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  1. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×2.33 42 #76 | 234 points by zkldi 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.40 73 | 19 points by rjzzleep 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. From Slop to Determinism – Shifting the Narrative Space
    ×0.26 | 2 points by pyeri 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.10 119 | 165 points by syntaxbush 6 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
    ×0.19 102 | 4 points by akarshhegde18 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Codex with GPT 5.5 Extra High being dumbed down?
    ×0.20 99 | 5 points by setnone 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.77 112 | 106 points by gcanyon 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.65 124 | 66 points by oscgam1 4 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Is aerc better than neomutt now?
    ×0.13 143 | 5 points by hardikxk 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.53 159 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 6 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.39 145 | 9 points by petemc_ 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.23 134 | 37 points by mzubairtahir 4 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?
    ×0.50 113 | 14 points by current_robot 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
    ×0.21 152 | 4 points by ovi_firstqa 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives?
    ×1.03 96 | 18 points by rpastuszak 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×0.43 131 | 14 points by andyjohnson0 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.41 94 | 113 points by PhilipDaineko 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.58 160 | 12 points by justanything 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.32 166 | 6 points by howToTestFE 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.38 165 | 6 points by i_am_rocoe 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.33 163 | 8 points by thoughtpeddler 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.60 162 | 19 points by mellosty 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Claude Sonnet 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×4.23 3 #4 | 1147 points by marinesebastian 17 hours ago | 678 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Old Computer Challenge (sdf.org)
    ×0.83 55 #81 | 112 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Open-source library to copy-paste HTML into Figma as editable layers (figit.design)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by mattiapomelli 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Clusy – Cursor for data science notebooks in cloud (clusy.io)
    ×0.78 86 | 6 points by eldar_hsnv 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Zanagrams (zanagrams.com)
    ×2.15 56 | 392 points by pompomsheep 2 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Rust / Red Alert inspired WASM game in the browser (open source) (punnerud.github.io)
    ×0.55 136 | 6 points by punnerud 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses (theverge.com)
    ×2.04 20 #45 | 40 points by Exoristos 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The end of my AArch64 desktop experiment (juszkiewicz.com.pl)
    ×1.33 85 #52 | 92 points by signa11 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Antares achieves criticality of Mark-0 reactor (antaresindustries.com)
    ×0.96 67 #64 | 75 points by clarionbell 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Economics of Starlink and SpaceX (potaroo.net)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by fanf2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple (waag.org)
    ×3.79 69 | 694 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Single header Parser Combinators for C (github.com/steve-chavez)
    ×1.71 19 #20 | 41 points by steve-chavez 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Irongate – Serverless Auth on AWS (github.com/RobinSrimal)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by maltaro 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Klorn–I built an email firewall because every AI inbox made mine louder (github.com/k08200)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by k08200 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: InfraCanvas – See your VMs, Docker and Kubernetes on one live canvas (github.com/bytestrix)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by bytestrix 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Open-source restreaming and live studio (github.com/muxshed)
    ×2.31 72 | 8 points by franticstone 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Shoaku – Your Coding Navigator (github.com/seachicken)
    ×0.64 110 | 4 points by seachicken 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format (metaspec.dev)
    ×0.65 140 | 17 points by dlowe-net 6 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Certificate Transparency search that groups related certificates (certobserver.com)
    ×0.39 161 | 3 points by rellem 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Nano Banana 2 Lite (deepmind.google)
    ×1.90 7 #12 | 388 points by minimaxir 18 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Register Korea's First PC 'SE-8001' as a National Important Material (dongascience.com)
    ×0.45 30 #14 | 10 points by mushstory 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Why averaging LLM benchmark scores is fundamentally broken (arxiv.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by testofschool 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Working With AI: A concrete example (htmx.org)
    ×1.68 48 | 190 points by comma_at 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852) (gutenberg.org)
