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  1. Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook
    ×0.37 | 2 points by samarthv 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.62 13 | 570 points by _-x-_ 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Makes AI a Bubble?
    ×0.64 18 | 15 points by atleastoptimal 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare
    ×1.08 26 | 17 points by rincebrain 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far
    ×3.37 89 | 39 points by mebkorea 2 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Will hardware ever be cheap again?
    ×0.86 51 | 9 points by bjourne 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.97 80 | 96 points by LatencyKills 3 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. GitHub Alternatives?
    ×0.75 57 | 11 points by krthr 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Can you tell the difference between Claude Sonnet and Opus?
    ×0.31 88 | 5 points by muddi900 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: RedHat for Personal Use
    ×0.30 96 | 4 points by bozdemir 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?
    ×0.79 106 | 18 points by dwa3592 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing and retiring annual plans
    ×0.55 66 | 7 points by websku 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Anyone want to collaborate on a local-first AI-based research assistant
    ×0.18 128 | 4 points by venkatram-s 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are you concerned by TLS-terminating proxies like Cloudflare Tunnels?
    ×0.73 87 | 6 points by thom-gtdp 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Batteries Included CLI Framework
    ×0.42 132 | 10 points by maxalbarello 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS
    ×0.43 143 | 7 points by lifeisstillgood 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript
    ×0.68 98 | 15 points by g48ywsJk6w48 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.86 119 | 36 points by langs 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How I find a job where what is needed is solid code, not firefighting?
    ×0.99 82 | 20 points by speeder 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How did the industry settle on weekly limits?
    ×0.65 116 | 12 points by saratogacx 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?
    ×0.57 127 | 13 points by visox 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.70 121 | 49 points by 019 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?
    ×2.62 105 | 22 points by fandorin 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Consider GNU/Linux?
    ×0.39 112 | 3 points by xlmnxp 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded
    ×1.82 135 | 17 points by vintagedave 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?
    ×0.60 126 | 9 points by samarthv 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?
    ×1.22 141 | 10 points by Erndob 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
    ×0.64 122 | 27 points by honungsburk 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Oh, What Places to Go (Seriously Tho)
    ×0.83 115 | 11 points by thx 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.80 136 | 25 points by AG25 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Which is Better–Android or iOS?
    ×0.93 94 | 11 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.69 142 | 30 points by burnt-resistor 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?
    ×0.80 138 | 8 points by Haeuserschlucht 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
    ×1.36 131 | 23 points by wasimsk 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking
    ×0.72 133 | 22 points by mfi 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Asimov v1: Open-Source Humanoid Robot (github.com/asimovinc)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Philipp2398 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good (routerjockey.com)
    ×4.16 7 | 94 points by tonhe 20 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: PrePrompt – rewrites vague prompts before they reach the LLM (preprompt.org)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by yashdeeptehlan 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I Reverse Engineered Codex Background Computer Use (github.com/actuallyepic)
    ×3.14 146 | 10 points by anupamb 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Den stora Älgvandringen – The great moose migration (live) (svtplay.se)
    ×1.02 31 #45 | 93 points by donjoe 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. GitHub is having issues now (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.03 61 #77 | 318 points by SenHeng 15 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Field Guide to Bugs (stephendiehl.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by signa11 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. From milliseconds to 26 nanoseconds: how a $20 eBay SFP module beat my NT (austinsnerdythings.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Meta prepares to undo acquisition of Singapore-based Manus after China ban (businesstimes.com.sg)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by doppp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: VibeBrowser – Give your AI agent your real logged-in browser via MCP (vibebrowser.app)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by denis4inet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The fastest Linux timestamps (hmpcabral.com)
    ×1.19 49 | 70 points by hmpc 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Logic Designer – Webapp (logic-designer.github.io)
    ×1.77 102 | 6 points by logic-designer 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Meetings are forcing functions (mooreds.com)
    ×1.43 2 #19 | 119 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core (tingouw.com)
