI must be designed with restrictive rights (youtube.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Betelbuddy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Musk, the Movie (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
    ×6.88 29 | 183 points by yablak 17 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Vanish moves heavy computation off your laptop (vanishcompute.com)
    ×1.19 91 | 4 points by fcesco 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Ppgrid – Rasterising points in minutes, not hours (mrzk.io)
    ×0.94 135 | 3 points by marzukia 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Guess which repository has more GitHub stars (focuslab.pk)
    ×1.35 93 | 3 points by alexander2002 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (thisamericanlife.org)
    ×2.83 12 #21 | 160 points by simonpure 4 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Sonnet 5.5 trumps Fable 5.1 on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.87 17 | 3 points by ghoshbishakh 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. KeePassXC 2.8.0 (Beta 1) released (keepassxc.org)
    ×2.36 24 | 4 points by pregnenolone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Bringing life back into the Facebook Portal (github.com/dekayrekords-oss)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by bobrossjr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)
    ×0.66 117 | 67 points by hsfzxjy 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 53 #44 | 62 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 'SNL' Season Premiere: Buckets of Rain, with Jalen Brunson Reigning (nytimes.com)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by whack 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I built an idle game that rewards you for doomscrolling less (getisland.app)
    ×2.00 18 | 5 points by ethanpronev 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Most Hated Tools (mosthatedtools.app)
    ×1.29 123 | 32 points by leonagano 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    ×1.10 18 #29 | 102 points by seamus_c 9 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
    ×1.82 15 #61 | 304 points by safaelmali 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
    ×1.47 50 #72 | 144 points by ClydeN 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Andurel V2 – Space-Grade Go Web Framework (andurel.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by mbvisti 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer (github.com/bertaye)
    ×0.67 103 | 37 points by bertaye 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    ×1.31 32 #28 | 79 points by sia_xi 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. If you have a file called todo.txt on your computer, you're in the right place (todotxt.org)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by olexsmir 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't (techdirt.com)
    ×6.50 79 | 69 points by HotGarbage 2 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    ×0.77 83 #71 | 91 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Revise, a new document editor library for React (npmjs.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by artursapek 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners (nh2.me)
    ×1.79 118 | 27 points by nh2 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Using the SNES Super FX Chip to Run Super Mario 64 (hackaday.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by metrofun 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a 3D biophysical skin model (drmagnuslynch.com)
    ×1.52 24 | 3 points by sungam 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. I made a visual workspace for AI Automations (biom.dev)
    ×0.48 14 #16 | 15 points by jduhking 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Protest Against European Parliament Chat Control 1.0 Legislation in Warsaw (reutersconnect.com)
    ×1.99 5 #43 | 13 points by latexr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I built a native Apple app for 4 platforms in one afternoon with my AI workflow (twitter.com/danielhayesmith)
    ×0.92 23 #68 | 6 points by schutzsmith 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) (retromash.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by robin_reala 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Enterprise Postgres for AI and more, from prototype to production (pgedge.com)
    ×1.85 45 | 4 points by bonesmoses 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. European industry is doing better than you may think (economist.com)
    ×2.02 62 #67 | 51 points by andsoitis 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
    ×1.27 19 #80 | 159 points by utiiiD 23 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Joint Statement about Mathathon (wordpress.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by smilelamp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Aldine. Self-hosted Overleaf alternative. Every paper = 1 Git Repo (github.com/trahloff)
    ×1.19 115 | 4 points by rahloff 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" (thegreenplace.net)
    ×1.09 64 #86 | 90 points by ingve 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue (theguardian.com)
    ×4.09 56 | 58 points by smb06 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents (newyorker.com)
    ×0.70 19 #4 | 26 points by prismatic 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???