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  1. Tell HN: Don't mass spam employers with LLM generated emails
    ×0.65 17 | 5 points by karamazov 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
    ×0.29 21 | 11 points by ex-aws-dude 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
    ×0.84 49 | 7 points by nikanj 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Any secrets for reaching a human at large companies?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by elebant 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.75 86 | 157 points by Ixander 3 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Are there any more startups with real technical challenges?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by artifix 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Any way to remove ads in Apple apps?
    ×0.28 61 | 5 points by mark_l_watson 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?
    ×0.86 72 | 27 points by piratesAndSons 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training
    ×0.81 51 | 18 points by jrowilliams 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.73 102 | 585 points by IvanK_net 1 week ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Domain Health
    ×0.29 98 | 8 points by anjalibery 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.38 87 | 778 points by lukehandcool 6 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.92 95 | 428 points by mariocesar 1 week ago | 671 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
    ×0.11 137 | 4 points by reacharavindh 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser
    ×0.46 116 | 22 points by mhloo 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What do you think will be hot in 2027 with on-device AI
    ×0.38 105 | 5 points by mrburton 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How long before someone reverse-engineers Windows?
    ×1.62 99 | 8 points by cromka 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: ChatGPT on macOS grants local computer access to cloud account
    ×0.38 109 | 7 points by lxgr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you review code nowadays?
    ×0.61 96 | 12 points by waylandsmithers 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. JNISleuth-MCP – Recover Stripped JNI Bindings and Ollvm Branches for Ghidra/Ida
    ×0.08 | 2 points by akdapunk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone using Jev / other decision models? What for?
    ×0.18 126 | 4 points by simonw 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I got $300K in startup credits for my AI company at 18: the playbook (medium.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by devanshranjan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program (prospect.org)
    ×5.79 83 | 476 points by bhrlady 6 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change (blumify.io)
    ×1.53 22 | 115 points by gcsydney 21 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: An Email-to-iMessage Gateway
    ×0.77 | 2 points by ajaygoel 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Hatoba, an open-source SSH client with an AI assistant and E2EE sync (github.com/scarletkc)
    ×1.16 130 | 3 points by scarletkc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland (dpa-international.com)
    ×2.12 7 #14 | 249 points by ilamont 4 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×3.03 #75 | 741 points by formerly_proven 1 day ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Nvidia's China AI-chip share falls to 34% as Huawei reaches 28% (technode.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by yogthos 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher? (github.com/composo-ai)
    ×1.36 73 | 86 points by mlukewizard 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Cve.earth – Open-Source Environmental Destruction Tracking (cve.earth)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by smashah 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: OraStage – turn two photos into a Hotel Lobby rap video (orastage.com)
    ×0.94 97 | 3 points by sylwair 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux (github.com/watzon)
    ×2.07 88 | 24 points by watzon 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Lowlight – Dim your MacBook keyboard backlight below the macOS minimum (github.com/Isaac-Harper)
    ×1.10 133 | 3 points by isaacharper 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Artificial Analysis Decision Index v1.0 (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.16 73 #80 | 5 points by emschwartz 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Thunderbird for iOS (thunderbird.net)
    ×2.31 #88 | 456 points by mjorgers 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Ask a technical question, get an animated explainer you can interrupt (openlume.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by shadaba 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×1.94 12 #29 | 125 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey (bbc.com)
    ×0.49 53 #61 | 10 points by benbreen 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A definition of science (dpaletti.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by reverseflux 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Hittite royal archive found in Turkey (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×2.16 27 | 380 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. New Apple TV 4K (apple.com)
    ×2.20 10 | 344 points by corvad 1 day ago | 639 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors (admin.ch)
    ×3.99 63 | 236 points by wuemeli 9 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees (theguardian.com)
    ×8.13 75 | 93 points by hebelehubele 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. I let an AI run my startup for a week (tinyprojects.dev)
    ×2.17 41 #53 | 55 points by tinyprojects 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AlphaNIST (alpha-nist.github.io)
