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  1. Is this AWS RI/SP simulation engine interesting / valuable?
    ×1.05 | 2 points by Exstratus 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.63 62 #90 | 314 points by sharts 2 days ago | 259 comments | ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.01 54 | 636 points by dhruv3006 3 days ago | 428 comments | ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.52 83 | 51 points by Abh1Works 4 days ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.72 68 | 651 points by stagas 3 days ago | 202 comments | ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Has anyone shipped a self-modifying application with LLMs?
    ×0.50 84 | 8 points by ex-aws-dude 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?
    ×0.78 85 | 12 points by elar_verole 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: If you write release notes, what stops you from being specific?
    ×0.39 107 | 3 points by gtirloni 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  9. Everything at the CLI
    ×0.36 | 2 points by rmn_tnc 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any Curated Forum Directories?
    ×0.40 101 | 4 points by catuscubitus 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you access archive.today?
    ×0.35 115 | 5 points by crazybonkersai 1 day ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  12. AWS new AZ in eu-west-2 - beware of unexpected results
    ×0.42 98 | 6 points by eddie_catflap 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  13. ServiceNow are pushing customers off SaaS – are other industries doing similar?
    ×0.61 110 | 10 points by rorychatt 1 day ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  14. Why Don't We Version UIs?
    ×0.73 123 | 10 points by gruensk 1 day ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  15. New OllamaMQ v0.3.0
    ×0.40 132 | 5 points by chleba 1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.08 120 | 92 points by simonebrunozzi 5 days ago | 148 comments | ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Search inside podcast episodes and read transcript while listening (metapodcast.net)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by lamecoder 1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  18. German court rules: Emails must be end-to-end encrypted (tuta.com)
    ×2.77 11 #43 | 11 points by khaled_ismaeel 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Markdown Buddy – Native macOS Markdown Editor with Quick Look and Xcode (inawa.app)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by JanParis 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  20. Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013) (shkspr.mobi)
    ×3.80 52 | 442 points by felineflock 22 hours ago | 323 comments | ??? ???
  21. Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny (kmbc.com)
    ×3.81 24 | 129 points by cocacola1 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  22. Show HN: I am getting genuine questions (github.com/docbrain-ai)
    ×0.81 121 | 3 points by bhanuhai2 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  23. Browser De-Slop (sacredheartsc.com)
    ×1.79 16 #21 | 37 points by cullumsmith 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  24. Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things (homosabiens.substack.com)
    ×1.44 43 #75 | 179 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  25. Pipes – Powered by PolyCSS (css.graphics)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  26. Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 (grapheneos.social)
    ×2.96 32 #74 | 612 points by exceptione 1 day ago | 391 comments | ??? ???
  27. Rules of good social skills (2025) (liamrosen.com)
    ×1.94 5 #88 | 119 points by bilsbie 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  28. A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by ra7 2 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  29. A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/DenisSergeevitch)
    ×1.73 21 | 374 points by phoenix120 1 day ago | 185 comments | ??? ???
  30. Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco (economist.com)
    ×2.07 15 | 313 points by newsomix9xl 1 day ago | 296 comments | ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Linux and iPhone Continuity (iMessage / SMS) (github.com/zackb)
    ×1.22 56 | 9 points by zackb 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  32. Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming (yassa9.github.io)
    ×2.21 17 #34 | 507 points by yassa9 1 day ago | 82 comments | ??? ???
  33. Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.28 16 #45 | 329 points by fg137 16 hours ago | 200 comments | ??? ???
  34. Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin: Tyler Cowen (spotify.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by nradov 16 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  35. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare (sprocketfox.io)
    ×4.14 3 #22 | 975 points by kareiva 1 day ago | 158 comments | ??? ???
  36. Google strikes $12B AI chip deal with Marvell to develop TPUs (ft.com)
    ×3.34 32 #54 | 5 points by alephnerd 28 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  37. Private Chinese rocket aces landing on 2nd-ever flight [video] (space.com)
    ×2.36 23 | 4 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbs (capto.run)
    ×0.42 124 | 7 points by johndory80 1 week ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Progressive web-app to explore Paris while solving puzzles without app (flanori.com)
    ×1.98 103 | 6 points by rhazn 23 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  40. Type Confusion Vulnerability in isolated-VM (endorlabs.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by cristianstaicu 37 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  41. Show HN: UL-SMF – Open-source linear-complexity ~300x KV-cache compression (github.com/liventruth)
    ×0.46 138 | 13 points by liventruth 2 days ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  42. The Great Android Stack Reset – A history of mobile system design (returnzero.dev)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by rotemmiz 13 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  43. Cerebras CS-4 (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.16 3 | 459 points by sunils34 1 day ago | 270 comments | ??? ???
