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  1. Im 18 and building my startup and this is what I feel
    ×0.83 | 2 points by ritupatil2008 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  2. Continue coding agent is dead. Alternatives?
    ×1.06 34 | 3 points by roscas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.50 73 | 321 points by sharts 4 days ago | 260 comments | ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why does the US government search through people's phones at the border?
    ×1.62 30 | 10 points by roschdal 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×2.98 59 | 647 points by dhruv3006 4 days ago | 434 comments | ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is the evidence for a stock market bubble in AI?
    ×0.78 16 | 6 points by roschdal 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  7. Windmill.dev is not "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)"
    ×0.86 70 | 9 points by alpine-rockies 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.67 72 | 656 points by stagas 5 days ago | 202 comments | ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.49 118 | 52 points by Abh1Works 6 days ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  10. Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?
    ×1.76 68 | 13 points by bah9 20 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: OpenCode no longer including DeepSeek?
    ×0.30 87 | 8 points by dv35z 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
    ×2.96 62 | 65 points by walrus01 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  13. Robotics Software
    ×0.15 103 | 3 points by erardaiden 17 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why is HN missing a "go to top" link on long posts?
    ×0.54 92 | 4 points by KellyCriterion 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How to Relicense an Old Project
    ×0.20 110 | 3 points by gradschool 18 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  16. SearXNG running on OpenBSD on a ThinkPad t420
    ×0.12 | 2 points by open-search 19 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  17. Authenticated Git-fetch-over-HTTPS against gitlab.com is failing
    ×0.20 | 2 points by basilgohar 20 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is GitHub Down Again?
    ×0.89 75 | 11 points by delduca 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you keep notes organized across long-running side projects?
    ×0.35 105 | 5 points by hackerstest 1 day ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do teams really need to use GitHub?
    ×0.42 106 | 5 points by avinoth 1 day ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Do you need Google ads help?
    ×0.38 113 | 5 points by cosbgn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  22. Why it's appearing sorry message when I trying to post?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by Edymilson 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  23. A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been (zaksa.zip)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by zaksa 15 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  24. SignalWatch – AI crypto scanner and smart alerts in your pocket (google.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by alligatorpeach 41 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  25. CyberStrike – open-source AI harness for offensive security (AGPL) (github.com/CyberStrikeus)
    ×2.44 26 | 4 points by orhanyildirim 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  26. AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it (franciscotrindade.me)
    ×2.02 62 | 89 points by franciscomt 2 days ago | 143 comments | ??? ???
  27. Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (munderdiffl.in)
    ×1.82 #3 | 29 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  28. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
    ×5.23 2 #7 | 835 points by floathub 22 hours ago | 968 comments | ??? ???
  29. I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
    ×1.66 1 | 332 points by tyre 1 day ago | 128 comments | ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Heimdall – Trust-verified knowledge layer for AI coding agents (github.com/ArihantDeva)
    ×1.17 77 | 3 points by arihantdeva 9 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Mcploitable – The "Metasploitable" of the Model Context Protocol (github.com/agileAlligator)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by agileAlligator 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  32. Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (washu.edu)
    ×1.23 51 #22 | 95 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  33. New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
    ×1.75 13 #23 | 248 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 165 comments | ??? ???
  34. A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
    ×1.23 26 #32 | 127 points by ra7 18 hours ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  35. The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)
    ×1.00 41 #89 | 80 points by wise_blood 1 day ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  36. Comparing open vs. closed models across the eras of frontier models (semianalysis.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  37. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)
    ×12.81 75 | 1640 points by speckx 1 day ago | 385 comments | ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Zroar – Serialized Roaring Bitmaps in Zig (github.com/manishrjain)
    ×1.80 86 | 5 points by mrjn 15 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  39. Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.21 67 #49 | 4 points by pykello 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  40. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
    ×3.32 20 #76 | 852 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 337 comments | ??? ???