    ×0.85 55 #81 | 94 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Claud is missing the 2. Sense – Transcribe the web (webtranscriber.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by broalkvam 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port (notepad-plus-plus-mac.org)
    ×2.13 39 | 87 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: DDoS detection in 0.9s, tested against a 48 Gbps attack live (flowtriq.com)
    ×1.54 103 | 15 points by jacob_masse 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Run coding agents in microVM sandboxes instead of your host machine (github.com/superhq-ai)
    ×9.91 104 | 63 points by phoenixranger 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview (github.com/dirac-run)
    ×1.73 2 #32 | 343 points by GodelNumbering 21 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Text Is the New Binary (andreabaccega.com)
    ×2.59 24 | 4 points by veke87 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Japan awakens to Radio Taiso exercise tradition. One face of country's longevity (apnews.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game (options-game-polymathrobotics.pythonanywhere.com)
    ×0.62 64 | 33 points by iliabara 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor (oravys.com)
    ×2.78 13 #13 | 526 points by Oravys 23 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Bohu Laser Facility (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by lumax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive (shankwiler.com)
    ×2.97 62 | 60 points by iuvcaw 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Steal Claude Code Architecture (teamcal.ai)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by rajl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests (tps.ca)
    ×1.30 13 #12 | 161 points by gnabgib 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools (github.com/serverless-dna)
    ×0.74 28 #63 | 77 points by walmsles 20 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I built a WordPress plugin that generates 1000 SEO pages in minutes (indiehackers.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by codefreex 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Unitree G1 humanoid robot roller skating [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by nathanh4903 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: AgentSwarms – free hands-on playground to learn agentic AI, no setup (agentswarms.fyi)
    ×1.43 70 | 25 points by rohan044 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Quay – Menu-bar Git sync (sailorslog.io)
    ×0.93 153 | 4 points by sailingcode 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. “Why not just use Lean?” (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×1.44 5 #30 | 283 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.68 15 #82 | 237 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ateneo VR escape room game teaches Philippine Martial Law to a new generation (ateneo.edu)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by JeanKage 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. London Met Police investigates officers after using Palantir AI tool (theguardian.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by lucidplot 54 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Delegare – let AI agents pay safely (x402, AP2 – base/USDC and Stripe) (delegare.dev)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by tpfuetze 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back (restofworld.org)
    ×4.54 52 | 140 points by kelnos 14 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: DSS, a lightweight TUI spreadsheet editor and dashboard in Go (github.com/VincenzoManto)
    ×1.80 123 | 7 points by databasa 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: #1 On This Day (onthisday-theta.vercel.app)
    ×5.14 134 | 18 points by starzmustdie 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Flipdiscs (flipdisc.io)
    ×2.54 7 #52 | 554 points by skogstokig 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Electrostatics and High Voltage Links (amasci.com)
    ×0.53 66 #73 | 44 points by ludicrousdispla 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What Claude Shannon Knew in 1950 That We're Pretending Is New (thecontentwrangler.com)
    ×1.27 5 #83 | 7 points by eigenBasis 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. FreeBSD Device Drivers Book (github.com/ebrandi)
    ×1.26 55 #64 | 137 points by myth_drannon 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases (github.com/refactoringhq)
    ×1.79 67 | 312 points by lucaronin 4 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud (github.com/besimple-oss)
    ×0.70 107 | 82 points by yzhong94 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. WASM is not quite a stack machine (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×1.72 18 #9 | 29 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code (github.com/evanklem)
    ×1.01 46 #75 | 106 points by evanklem2004 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared (cnn.com)
    ×4.21 53 | 119 points by acdanger 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Fallen Apple (mattgemmell.scot)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by mpweiher 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
    ×4.20 30 | 668 points by jamesponddotco 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Have you tried Clean Architecture as foundation for your AI project?
    ×13.48 47 | 94 points by esmelazy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Polynya – Turn your Postgres into workspaces for AI (polynya.dev)
    ×1.13 110 | 5 points by hasyimibhar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.37 6 #3 | 878 points by helsinkiandrew 20 hours ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust (github.com/pgcentralfoundation)
    ×1.42 7 #6 | 84 points by luu 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???