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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.52 54 #20 | 286 points by david927 23 hours ago | 899 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×4.37 25 #33 | 37 points by nunez 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.63 52 | 13 points by amichail 10 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by Aditya_0315 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What would make self-hosting easy enough for average consumers?
    ×0.55 75 | 4 points by dani4299 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.53 86 | 3 points by rylando 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Developers – Do you let agents write production code?
    ×0.42 94 | 3 points by smurf9852 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Has anyone made a legacy codebase more legible to AI coding agents?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by iacobandrei 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A repo gained 3,278 stars while GitHub showed Andrej Karpathy as a contributor
    ×0.57 81 | 4 points by newshackee 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Screenshots on macOS don't have to be date named files with spaces
    ×0.70 87 | 4 points by cs1996 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.41 111 | 10 points by mondobe 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.31 136 | 7 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.89 110 | 60 points by stikit 2 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?
    ×0.51 134 | 4 points by mehmetoguzderin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are some privacy/security tools you wish exist, but don't yet?
    ×0.57 119 | 5 points by ToriTech 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI Boom / Bust – Boom Boom Pow
    ×0.67 123 | 5 points by wwolfson97 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How is AI actively a threat to humanity if it's only online?
    ×0.81 124 | 5 points by CM30 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Multi-agent workflows in production; Where people using 1000s of agents?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by ramstar3000 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. DietPi released a new version v10.7
    ×0.41 143 | 3 points by stephanstsdietp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: You have unlimited resources, what software would you build?
    ×0.88 101 | 4 points by smalltorch 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
    ×0.90 105 | 29 points by _override 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.55 133 | 26 points by waldrews 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.50 85 | 482 points by jacquesm 4 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How much correlation should a privacy system preserve?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by Securelytixdev 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What would it look like if AI agents "took over the internet"?
    ×0.16 139 | 4 points by scripper1 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.25 57 | 857 points by cromka 3 days ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why haven't people vibe coded popular 80s word processors as TUI apps?
    ×0.28 137 | 5 points by amichail 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
    ×1.06 126 | 25 points by chucksmash 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off
    ×0.63 142 | 8 points by ctxc 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?
    ×0.43 144 | 8 points by funkaster 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Do You Like Skiing?
    ×0.94 112 | 3 points by roschdal 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Charts built for Chat (dbtcharts.com)
    ×3.93 7 #4 | 29 points by thingsilearned 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
    ×0.88 66 | 162 points by mulmen 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (nytimes.com)
    ×1.77 47 | 123 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS (github.com/JamesRyanATX)
    ×0.78 42 #9 | 3 points by fretlessjazz 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows (macrumors.com)
    ×2.43 33 #65 | 215 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Account Deactivated Due to Biological Research (reddit.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by bithammerthunde 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. DeepSeek Is Down (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by dofi4ka 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Interpreting Pangram (pocoo.org)
    ×1.36 16 | 3 points by swah 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com/TechEmails)
    ×3.05 6 | 309 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (signalusers.org)
    ×2.16 7 #62 | 372 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout (fortune.com)
    ×4.07 7 #70 | 290 points by andsoitis 20 hours ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Crypto portfolio risk and scenario analysis with AI agents on top (sentralis.io)
    ×1.06 116 | 3 points by Sentralis 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Stop wasting hours writing video scripts (scriptflow-ai-composer.vercel.app)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by gabrielmartinsa 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AppleCare One Family Launches at $49.99 per Month (macrumors.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by ValentineC 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Want to stop AI from destroying the world? Make it Open Source
    ×1.05 | 2 points by foxtrot8672 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)
    ×3.21 13 | 643 points by jonifico 1 day ago | 682 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously (andonlabs.com)
