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  1. Ask HN: Is anyone giving out tokens for benchmarking LLMs?
    ×0.71 | 2 points by emosenkis 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?
    ×0.23 29 | 4 points by lellow 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to get in touch with Paddle (MoR)
    ×0.33 64 | 6 points by probst 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Has your typing gotten worse with AI?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by aizk 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×4.75 44 | 460 points by Thrashed 19 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Single-click and remote OpenCode session right in the browser
    ×0.21 | 2 points by jashandeep31 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A VSCode extension for AI to understand your project
    ×0.24 | 2 points by bailingyuan 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Any Good Pi.dev Setups?
    ×0.55 85 | 3 points by galsapir 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.45 89 | 30 points by amichail 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Convince me to not to shelve my app (I've decided to)
    ×0.31 | 2 points by asdfbank 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
    ×1.03 111 | 10 points by nothrowaways 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.81 104 | 27 points by sam_lowry_ 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Pixel phones getting ad notifications
    ×0.81 113 | 7 points by explodes 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is HN's duplicate url detection broken?
    ×0.81 118 | 4 points by khaledh 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?
    ×1.40 79 | 22 points by addajones 17 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How to Resolve Software Deployment Issues with SeaTicket
    ×0.25 | 2 points by Daniel-Pan 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?
    ×0.52 120 | 30 points by dondraper36 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Doesn't OpenAI have every incentive to destroy HuggingFace?
    ×1.73 117 | 7 points by jrm4 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What verb best describes what a developer does in 2026?
    ×1.15 129 | 4 points by jdlib 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Where to find inspiration for a (reactive) personal website?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by mryingster 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Have you noticed an improvement in AI responses with memory disabled?
    ×0.29 132 | 3 points by zbikowski 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Naming a pattern in AI-generated code: Modular Mirage
    ×0.66 | 2 points by ErsanG 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?
    ×0.47 131 | 28 points by kadhirvelm 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?
    ×0.77 105 | 20 points by bwb 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Patreon laying off 20% of staff (patreon.com)
    ×3.42 54 #61 | 148 points by gpi 3 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (uchicago.edu)
    ×0.76 46 #79 | 98 points by MarcoDewey 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Internet of Snails: Escargotic commotion and the wood-wide web (2015) (cabinetmagazine.org)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by nz 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books (readkinetic.com)
    ×1.59 107 | 101 points by SamuraiLion 2 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Jensen Huang on why open models matter (xcancel.com)
    ×2.04 24 #68 | 18 points by r3trohack3r 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Justice Department Lawyers Reportedly Afraid to Put Things in Writing (newrepublic.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by hn_acker 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Preventing line breaks in <code> elements (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.42 29 #36 | 10 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. DuckPGQ – A DuckDB community extension for graph workloads (duckpgq.org)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by rzk 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years (cnn.com)
    ×0.89 76 | 151 points by effects 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Safari Technology Preview 248 Released (webkit.org)
    ×1.03 90 | 91 points by Erenay09 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards (github.com/lx2026)
    ×0.84 82 | 43 points by linxy97 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Co-Opting Linux Processes for High-Performance Network Simulation (2022) (usenix.org)
    ×0.33 24 #22 | 15 points by teleforce 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Four takeaways from our investigation into a hidden gene-editing death (science.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC (swingnyc.com)
    ×0.99 102 | 76 points by shahahmed 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS (haiku-os.org)
    ×2.29 6 #4 | 122 points by m0do1 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Codeberg Divides (pocoo.org)
    ×2.93 2 #18 | 37 points by ashdnazg 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A useful service for back end devs (linking.studio)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by yourfavdev 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I built a zero-latency developer tool suite in pure Vanilla JavaScript (omnideck.cc)
    ×0.81 106 | 21 points by AAPD_Studio 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: ShiftType – Tap Shift to switch input methods on macOS (indiemaze.com)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by sebjones 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Interview with a Maintainer (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.67 15 #35 | 17 points by ryangibb 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: PBasic is a modern BASIC interpreter with a retro vibe (apple.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by johnrpenner 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Photoroom cut inference cold start to seconds with Nvidia Dynamo (photoroom.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by david_lc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs (codeberg.org)
