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  1. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×1.05 37 #53 | 84 points by spidy__ 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×1.16 24 | 3 points by VaderAi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.48 45 #74 | 113 points by syntaxbush 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.52 35 | 9 points by mellosty 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.51 84 | 32 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.77 76 | 7 points by yiyingzhang 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
    ×1.75 18 | 111 points by shantnutiwari 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.40 4 | 78 points by jvilalta 17 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Trying to recover from thin content penalty from Google
    ×0.31 81 | 4 points by anitroves 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. My website gets more attacks than human visitors
    ×1.01 102 | 3 points by tommy2970 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×0.76 104 | 3 points by othmanosx 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Quickbooks Alternative?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by bix6 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
    ×0.58 91 | 4 points by something765478 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
    ×0.74 83 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. As; HN: I was curious why MTP affects PP TPS in llama.cpp. My PoC recovers it?
    ×0.67 | 2 points by i_am_rocoe 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.50 133 | 18 points by niyazpk 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.30 130 | 6 points by iaziz786 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Got access to Gemini's actual thinking
    ×0.22 121 | 4 points by StizzurpXDD 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.08 131 | 153 points by amichail 6 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is one thing about AI that annoys you the most?
    ×1.11 87 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.42 129 | 15 points by neya 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.83 125 | 20 points by tossitawayplz 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.57 97 | 81 points by ayi 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 147 | 96 points by asim 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.01 143 | 15 points by vasko 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.40 154 | 25 points by agos 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks?
    ×0.45 126 | 8 points by fur-tea-laser 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions
    ×0.52 132 | 8 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.95 141 | 23 points by julienreszka 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE?
    ×0.29 135 | 10 points by mariopt 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Stealing Is a Skill (ben-mini.com)
    ×1.62 36 #80 | 258 points by bewal416 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×2.98 15 #89 | 559 points by shadowtree 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading (sciencenews.org)
    ×3.06 44 | 190 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron (github.com/y-times-y)
    ×0.77 111 | 33 points by HetPatel106 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why are we so obsessed with lawns? (gardensillustrated.com)
    ×1.38 25 #13 | 20 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What size is your journal book and why?
    ×1.29 | 2 points by herodoturtle 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenBubbles – iMessage on Android without a Mac relay server (openbubbles.app)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by kls0e 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The last Romans are still around (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.08 22 #28 | 83 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO (nytimes.com)
    ×3.16 57 #87 | 113 points by mfiguiere 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology (ibm.com)
    ×1.61 10 #11 | 309 points by porridgeraisin 16 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Stackzero - The Smarter Way to Discover Free Developer Tools (revoseek.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by izoom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights (cbc.ca)
    ×2.78 54 | 116 points by speckx 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects (clevercrow.io)
    ×0.53 122 | 66 points by zhubert 4 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Multi Agent Protocol for AI Scientist by Hexo Labs (github.com/hexo-ai)
    ×1.67 108 | 5 points by martianvoid 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: A Transformer Is All You Need (zenodo.org)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by KnoxProtocol 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Slate EV truck starts at $24,950 (slate.auto)
    ×5.27 16 | 297 points by cobri 1 day ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s (greptile.com)
    ×1.37 21 | 261 points by dakshgupta 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Hikaru Labs – Bulk image and file processing, 100% in-browser (hikarulabs.xyz)
    ×1.20 100 | 4 points by CFBL 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean (github.com/cajal-technologies)
    ×0.87 145 | 106 points by mfornet 1 week ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: HN Game Stories – mini-documentary of games that hit the front page (intellios.ai)
    ×0.31 151 | 15 points by coolwulf 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley (economist.com)
    ×1.66 42 #61 | 161 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub (github.com/BohemiaInteractive)
    ×1.47 23 #60 | 193 points by dewey 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. OAuth for all (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.08 4 #67 | 369 points by terryds 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bumble dating app explores sale (reuters.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by JimsonYang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements (ziglang.org)
    ×1.19 13 #26 | 231 points by kouosi 17 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Eyewitness at the Triangle (1911) (cornell.edu)
    ×0.39 47 #25 | 20 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mixing Visual and Textual Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.62 79 #42 | 77 points by doppioandante 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Framingham won't renew Flock Safety contract after months of resident opposition (boston.com)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by pilingual 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A graph-based IDE for understanding and working with large codebases (vnoc.vercel.app)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by yared_seed 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. We Rewrote WAL-G for Postgres Backups in Rust: Meet WAL-RUS (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Polestar Banned from Selling Cars in the U.S. Starting with Model Year 2027 (autoevolution.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by benkan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (theregister.com)
    ×3.05 9 #16 | 25 points by fauigerzigerk 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Doorman's Fallacy in action (rozumem.xyz)
    ×1.26 19 #21 | 104 points by rozumem 12 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand (trakkr.ai)
    ×1.54 26 #36 | 145 points by mektrik 18 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Bible as RAG Database (crosscanon.com)
    ×1.77 5 #65 | 139 points by jacksonastone 20 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I taught a bucket to speak Git (tigrisdata.com)
    ×0.86 63 | 89 points by xena 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Recall – Local project memory for Claude Code (github.com/raiyanyahya)
    ×1.11 110 | 135 points by mateenah 4 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Tree, truth, druid and tar share one Proto-Indo-European root (migdal.pl)
    ×2.19 113 | 5 points by stared 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript? (brainfrog.lol)
    ×0.77 62 | 48 points by AlexanderZ 6 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators (unconv.ai)
    ×1.02 8 #14 | 142 points by babelfish 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Imaging exoplanets using Einstein Rings within 1 lifetime [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by OSaMaBiNLoGiN 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Qualcomm to Acquire Modular (reuters.com)
    ×1.29 13 | 237 points by timmyd 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors” (theregister.com)
    ×2.45 34 | 183 points by connorboyle 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Nimic – Pure Python as a systems language with AOT compilation (github.com/dima-quant)
    ×0.61 57 | 41 points by dima-quant 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: ParseHawk – 100% Local Document AI with API, CLI, and Web UI (github.com/parsehawk)
    ×2.22 101 | 6 points by francisrafal 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mapping London – All Sorts of Interesting Maps of London (mappinglondon.co.uk)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by akashwadhwani35 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Spain will require carriers to keep mobile networks live during power outages (engadget.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by benkan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (glyphcss.com)
    ×1.79 52 | 208 points by apresmoi 5 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents (oak.space)
    ×1.11 79 | 214 points by zdgeier 3 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by joozio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors (2012) [pdf] (epfl.ch)
    ×0.64 46 #43 | 41 points by azhenley 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Jailbreaking Isn't Theft (pluralistic.net)
    ×3.01 24 #79 | 45 points by hn_acker 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. PatentScore: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of LLM-Generated Patent Claims (aclanthology.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. My BASB Implementation in Org Mode (ftwynn.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. MCP Authorization with Dynamic Client Registration (christianposta.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Promptctl – Git for your AI prompts (github.com/naya-ai)
    ×1.64 136 | 5 points by shawnaya101 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup (pnsn.org)
    ×0.40 49 #32 | 20 points by jmward01 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Pandas-ta-classic 0.6.52: SMC liquidity sweep detector, Ichimoku fixes (github.com/xgboosted)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by xgboosted 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) (github.com/overflowy)
    ×1.44 117 | 155 points by overflowy 5 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors (github.com/Intuned)
    ×0.65 137 | 38 points by ahmadilaiwi 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???