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  1. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.86 49 #26 | 110 points by Ixander 17 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. In-car display of surrounding environment in AVs
    ×0.38 | 2 points by ajahso4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser
    ×0.86 13 | 3 points by mhloo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is voice becoming your main input? What happens to open-plan offices?
    ×0.64 16 | 4 points by ProblemExplorer 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: AIs Do Not Laugh
    ×0.94 20 | 4 points by AnimalMuppet 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.77 65 | 574 points by IvanK_net 5 days ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.42 41 | 774 points by lukehandcool 4 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.92 54 | 421 points by mariocesar 5 days ago | 661 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
    ×0.59 62 | 8 points by le_curious 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
    ×0.55 73 | 24 points by lgregg 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?
    ×0.29 69 | 7 points by dsrtslnd23 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What is the most obscure book you own?
    ×0.72 70 | 6 points by Kovah 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A hub that controls all your coding agents in one place
    ×0.41 81 | 4 points by mubashir1osmani 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I don't think image containers supporting both lossless and lossy is good
    ×0.65 74 | 5 points by functionmouse 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×0.99 108 | 8 points by Kamabz 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Vibecoded 3D Game Running on Veda OS
    ×0.14 107 | 3 points by vahmoh25 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting
    ×0.56 100 | 7 points by tsydenzhap 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×1.14 96 | 9 points by dfps 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.36 136 | 35 points by onemiketwelve 6 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×0.78 106 | 8 points by coherenttemple 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How would you go about domain change and getting a job in the domain?
    ×0.21 116 | 4 points by joddystreet 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.68 102 | 9 points by sankde 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. All startups need is distribution
    ×0.75 91 | 9 points by relaxfolio 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Resources for best practices in software development with AI?
    ×0.68 103 | 7 points by sergio-gdr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.52 135 | 12 points by hanstyle 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.77 123 | 16 points by consumer451 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Pre-AI, did you think harder? Or are you thinking more (and better) now?
    ×1.43 71 | 6 points by rishikeshs 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: MS Outlook login without an extra email address
    ×0.21 140 | 3 points by narevent 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.54 127 | 10 points by fragmede 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How do Lightroom/DxO achieve such good AI denoising results?
    ×0.16 144 | 3 points by febed 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.78 141 | 13 points by thelastgallon 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.52 139 | 13 points by bigwheels 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Will Microsoft sue vibe coded wordcraft for copying its Word GUI?
    ×0.57 112 | 3 points by amichail 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Open source software is slowly turning into open slop software
    ×0.58 83 | 6 points by theonly1me 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Does YC use AI agents to review your pitch?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by AravPhi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×0.81 147 | 10 points by amichail 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.02 149 | 19 points by saimiam 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?
    ×0.43 143 | 5 points by dfps 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Nitro – a Python static site generator (nitro.sh)
    ×0.82 24 | 3 points by sswn 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer (peterszentkiralyi.eu)
    ×0.74 114 | 86 points by pentakkusu 6 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety (theguardian.com)
    ×2.24 4 #25 | 45 points by nephihaha 4 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A decade after Stardew Valley, Eric Barone is still going it alone (gq-magazine.co.uk)
    ×2.24 6 #54 | 41 points by HelloUsername 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I ran Sol 6 vs. 6.1 on tasks from my own repo. It's cheaper and at least as good (stet.sh)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by bisonbear 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How Do Cuttlefish Hide? (nytimes.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by marojejian 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Steam, the Trojan Horse of Linux Gaming (xyinn.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by fearedbliss 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Expose – Self-hosted ngrok alternative in Go (github.com/kernelshard)
    ×0.87 55 | 3 points by samiulsk 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking (verdagon.dev)
    ×1.10 49 #47 | 168 points by verdagon 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE (tommyb3ll.github.io)
    ×0.66 46 #70 | 49 points by jgx0 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why Language Models Are So Hard to Understand (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.59 46 | 3 points by Bluestein 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. LineageOS 24 (lineageos.org)
