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    ×2.56 67 | 3 points by reportinglurker 3 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.79 149 #56 | 77 points by simianwords 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.97 36 #80 | 100 points by joshmarinacci 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.65 57 | 32 points by vira28 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.09 16 | 781 points by eries 1 day ago | 555 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×1.27 67 | 30 points by BugsJustFindMe 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×1.54 15 | 88 points by kilroy123 21 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.46 30 | 418 points by TomAnthony 2 days ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×2.03 46 | 203 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×1.11 77 | 17 points by thisislorenzov 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.39 75 | 260 points by mdni007 3 days ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.49 47 | 242 points by hnthrow10282910 2 days ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is anyone shorting the overspend in AI yet?
    ×2.28 87 | 16 points by ggm 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Agents get dumber before release of new model version?
    ×1.12 83 | 9 points by sporkland 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Are jobs and the world going to be like this, moving forward?
    ×1.52 54 | 7 points by chand190 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.33 65 | 436 points by aryamaan 3 days ago | 758 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Sophia NLU Home Assistant – On Device, Low Compute, No Internet, Voice Assistant
    ×0.73 82 | 3 points by aquila416 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is there a metric for AI code quality?
    ×0.45 112 | 4 points by fractalf 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.27 71 | 166 points by y1n0 2 days ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What internal tool did you build that became a product?
    ×1.14 110 | 6 points by nehpets 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I vibe coded a world cup cheer guide for fans
    ×0.67 89 | 3 points by shark-salvo 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Just me feeling that Mythos/Fabel just 1% there?
    ×0.23 124 | 4 points by punnerud 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is anyone else seeing a Slack auth bug?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by HoyaSaxa 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?
    ×1.48 106 | 8 points by linzhangrun 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is the long term purpose of Google releasing free offline models?
    ×0.60 | 2 points by filup 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I added a prompt to future ASI – TLBIC Policy Proposal v5 now available
    ×0.29 | 2 points by michikawa59 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Temporal Awareness in LLM?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by Pamar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Discussion: Fable 5 is weak at flagging prompts correctly
    ×0.30 | 2 points by eckelhesten 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
    ×1.81 104 | 7 points by limondas 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Did Anthropic Just Win?
    ×1.10 135 | 5 points by lnenad 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.61 132 | 23 points by modzu 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?
    ×0.79 123 | 5 points by zionsati 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: np.reddit.com now redirects to www.reddit.com
    ×1.42 92 | 5 points by kevinwang 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?
    ×2.52 95 | 11 points by Adam-Hincu 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Stack Overflow seems down
    ×0.62 140 | 5 points by tom1337 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Summary of recent buggy Kindle updates since Nov 2025: dictionary, fonts, manga
    ×0.30 | 2 points by seam_carver 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: The next evolutionary step in LLM usage?
    ×0.41 161 | 3 points by tomaytotomato 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.50 145 | 14 points by jasonephraim 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Degree apprenticeships in engineering, do they exist?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by adamofeden 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Prediction for SpaceX IPO?
    ×0.54 152 | 7 points by bix6 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
    ×0.36 167 | 5 points by j1000 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Are we all walking into a trap?
    ×0.85 134 | 7 points by skor 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Tell HN: Codex once again automatically activates /fast on app update
    ×0.15 | 2 points by mfi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?
