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Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

×0.52 11 | 15 points by rzk 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain

×0.96 48 | 166 points by nikanj 5 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?

×0.48 78 | 15 points by okr 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: New Outlook` sends everything through Microsoft Servers

×0.21 66 | 4 points by NicoJuicy 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Massive amount of spam from "Who Wants to be hired"

×0.47 68 | 10 points by 0xmattf 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: System One models for autonomous agents

×0.17 105 | 3 points by manlymuppet 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better

×0.40 107 | 9 points by asen 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is anyone still running Token Ring or FDDI networks?

×0.30 111 | 12 points by robotnikman 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why do computers/phones have a restart option along with the power off option?

×0.26 110 | 7 points by saonnet 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How can we stop UX people from changing UIs to get promotions?

×0.29 103 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Got You into Rust?

×0.11 | 2 points by cloaky233 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026?

×0.53 116 | 12 points by abhishekbasu 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't

×0.58 117 | 5 points by gumby 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Best way to get SMS verification codes without using your own number?

×0.37 94 | 3 points by guler26 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do I stop Gemini Live from asking."Would like to know more about..?"

×0.09 | 2 points by orsenthil 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless

×0.66 121 | 13 points by bb88 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Flying Car Practical Tech

×0.28 134 | 6 points by NarcisMirandes 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work)

×0.75 119 | 10 points by pieratt 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?

×0.33 128 | 19 points by ex-aws-dude 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare (github.com/finereli)

×1.23 23 #52 | 144 points by zoozla 20 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nori – OSS Music Player optimized for battery usage (github.com/norifm)

×1.08 88 | 3 points by bstrama 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cosplay as a tech lead, using gVisor to sandbox agents (github.com/SoftwareRenderer)

×0.82 124 | 3 points by SftwareRenderer 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale (inceptionlabs.ai)

×3.21 3 #5 | 82 points by cmrdporcupine 46 minutes ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Little League coach pulled aside an opposing player [Meta Glasses] (nytimes.com)

×1.21 | 2 points by compiler-guy 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The big lie we tell ourselves as we get older (coached.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by rohanm93 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body (github.com/IsuruMaduranga)

×2.67 68 | 126 points by isuruwijesiri 6 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank (ft.com)

×7.20 55 | 72 points by michaelhillaert 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Glider: A single-node vector database with S3 as its only durable state (github.com/omerfeyzioglu)

×1.26 79 | 4 points by omerfeyzioglu 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PrimerKit, financial market work at agent speed (primerkit.ai)

×0.89 127 | 3 points by KalskiTheDan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japanese TV Station Interviews Americans About Their Love for Kei Trucks (thedrive.com)

×1.76 12 #48 | 11 points by cf100clunk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Powers Specialized Agents with Multimodal Reasoning (nvidia.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by peter_d_sherman 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Refactoring Factorials (johndcook.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by ibobev 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Securing the Agentic Insider (microsoft.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by AnhTho_FR 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Bourgain Project (wordpress.com)

×1.21 | 2 points by smilelamp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang (github.com/Kapendev)

×0.78 57 | 74 points by Kapendev 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse) (verdagon.dev)

×1.51 24 #53 | 121 points by verdagon 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Developing for Debugging (2025) (davepacheco.net)

×0.75 41 #81 | 46 points by mpweiher 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional (404media.co)

×2.77 28 #87 | 130 points by anigbrowl 16 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A forest's wildlife, synthesized live in Rust, playable in the browser (zaghaghi.github.io)

×2.19 75 | 9 points by zaghaghi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN:MockForge – Lightweight, zero-dependency Python API and Webhook (github.com/alessio1999xx-debug)

×1.46 98 | 4 points by AlessioDev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a task system to handle the drudgery so I could focus on tasks (3anddoneapp.com)

×0.92 11 #16 | 22 points by dmayle 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware (llmspeed.dev)

×1.77 34 | 327 points by albinstman 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: My Personal Weather Station (johnzanussi.com)

×1.95 65 | 5 points by johnz 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Safebox technology and the 4th Amendment in 2026: do we have a right to privacy? (safebots.ai)

×0.65 | 1 points by EGreg 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nothing Is Boring in America (commonreader.co.uk)

×0.54 | 1 points by mooreds 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Neuron, agents that set themselves up from your GitHub repo (neuronbot.in)

×0.61 | 2 points by tanay_kapoor 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer (boredhackerblog.info)

