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  1. Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
    ×1.41 32 #57 | 89 points by keymasta 6 hours ago | 91 comments | ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily?
    ×0.49 | 2 points by osr00 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  3. Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
    ×2.76 67 | 296 points by jakemanger 11 hours ago | 238 comments | ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.43 93 | 373 points by david927 4 days ago | 1187 comments | ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Co-Founder(s). Do I need any? How would I even find them?
    ×0.85 42 | 9 points by bhollan 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Makes Tokens Expensive?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by mtokarski 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  7. Claude Desktop Silently Associates with Common Files
    ×0.43 95 | 3 points by 3371 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  8. Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset
    ×2.02 66 | 34 points by nandakishor_ml 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
    ×0.49 113 | 14 points by learner_yearner 1 day ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  10. Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties?
    ×0.21 116 | 4 points by cpsk 1 day ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  11. Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x
    ×0.48 114 | 7 points by Marciok 1 day ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.55 141 | 12 points by rylando 3 days ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27
    ×0.48 121 | 15 points by lucasoshiro 2 days ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock
    ×0.15 146 | 3 points by timedude 2 days ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.38 140 | 16 points by amichail 3 days ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  16. Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker because of AI?
    ×0.95 110 | 15 points by rizsyed1 1 day ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×2.02 109 | 74 points by nunez 3 days ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  18. Don't Just Say Hello (nohello.net)
    ×3.44 30 #41 | 58 points by ninju 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  19. Wonder debuts first robotic meal assembly system, acquired tech from Sweetgreen (fastcompany.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by rmason 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  20. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (xiaomi.com)
    ×2.66 27 | 534 points by krackers 1 day ago | 152 comments | ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos (juandecos.github.io)
    ×1.32 36 | 28 points by chaostaco 4 days ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Nerdulator – put something in, get everything out (no AI) (nerdulator.com)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by newlifehelp 1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others (mysetup.ai)
    ×1.78 #29 | 157 points by steveybrown 9 hours ago | 81 comments | ??? ???
  24. South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state (economist.com)
    ×2.34 56 #87 | 63 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  25. Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (autism.org.uk)
    ×2.59 73 | 95 points by AndrewDucker 1 day ago | 106 comments | ??? ???
  26. OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
    ×1.49 30 #81 | 189 points by etoxin 23 hours ago | 95 comments | ??? ???
  27. Show HN: ManyBot – Framework to build WhatsApp bots, without the boring part (manybot.org)
    ×0.50 115 | 9 points by synt-xerror 1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media (thevidmarket.com)
    ×0.40 144 | 16 points by ryanpere2298 3 days ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  29. Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (amazon.science)
    ×1.21 42 #74 | 156 points by Betelbuddy 22 hours ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  30. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
    ×1.92 15 | 3 points by joeriddles 38 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Free game to destroy any web page (page-rage.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by alexreardon 46 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device (bkovac.github.io)
    ×1.02 87 | 203 points by bobili1234 2 days ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  33. Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
    ×2.18 9 | 341 points by afilipovski 1 day ago | 207 comments | ??? ???
  34. A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.52 67 | 80 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 307 comments | ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model (poltora.dev)
    ×1.56 94 | 183 points by poltora 5 days ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  36. How GLM built its own inference infrastructure (z.ai)
    ×2.37 13 #15 | 346 points by whiteros_e 13 hours ago | 254 comments | ??? ???
  37. Backlog and Workers: Two Knobs on Two Layers (buoyant.io)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by PagCatOli 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  38. US interest rates raised for first time in three years (bbc.com)
    ×3.39 48 | 111 points by higginsniggins 23 hours ago | 114 comments | ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Content-aware PII redaction with Jev in Postgres (pg-redact.vercel.app)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by rishi_ 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  40. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.16 107 | 630 points by dmitrybrant 1 week ago | 290 comments | ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup (snapdrop.me)
    ×1.46 33 #25 | 7 points by Capira 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  42. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×7.92 20 #54 | 2270 points by arnemunthekaas 2 days ago | 255 comments | ??? ???
  43. Priest, Monk, and Mathematician (logangraves.com)
    ×0.87 50 #67 | 12 points by magoghm 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  44. Typesafe AI (typesafe.ai)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by h1fra 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  45. Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.45 79 | 188 points by zdw 1 day ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  46. Show HN: VOSR 2 image upscaling, in the browser (getemerald.co)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by gangster_dave 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  47. André Weil and the Hodge Conjecture (jiahao116.github.io)
    ×0.62 19 #23 | 23 points by caojiahao 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  48. The First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×2.14 18 #79 | 18 points by ohjeez 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  49. Open weights models are surprisingly aligned on offensive cyber (pentesttoday.com)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by scottfits 14 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  50. Multiple providers offer free mystery model, Union Alpha (tokenstead.ai)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by cdnsteve 40 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Radio – a shared workspace for your agents and teammates (plasma.ai)
    ×1.73 31 | 3 points by eswhang 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  52. Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
    ×2.86 13 | 579 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 204 comments | ??? ???
