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  1. Batteries Included CLI Framework
    ×0.32 19 | 3 points by maxalbarello 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?
    ×1.01 28 | 3 points by dwa3592 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by Haeuserschlucht 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?
    ×0.47 26 | 7 points by visox 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?
    ×2.07 1 | 4 points by hamiecod 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×1.22 23 | 88 points by LatencyKills 23 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.73 101 | 27 points by langs 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
    ×0.54 87 | 21 points by honungsburk 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?
    ×0.38 99 | 7 points by coreyp_1 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?
    ×0.95 108 | 7 points by zkid18 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?
    ×1.19 103 | 8 points by namegulf 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.68 112 | 19 points by AG25 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.57 110 | 38 points by 019 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
    ×0.96 109 | 13 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking
    ×0.36 114 | 10 points by mfi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded
    ×1.60 106 | 9 points by vintagedave 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?
    ×0.59 100 | 13 points by thinkingtoilet 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?
    ×2.36 105 | 23 points by lyfeninja 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.61 121 | 25 points by burnt-resistor 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Can non-developer build commercial products with AI
    ×1.17 130 | 8 points by rkorlimarla 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Is possible a language easy as py, fast as C, more secure than Rust?
    ×0.98 118 | 10 points by jerryzhang66 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.43 124 | 44 points by alpinisme 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What's a mind-blowing fact you know?
    ×1.88 49 | 8 points by chistev 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Any Developer from Wales?
    ×2.17 90 | 10 points by danver0 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
    ×0.48 143 | 11 points by preston-kwei 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?
    ×0.69 125 | 14 points by smackeyacky 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Dear astronomers, what are the most interesting things in space lately?
    ×1.08 111 | 19 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
    ×0.83 132 | 39 points by sunny678 4 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users
    ×1.06 135 | 26 points by darkhorse13 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How many tabs do you have open in the browser(s) and why?
    ×2.28 119 | 11 points by juujian 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition?
    ×0.60 139 | 13 points by gokuljs 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU (clad.you)
    ×0.91 27 #22 | 121 points by arkadiuss 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. ENIAC's Architects Wove Stories Through Computing (ieee.org)
    ×0.48 62 #86 | 17 points by sohkamyung 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. U.S. soldier charged with using classified info to profit from prediction market (justice.gov)
    ×5.27 35 | 250 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba (bmj.com)
    ×1.68 17 | 186 points by dberhane 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Algorithmic String Art, accessible to all (string-loom.pages.dev)
    ×0.92 131 | 15 points by s_e__a___n 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Endo Familiar, an O-cap based JavaScript agent sandbox (dcfoundation.io)
    ×3.66 117 | 13 points by zmanian 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Commenting and Approving Pull Requests (jakeworth.com)
    ×1.36 13 #34 | 63 points by jwworth 6 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology (nikomc.com)
    ×1.05 25 #38 | 75 points by mailyk 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What Async Promised and What It Delivered (causality.blog)
    ×1.85 29 #41 | 77 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock (phys.org)
    ×0.60 82 #65 | 62 points by wglb 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ML supports existence of unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena (arxiv.org)
    ×0.85 65 #79 | 71 points by solarist 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing red or blue (twitter.com/waitbutwhy)
    ×1.77 | 2 points by theharrychen 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Bulk URL Checker – check 75k URLs from any LLM via MCP (bulkurlchecker.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by carlosofscience 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
    ×1.43 145 | 6 points by yak32 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for 'first time ever' (carbonbrief.org)
    ×3.48 36 | 5 points by xbmcuser 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How to Implement an FPS Counter (vplesko.com)
    ×1.11 1 #32 | 115 points by vplesko 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler (github.com/matz)
    ×1.83 11 #75 | 340 points by dluan 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hedging the Singularity (twitter.com/achenfinance)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by paulpauper 58 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Different Perspectives of Memory System Simulation (arxiv.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by matt_d 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Are We in Control of AI? (sigmazero.cc)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by sigmazero 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them (charlielabs.ai)
