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  1. Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?
    ×0.54 18 #40 | 11 points by dmpyatyi 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
    ×1.12 2 | 4 points by a_protsyuk 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
    ×0.42 54 | 42 points by techteach00 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one?
    ×0.17 66 | 3 points by parvardegr 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are developers who build libs and dev tools safer from AI replacement?
    ×0.72 | 2 points by danver0 57 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects
    ×1.10 16 | 19 points by 7777777phil 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.30 118 | 11 points by dakiol 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?
    ×1.26 89 | 24 points by arm32 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are early-stage AI startups thinking about IP protection?
    ×0.18 93 | 4 points by shaheeniquebal 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised?
    ×0.40 92 | 11 points by marvin_nora 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI
    ×0.81 86 | 11 points by daringrain32781 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?
    ×0.29 104 | 6 points by YuukiJyoudai 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.25 116 | 8 points by sujayk_33 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Back end where you just define schema, access policy, and functions
    ×0.23 123 | 3 points by emilss 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to tell if an image is AI generated?
    ×0.37 95 | 8 points by leandrobon 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects
    ×0.86 114 | 12 points by amin2011 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with <name> as an XML Tag to <n>
    ×0.47 96 | 9 points by exabrial 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
    ×0.89 109 | 14 points by moomoo11 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I made my favorite AI tool
    ×0.31 124 | 4 points by sebringj 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Should I add this acknowledgement/shoutout by xAI/Grok to my resume?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by aehsan4004 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?
    ×1.33 142 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Open-Source Bionic Reading Chrome Extension (MIT)
    ×0.20 | 2 points by sdgnbs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Orvia – Spin up a real-time room, share files, leave – everything disappears
    ×0.25 | 2 points by yc_surajkr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do new blogs break the backlink–indexing loop?
    ×1.24 136 | 4 points by lilcodingthings 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is there a workaround in OpenClaw for tab not found
    ×0.33 | 2 points by jinen83 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×1.11 122 | 34 points by zekejohn 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do US presidents have less fiduciary liability than CEOs?
    ×1.14 107 | 5 points by stopbulying 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Peer validation platform for engineering skills (inspired by X community notes)
    ×0.12 147 | 4 points by ms_sv 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?
    ×0.69 141 | 12 points by givemeethekeys 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do You Love My "Assess Idea" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea?
    ×0.22 146 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is There Any .llmignore?
    ×0.67 108 | 4 points by rishikeshs 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What (other) jobs do you think of doing?
    ×0.53 125 | 14 points by penguin_booze 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.43 145 | 13 points by kwar13 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Law of Universal Uniqueness (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by jger15 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)
    ×1.61 18 | 161 points by simplesort 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: AIO Checker – See what ChatGPT and Claude see on your website (aiochecker.vercel.app)
    ×1.56 102 | 4 points by solskede 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Deeper – Open-Source Beeper Analytics App for macOS (github.com/f)
    ×0.87 113 | 3 points by fka 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (atariage.com)
    ×1.08 5 #1 | 103 points by marcodiego 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A NASA Engineer Discovered a World of Semi Truck Aerodynamics by Accident (thedrive.com)
    ×0.85 13 #83 | 56 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Intellectual Honesty in the Age of Vibes (zmalik.dev)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by zmalik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.04 65 | 70 points by swolpers 5 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: AgentDbg - local-first debugger for AI agents (timeline, loops, etc.) (github.com/AgentDbg)
    ×1.46 56 | 3 points by z-a-f 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations (pyrope.net)
    ×0.44 51 #26 | 39 points by usually 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good (httptoolkit.com)
    ×1.16 83 #52 | 15 points by pimterry 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: G13u.com An automated SRE for AI apps (g13u.com)
    ×1.20 131 | 3 points by gerom 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Donut Lab Solid-State Battery: Fast Charge Test [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by jread 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database (warnfirehose.com)
    ×1.66 14 | 129 points by sendkamal 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