  44. Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies (reuters.com)
    ×6.57 33 | 81 points by thm 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  45. Show HN: TurnLeft – a one-button stock car racing game in the browser (turnleft.app)
    ×0.97 104 | 4 points by dberube 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  46. AME Agent Swarms Rewrite the Workflow (ieee.org)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by rbanffy 21 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  47. Show HN: CopyLasso, a free local screen OCR app for macOS (copylasso.com)
    ×3.31 86 | 8 points by bennetthilberg 19 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing (deltix.ai)
    ×0.82 134 | 54 points by oneounceman 5 days ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  49. Index of the best vibe coding tools (vibeleaderboard.ai)
    ×1.00 23 #7 | 4 points by alderik_ 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  50. Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (coca11272000.wixsite.com)
    ×1.33 23 #25 | 168 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  51. Sol loves to cheat (jumploops.com)
    ×1.81 18 #31 | 213 points by jumploops 16 hours ago | 173 comments | ??? ???
  52. fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
    ×2.16 44 #36 | 302 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 129 comments | ??? ???
  53. Domyn CEO Uljan Sharka: 'We're a few quarters away from $1B ARR' (sifted.eu)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 46 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  54. I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry (jordanscales.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  55. IDE Nostalgia (2022) (davidsmaynard.com)
    ×0.99 45 #77 | 53 points by dmaynard 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  56. 'Not a theoretical risk,' feds warn as attackers use AI-made code (theregister.com)
    ×2.57 54 | 3 points by nyku 11 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  57. Fscrypt Sees Cleanup with Linux 7.3 Open Door for Features Like Btrfs Encryption (phoronix.com)
    ×1.82 20 | 3 points by DemiGuru 47 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Invoicing and Tax for UK Tradespeople (tradetally.co.uk)
    ×1.16 95 | 5 points by wowinter15 19 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  59. Show HN: I made myself a library manager for the Kobo Clara (jcurcioconsulting.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by Jeremy1026 18 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I let an AI agent brick my $2.51 ESP32 on purpose (github.com/GLechevalier)
    ×1.05 112 | 3 points by akiraysh09 18 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  61. US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures (bbc.com)
    ×5.85 60 | 158 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  62. Show HN: CIYA – Purely Deterministic AI (iiio.app)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by iiiiiiiiio 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  63. Show HN: NinethirtyAI – A US equity research and analysis platform (ninethirty.ai)
    ×3.35 136 | 7 points by askyashu 2 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  64. OpenRouter is joining Stripe (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.50 5 #8 | 920 points by rvz 20 hours ago | 470 comments | ??? ???
  65. 500K Downloads in 2 Weeks (apple.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by samltschenk 17 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  66. Calculating Empires (calculatingempires.net)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by atzmzt 27 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I forked an agent stack and measured myself against it, losses included (toolbay.ai)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by orion232 17 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  68. Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.69 50 #86 | 62 points by florianherrengt 21 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  69. Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by vga805 19 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Rust Doctor, a code health scanner for Cargo workspaces (github.com/arthjean)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by arthurjean 17 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  71. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.23 #3 | 318 points by emctech 4 hours ago | 106 comments | ??? ???
  72. Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal (terminal-code.com)
    ×2.27 90 | 8 points by robpruzan 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  73. RAPx: A static analysis tool for Rust programs (github.com/safer-rust)
    ×0.51 57 #57 | 11 points by rendaw 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  74. Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
    ×2.12 71 #69 | 331 points by porridgeraisin 2 days ago | 222 comments | ??? ???
  75. Where 66 stands among init systems (obarun.org)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by smartmic 15 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver (mkornreich.me)
    ×0.47 94 | 72 points by enjoyyourlife 3 days ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Carno.js – a Nest-style application framework for Bun (github.com/carnojs)
    ×1.86 105 | 6 points by l-crispr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  78. DSH is on a wrong direction; Pie is my take (github.com/wangii)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by wangii 40 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  79. Show HN: FindHost – hosting provider database with no affiliate links (findhost.app)
    ×2.22 27 | 4 points by esher 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  80. Degraded performance for multiple models (claude.com)
    ×1.89 67 | 149 points by matt89 1 day ago | 139 comments | ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Simple Screenshot Copy – screenshots straight to the clipboard (google.com)
    ×2.65 17 | 5 points by ringlochid 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A community library for Claude Code status lines (statuslin.es)
    ×0.69 140 | 13 points by nastynate 3 days ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  83. Show HN: testmagic.link – Zero-setup magic link testing for coding agents (testmagic.link)
    ×1.70 13 | 3 points by lobovkin 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  84. What Happens If OpenAI Dies? (wheresyoured.at)
    ×6.18 71 | 99 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  85. One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime (oaklandside.org)
    ×3.42 72 | 94 points by speckx 1 day ago | 135 comments | ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Go CLI for website health checks, zero dependencies (github.com/atillalab)
    ×0.65 117 | 13 points by mehmetkose 1 day ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  87. Show HN: 4bit bridge between AI and humans (github.com/YOalphabet)
    ×0.74 142 | 3 points by YOalphabet 1 day ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Warp DD – AI that analyzes technology ecosystems in ~30 seconds (warpdd.com)
    ×1.15 137 | 4 points by masato_furuno 1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  89. Cowboy Clothes and Sunday Best (schmud.de)
    ×2.04 26 | 3 points by surprisetalk 36 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  90. Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker (sprocketfox.io)
    ×1.43 31 #29 | 241 points by 1e1a 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ??? ???