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  1. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.92 23 #79 | 208 points by linsomniac 22 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.19 23 | 726 points by jameslk 3 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.19 32 | 548 points by eggbrain 2 days ago | 678 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase
    ×0.85 38 | 14 points by bbg2401 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?
    ×0.89 65 | 88 points by mike_richards 4 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.93 53 | 530 points by user052919 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Be Careful with Stripe Connect
    ×1.35 45 | 16 points by breue 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are forgotten topics in computing that deserve a new revisit?
    ×1.10 60 | 42 points by draxen 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What fun things to do with an iPhone 11?
    ×0.68 69 | 8 points by wanderingpixel 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Slickdeals.net Is Compromised
    ×2.58 42 | 20 points by intenex 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.14 68 | 164 points by punchmesan 3 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.57 70 | 109 points by neya 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Seeking advice: Wix stolen my .com domain
    ×0.58 72 | 9 points by wixcom 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A new protocol and software suite for AIs
    ×0.28 | 2 points by homingpigeon 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Looking for a CTO
    ×0.39 101 | 3 points by alpbahadur 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I tried to connect every GPU on the planet together (kinda)
    ×0.63 83 | 4 points by lukefrisker 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are companies hiring developers nowadays?
    ×0.54 114 | 3 points by Frazzlebilt 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. OpenClaw SaaS?
    ×0.60 115 | 3 points by alexfthom 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to resist endless app directories listing your product?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by gosen 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.05 75 | 166 points by stockresearcher 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.11 96 | 81 points by werrett 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Verifying a satellite image with temporal evidence
    ×0.30 | 2 points by avijeetsingh16 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Executive (C-Level) Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Large Language Models
    ×0.32 | 2 points by northlondoner 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is anyone running multi/always-on agents that don't cost a fortune?
    ×1.16 85 | 5 points by abejora 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How's your home-cooked software revolution going?
    ×0.75 120 | 3 points by nihakue 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is the most secure OS for mobile phone?
    ×1.53 90 | 5 points by Muralnick 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How can I get informed in the static vs. dynamic typing debate?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by zingar 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Engineers Focus Using AI
    ×0.75 122 | 3 points by elchuzade 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Has anyone used LLMs to audit TrueCrypt for backdoors?
    ×1.66 94 | 5 points by dlphii 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Codet JSON
    ×0.37 124 | 3 points by fifflesticks 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Where should I start to do marketing?
    ×0.75 127 | 6 points by dhruonweb 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Banned for Reddit inauthentic ads?
    ×0.86 84 | 3 points by polywickstudio 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Canva lays off 22% of its workforce; 1,270 people
    ×3.23 81 | 33 points by princevegeta89 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: R/place for Git – Open-source Git server sustaining 567 pushes/s (reasonmachines.com)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by svemyh 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: ECX – My Claude Code and Codex setup, where both agents share memory (github.com/saksham10arora-dotcom)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by saksham_07 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Curious HN – Hacker News without the snark (curioushn.com)
    ×1.08 108 | 11 points by cochne 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Project Sync: The journey to sample-perfect audio/video sync with WebCodecs (mediabunny.dev)
    ×0.61 21 #75 | 13 points by vanilagy 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: GC2 (Geo Compute Cloud) (gc2.io)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by mhoegh 53 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: IMDb for YouTube (Long-Form Videos Only) (eamag.me)
    ×1.83 71 | 5 points by eamag 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Checkered Chat – QR codes with decoy messages and Shamir splits (honeywired.com)
    ×1.44 103 | 3 points by HoneyWired 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Shiptape – Automated packing video proof for warehouse stations (shiptape.in)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by SajadTroy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Verse Programming Language (verselang.github.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by elephantum 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. RIP Cybertruck (wired.com)
    ×5.82 53 | 302 points by voxadam 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI (github.com/ppmpreetham)
    ×3.14 15 #43 | 701 points by ppmpreetham 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude (anthropic.com)
    ×1.37 45 #63 | 95 points by ersinesen 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card (openai.com)
    ×1.58 24 #76 | 89 points by Aldipower 14 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Touch and Glow (daringfireball.net)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by tosh 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Flash C Compiler (adafruit.com)
