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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.53 56 #27 | 338 points by david927 1 day ago | 1050 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×3.33 22 | 66 points by nunez 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.49 66 | 14 points by amichail 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. YouTube has banned Dmitry "Savromat" Chernyshevsky
    ×0.92 6 | 4 points by eimrine 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.80 70 | 7 points by rylando 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.19 97 | 3 points by Aditya_0315 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.39 92 | 10 points by mondobe 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What would make self-hosting easy enough for average consumers?
    ×0.48 80 | 5 points by dani4299 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Developers – Do you let agents write production code?
    ×0.73 76 | 6 points by smurf9852 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Has anyone made a legacy codebase more legible to AI coding agents?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by iacobandrei 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A repo gained 3,278 stars while GitHub showed Andrej Karpathy as a contributor
    ×0.46 90 | 4 points by newshackee 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Screenshots on macOS don't have to be date named files with spaces
    ×0.70 85 | 5 points by cs1996 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.89 78 | 61 points by stikit 2 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.34 129 | 8 points by emerongi 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?
    ×0.58 126 | 5 points by mehmetoguzderin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.50 65 | 484 points by jacquesm 4 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.54 120 | 26 points by waldrews 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. DietPi released a new version v10.7
    ×0.35 138 | 3 points by stephanstsdietp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are some privacy/security tools you wish exist, but don't yet?
    ×0.51 118 | 5 points by ToriTech 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.22 38 | 857 points by cromka 3 days ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI Boom / Bust – Boom Boom Pow
    ×0.60 121 | 5 points by wwolfson97 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How is AI actively a threat to humanity if it's only online?
    ×0.72 122 | 5 points by CM30 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
    ×0.89 77 | 29 points by _override 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Multi-agent workflows in production; Where people using 1000s of agents?
    ×0.32 135 | 3 points by ramstar3000 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What would it look like if AI agents "took over the internet"?
    ×0.16 131 | 4 points by scripper1 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why haven't people vibe coded popular 80s word processors as TUI apps?
    ×0.27 130 | 5 points by amichail 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
    ×1.04 108 | 25 points by chucksmash 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?
    ×0.47 137 | 9 points by funkaster 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off
    ×0.60 134 | 8 points by ctxc 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: You have unlimited resources, what software would you build?
    ×0.76 95 | 4 points by smalltorch 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives (gally.net)
    ×1.11 35 #49 | 121 points by tkgally 21 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Tudor Kings (analog-antiquarian.net)
    ×0.44 50 #83 | 26 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Bash sandbox script for Claude and codex CLI (github.com/e6qu)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by iwwr 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. DDRop: Memory Interposer Attacks on Confidential VMs by Dropping DDR5 Writes (ddropattack.eu)
    ×1.91 13 | 3 points by jessegeens 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I built Otis, a minimal AI agent that runs local models out of the box (triangllabs.ai)
    ×0.71 62 | 19 points by petrenk0n 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: VibeWorld – a shared terminal world for developers and scientists (github.com/SorBalda)
    ×1.17 115 | 7 points by sorbalda 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A 386 PC for Your RP2350 (github.com/rh1tech)
    ×1.25 29 #48 | 211 points by SamuraiLion 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. ZTE B860H: Getting Armbian into It (waltuh.cyou)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by airhangerf15 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.10 15 #78 | 474 points by Levitating 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: ICAO ePassport Inspector – on-device NFC passport verification (iOS) (apple.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by Eginn-33 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype (erkansaka.net)
    ×4.49 28 | 129 points by luk4 19 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information (explorator.dev)
    ×4.08 62 | 95 points by jyhrow 11 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: An open-source control plane for your company's AI agents (github.com/vstorm-co)
    ×1.13 74 | 3 points by outageroom 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)
    ×1.63 2 #4 | 34 points by rmoff 2 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Steam Frame starts at $1059 (steampowered.com)
    ×5.31 26 #33 | 681 points by bsimpson 17 hours ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: 2D and 3D printable QR-code generator (.3MF / STL) with magnets and NFC (s0lve.it)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by Minimaator 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Measuring Gauss-Seidel loop-carried dependency and fixing it via loop unrolling (loiseaujc.github.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by loiseaujc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Real-world attack credential lists from our own honeypot network (github.com/lurescope)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by lurescope 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: A web based 4-channel Music Tracker (johnoestmannmusic.com)
    ×2.29 99 | 5 points by soundworlds 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Agent Avatar Generator (botbin.io)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by obilgic 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Keeping Markdown canonical once decisions start referencing each other (github.com/FrancisMarzynski)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by francismarzynsk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore (ieee.org)
    ×4.94 30 | 162 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I built a URL shortener from scratch
    ×0.44 | 2 points by yhussain1110 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A beginning for mathematics (daniellitt.com)
    ×1.49 20 #18 | 233 points by robinhouston 19 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Distributed Systems Classics (2017) (nvartolomei.com)
    ×1.50 6 #19 | 311 points by grep_it 19 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Challenging AI (jensrantil.github.io)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by JensRantil 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Federal Disclosure) (thepricer.org)
    ×11.02 12 | 112 points by cinderelacinder 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents (eterdb.com)
    ×0.76 59 | 46 points by fdeth 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE (github.com/paradise-runner)
    ×1.06 87 | 82 points by dividedcomet 3 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. If bots take the "internet down", alternatives?
