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Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

×1.12 9 | 104 points by keymasta 18 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

×1.42 92 | 374 points by david927 4 days ago | 1190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

×2.70 52 | 305 points by jakemanger 23 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Co-Founder(s). Do I need any? How would I even find them?

×0.67 89 | 10 points by bhollan 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily?

×0.41 96 | 4 points by osr00 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why have we normalized jobs and soft skills bullshit so much?

×1.12 51 | 5 points by thomasjeff1 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset

×2.06 79 | 39 points by nandakishor_ml 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Makes Tokens Expensive?

×0.40 128 | 3 points by mtokarski 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Desktop Silently Associates with Common Files

×0.32 130 | 3 points by 3371 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?

×0.46 129 | 14 points by learner_yearner 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties?

×0.20 139 | 4 points by cpsk 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?

×0.57 153 | 13 points by rylando 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x

×0.44 131 | 7 points by Marciok 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27

×0.47 134 | 15 points by lucasoshiro 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?

×0.37 151 | 16 points by amichail 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nestbalm (nestbalm.com)

×1.29 | 2 points by nikolaytonev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jinx – a link shortener you host free on GitHub Pages (jinx.fyi)

×1.61 74 | 4 points by SubmersibleZoom 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Panel – A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes (github.com/greentfrapp)

×0.49 119 | 53 points by greentfrapp 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek (linguisticdiscovery.com)

×1.42 7 #9 | 86 points by axiologist 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older (bbc.com)

×3.83 46 #68 | 195 points by karakoram 13 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uwillfly – build multi-city trips one cheap flight at a time (uwillfly.net)

×0.70 | 1 points by busggginesszvar 18 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slop Grenades, AI Didn't Make Delivery Free – Food for Agile Thought 562 (age-of-product.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by swolpers 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Computer Reset, Dallas (dfarq.homeip.net)

×0.65 71 #56 | 24 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints (openai.com)

×2.27 64 #65 | 106 points by theahura 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters (economist.com)

×1.59 8 #88 | 118 points by ddp26 19 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives (gally.net)

×1.11 107 | 131 points by tkgally 3 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks (github.com/ordewell)

×0.66 118 | 54 points by ac-ciano 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CrowdSec Source Code Leak (crowdsec.net)

×0.96 31 #28 | 151 points by eccgecko 18 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One AWS Bill Went from Almost $8k a Month Toward $6k (greenops.cloud)

×0.51 | 1 points by depidsvy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How GLM built its own inference infrastructure (z.ai)

×2.44 20 #54 | 397 points by whiteros_e 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How does Quantum Mechanics work? (explainers.blog)

×0.78 | 1 points by Muhammad523 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: tuisheet, a terminal spreadsheet compatible with OpenXML (xlsx) files (github.com/krackout)

×0.62 | 1 points by krackout 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using steal time to moderate CPU demands (lwn.net)

×0.53 | 1 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (independent.co.uk)

×4.97 17 | 245 points by doener 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: YOLO FPS-per-dollar numbers for edge AI boards ($75-$215) (github.com/chorylee)

×1.36 148 | 4 points by chorylee 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Code Scans (devin.ai)

×0.61 41 #40 | 20 points by geoffbp 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms (egbert.net)

×1.15 47 #71 | 136 points by egberts1 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git Internals – Plumbing and Porcelain (git-scm.com)

×2.08 7 | 3 points by bschne 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint (prismml.com)

×2.82 1 #5 | 459 points by JonSchneider 13 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (amazon.science)

×1.20 55 #69 | 159 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unbiased is our platform. Pareto is our own blended AI model (unbiased.ai)

×0.55 | 1 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic says its model Claude is helping to build the next version of itself (apnews.com)

×2.83 31 | 4 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ManyBot – Framework to build WhatsApp bots, without the boring part (manybot.org)

×0.50 132 | 9 points by synt-xerror 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Halo 3's Guardian, playable in the browser, as my personal website (runboli.com)

×10.29 98 | 26 points by runshouse 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com)

×2.08 6 #76 | 332 points by jakeasmith 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Don't Like LLMs (martinfowler.com)

×6.20 49 | 216 points by TangerineDream 20 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? (bbc.com)

×3.55 46 | 5 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (enclave.ai)

