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  1. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×3.29 4 #46 | 523 points by IvanK_net 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.66 54 | 8 points by penskymaterial 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.45 89 | 33 points by onemiketwelve 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.83 85 | 34 points by mariocesar 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.65 76 | 6 points by Bender 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is the xcancel source code publicly available?
    ×0.43 105 | 3 points by bigwheels 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is anyone still working on dLLMs
    ×0.45 109 | 3 points by obonse 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×5.39 69 | 27 points by trencedamp 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×1.19 112 | 11 points by Crontab 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.28 113 | 13 points by saimiam 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is this the beginning of the end of open source?
    ×0.50 108 | 4 points by potamic 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude Mythos 5.1 System Prompt?
    ×0.88 127 | 3 points by knifelemon 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Google Chrome's AI API actively used for device fingerprinting and profiling
    ×0.70 111 | 6 points by AlexanderHanff 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Claude Agents SDK will no longer use subscription; API credits included in plans
    ×1.46 75 | 5 points by nullishdomain 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×0.45 135 | 6 points by mtmosestn 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.75 144 | 6 points by maxignol 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×2.17 123 | 15 points by nunorbatista 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work
    ×0.48 150 | 5 points by microflash 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure
    ×3.19 132 | 15 points by akg_67 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What would you like to see in a new AI technology release?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by ikishade 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Vibecoding Follies
    ×0.64 154 | 4 points by vegnus 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How come everyone is an LLM expert?
    ×0.94 151 | 5 points by delis-thumbs-7e 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
    ×0.82 78 | 45 points by Gooblebrai 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Show me your agentic SDE semantics
    ×0.19 | 2 points by danielovichdk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is observability broken for you?
    ×0.75 157 | 4 points by tmach32 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos
    ×0.29 156 | 8 points by iliashad 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Agent access to chat data should require participant consent?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by maxwellito 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Alternatives to NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML
    ×0.89 159 | 4 points by john-titor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What brings you back to personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse?
    ×0.54 160 | 3 points by sdrth 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why does Astra compact context so frequently vs. Fable?
    ×0.55 161 | 3 points by yesitcan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What do you think about AI generated slides for conferences?
    ×1.32 158 | 6 points by Hixon10 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How are AI budgets changing in your company?
    ×1.75 155 | 7 points by bobby-cb 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here (tidesdb.com)
    ×1.10 9 #19 | 42 points by alexpadula 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (readingchronicle.co.uk)
    ×1.83 13 #21 | 177 points by librasteve 15 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Spotifast: A native Rust Spotify client with Winamp skins (spotifast.rocks)
    ×1.38 73 #73 | 31 points by joshcsimmons 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. California closed the Montana license plate loophole (thedrive.com)
    ×1.55 60 #77 | 142 points by speckx 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.91 70 | 224 points by gagan2020 12 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks (reuters.com)
    ×2.18 43 | 97 points by thoughtpeddler 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Botscent – Library to Detect Agents on your site (nibnalin.me)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by nibnalin 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
    ×0.99 128 | 121 points by edverma2 5 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Self-Modeling Interventions Modulate Emergent Misalignment (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by gmays 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Runtime – Your AI Agents Have a Home (withruntime.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by shermansingh 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. NotProton: Steam Play for macOS (github.com/NotProtonNot)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by jzelinskie 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. OpenAI tricked me into switching to a business account
    ×0.38 | 1 points by probolsky 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Catching Crumbs from the Table [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×2.38 10 | 5 points by qingcharles 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. When random is not actually random enough (ersc.io)
    ×0.88 65 #89 | 79 points by steveklabnik 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Make717, Lancaster PA's First Makerspace (make717.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by linuxkernal 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Trump plans to charge international students $70k for work authorization (reuters.com)
