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Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

×2.09 5 #5 | 144 points by LecroJS 6 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In LLM era, can software startup survive?

×0.59 3 | 3 points by sjia 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Scribd Breached

×1.63 9 #90 | 353 points by x______________ 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification

×0.85 25 | 16 points by razster 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

×0.75 76 | 40 points by stillatit 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?

×0.55 70 | 12 points by czhu12 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?

×0.73 80 | 45 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?

×0.78 86 | 22 points by all2 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP

×0.36 96 | 6 points by fosco 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?

×0.47 95 | 34 points by jahala 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Old experimental website that made photos sing?

×0.14 | 2 points by jesuisdieu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?

×0.87 92 | 40 points by learner_yearner 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?

×1.17 75 | 18 points by ikelos 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?

×0.59 105 | 8 points by Gooblebrai 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Wrong" Email

×0.92 84 | 26 points by rbmm 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites

×0.76 97 | 34 points by TekMol 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?

×0.50 107 | 6 points by sky2224 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Hack

×0.27 109 | 10 points by throwaway3309 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?

×0.42 110 | 11 points by japhyr 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?

×0.17 132 | 8 points by weinzierl 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's the future like? For normies, will it still be apps and websites?

×0.53 127 | 4 points by talmr 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GEMM Tutorial and UlmBLAS

×0.43 131 | 4 points by michael-lehn 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you using AI to do election choices like Mayor, Special Measures

×0.84 93 | 7 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Will apps be going away in favor of personal assistants?

×0.65 98 | 5 points by talmr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?

×0.38 126 | 5 points by winrid 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What back end and database are you choosing for new projects in 2026?

×1.49 130 | 5 points by ibbie 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?

×0.49 125 | 10 points by arm32 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++ (nullprogram.com)

×0.84 14 #7 | 77 points by luu 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Duckstring – Pull-orchestrated data pipelines on DuckDB (duckstring.com)

×0.39 | 1 points by isaac-harvey 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally? (newrepublic.com)

×5.47 47 | 86 points by ck2 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ultrafast Rust Based Agent Workspace (trypalomino.com)

×1.34 101 | 10 points by gpt-7 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Maclet – A native macOS container runtime written from scratch in Rust (github.com/sumant1122)

×1.29 103 | 4 points by paperplaneflyr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics (tibleiz.net)

×1.07 19 #10 | 129 points by bogdanoff_2 11 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
200 Compiler Bugs (2010) (regehr.org)

×1.01 | 2 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nashi: Open-source file converter and editor app with a drag-wheel interaction (github.com/orkunisitmak)

×0.39 | 1 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Analog Video Feedback Fractals (youtube.com)

×1.26 99 | 3 points by i2pi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WeVisCut: The Whole Editing Room in One Agent, from Narration to Long-Form Video (tencent.github.io)

×0.99 | 1 points by everygen_studio 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again (cnn.com)

×6.44 42 | 90 points by dxs 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed. (nytimes.com)

×0.82 5 | 43 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A browser game where you navigate home to Earth using pulsars (lightyears-home.pages.dev)

×1.90 58 | 5 points by gagarwal123 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers (github.com/arterialist)

×1.23 73 | 53 points by Arterialist 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aruma – clean-room self-hosted backend for the official Firebase SDKs (github.com/arumadev)

×0.94 112 | 3 points by osama200 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release (enlightenment.org)

×1.29 11 #54 | 63 points by birdculture 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards (bbrouter.com)

×0.66 60 #68 | 48 points by creack 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Imza – plan and review focused coding agent (github.com/umutsevdi)

×0.98 124 | 3 points by umutsevdi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Keyward – a TUI to manage SSH keys and audit your –/.ssh security (github.com/gateway-of-last-resort)

×0.87 143 | 3 points by weiqur 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (github.com/ivankovic)

×1.65 16 #11 | 163 points by FabCH 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says (techcrunch.com)

×5.29 11 #14 | 170 points by throwoutway 3 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Model "Taarof" with AI [video] (youtu.be)

×0.71 | 1 points by armanj 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face

×2.36 34 | 45 points by handfuloflight 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AirFlick Drop – AirDrop for Windows with zero mobile app installs (github.com/k39139215-gif)

