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  1. Ask HN: Is observability over the dependencies in codebases still a problem?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by enismustafaj 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
    ×0.33 69 | 3 points by gmarkwa 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×3.26 | 503 points by leumon 1 day ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Zed: Edit predictions are leaving the free Personal plan on October 7
    ×0.69 30 | 7 points by lumpa 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: AI writes better code than me. How to keep my identity?
    ×0.54 44 | 9 points by jdw64 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's a Good Physical Printer?
    ×0.39 105 | 6 points by xrd 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why are onionv3 services not more popular?
    ×0.16 99 | 5 points by smalltorch 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?
    ×0.59 81 | 8 points by dhruv3006 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Alternatives to Fail2ban?
    ×0.37 111 | 4 points by jech 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any blogs/personal notes from game devs who self-published a game?
    ×0.56 106 | 5 points by ssenssei 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you use multiple sessions for software engineering?
    ×0.32 100 | 4 points by top_rooster 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. TwitterWebViewer has been permanently discontinued
    ×2.12 24 | 11 points by avidruntime 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.75 118 | 21 points by FireUpTheTorren 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is the FTC National Do Not Call Registry a False Contingency or Placebo?
    ×0.78 110 | 3 points by eth0up 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Open-source Grok bot anyone?
    ×0.81 98 | 3 points by shafkathullah 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read?
    ×0.92 138 | 8 points by AmirMakirr 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
    ×1.65 76 | 81 points by tonymet 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Should I leave web development to study medicine in my mid-30s?
    ×0.85 140 | 7 points by lovepuzzles 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer?
    ×0.73 143 | 7 points by metrofun 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why is AI civil tech and not military first?
    ×0.57 146 | 7 points by esher 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new 5H usage limit in Codex?
    ×0.66 161 | 4 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?
    ×0.92 142 | 8 points by stefanos82 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.85 145 | 78 points by kaladan 4 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why do tools like customer.io abandon self-serve after their Series A?
    ×0.35 150 | 14 points by alessandroetc 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How many of you juggle multiple agent sessions at the same time?
    ×0.53 136 | 6 points by top_rooster 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.43 159 | 30 points by foota 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: AI agent acts. Your logs say so. But you wrote the logs
    ×0.57 153 | 5 points by Yahyaaa 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?
    ×0.66 164 | 10 points by JacobWolf 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. HTTPX2 – A next-generation HTTP client for Python (github.com/pydantic)
    ×1.48 24 #37 | 112 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Loss of Changelogs (amxmln.com)
    ×0.89 56 #73 | 22 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Lawsuit: Grok Not Only Generates Child Porn but Was Also Trained on It (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.98 61 | 5 points by ceejayoz 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida (cbsaustin.com)
    ×2.72 18 | 117 points by cocacola1 23 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go (github.com/leodeim)
    ×0.68 130 | 62 points by ygagaga 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations (audubon.org)
    ×1.26 24 #31 | 108 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Conduct, open-source guardrails for LLM and MCP tool calls (github.com/sseshachala)
    ×0.68 13 #82 | 20 points by sudhendra1 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Open tool for testing your AI Agents (No LLM) (github.com/IdoGol24)
    ×0.98 88 | 4 points by CarryOn1212 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight (azmirror.com)
    ×1.47 13 #8 | 11 points by hungryhobbit 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Twelve-Factor App (2025) (12factor.net)
    ×1.74 5 #14 | 219 points by jxmorris12 11 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. First we shape our feedback loops; then they shape us (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by Curiositry 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. CBC reverses restriction on labelling 9/11 as 'terrorism' (thestar.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by cramer4next 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Peter Cullen has died (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×2.65 64 | 111 points by cocacola1 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ALMA Reveals Long-Lived Hotspots on Betelgeuse's Bubbling Surface (almaobservatory.org)
    ×0.66 45 #62 | 39 points by layer8 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A private radio station for issue updates across your org (github.com/statemediafm)
    ×1.85 154 | 5 points by private4e584d 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need (geekyschmidt.com)
    ×1.10 18 #24 | 106 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Stopping the smart TV from being used against you (s-config.com)
    ×2.41 26 #30 | 145 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Racter (1984) (ubu.com)
    ×0.57 44 #54 | 9 points by buescher 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows (terminal-bench-science.ai)