    ×1.63 12 | 3 points by onemoresoop 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
    ×1.03 68 | 109 points by mauriziocalo 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: getrequest – Never lose an API request (getrequest.io)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by santoshbaggam 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (stelabouras.com)
    ×0.49 115 | 37 points by stelabouras 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Rust's derive often implies inline (yossarian.net)
    ×1.16 28 #37 | 112 points by woodruffw 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×3.69 59 #71 | 190 points by 6bitquant 8 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (2010) (igoro.com)
    ×0.69 68 #72 | 49 points by porridgeraisin 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SERV – The SErial RISC-V CPU (github.com/olofk)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by kristianpaul 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why Do We Need Human Anything Anymore? (poshenloh.com)
    ×1.43 47 | 3 points by nopinsight 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mallet Head Angle (2011) (timberframe-tools.com)
    ×0.76 49 #47 | 62 points by frogulis 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas (stillwet.art)
    ×2.33 110 | 390 points by alstonite 6 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: YAVCHN, Yet Another Vibe-Coded Hacker News (Reader) (yavchn.com)
    ×1.21 152 | 3 points by paulmooreparks 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Reasons to Dislike AI Coding (sicpers.info)
    ×1.98 55 #59 | 63 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Rhyven – A marketplace for agents (rhyvenai.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by calebrhyven 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Free calculator for US physicians' $200K-$400K student loan debt (medschooldebtcalculator.com)
    ×2.06 98 | 4 points by Suhinnall27 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: The Last SaaS – An open source headless SaaS for agents and assistants (thelastsaas.com)
    ×1.65 119 | 3 points by mkly 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI (rswebsols.com)
    ×3.29 20 #25 | 305 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom)
    ×0.90 9 #33 | 111 points by bluepeter 13 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Collision avoidance in industrial robotics using robotsimulator.ai (babacad.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by comirza 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: AI Circuit Breaker – Reverse proxy to stop agent infinite loops (circuit-breaker-sage.vercel.app)
    ×1.90 139 | 9 points by roandejager 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com/anteloc)
    ×1.40 133 | 166 points by antelocnova 5 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps (github.com/szabadkai)
    ×1.96 14 #41 | 385 points by sohkamyung 18 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A DuckDB Database with No Data in It (duckdb.org)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by eigenBasis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Where Are the Builders? (near.blog)
    ×1.56 2 | 3 points by yarapavan 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. OSHotspot, WiFi hotspot manager for Linux with a live security dashboard (github.com/King03-sam)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by olojedesamuel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Karotte, a framework for building robust RL envs (github.com/preferencemodel)
    ×3.60 67 | 8 points by 256 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: VoiceGremlin, a SaaS tool for automated tests against AI phone agents (voicegremlin.com)
    ×1.47 107 | 3 points by ineptech 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Zed Editor, Docker Agent, ACP, but in a sandbox: running the agent with sbx (k33g.org)
    ×0.81 66 #65 | 15 points by speckx 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Agent in a Bottle: Can LLM Agents Turn Their Capabilities into Cheap Artifacts? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
    ×1.84 28 | 315 points by ingve 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight (techspot.com)
    ×2.36 48 | 138 points by healsdata 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: CloudGrip – Open-source AI proxy to cap LLM API budgets (github.com/Aliyunazeer)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by aliyunazeer07 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome (chrome.com)
    ×2.26 7 #9 | 509 points by AshleysBrain 16 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Anti-patterns in software blogging (refactoringenglish.com)
    ×2.22 5 #24 | 224 points by ilreb 14 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again (baty.net)
    ×0.41 85 #83 | 4 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI cluster networking reading list: RDMA, collectives, fabrics (github.com/Rewsr)
    ×2.44 15 | 5 points by rewsiest 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: ProofFlick, Grammarly meets Wispr Flow for Windows, pay once (proofflick.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by StevenFarah 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU (carette.xyz)
    ×1.26 7 #12 | 43 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function (microsoft.com)
    ×0.88 15 #15 | 49 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation (arxiv.org)
    ×2.37 #18 | 270 points by nill0 12 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model (blog.google)
    ×2.40 6 #78 | 417 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Configstream – Live config for Spring Boot via MongoDB change streams (github.com/configstream)
    ×1.37 116 | 3 points by reachkhajam 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I made a TV for old cartoons (cartoontv.xyz)
    ×2.96 92 | 6 points by a_void_sky 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???