×0.73 | 2 points by Snapmotion3421 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen (slidebyside.com)

×0.56 90 | 82 points by denismenace 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Janet LSP with VS Code Extension (visualstudio.com)

×0.96 91 | 3 points by kulkarniniraj 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs (arxiv.org)

×0.72 18 #15 | 111 points by Anon84 12 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Complete Trading Chart engine for web (tradecanvas.dev)

×0.99 | 1 points by bonguynvan 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retro Gaming Has a Port-Slop Problem (gardinerbryant.com)

×2.13 36 | 3 points by ecliptik 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Human Exploration Across the Moon (nationalacademies.org)

×0.53 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mars dust may be less abrasive than lunar dust, spacesuit samples suggest (phys.org)

×0.99 | 2 points by bookmtn 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes (wired.com)

×2.72 17 #83 | 589 points by domhudson 2 days ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hermantown approves controversial Google Data Center during late night meeting (mprnews.org)

×2.88 39 | 39 points by tech-pulse 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hacker News – HackerBooks, but for all the posts on HN

×0.44 69 | 3 points by techscruggs 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Capo-S3 – a typed, async-first S3 client for Python (pypi.org)

×4.32 113 | 17 points by karpetrosyan 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bidirectional charging during grid outages (jefftk.com)

×0.77 17 #19 | 85 points by luu 11 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024) (arxiv.org)

×1.39 32 #32 | 182 points by hapax_legomena 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half (fullycharged.show)

×2.35 11 #89 | 208 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span (science.org)

×2.31 54 | 3 points by EA-3167 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nvidia RE-USE speech enhancement model running in the browser on WebGPU (geronimo-labs.com)

×0.56 | 2 points by g58892881 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Million Piece Puzzle (io27.com)

×0.28 | 2 points by jeffbaumes 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Readeck sync for Kobo's stock reader (github.com/fkaduk)

×0.74 | 2 points by fkdk 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bell Labs Contribution to the Architecture of Computation Theory (wikipedia.org)

×0.94 | 2 points by efren6 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer (github.com/mottopanikeiku)

×0.84 74 | 131 points by falperc 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape (github.com/lonthq)

×0.55 89 | 45 points by rvanderlinden 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fix 1.0 – Ruby tests written as RFC 2119 specifications (fixrb.dev)

×0.60 | 2 points by cyrilllllll 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Othismo, a Runtime for Sandboxed Objects (othismo.com)

×0.63 | 2 points by mamidon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Subfaro – track subscriptions and price hikes without linking a bank (subfaro.com)

×0.83 116 | 3 points by giozadi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zhipu AI: China's Enterprise AI Champion [video] (youtube.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by thatslast 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust on Ubuntu 2026-11 (ubuntu.com)

×2.21 45 | 3 points by thesuperbigfrog 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HackerFlow – A Responsive HN Reader (vinceroyer.ca)

×1.07 133 | 4 points by vinistois 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault (rhaas.blogspot.com)

×3.70 1 #6 | 73 points by soheilpro 3 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats (chaosmanage.github.io)

×2.09 46 #42 | 17 points by gulmothrowaway 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nine ways to break your systems code using volatile (2010) (regehr.org)

×0.39 | 1 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Made-of-meat, a listserv for agentic eng practitioners (tryapexti.ai)

×0.40 | 1 points by asah 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering (tomshardware.com)

×3.42 57 | 73 points by gloxkiqcza 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free Unlimited Virtual Monitors+Watch Claude Work on Them+Community (multispace.dev)

×0.33 | 2 points by DanielSystem 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother (zamzar.com)

×1.73 15 #33 | 225 points by whyleyc 21 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing (jetstream.security)

×1.88 3 #37 | 315 points by doodlesdev 23 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000 (acm.org)

×0.69 60 #48 | 64 points by gjvc 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Small internet forums are making a comeback in Google Search (stanventures.com)

×1.23 88 #70 | 6 points by zomtorg 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tubetui – YouTube in the Terminal (Rust) (github.com/polblancoo)

×0.44 | 1 points by polblancoo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: No moat – Software is dead. Nobody told these companies (nomoat.app)

×1.81 118 | 4 points by olijboyd 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???