    ×1.70 5 #1 | 239 points by lukaspetersson 5 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Andon Labs Puts AI Agents in Charge of Real Businesses (ieee.org)
    ×0.85 47 #80 | 12 points by samizdis 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. LLMs are real, AI is fake (pluralistic.net)
    ×5.71 81 | 14 points by andy99 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com/FeralFirmware)
    ×0.58 72 | 75 points by zdw 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. SDR–; open source SDR with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP, web UI (github.com/Newspicel)
    ×1.09 34 #47 | 50 points by newspicel 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.20 3 #79 | 263 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)
    ×1.10 38 #86 | 85 points by rasengan0 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Kolmogorov Complexity (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.83 14 | 3 points by sans_souse 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×5.05 2 | 623 points by mikemcquaid 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: LinXiv v0.5.0: Headless research-DB image with iroh for self-hosting (youtube.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by jeuribe 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Register of British Slave-Traders (britishslavetraders.org)
    ×1.74 | 2 points by dabinat 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Slow developer experience will bottleneck fast models (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by gfysfm 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (effort.news)
    ×5.51 88 | 89 points by yusufozkan 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.42 50 | 184 points by tdrz 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: GSE Cleaner – In-browser streaming parser for large GEO datasets (byqing.com)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by niqing 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A 386 PC for Your RP2350 (github.com/rh1tech)
    ×1.27 18 #32 | 201 points by SamuraiLion 14 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 (a6mzero.com)
    ×1.34 60 #61 | 25 points by jasonpeacock 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Echo: A shader editor shader editor (hughsk.io)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by hughsk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record (accuweather.com)
    ×1.86 82 | 89 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Bare-Metal AI – Zero-dependency, sub-millisecond AI engines (github.com/eminsk)
    ×2.50 91 | 5 points by eminskinfo 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I was frustrated with AI giving confident answer,Even when it was wrong (aqqai.in)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by Vineetyadav2 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)
    ×4.65 4 #37 | 1168 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 541 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more) (github.com/godot-pty)
    ×0.63 113 | 97 points by 1nv1n 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: reqlan – a language for requirement graphs next to the code (reqlan.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by littletuna4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Veilid for Everyone (veilid.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Autopoietic Ethics Constitution (guidavid.com)
    ×1.37 17 | 3 points by gdss 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Rebuno - An open-source runtime for production agents (github.com/rebuno)
    ×1.34 78 | 3 points by nnww 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Drone flight over world cities and neighbourhoods (kingsbridge-consultancy.com)
    ×1.10 92 | 3 points by beerglass 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Skillzero – save tokens by omitting skills from agent context (github.com/kurtextrem)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by kurtextrem 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Principles for Fast Tokio Applications (dial9-rs.github.io)
    ×1.19 10 #10 | 153 points by carllerche 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Fitting Neural Textures and PBR Material Maps with ES (No Backprop) (richg42.blogspot.com)
    ×0.49 70 #46 | 12 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Playing video games is associated with higher cognitive ability (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Carney's Bid to Make Canada an 'Associate Member' of the EU (wsj.com)
    ×3.51 84 | 81 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation (temporal.io)
    ×2.80 31 | 73 points by gk1 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: What an agent does when anyone can read and rewrite its context (ljedrz.github.io)
    ×1.12 99 | 3 points by ljedrz 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How my e-reader lost its stripes (serpentine.com)
    ×1.63 8 #8 | 129 points by simonmic 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public (theartnewspaper.com)
    ×0.83 12 #19 | 39 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures (github.com/anuj0456)
    ×1.35 22 #48 | 129 points by anuj0456 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. US 10-Year Breaches 5% as Inflation, Supply Worries Mount (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.53 13 #50 | 55 points by toomuchtodo 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype (erkansaka.net)
    ×4.40 70 | 122 points by luk4 6 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Fixrs – Refactoring for long absolute paths and clippy:absolute_paths (github.com/webc-site)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by rmw-link 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon (ieee.org)
    ×1.06 21 #25 | 89 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Trying to Make a Loop Auto-Vectorize (jsgroth.dev)
    ×0.77 30 #29 | 65 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???