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  1. Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by elcritch 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are your favourite Hacker News comments?
    ×1.02 16 | 3 points by Imustaskforhelp 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.32 22 | 146 points by amichail 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How to get ideas for space startups?
    ×0.36 37 | 5 points by asxndu 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.46 48 | 9 points by gaggle_dk 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.73 67 | 92 points by asim 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.47 94 | 23 points by agos 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: If AI didn't exist, what would you be building today?
    ×0.98 29 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?
    ×0.51 60 | 7 points by johndavid9991 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?
    ×0.43 65 | 5 points by JohnDSDev 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose?
    ×0.59 66 | 9 points by bix6 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is Claude Code with Fable 5 worth switching back from Codex?
    ×1.07 32 | 6 points by vantareed 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?
    ×0.48 80 | 4 points by hbarka 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF?
    ×0.34 89 | 3 points by morolis 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Forked CozoDB to give agents cognitive primitives
    ×0.24 112 | 3 points by shanrizvi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Need advice on distributing and testing what I build
    ×0.44 84 | 5 points by darth-pixit 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.62 82 | 15 points by vantareed 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.75 105 | 8 points by lordkrandel 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
    ×1.85 3 | 57 points by ciwolex 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.28 137 | 5 points by snowhy 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.56 107 | 12 points by arnejenssen 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Open-Source Intelligence
    ×0.16 131 | 3 points by silent_butagrim 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is there a recognized standard for swarm intelligence benchmarking?
    ×0.39 114 | 5 points by stephanieriggs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.16 110 | 10 points by hnthrow10282910 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.15 118 | 36 points by fabianlindfors 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.62 119 | 8 points by gondolin1683 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.35 109 | 11 points by uejfiweun 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms
    ×0.24 139 | 3 points by rozumbrada 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.13 98 | 82 points by arzh2 5 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's a simple app you'd build if you had a weekend?
    ×0.60 91 | 5 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.77 121 | 11 points by akashwadhwani35 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.28 125 | 14 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.44 140 | 5 points by raghuu 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.33 124 | 11 points by lyfeninja 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?
    ×0.78 104 | 8 points by YihaoZhang 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Meetup.com login appears to be exceeding its reCAPTCHA Enterprise quota
    ×0.55 130 | 4 points by infl8ed 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?
    ×0.82 134 | 5 points by ahmedfromtunis 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Using OPA/Rego to secure MCP tool execution. Does it make sense?
    ×0.63 90 | 5 points by wmolino 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Opus and regression with patterns not included in trainng data
    ×0.14 | 2 points by dleech 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?
    ×0.99 128 | 6 points by lasky 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Jazzy – Productive, Developer-Friendly Web Framework for Nim (github.com/canermastan)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by TheWiggles 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Core Rankings for DBLP Profiles (pubtier.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by otrack 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks (kentbeck.com)
    ×2.76 6 | 217 points by rrvsh 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Big Banana Car (bigbananacar.com)
    ×1.71 24 | 174 points by Bender 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (cauenapier.com)
    ×1.57 1 #18 | 182 points by cauenapier 12 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Highly sensitive radio telescope array to be built in Nevada desert (nbcnews.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by jonbaer 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed (abcnews.com)
    ×6.19 47 | 88 points by malshe 12 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (lispm.net)
    ×1.26 19 #14 | 205 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Hi-shell – type commands in English, get ghost text in zsh (github.com/longyijdos)
    ×1.61 78 | 5 points by longyijdos 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Leave a Trace (jakeworth.com)
    ×1.87 59 | 76 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. China tightens indium export checks as AI demand increases (reuters.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by 01-_- 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Serpent in the Grove (granta.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by tobr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Display.dev – the agent-agnostic workspace for HTML and .md artifacts (display.dev)
    ×1.00 103 | 15 points by ottilves 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility (github.com/DatanoiseTV)
    ×1.23 7 #59 | 97 points by sylwester 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.94 15 #56 | 175 points by nryoo 17 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: TLA+ Process Studio (tlaplus-process-studio.com)
    ×1.95 51 #89 | 10 points by uptodatenews 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Horcrux – Distributed, Zero-Trust Secret Manager (github.com/44za12)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by 44za12 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Kuksa – Crafting the traditional wooden cup (finlandnaturally.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by stevekemp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The room the economy can't see (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×5.45 27 | 248 points by Wilsoniumite 2 days ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Rocannon – Any Ansible module to MCP Tool, record sessions as playbooks (github.com/msradam)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by msradam 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way (taoofmac.com)
    ×2.92 3 #7 | 68 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (arrowtsx.dev)
    ×4.21 35 #38 | 527 points by oshrimpton 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (glyphcss.com)
    ×4.57 57 | 11 points by apresmoi 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.95 22 #36 | 101 points by saisrirampur 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: GitGauge – A Way to Try Tell If a Repo Is Authentic (github.com/Davey2Waveyy)
    ×1.38 68 | 4 points by davey2wavey 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×1.25 101 | 6 points by vforno 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Jumpjet – a WASM runtime for game developers (jumpjet.dev)
    ×1.30 113 | 4 points by lwansbrough 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I built an 11-LLM consensus engine to detect AI hallucination (github.com/jaquelinejaque)
    ×1.78 111 | 6 points by jaquelinejaque 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. FreeDom free and open-source minimal web browser – Zero Trust and Zero Knowledge (github.com/grisuno)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by grisun0 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Persona.js – a vanilla-JS agent UI library with native WebMCP (MIT) (persona-chat.dev)
    ×3.94 58 | 10 points by becomevocal 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CSSQuake (cssquake.com)
    ×2.53 18 #43 | 508 points by msalsas 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Use Faker to improve the quality of your tests (howtotestfrontend.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by howToTestFE 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Can someone try to get my websites admin panel? (gag.gg)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by nottakens 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Automation and Repression [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by myyke 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents (eff.org)
    ×2.74 46 | 93 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science (elizabethginexi.substack.com)
    ×4.08 47 | 81 points by tacomonstrous 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: StartupsBR – A Map of Brazilian Startups (startupsbr.com)
    ×1.50 116 | 4 points by leonagano 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)
    ×1.36 14 #12 | 266 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air (ieee.org)
    ×1.01 20 #41 | 68 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Surprising economics of load-balanced systems (brooker.co.za)
    ×0.99 48 #69 | 151 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interocepti (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by joozio 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A neuro-adaptive OS concept for energy efficiency and execution-path attestation (github.com/Jtr85)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by JTR85 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Expressive Power of Programming Languages (2019) (pwlconf.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by downbad_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Spin Lab (srijanshukla.com)
    ×0.62 86 | 44 points by srijanshukla18 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: No-install, end-to-end encrypted HTML artifact sharing for agents (askhuman.app)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by rvcdbn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Project Fetch: Phase Two (anthropic.com)
    ×0.83 20 #30 | 60 points by stopachka 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce (cnn.com)
    ×7.71 8 | 75 points by MilnerRoute 18 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media (theguardian.com)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by pseudolus 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.74 35 #25 | 214 points by farhadhf 23 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: ReplyVoice <> global floating button for Android voice dictation (replyvoice.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by kedimuzafer 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???