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  1. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.41 64 #83 | 123 points by syntaxbush 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.41 2 | 5 points by netfortius 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×1.07 29 | 94 points by spidy__ 3 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How is GPU power draw measured at scale?
    ×0.53 27 | 4 points by anax32 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.61 75 | 12 points by mellosty 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×1.17 53 | 7 points by VaderAi 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.52 103 | 33 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.31 105 | 6 points by othmanosx 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
    ×1.73 19 | 112 points by shantnutiwari 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.78 102 | 8 points by yiyingzhang 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.38 31 | 79 points by jvilalta 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. My website gets more attacks than human visitors
    ×1.46 114 | 5 points by tommy2970 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Quickbooks Alternative?
    ×0.40 132 | 4 points by bix6 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
    ×0.53 133 | 4 points by something765478 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.50 153 | 18 points by niyazpk 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
    ×0.68 116 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. As; HN: I was curious why MTP affects PP TPS in llama.cpp. My PoC recovers it?
    ×0.55 | 2 points by i_am_rocoe 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.08 148 | 153 points by amichail 6 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.29 159 | 6 points by iaziz786 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Got access to Gemini's actual thinking
    ×0.21 156 | 4 points by StizzurpXDD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.56 113 | 81 points by ayi 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.81 151 | 20 points by tossitawayplz 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 170 | 96 points by asim 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.41 152 | 15 points by neya 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.40 174 | 25 points by agos 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×0.98 168 | 15 points by vasko 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks?
    ×0.45 154 | 8 points by fur-tea-laser 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What is one thing about AI that annoys you the most?
    ×1.02 126 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.94 166 | 23 points by julienreszka 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions
    ×0.51 160 | 8 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web (tedium.co)
    ×0.93 74 #87 | 86 points by 1317 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by tosh 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Jargo – a Golang port of Pipecat for conversational-AI apps (github.com/gojargo)
    ×1.29 1 | 3 points by fallais 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Neural Particle Automata (selforg-npa.github.io)
    ×0.84 108 | 88 points by esychology 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: No chair fixed my back, so we built one that won't let you sit still (movably.com)
    ×1.75 127 | 4 points by chaibiker 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.60 27 #48 | 295 points by scrlk 14 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup (pnsn.org)
    ×0.33 88 #54 | 21 points by jmward01 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Half-Life 2 in a Browser (slqnt.dev)
    ×2.89 3 #58 | 661 points by panza 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast? (clinicaltrialsabundance.blog)
    ×2.49 43 | 4 points by salonium_ 48 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions (github.com/LuaJIT)
    ×1.27 25 | 229 points by phreddypharkus 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I Wish I Knew This Before Building an AI Second Brain (towardsai.net)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by majidfekri 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I Am Behind on C# 14 Features, and I Can't Prove It but Does It Matter? (medium.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by sukhpinder0804 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×2.97 8 | 560 points by shadowtree 1 day ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements (ziglang.org)
    ×1.22 46 #30 | 255 points by kouosi 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Mixing Visual and Textual Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.59 98 #55 | 77 points by doppioandante 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: DPI Bypass – directory of tools and clients to evade DPI (github.com/ubub111)
    ×0.79 162 | 3 points by ububus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)
    ×1.56 6 #7 | 222 points by luu 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Bureaucracy Is Eating the World (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors” (theregister.com)
    ×2.43 59 | 183 points by connorboyle 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The CAPTCHA arms race: from distorted text to browser identity (browserbase.com)
    ×1.03 93 | 69 points by harsehaj 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: RealTube – Watch YouTube with filters for AI-generated content (realtube.io)
    ×2.28 161 | 6 points by danielpop 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not (github.com/mondaycom)
    ×1.74 37 #41 | 63 points by backlit4034 2 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion (markdy.com)
    ×1.08 68 #72 | 117 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored (github.com/wolfoo2931)
    ×0.77 74 | 69 points by WolfOliver 1 week ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Lumli – Privacy-first image tools that run entirely in your browser (lumli.de)
    ×3.12 150 | 9 points by lumli 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: CloudDeck – a Linux gaming PC in the cloud (clouddeck.app)
    ×0.57 163 | 3 points by sfrese 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)
    ×5.53 4 #5 | 1466 points by verditelabs 22 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The disappearance of Japan's animators (economist.com)
    ×1.35 62 #36 | 182 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: DeepSeek Flash inverted the economics of agent products (rtrvr.ai)
    ×2.67 91 | 9 points by arjunchint 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Treedocs: Documentation that automatically checks for staleness (dandylyons.github.io)
    ×0.66 121 | 52 points by DandyLyons 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. BrokenClaw Part 7: Opus-4.8 Edition – All Emails Lead to RCE (veganmosfet.codeberg.page)
    ×3.54 69 | 4 points by e12e 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. ESI – a drop-in layer that lets agent memory report confidence and freshness (github.com/GhetauTudor)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by tudor_08 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How much "Super Mario" per year? (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: HN Game Stories – mini-documentary of games that hit the front page (intellios.ai)
    ×0.33 173 | 16 points by coolwulf 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The AI backlash is only getting started (economist.com)
    ×3.60 7 #3 | 14 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark (twitter.com/mfts0)
    ×5.59 33 #21 | 467 points by mmunj 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT 5.6 at Request of U.S. Government (velo.xyz)
    ×8.12 17 | 63 points by 217 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)
    ×1.58 122 | 234 points by shpran 5 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How to get your first customers [video] (ycombinator.com)
    ×1.08 44 #73 | 84 points by aurenvale 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I built a GPU back end for Emacs (andros.dev)
    ×1.62 2 #81 | 187 points by andros 21 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code (posthog.com)
    ×2.46 65 | 145 points by robbie-c 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates (neowin.net)
    ×2.98 21 | 243 points by bundie 22 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf (the-criterion-closet.vercel.app)
    ×1.66 110 | 193 points by olievans 6 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents (oak.space)
    ×1.11 100 | 214 points by zdgeier 3 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (fire.org)
    ×4.93 8 #16 | 889 points by bilsbie 16 hours ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Microbubbles in Medicine (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.47 55 #23 | 19 points by Jimmc414 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)
    ×3.81 26 #51 | 740 points by ytkimirti 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers (twitter.com/mcuban)
    ×1.41 1 #84 | 8 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Skills vs. knowledge – formalizing how agents need both (herlein.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by gherlein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs (minipcs.zip)
    ×0.99 49 #66 | 109 points by yathern 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News (youtube.com)
    ×3.91 87 #90 | 48 points by RicoElectrico 1 hour ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Persona.js – a vanilla-JS agent UI library with native WebMCP (MIT) (github.com/runtypelabs)
    ×1.15 69 | 26 points by becomevocal 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Six critical 9.9-CVSS vulnerabilities were found in Canonical's LXD today only (github.com/canonical)
    ×2.13 8 | 3 points by jabrr7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on (github.com/Fran314)
    ×0.48 80 | 30 points by Fran314 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub (github.com/BohemiaInteractive)
    ×1.46 42 #70 | 196 points by dewey 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Bible as RAG Database (crosscanon.com)
    ×1.78 29 #75 | 147 points by jacksonastone 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Load-Beari.ng – Honest Take (load-bear.ing)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by patrikcsak 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Most social media posts aren't written by people anymore (circle.so)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by rawgabbit 22 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition (utaw.tech)
    ×1.63 16 | 199 points by chobeat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Bipartite Matching Is in NC (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.07 10 #6 | 58 points by amichail 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???