    ×0.15 166 | 5 points by randomor 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Future of Email (fastmail.com)
    ×1.86 2 #3 | 94 points by soheilpro 3 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How we are making our own protein data because public stuff sucks (idps.substack.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by ktamiola 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I built a microlearning app to learn personal finance (usescroll.app)
    ×2.04 119 | 8 points by maclinz 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. WikiLambda the Ultimate (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.78 28 #38 | 53 points by Antibabelic 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: RedNotebook AI open-source AI data notebook for Trino, +12 SQL engines (github.com/sanniheruwala)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by heruwala 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A Microsoft Surface flaw allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a packet (theregister.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by Dotnaught 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: OpenYabby, voice-controlled multi-agent orchestrator for Claude Code (github.com/OpenYabby)
    ×1.05 144 | 8 points by idovmamane 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty (github.com/coder)
    ×0.87 35 #47 | 81 points by kylecarbs 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What an 8kb Postgres read costs (frn.sh)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by birdculture 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: We're inviting Anthropic to put the real Mythos 5 on our open benchmark (realvuln.com)
    ×1.80 27 | 3 points by jfaganel99 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Wave-inspired path-planning strategy for support-free horizontal overhang FDM (sciencedirect.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Drift – an embedding-model upgrade should be a rotation, not a reindex (github.com/aayush4vedi)
    ×1.12 139 | 6 points by aayush4vedi 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Spec-Driven Development: A Spec-First Approach to AI-Native Engineering (microsoft.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by sambcui 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What can a neuron compute – bioRxiv (biorxiv.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by bilsbie 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Tempis, a canvas-based timeline component for large datasets (tempis.dev)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by nikkorn 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Tapflow – self-hosted iOS/Android simulator streaming for mobile QA (github.com/jo-duchan)
    ×1.22 156 | 4 points by duchanjo 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
    ×4.88 9 #11 | 154 points by nekofneko 3 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (dronexl.co)
    ×3.16 16 #55 | 703 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Death by a Thousand Cuts: the AI database failures that clear every gate (explainanalyze.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by rtolkachev 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Type Checking in Agentic Workflows – Conner Nilsen – PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit (pyrefly.org)
    ×1.86 29 | 3 points by ocamoss 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.25 3 #6 | 578 points by lumpa 12 hours ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life (fabianhemmert.com)
    ×1.49 18 #36 | 107 points by hemmert 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Travel locally, where you are (ssp.sh)
    ×1.37 4 #76 | 107 points by zazuke 17 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The last line of defense must not be AI (worklifenotes.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by taleodor 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Brooks-Lint – AI code reviews grounded in 12 classic engineering books (github.com/hyhmrright)
    ×1.84 94 | 6 points by hyhmrright 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Kctx – A read-only Kubernetes context engine for SREs and AI Agents (github.com/lucasepe)
    ×1.34 130 | 5 points by lucasepe 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Fable 5 burns tokens fast. I found an cost tracker for it (github.com/tigerless-labs)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by AllenH45 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. LeadLu (leadlu.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by brevn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Abundance Illusion (carlyle.com)
    ×1.85 63 | 84 points by cwal37 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein (qunabu.github.io)
    ×1.20 70 | 211 points by qunabu 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A Claude Code statusline that shows live World Cup scores (github.com/arturogarrido)
    ×1.19 73 | 5 points by arturogarrido 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust (gitdot.io)
    ×2.11 69 | 330 points by pybae 3 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write (blockchainednovel.com)
    ×1.53 129 | 25 points by mck- 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: A curated collection of simple datasets for machine learning (github.com/pplonski)
    ×0.89 151 | 4 points by pplonski86 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: SNItch – fuzz the TLS SNI field to discover hidden virtual hosts (github.com/cirosec)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by flixf 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.39 50 #33 | 146 points by Tomte 22 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers (ieee.org)
    ×1.40 34 #88 | 78 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape (bairui.dev)
    ×1.63 148 | 4 points by subairui 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time (theguardian.com)
    ×4.04 28 #54 | 471 points by neilfrndes 21 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation (kennethpayne.uk)
    ×2.24 27 #72 | 199 points by nick238 17 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Gram Newton-Schulz: A Fast, Hardware-Aware Newton-Schulz Algorithm for Muon (tridao.me)
    ×0.66 54 #79 | 29 points by jxmorris12 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.73 31 | 271 points by ZeidJ 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi (theatlantic.com)
    ×4.45 68 | 84 points by SanjayMehta 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Emacs appearances in pop culture (ianyepan.github.io)
    ×1.83 8 #25 | 355 points by ggcr 21 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. If you use Claude to harm Anthropic's reputation, you will be sued (twitter.com/RnaudBertrand)
    ×2.37 38 | 4 points by jimjin 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.55 9 | 430 points by tonyrice 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???