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  1. Small Asian Grocery Stores Can Improve Local Product Discovery
    ×0.94 33 | 3 points by yatifoods 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GoatCode – open-source terminal AI agent with provider failover
    ×0.62 5 | 3 points by Arhan-w 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.64 18 #75 | 18 points by waldrews 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?
    ×0.55 38 | 5 points by funkaster 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.66 79 | 793 points by cromka 21 hours ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.60 5 | 477 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?
    ×0.67 79 | 8 points by superasn 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Dreamcast Web Development Links
    ×0.25 82 | 4 points by hefner1456 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Where are the innovations happening today?
    ×0.18 93 | 4 points by cauliflower99 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.69 88 | 319 points by imadtaieber 5 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH
    ×0.38 90 | 5 points by rawland 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is GPT-6 Astra worth the 2.5x cost increase over GPT-5.6 Sol?
    ×0.50 86 | 6 points by minimaxir 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.60 100 | 20 points by AuthorizedCust 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: AI and Math
    ×0.06 | 2 points by ekm2 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is the average number of hops in your social network to 9-11 death?
    ×0.06 | 2 points by MrCoffee7 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.88 105 | 114 points by maxim-fin 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace
    ×0.30 110 | 7 points by zishutron 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why isn't decompilation a solved problem in the AI era?
    ×0.34 119 | 6 points by ferfumarma 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.98 136 | 29 points by genekrapivin 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Software people, where are you taking your careers next?
    ×3.93 61 | 11 points by cedws 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.34 134 | 9 points by mattm 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.13 140 | 17 points by pkos98 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Open Letter on the Massacre in Gaza from an Editor in Israel (2025) (lithub.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by sanbor 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AI may be denting computer science graduates' job prospects, UK data shows (theguardian.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)
    ×0.82 67 #79 | 101 points by Skinney 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. OpenStreetMap Carto version v6.1.0 released (openstreetmap.org)
    ×2.07 | 2 points by altilunium 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh (2015) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by mpweiher 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I have a theory that software drives people insane (graybeard.ing)
    ×3.69 3 | 460 points by rglover 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: I pointed 11 cold AI agents at my own product. 3 finished (pact0.com)
    ×0.74 122 | 3 points by benban 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await (brown.edu)
    ×2.02 10 #6 | 297 points by wcrichton 14 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×2.76 34 #71 | 433 points by haunter 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Nightshift – Your code gets better while you sleep (github.com/openslop)
    ×0.84 106 | 11 points by tcbrah 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Hallucinate got a jetpack – MMO Rave (hallucinate.site)
    ×1.90 27 | 3 points by stagas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. What Comes After Git (ersc.io)
    ×1.67 52 | 71 points by tangled 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. WeWorm: Zero-Click WeChat Worm (calif.io)
    ×1.09 3 #29 | 27 points by BlackEarth 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 118M Queries per Second on Neki (planetscale.com)
    ×0.84 51 #37 | 93 points by joshmgross 18 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How to buy a good car for $1000 (abio.substack.com)
    ×4.90 25 #45 | 89 points by barry-cotter 9 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The four-colour theorem was only the start (lemire.me)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by dalvrosa 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why This Author Doesn't Publish Technical Articles Anymore (galratner.substack.com)
    ×2.65 25 | 5 points by cats_and_dogs 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B (bendingspoons.com)
    ×2.68 64 | 102 points by andygcook 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Navier-Stokes Announcement (claymath.org)
    ×2.15 #5 | 179 points by rvz 6 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update (autom.dev)
    ×3.52 7 #8 | 448 points by 1e1a 7 hours ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Dbmask – Discover, mask, and verify sensitive data in SQL databases (github.com/sealandseacat)
    ×0.58 131 | 5 points by SiyuanFeng 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: SyntheticAIdata – synthetic data for CV, 100k free credits/month (syntheticaidata.com)
    ×1.81 96 | 4 points by gvuksic 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Dash. – Tech, Startups, and Markets (chatgpt.site)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by opuslabs 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Botbin.io – pastebin for AI agent artifacts (botbin.io)
    ×0.65 118 | 10 points by obilgic 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Microsoft 365 for Windows, Running on Linux with Soda and Bottles (reddit.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by theanonymousone 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Newsroom EP01 – OpenAI Ships GPT-5 to Azure – DeepSeek Open-Sources 236B Moe (youtube.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by LebToki 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Jot – AI Rewriter (google.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by gnsh 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. So you want to use OpenRouter? (mmoustafa.com)