    ×1.14 12 #22 | 63 points by AlexeyBrin 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. MTG-I2 First Images (eumetsat.int)
    ×0.97 38 #66 | 67 points by N19PEDL2 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Weeny.Cloud – A Linux server for your coding agent's apps (weeny.cloud)
    ×1.24 118 | 3 points by isaacrolandson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Maxwell's Ghosts (verfassungsblog.de)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by jruohonen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tesla and SpaceX lose over $420B in combined market cap in the two days (techlaws.pages.dev)
    ×4.42 40 | 84 points by Pepitobombito 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Local tier-1 SOC triage on Wazuh with a fine-tuned Gemma 4 (github.com/oleg-vdv)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by ipgleg 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bug Finding Considered Harmful? (alperenkeles.com)
    ×1.42 17 #48 | 20 points by alpaylan 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Replit rebuilt its sandbox engine with microVMs (replit.com)
    ×1.11 18 #51 | 91 points by gaplong 18 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Pwn.college (pwn.college)
    ×2.02 19 #53 | 318 points by tripdout 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Stripe revenue, right in your notch (notchrevenue.com)
    ×1.85 | 2 points by bingbing123 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Libghostty 1.0 (mitchellh.com)
    ×4.08 2 #2 | 741 points by mfiguiere 13 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. PyLings: Solve Exercises and Learn Python (github.com/thesayfulla)
    ×0.72 44 #61 | 52 points by thesayfulla 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 (github.com/rivet-dev)
    ×0.60 71 #67 | 118 points by NathanFlurry 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Retex, a Faster LaTeX Engine (gitlab.com)
    ×1.13 6 | 3 points by skadge 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Mega API Universe – 76,000 free APIs in a searchable SQLite database (fullfreeapilist.netlify.app)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by salonsh 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Site Tools Box – Free webmaster tools with no login (sitetoolsbox.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by kagouhui 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters (multifamilydive.com)
    ×1.60 19 #11 | 140 points by raybb 13 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 (asahilinux.org)
    ×2.88 26 #32 | 209 points by ackyshake 7 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Is Programming That Easy?
    ×2.53 44 | 4 points by ghassenfaidi 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I built ivyNote, a local-first Markdown notes app (ivynote.app)
    ×1.08 66 | 3 points by songtianlun1 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Splitsetter – my attempt at a bill splitting app (splitsetter.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by tantanel 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.58 14 #12 | 134 points by derbOac 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Lighting the Skies (computer.rip)
    ×0.42 30 #69 | 15 points by dverlaeckt80 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing (yale.edu)
    ×1.44 10 #85 | 80 points by rdmuser 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Hackintosh Reborn (naut.ca)
    ×2.06 6 | 407 points by rubatuga 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016) (pensoft.net)
    ×1.18 35 #45 | 174 points by hitekker 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. TDD MOOC (mooc.fi)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by ghassenfaidi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Overhead – the planes overhead, painted on an e-ink frame (github.com/dmellok)
    ×2.66 73 | 9 points by xDaftTurtle 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Hacking Two Automakers: ForgeRock Path Confusion, RCE, and Remote Vehicle Access (samcurry.net)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by samwcurry 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Stacks Project, Formalized in Lean (axiommath.ai)
    ×0.70 56 | 97 points by namanbnsl 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: An open source webbluetooth and NFC browser for iOS (github.com/hito-dev)
    ×2.46 63 | 14 points by hito 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. We can do better than line-buffered output (nullprogram.com)
    ×1.03 52 | 112 points by zdw 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo (utoronto.ca)
    ×3.86 17 #56 | 186 points by wondersky 17 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How the Phone Book Taught America to Ask for Answers (jstor.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by bookofjoe 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Rui, orchestrating 100 agents in 2.5 MB of RAM (github.com/DivyanshGolyan)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by divyanshgolyan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Image of our satellite-choked night skies (kottke.org)
    ×1.98 43 | 144 points by amatheus 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Greece launches semiconductor and microelectronics strategy (hccc.org.gr)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by greekanalyst 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Tencent launches Hy4 (tencent.com)
    ×0.91 49 | 95 points by gmays 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (github.com/finic-ai)
    ×0.82 74 | 104 points by ayanb9440 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Mall Bats, a nostalgic tycoon game with a twitst (mall-bats.vercel.app)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by jacobjr23 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.43 13 #46 | 285 points by dgellow 20 hours ago | 573 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass (alpinelinux.org)
    ×2.75 18 | 627 points by pantalaimon 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. FAA begins retiring decades old floppy disks from air traffic control (faa.gov)
    ×1.28 1 | 89 points by pseudolus 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???