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  1. SVG Recolor Tool – Change Color of SVG Online – Free Color Tool
    ×0.17 | 2 points by freecolortool 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×0.73 39 | 14 points by andyjohnson0 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.44 64 | 5 points by petemc_ 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.31 76 | 154 points by syntaxbush 4 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.88 61 | 103 points by gcanyon 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.74 73 | 66 points by oscgam1 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. We need tech news sources which exclude AI
    ×3.93 71 | 121 points by botfriendsarent 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.49 41 | 107 points by PhilipDaineko 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
    ×1.30 15 | 52 points by trowa159 19 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.54 78 | 34 points by mzubairtahir 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit
    ×2.02 75 | 7 points by akarshhegde18 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.59 96 | 6 points by i_am_rocoe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.41 89 | 8 points by thoughtpeddler 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.52 104 | 37 points by JohnDSDev 4 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.71 90 | 10 points by justanything 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.35 112 | 5 points by howToTestFE 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Fast feedback loops is the way
    ×0.56 94 | 5 points by skyglider 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.26 124 | 5 points by HoldOnAMinute 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×1.24 92 | 11 points by aurenvale 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.53 109 | 15 points by mellosty 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Recursive self improvement for human skills
    ×0.41 107 | 4 points by rando77 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Data Privacy while using API tools
    ×0.20 114 | 4 points by 11shyam11 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.72 122 | 6 points by throwaw12 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Mojo is becoming open source
    ×0.99 95 | 8 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×1.78 86 | 23 points by notsure357 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?
    ×0.60 99 | 7 points by reinhardt 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.50 131 | 20 points by niyazpk 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.31 120 | 8 points by netfortius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.54 111 | 16 points by othmanosx 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×0.69 123 | 8 points by VaderAi 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Running local LLMs? What's your model and hardware
    ×1.92 88 | 11 points by alfiedotwtf 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn?
    ×0.47 134 | 4 points by datsci_est_2015 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.85 126 | 23 points by tossitawayplz 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.52 133 | 8 points by yiyingzhang 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan?
    ×3.84 58 | 15 points by vantareed 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How is GPU power draw measured at scale?
    ×0.27 136 | 5 points by anax32 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.30 83 | 81 points by jvilalta 3 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.39 135 | 15 points by neya 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.26 150 | 6 points by iaziz786 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The series of tubes filled with enormous amounts of mail, beneath our feet (buttondown.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by maguay 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (xcancel.com)
    ×3.99 72 | 5 points by therein 34 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020) (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.97 27 #21 | 61 points by phaser 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: DeepSeek Flash inverted the economics of agent products (rtrvr.ai)
    ×2.58 125 | 9 points by arjunchint 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online (eff.org)
    ×4.60 8 #18 | 483 points by bilsbie 21 hours ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Using Local Coding Agents (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.83 52 | 4 points by mariuz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Bible as RAG Database (crosscanon.com)
    ×1.83 72 | 161 points by jacksonastone 4 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (jim.sh)
    ×4.05 80 | 11 points by foodevl 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: wavecat – a fully local personal agent that watches your screen (wavecat.ai)
    ×1.05 59 | 4 points by sdkpanda 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Import the HN Home to a reading queue with clean reader view and TL;DR (readplace.com)
    ×0.77 79 | 4 points by fagnerbrack 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Transformations (jauzo.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by kukkeliskuu 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface (jonashietala.se)
    ×1.07 41 #59 | 56 points by lawn 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.38 53 #67 | 130 points by saisrirampur 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design (ieee.org)
    ×1.60 28 #75 | 264 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Sidequest is a better /btw for Pi (github.com/peterp)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by pistoriusp 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SpecManager – a full agile team for founders, as a Claude Code plugin (github.com/joanseg)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by joansg 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach (9th Ed): Online Video Presentations (umass.edu)
    ×2.62 59 | 4 points by teleforce 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: `uvx ptn` and expose any system to agents (dangerously) (pypi.org)
    ×0.83 145 | 3 points by yxl448 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Staying Awake (2008) (harpers.org)
    ×0.55 57 #50 | 26 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite bug with TLA+: is dqlite affected? (ubuntu.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by ilreb 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. LLM-free, layout-aware PDF chunker in pure Rust (github.com/matthiasnordwig)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by MatthiasNordwig 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ukraine's newest strike weapon, Balloons (defensenews.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by garyclarke27 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Chinese host on vast.ai masquerading as US host (twitter.com/uzyn)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by uzyn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Enhancing x11 Application Security with LXC (2025) (dobrowolski.dev)
    ×0.76 48 | 73 points by shirozuki 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN:I got tired of spending 3hrs daily on job applications,so I automated it (jobspire.co.in)
    ×0.82 105 | 5 points by cbyteai 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. EU countries move to revive temporary message-scanning regime (euronews.com)
    ×3.24 22 #35 | 13 points by latexr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. You might not need a service worker (jayfreestone.com)
    ×1.46 16 #53 | 28 points by Fudgel 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Parseflow – Extract data from any document. Entirely on your Mac (parseflow.io)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by devtanna 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Ex-Amazon, got burned out, left my job, and now building Zenvesto (zenvesto.com)
    ×1.02 163 | 3 points by zenvesto 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI (antoine.fi)
    ×2.36 4 #10 | 431 points by engmarketer 17 hours ago | 569 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Engineering for Bounded Cognition (shapeofthesystem.com)
    ×1.31 49 #60 | 121 points by supermatt 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. HTMLButtonElement: Command Property (mozilla.org)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by dsego 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com/dbos-inc)
    ×0.96 63 | 89 points by KraftyOne 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron (github.com/y-times-y)
    ×0.84 113 | 36 points by HetPatel106 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenRA (openra.net)
    ×3.38 7 #57 | 790 points by tosh 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Is dbase dead? Customers cannot activate nor contact support (delphinightmares.substack.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by deeaceofbase 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format (oak-invest.github.io)
    ×1.06 74 | 19 points by straumat 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.94 33 #83 | 376 points by ProxyTracer 2 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Metamorphic testing with Lean4-verified mutations finds compiler miscompilations (nowarp.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by jubnzv_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Fintech Engineering Handbook (pitula.me)
    ×3.02 10 | 623 points by signa11 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools (github.com/open-energy-transition)
    ×1.39 38 | 162 points by lyoncy 19 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: The TypeScript Semantic Layer for ClickHouse (github.com/hypequery)
    ×1.29 101 | 7 points by lureilly1 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Aerial-autonomy-stack – open-source perception-based drone swarms (github.com/JacopoPan)
    ×0.89 115 | 4 points by SufficientFix42 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OctoPerf MCP – drive load tests from any LLM (OAuth 2.1, no API key) (octoperf.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Jellly 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Welcome to Sloptopia: The Future of the Internet (vice.com)
    ×2.09 23 | 4 points by Michelangelo11 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Stop cherry-picking, start merging (microsoft.com)
    ×1.36 11 | 3 points by ankitg12 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work (github.com/kageroumado)
    ×1.22 35 | 121 points by kageroumado 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: The CLI for browser agents (fuckui.com)
    ×1.34 57 | 3 points by keepamovin 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Ponder – the best articles and essays on the internet (readponder.com)
    ×0.88 148 | 3 points by wingdiction 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by cplan 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Play puzzle games in a feed like TikTok (puzzle.express)
    ×1.37 108 | 6 points by trancence 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???