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  1. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×3.18 1 #57 | 540 points by IvanK_net 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.44 74 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.64 61 | 10 points by penskymaterial 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.67 71 | 35 points by mariocesar 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are we losing control of AI?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by KinetiNode 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI?
    ×0.70 41 | 9 points by Zeruxe 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×1.05 101 | 11 points by Crontab 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×5.15 62 | 31 points by trencedamp 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.55 78 | 6 points by Bender 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.29 97 | 14 points by saimiam 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is the xcancel source code publicly available?
    ×0.36 106 | 3 points by bigwheels 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone still working on dLLMs
    ×0.36 110 | 3 points by obonse 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is this the beginning of the end of open source?
    ×0.58 95 | 5 points by potamic 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.84 133 | 7 points by maxignol 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude Mythos 5.1 System Prompt?
    ×0.69 127 | 3 points by knifelemon 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×0.44 126 | 6 points by mtmosestn 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×2.18 103 | 16 points by nunorbatista 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Google Chrome's AI API actively used for device fingerprinting and profiling
    ×0.66 104 | 6 points by AlexanderHanff 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work
    ×0.45 138 | 5 points by microflash 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Claude Agents SDK will no longer use subscription; API credits included in plans
    ×1.31 79 | 5 points by nullishdomain 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure
    ×2.94 120 | 15 points by akg_67 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What would you like to see in a new AI technology release?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by ikishade 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Vibecoding Follies
    ×0.60 141 | 4 points by vegnus 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How come everyone is an LLM expert?
    ×0.88 139 | 5 points by delis-thumbs-7e 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
    ×0.81 68 | 45 points by Gooblebrai 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Show me your agentic SDE semantics
    ×0.18 | 2 points by danielovichdk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos
    ×0.29 142 | 8 points by iliashad 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is observability broken for you?
    ×0.71 143 | 4 points by tmach32 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Agent access to chat data should require participant consent?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by maxwellito 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Alternatives to NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML
    ×0.84 144 | 4 points by john-titor 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What brings you back to personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse?
    ×0.50 145 | 3 points by sdrth 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors (github.com/kitao)
    ×1.22 131 | 105 points by kitao 6 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How to Change Text in an Image Without Photoshop in 2026 (rewordsai.app)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by wangneo276 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight (techspot.com)
    ×2.34 42 | 138 points by healsdata 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Calling It Quits on ServerFault (sysadmin1138.net)
    ×2.19 36 | 76 points by zdw 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Smart Blur – Auto-Blur PII in the Browser, with a OpenAI Local Model (smartbuildlabs.com)
    ×2.27 75 | 6 points by vickyonlinecont 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Collision avoidance in industrial robotics using robotsimulator.ai (babacad.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by comirza 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: SecretGate – self-hosted anonymous inbox, E2E encrypted in the browser (secretgate.site)
    ×1.03 132 | 7 points by sasiru-mindaka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom)
    ×0.89 23 #45 | 115 points by bluepeter 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: WhoFundsOSS, a public ranking of companies that fund open source (whofundsoss.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by MajorBaguette 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped) (github.com/boykopovar)
    ×3.46 21 | 353 points by Fe2O3 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. State of Devs 2026 (stateofdevs.com)
    ×2.73 1 | 239 points by sgdesign 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Shortfuse – Make macOS permissions expire automatically
    ×2.25 84 | 5 points by wxce 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. FaceCheck (face-check.net)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by thefirstname322 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Absolute Disaster Jeremy Clarkson Reveals Brutal Reality Facing British Farmers [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by flojo 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Veda (github.com/vahmoh25)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by vahmoh25 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Paste-preview – see and mark up images you paste into Claude Code (github.com/alan890104)
    ×1.58 90 | 5 points by alkd 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: CrowDB – an iceberg table storage single Docker container (buzzcrow.github.io)
