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  1. Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?
    ×2.41 2 #26 | 4 points by davidest 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.44 88 | 26 points by foota 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Anyone in Legal Tech Here?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by bgajjela 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Android OS with Linux level customisation
    ×0.09 | 2 points by KinetiNode 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Is AI slowing you down?
    ×1.24 46 | 14 points by charbz 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What business would you build if you couldn't use the internet?
    ×0.50 92 | 4 points by spking 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.98 91 | 68 points by kaladan 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA
    ×0.31 90 | 8 points by scottndecker 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What Did Anthropic Bill Me For?
    ×0.22 119 | 3 points by OhMeadhbh 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. How I Read Books
    ×0.34 118 | 12 points by nomilk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Talk Like Claude Day
    ×0.38 129 | 19 points by KenPainter 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Should GitHub downtimes impact considering Golang for a new project?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by gchamonlive 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A technology that counts reps and scores muscle failure from the Apple Watch
    ×0.09 148 | 3 points by baraa_bilal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What AI companies provide human support?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by kbrannigan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: HN Algolia Search not showing new results from the past 24 hours
    ×0.30 143 | 4 points by infinitifall 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I write my own Markdown
    ×0.17 | 2 points by KenPainter 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Do teams still use scrum and sprints?
    ×0.31 132 | 6 points by peter_retief 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Trust Between Agent's Companies
    ×0.10 | 2 points by mathieu_aithos 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is there any way to use workflow to control Harness?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by juntz 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why is my innovative IDEA is always behind the others?
    ×0.30 155 | 3 points by juntz 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. You Don't Need AI to Generate Code
    ×0.56 140 | 5 points by Lozybug 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Harpoon for Sublime Text 4
    ×0.29 156 | 3 points by tomoekn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I've tested some local LLMs on prosumer hardware, here are some findings
    ×0.33 153 | 7 points by felineflock 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is Codex's 5-hour usage limit back?
    ×0.12 157 | 3 points by linzhangrun 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) (modelscope.cn)
    ×2.49 22 #53 | 312 points by garo-pro 15 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. IPFS Maintainers Winding Down (ipshipyard.com)
    ×2.01 4 | 359 points by iand 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.31 50 | 137 points by Brajeshwar 12 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Use-Fs – A React Hook for the File System Access API and OPFS (use-fs.com)
    ×0.88 71 | 3 points by linesofcode 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: JeopardyGithub: GitHub Repo to Jeopardy Game (jeopardygithub.com)
    ×1.20 106 | 3 points by init0 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Open-source AMDGCN kernels for optimizing LLM inference (github.com/NetraRuntime)
    ×1.28 108 | 4 points by rbisri 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Mnemosyne – No-back end visual novel engine (Vue 3 and Pinia) (github.com/Maris-CHALDEAS)
    ×1.29 149 | 3 points by souls-syntax 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
    ×5.52 4 #72 | 1419 points by schlarpc 2 days ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Buying power. Do Duke Energy's NC campaign donations fuel influence? (carolinapublicpress.org)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by newsomix9xl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I built a cybersecurity challenge for university students (vitb-polimi-cyber-v4.vercel.app)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by adityainsights 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler (kurz.net)
    ×0.76 40 #32 | 58 points by crowdhailer 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. One Go binary, one YAML file, one SQLite database: I wrote my monitoring tool (rvier.fr)
    ×1.39 20 #36 | 25 points by brvier 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers (andymasley.com)
    ×1.49 63 #44 | 7 points by JuniperMesos 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Libracy – An ad-free, minimalist book tracker without social feeds (google.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by cehnzzdev 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Interesting Tech Adjacent Jobs?
