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  1. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.47 3 #21 | 85 points by amichail 8 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you separate intentional test boilerplate from real duplication?
    ×0.23 48 | 10 points by rafaepta 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.77 51 | 91 points by asim 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Using OPA/Rego to secure MCP tool execution. Does it make sense?
    ×0.95 42 | 4 points by wmolino 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.48 89 | 21 points by agos 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's a simple app you'd build if you had a weekend?
    ×0.62 2 | 3 points by akashwadhwani35 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.45 60 | 10 points by vantareed 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Open-Source Intelligence
    ×0.18 94 | 3 points by silent_butagrim 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is there a recognized standard for swarm intelligence benchmarking?
    ×0.51 88 | 5 points by stephanieriggs 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.79 91 | 6 points by lordkrandel 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms
    ×0.29 102 | 3 points by rozumbrada 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.34 119 | 5 points by snowhy 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?
    ×0.92 84 | 8 points by YihaoZhang 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.57 97 | 11 points by arnejenssen 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.13 101 | 8 points by hnthrow10282910 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Meetup.com login appears to be exceeding its reCAPTCHA Enterprise quota
    ×0.90 105 | 4 points by infl8ed 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.61 106 | 7 points by gondolin1683 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.15 103 | 8 points by uejfiweun 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.77 110 | 10 points by akashwadhwani35 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.34 114 | 11 points by lyfeninja 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.28 117 | 14 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.14 98 | 82 points by arzh2 4 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?
    ×1.07 113 | 5 points by ahmedfromtunis 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.15 123 | 35 points by fabianlindfors 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Opus and regression with patterns not included in trainng data
    ×0.17 | 2 points by dleech 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?
    ×0.95 121 | 5 points by lasky 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.25 129 | 4 points by raghuu 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Best resources for learning how to build a forum back end?
    ×0.46 145 | 3 points by jupr 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Whats the best and small open source model?
    ×0.50 146 | 3 points by hairymouse 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Looking for a CI/CD project for my local lab
    ×0.22 127 | 5 points by q8zd3 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI Tokenmaxxing and Hypomania
    ×0.57 118 | 7 points by karthikeyankc 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you find out if the LLM API is giving degraded responses?
    ×1.14 156 | 3 points by imviky 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Please recommend sci-fi books similar to "children of time" or "anathem"
    ×1.74 93 | 5 points by rishabhpoddar 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How close to profitability did companies get before dot com burst?
    ×1.81 150 | 5 points by AbstractH24 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling?
    ×0.56 162 | 7 points by otekengineering 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Successful entrepreneurs and indie hackers, enlighten me
    ×0.16 166 | 3 points by markosn 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What Are the Trade-Offs of Working Fully Remotely?
    ×0.75 133 | 8 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nanogram – Private social media from your Raspberry Pi
    ×0.57 152 | 9 points by smalltorch 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI-gateway product that cuts LLM API TOKEN costs by 40-70%
    ×0.89 | 2 points by arnab777 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Aikido Code Audit (aikido.dev)
    ×0.87 2 #43 | 34 points by ilreb 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. EAS Alarm at midnight caused by a hacker in Brazil (reddit.com)
    ×0.89 4 | 3 points by davidkwast 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Let's Encrypt had a higher error rate for 90 minutes today (status.io)
    ×1.84 8 | 160 points by widdakay 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Jumpjet – a WASM runtime for game developers (jumpjet.dev)
    ×1.10 79 | 3 points by lwansbrough 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi (rednafi.com)
    ×1.07 35 | 137 points by speckx 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M (zillowgroup.com)
    ×4.26 72 | 61 points by littlexsparkee 6 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What is the job market like?