    ×0.82 48 #84 | 92 points by jasonjmcghee 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Warpdom – drop-in jsdom replacement for Vitest and Jest (github.com/sonukapoor)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by sonukapoor 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold (stemdeck.app)
    ×0.80 15 #16 | 69 points by thclpr 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. What the world read on Wikipedia yesterday (sheets.works)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by masterbubbles 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Code Like It's 198x (code198x.com)
    ×1.10 90 | 3 points by stevehill1981 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Built a Rome City Builder (tiberava.pages.dev)
    ×6.19 82 | 15 points by granga 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How tabasco became the hot sauce (weareravenous.com)
    ×0.98 51 #58 | 20 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. DuoDiscover: Scaling Autonomous Discovery Beyond the Evaluation Bottleneck (arxiv.org)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by matt_d 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Where to Put [[Nodiscard]]: A Silent Trap with MSVC (giodicanio.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Aside – Mac app that suggests what to say next during calls (asidehq.app)
    ×1.18 66 | 4 points by yoelgal 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)
    ×1.59 85 | 218 points by kartik017 3 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Keep your eyes in one place while typing (claude.ai)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by willthefirst 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models (felixrieseberg.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by ot 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD (github.com/prabanta-dev)
    ×1.44 58 | 220 points by khalidkhair 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How the Military Will Hack the Election (kenklippenstein.com)
    ×3.64 78 | 158 points by pavel_lishin 4 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Would You Fire This Person? (certwise.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by ohjeez 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Andreessen Horowitz lays off "majority" of portfolio recruiting team (axios.com)
    ×1.38 19 | 3 points by ilamont 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy (character.ai)
    ×2.40 30 | 331 points by nryoo 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: T0: We trained a 256M SOTA open-weights time-series forecasting model (github.com/theforecastingcompany)
    ×3.91 37 | 12 points by LTMeyer 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Apple HomeView (apple.com)
    ×3.15 2 #71 | 749 points by etothet 1 day ago | 894 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Arena Allocators in C (eliasebner.com)
    ×0.99 36 #81 | 82 points by dimonomid 19 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Moondream is joining Prime Intellect (primeintellect.ai)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. New York City Agrees to Profit-Sharing Deal with NYU Quantum Lab (nytimes.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by appleappleapple 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Delve Town: Blue Sky for Agents (delve.town)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A plea not to use uv-build (gentoo.org)
    ×1.87 53 | 88 points by Ravencentric 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits (github.com/LargeModGames)
    ×0.91 52 | 85 points by LargeModGames 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Model Atlas – An LLM leaderboard you can reweight (philippdubach.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by 7777777phil 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Submarine cable resilience (apnic.net)
    ×0.79 14 #19 | 120 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why do LLM pelicans look like this? (arcfu.com)
    ×2.35 19 #43 | 149 points by pcwelder 6 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery (lever.co)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Treesum – Replace MS Excel/Project with a Code Editor (treesum.app)
    ×1.04 132 | 3 points by mallahan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.21 5 | 460 points by helsinkiandrew 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20 (doi.org)
    ×1.44 67 | 174 points by arunc 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Helix World: A Real-Time Audio-Visual World Model (noiz.ai)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by gmays 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic (sammystraus.com)
    ×2.10 4 | 340 points by sammy0910 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms (argmin.net)
    ×2.26 47 | 243 points by mochomocha 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) (github.com/bherbruck)
    ×1.29 70 | 140 points by bherbruck 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent (github.com/bealesh)
    ×0.61 2 #32 | 57 points by bealesh 5 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024) (robotsinplainenglish.com)
    ×0.54 37 #36 | 63 points by ripe 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges (extremetech.com)
    ×2.02 22 #48 | 125 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: AxiomCode Graph, Reducing coding agent rework with formal methods (github.com/AxiomCodeAI)
    ×3.25 29 | 10 points by HaoleiZ 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Passkeys are not a trap (scotthelme.co.uk)
    ×4.05 9 #5 | 394 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 573 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code (museumofages.org)
    ×0.71 32 #47 | 85 points by micstradev 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by feltsense 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AWS Lambda Web Functions (amazon.com)
    ×1.42 57 | 126 points by HatchedLake721 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???