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  1. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×3.48 8 #57 | 502 points by IvanK_net 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×1.15 22 | 6 points by penskymaterial 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.82 30 | 5 points by Bender 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is the xcancel source code publicly available?
    ×0.64 77 | 3 points by bigwheels 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.48 99 | 33 points by onemiketwelve 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is anyone still working on dLLMs
    ×0.78 84 | 3 points by obonse 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×2.08 94 | 33 points by mariocesar 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Claude Agents SDK will no longer use subscription; API credits included in plans
    ×1.62 21 | 4 points by nullishdomain 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is this the beginning of the end of open source?
    ×0.59 96 | 4 points by potamic 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×5.23 75 | 20 points by trencedamp 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×1.34 116 | 11 points by Crontab 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.40 118 | 13 points by saimiam 22 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Google Chrome's AI API actively used for device fingerprinting and profiling
    ×0.76 105 | 6 points by AlexanderHanff 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×0.48 127 | 6 points by mtmosestn 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.82 140 | 6 points by maxignol 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×2.36 126 | 15 points by nunorbatista 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work
    ×0.53 146 | 5 points by microflash 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure
    ×3.59 128 | 15 points by akg_67 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What would you like to see in a new AI technology release?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by ikishade 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
    ×0.82 87 | 45 points by Gooblebrai 23 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Vibecoding Follies
    ×0.70 150 | 4 points by vegnus 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How come everyone is an LLM expert?
    ×0.76 151 | 4 points by delis-thumbs-7e 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Show me your agentic SDE semantics
    ×0.21 | 2 points by danielovichdk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is observability broken for you?
    ×0.82 152 | 4 points by tmach32 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos
    ×0.29 153 | 8 points by iliashad 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Agent access to chat data should require participant consent?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by maxwellito 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Alternatives to NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML
    ×0.62 156 | 3 points by john-titor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What brings you back to personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse?
    ×0.58 157 | 3 points by sdrth 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why does Astra compact context so frequently vs. Fable?
    ×0.61 158 | 3 points by yesitcan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What do you think about AI generated slides for conferences?
    ×1.18 155 | 5 points by Hixon10 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How are AI budgets changing in your company?
    ×1.58 154 | 6 points by bobby-cb 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
    ×1.55 113 | 101 points by goldenmember 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop, agent-adjusted
    ×0.65 159 | 3 points by dvrp 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. ChatGPT self-distances when admitting fault
    ×0.62 149 | 3 points by chrisjj 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.
    ×0.18 160 | 4 points by LowLevelMahn 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Warming up the Puma master before it forks (37signals.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by tux404 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Every number in a tiny GPT, from one forward pass to one step of RLHF (manogya.dev)
    ×3.84 91 | 8 points by xtcntr 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Open source 160 sound visualization experiments (kagan.in)
    ×0.94 12 #33 | 45 points by kaganin 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Terse, a Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler (github.com/lowenbjer)
    ×0.82 50 #54 | 10 points by lowenbjer 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Geforce Now for Nintendo Switch (github.com/Blade-Punisher)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by unchar1 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: An independent execution recorder for coding agents (github.com/altrace-dev-role)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by rishi_g25 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Itay Shechter on X: "Homemade American Bread HTTPS://t.co/ZMXcxxgyfu" / X (twitter.com/gfbeef_)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Auditor's Opinion (cringely.com)
    ×0.45 33 #46 | 24 points by colinprince 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? (thoreaubasic.com)
    ×0.97 138 | 96 points by Gorsefound 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Amazon's 'About You' section guesses oddly specific details about shoppers (theverge.com)
    ×2.29 9 #90 | 11 points by ohjeez 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Buildra v2.0 Avilable Now (buildra.dev)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by elgammalqa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Firefox version 157 is round (and how to make it less round) (creolened.com)
    ×1.65 27 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill (citizenlab.ca)
    ×2.45 36 | 154 points by speckx 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Calling It Quits on ServerFault (sysadmin1138.net)
