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Ask HN: What (other) jobs do you think of doing?

×0.36 15 | 7 points by penguin_booze 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Peer validation platform for engineering skills (inspired by X community notes)

×0.16 55 | 4 points by ms_sv 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

×4.49 21 | 1137 points by chaseadam17 4 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My first experience with an "AI"-ed call centre?

×0.71 38 | 26 points by chrisjj 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?

×0.69 57 | 9 points by givemeethekeys 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?

×1.10 61 | 29 points by zekejohn 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Real-Time Voice Agents Work: Media Infrastructure and Latency

×0.24 99 | 3 points by gokuljs 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reddit Ads support is leaking PII and actively crossing user sessions

×0.89 54 | 17 points by arashvakil 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?

×0.37 111 | 10 points by kwar13 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Cloud APIs (gcloud CLI) seems to be down or broken

×0.15 124 | 3 points by thej 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?

×1.06 95 | 31 points by boredemployee 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story

×0.82 49 | 16 points by matijash 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?

×0.28 118 | 7 points by arboles 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?

×0.51 130 | 12 points by fdneng 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery

×1.08 122 | 21 points by TazeTSchnitzel 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?

×0.45 120 | 27 points by causal 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web

×0.85 116 | 48 points by ColinWright 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Googling on Brazil about "Gemini said" shows unrevised content from Gemini

×0.09 131 | 3 points by yrds96 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?

×0.15 133 | 4 points by azebazenestor 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: (Your) Request for Startups?

×0.55 110 | 11 points by dontoni 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam

×0.37 132 | 17 points by rtrgrd 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News?

×0.32 129 | 8 points by ElectroNomad 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs (spencer.wtf)

×3.26 20 #57 | 677 points by spencerldixon 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Simple Teleprompter App for the Browser (gojko.net)

×0.64 | 1 points by adzicg 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Podvoice – Local-first CLI to turn Markdown into multi-speaker audio (github.com/aman179102)

×0.60 | 1 points by aman179102 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus (bbc.com)

×3.17 25 | 191 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere (reuters.com)

×2.70 6 #88 | 457 points by c420 2 days ago | 928 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services (arstechnica.com)

×2.72 55 | 4 points by rbanffy 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent Passport – OAuth-like identity verification for AI agents

×0.56 48 | 13 points by samerismail 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Minimalistic workout tracker for iPhone – Stats, Trends, Streaks (streakout.app)

×0.34 107 | 4 points by toni88x 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A16Z partner says that the theory that we'll vibe code everything is ' wrong' (aol.com)

×1.65 35 #19 | 43 points by paulpauper 9 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019) (cern.ch)

×1.40 14 #29 | 238 points by tylerdane 20 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cubans fight blackouts with solar as US extends oil chokehold (reuters.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by geox 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenClaw's hidden OTel plugin shows where all your tokens go (signoz.io)

×1.40 | 2 points by pranay01 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No Skill. No Taste (kinglycrow.com)

×2.11 19 | 190 points by ianbutler 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Google started to (quietly) insert (self) ads into Gemini output

×1.27 91 | 4 points by rdslw 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude Chrome Parallel – Ultrafast Parallel Browser MCP for Chrome (github.com/shaun0927)

×1.20 85 | 3 points by shaun0927 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI (github.com/gpasquero)

×0.75 112 | 96 points by gpasquero 6 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate (koreaherald.com)

×2.44 20 #27 | 94 points by phront 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chris Lattner: Claude C Compiler (modular.com)

×2.21 16 #61 | 28 points by de_aztec 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Codex Linux Self-Installer (github.com/welidev)

×1.54 | 2 points by weli 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Taalas "prints" LLM onto a chip? (anuragk.com)

×1.41 | 2 points by beAroundHere 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From chickens to humans, animals think "bouba" sounds round (arstechnica.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by rbanffy 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm Sick of This AI Shit [video] (youtube.com)

×2.86 44 | 45 points by thm 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Greenland ice melt surges unprecedentedly amid warming (phys.org)

×3.18 21 #44 | 6 points by bikenaga 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lil' Fun Langs (taylor.town)

×0.77 36 #53 | 117 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists camouflage heart rate from invasive radar-based surveillance (techxplore.com)

