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  1. If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival
    ×1.36 17 #50 | 8 points by hanstyle 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.50 21 #81 | 747 points by lukehandcool 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.86 2 #87 | 394 points by mariocesar 1 day ago | 633 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.88 42 | 568 points by IvanK_net 3 days ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?
    ×0.88 18 | 5 points by dfps 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.50 43 | 6 points by fragmede 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.89 60 | 13 points by consumer451 18 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.60 73 | 11 points by hanstyle 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.36 99 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.57 87 | 12 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.98 95 | 12 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired
    ×1.94 45 | 9 points by karimelgazar 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×0.92 100 | 8 points by amichail 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×1.02 88 | 12 points by scoofy 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.31 118 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.95 124 | 6 points by bigmattystyles 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.46 107 | 12 points by penskymaterial 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.10 | 2 points by northlondoner 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.75 120 | 13 points by Crontab 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence
    ×0.86 96 | 8 points by butlersean 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.48 90 | 40 points by trencedamp 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.04 114 | 17 points by saimiam 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What happened with quantum computers anyway?
    ×0.46 117 | 4 points by pera 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.54 130 | 7 points by maxignol 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Learning practical system design
    ×1.04 111 | 6 points by rcdmrl 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.46 123 | 7 points by Bender 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are we trading model capacity for compute?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by olirex99 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×1.60 119 | 16 points by nunorbatista 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: A simple to-do app for iPhone, Mac, and your agent (ilia.page)
    ×0.89 6 #32 | 11 points by shmilia 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How to Fix autoconf-style Configuration Probing (build2.org)
    ×0.40 56 #55 | 15 points by boris 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Run your CI locally or where your agents are running and update your gh checks (github.com/preloopdev)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by Bnjoroge 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 (github.com/anupray95)
    ×0.88 70 | 33 points by anupray 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Veil – Zero-knowledge messenger with post-quantum encryption (tryveil.app)
    ×2.29 94 | 6 points by veil-im 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Coolphabets – Teaching kids to read and write in their mother tongue
    ×0.57 85 | 3 points by samdung 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Download: AI's refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by joozio 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Meet Bibi: We're Building a Voice-Controlled Robot (youtube.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by aufklarer 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ZJIT is now as fast as YJIT (railsatscale.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by riffraff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Kefermarkt Chruch – Gaussian Splatting (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by cavoirom 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court (state.gov)
    ×3.65 50 | 173 points by TechTechTech 16 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.89 61 | 58 points by danny00 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: BerryDB – Open-source macOS database client written in Swift and AppKit (github.com/berry-apps)
    ×0.29 128 | 3 points by berryhubapp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity (vt.edu)
    ×1.65 24 #23 | 7 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Maritime: Persistent Cloud Agents (maritime.sh)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A patch to make Codex's browser control work in Arc (github.com/brianlzhou)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by piplupness 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.71 82 | 88 points by yashdotrv 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Like a drill going into my eye: why the Havana syndrome mystery refuses to die (theguardian.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ggm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude (theverge.com)
    ×7.42 46 | 86 points by mikelgan 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man (opper.ai)
    ×0.84 44 | 73 points by felix089 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Apogee: Rebuilding Mozilla's Orbit, fully local and private (github.com/darshi1337)
    ×3.47 26 | 64 points by zxdc7896 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: HN Jev Sorter – classify HN comments in real time (github.com/ritza-co)
    ×1.70 65 | 4 points by sixhobbits 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux (lsantos.dev)
    ×0.92 34 #14 | 69 points by khaosdoctor 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Once: Cache CLI commands (github.com/alex0ptr)
    ×0.66 36 #60 | 89 points by baquero 22 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview (hetzner.com)
    ×1.26 9 #88 | 107 points by cnkk 19 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I built a fast spreadsheet engine for the web in Rust/WASM (github.com/podraven)
    ×0.66 92 | 8 points by deathg0d 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Spectra – A drop-in optimizer that cuts LLM training VRAM by 50% (github.com/SpectraSI)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by KanishkIndia 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Dealophant – Compare Amazon products by price per unit (dealophant.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by thejdubb02 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why are coding agents so dumb? (mtlynch.io)
    ×2.02 24 #53 | 89 points by mtlynch 17 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad (torproject.org)
    ×1.55 4 #56 | 128 points by runtimewire 15 hours ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Theranos.world (theranos.world)
    ×2.39 6 #71 | 553 points by kbyatnal 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Vec1: Native vector search (ANN) in SQLite (sqlite.org)
    ×2.62 24 | 4 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Zombie AI Video Generator – a zombie love story from two photos (zombieaivideo.org)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by chaojie26 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: SRA-RiskGate-4B – Local LLM for stablecoin risk gating and disputes (huggingface.co)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by sriram1983007 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B (typesafe.ai)
    ×2.49 6 #7 | 351 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. You might want to try being less creative (bawolf.com)
    ×1.14 6 #69 | 69 points by bryantwolf 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Could Nigerian eateries become as widespread as Chinese restaurants? (cnn.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by koolhead17 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. What should we tell our students? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.83 6 | 157 points by sajid 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Long term Memory and 50M token window for LLM (huggingface.co)
    ×2.47 80 | 6 points by Corbenic 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×0.80 48 #75 | 141 points by AnneWodell 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Unauthorized access, personal data leaks surge in Japan (nhk.or.jp)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by phantomathkg 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Need Unbiased and Real Assessment
    ×0.48 | 1 points by donovanfromla 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Rutter – shared decision memory across AI tools (ruttermemory.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by shinytoyrobots 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Greece Is a Near Eastern Country: Foreword to the New Byzantines (medium.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by endorphine 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Building AI agents? You're probably overpaying for infrastructure (withruntime.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by shermansingh 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Fabrika, Opinionated Software Factory (tatiyants.com)
    ×0.75 75 | 4 points by atatiyan 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Convkit – A command line tool for converting images/video/docs offline (github.com/shdwfruit)
    ×2.37 125 | 7 points by shdwfruit 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Porch – a Mac menu bar work log for Claude Code and Codex sessions (github.com/amone-labs)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by bearjb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants (broadinstitute.org)
    ×1.47 22 #12 | 47 points by luu 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again (baty.net)
    ×0.46 38 #17 | 8 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? (dgt.is)
    ×4.37 11 #40 | 1093 points by jonotime 1 day ago | 961 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (nature.com)
    ×1.05 44 #76 | 149 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Lobbying (geohot.github.io)
    ×5.63 90 | 160 points by smilelamp 3 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Programming Language Wars: a 2d game about language 0xbeef (avestura.dev)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by avestura 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.79 12 #36 | 395 points by franze 20 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program (reuters.com)
    ×3.83 41 | 119 points by geox 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Git extension for controlling Git worktree mess (getzit.org)
    ×0.89 129 | 7 points by ironfootnz 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tesla Renames FSD to 'Assisted Driving' in Europe (reuters.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. PWA to Replace DeepL and Google Translate (github.com/Donnie)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by donnieashok 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: LumiBridge – 448x64 LED display with SDR ship tracking (timvasil.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by TimVasil 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Senro – WebMCP Evals and Observability (senro.ai)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by nartmadi 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How Strong Is the Strong Force? (cerncourier.com)
    ×0.87 62 #39 | 11 points by EA-3167 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???