    ×2.32 5 #69 | 443 points by timschumi 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. New Math from OpenAI (thezvi.substack.com)
    ×2.03 | 2 points by paulpauper 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: ManimGX – Manim's API on a Rust/wgpu engine, for 3D videos in Python (github.com/academa-labs)
    ×1.05 104 | 8 points by sinaatalay 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I'm a 14-year-old building my first startup, Titan (titan-ai.co)
    ×1.50 80 | 8 points by Vidigoat 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Krashout, multiplayer car soccer in the browser (krashout.io)
    ×0.76 125 | 3 points by wfme 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests (phys.org)
    ×1.41 63 #59 | 83 points by optimalsolver 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Diffusion Problem (rmi.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by mooreds 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Introducing SubQ Snap: A Long-Context Decision Model (subq.ai)
    ×2.49 44 | 3 points by jv22222 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Fable Took My Job (cendyne.dev)
    ×6.49 74 | 212 points by jllyhill 8 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity' (cnbc.com)
    ×3.61 64 | 227 points by m463 11 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Littleguys – Claude Code, Codex and OpenClaw agents in your menu bar (hervalicio.us)
    ×3.15 77 | 15 points by herval 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)
    ×5.85 37 #38 | 258 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Hermes vs. OpenClaw: Which AI agent I kept after running both (dhawalshah.net)
    ×2.03 | 2 points by djshah 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. IDRs as Records of Intent (wrla.ch)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by evakhoury 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns (theguardian.com)
    ×5.35 55 | 438 points by heyimada 18 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Choreographic Programming in Rust (github.com/hibanaworks)
    ×0.69 24 #18 | 40 points by o8vm 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Atlassian has 19 status pages, so I put all 3,873 incidents in one file (github.com/VovikP)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by VolodymyrPostno 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack (afp.com)
    ×2.10 80 | 14 points by layer8 36 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect (epestr.com)
    ×1.04 36 #61 | 127 points by epestr 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Cohesive – one button for when your thumb opens the feed on its own (apple.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by carbaj03 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Omnicorp 2027 product line (2014) (archive.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by fbn79 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: World Watcher – a map to seamlessly watch public webcam streams (worldwatcher.live)
    ×2.07 117 | 9 points by quinito 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: OpenWants – A Simulated City Where AI Agents Handle Residents Needs (openwants.com)
    ×1.79 131 | 6 points by ddaniel10 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (bbc.com)
    ×2.30 4 #12 | 22 points by cataflam 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The state of the software engineering industry [video] (leaddev.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by mooreds 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI (ft.com)
    ×1.69 37 | 176 points by arkj 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.71 32 | 144 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. What's Left for Us? (rodolphoarruda.pro.br)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by speckx 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Cachety – Watermark ID documents in the browser, nothing is uploaded (cachety.com)
    ×1.08 78 | 4 points by aminmoradi 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A Chromium browser you drive with HTTP requests (no Selenium) (github.com/techxcelerate)
    ×0.66 92 | 3 points by nitikshkumar 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol (github.com/ClickHouse)
    ×0.68 57 #51 | 44 points by saisrirampur 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cable Zero // Crisis Operations Teletype Terminal (cablezero.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by mohanjith 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ringee: Open source calling for humans and AI voice agents (ringee.io)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by edison_ 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector (github.com/akawashiro)
    ×0.89 110 | 62 points by a_kawashiro 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I Cut my Agent Tokens By 50%
    ×1.71 72 | 6 points by iohotspot 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments (scottbezek.blogspot.com)
    ×1.37 66 | 221 points by scottbez1 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Clotr, a browser extension that warns you before you send PII (github.com/clotr-app)
    ×1.05 68 | 3 points by BilliamBaSH 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 (github.com/anupray95)
    ×0.88 113 | 33 points by anupray 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things (playgrnd.tools)
    ×0.96 36 #76 | 70 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. China's carmakers export more as EU caps hybrid vehicle imports at 350k a year (apnews.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by mooreds 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.85 11 | 84 points by ljf 23 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???