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  1. Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?
    ×2.12 42 | 3 points by canterburry 56 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×0.77 43 | 38 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Gmail label bridge on Claude Cowork just broke
    ×0.20 60 | 4 points by mangoe 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×2.03 38 | 333 points by misterchocolat 2 days ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?
    ×0.50 51 | 4 points by s_u_d_o 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Stop using naive RAG – adding relationships to AI context
    ×0.67 71 | 3 points by eduardobenck 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×4.66 34 | 819 points by morpheuskafka 3 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)
    ×0.61 55 | 5 points by leetrout 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.82 58 | 76 points by absurdwebsite 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?
    ×0.60 85 | 3 points by coreyp_1 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
    ×1.70 87 | 14 points by arikusi 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
    ×0.92 61 | 15 points by throwaw12 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
    ×0.60 76 | 29 points by fny 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error
    ×1.16 92 | 11 points by ascarola 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.87 98 | 24 points by RockstarSprain 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.47 105 | 8 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.47 108 | 8 points by comrade1234 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.65 99 | 13 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.45 95 | 27 points by thewillmoss 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing
    ×0.55 78 | 16 points by limalabs 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?
    ×1.13 96 | 12 points by smonk108 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×0.85 104 | 25 points by baobabKoodaa 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?
    ×1.02 120 | 9 points by sahli 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?
    ×0.54 115 | 6 points by etherus 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.29 146 | 4 points by apatheticonion 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.65 126 | 12 points by time4tea 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: SeedLegals Partnerships in London, worth it?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by pain_perdu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×1.31 119 | 19 points by kwar13 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.33 100 | 43 points by ssiddharth 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.64 142 | 10 points by vaishcodescape 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Any engineers here with experience of clinical data standards?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by kalturnbull 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×2.70 88 | 119 points by barratia 3 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Business Plot of 1933 (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.10 6 #85 | 11 points by Jimmc414 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Hanlon's Razor (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cloudflare Email Service (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.57 10 | 452 points by jilles 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Waputer – The WebAssembly Computer (waputer.app)
    ×1.88 74 | 5 points by marcandrysco 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition (gitori.com)
    ×1.49 110 | 5 points by udit99 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A simple LinkedIn prospecting trick that improved our lead quality (indiehackers.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by YashNetworkHQ 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Three meningitis B cases confirmed in Dorset schools outbreak (thetimes.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Microsoft Increases the FAT32 Limit from 32GB to 2TB (windows.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by jnord 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Claude Opus 4.7 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.45 31 | 186 points by AlphaWeaver 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Helix – open-source self-healing back end for production crashes (88hours.github.io)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by NomiJ 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
    ×0.92 52 #59 | 29 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The agent that grows with you (nousresearch.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by sponno 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Mind-OS – First free online AI dependency self‑assessment (iamalex-afk.github.io)
    ×1.26 77 | 3 points by bitkin_dev 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: NoFS – What if files are just projections, graph is the truth? (nofs.ai)
    ×0.82 116 | 3 points by mmethodz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Podads – An Ad Blocker for Your Podcasts (yet-to-be.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by wyxuan 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. SDL bans AI-written commits (github.com/libsdl-org)
    ×2.77 47 | 128 points by davikr 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (openculture.com)
    ×3.36 41 | 82 points by doener 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)
    ×2.44 3 #14 | 191 points by louiereederson 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×1.03 19 #39 | 110 points by marklit 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Fuck Facebook, Again (visualgui.com)
    ×4.42 42 #67 | 25 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Art of the Fictional Pop Song (newyorker.com)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by fortran77 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A delivery gate that automatically releases files when invoice is paid
    ×0.65 | 1 points by pixelatedRudy 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now (wired.com)
    ×4.45 56 | 62 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Amiga Graphics (lychesis.net)
    ×2.20 5 #4 | 18 points by sph 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.45 #15 | 321 points by binsquare 14 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Salesforce Headless 360. No Browser Required (salesforce.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by lifesaverluke 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I Made a Free Stick Figure Generator (stickfiguremaker.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by Lex200 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: How are short-form video algorithms impacting your deep work?
    ×0.46 | 1 points by mtjfilipovic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit (andonlabs.com)
    ×1.98 27 | 197 points by lukaspetersson 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.82 6 #19 | 168 points by arkadiyt 13 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
    ×0.89 41 #44 | 61 points by mcookly 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
    ×2.10 37 #69 | 181 points by gmays 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Forsp: A Forth+Lisp hybrid lambda calculus language (2024) (xorvoid.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by HeliumHydride 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude Didn't Write This (mfc83.io)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by afro88 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard (github.com/devmegablaster)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by devmegablaster 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: US keyboards don't have enough keys, so I switched to Japanese (simone.org)
    ×2.10 118 | 7 points by smnrg 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Deleteduser.com –A $15 PII Magnet (medium.com)
    ×2.13 32 | 3 points by croes 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left" (apnews.com)
    ×4.56 37 | 119 points by ck2 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Open Finance Insurance sandbox (OAuth2, quotes → policies) (github.com/Rp12)
    ×0.82 134 | 3 points by Renjit 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: SafeWeave – 8 security scanners as an MCP server inside your AI editor (safeweave.dev)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by techxeni 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
    ×1.87 8 #12 | 15 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
    ×1.05 41 #57 | 148 points by xk3 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Garry Tan – On the LOC Controversy (twitter.com/garrytan)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by helloplanets 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How do I get better at first-person shooters? (mothership.blog)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by Julesprobably 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured KVM (github.com/haimgel)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by croes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Stop Using LangChain (synapsekit.github.io)
    ×0.96 135 | 3 points by aminau 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Spending 3 months coding by hand (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.36 8 #10 | 198 points by evakhoury 12 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Leaflet – a JavaScript library for interactive maps (leafletjs.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by mikhael 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Omi – watches your screen, hears conversations, tells you what to do (github.com/BasedHardware)
    ×1.63 101 | 18 points by kodjima33 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: EDDI – Multi-agent AI engine where agent logic lives in JSON, not code (github.com/labsai)
    ×0.30 | 2 points by ginccc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Deepgram releases Deepgram CLI (`dg`) an agent-aware CLI (deepgram.com)
    ×1.03 125 | 4 points by lukeocodes 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025) (davidma.org)
    ×0.71 21 #54 | 24 points by taikon 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. German Dog Commands (fluentu.com)
    ×0.97 53 | 58 points by rolph 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Ask your AI to start a business for you, resolved.sh (resolved.sh)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by RancheroBeans 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Soul.md – open file format for AI agent identity (github.com/AntonioTF5)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by afonie 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG (github.com/yapstudios)
    ×0.78 39 | 3 points by olliewagner 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Dependicus, a dashboard for your monorepo's dependencies (descriptinc.github.io)
    ×1.96 129 | 6 points by irskep 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???