    ×3.84 19 #42 | 720 points by player85 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Grigori Perelman (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.92 31 | 3 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement (dwarkesh.com)
    ×1.73 18 #52 | 106 points by artninja1988 13 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Deep dive on evals for agents [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by porridgeraisin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Gave Omarchy a Try (twitter.com/z3ratul163071)
    ×1.51 32 | 3 points by z3ratul163071 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Agent First Shopify Competitor? (mercemur.com)
    ×0.92 111 | 3 points by thejasonsamuel 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Underfiction – you direct a scene, a frontier model writes the prose (underfiction.com)
    ×1.13 114 | 3 points by snoshkar 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them (cbc.ca)
    ×1.02 17 #7 | 72 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering (getzep.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Anthropic researcher resigning citing superintelligence ' – is a marketing hoax [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by adaba1234 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Feeling Sad about AI (artificialworlds.net)
    ×6.38 47 | 172 points by encyclopedism 17 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Remember Hong Kong (thenextmove.org)
    ×3.37 28 | 68 points by throw0101d 22 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Viaduct – Architecture change sets for AI coding agents (quietgridlabs.com)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by igrlgkv 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Wg-admin – web UI for an existing WireGuard host (github.com/logimaxx)
    ×0.80 127 | 35 points by vsergione 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. What 1k% Open Rates Taught Us About Detecting Hijacked Email Accounts (sh.consulting)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by toruviel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet? (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by gumby 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.78 78 | 54 points by snyy 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: TriageBox – AI checker for Gmail that flags phishing and clutter (pfa87.cc)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by pfa87 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: AppLocker – Open-source macOS app blocker using Apple Endpoint Security (github.com/TranPhuong319)
    ×1.39 133 | 4 points by tranphuong319 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Top AI spenders cut per-employee costs by nearly 10 percent in August (the-decoder.com)
    ×1.94 | 2 points by geox 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. UAE revises 5GW AI data center plan after Iranian attacks, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×2.94 32 | 5 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I built a hand-modeled 3D Windows 98 portfolio with Three.js (wesselsdesktop.com)
    ×0.63 69 #84 | 13 points by Abstract2D 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Why Authenticity Matters in Personal Development (medium.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by flaviopilotodas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021 (honestlyranked.com)
    ×3.29 24 | 384 points by honestlyranked 2 days ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health (cell.com)
    ×1.99 29 | 134 points by qclibre22 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol (bernat.ch)
    ×1.08 60 #57 | 101 points by zdw 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. DeepSeek v4.1 flash runs 23 seconds/token on a 2020 16gb M1 Mac Mini (twitter.com/thefp4brain)
    ×1.88 7 #77 | 20 points by ajay-higgs 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Post-graph-RAG – your RAG still thinks the old CFO is the CFO (github.com/crajah)
    ×2.02 130 | 5 points by chandanrajah 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Persistent Jupyter kernel execution and live output streaming in VSCode (github.com/rnoro)
    ×0.29 123 | 7 points by rnoro_ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A misalignment of AI in mathematics (mathandai.org)
    ×4.03 3 #3 | 948 points by meredydd 17 hours ago | 908 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Durable subagents for Codex and Claude users (github.com/ringlochid)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by ringlochid 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Pnpm 12.4 can install Rust crates and Python packages (pnpm.io)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by novoreorx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Keychron macOS Battery Life and Controls (github.com/bkovacev)
    ×1.08 101 | 3 points by bkovacev 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. iPod Classic 6G in QEMU (reddit.com)
    ×1.30 44 #58 | 148 points by dmonterocrespo 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Portspan – A self-hosted ngrok alternative with wildcard subdomains (github.com/famasya)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by pacific01 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Logo Programming (mit.edu)
    ×1.56 25 #12 | 285 points by azhenley 21 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Can you design a chip: The protocol emulator ASIC competition (janestreet.com)
    ×1.11 86 #59 | 12 points by ingve 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: RFC9421 Signing in C++
    ×0.91 | 2 points by vogje01 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: NanoVector – A 120KB zero-dependency vector search engine in C and SIMD (github.com/eminsk)
    ×3.86 84 | 10 points by eminskinfo 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Open-source simulation testing infra for voice agents (github.com/egma-ai)
    ×5.32 102 | 15 points by Nischalj10 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Testing Race Conditions (projectzero.google)
    ×0.82 36 #27 | 51 points by alpaylan 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???