    ×0.90 116 | 70 points by rileyt 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (hypertalking.com)
    ×2.59 3 #1 | 387 points by stephen-hill 7 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Hypertalking (hypertalking.com)
    ×3.45 65 | 5 points by doener 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Do I belong in tech anymore? (ky.fyi)
    ×14.85 50 | 138 points by patrikcsak 22 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Odozi – open-source iOS journaling app (odozi.app)
    ×1.85 16 | 4 points by jlarks32 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex (github.com/dchu917)
    ×0.77 115 | 72 points by dchu17 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Learn conflict resolution through a 90-second interactive story (questly.academy)
    ×1.30 129 | 5 points by danish00111 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Cosmology with Geometry Nodes (blender.org)
    ×1.21 41 #37 | 99 points by shankysingh 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers (recurse.com)
    ×1.09 52 #78 | 75 points by nicholasjbs 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Quiet Resurgence of RF Engineering (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by merlinq 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: easl – Instant hosting for AI agents (github.com/AdirAmsalem)
    ×1.60 141 | 5 points by Adir 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Rethinking Last-Mile Routing at Scale, near-linear scaling (zenodo.org)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by pantherolive 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I built a CLI that turns your codebase into clean LLM input (github.com/NoahCristino)
    ×3.25 91 | 10 points by cristinon 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Run coding agents in microVM sandboxes instead of your host machine (github.com/superhq-ai)
    ×9.30 85 | 60 points by phoenixranger 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Mdspec – auto sync your md files from GitHub repos with wikis (mdspec.dev)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by zameermfm 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Vorim.ai, Identity and trust layer for AI agents (vorim.ai)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by kwamzino007 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ubuntu 26.04 (lwn.net)
    ×4.53 11 | 323 points by lxst 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype? (xark.es)
    ×1.68 64 | 100 points by leonidasv 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (aresluna.org)
    ×1.88 20 #19 | 224 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The operating cost of adult and gambling startups (orchidfiles.com)
    ×1.44 45 #77 | 130 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. You don't want long-lived keys (argemma.com)
    ×1.09 29 #82 | 75 points by kkl 21 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I am building a cloud (crawshaw.io)
    ×4.28 1 #90 | 1097 points by bumbledraven 2 days ago | 560 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Architecture of Honesty, Why Claude Swept Seven Rounds (dowjones.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by Paodim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly (jeroen.github.io)
    ×0.90 58 #70 | 125 points by datajeroen 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Codex context bloat? 87% avg reduction on SWE-bench Verified traces (npmjs.com)
    ×2.86 93 | 9 points by george_ciobanu 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: No AI – My Express.js codebase handled over $50M in prod (github.com/AnthonyBudd)
    ×3.08 98 | 9 points by johnsmith2076 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: We made 3M jobs searchable on a globe to visualize labor markets (rezi.ai)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by jacob_rezi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.21 9 #6 | 769 points by elffjs 22 hours ago | 747 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes (nytimes.com)
    ×1.45 11 #7 | 59 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty (openai.com)
    ×1.36 5 #15 | 79 points by Murfalo 4 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.60 28 #59 | 3 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Obscura – V8-powered headless browser for scraping and AI agents (github.com/h4ckf0r0day)
    ×5.10 80 | 14 points by jryio 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) (github.com/nex-crm)
    ×1.85 18 #29 | 204 points by najmuzzaman 10 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Overtom Chess Computer Museum (xs4all.nl)
    ×0.58 80 #57 | 39 points by semyonsh 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Social media is no longer social (bsky.app)
    ×2.63 30 #66 | 28 points by frereubu 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files (vidstudio.app)
    ×1.45 83 | 298 points by kolx 4 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Linux Desktops in the Browser (vmpixel.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by andoando 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Hermes.md in Git commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com/anthropics)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by adunk 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Quay – Menu-bar Git sync (sailorslog.io)
    ×1.17 37 | 3 points by sailingcode 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???