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  1. C++ CLI for folder encryption with AES-256-GCM and USB-based key loading
    ×0.47 43 #21 | 6 points by nextma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×1.17 17 #70 | 68 points by karakoram 9 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Students, What Impact Is AI Having on Your Education?
    ×1.36 46 | 3 points by ciwolex 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
    ×0.24 101 | 14 points by jimsojim 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?
    ×0.27 109 | 9 points by Bulbasaur2015 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?
    ×0.28 112 | 18 points by seattle_spring 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?
    ×0.33 127 | 10 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output?
    ×0.34 103 | 9 points by meteor333 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. FYI: Dreamina is shady; do not use
    ×0.26 119 | 5 points by ronyeh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Have you ever created a custom RISC-V ISA extension?
    ×0.28 166 | 4 points by extensilica 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today?
    ×0.27 113 | 7 points by Mnexium 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×1.14 107 | 153 points by widenrun 4 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?
    ×0.88 110 | 22 points by wwwthrowaway256 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down
    ×0.37 128 | 12 points by cinericius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?
    ×1.68 91 | 9 points by chistev 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
    ×1.80 87 | 12 points by chistev 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
    ×0.33 130 | 12 points by blenderob 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Train 1T parameter LLM with 8 GPUs?
    ×0.14 181 | 3 points by kendy1992 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A disk-first C++ vector engine
    ×0.16 153 | 4 points by saeedq 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why not have an EU browser?
    ×0.25 154 | 7 points by osigurdson 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Do not use Cloudflare DNS regsitrar
    ×0.53 122 | 11 points by talkingtab 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
    ×0.30 165 | 20 points by MaxTeabag 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Did the Linux memory management maintainer "just quit"?
    ×0.44 171 | 17 points by hliyan 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you model temporarily invalid data structures
    ×0.13 182 | 5 points by escot 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. We are constantly broadcasting emotional data (tonyrice.me)
    ×1.14 29 #50 | 24 points by tonyrice 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: HN Station – A local-first HN desktop client with split-pane reading (github.com/rajeshkumarblr)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by raj_db_dev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why Deep Learning Works Even Though It Shouldn't (wordpress.com)
    ×1.63 58 | 3 points by simianwords 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.71 68 #87 | 216 points by goranmoomin 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What Is a Dickover? (daringfireball.net)
    ×6.24 42 | 497 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What Makes an Exceptional Engineer? (essenceia.github.io)
    ×2.56 15 | 5 points by random__duck 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×4.77 #1 | 242 points by antipurist 1 hour ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Stateless Actors (massicotte.org)
    ×0.64 51 #39 | 29 points by frizlab 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Naphtha shortages in Japan (nippon.com)
    ×1.27 22 #77 | 154 points by takakaze 23 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Oort – A prompt library where every listing has a shipped project (oortstack.com)
    ×1.60 116 | 6 points by Wesearchpress 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Teleport-env – <500ms stateful rollbacks for AI agents via CRIU (github.com/JaiCode08)
    ×1.42 149 | 9 points by Jainish08 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: VAEN – Package and import portable AI coding-agent Harnesses (github.com/sjhalani7)
    ×2.00 162 | 8 points by sjhalani7 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Custom Errors Are Non-Negotiable in My Rust Applications (tristonarmstrong.com)
    ×0.98 40 | 8 points by tristonarmstron 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Is Huawei's new chip scaling law a true breakthrough, or mere hype (scmp.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by teleforce 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Get a webhook the moment a webpage changes (firecrawl.dev)
    ×0.65 147 | 3 points by ericciarla 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Game Boy pixel pipeline explorer (pixelpipeline.xyz)
    ×2.22 144 | 14 points by blueblazin 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025) (sigbovik.org)
    ×2.03 26 #74 | 84 points by kmstout 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. VC Summer Student Bootcamp (fff-hub.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by danielaromerooo 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Babo – A scripting natural language that works as intended (github.com/armbox)
    ×1.14 56 | 3 points by theqoo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Lite-Harness – Self-Hosted Cursor Agents (Use Claude Code/OpenCode) (github.com/LiteLLM-Labs)
    ×1.22 6 | 3 points by detente18 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue (scalex.dev)
    ×1.79 66 | 379 points by Wirbelwind 2 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.27 2 #72 | 1742 points by craigmart 2 days ago | 1360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It's Cracking (wsj.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by doener 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Mechanical Pencin: A website about the hidden engineering in everyday objects (mechanical-pencil.com)