×2.50 62 | 172 points by talhof8 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can we stop with the uptime percentages? (jim-nielsen.com)

×2.03 63 | 144 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source AI teammates with their own computer (runerrand.dev)

×1.34 102 | 6 points by shiqimei 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities (newyorker.com)

×1.85 10 #33 | 232 points by pseudolus 21 hours ago | 401 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shellroute – give each shell its own proxy IP (github.com/shellroute)

×0.58 | 1 points by civilis 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claudeimportfromcodex (github.com/FredrikAhman)

×0.56 | 1 points by Frummy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The LLM Comments Are Not for You (danilafe.com)

×1.34 | 2 points by kqr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms (uber.com)

×1.37 7 #29 | 101 points by iscmt 13 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data (arxiv.org)

×1.22 20 #32 | 147 points by Betelbuddy 17 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)

×1.41 73 #78 | 169 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia Uses Super App Max to Spy on Citizens (theguardian.com)

×2.11 40 | 3 points by endymi0n 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Cost of AI Is Now My Main Blocker (vincentschmalbach.com)

×1.23 | 2 points by vincent_s 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser (bensunter.com)

×0.21 146 | 6 points by bsunter2 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kosmic Kart – Mario Kart-style racing with friends in the browser (kosmi.io)

×1.22 140 | 4 points by hauxir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU (bend-lang.com)

×2.93 3 #6 | 474 points by nicolas-siplis 13 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node (mapyourshow.com)

×1.03 41 #38 | 112 points by osnium123 18 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Online Z3 Guide (microsoft.github.io)

×0.82 48 #87 | 70 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing (scry.io)

×1.12 99 | 3 points by Xyra 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bodily Oddities (vester.si)

×1.89 122 | 341 points by vesterde 1 week ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: What if you don't feel overwhelmed reading big articles (google.com)

×1.86 116 | 3 points by AkshayS96 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pushie – Get notified with a simple webhook (pushie.net)

×0.88 142 | 22 points by vasanthv 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A warning about 'model welfare' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)

×2.46 41 | 237 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 673 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Linting 216 public Claude Code skills – 69% won't reliably trigger (skillcrossroads.com)

×1.59 124 | 3 points by sgharlow 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Graph RAG in Postgres. New facts replace older facts (github.com/crajah)

×1.09 | 2 points by chandanrajah 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them (medium.com)

×3.81 74 | 4 points by Bitu79 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band (github.com/callbacked)

×0.90 109 | 121 points by callbacked 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SeasonMap – when to travel where? visualized with climate data (seasonmap.app)

×1.36 105 | 22 points by alongtheflow 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A directory of 164 Asian AI companies, ranked by disclosed scale (asiaai.fyi)

×0.94 | 2 points by ghernando 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Smart Mouth Billy Bass – another fishy LLM assistant (existens.org)

×0.27 | 2 points by ryandrake 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Linux Doctor – read-only health checks that explain what's wrong (github.com/zShaD0w7x)

×5.31 144 | 11 points by 7sh1d0w7x 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Astra for Law (openai.com)

×2.29 4 #4 | 496 points by vertigoruntime 14 hours ago | 568 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gyazo screen capture tool confirms data breach (gyazo.com)

×2.00 16 | 3 points by 2sf5 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space (github.com/browser-use)

×1.76 55 | 87 points by rahimnathwani 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free game to destroy any web page (page-rage.com)

×3.03 85 | 7 points by alexreardon 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Concat: the open-source CapCut replacement. (github.com/jub0t)

×1.53 73 | 4 points by calanus 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model (poltora.dev)

×1.57 93 | 184 points by poltora 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Does the Universe Expand? (cosmicave.org)

×1.11 1 #20 | 66 points by the__alchemist 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9 (petervijeh.com)

×1.90 15 | 87 points by p-s-v 21 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AutoBot – live voice control for long-running AI work (github.com/demeyer1)

×0.82 71 | 18 points by demeyer1 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)

×2.77 35 | 439 points by rkotcher 4 days ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The most important product decision is what you don't build (liamnugent.me)

×1.39 8 #27 | 107 points by ChrisArchitect 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bend 2 Is Here (github.com/bendlang)

×0.88 75 #82 | 14 points by tempaccount420 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server (watchtowr.com)

×1.03 49 #90 | 107 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???