    ×0.80 | 1 points by JKCalhoun 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco (guessingheadlights.com)
    ×3.05 24 | 223 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Bodily Oddities (vester.si)
    ×1.89 63 | 340 points by vesterde 4 days ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Renewable Data Center Fantasy (energybadboys.substack.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by leonidasrup 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I measured Apple's on-device LLM across an OS beta cycle (deforget.app)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by lachezarov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Shortcut Express – My attempt to get the world using keyboard shortcuts (github.com/chimit)
    ×1.49 101 | 3 points by motomac 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Compressing a flag to 11 bits (vantezzen.io)
    ×1.49 7 #21 | 156 points by bennett_dev 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A wrong turn become a nightmare (spectrumlocalnews.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by pregreplace 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Trying to understand SR-1 Freedom (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.65 14 | 3 points by calcifer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser (bensunter.com)
    ×0.27 | 2 points by bsunter2 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Botbin – A zero-login HTML pastebin for AI agents (botbin.io)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by obilgic 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Voice Rater – in-browser voice analysis (jitter, CPPS, formants) (voice-rater.com)
    ×1.26 106 | 3 points by hacksu 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Hacker News, without AI (hcker.news)
    ×2.52 67 | 206 points by postalcoder 3 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public (theartnewspaper.com)
    ×0.77 28 #61 | 54 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts (techtimes.co.uk)
    ×4.56 61 | 185 points by akis33 16 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction? (gultsch.de)
    ×2.14 | 94 points by inputmice 20 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I made a tiny MoE/Engram viz tool (sw-ml-study.github.io)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by softwarewright 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2 (github.com/stoix-dev)
    ×1.86 47 #71 | 76 points by lestx 9 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Quantum Cyclic Cosmology with Sean Carroll [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by binyu 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Crypto portfolio risk and scenario analysis with AI agents on top (sentralis.io)
    ×1.06 124 | 3 points by Sentralis 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Synthesizing Loop-Free Programs with Rust and Z3 (2020) (fitzgen.com)
    ×0.57 25 #32 | 17 points by karelpeeters 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I think roguelikes should steal Noita's philosophy (itch.io)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Shmungus 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. US military reveals it has weapons in space (ft.com)
    ×4.63 29 #79 | 50 points by JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. We all wanted to be Netflix, who do we want to be next? (architecture-weekly.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by theanonymousone 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Spec sheets for humans – who you are and how to work with you (spec.md)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by allanmaeots 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (atomic14.com)
    ×4.10 45 | 937 points by iamflimflam1 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Coming War on General Computation (2011) (wikisource.org)
    ×1.87 34 | 119 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Analyzed 400 routes and driving a Tesla beats flying 65% of the time (flyortesla.com)
    ×1.10 61 | 3 points by drewlem 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost (narilabs.com)
    ×0.87 38 #50 | 82 points by toebee 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. WebGPU Engine Bench: Three.js vs. PlayCanvas vs. Babylon.js (claude.ai)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by ovenchips 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Drone flight over world cities and neighbourhoods (kingsbridge-consultancy.com)
    ×1.06 104 | 3 points by beerglass 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???