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  1. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×0.84 7 #42 | 11 points by cermicelli 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.54 16 | 145 points by andylizf 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by lukol 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.75 80 | 30 points by speedylight 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.11 83 | 3 points by tracyspacy 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.99 84 | 11 points by rubyn00bie 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.66 95 | 48 points by TheRegularOne 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.19 37 | 104 points by cvhc 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by NBenkovich 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI
    ×0.24 96 | 3 points by dragonman 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.83 49 | 228 points by item007 2 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
    ×0.69 74 | 3 points by rafaelmdec 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.80 101 | 19 points by cadabrabra 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.64 121 | 13 points by OhMeadhbh 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×0.61 111 | 13 points by lcastricato 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What's your biggest LLM cost multiplier?
    ×0.66 108 | 6 points by teilom 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    ×0.19 | 2 points by pouyathe 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
    ×1.12 118 | 11 points by ruairidhwm 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.81 122 | 11 points by cadabrabra 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.79 112 | 66 points by fnoef 5 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.71 123 | 34 points by superasn 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you force yourself to take breaks while coding?
    ×0.86 139 | 6 points by glidea 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?
    ×0.27 130 | 13 points by pigon1002 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Should a software engineer have research exposure?
    ×0.24 138 | 4 points by c_daeda 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AI creates over-efficiency. Organizations must absorb it
    ×0.59 124 | 7 points by eriam 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Ergo wireless keyboard with mouse for coding?
    ×0.50 132 | 5 points by MarcelOlsz 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is archive.is currently broken for WSJ links?
    ×0.38 137 | 8 points by bigwheels 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How are you managing secrets with AI agents?
    ×0.07 | 2 points by m-hodges 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How much recurring income do you generate in 2026 and from what?
    ×0.49 143 | 12 points by djshah 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is free identity theft protection after a data breach worth the bother?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by daoboy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension
    ×0.12 147 | 6 points by mr_bob_sacamano 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Where can I find startups looking for fractional product leads?
    ×0.39 148 | 8 points by stulogy 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ads Are Killing Podcasting (podcasts.rip)
    ×4.00 70 | 49 points by mpugner 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE (404media.co)
    ×4.44 52 | 44 points by juujian 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A web server on a single floppy disk (floppy.ddns.net)
    ×1.16 29 #41 | 97 points by ActionRetro 19 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. EIA: 99%+ of new US capacity in 2026 will be solar, wind and storage (electrek.co)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.66 | 211 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes (theguardian.com)
    ×1.87 20 | 129 points by novaRom 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. New Dutch government to push for EU social media ban for under-15s (politico.eu)
    ×3.42 7 | 59 points by DavideNL 21 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: The Pixel Funeral – A cemetery for dead design concepts (pixel-funeral.vercel.app)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by aa-on-ai 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Outsourcing thinking (erikjohannes.no)
    ×1.83 29 #50 | 254 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
    ×2.68 1 #87 | 260 points by schlichtm 2 days ago | 862 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice (lwn.net)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++ (github.com/beginner-jhj)
    ×1.78 86 | 145 points by crediblejhj 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: How We Run 60 Hugging Face Models on 2 GPUs
    ×1.09 120 | 4 points by pveldandi 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Mystral Native – Run JavaScript games natively with WebGPU (no browser) (github.com/mystralengine)
    ×0.67 92 | 49 points by Flux159 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Blink – Native macOS code snippet manager. Local, offline, <1s search (enclyralabs.com)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by enclyra 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Day 2 – Ballparkguess (ballparkguess.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by bkls 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users (algomaster.io)
    ×2.65 36 | 132 points by olayiwoladekoya 19 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. 'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis' (electrek.co)
    ×7.37 11 | 64 points by MilnerRoute 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Hosted OpenClaw with Secure Isolation (moltcloud.ai)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by stubbi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (sintef.no)
    ×1.91 43 #39 | 31 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base (github.com/itsfabioroma)
    ×1.15 114 | 22 points by ofabioroma 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Record and share your coding sessions with CodeMic (codemic.io)
    ×0.71 134 | 14 points by seansh 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. TrumpRx delayed as senators question if it's a giant scam with Big Pharma (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.71 62 | 47 points by duxup 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Reasons Teens Say No to AI (wsj.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. DeepSeek-R1 Is Mathematically Bound to Hallucinate (github.com/eric2675-coder)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by eric2675 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Iran summons families of exiled journalists to halt their activities (iranintl.com)
    ×2.89 70 | 75 points by ukblewis 8 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Cicada – A scripting language that integrates with C (github.com/heltilda)
    ×0.56 82 | 57 points by briancr 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Are we dismissing AI spend before the 6x lands? (2025) (martinalderson.com)
    ×2.16 55 | 3 points by ukuina 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Claude Launcher – TUI to fuzzy search and resume Claude Code sessions (github.com/imprakharshukla)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by imprakharshukla 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SQLite Is a Self Contained System (sqlite.org)
    ×2.01 68 | 47 points by whatisabcdefgh 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Shelvy Books (shelvybooks.com)
    ×0.80 103 | 51 points by tekkie00 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User (nemin.hu)
    ×1.37 37 #79 | 187 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Research After AI: Principles for Accelerated Exploration (github.com/joelkuiper)
    ×1.40 11 | 4 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s (pagecord.com)
    ×3.84 65 | 48 points by stog 7 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG (shaped.ai)
    ×0.63 91 | 80 points by tullie 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Quorum-free replicated state machine built atop S3 (github.com/io-s2c)
    ×1.76 107 | 6 points by mzazaipsc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)
    ×1.20 10 #8 | 24 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.38 3 #81 | 174 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Housman's Introductory Lecture (worrydream.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by coloneltcb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog (gyrovague.com)
    ×7.10 36 | 49 points by gyrovague-com 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Stop Using Pseudo-Types (f2r.github.io)
    ×0.73 20 #26 | 7 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Advanced Square Foot Calculator (google.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by Gigacore 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations (theguardian.com)
    ×2.49 32 | 5 points by iamflimflam1 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Subtitle Finder – Find perfectly synced subtitles for your video files (subtitlefinder.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by lord5et 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Project Xent – A native C++ UI framework in KBs
    ×0.47 | 2 points by AzusaBCSK 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code (visualjj.com)
    ×1.39 30 #34 | 160 points by demail 23 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived (thetimes.com)
    ×0.84 72 #80 | 97 points by Thevet 2 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Let your agents find the best products online (rencom.ai)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by shadag 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Molthub (moithub.com)
    ×2.85 | 2 points by jlaneve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. On God and Machine Learning (rlafuente.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by andes314 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: We added memory to Claude Code. It's powerful now (supermemory.ai)
    ×1.17 131 | 5 points by dhravya 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    ×2.18 21 #19 | 249 points by kohlschuetter 22 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy (flashblaze.xyz)
    ×0.71 20 #22 | 10 points by flashblaze 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Residual Context Diffusion (yuezhouhu.github.io)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by limoce 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Troubling Trend of Combat-Uniform Creep (nationalreview.com)
    ×3.35 63 | 6 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AlphaGenome: AI for Better Understanding the Genome (deepmind.google)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    ×3.08 10 #23 | 666 points by l1am0 20 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Message from Pope Leo XIV on the 60th World Day of Social Communications (vatican.va)
    ×1.37 80 #49 | 6 points by theresistor 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???