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  1. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.76 29 #23 | 572 points by andrehacker 1 day ago | 964 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.39 27 #67 | 402 points by Ekami 1 day ago | 666 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members
    ×0.82 | 2 points by joshwprinceton 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Please read my cease and desist and lawsuit case against the FBI
    ×2.17 58 | 4 points by susdeepstatefbi 47 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.75 107 | 103 points by juliusceasar 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.88 53 | 147 points by dv35z 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×1.10 64 | 5 points by kaycebasques 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×0.69 98 | 5 points by kingleopold 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.05 129 | 36 points by f311a 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.84 120 | 14 points by JohnnyZhang483 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.56 133 | 24 points by bix6 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.65 118 | 8 points by themasterchief 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.53 127 | 10 points by saveitincork 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.54 114 | 4 points by amichail 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.90 111 | 36 points by sunshine-o 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×0.90 119 | 9 points by chistev 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What would you name your own LLM?
    ×0.83 134 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What was your best experience with a VC?
    ×0.93 110 | 3 points by krrishd 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.74 140 | 11 points by lanycrost 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.45 137 | 37 points by cpu_ 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×1.86 163 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.48 170 | 6 points by iliaov 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without information overload?
    ×0.56 158 | 4 points by bohdanstefaniuk 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.11 160 | 8 points by wqtz 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.87 148 | 19 points by vadumo 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×4.35 122 | 21 points by antihero 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: For non-hackers/nerds, why do you read HN?
    ×1.56 126 | 5 points by throwaway2037 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser
    ×0.80 173 | 5 points by syncara 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.43 188 | 9 points by menomatter 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling?
    ×0.55 177 | 5 points by arm32 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?
    ×0.63 178 | 5 points by CobaltFire 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs?
    ×0.88 172 | 4 points by camillomiller 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: AI efficiency in the workplace
    ×0.58 189 | 4 points by localhoster 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11 (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.82 14 #25 | 22 points by kristianp 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Markdown Editor and Reader for Mac (kitemarkdown.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by antonynjoro 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Wifiland – I turned nearby Wi-Fi network names into a live fantasy map (meaningofdesign.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by meaningofdesign 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Do we need billionaires? (bjhess.com)
    ×5.34 95 | 70 points by speckx 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste (rochester.edu)
    ×2.48 3 #65 | 503 points by speckx 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Get v2.0 (github.com/Water-Run)
    ×1.94 42 | 3 points by linzhangrun 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go (bearblog.dev)
    ×4.83 81 | 73 points by speckx 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover (microsoft.com)
    ×1.27 20 #62 | 145 points by paulmooreparks 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AI is the greatest money-wasting scheme humanity has ever invented (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×4.58 34 | 9 points by HotGarbage 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Gaia2: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Dynamic and Asynchronous Environments (arxiv.org)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: NullRead – A simple HN Android client (0x96f.dev)
    ×0.93 121 | 4 points by 0x96f 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx (nutrepedia.com)
    ×1.34 113 | 135 points by llovan 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A modular impact diverting mechanism for football helmets [pdf] (sfu.ca)
    ×1.96 12 | 4 points by luu 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Watch Einstein's simulated brain light up as you ask him questions (opendria.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by opendria 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements (ft.com)
    ×2.35 60 | 144 points by nmstoker 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Open-source X Bookmark Manager
    ×0.97 131 | 3 points by ssarisen 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. First Commodore PET sold, June 5, 1977 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.94 64 #61 | 19 points by erickhill 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Introducing GAPs: GraphQL Auxiliary Proposals (graphql.org)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by markl42 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Word-by-word translation aligner tool (tinygods.dev)
