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  1. Stripe's opt-out Radar price increase dressed up as a free trial
    ×0.18 | 2 points by rapind 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I built an independent peptide testing lab that accepts mailed samples
    ×0.39 36 | 3 points by peptidelabs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?
    ×0.17 74 | 3 points by amichail 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects)
    ×0.52 107 | 3 points by thekey 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Grant Writers, Worth It?
    ×0.30 81 | 3 points by Fundnai 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Should authors disclose if they are paid to write a blog post?
    ×0.34 137 | 3 points by wseqyrku 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Airbnb updated "necessary" cookies aren't
    ×0.26 126 | 5 points by janalsncm 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Robotics development made dead simple (open source)
    ×0.29 138 | 22 points by Ekami 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Which one do you use for planning and coding between sonnet and Opus?
    ×0.18 128 | 3 points by neverenderr 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is Cloudflare classifying opencode.ai as malware?
    ×0.24 132 | 3 points by _raz 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed
    ×1.84 120 | 16 points by codexon 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. SFR (French Internet provider) is blocking opencode.ai
    ×0.95 112 | 6 points by krikou 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How did you fund your startup without VC?
    ×0.83 52 | 5 points by Fundnai 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How to get more coding productivity with LLMs
    ×1.05 129 | 8 points by DaveParkCity 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app
    ×0.65 133 | 13 points by gaborme 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is everybody's Claude weekly quota reset time the same?
    ×0.72 135 | 7 points by 0gs 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474?
    ×0.63 139 | 4 points by Bender 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
    ×0.81 134 | 43 points by Jgoauh 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Do newer coding models end up training on the AI slop generated by older models?
    ×0.65 127 | 7 points by tbharath 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit?
    ×3.21 103 | 13 points by lostaccount 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Key Changes (to the MCP Specification) (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by mbreese 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max (github.com/gavamedia)
    ×2.28 92 | 137 points by tito 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents (github.com/funador)
    ×0.70 65 | 40 points by funador 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Reversing Abstractions: An Existential Crisis (humprog.org)
    ×0.59 46 #85 | 8 points by tosh 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Citadel buys most of Situational's stock holdings after AI share rout (reuters.com)
    ×2.29 48 #73 | 12 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. OpenAI revenue in July topped all of Q2 driven by GPT-5.6 release (cnbc.com)
    ×1.26 23 #76 | 8 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Let your agents create custom pods (thedaily.fm)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by carimura 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Zeno's Paradox of AI (negativezone.github.io)
    ×1.37 44 #56 | 4 points by negativezone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code (github.com/schildep)
    ×0.91 110 | 114 points by permute 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Alarium – a live 3D flight tracker built on community ADS-B (alarium.tech)
    ×1.73 136 | 4 points by brandonponce 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)
    ×1.92 32 | 402 points by Error6571 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Microsoft's $450B Jump Is Biggest in Stock Market History (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by signatoremo 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites (vice.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. We're Shipping Faster While Understanding Less (codingwithroby.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold (engadget.com)
    ×3.33 61 | 93 points by NordStreamYacht 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Otzar – Local hybrid search over your own files (github.com/danielfleischer)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by yruthewaythatur 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part two: the bugfix (gilesthomas.com)
    ×1.08 48 #48 | 5 points by gpjt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands (nytimes.com)
    ×2.06 19 | 303 points by thm 1 day ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A minimalist proxy for your local LLM cluster (~1100 lines) (github.com/robolamp)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by snowy_robolamp 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: BPM Companion – app that matches playlist to your cadence (beta) (bpmcompanion.app)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by ksh2u 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (projectpluto.com)
    ×1.82 4 #24 | 122 points by ryannevius 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A past and future of trade secrets (cabinetmagazine.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Hooke 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Memo for Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network (1963) (thekurzweillibrary.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by lioeters 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (mac-classic.com)
    ×1.72 54 | 302 points by freediver 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Formae 0.88.0 Released (formae.io)
