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  1. Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?
    ×1.77 19 #72 | 9 points by piratesAndSons 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What do you think will be hot in 2027 with on-device AI
    ×0.60 21 | 3 points by mrburton 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Domain Health
    ×0.40 59 | 6 points by anjalibery 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.76 120 | 153 points by Ixander 3 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: ChatGPT on macOS grants local computer access to cloud account
    ×0.42 102 | 6 points by lxgr 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Could you find funding if you didn't want to build a $1-10B business?
    ×2.96 9 | 7 points by FrenchDevRemote 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
    ×0.09 164 | 3 points by reacharavindh 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you review code nowadays?
    ×0.41 111 | 7 points by waylandsmithers 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.75 148 | 583 points by IvanK_net 1 week ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. JNISleuth-MCP – Recover Stripped JNI Bindings and Ollvm Branches for Ghidra/Ida
    ×0.12 | 2 points by akdapunk 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.39 126 | 777 points by lukehandcool 5 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser
    ×0.46 140 | 21 points by mhloo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Anyone using Jev / other decision models? What for?
    ×0.20 132 | 4 points by simonw 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.91 134 | 424 points by mariocesar 1 week ago | 669 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. ChatGPT Plugin in Review for Weeks
    ×0.19 167 | 3 points by dthedavid 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
    ×0.84 162 | 16 points by le_curious 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How does your organization make build vs. buy decisions now?
    ×0.48 160 | 8 points by bigblind 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. In-car display of surrounding environment in AVs
    ×0.18 170 | 3 points by ajahso4 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.35 173 | 35 points by onemiketwelve 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?
    ×0.44 166 | 12 points by dsrtslnd23 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×0.65 172 | 8 points by Kamabz 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you build a reputation without social media?
    ×1.20 168 | 7 points by unbeholden 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×0.95 171 | 10 points by dfps 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is voice becoming your main input? What happens to open-plan offices?
    ×0.30 169 | 4 points by ProblemExplorer 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: RooQL – A semantic layer with no server (Ossie models to SQL) (rooql.com)
    ×1.08 136 | 4 points by zerego 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.81 129 | 419 points by franze 4 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.68 3 #9 | 24 points by gumby 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Fastest Vector Index for Cold Queries (github.com/13lack13lood)
    ×2.26 20 | 3 points by 13lack13lood 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (filippo.io)
    ×1.10 114 | 105 points by gavide 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Laya guard – a local check before your coding agent runs a command (github.com/scs0209)
    ×1.18 158 | 3 points by ayaan0209 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Scentrail-a data explorer that keeps the reasoning behind your charts (scentrail.io)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by hyojeonglee 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data
    ×0.37 90 #49 | 33 points by ericmags 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Collider Dividend (cerncourier.com)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by EA-3167 45 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Solar panels that plug into your wall (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×1.86 65 | 258 points by speckx 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Type-safe HTML templating in Zig (lalinsky.com)
    ×1.15 98 | 251 points by lukaslalinsky 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy (theverge.com)
    ×3.08 12 | 145 points by yanis_t 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: What to Wear in NYC Today (wearing.nyc)
    ×2.29 122 | 8 points by hammeiam 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Drone Strikes Didn't Take Out Russian Bot Farm, but We Were Primed to Believe It (motherjones.com)
    ×3.35 42 | 6 points by ggm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth (bbc.com)
    ×4.57 20 | 620 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Watch RL-trained squads play a 2D battle royale (full match replay) (123wwwa.github.io)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by 123wwwa 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Launch Videos Gallery – A free collection of startup launch videos (launchvideos.gallery)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by ahmetsulek 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. KBEmacs, MIT's Programmer's Apprentice, Reanimated (github.com/jeffshrager)
    ×1.36 45 | 3 points by abrax3141 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Robot seized by German police after allegedly groping teenage girl (bbc.com)
    ×4.43 13 | 9 points by defrost 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: RSI-Anything – JEPA world models for self-improving agents (github.com/Gen-Verse)
    ×1.52 125 | 6 points by mrkn1 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer (wired.com)
    ×2.88 75 | 192 points by rndsignals 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.64 32 #42 | 29 points by canucker2016 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout and turn to open source (zdnet.com)