    ×2.67 60 | 197 points by acmnrs 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It with Palantir (techdirt.com)
    ×10.25 46 | 67 points by cdrnsf 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. What else do people draw on gradient.horse? (rybakov.com)
    ×1.43 34 #51 | 161 points by spython 18 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Sourceminder.org (sourceminder.org)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by ebcode 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version updates (github.blog)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change (werd.io)
    ×3.02 32 | 142 points by benwerd 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Claude Opus 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.38 38 #50 | 11 points by meetpateltech 7 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Metadata in WordPerfect 1994: Ada and WCAG 2.1 Compliance (rietta.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by speckx 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server (twitter.com/fried_rice)
    ×2.58 55 | 72 points by Alifatisk 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Connecting my dumb garage and car's homelink buttons to Home Assistant (dsauerbrun.com)
    ×0.76 109 | 10 points by dsauerbrun 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Resistance Liberal Lawyers Helping Trump Take over the Media (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×2.97 49 | 4 points by foolswisdom 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A 100% client-side steganography tool to hide messages in images (zlvox.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by mrdisloyal 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system (theguardian.com)
    ×4.04 38 | 98 points by pastemato 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Flow Matching model inference in C (github.com/ecrasevvv)
    ×1.75 130 | 5 points by ecrasevvv 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by joozio 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Built something new for developers today (indiehackers.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by pulseboardai 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
    ×1.04 59 | 155 points by Erenay09 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I repaired a dead ASIC and built a foundry that engraves your words (strikeablock.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by laksgandikota 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm (foldkit.dev)
    ×1.01 5 #6 | 35 points by plucafs 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Modula-3 History Collection on Computer History Museum (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.61 47 #89 | 32 points by pjmlp 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. White House offers its science blueprint: More AI, less life sciences (statnews.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by petethomas 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Better on-device dictation and cleanup for Mac with Model 4 (epilude.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by brmkr 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Advanced Coffee Search Covering Over 17,000 coffees (beangenie.coffee)
    ×1.57 127 | 4 points by epicwynn 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL (deepsql.ai)
    ×0.61 115 | 51 points by venkat971 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The story behind APC-2 (teenage.engineering)
    ×0.27 37 #72 | 7 points by firloop 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Drive your real logged-in Chrome from Claude Code and Codex (MCP) (github.com/vitalysim)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by vitalysim 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I read the 148 Reddit threads my tool flagged as buyers. 20 were spam (cuescout.com)
    ×1.88 24 | 4 points by weeklyrunner 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample (chatgpt.com)
    ×4.18 5 | 1109 points by gmays 1 day ago | 630 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Emacs Is a Lispboard (andros.dev)
    ×1.16 42 | 112 points by andros 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Understanding the AI Economy (blog.google)
    ×1.96 70 | 74 points by swolpers 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: PDFly – 56 free PDF tools that run in the browser (pdfly.uk)
    ×3.03 98 | 8 points by pagalannu01 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Sequence, a daily spatial number puzzle (notebeck.com)
    ×1.23 56 | 3 points by aidanbeck 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Frontier model pricing became a rip-off, so I built an open-source CLI (github.com/kolega-ai)
    ×1.48 91 | 3 points by fabioricardo7 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center (houseofsaud.com)
    ×2.49 27 #46 | 178 points by thisislife2 7 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Mourning Dan Williams (lwn.net)
    ×1.51 46 #78 | 85 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August (theguardian.com)
    ×2.44 49 | 88 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. UK AISI / CAISI Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities (nist.gov)
    ×1.25 33 #80 | 7 points by 0in 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page (hhh.hn)
    ×2.15 1 #1 | 322 points by hhh 5 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I could do that in a weekend (2016) (danluu.com)
    ×0.68 46 #73 | 18 points by ntumlin 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
    ×1.30 77 | 158 points by helonaut 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: RefurbAlert – Never miss a refurbished deal again (refurbalert.com)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by RioRaby 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
    ×1.38 1 | 260 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What happens when the information runs out (jimgrey.net)
    ×1.09 66 | 76 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???