    ×2.67 102 | 4 points by discountelf 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Right to Cut: What Gabon Taught Me About Sovereignty (aichelbaum.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (uefa.com)
    ×7.28 6 #7 | 312 points by dickfickling 1 hour ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (bottlenecklabs.com)
    ×3.22 7 #11 | 181 points by Areibman 2 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost (github.com/experientiallabs)
    ×1.59 4 #20 | 50 points by SilenN 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Invisible Magic Number (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by interweb 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100M to Help Republicans in the Midterms (nytimes.com)
    ×2.27 11 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit) (prilik.com)
    ×1.65 23 | 203 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression' (npr.org)
    ×3.60 66 | 91 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
    ×3.51 2 #4 | 206 points by tomzorz 3 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: nBases – off-market monthly rentals for nomads, direct with the host (nbases.com)
    ×1.17 87 | 4 points by antoinechstr 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Glass Famine (edconway.substack.com)
    ×1.33 34 #52 | 109 points by baud147258 13 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much (theregister.com)
    ×2.75 51 #81 | 6 points by beardyw 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SSH-cast – record / watch agents SSH sessions (github.com/kmeinke)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by Merkur 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. After the AI Crash (potsandpansbyccg.com)
    ×3.58 55 | 124 points by sysoleg 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32 (collabora.com)
    ×0.92 94 | 93 points by zdw 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: secure FFmpeg
    ×0.93 | 2 points by finbot 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
    ×2.47 3 #2 | 353 points by ai2027 4 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ApeiroCraft – see when clients open your proposals
    ×0.97 | 2 points by lolllll 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Should We Do More to Fight Lookism? (newyorker.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by paulpauper 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font (theregister.com)
    ×1.79 12 | 3 points by Bender 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Winamp Plans Comeback with New Deezer Partnership (cnet.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by speckx 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. "The Spec Is the Product" Is a Slogan Until the Code Leaves Your Repo (martinrl.github.io)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by gpi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers (micrologics.org)
    ×1.83 44 | 251 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design (transformer-transformer.github.io)
    ×0.81 106 | 72 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine (bsid.io)
    ×0.91 12 #46 | 47 points by jackedEngineer 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The first watch featuring computer functions (seiko-design.com)
    ×1.03 24 #64 | 80 points by stefanv 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Netnet.studio, an open-source hypermedia studio for the Web's creative potential (netnet.studio)
    ×1.90 | 2 points by interweb 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Cyanobacteria,the desert soil,and you (2012) (freethoughtblogs.com)
    ×1.30 | 1 points by joebig 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AGI and the Accountability Threshold (elliotmilco.substack.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by RGS1811 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Toot.community is shutting down (jorijn.com)
    ×1.33 7 #35 | 35 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A browser extension that flags GitHub repos with suspicious star growth (ayoublidjici-dotcom.github.io)
    ×2.44 100 | 4 points by KageFX 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Air-Gapped File Transfer via QR Codes (reddit.com)
    ×2.02 9 | 3 points by skadamat 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A Treatise on Restaurant Design (substack.substack.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by abelanger 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents (noelo.org)
    ×1.02 34 | 73 points by matt_d 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: FBSimCity – an explorable city that shows how Firebird works (mariuz.github.io)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by mariuz 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.62 1 #36 | 116 points by jjgreen 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI-agent-only trade show, Ferrari Luce (marginpoints.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by historian1066 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python (github.com/sawfwair)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by sawfwair 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Logic for Programmers (logicforprogrammers.com)
    ×2.13 15 #77 | 189 points by _doctor_love 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.22 5 #10 | 120 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Exploring Design Space for Soft Floating Robots in Indoor Environments (acm.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by simonebrunozzi 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing (eff.org)
    ×3.11 48 | 162 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library (github.com/n67094)
    ×0.62 12 #33 | 50 points by n67094 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Five conversion leaks on a B2B landing page (with replacement copy) (chatgpt.site)
    ×1.91 | 2 points by firstfoldfix 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???