  53. macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.50 57 | 122 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 156 comments | ??? ???
  54. Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made portable across agents
    ×0.51 36 #24 | 36 points by cat-whisperer 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  55. Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again? (huggingface.co)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by gmays 2 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  56. Edge Magazine: The game industry is broken – can we fix it? (edge-online.com)
    ×1.58 10 | 3 points by vblanco 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  57. Show HN: TurboBench, the Compression Lie Detector, 100 Codecs, Daily Update (github.com/powturbo)
    ×1.62 125 | 5 points by powturbo 1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Aclif – Agent CLI framework: one grammar, canonical names across SaaS (aclif.ai)
    ×0.81 3 #68 | 29 points by chris_marino 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  59. OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints (openai.com)
    ×2.35 41 #72 | 92 points by theahura 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  60. I Hate You Microsoft (henriquenunez.eu)
    ×6.48 90 | 104 points by henriquenunez 44 minutes ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  61. Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (apple.com)
    ×2.67 37 | 523 points by imwally 1 day ago | 351 comments | ??? ???
  62. Who Are We Now? (jessitron.com)
    ×1.05 49 #42 | 4 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  63. More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older (bbc.com)
    ×1.92 53 #52 | 4 points by karakoram 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  64. Brazil plans executive order to ban online casinos, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×4.20 34 | 7 points by tartoran 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  65. The most important product decision is what you don't build (liamnugent.me)
    ×0.89 14 #34 | 8 points by ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human (skillbay.sh)
    ×0.65 47 #40 | 19 points by skeptrune 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  67. ESP32 Wi-Fi Vulns: Coordinated Disclosure Is Broken by AI (fughilli.substack.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by fughilli 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  68. ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market (utoronto.ca)
    ×3.25 53 | 162 points by geox 1 day ago | 152 comments | ??? ???
  69. How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.11 65 | 94 points by qt31415926 1 day ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Smart Crosshair – A lightweight C++/Win32 adaptive contrast crosshair (steampowered.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by SmartCrosshair 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  71. How Bain Cap is deploying 1.6B (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by jayzalowitz 29 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  72. Private Equity: In the Doldrums, Out of Favor with Some Institutional Investors (cepr.net)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 49 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  73. Using Jev for Claude Code model routing (github.com/gargpratyush)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by hassleblad23 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Linting 216 public Claude Code skills – 69% won't reliably trigger (skillcrossroads.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by sgharlow 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS (github.com/JamesRyanATX)
    ×0.65 106 | 85 points by fretlessjazz 2 days ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Pixel Agents – A pixel-art mission control for your Claude Code agents (mateovalle.github.io)
    ×1.89 118 | 5 points by mateovalle 1 day ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Linux Doctor – read-only health checks that explain what's wrong (github.com/zShaD0w7x)
    ×5.32 132 | 11 points by 7sh1d0w7x 2 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  78. Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown (johnnovak.net)
    ×1.28 4 #32 | 76 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  79. Microsoft, OpenAI lose fight to hide internal docs admitting scraping is theft (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.94 22 #44 | 22 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Microsoft Office Running with Wine on Linux with No Virtualization (github.com/Tombert)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by tombert 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  81. Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
    ×2.81 20 | 639 points by signa11 1 day ago | 275 comments | ??? ???
  82. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (claude.com)
    ×2.34 38 | 228 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 226 comments | ??? ???
  83. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.22 46 | 171 points by mococa 1 day ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Live honeypot telemetry – 941K attack events, 160 countries (lurescope.com)
    ×1.64 89 | 4 points by lurescope 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  85. Linux Patched for Silent User-Space Data Loss Bug That Existed Since 2023 (phoronix.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by dimonomid 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Composing domain-specific harness on Python in 10 mins (cayu.dev)
    ×1.72 32 | 3 points by zamir_akimbekov 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  87. Our framework for reporting model misalignment (openai.com)
    ×2.24 5 #85 | 101 points by qprofyeh 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ??? ???
  88. The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)
    ×1.53 58 | 179 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  89. Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
    ×0.65 72 | 76 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Kosmic Kart – Mario Kart-style racing with friends in the browser (kosmi.io)
    ×1.23 117 | 4 points by hauxir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ??? ???