    ×2.81 67 | 55 points by gardnr 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart (arun.is)
    ×1.15 53 #40 | 183 points by ddrmaxgt37 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership (the-independent.com)
    ×3.76 58 #74 | 190 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Britain Learned and Unlearned Nuclear (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by leonidasrup 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The New Calculus of AI-Based Coding (joemag.dev)
    ×0.95 7 | 3 points by aabdi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The room the economy can't see (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×5.48 47 | 231 points by Wilsoniumite 21 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I built a daily flag quiz in honor of the World Cup (orbisearth.web.app)
    ×1.19 124 | 4 points by sestarkman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow (lloydslist.com)
    ×4.94 78 | 109 points by decimalenough 8 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I Stored a Website in a Favicon (timwehrle.de)
    ×1.34 #1 | 67 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school (reuters.com)
    ×3.63 7 #9 | 610 points by ilreb 11 hours ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Court Records Should Be Free (eff.org)
    ×4.20 8 #20 | 346 points by hn_acker 13 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Acquired Stakes (propublica.org)
    ×2.14 44 | 5 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. TV Player for Rocket Launches (github.com/sighmon)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by sighmon 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps (tester.army)
    ×0.69 71 #63 | 125 points by okwasniewski 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How Does Bluetooth Work? (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.45 30 | 3 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Rewiring the Spine: The Tech Restoring Movement After Spinal Injury (allaboutcircuits.com)
    ×1.58 38 | 3 points by WaitWaitWha 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Compound Eye (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by o4c 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A knowledge graph of 15,941 math states – proof as path-finding (ansumandas441.github.io)
    ×0.44 171 | 3 points by ansuman441 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Midjourney Medical (midjourney.com)
    ×5.32 3 #55 | 1340 points by ricochet11 2 days ago | 869 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving (rahuljuliato.com)
    ×2.21 1 #81 | 460 points by frou_dh 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: AI Voice Generator for Creators (speakora.io)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by laimingj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The AI Hate Progression (xodium.net)
    ×7.02 37 | 123 points by gpi 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024) (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.74 67 #79 | 221 points by trymas 2 days ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored (github.com/wolfoo2931)
    ×0.51 108 | 3 points by WolfOliver 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Cowork/Codex DOCX plugin. Uses 2x fewer tokens than the docx skill (github.com/LegalRabbit-AI)
    ×1.73 138 | 5 points by tanin 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I built a spelling app for kids with my 7-year-old (spellabee.com)
    ×1.09 165 | 3 points by narenst 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: How to Read a Dosa Menu (dosadecoder.com)
    ×1.69 148 | 6 points by michaeljnatkin 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: git-lrc – Free, Micro AI Code Reviews That Run on Git Commit (github.com/HexmosTech)
    ×2.09 157 | 9 points by atomicnature 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years (arcadeheroes.com)
    ×0.28 62 #16 | 5 points by speckx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)
    ×1.15 86 #50 | 4 points by matt_d 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Migrate from OpenClaw (nousresearch.com)
    ×1.40 49 | 119 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×1.43 72 | 6 points by vforno 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Gimji – local-first project notes with tasks, boards, and calendars (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.94 158 | 3 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: HumansMap – Explore family dynasties, relationship, org networks (humansmap.com)
    ×1.09 126 | 4 points by scurnus 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. DuckDB Internals Part 1 (greybeam.ai)
    ×2.12 4 #44 | 452 points by marklit 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change? (dancemagazine.com)
    ×0.67 85 #52 | 4 points by onemind 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance (hustvl.github.io)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Clear – Intent-First Agentic Development Language (sahin.io)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Dementia Risk After Recombinant Herpes Zoster Vaccination in Older Adults (acpjournals.org)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by atombender 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Mira – Open-source and self-hosted AI code reviewer (github.com/miracodeai)
    ×4.81 116 | 15 points by upmostly 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: The full Minecraft game as an embeddable Framer component (framer.com)
    ×1.03 167 | 3 points by xmorse 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You (wordpress.com)
    ×2.21 16 #6 | 24 points by moultano 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder (mssv.net)
    ×0.77 8 #38 | 20 points by adrianhon 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Future Is ClaudeVM (jperla.com)
    ×1.54 44 | 3 points by satvikpendem 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Trump Surrenders to Iran on Virtually Every Point (techdirt.com)
    ×10.07 58 | 74 points by speckx 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???