×2.08 12 #17 | 56 points by mindracer 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video] (youtube.com)

×2.95 12 #30 | 520 points by mdp2021 23 hours ago | 728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scrawl – Show an agent the problem. Press ⌥⇧S, talk, click, and draw (kitlangton.com)

×0.66 | 1 points by rahimnathwani 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers (cmu.edu)

×1.05 56 | 71 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Twain, a diff viewer like Meld, but for the age of AI (github.com/andunieee)

×1.54 135 | 4 points by andunie 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RepRapMicron (github.com/VikOlliver)

×1.94 14 #42 | 439 points by RobotToaster 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agents are your newest insiders. Security must move at their speed (microsoft.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by speckx 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
German industry has lost nearly half a million jobs since 2019, Ifo says (reuters.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by frank_clover 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer (celphase.github.io)

×1.19 38 | 174 points by celphase 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Weatherdeck – a read-only status board for AI coding agent lanes (github.com/Moshik21)

×0.43 118 | 9 points by Konnerm 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ukraine carries out first ever aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier (dailymail.com)

×3.27 6 #27 | 14 points by theflyingelvis 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harness2 by Google Research – Recursive Agent Harnessing (github.com/google-research)

×1.79 13 #47 | 64 points by irthomasthomas 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions (niemanlab.org)

×1.59 2 #90 | 228 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do (wonderhop.io)

×1.00 63 | 122 points by mtlduo 5 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out (100toolkit.com)

×1.55 9 #25 | 131 points by erikkannike 5 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PublishRank (sourceforge.net)

×0.53 | 1 points by umarjaum 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asking Astra to decipher the Indus script: 891M tokens later (chinmay.ai)

×0.55 | 1 points by chinmaymk 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: InfiniDomino – practically infinite world of dominoes to knock over (infinidomino.io)

×0.81 | 2 points by Static2280 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fast, secure JSON Formatter with side-by-side JSON diffing (instantjsonformatter.com)

×1.13 83 | 7 points by UmangPawar 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally (sygal.app)

×0.63 97 | 46 points by cyrillsemah 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share (reuters.com)

×5.27 19 #22 | 68 points by giuliomagnifico 42 minutes ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Top cases on the US Supreme Court's docket (reuters.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by usernomdeguerre 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel (lwn.net)

×1.10 43 | 141 points by farlight 2 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day (meidasnews.com)

×9.04 15 | 594 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Monitoring my 'dumb' boiler with AI (ndroo.github.io)

×2.43 136 | 5 points by verelo 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decoding base64 in Python at 10 gigabytes per second (lemire.me)

×1.78 25 | 3 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing (tomshardware.com)

×4.40 5 | 450 points by guiambros 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Roadkill – a zombie car game inspired by the original GTA's driving (zabaca.com)

×2.34 52 | 7 points by uptownhr 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Online Piano – Play a Free Virtual Piano Keyboard (urpiano.com)

×1.94 104 | 14 points by artiomartiom 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: How random are you? (specr.net)

×1.40 76 | 216 points by vunderba 6 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models (mistral.ai)

×2.86 7 #6 | 401 points by groar 8 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HOL Light Tutorial (hol-light.github.io)

×0.24 44 #80 | 10 points by stmonty 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We built VGI instead of waiting for Arrow Flight 2.0 (query.farm)

×0.63 | 1 points by rustyconover 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
More engineers should consider working in sales (posthog.com)

×1.54 | 2 points by mooreds 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source license compliance generally available (github.blog)

×1.16 | 2 points by Tomte 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Things to Do API (thingstodoapi.com)

×0.87 61 | 57 points by invalidmonk 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free (petal.live)

×1.25 69 | 227 points by thedracle 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LLM Usage Desktop Widget (github.com/aleph-void)

×0.79 91 | 3 points by bootbloopers 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains (reddit.com)

×6.61 24 #63 | 648 points by sashk 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN (ranet3.com)

×0.50 14 #67 | 39 points by StepBroBD 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get? (vals.ai)

×1.96 36 #76 | 97 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Benchmarking LLM ability to code in an adversarial language (killswitch-lang.org)

×1.25 113 | 3 points by dom96 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Genera for the Initiated: Inside Symbolics Lisp Machines [video] (youtube.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by matt_d 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Elements of AI Course (elementsofai.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by saikatsg 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???