    ×1.47 25 | 3 points by danipolani 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. ChatGPT hallucinating images when asked to restore non existent photo (twitter.com/penguinweb3)
    ×2.04 6 | 4 points by blumomo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A native port of Skate 3 for Windows & Linux via static recompilation (github.com/mchughalex)
    ×1.86 183 | 4 points by turingfeel 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: NEP – Ethereum JSON-RPC transform that beats ZSTD by 12% (github.com/Louw115)
    ×1.80 135 | 5 points by LBWasserman 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Documenting an Obscure Japanese Wii Game – and-Kensaku (github.com/TylerJaacks)
    ×1.88 132 | 6 points by TylerJaacks 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. India's surprise baby bust (economist.com)
    ×1.76 49 #66 | 222 points by hakonbogen 1 day ago | 970 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Immortality (aabiji.github.io)
    ×2.45 2 | 5 points by aabiji 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Cursor cuts prices, adds enterprise spend controls amid "tokenomics" reckoning (thenewstack.io)
    ×2.35 18 | 5 points by AnhTho_FR 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Resonate – Low-latency, high-resolution spectral analysis (alexandrefrancois.org)
    ×0.84 101 | 4 points by arjf 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph) (github.com/zaydmulani09)
    ×0.71 128 | 59 points by zaydmulani 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting (gwern.net)
    ×2.37 15 | 5 points by telotortium 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. EU's tech sovereignty package includes 29 pages on Open Source, says OSI (slashdot.org)
    ×2.01 47 | 4 points by MilnerRoute 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Aging and Eye Problems (ldstephens.net)
    ×1.99 61 | 108 points by speckx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Tired of duct-taping access control into agent prompts. Here's the fix (github.com/yaodub)
    ×0.54 157 | 22 points by zwigglers 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: ClearLogo – a logo API that returns usable logos, not raw files (clearlogo.dev)
    ×2.04 174 | 7 points by ehalim 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. NASA interested in Hubble reboost if costs can be reduced (spacenews.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by defrost 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A crowdsourced map of surveillance camera's based on OSM (mapcomplete.org)
    ×1.67 195 | 7 points by pietervdvn 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. HateArena – A free and open source arena shooter (github.com/hatearena)
    ×2.40 21 #33 | 6 points by death_eternal 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools (privacyguides.net)
    ×2.26 80 #63 | 264 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Most people across 36 countries have negative views of Israel (pewresearch.org)
    ×2.47 56 | 4 points by goldfishgold 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ukrainian drones target St Petersburg in attack Russia calls 'unprecedented' (bbc.com)
    ×1.85 46 | 4 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Build Your Own AI Agent CLI in 150 Lines (go-micro.dev)
    ×1.70 162 | 33 points by asim 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months (github.com/ValveSoftware)
    ×2.38 #1 | 27 points by babuskov 40 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Programmers Aren't People (elliotbonneville.com)
    ×2.86 24 #78 | 9 points by elliotbnvl 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)
    ×4.93 68 | 438 points by Cider9986 19 hours ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Transformers are inherently succinct (openreview.net)
    ×1.20 38 | 141 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Ccgs – Collaborative Claude Code sessions, stored in Git branches (github.com/ingram-technologies)
    ×1.64 99 | 6 points by scrollaway 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: FFmpeg WebCLI – Full FFmpeg in Browser, Offline PWA, No Uploads(WASM) (github.com/tejaswigowda)
    ×1.51 105 | 86 points by tejaswigowda 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: GoldenMatch – 100M-row dedupe on Ray in 213s, no Spark, Arrow-native (github.com/benseverndev-oss)
    ×0.46 194 | 3 points by benzsevern 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Super El Niño Events (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.48 21 | 5 points by rolph 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I don't like computer anymore. [video] (instagram.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by mastazi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform (nltimes.nl)
    ×2.96 4 | 282 points by TechTechTech 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station" (404media.co)
    ×3.03 69 | 110 points by awkwardpotato 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) (pokeemerald.com)
    ×2.18 6 #20 | 289 points by tripplyons 16 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite (andersmurphy.com)
    ×1.55 60 #39 | 156 points by emschwartz 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Digger Solo – Local AI File Explorer (digger.lol)
    ×1.32 179 | 5 points by sean_pedersen 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)
    ×0.74 47 #29 | 72 points by RickJWagner 15 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Context Sculpting (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.76 7 #52 | 11 points by perceptronblues 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???