    ×1.68 100 | 4 points by crowdb 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.98 1 #20 | 1280 points by OfficialTurkey 1 day ago | 1453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I'm in love with a German film star (heatherburns.tech)
    ×1.78 8 #83 | 26 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Bidding on competitor names when buyers ask agents (nibzard.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by nkko 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
    ×0.99 51 | 124 points by _reza 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mathematics of Geothermal Energy (ebsco.com)
    ×0.50 66 | 73 points by srameshc 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Claude Haiku 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×3.51 3 #2 | 878 points by sfkgtbor 15 hours ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (readingchronicle.co.uk)
    ×1.73 17 #27 | 206 points by librasteve 21 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Rabbit Waves (rabbitwaves.ca)
    ×1.02 50 #68 | 5 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Molly Russell's father to tell UK cinemagoers: Instagram helped kill my daughter (theguardian.com)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. KizunaShelf – a shelf for everything you love (kizunashelf.app)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by mudkipme 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Pinrail – A desktop inbox where coding agents wait for your review (github.com/forgeplane)
    ×0.74 44 | 21 points by pnezis 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer (github.com/nano-muse)
    ×0.76 54 | 57 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished (shahidhussain.com)
    ×1.92 4 #5 | 100 points by shahidhussain 5 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Reasons to Dislike AI Coding (sicpers.info)
    ×2.00 40 #76 | 72 points by signa11 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Pocket Commander – a two-pane file manager for Mac ↔ Android over ADB (codeberg.org)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by sailingcode 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire (techdirt.com)
    ×3.51 4 | 388 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Calcova: Modern Scientific Calculator, Unit Calculator and Math Solver (apple.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by jimmy_lee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Margaret Hamilton, whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90 (theguardian.com)
    ×2.69 40 | 4 points by ljf 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Monolith, an engine-building game about software startups (monolithgame.app)
    ×1.33 130 | 3 points by chancelloradams 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. As We Become Cameras (2016) (thebrowser.com)
    ×0.40 33 #24 | 4 points by rathertrue 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.55 30 #48 | 47 points by philipfweiss 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Self-Modeling Interventions Modulate Emergent Misalignment (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.35 74 #77 | 3 points by gmays 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Join the Show – plan a trip that catches several live concerts (jointhe.show)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by galgreshler 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
    ×2.45 6 | 459 points by simicd 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: AI Circuit Breaker – Reverse proxy to stop agent infinite loops (circuit-breaker-sage.vercel.app)
    ×1.89 129 | 9 points by roandejager 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Margaret Hamilton has died (mit.edu)
    ×9.58 4 #6 | 1519 points by muglug 12 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What is Codemode (pocoo.org)
    ×1.23 41 #73 | 149 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens (astrohelm.app)
    ×0.93 29 #75 | 93 points by HeavenFox 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Play Skyrim as a Minecraft Player (github.com/chasmlol)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by LelouBil 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Karotte, a framework for building robust RL envs (github.com/preferencemodel)
    ×3.39 70 | 8 points by 256 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: agentc: <1mb static/no-libc, minimal, embeddable agent with Rust/C API (github.com/abird-ai)
    ×0.97 69 | 3 points by logxroot 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Musql, JIT-compiled SQL, up to 300x faster than SQLite, 1000x vs. Turso (github.com/samyfodil)
    ×2.40 94 | 10 points by dsamy 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick (nytimes.com)
    ×1.28 13 #14 | 104 points by gumby 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The open-source 3D modeler for architecture and engineering (ingetrazo.com)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by xyzal 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Life After Death? (pudding.cool)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by latexr 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Java vLLM-like framework claim 90% perfomance of llamacpp inference on Nvidia HW (reddit.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by mikepapadim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Convkit – A command line tool for converting images/video/docs offline (github.com/shdwfruit)
    ×1.62 92 | 4 points by shdwfruit 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Automattic Wants .wordpress. It Doesn't Own WordPress (medium.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by docdeek 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Squidly – Track CEX, DEX and wallet balances in one place (squidly.finance)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by r4id4 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure (politico.com)
    ×3.09 54 | 4 points by _tk_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. California closed the Montana license plate loophole (thedrive.com)
    ×1.53 40 | 143 points by speckx 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" (mistral.ai)
    ×4.23 14 | 522 points by j-bu 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???