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  1. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.38 67 | 287 points by mlaux 3 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.20 57 | 4 points by amina124 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What is the best LLM for turbo charging code?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by ffgfghgffggxxxx 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node?
    ×0.25 64 | 5 points by rearview 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: JEV for K1 Tax Forms
    ×0.13 80 | 3 points by GoRudy 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Management is forcing us to use AI
    ×0.67 71 | 14 points by aksjfveoq 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.61 74 | 17 points by will10pa 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.43 99 | 31 points by shriy-singh 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address
    ×0.28 106 | 5 points by luckman212 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be
    ×0.70 86 | 13 points by effisfor 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?
    ×0.14 117 | 4 points by beerglass 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.32 129 | 12 points by sathomasga 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.79 118 | 16 points by consumer451 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.48 111 | 28 points by GustavHartz 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?
    ×0.52 105 | 10 points by SMAAART 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by variety8675 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.45 143 | 19 points by xnx 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.30 144 | 4 points by iambateman 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.37 140 | 7 points by cehgmaster 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×0.67 139 | 8 points by george_max 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.32 142 | 7 points by jviotti 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.44 141 | 24 points by itsjeremiahs 6 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Free AI slop checker: find the signs of AI writing (seodraft.app)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by chorch_md 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (twitter.com/AliAbunimah)
    ×7.27 #20 | 287 points by slowin 12 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    ×1.15 29 #41 | 131 points by seamus_c 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Humanos – Help Building the Human Operating System (tryhumanos.com)
    ×0.81 19 | 4 points by zevinclark 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' (cnbc.com)
    ×3.86 23 | 72 points by cramer4next 12 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page (3d-retro.com)
    ×1.23 63 | 75 points by SouthWestAtlas 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
    ×5.41 18 #22 | 343 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is strong anti-AI sentiment psyops
    ×0.56 | 1 points by concerned-quest 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Northstar web browser 1.0.11 released
    ×2.27 83 | 7 points by roschdal 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Most Hated Tools (mosthatedtools.app)
    ×1.29 120 | 32 points by leonagano 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Made by Mechanical Means (felixrieseberg.com)
    ×0.80 20 | 71 points by cocoflunchy 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity (thecivilian.co.nz)
    ×4.78 60 | 426 points by ljewalsh 19 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.34 53 | 104 points by mikelgan 10 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How We Will Do Better for Australia (openai.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by nonfamous 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Classify 6700 pages for $1 with a Jev-compatible VLM API (twitter.com/spillai)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by fzysingularity 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Open-source agent runtime using your ChatGPT or Claude subscription (github.com/noclickapp)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by dhruvyads 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. MME researchers recognized with IgNobelPhysicsPrize for innovative urinal design (uwaterloo.ca)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mot2ba 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Humanity or Humaneness? (2024) (rightsinrussia.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by colinprince 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What I Learned About Asset Pricing (pedrosantaclara.substack.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by yarapavan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time? (historyofinformation.com)
    ×1.65 32 | 77 points by ryanscio 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
    ×1.04 97 | 151 points by florianstandhar 6 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Prenatal exposure to the plasticizer DEHP increases autism and ADHD (elsevier.com)
    ×1.85 5 #59 | 10 points by OutOfHere 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Meta's New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To (inc.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by eloisius 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Firebase reporting crashes due to Firebase (github.com/firebase)
    ×1.87 1 | 3 points by Eclyps 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Low Poly Earth – The whole planet in 3D, built from OpenStreetMap data (lowpolyearth.pages.dev)
    ×1.19 69 | 5 points by blueblazin 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.65 103 | 51 points by miguelrios 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I built an AR App that overlays makeup tutorials live on your face (urartist.app)
    ×1.66 126 | 4 points by Vicmed13 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GodsView AI – Live flights, ships, weather and world events on one map (godsviewai.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by jijojohnxyz 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com/deepfates)
    ×0.69 64 #67 | 96 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. European industry is doing better than you may think (economist.com)
    ×1.86 56 #85 | 56 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Training NanoGPT in 39.9 Seconds (github.com/KellerJordan)
    ×1.60 6 | 3 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes (forensicdbg.com)
    ×0.52 125 | 37 points by Loren_SL 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Coding is not solved (alexewerlof.com)
    ×3.85 16 #29 | 456 points by firstSpeaker 13 hours ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes (lecaro.me)
    ×3.40 37 #51 | 219 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (github.com/devdotfast)
    ×1.81 70 | 421 points by sidharthkmenon 4 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.64 55 | 859 points by MitPitt 5 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone (arxiv.org)
    ×0.64 115 | 74 points by jochenmadler 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (cnbc.com)
    ×1.50 26 #21 | 120 points by jonbaer 12 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones (archaeologymag.com)
    ×0.87 21 #6 | 95 points by yusufaytas 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Agentic Engineered Social Connections and Travel App (viamour.app)
    ×1.10 72 | 4 points by jaidarukiya 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Revise, a new document editor library for React (npmjs.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by artursapek 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 (oilprice.com)
    ×4.44 1 #2 | 76 points by thelastgallon 1 hour ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters? (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.51 36 #36 | 44 points by benbreen 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Muse's browser stack and how it works (mouse.dev)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Aeroi 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
    ×0.94 42 | 117 points by hp6 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. World Labs Is Joining AMD (worldlabs.ai)
    ×1.86 7 #13 | 218 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)
    ×0.73 28 #46 | 20 points by ColinWright 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Run Decision Models on vLLM and Red Hat AI Using DiffusionGemma (redhat.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by thebeardisred 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. My Dumbphone Made My Life Better. It Made Everyone Else's Worse (nytimes.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Wowfunhappy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
    ×1.29 68 | 278 points by pancomplex 3 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Fusor – Like Vue, but the logic is Rust (fusor.build)
    ×1.66 90 | 8 points by andreespirela 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about (hackeratlas.com)
    ×0.99 82 | 86 points by andrearitossa 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)
    ×1.21 9 #3 | 48 points by henrychannel 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: The City – a native Mac app that shows Claude Code as a city of robots (github.com/Slaymish)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by slaymish 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts (github.com/maximilianfeix)
    ×1.81 121 | 10 points by taventix 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Blend and Haul: Fertilizer Blending Simulator (wedgworth.com)
    ×0.47 48 #28 | 5 points by paltman 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents (newyorker.com)
    ×0.70 6 #42 | 75 points by prismatic 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GrapheneOS – When an app is slow (wirelessmoves.com)
    ×1.15 4 #50 | 79 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?' (nytimes.com)
    ×3.76 12 | 146 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.87 21 #9 | 76 points by gumby 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Einsum Trees: An Abstraction for Optimizing the Execution of Tensor Expressions [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Talktome - let your AI Agent call you (github.com/rohanprichard)
    ×1.76 2 | 3 points by rohanprichard 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Supporting native Rust in Workers with the Emscripten target for WASM-bindgen (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by CoderLim110 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Diabetes Risk Analyzer (Flask-based web app) (diabetesriskanalyzer.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by asrivastava1125 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI's next training data: your dodgy gaming skills (wired.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by promptspheree 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: PHNTM ONE: Self healing AI assistant running on a Raspberry Pi5 (phntmcore.com)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by phntmcore 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Scaling Memory Safety: AI-Assisted Rewrites of C/C++ Dependencies to Rust (google.com)
    ×1.05 20 #87 | 11 points by ndesaulniers 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    ×0.75 70 #86 | 91 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???