    ×2.22 28 | 75 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.15 122 | 177 points by allenleee 3 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: TerrainSR – fast, realistic heightmap upscaling model (huggingface.co)
    ×0.84 123 | 9 points by joegibbs 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Bees – Run agentic teams on your own computer (open source) (bees.bot)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by ravikapoor101 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A virtual recording studio where you direct session players (daydream.live)
    ×0.90 84 #73 | 4 points by hthillman 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. DeFiFolio – build your crypto profile (dap.ad)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by alexdevphp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.51 58 | 160 points by hochmartinez 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Karotte, a framework for building robust RL envs (github.com/preferencemodel)
    ×4.10 9 | 8 points by 256 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Checkout this open-source, local-first bioinformatics/AI desktop app (github.com/Liatir)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by Suffro 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Zero dependency cross-language background job queue server (github.com/zizq-labs)
    ×1.14 137 | 4 points by d11wtq 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.93 1 #22 | 1203 points by OfficialTurkey 23 hours ago | 1361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to Assemble Science (aeon.co)
    ×0.24 57 #67 | 7 points by karakoram 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (nature.com)
    ×1.95 19 #76 | 15 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Smart Home Accessories (apple.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by kristianp 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Searchable AI agents built with a JSONC DSL (pypi.org)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by ramvenkat11 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ephemeral Testing (lemire.me)
    ×0.76 106 | 81 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Account bans on Reddit (orchidfiles.com)
    ×3.82 48 | 78 points by theorchid 21 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (readingchronicle.co.uk)
    ×2.00 16 #20 | 118 points by librasteve 8 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again (baty.net)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Elon Musk Says Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan Should Separate from Canada (montrealgazette.com)
    ×2.26 14 | 4 points by bhouston 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days (thedrive.com)
    ×4.81 83 | 181 points by speckx 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. We are going to kill "unalive" (anildash.com)
    ×8.19 88 | 122 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Shortfuse – Make macOS permissions expire automatically
    ×1.94 65 | 4 points by wxce 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google AI Edge Foresight – offline, private meeting transcripts (google.com)
    ×1.27 23 #78 | 3 points by shadowtree 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. LLMs may have helped my RSI (vaughanhilts.me)
    ×1.32 47 | 102 points by vaughands 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: An AI agent runs ten web errands a day, every transcript published (agentability.org)
    ×0.73 119 | 14 points by khalidsaidi 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Google Playground: Create and play custom games (blog.google)
    ×1.90 22 #25 | 93 points by acossta 9 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (niklasroy.com)
    ×1.34 110 | 234 points by r0r0 5 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Wood Tape (2004) (gamesbyemail.com)
    ×1.56 3 #19 | 127 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI companies say rivals are distilling their models and why it's so hard to stop (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.92 18 | 3 points by ck2 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What's Earth's dominant species by mass? (signoregalilei.com)
    ×2.67 26 | 290 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Pawl – Hooks that stop coding agents from deleting your home dir (github.com/ulukaya)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by ulukaya 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: TikTok user finder and video donwloader (ohmytt.com)
    ×1.02 136 | 4 points by valorantPanda 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Book Recommendations from Hacker News? (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by bookofjoe 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. When random is not actually random enough (ersc.io)
    ×0.87 60 | 78 points by steveklabnik 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why were Victorian elites so effective? (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.06 16 #30 | 52 points by karakoram 6 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Frontier AI Is Accelerating. Open Benchmarks Need to Keep Up (snorkel.ai)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by vincentschen 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. All the data sources for Apple Maps (apple.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by kaniksu 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Luke – Voice planning for coding agents (tryluke.dev)
    ×2.14 72 | 5 points by cpan22 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware (github.com/AL-255)
    ×0.95 9 #34 | 56 points by 0bytes 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Bending Spoons' Luca Ferrari says capital is no longer Europe's big barrier (thenextweb.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by T-A 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: getrequest – Never lose an API request (getrequest.io)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by santoshbaggam 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???