    ×4.18 19 #54 | 60 points by CrankyBear 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) (github.com/bherbruck)
    ×1.30 77 #80 | 133 points by bherbruck 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OCP 2026: Agentic AI Pushes the Data Center from Chip to Grid (datacenterfrontier.com)
    ×1.91 5 | 3 points by wondersky 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cargo-Litmus (github.com/Ellipsis-Labs)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by gametorch 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)
    ×1.70 38 | 277 points by speckx 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Apple HomePod Mini 2 (apple.com)
    ×0.96 93 #55 | 4 points by ramenmeal 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support (github.com/moritzwilksch)
    ×0.90 150 | 74 points by mwil1000 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Mosh-rs, Mosh rewritten in Rust with scrollback and Windows support (github.com/Arunjay4213)
    ×1.33 101 #41 | 4 points by Arunjay__ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Computer History Museum Interview with Margaret Hamilton (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by throw0101a 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Moirélephant (vivien.garden)
    ×2.04 11 | 3 points by gregsadetsky 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What a Jurassic forest may have sounded like (science.org)
    ×2.32 29 | 5 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack (yahoo.com)
    ×4.22 93 | 155 points by thinkcontext 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Oxynote – Self-hosted wiki with live Prometheus/SQL charts and reviews (github.com/oxynote)
    ×1.44 146 | 4 points by davseby 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic (micahflee.com)
    ×6.09 78 | 168 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed (openfatigue.ai)
    ×4.16 55 | 235 points by ajcp 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (bbc.com)
    ×2.20 99 | 144 points by cataflam 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic (sammystraus.com)
    ×2.00 2 #14 | 271 points by sammy0910 11 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. New Apple TV 4K (apple.com)
    ×2.26 7 #17 | 305 points by corvad 13 hours ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby (julik.nl)
    ×1.53 119 | 98 points by julik 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Five agents running on GPT-6.1 Sol clear WoW's Ragefire Chasm in 24h (agent-wow.sh)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by soheilpro 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD (github.com/prabanta-dev)
    ×1.44 42 | 217 points by khalidkhair 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A skill to make Claude Code use Reference Points (github.com/SamHasler)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by Flenser 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Gemini 4 Argon (deepmind.google)
    ×4.39 1 #1 | 1065 points by 737max 11 hours ago | 789 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks (pdftomp3.com)
    ×1.01 32 #51 | 159 points by janpmz 17 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Build Independently. Win Together: Why I Built IndieCrew (indiecrew.win)
    ×0.74 123 #62 | 3 points by zd_coinrule 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. FastH3-Omni: The best open-source H3 model (reactor.inc)
    ×1.78 70 | 4 points by ahmedahres 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: GotEmail – a native Mac mail app with one-click sign-in codes (gotemail.net)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by rahul379 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Use your phone as a Windows mouse and keyboard, without a phone app (github.com/creationsofm7)
    ×0.90 165 | 5 points by mudit7 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Original iPhone OS 1.0 Emulated in the Browser (2007.mobile)
    ×2.26 14 #46 | 9 points by tech234a 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Linear's CI playbook for agents (starsling.dev)
    ×1.57 68 | 3 points by yonasb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024 (yomiuri.co.jp)
    ×3.99 43 | 155 points by mushstory 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. OpenAI employee arrested by FBI over hidden listening device, company says (reuters.com)
    ×2.65 19 #85 | 34 points by jawiggins 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. It's 21 days until the US midterms: This is How We Win (theguardian.com)
    ×3.11 22 | 6 points by hkhn 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine (ludeon.com)
    ×2.39 107 | 98 points by sha-3 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled (anitab.org)
    ×1.58 108 #71 | 4 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ukraine Just Opened a New Front – By Roman Sheremeta (economicsofpower.substack.com)
    ×4.54 3 | 10 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries (github.com/morluto)
    ×1.54 113 | 98 points by taytus 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (plover.com)
    ×0.55 76 #23 | 5 points by evakhoury 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.65 28 | 361 points by gumby 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Hatoba, an open-source SSH client with an AI assistant and E2EE sync (github.com/scarletkc)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by scarletkc 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Treesum – Replace MS Excel/Project with a Code Editor (treesum.app)
    ×1.06 133 | 3 points by mallahan 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Rebuilding the Original Odhner Model 127 Pinwheel Calculator (johnwolff.au)
    ×0.70 24 #35 | 15 points by goshtasb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Knitting – A shared-memory concurrency runtime for Node.js,Bun,and Deno (knitting.run)
    ×0.87 116 | 10 points by mimiMonads 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Anku – Turn PostHog funnel drop-offs into UX specs and code patches (anku.app)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by ankushdograuk 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???