    ×0.96 42 #35 | 181 points by lstodd 22 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. TokenBudgeting: Our Conversations with Enterprises on Token Spend (semianalysis.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by felixdoerp 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I built a native iOS video player for local media and SMB/Plex (apple.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Moonarkh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Using a local iPhone MCP server to plan Apple Watch workouts with Codex (bernhardhering.de)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by boernei 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water (phys.org)
    ×1.28 55 | 109 points by wglb 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management (github.com/jumpserver)
    ×0.78 69 | 75 points by neitsab 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals (lyra.horse)
    ×1.81 31 #50 | 113 points by OuterVale 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. We put a Redis server inside our runtime (encore.dev)
    ×3.15 58 | 5 points by eandre 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Getty's Shutterstock merger falls apart (theverge.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by rarisma 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Neuralink: Our First Transdural Procedure [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by Klaster_1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding (github.com/deepreinforce-ai)
    ×1.34 30 | 260 points by danboarder 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: TakoVM – open-source sandboxing for your agent's code (github.com/Tako-Research)
    ×1.39 75 | 6 points by sakuraiben 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Running Gemma-4 26B at 124 tokens/SEC on a CPU, no GPU (apeg.dev)
    ×1.64 85 | 10 points by arun-prasath 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I Don't Maintain My Homelab (cleberg.net)
    ×2.10 3 #6 | 26 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025) (gauthier-lechevalier.com)
    ×1.15 20 #28 | 185 points by GL26 17 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by joozio 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: XSDR – Real-time event monitoring infrastructure for agents (xsdr.app)
    ×0.50 141 | 9 points by wcrann3 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt (lookaway.com)
    ×0.86 142 | 76 points by _kush 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The first early human eggs from stem cells (conception.bio)
    ×1.49 7 #15 | 132 points by dsr12 6 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting (onmy.cloud)
    ×2.68 1 #72 | 665 points by HumanCCF 1 day ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: SlopenClaw, an AI agent that procrastinates for you (slopenclaw.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by romainsimon 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How to Monitor Your Meta Tags (testomato.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by dewey-decibel 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough (nytimes.com)
    ×5.54 71 | 84 points by tangled 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Makes local LLMs faster and more reliable by optimizing for your device (autotunellm.com)
    ×0.78 89 | 5 points by tanavc 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report (asahilinux.org)
    ×3.06 #1 | 101 points by pantalaimon 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Spain's Solar Is So Cheap Investors Are Looking for an Exit (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.75 | 2 points by donohoe 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Side-Channel Protections in Hardware Implementations of PQC ML-KEM Verification (arxiv.org)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by austinallegro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025) (maturitas.org)
    ×1.48 11 | 198 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: AMA2, messenger built for AI agent (ama2.me)
    ×0.53 128 | 5 points by ejhooooon 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Trap–Bath Split (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor (github.com/workweave)
    ×1.11 92 | 212 points by adchurch 4 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work (github.com/kageroumado)
    ×1.23 90 | 124 points by kageroumado 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Anthropic says US lifts export ban on Fable 5 (bbc.com)
    ×2.33 61 #44 | 10 points by tobr 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity' (404media.co)
    ×3.87 67 | 403 points by 01-_- 19 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Live face swap and outfit try-on in the browser (vivify.video)
    ×2.12 79 | 4 points by mixfox 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Leanstral 1.5 (mistral.ai)
    ×2.21 4 #17 | 237 points by vetronauta 14 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.79 48 #71 | 75 points by Cider9986 7 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Erlangchain – A tiny Erlang client for LLMs (github.com/abhavk)
    ×1.27 35 | 3 points by Abhavk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: NodePad – AI agent on a canvas instead of a linear chat (node-pad.com)
    ×1.42 107 | 5 points by palazski 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Make AI Boring Again (charity.wtf)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by capestart 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Morph Reflexes – Multi-head classifiers for agent traces
    ×0.62 64 | 7 points by bhaktatejas922 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice (lingochunk.com)
    ×0.59 126 | 92 points by alder 5 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active (longcat.chat)
    ×1.56 27 #70 | 274 points by benjiro29 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web (archive.org)
    ×1.23 55 #75 | 21 points by wslh 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C (decomp-academy.dev)
    ×1.21 81 | 195 points by jackpriceburns 3 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???