    ×2.35 13 | 4 points by njandh 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. France's tax agency got hacked (in French) (cybernetica.fr)
    ×1.35 25 | 116 points by zakxxi 14 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.13 22 | 111 points by MC995 14 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.67 124 | 57 points by jardy 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Mormon Church Is Quietly Expanding Its Real Estate Empire Across the US (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.71 11 #56 | 20 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services (arxiv.org)
    ×0.89 88 #84 | 77 points by lensecat 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Browser automation with no chromedriver and no Node driver (github.com/angeldevmobile)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by usxr1515 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Chrome extension that gives you the TlDR from YouTube without the watch (addketchup.app)
    ×1.67 142 | 4 points by easymode 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Interactive 10M particles in WebGL forming a planets, in the browser (gaploid.github.io)
    ×1.53 145 | 4 points by gaploid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels (fda.gov)
    ×1.63 4 #2 | 311 points by sunnynagra 8 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Darkbloom (AI inference on idle Macs) – security audit with PRs submitted (github.com/mudiam)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by mudiam 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Nvidia Is Speedrunning the Creation of a Synthetic Hyperscaler (taekim.substack.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by gmays 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Tom Robbins' Remington SL3 Typewriter from "Still Life with Woodpecker" (munk.org)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by pcfwik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (semianalysis.com)
    ×2.45 8 #3 | 363 points by bmulholland 10 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage (picomq.com)
    ×1.06 61 #87 | 151 points by adesh_nalpet 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How Universities Should Prepare Founders (paulgraham.com)
    ×1.45 40 #45 | 237 points by gmays 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Servus München: Waymo Is Coming to Germany (waymo.com)
    ×1.44 63 #50 | 40 points by boulos 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Solving the 1+N Query Problem (acadia.engineering)
    ×0.76 30 #64 | 51 points by wheatBread 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Cookie started its life as a plastic bottle (acs.org)
    ×1.72 37 | 3 points by red369 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MouseHunt – cat-vs-mouse RTS that runs in the browser (itch.io)
    ×2.22 17 | 4 points by ghassen13021302 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: LunarBasic, a BASIC that compiles 2D games to native executables (lunarbasic.com)
    ×1.27 135 | 6 points by essial 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) (kylezhe.ng)
    ×1.20 63 #69 | 128 points by subset 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. RL Contributes to Illegible Reasoning Traces in Hard Problems (arxiv.org)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by make3 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future (modelrepublic.org)
    ×5.96 5 | 729 points by reasonableklout 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ReadPlusOne – Spanish stories built around the words you're learning (readplusone.com)
    ×1.48 100 | 5 points by brandonc7 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Wikinews (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.53 41 | 4 points by wseqyrku 57 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Engineers laid off at Apple headquarters (sfgate.com)
    ×4.69 47 | 8 points by chanux 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: 1 Bit Pixel, pixel art editor with a CRT soul (iPad/Mac) (1bitstudio.app)
    ×1.68 70 | 4 points by selimonder 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Headless Tools – No UI SaaS tools for agents (hdls.tools)
    ×1.50 150 | 3 points by fayazara 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra (apple.com)
    ×3.93 4 #1 | 1002 points by interpol_p 14 hours ago | 938 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (xusheng.dev)
    ×3.27 3 #60 | 840 points by ComputerGuru 1 day ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more (alexschapiro.com)
    ×1.37 64 | 123 points by bearsyankees 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection (laszlokorte.de)
    ×0.80 126 | 60 points by laszlokorte 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu's Monaka CPU (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by ryandotsmith 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Typeclip – types your clipboard like a human, for screen recordings (github.com/cssllcio)
    ×0.77 101 | 3 points by izenme 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour (skimmiq.com)
    ×0.72 114 | 18 points by Pawel_SkimmIQ 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown (imkylelambert.com)
    ×2.09 4 #16 | 283 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. My Friend Aaron (rorz.io)
    ×3.80 14 #22 | 476 points by sarreph 10 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. BetterReads: Read/Import/Track/Understand (betterreads.online)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by zlu 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Training LLMs to write tools generalized beyond self use (arxiv.org)
    ×2.27 7 | 4 points by blackcat201 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. No, your car does not drive itself (oxplot.com)
    ×1.81 15 | 3 points by oxplot 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tooey: Figma for Terminal UI Design (tooey.design)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: GitHub Dashboard aka GitBiased
    ×1.05 112 | 4 points by skyfantom 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: OutMap – a live map of 235 countries where anyone can place a link (outmap.lol)
    ×0.89 127 | 8 points by ifrosted 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Category Theory for Kids (kiddle.co)
    ×0.80 67 #47 | 9 points by marysminefnuf 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team (ozbrain.com)
    ×0.87 123 | 92 points by dariusmonsef 4 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: BidSonar – MCP server for UK/EU government contracts and grants (bidsonar.com)
    ×1.00 130 | 8 points by flibbertigibber 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Dev tools in one static site, no framework, no server (devtools.fit)
    ×0.67 136 | 5 points by gr3ggg 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Auriflow – open infrastructure layer for hearing loss research (auriflow.io)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by surya_waters 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Starbase, LA (spacex.com)
    ×2.67 15 #30 | 246 points by bilsbie 10 hours ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Japan to undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War II (reuters.com)
    ×2.59 5 | 5 points by cwwc 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?
    ×2.55 74 | 121 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???