    ×2.27 20 #44 | 454 points by MilkMp 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser (pieter.com)
    ×1.20 65 #56 | 147 points by jalev 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. NumPy-Ts: NumPy for Browser and Node.js (numpyts.dev)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by dupontcyborg 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
    ×0.69 24 #11 | 12 points by eigen-vector 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
    ×2.42 10 #12 | 488 points by qsi 13 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map (xweather.com)
    ×1.21 49 #69 | 177 points by unstyledcontent 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums (popsci.com)
    ×2.39 24 #71 | 397 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Language model mitigates chimera artifacts in nanopore direct RNA sequencing (nature.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by PaulHoule 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Velocity Is the New Authority (om.co)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by anarbadalov 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container (github.com/a11ce)
    ×1.12 111 | 82 points by a11ce 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
    ×1.08 35 #30 | 117 points by ai_bot 13 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index (anthropic.com)
    ×1.12 4 #43 | 58 points by armcat 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Peekl – A modern alternative to Ansible and Puppet (peekl.dev)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by redat00 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. IBM is the latest AI casualty (cnbc.com)
    ×2.51 45 | 6 points by baal80spam 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Anthropic Study: AI Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill Mastery by 17% (infoq.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by msolujic 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. OpenAI: WebSocket Mode (openai.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by tosh 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Merkle Casino – Random CT Domains (altayakkus.dev)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by biosboiii 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Bibabo – Gamified AI-first coding education (bibabo.ai)
    ×1.12 98 | 3 points by iivyvii 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Spacemoji – 3D emoji-filled space warp simulation in a single HTML file (github.com/j-ncel)
    ×1.50 91 | 4 points by koalux 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Cryphos – no-code crypto signal bot with Telegram alerts (cryphos.com)
    ×0.46 132 | 4 points by duckducker 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Ghostty and Watercolors (jrmeyer.github.io)
    ×2.35 133 | 7 points by _josh_meyer_ 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI-powered reverse-engineering of Rosetta 2 for Linux (github.com/Inokinoki)
    ×2.09 7 #4 | 21 points by inoki 33 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.75 68 #49 | 78 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: MuJoCo React (github.com/noah-wardlow)
    ×1.30 134 | 3 points by noahwardlow 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 (worldtradelaw.net)
    ×4.75 69 | 76 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Read Locks Are Not Your Friends (eventual-consistency.vercel.app)
    ×1.07 33 #45 | 6 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology (github.com/jimishol)
    ×0.47 63 #80 | 47 points by jimishol 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com/quailyquaily)
    ×0.70 57 #66 | 69 points by lyricat 20 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Deplatform Yourself (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.71 8 #57 | 30 points by hn_acker 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Implementing ping from the Ethernet layer (ARP,IPv4,ICMP in user space) (github.com/v420v)
    ×1.16 77 | 6 points by ibuki256 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. 'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study (science.org)
    ×1.16 11 #13 | 122 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf] (columbia.edu)
    ×0.32 46 #24 | 17 points by luu 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why I love learning new things (seekingtrust.substack.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by FinnLobsien 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: GitHub Issues in the Terminal (github.com/JayanAXHF)
    ×0.83 130 | 3 points by frxgfa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Controlling Off-Odors in Plant Proteins Using Sequential Fermentation (mdpi.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by PaulHoule 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Binding port 0 to avoid port collisions (ntietz.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator (internals-for-interns.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by valyala 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Dating App Height Verification (tenr.co)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by ryantrw 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Sayou: Open-source agent workspace with versioned files and MCP tools (github.com/pixell-global)
    ×1.10 101 | 3 points by syumpx 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
    ×0.97 17 #14 | 87 points by Sabrees 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/JeffBezanson)
    ×0.99 23 #28 | 101 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall (rename.world)
    ×3.29 58 | 77 points by kafked 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Agentic Software Engineering Book (agenticse-book.github.io)
    ×1.66 34 | 64 points by bananaflag 19 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???