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  1. Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×1.03 27 #69 | 28 points by fnoef 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×2.06 24 | 332 points by misterchocolat 1 day ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing
    ×0.62 47 | 16 points by limalabs 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
    ×0.70 18 | 10 points by throwaw12 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×4.69 25 | 818 points by morpheuskafka 2 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
    ×0.63 59 | 29 points by fny 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
    ×2.08 65 | 13 points by arikusi 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.82 42 | 74 points by absurdwebsite 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error
    ×1.25 68 | 10 points by ascarola 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.50 84 | 8 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.50 89 | 8 points by comrade1234 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.90 83 | 24 points by RockstarSprain 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.68 82 | 13 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.68 79 | 27 points by thewillmoss 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?
    ×1.23 80 | 12 points by smonk108 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?
    ×0.58 100 | 6 points by etherus 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×0.84 93 | 24 points by baobabKoodaa 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?
    ×0.97 110 | 8 points by sahli 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.30 136 | 4 points by apatheticonion 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.68 114 | 12 points by time4tea 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: SeedLegals Partnerships in London, worth it?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by pain_perdu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.38 90 | 42 points by ssiddharth 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×1.36 112 | 19 points by kwar13 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Any engineers here with experience of clinical data standards?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by kalturnbull 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×2.71 75 | 118 points by barratia 3 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.58 140 | 9 points by vaishcodescape 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Robotics engineers – how painful was setting up GPU sim infra?
    ×0.37 128 | 5 points by nikhilol 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What's the point in creating a startup when anyone can copy it in days?
    ×1.64 97 | 18 points by wewewedxfgdf 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What do you want out of a coding monospace font?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by d0able 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?
    ×0.66 119 | 10 points by mijustin 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What's your favorite security cam system?
    ×0.25 145 | 4 points by SunshineTheCat 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What standards or protocols exist for AI Agent permissions
    ×0.11 | 2 points by lyfeninja 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI
    ×0.28 153 | 3 points by asixicle 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Online Sound Decibel Meter (soundmeterx.com)
    ×1.08 95 | 4 points by artiomyak 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (esa.int)
    ×2.21 29 #15 | 3 points by cybermango 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Dome Systems – A system of control for AI agents (domesystems.ai)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by madmax108 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Fireside Friday (acoup.blog)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by Tomte 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Extinct Cousin Loved Eating Grass [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by gmays 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. I made a terminal pager (theleo.zone)
    ×0.97 40 | 169 points by speckx 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com/dacracot)
    ×0.89 17 #13 | 15 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Opencognit – open-source AI agent OS (github.com/OpenCognit)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by otnap 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Listen to PyPI (miketheman.github.io)
    ×2.01 7 | 3 points by woodruffw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Mcptube – Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea applied to YouTube videos (github.com/0xchamin)
    ×1.48 129 | 13 points by 0xchamin 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Terminal-Wrench, a dataset of 331 realistic hackable environments (github.com/few-sh)
    ×1.47 130 | 6 points by neversupervised 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers (fire.org)
    ×2.02 26 | 3 points by delichon 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. US tech firms lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret (theguardian.com)
    ×3.74 7 #74 | 74 points by zeristor 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Claude Design (claude.ai)
    ×2.16 35 | 4 points by swolpers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Home Memory – A local DB of my house, down to cables and pipes (github.com/impactjo)
    ×1.16 54 | 46 points by impactjo 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Pushduck – S3 uploads that run on Cloudflare Workers, no AWS SDK
    ×1.18 123 | 12 points by abhay_ramesh 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. NIST cuts down CVE analysis amid vulnerability overload (csoonline.com)
    ×0.97 27 #61 | 5 points by WaitWaitWha 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard (lse.ac.uk)
    ×0.62 21 #31 | 29 points by AusiasTsel 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
    ×2.10 34 #47 | 159 points by gmays 21 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations (php.net)
    ×0.93 58 #66 | 121 points by moebrowne 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Our Longing for Inconvenience (newyorker.com)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by giraffe_lady 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Mozilla Thunderbolt (thunderbolt.io)
    ×2.83 16 | 363 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Object Storage Comparisons (mixpeek.com)
    ×2.91 88 | 13 points by Beefin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
    ×1.32 14 #29 | 74 points by WesSouza 4 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Agent Citizen – Your AI agents are sitting around doing nothing (agent-citizen.vercel.app)
    ×1.87 126 | 6 points by daltonlcarr 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Greatest Documentary You've Never Heard Of – Tie Xi Qu《铁西区》 by Wang Bing [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by CharlesW 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. EuroLLVM 2026 Round Table Summary: MLIR Canonicalization (llvm.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by matt_d 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Lafarge convicted: A historic ruling in the fight for corporate accountability (ecchr.eu)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by yubblegum 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials (apple.com)
    ×1.82 38 | 83 points by salkahfi 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: US keyboards don't have enough keys, so I switched to Japanese (simone.org)
    ×2.12 107 | 7 points by smnrg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: MCP server gives your agent a budget (save tokens, get smarter results) (l6e.ai)
    ×1.50 121 | 5 points by bennettdixon 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.50 #6 | 122 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.49 35 #44 | 304 points by nikitoci 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Codex Hacked a Samsung TV (calif.io)
    ×1.44 46 #49 | 250 points by campuscodi 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Do you even need a database? (dbpro.app)
    ×1.74 41 #86 | 295 points by upmostly 2 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents (github.com/dropseed)
    ×0.74 77 | 93 points by focom 3 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Claude Opus 4.7 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.93 18 #34 | 1924 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 1406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
    ×0.91 14 #17 | 21 points by mcookly 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×1.66 6 #43 | 15 points by ericHosick 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Ccmd – TUI to audit and clean developer caches (github.com/juliensimon)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by julsimon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Run Python tools on rust agents (github.com/eggermarc)
    ×0.89 152 | 3 points by eggermarc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
    ×2.30 #5 | 78 points by LorenDB 2 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwear to AI (bbc.com)
    ×1.34 52 #89 | 69 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Century-Old Cleaning Chemical Linked to 500% Increased Risk of Parkinson's Desea (scitechdaily.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by myth_drannon 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all (qwen.ai)
    ×5.37 13 #41 | 1221 points by cmitsakis 1 day ago | 505 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
    ×1.03 30 #30 | 129 points by xk3 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. We Disagree on a Lot. But We Know This Law Must Change (nytimes.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by Cider9986 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Tachyon: 56 ns zero-copy IPC across Python, Rust, Java (github.com/riyaneel)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by riyaneel 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Tracking Top US Science Olympiad Alumni over Last 25 Years (perplexity.ai)
    ×1.01 81 | 5 points by bkls 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Arrow. Point your phone, walk where it says, find out where (kouh.me)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by kouhxp 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: VibeDrift – Measure drift in AI-generated codebases (vibedrift.ai)
    ×0.82 143 | 5 points by samiahmadkhan 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
    ×1.56 13 #23 | 10 points by atan2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. ChatGPT for Excel (chatgpt.com)
    ×1.77 28 #85 | 329 points by armcat 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A Visual History of Programming Languages (sheets.works)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by birdculture 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes (theverge.com)
    ×3.74 20 | 314 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit (andonlabs.com)
    ×2.00 1 | 197 points by lukaspetersson 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???