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  1. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.71 2 #69 | 23 points by JohnDSDev 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks?
    ×1.00 10 | 5 points by fur-tea-laser 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Elastic Layoffs?
    ×1.59 41 | 4 points by nunocoracao 27 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions
    ×0.57 50 | 4 points by throwaw12 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.45 96 | 13 points by neya 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE?
    ×0.30 77 | 9 points by mariopt 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Anyone else feels many LLMs are heavily biased towards consumerism these days?
    ×0.28 103 | 6 points by pyeri 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.52 106 | 16 points by niyazpk 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.91 102 | 18 points by tossitawayplz 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×0.98 120 | 11 points by vasko 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.10 123 | 152 points by amichail 4 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×0.95 121 | 48 points by xupybd 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What's the worst thing your AI agent did in production without asking first?
    ×0.40 108 | 3 points by rockingraj 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.58 93 | 77 points by ayi 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×0.23 129 | 8 points by spidy__ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 153 | 95 points by asim 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×1.00 119 | 22 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are people generally interested using LLMs for learning purposes?
    ×0.29 122 | 7 points by iknownthing 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.41 176 | 25 points by agos 6 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.37 151 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 4 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Open source, global vs. proprietary but for US in US, which is fundable in SaaS?
    ×0.20 167 | 4 points by avijeetsingh16 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
    ×0.32 169 | 7 points by AbstractH24 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.39 170 | 10 points by hmokiguess 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
    ×0.42 165 | 9 points by po1nt 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?
    ×0.81 114 | 19 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.35 178 | 8 points by snowhy 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×0.25 163 | 7 points by blahaj 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What would justify writting an OS kernel in 2026?
    ×0.46 177 | 5 points by alonsovm44 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by jmount 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I taught a bucket to speak Git (tigrisdata.com)
    ×0.85 1 #26 | 67 points by xena 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. François Englert (1932 – 2026) (home.cern)
    ×0.71 46 #48 | 61 points by toomuchtodo 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Printing Gaussian Splats (patreon.com)
    ×2.01 9 #82 | 366 points by ilnmtlbnm 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Cointegration and Long-Horizon Forecasting (2025) (philadelphiafed.org)
    ×0.23 74 #83 | 12 points by bryanrasmussen 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How your generosity made Weblate better for everyone (antennapod.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ericdanielski 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. My Pele Agent Trading the World Cup Prediction Markets with AI and Crypto (avc.xyz)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by rmason 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: React Native Boost – swaps RN's Text/View wrappers for native ones (github.com/kuatsu)
    ×1.96 158 | 9 points by mfkrause 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine (astral-os.org)
    ×0.83 15 #19 | 83 points by avaliosdev 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute (nytimes.com)
    ×3.17 23 #29 | 168 points by thm 4 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI IQ Bio (aiiq.org)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by shea256 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: FastUbu – An Ultrafast Video Archive (fastubu.com)
    ×0.86 74 | 45 points by lukeigel 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Crespo – Tree-sitter AST blueprints instead of raw code for LLMs (github.com/hrudulmmn)
    ×0.67 159 | 14 points by ByteJoseph 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt (lookaway.com)
    ×1.02 18 #11 | 23 points by _kush 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Agents report broken docs, you get a GitHub issue (fixyourdocs.io)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by mstopa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I built an online patch backup tool for vintage 80s synths (knob.monster)
    ×1.50 157 | 4 points by halfradaition 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Apple is going to raise device prices, but when? (daringfireball.net)
    ×1.47 76 #86 | 120 points by tosh 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak (wired.com)
    ×3.66 16 | 316 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 20 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: The Cascade Graph – An interactive map of AI and energy constraints (atomprophet.io)
    ×0.48 99 | 26 points by antisyzygy 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Orchid – Local-first record and replay for AI agent debugging (github.com/mario-guerra)