    ×2.40 35 | 4 points by Muhammad523 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Libfyaml adds a YAML/JSON parse cache; 427 MB reloads in 36 ms (github.com/pantoniou)
    ×0.98 178 | 3 points by fypanto 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I built a tool to auto-accept AI slop and bigtech devs loves it (github.com/Alcray)
    ×1.89 150 | 17 points by alcray 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. UA flight – 'turn Bluetooth off or we're turning around' (reddit.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by slackpad 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Are.na – On Our API (are.na)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by colinprince 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents (roundtable.ai)
    ×0.67 76 | 81 points by timshell 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I am retiring from tech to live offline (openpath.quest)
    ×5.17 32 | 825 points by PinkG 1 day ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike (theverge.com)
    ×3.22 88 | 60 points by doener 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tony Gilroy, Andor creator doesn't want his work to become training data (theverge.com)
    ×2.05 16 #61 | 13 points by root-parent 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (latimes.com)
    ×4.50 32 #81 | 630 points by brandonb 2 days ago | 845 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI Hardware (categoryvc.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Elemental – simple front ends in plain JavaScript (github.com/fynyky)
    ×1.10 120 | 6 points by fynyky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Journal of Hendrick Hamel (1668) (henny-savenije.pe.kr)
    ×1.64 45 #41 | 6 points by yubblegum 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Dell, Snowflake, and Ford show how the AI boom is spreading: Alpha Check (yahoo.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Canada in Technical Recession (cbc.ca)
    ×3.03 74 | 66 points by efavdb 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. After more than two decades Paint.NET finally owns the domain paint.net (pcgamer.com)
    ×4.84 23 | 9 points by evo_9 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Is this sustainable? (jamiehurst.co.uk)
    ×1.14 81 | 92 points by ColinEberhardt 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Inkfeed – RSS Reader for Kindle (inkfeed.xyz)
    ×0.79 136 | 3 points by adhamsalama 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A case for an Autonomy Kernel (autonomykernel.org)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by offbeatport 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup (qazinform.com)
    ×3.24 81 | 390 points by Bolat14 11 hours ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T (liquid.ai)
    ×1.61 29 | 240 points by simjnd 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Tab Council – turn your AI tabs into a model council (github.com/vaddisrinivas)
    ×1.09 131 | 4 points by srinivasvaddi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: htop for the airwaves — a live 802.11 RF dashboard in your terminal (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×2.16 124 | 9 points by r3tr0 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism (economist.com)
    ×1.70 19 #27 | 178 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 14 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates (lloydslist.com)
    ×2.47 33 #42 | 166 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Books for someone who is transitioning from FAANG to finance
    ×0.58 | 1 points by rallies 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. We Benchmarked Our Open Source Memory Tool Against a Microsoft Research Paper (medium.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by vektormemory 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809) (wellsoc.org)
    ×0.78 77 | 71 points by backuprestore 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Volt – front end tooling for Phoenix that runs inside the BEAM (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×1.31 158 | 25 points by dannote 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit (koenvangilst.nl)
    ×1.95 #82 | 453 points by vnglst 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Kanji Pairs Explorer (trost.co)
    ×1.93 12 | 4 points by matthewtoast 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. China's Rise in Drug Development Looms over U.S. (nytimes.com)
    ×2.08 32 | 4 points by mportela 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. CIFSwitch: A non-universal Linux local root vulnerability (heyitsas.im)
    ×2.02 20 | 4 points by campuscodi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Professional Sports Are Banning Smart Glasses over Betting Concerns (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.25 8 | 6 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017) (cnn.com)
    ×2.59 17 #46 | 17 points by downbad_ 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Xavier Becerra has doubts about California's EV ambitions (politico.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by alephnerd 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by cattode 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal (github.com/darshanmakwana412)
    ×1.06 13 #22 | 28 points by martianvoid 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014) (fsgworkinprogress.com)
    ×0.91 20 #24 | 73 points by Michelangelo11 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (github.com/secluso)
    ×1.23 72 #66 | 113 points by arrdalan 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina (ft.com)
    ×10.19 71 | 76 points by mmarian 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled (twilitrealm.dev)
    ×1.41 4 #19 | 59 points by shepherdjerred 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Five facts about smell (2014) (alicebartlett.co.uk)
    ×1.86 15 | 3 points by downbad_ 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???