    ×0.89 48 #72 | 112 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. $900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor (independent.co.uk)
    ×6.06 35 | 131 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Damn it AI, stop lying to me and do what I say (sentelabs.ai)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by GrumpySciGuy 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. New free online Queens game (queensgamers.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by normalaladdin 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model (github.com/experientiallabs)
    ×1.57 9 | 207 points by SilenN 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Summer's over: take out your notebooks (or Loreline) (loreline.app)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by jeremyfa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. My agents made a Photoshop equivalent in 8 hours (github.com/stubbb)
    ×1.71 31 | 3 points by stubbby 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist" (crimethinc.com)
    ×7.37 22 | 249 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Aphantasia Beginner's Guide (aphantasia.com)
    ×1.50 47 | 176 points by ksec 1 day ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research (ycombinator.com)
    8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance (github.com/elyosh)
    ×1.30 1 | 217 points by elyosh 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace (github.com/SWUFE-DB-Group)
    ×0.52 139 | 21 points by thisispi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Htmx 4.0 (htmx.org)
    ×3.32 5 #4 | 520 points by rmsaksida 11 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager (usesesame.app)
    ×0.85 26 #19 | 36 points by d0mkaaa 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I built a headless browser for AI agents in Rust. no Chromium, no V8 (reddit.com)
    ×1.90 15 #69 | 4 points by syumei 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (codecanary.org)
    ×1.12 128 | 132 points by tke248 4 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Beating GPT5.5-xhigh for Coding agent security with SLMs and IRM (harden.run)
    ×4.14 127 | 9 points by se4u 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: My fast TUI Finnish-English dictionary is now in the browser via WASM (taskusanakirja.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by hiAndrewQuinn 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven (ckardaris.com)
    ×3.11 #2 | 597 points by ckardaris 9 hours ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe (acko.net)
    ×0.98 14 #11 | 74 points by leephillips 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Secrets of the Atomic City (longreads.com)
    ×0.61 22 #65 | 22 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days (chrislewis.au)
    ×1.63 17 | 266 points by knackers 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem (comaps.app)
    ×1.13 53 | 141 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Free Domain Intelligence Engine (dnsniffer.com)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by itrinity 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits (hanselman.com)
    ×1.12 31 #35 | 63 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI made the boring work visible. Cut the work, not the people (jeffgothelf.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by fagnerbrack 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: LLM Inference Calculator – Estimate VRAM, Latency, and Throughput (llm-inference-calculator-delta.vercel.app)
    ×2.49 93 | 6 points by popopanda 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis (pwning.systems)
    ×1.44 17 #21 | 8 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. State of the Map 2026 (stateofthemap.org)
    ×1.16 5 #29 | 141 points by lode 11 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Superhuman Attention (perfloop.ai)
    ×0.80 51 #79 | 16 points by tsenart 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: OutRip – a pay-to-rank board where rank is a card pull, not a bid (outrip.lol)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by kyisaiah47 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM (github.com/swimmingbrain)
    ×1.07 115 | 118 points by swimmingbrain 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Prompt Builder – Free Templates (promptbuilder.space)
    ×0.98 147 | 20 points by LandoLorinse 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Bury.lol – a $2 pixel-art graveyard for things that died (bury.lol)
    ×1.89 160 | 11 points by alertcubes 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention (boyter.org)
    ×0.54 37 #27 | 25 points by boyter 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors (ieee.org)
    ×1.87 42 #41 | 6 points by derriz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Leiolai, AI that pays users for the compute their devices provide (leiolai.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by leiolai 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I spent years running prod-like homelabs. Here's what I learned about securing (amazon.ca)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by sargetun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Scheduled Claude Code agents that cost nothing on a quiet day (github.com/shadok-ai)
    ×1.37 132 | 3 points by gnarco2 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Loofah, meeting transcription into a local Markdown vault (github.com/bart6114)
    ×1.76 114 | 4 points by bart6114 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker (pantsforbirds.com)
    ×0.71 124 | 37 points by CoolNamesAllTkn 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. “It works better in the app” (shkspr.mobi)
    ×3.46 31 #39 | 623 points by blenderob 12 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Protonmail Outage: Incident Report (proton.me)
    ×3.05 2 | 5 points by Fudgel 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. M5Stack Launches PaperMono (m5stack.com)
    ×1.24 36 | 160 points by marksully 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???