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  1. Ask HN: How would you go about domain change and getting a job in the domain?
    ×0.83 | 2 points by joddystreet 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
    ×0.77 14 #85 | 20 points by lgregg 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.47 5 | 764 points by lukehandcool 2 days ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.90 30 | 411 points by mariocesar 4 days ago | 646 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.84 61 | 569 points by IvanK_net 4 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting
    ×0.71 36 | 5 points by tsydenzhap 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. All startups need is distribution
    ×0.71 39 | 6 points by relaxfolio 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Resources for best practices in software development with AI?
    ×0.86 40 | 6 points by sergio-gdr 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×1.30 67 | 5 points by dfps 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×1.07 69 | 6 points by coherenttemple 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.27 83 | 3 points by sankde 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: MS Outlook login without an extra email address
    ×0.26 87 | 3 points by narevent 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×2.12 77 | 4 points by Kamabz 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How do Lightroom/DxO achieve such good AI denoising results?
    ×0.18 95 | 3 points by febed 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.70 97 | 13 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Does YC use AI agents to review your pitch?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by AravPhi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.35 120 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.47 99 | 8 points by fragmede 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.51 111 | 11 points by hanstyle 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job?
    ×0.91 79 | 4 points by bumicodes 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?
    ×0.49 109 | 5 points by dfps 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.51 119 | 12 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.80 125 | 12 points by thelastgallon 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×0.72 132 | 8 points by amichail 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×1.03 115 | 14 points by scoofy 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.26 143 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.69 140 | 13 points by Crontab 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.72 144 | 6 points by bigmattystyles 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×0.97 135 | 17 points by saimiam 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.11 112 | 40 points by trencedamp 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.58 147 | 8 points by maxignol 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.09 | 2 points by northlondoner 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP (github.com/othermod)
    ×1.24 10 #7 | 88 points by therepanic 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Throw Alice and Bob into Sagittarius A* (github.com/steveking-gh)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by steve6390 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview (hetzner.com)
    ×1.32 47 | 115 points by cnkk 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
    ×3.28 35 | 720 points by SpeakingOfBrad 3 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Takeshi's Castle (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.41 32 #72 | 110 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. H.266 vs. AV1 for Live Streaming: What Codec to Choose (red5.net)
    ×1.93 | 2 points by mondainx 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Megakernels on Mac: What Fusion Saves and What It Costs (abhishek.it)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by frostbyte7 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Vibe Prospecting – B2B Prospecting from Claude and Claude Code via MCP (github.com/explorium-ai)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by zivnadil 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Open Components – UI Components standard for people, devs and AI agents (opencomponents.dev)
    ×1.97 88 | 7 points by alexgrozav 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Build an agent harness from scratch to pass Ian Goodfellow's intelligence test (notesbylex.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by lexandstuff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz surge to wartime high, Iran tries choking oil (cnbc.com)
    ×2.69 56 | 61 points by MilnerRoute 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: HN Jev Sorter – classify HN comments in real time (github.com/ritza-co)
    ×1.60 121 | 4 points by sixhobbits 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Woodpecker – a browser agent built with Pi and user scripts
    ×2.10 124 | 7 points by tyr034 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
    ×3.14 11 #39 | 739 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. South Korea completes Arctic-Europe commercial voyage, eyes regular service (channelnewsasia.com)
    ×2.64 52 | 4 points by Markoff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. HuggingFace – Top Open Weights Models '26 (franciscocarloserra.github.io)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by FranciscoCarlos 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. go-duckfs: DuckDB virtual file system based on io/fs (github.com/firetiger-oss)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by tosh 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: RcloneView 1.6 – A desktop GUI for rclone with 40 cloud storages (rcloneview.com)
    ×0.85 118 | 6 points by newclone 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: UserAlertX – let your AI agent text you (only you) (useralertx.com)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by jclmn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.33 28 | 193 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I let Claude refactor my old game (github.com/victorqribeiro)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by atum47 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Spectra – A drop-in optimizer that cuts LLM training VRAM by 50% (github.com/SpectraSI)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by KanishkIndia 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter (momo5502.com)
    ×2.08 19 #28 | 96 points by davikr 8 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. IRCv3 (ircv3.net)
    ×2.99 72 | 3 points by basilikum 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What Is DKIM? (dmarcguard.io)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by meysamazad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos (cell.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.71 104 | 88 points by yashdotrv 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Git extension for controlling Git worktree mess (getzit.org)
    ×0.88 146 | 7 points by ironfootnz 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Veil – Zero-knowledge messenger with post-quantum encryption (tryveil.app)
    ×2.28 131 | 6 points by veil-im 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
    ×1.67 20 #43 | 199 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)
    ×2.05 52 #56 | 248 points by TheWaffleHax 9 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Rank 17 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (medium.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 58 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
    ×3.29 40 | 97 points by astlouis44 16 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Jotbus – a shared encrypted scratchpad for coding agents (jotbus.com)
    ×0.50 128 | 28 points by shake-n-fries 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Relevance of LTS distro releases and the GenAI world (lpc.events)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by Hendrikto 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Pi-Loop (Prototype) – A CLI for Reference Intake loop on DGX Spark (github.com/donutloop)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by donutloop 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: RemoveMacAI 1.0, a Mac app to turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 (omlahore.github.io)
    ×1.83 4 | 3 points by onyx47 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Crashlytics for AI Coding Agents (github.com/0xfirattamur)
    ×0.80 148 | 3 points by firattamurcw 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Knuth reward check (thomas-huehn.com)
    ×1.06 17 #14 | 194 points by Curiositry 18 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Marriage That Captures a High Point of American Art (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.48 45 #21 | 7 points by prismatic 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.79 4 #83 | 413 points by franze 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020) (nature.com)
    ×1.14 73 #55 | 125 points by bushwart 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Computers Cannot Make Decisions (cateat.fish)
    ×2.05 11 #84 | 200 points by heavensteeth 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I built a 100% client-side, privacy-first PDF utility at 18 (snappdf.art)
    ×1.18 35 | 3 points by HaSH-tech 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B (typesafe.ai)
    ×2.37 19 | 437 points by tosh 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos (wordminos.com)
    ×0.85 107 | 23 points by dyarosla 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. European Alternatives (buy-european.net)
    ×5.10 13 #9 | 58 points by doener 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support (github.com/moritzwilksch)
    ×0.91 28 #22 | 49 points by mwil1000 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants (broadinstitute.org)
    ×1.49 55 #47 | 166 points by luu 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Audit the Market Before Building the Page (notemplate.online)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by andruskoch 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Lobbying (geohot.github.io)
    ×5.89 14 | 184 points by smilelamp 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Peer-to-peer instant messaging with proof-of-work spam protection (github.com/iljah)
    ×1.04 100 | 3 points by iljah 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: OldRoll, a free vintage photo editor for the browser (oldroll.io)
    ×0.34 102 | 16 points by awa11 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)
    ×1.95 3 #2 | 309 points by softwaredoug 11 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (windows.com)
    ×1.33 37 #17 | 192 points by smokel 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Pippa, a local AI assistant for everyday people (heypippa.app)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by tschnorpfeil90 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Rutter – shared decision memory across AI tools (ruttermemory.com)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by shinytoyrobots 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: PodcastDelay – an open source RSS feed generator (github.com/samcolson4)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by samcolson42 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???