    ×1.62 84 | 4 points by brightmonkey 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod (mitchivin.com)
    ×1.01 132 | 70 points by mitchivin 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: perl-lsp – annotation free static analysis for Perl (github.com/tree-sitter-perl)
    ×1.28 166 | 3 points by rabbiveesh 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds (github.com/retroplasma)
    ×1.69 43 #42 | 205 points by retroplasma 18 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip (openai.com)
    ×3.88 65 | 141 points by meetpateltech 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)
    ×1.58 112 | 233 points by shpran 4 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Source-available post-quantum messenger – crypto core on GitHub (github.com/VeilusDigital)
    ×0.76 128 | 3 points by VeilusDigital 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I created agent skill based on Peter Lynch's books (github.com/DjNero11)
    ×1.73 134 | 5 points by DjNero 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing (argusred.com)
    ×1.00 127 | 93 points by dk189 4 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.48 76 | 176 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: eBook to audiobook narration with realistic AI voices (ebookaloud.com)
    ×2.19 65 | 6 points by flatline 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: RLM-based local debugger for AI agent traces (github.com/context-labs)
    ×0.46 95 | 24 points by mikepollard_dev 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Elevated error rate across multiple models (claude.com)
    ×1.81 41 | 212 points by rob 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding (iximiuz.com)
    ×2.02 8 #24 | 221 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Edsger Dijkstra's Library (Housed and Archived in Leuven, Belgium) (dijkstrascry.com)
    ×0.64 19 #51 | 34 points by rramadass 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. WebKit in Safari 27 Beta (webkit.org)
    ×1.69 33 | 3 points by SllX 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. WikiHouse is a modular system for high performance, zero-carbon buildings (wikihouse.cc)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by momentmaker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
    ×5.11 58 | 154 points by FergusArgyll 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The truth about being a manager (sofiakodar.github.io)
    ×2.37 55 | 109 points by adunk 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. All train services in Germany halted after train radio communications disruption (news.cn)
    ×2.43 61 | 73 points by sva_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s (greptile.com)
    ×1.34 18 #6 | 122 points by dakshgupta 6 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Hacker News Job Salary Trends (hacker-job.com)
    ×2.46 52 | 5 points by timqian 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×1.38 39 #49 | 190 points by ilreb 18 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG (deepset.ai)
    ×0.73 14 #50 | 80 points by doener 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX (tikz.dev)
    ×1.81 7 | 433 points by DominikPeters 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber (openai.com)
    ×1.86 67 | 217 points by AaronO 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Shumai – open-source Frame.io alternative for creative work (github.com/shumaiOne)
    ×0.75 97 | 58 points by Yiling-J 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: AGI will not come from better models, it will come from meta harness (github.com/the-open-engine)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by covibes 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How to Get Your First 10 Customers (ycombinator.com)
    ×2.21 39 #40 | 10 points by aurenvale 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Find an open source alternative to anything (opensource.builders)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by momentmaker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×0.92 39 #23 | 25 points by ColinWright 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing (youtube.com)
    ×0.82 57 #64 | 79 points by unleaded 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Dev shops sell you seniors, then staff the work with juniors (twoheads.net)
    ×3.41 51 | 5 points by hey-fk 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Beat the scalpers. Get your cards at MSRP (chasedex.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by Charmizard 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected) (euronews.com)
    ×3.22 58 | 77 points by cs702 6 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice (paolino.me)
    ×4.59 39 #44 | 530 points by earcar 8 hours ago | 640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I built a fleet-scale inference control plane using Crossplane (crossplane.io)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by negz 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors (github.com/Intuned)
    ×0.65 118 | 38 points by ahmadilaiwi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions (rworks.dev)
    ×0.83 34 #34 | 85 points by ionychal 10 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives (monolisa.dev)
    ×1.34 10 #27 | 136 points by bebraw 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.49 8 #66 | 11 points by bushwart 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Slop Paralysis (elijahpotter.dev)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by chilipepperhott 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Advocacy Groups Express Mixed Views on Embryo Editing (undark.org)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by EA-3167 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???