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  1. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.86 6 #52 | 336 points by x______________ 23 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.96 69 | 38 points by stillatit 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×0.39 78 | 4 points by fosco 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.81 77 | 44 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.77 92 | 18 points by all2 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.45 101 | 31 points by jahala 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are you using AI to do election choices like Mayor, Special Measures
    ×0.96 72 | 6 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Will apps be going away in favor of personal assistants?
    ×0.68 84 | 4 points by talmr 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.66 103 | 7 points by Gooblebrai 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?
    ×0.64 96 | 6 points by sky2224 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.88 98 | 38 points by learner_yearner 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. "Wrong" Email
    ×0.97 89 | 25 points by rbmm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.29 107 | 10 points by throwaway3309 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GEMM Tutorial and UlmBLAS
    ×0.56 119 | 4 points by michael-lehn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.45 110 | 11 points by japhyr 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.74 108 | 32 points by TekMol 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.17 133 | 8 points by weinzierl 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?
    ×0.42 120 | 5 points by winrid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you verify a reported domain sale is real?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by mousabelhag 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
    ×0.52 126 | 10 points by arm32 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Antrophic tightened usage limits?
    ×0.54 137 | 6 points by lukan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How are you using AI in your personal life?
    ×0.13 152 | 3 points by whall6 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?
    ×0.11 153 | 3 points by xiaomaijj 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?
    ×0.34 145 | 5 points by d--b 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?
    ×0.20 141 | 6 points by lucasov 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Computer Science Programs Lose Students as AI Replaces Jobs (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.39 26 #55 | 16 points by xqcgrek2 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Are these the worlds best shithouses? (visitnorway.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by 28304283409234 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ultron – an uncensored agent that can do your coding (gtgimage.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by JaredtheG 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.69 29 #32 | 41 points by aray07 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Quantum Billing (getquantumbilling.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by dotmanish 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Doop (doop.design)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: HackerNewsTV – Daily YouTube playlist of latest HN videos
    ×0.99 | 2 points by jimothyhalpert7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GM to pay $220M to settle allegations it violated drivers' privacy (reuters.com)
    ×1.50 39 | 3 points by xnx 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says (ft.com)
    ×4.00 2 | 322 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole' (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.57 50 | 118 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×5.06 #1 | 757 points by karpathy 6 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How do you take a picture of a black hole? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.71 82 #76 | 110 points by dverlaeckt80 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (arxiv.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by hapax_legomena 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A developer recreated a 1990s 486 PC in JavaScript (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.83 23 | 6 points by zomtorg 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Optimized CUDA forced alignment kernels. 10x – 1000x faster (github.com/brthor)
    ×1.08 129 | 3 points by bthornbury 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Free CVE feed for agents to lookup vulnerabilities (casco.com)
    ×1.76 150 | 3 points by brene 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite (blog.google)
    ×1.13 7 #9 | 34 points by praccu 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AI text watermarking and quality loss (keyvan.net)
    ×1.46 11 #16 | 25 points by danielfoster 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games (mashable.com)
    ×6.36 39 #46 | 103 points by firesteelrain 5 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The federated code forge (tangled.org)
    ×1.81 6 | 325 points by zlliang 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Some Thing is Happening A note from the AI companies (alanbellows.com)
    ×2.07 70 | 65 points by DamnInteresting 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: TariffPedia – HS code lookup and import duty comparison (tariffpedia.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by chuanbuilds 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Massie, Khanna, and Others Introduce the "Epstein Files Transparency Act II" (house.gov)
    ×4.92 71 | 72 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Readeck sync for Kobo's stock reader (github.com/fkaduk)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by fkdk 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Rust based window switcher for macOS (alt-tabr.com)