  41. Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID (anildash.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by throw0101a 15 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  42. MacStories is posting on Twitter again (macstories.net)
    ×1.69 2 | 3 points by latexr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  43. What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x (catalystneuro.com)
    ×1.69 13 | 123 points by bkd9 22 hours ago | 132 comments | ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A data viewer for choosing Frigate-compatible IP cameras (github.com/ch-bas)
    ×8.57 66 | 48 points by martinAndy 1 day ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  45. Zig’s io.threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.31 14 #11 | 87 points by chilipepperhott 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  46. Run 290B+ frontier MoE models locally on your gaming PC (github.com/FlashML-org)
    ×1.59 56 #54 | 26 points by shenli3514 14 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  47. A Week in the Life Of (profane-tmesis.info)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by riskone 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (danielvaughn.dev)
    ×2.16 5 | 370 points by danielvaughn 1 day ago | 206 comments | ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (doub.ly)
    ×0.96 64 | 76 points by knaught 1 day ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I reverse-engineered Bambu's 3MF color format so GLB keeps the colors (github.com/SamiSalah221)
    ×1.37 46 | 3 points by SamiSalah221 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Bounded GenAI metrics from Otel traces with O raw prompts (github.com/llm-measurement)
    ×1.54 100 | 4 points by kwisatzh 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Sourcery – Benchmark for search APIs on the sources they return (sameerhimati.com)
    ×1.65 141 | 4 points by sameerhimati 1 day ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  53. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    14 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  54. Open sourcing MonsterWriter, piece by piece (monsterwriter.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by WolfOliver 33 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  55. Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.10 57 | 5 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  56. Math Academy – How Our AI Works (mathacademy.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by olvy0 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  57. RayNeo IO (rayneo.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  58. Show HN: ContextForge – context engineering platform for AI-assisted development (github.com/waterflane)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by waterflane 1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  59. How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
    ×1.21 14 #27 | 155 points by toebee 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  60. HN: The Good Parts (2016) (danluu.com)
    ×1.02 24 #29 | 57 points by adletbalzhanov 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  61. GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×0.78 36 #39 | 52 points by jonemi 13 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  62. Therapy for the Vibe-Coded Brain (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by conferza 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.71 78 | 9 points by jardy 20 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  64. The Size of the World Wide Web (worldwidewebsize.com)
    ×0.44 39 #84 | 24 points by 1970-01-01 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Git-reattribute – interactively rewrite Git commit attribution (github.com/drk1rd)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by drk1rd 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  66. The Internet is for More than Making Money [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by sph 25 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  67. Uber fined nearly $1B by Dutch regulators (apnews.com)
    ×2.26 2 | 4 points by gostsamo 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Free, non-profit crypto AML screening – no key, no trial (publicaml.org)
    ×1.41 101 | 5 points by publicaml 23 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  69. How Claude's Text Watermarking Works [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by Anon84 10 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Telex Page – Turn secrets into AES 256 encrypted PDFs, locally (telexpage.com)
    ×1.12 116 | 3 points by cucho 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  71. Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps (github.com/biw)
    ×0.39 137 | 24 points by biwills 3 days ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  72. Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
    ×0.49 97 #65 | 59 points by yousefh409 1 day ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  73. Never Be Angry at Work (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.47 30 #75 | 21 points by vismit2000 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  74. Netherlands lists Israel as a threat to its national security for the first time (2025) (trtworld.com)
    ×7.29 63 | 83 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  75. I built roads.fyi – view and report the condition of roads near you (roads.fyi)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by ss1996 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  76. Bun 1.4 (bun.com)
    ×3.83 28 | 255 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 173 comments | ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour (skimmiq.com)
    ×1.34 94 | 4 points by Pawel_SkimmIQ 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  78. I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
    ×3.26 7 #20 | 390 points by rcymerys 1 day ago | 392 comments | ??? ???
  79. Donald Trump's bullying of Canada is endless (economist.com)
    ×3.77 37 #50 | 5 points by Gander5739 41 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  80. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.70 88 #51 | 291 points by nunodonato 2 days ago | 246 comments | ??? ???
  81. Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
    ×1.69 31 #73 | 288 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 125 comments | ??? ???
  82. ISRO will not make any launch vehicle, all tech to be handed to private sector (indiatoday.in)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  83. Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com/openai)
    ×1.28 15 | 147 points by TheP1000 1 day ago | 62 comments | ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models (modelmap.cc)
    ×0.92 90 | 113 points by lizhaoliu 3 days ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  85. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
    ×2.14 3 #17 | 321 points by dash2 19 hours ago | 325 comments | ??? ???
  86. Strange People but Very Smart (voiceinthemachine.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by Anon84 27 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  87. AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice (theregister.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by neuroelectron 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  88. Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com/zachahn)
    ×1.90 11 | 298 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 291 comments | ??? ???
  89. Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.92 22 | 201 points by cwal37 1 day ago | 134 comments | ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Whodunit? Solve a daily AI-written Mystery (whodunit.rip)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by selljamhere 19 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???