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  1. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by howToTestFE 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×1.16 11 #48 | 90 points by gcanyon 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×1.71 39 | 5 points by aurenvale 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.85 16 #80 | 63 points by oscgam1 19 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.33 61 | 138 points by syntaxbush 2 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.17 79 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×2.40 39 | 22 points by notsure357 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn?
    ×0.54 85 | 3 points by datsci_est_2015 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.47 88 | 3 points by throwaw12 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.49 100 | 33 points by JohnDSDev 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.60 86 | 15 points by mellosty 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.30 84 | 7 points by netfortius 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.33 103 | 11 points by othmanosx 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How is GPU power draw measured at scale?
    ×0.32 98 | 5 points by anax32 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
    ×1.66 55 | 114 points by shantnutiwari 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×0.74 95 | 7 points by VaderAi 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.62 113 | 8 points by yiyingzhang 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.48 131 | 18 points by niyazpk 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.34 64 | 81 points by jvilalta 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. My website gets more attacks than human visitors
    ×0.87 124 | 5 points by tommy2970 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Quickbooks Alternative?
    ×0.44 125 | 5 points by bix6 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
    ×0.44 135 | 4 points by something765478 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.28 149 | 6 points by iaziz786 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
    ×0.59 118 | 7 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.53 99 | 81 points by ayi 4 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. As; HN: I was curious why MTP affects PP TPS in llama.cpp. My PoC recovers it?
    ×0.86 147 | 4 points by i_am_rocoe 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.83 126 | 21 points by tossitawayplz 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.40 132 | 15 points by neya 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.13 138 | 18 points by vasko 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Got access to Gemini's actual thinking
    ×0.20 153 | 4 points by StizzurpXDD 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.88 46 | 27 points by mzubairtahir 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.93 139 | 23 points by julienreszka 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks?
    ×0.44 144 | 8 points by fur-tea-laser 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions
    ×0.50 145 | 8 points by throwaw12 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Badge of Infamy, by Lester del Rey (1957) [pdf] (ebook-mecca.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by joebig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Selfhost.directory – a directory of self-hostable projects with live updates (selfhost.directory)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by internetak 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on (github.com/Fran314)
    ×0.48 82 | 30 points by Fran314 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: FastPlay, a fast minimal Windows video player built in Rust (github.com/CalvinSturm)
    ×1.38 116 | 5 points by CalvinSturm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: FileVeil · Hide Any File Inside Another File (fileveil.com)
    ×1.07 157 | 3 points by fileveil 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How do we measure software in LLM era?
    ×0.78 | 1 points by bonigv 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The text/Markdown Media Type (ietf.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by foxfired 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Why current LLM costs are not sustainable (patadia.org)
    ×3.10 9 | 113 points by adityapatadia 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Neural Particle Automata (selforg-npa.github.io)
    ×0.84 96 | 88 points by esychology 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I created a Scrabble-like word game with simple rules and fun combos (letterphile.com)
    ×1.07 146 | 3 points by sonOfHades 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1 (openttd.org)
    ×2.24 6 #9 | 164 points by untilted 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. SCC Technical Assistance Program (nerocam.com)
    ×0.59 21 #22 | 20 points by luu 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com/neospe)
    ×0.36 75 #45 | 23 points by leschak 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events (github.com/plbrault)
    ×1.95 8 #68 | 360 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Half-Life 2 in a Browser (slqnt.dev)
    ×2.91 11 #90 | 677 points by panza 2 days ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Sequence Modeling with CTC (distill.pub)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by diginova 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Free-For.dev (github.com/ripienaar)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by grajmanu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Should you join the Antler startup incubator program? It depends (2025) (developerwithacat.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by mmarian 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Full featured language that compiles to binary (github.com/code-by-sia)
    ×1.49 123 | 5 points by sia_xi 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: CloudDeck – a Linux gaming PC in the cloud (clouddeck.app)
    ×0.57 159 | 3 points by sfrese 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: RealTube – Watch YouTube with filters for AI-generated content (realtube.io)
    ×2.28 150 | 6 points by danielpop 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I created agent skill based on Peter Lynch's books (github.com/DjNero11)
    ×1.70 164 | 5 points by DjNero 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.74 10 #24 | 212 points by kkm 13 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO (nytimes.com)
    ×2.55 71 #50 | 167 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Cost Yagni Was Never About (kentbeck.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by mpweiher 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Were the blitzed areas of London still being cleared out in the 80s even later? (quora.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by zeristor 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: No chair fixed my back, so we built one that won't let you sit still (movably.com)
    ×1.72 133 | 4 points by chaibiker 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. GuixPkgs: Every Guix package, as a Nix flake (fzakaria.com)
    ×10.30 36 | 66 points by ingve 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Beta test TeXmacs on Android (polytechnique.fr)
    ×7.47 12 | 60 points by amichail 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status (theregister.com)
    ×1.56 73 | 57 points by Bender 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A map of every UK railway, including stations that no longer exist (trainmap.co.uk)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by optionalltd 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off (economist.com)
    ×1.18 4 #4 | 36 points by edward 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com/dbos-inc)
    ×0.99 17 #25 | 65 points by KraftyOne 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial (evmar.github.io)
    ×2.39 33 #36 | 46 points by joecobb 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How do you handle high-stakes decisions when your brain is at 99% capacity?
    ×0.65 | 1 points by piyushk95 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Copy and the Guru (om.co)
    ×1.60 22 | 3 points by tosh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Jargo – a Golang port of Pipecat for conversational-AI apps (github.com/gojargo)
    ×1.52 94 | 5 points by fallais 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Snowscroll – I removed addictive feeds from social media (snowscroll.com)
    ×2.19 167 | 5 points by junnam586 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Malware Insights: macOS Phexia Campaign (cookie.engineer)
    ×0.84 55 #83 | 17 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. JEP Draft: Deprecate the macOS/X64 Port for Removal (openjdk.org)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Arbitraging the global trademark treaty system (filedmark.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by infiniteAdmin 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. One More Thing (take.surf)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Udo_Schmitz 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How much does a token cost? (erikjs.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by csgod 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US (bbc.com)
    ×5.21 63 | 9 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How to Write an Effective Software Design Document · Refactoring English (refactoringenglish.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by mpweiher 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: ZeroGate – API gateway to scale cloud GPUs to zero when idle (github.com/noah-garner)
    ×1.35 90 | 5 points by ngarner 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Promptctl – Git for your AI prompts (github.com/naya-ai)
    ×1.63 154 | 5 points by shawnaya101 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM (github.com/ilbertt)
    ×0.46 106 | 55 points by ilbert 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A small plane crashed into Beijing's tallest building (bbc.com)
    ×2.70 9 | 5 points by linzhangrun 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Mantis, A self-hosted LLM gateway (github.com/mantis-llm-gateway)
    ×1.26 76 | 5 points by rizsyed1 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Caplets - Give your agent capabilities, not giant tool walls (caplets.dev)
    ×0.63 166 | 5 points by ianpascoe 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing (github.com/Tessil)
    ×0.64 14 #26 | 93 points by gjvc 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts (kotaku.com)
    ×4.06 25 #38 | 272 points by ortusdux 14 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Beer CSS – Build material design in record time (beercss.com)
    ×1.74 33 | 3 points by Seb-C 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. NYC's last horse track, Aqueduct, ending live races (apnews.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AI children's books, body horror edition (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×3.95 1 | 206 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???