    ×1.93 117 | 5 points by nima999 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I Vibe Coded Orkut.com (aurkut.fun)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by heyarviind2 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age (nullprogram.com)
    ×2.09 15 #45 | 181 points by fovc 14 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Charter, field-level control over agents' calls into customer accounts (github.com/r28ai)
    ×0.93 146 | 4 points by nathanqueme 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages (indiatoday.in)
    ×3.99 29 | 74 points by healsdata 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem (emarzion.github.io)
    ×1.13 37 #23 | 6 points by mkckto 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Docsferatu: An agent that drafts docs PRs while you sleep (inngest.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Linell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Hashsync – Deduplicate SSH streams against the receiver's files (github.com/someplaceguy)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by someplaceguy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python (florianwilhelm.info)
    ×0.84 14 #18 | 54 points by sebg 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Amazon made the AUX input on older Alexa devices less useful (engadget.com)
    ×1.34 1 #50 | 5 points by NordStreamYacht 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Beating the compiler at signed 32-bit division (lemire.me)
    ×0.33 | 1 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power (theguardian.com)
    ×6.32 81 | 201 points by mpweiher 8 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn (cairoreport.org)
    ×2.00 52 | 57 points by entryleveljobsc 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Dirjet – A fast, secure local file server that just works (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×1.00 115 | 3 points by modinfo 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models (twitter.com/jiahaoshao1)
    ×5.06 17 #22 | 206 points by pretext 6 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×5.99 9 #60 | 1706 points by kuberwastaken 2 days ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Elsag SignalTrace maps cars using phone, car radio, headphone, watch, key finder (leonardocompany-us.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by rexbee 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX (github.com/kevinraymond)
    ×2.10 | 374 points by nanna 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax (lesnumeriques.com)
    ×12.15 37 | 138 points by nick486 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: phpClaw – AI agent runtime for PHP with tools, memory and guards (github.com/phpclaw-php)
    ×0.51 122 | 13 points by akashpatel7204 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards (freehire.me)
    ×0.99 140 | 39 points by i_strelov 6 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: OpenTaxRate – open-source US sales tax rates by street address (github.com/equated-org)
    ×1.47 149 | 7 points by winxton 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. It's the memory latency, stupid (pivotlake.io)
    ×1.34 5 #7 | 130 points by ntur1337 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable (piefed.world)
    ×1.59 11 #10 | 308 points by DeepLogin 15 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.85 21 #19 | 7 points by modinfo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Chainalysis security incident with customers PII compromised (chainalysis.com)
    ×2.02 3 | 4 points by androidnstuff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Centauri Academy – a free ham radio license study site I built at 15 (centauriacademy.app)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by westonrosch 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites (twitter.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm)
    ×7.48 51 | 124 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Wall Street closes sharply lower as AI cash burn fears spark tech selloff (reuters.com)
    ×3.87 56 | 69 points by geox 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Fix 1.0 – Ruby tests written as RFC 2119 specifications (fixrb.dev)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by cyrilllllll 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Free Unlimited Virtual Monitors+Watch Claude Work on Them+Community (multispace.dev)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by DanielSystem 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Full Python 3.15 Implemented in 25k LoC C11
    ×1.30 142 | 9 points by soasme 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry (ycombinator.com)
    ×1.88 54 #73 | 412 points by sandslash 2 days ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat (catcopter.com)
    ×1.11 64 | 84 points by pawelwentpawel 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Othismo, a Runtime for Sandboxed Objects (othismo.com)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by mamidon 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Popkern – open-source CAD kernel with G2 corner blends, browser IDE (popkern.dev)
    ×1.08 138 | 14 points by geedy 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.48 31 #34 | 18 points by sweetdingoes 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust (firezone.dev)
    ×1.27 45 #68 | 157 points by wh33zle 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Northflank Breached (northflank.com)
    ×1.90 6 #74 | 473 points by js4ever 1 day ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Keeping the Bonfires Lit (historytoday.com)
    ×0.44 67 #87 | 19 points by Petiver 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What Happened to the TI-83? Sold to Every Student in 1996 Then Destroyed Itself (youtube.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by cable2600 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???