×1.43 | 2 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)

×0.98 80 | 93 points by simquat 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apple.com)

×0.95 96 | 105 points by AnujNayyar 4 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 17MB pronunciation scorer beats human experts at phoneme level

×1.12 126 | 3 points by fabiosuizu 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton (kasava.dev)

×2.80 5 #84 | 507 points by benbeingbin 1 day ago | 564 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BJJBench – tracking AI video model progress on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu techniques (bricee98.github.io)

×0.75 | 1 points by bricee98 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes (github.com/interpiduser5)

×2.43 | 314 points by interpidused 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other (mage-bench.com)

×0.96 83 | 116 points by GregorStocks 4 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I vibed a better OCaml parser than Jane Street in 69 steps (github.com/hdresearch)

×0.42 | 2 points by yevbar 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MatsuriMap – Free interactive map for events and festivals in Japan (kageknight.com)

×1.17 128 | 3 points by wrryyyy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet (neuroai.science)

×1.39 22 #38 | 219 points by pminimax 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Palantir Captured the UK Ministry of Defence (ft.com)

×2.35 9 #59 | 40 points by macleginn 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it (ahmedkaddoura.com)

×2.52 31 #65 | 102 points by daem 11 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (simonhalvdansson.github.io)

×0.41 119 | 42 points by swesnow 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Blindspot – a userscript to block tab-switch detection (github.com/gsekulski)

×0.52 | 2 points by gsekulski 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tired of BIG JavaScript frameworks? try this (github.com/aggroot)

×0.34 | 2 points by aggroot 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Be wary of Bluesky (kevinak.se)

×3.04 8 #22 | 131 points by kevinak 11 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization (mines.fyi)

×0.66 36 #45 | 99 points by irasigman 22 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review (sour.coffee)

×0.81 39 #86 | 121 points by neelc 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: InferShield – open-source security proxy for LLM inference (github.com/InferShield)

×0.58 | 1 points by Alex-Hosein 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compendium: An strace-like x86 Linux syscall tracer in Rust (pker.xyz)

×1.38 | 2 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git renames are not renames (lornajane.net)

×0.60 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inputlag.science – Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming (inputlag.science)

×0.94 | 1 points by akyuu 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust (harudagondi.space)

×0.90 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git uncommit – reset unpushed, committed changes (github.com/below43)

×0.91 89 | 3 points by below43 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ukraine Paves the Way for Pirate Site Blocking, Despite Ongoing War (torrentfreak.com)

×3.11 45 | 4 points by gslin 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript (github.com/n-e)

×0.64 94 | 69 points by n_e 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM (bashtorio.xyz)

×3.08 121 | 23 points by elijahcham 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Running Debian on the OpenWrt One (github.com/sjoerdsimons)

×0.94 92 | 5 points by mfilion 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vibe coded iOS workout app with Apple Watch support (apple.com)

×1.40 93 | 5 points by avsavani 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over (thelocalstack.eu)

×5.07 #3 | 873 points by ColinWright 12 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Our Modern Mistake (overcomingbias.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by jger15 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression (economist.com)

×1.52 47 | 86 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GenPPT AI – Turn any idea into professional slides in seconds (genppt.ai)

×1.34 58 | 4 points by polarisminor 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Are – Rule engine for JavaScript, C#, and Dart with playground (are-playground.netlify.app)

×1.33 88 | 4 points by beratarpa 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New AI Data Leaks–More Than 1B IDs and Photos Exposed (forbes.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward (theshamblog.com)

×3.76 26 | 522 points by scottshambaugh 1 day ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (micasa.dev)

×2.56 14 | 634 points by cpcloud 2 days ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FreeCAD (freecad.org)

×3.15 6 #76 | 422 points by doener 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA moon rocket suffers setback likely to delay March launch: officials (cbc.ca)

×1.67 28 | 3 points by cf100clunk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science (theguardian.com)

×5.38 15 | 510 points by mitchbob 1 day ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CEL by Example (celbyexample.com)

×0.66 77 | 82 points by bufbuild 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel (2015) (macleans.ca)

×0.88 34 #56 | 74 points by mhb 20 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023) (adamj.eu)

×1.60 8 | 85 points by frou_dh 21 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???