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  1. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×1.10 31 | 3 points by nonfunctional 26 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.42 #51 | 585 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 639 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.48 1 #82 | 707 points by petecooper 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×0.94 14 | 5 points by cromka 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Don't use Fathom Analytics (founder is blocking criticism)
    ×0.80 62 | 7 points by dorianniemiec 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.62 35 | 76 points by stanislavb 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.32 93 | 3 points by stdc105 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.31 90 | 3 points by Mutinix 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.36 76 | 298 points by petecooper 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.31 96 | 3 points by abakh 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.71 91 | 10 points by winkelmann 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.21 126 | 4 points by BehanPrW 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Have the PHP vulnerabilities been exploited?
    ×0.45 105 | 6 points by crisnoble 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.18 134 | 3 points by vWijdaan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.25 114 | 14 points by masterchief166 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.33 111 | 13 points by Mobius01 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.34 125 | 12 points by aledevv 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.34 118 | 8 points by parthdesai 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×0.91 131 | 29 points by Stitch4223 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.03 109 | 13 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.44 128 | 8 points by ovudus 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.25 129 | 5 points by spicygum 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.15 110 | 17 points by shakshukan 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.45 149 | 10 points by thechairman12 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×0.97 122 | 16 points by lualover 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Firefox Auto-Run on Windows
    ×0.27 153 | 3 points by BubbleRings 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. TI C66X / Ad Sharc+ Decompilers
    ×0.45 154 | 5 points by kavinsky777 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old
    ×0.84 113 | 12 points by kaveh808 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Financial Audit of DuckDuckGo?
    ×0.54 133 | 9 points by giantg2 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share?
    ×0.67 150 | 10 points by erelong 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day
    ×0.30 146 | 10 points by kinj28 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. France needs to read my paper (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×4.62 5 | 63 points by Wilsoniumite 13 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×2.10 3 #69 | 488 points by niemandhier 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Built a site that teaches investing using the live market as the examples (stocksightfinance.com)
    ×1.40 78 #84 | 5 points by kshitik 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Fire hazard zone, power line risk and fire history for any CA address (firezones.info)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by raffys 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web (swurf.org)
    ×0.75 23 #27 | 47 points by webtjb096 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans (modelcompare.ai)
    ×3.05 6 #61 | 611 points by rakannimer 1 day ago | 592 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. List of Game PC Ports and Recompilations (alwaysleaveanote.com)
    ×0.89 47 #65 | 6 points by xnx 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Noyb win: German DPA finds microtargeting by major political parties illegal (noyb.eu)
    ×1.83 3 #85 | 13 points by latexr 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea (rumple.github.io)
    ×1.40 62 #89 | 221 points by jimauthors 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Semantic search across major museums (lastmuseum.com)
    ×0.95 59 | 125 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22 (eff.org)
    ×3.06 13 #8 | 275 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I reverse engineered a board game (wuemeli.com)
    ×0.75 55 #66 | 77 points by wuemeli 18 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale (anthropic.com)
    ×2.38 19 #77 | 437 points by johnbender 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Apple-design-hig agent skill, DocC updater CLI, and MCP server (github.com/mr8lu)
    ×1.38 51 | 3 points by mr8lu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Attention people who think UB is fine (habets.se)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by lostmsu 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name (404media.co)
    ×4.19 18 | 658 points by oidar 1 day ago | 702 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A wysiwyg Markdown editor for macOS that works with agents (kirahowe.com)
    ×0.77 108 | 3 points by kmclean 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: HN Sieve – every Show HN scored and summarized by AI (hnsieve.com)
    ×0.79 148 | 3 points by cezarvil 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. John Snow Cholera Data (rtwilson.com)
    ×0.20 97 #23 | 3 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Time Nuts (2005) (leapsecond.com)
    ×0.37 32 #30 | 28 points by jacquesm 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Greece passes social media ban for children under 15 (reuters.com)
    ×2.40 15 #52 | 6 points by thunderbong 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Instacart in talks with DoorDash and Uber for sale (reuters.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Aurora Agentic Terminal (shitworks.co)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by mrknown404 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I built a tool to track Trump's posts and their potential market impact (trumpgist.com)
    ×2.05 94 | 4 points by orsifrancesco 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Zof API Contract Check (github.com/Zof-AI)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by kevinkissi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Animations for System Builders (brooker.co.za)
    ×0.51 55 #15 | 26 points by KraftyOne 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Total Historian (theideasletter.org)
    ×0.23 68 #31 | 18 points by benbreen 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: I trained a 160M code model on one GPU and got 22.56% on HumanEval (jakubcwirlej.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by jakcwi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation (biograph.com)
    ×1.11 58 | 88 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: App Factory – 42 Claude Code skills to ship apps to App Store and Play (github.com/yybd)
    ×0.47 140 | 3 points by yybd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Amgi – Plain-text spaced repetition with FSRS (github.com/alisheryeginbay)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by yeginbay 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I built a Markdown and raw HTML blog platform scoring 99 on PageSpeed (bloffy.co)
    ×1.27 95 | 29 points by textlanes33 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cveboard: Live Security Incidents (cveboard.org)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by mneves75 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics (sciencealert.com)
    ×0.92 39 | 70 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: MXValidation – Send an email and get an authentication and DNS report (mxvalidation.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by metalinvest 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Conference / expo / trade show finder plus MCP (conferencefindr.com)
    ×1.68 20 | 3 points by aeshang3 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business (emudhra.com)
    ×4.78 42 | 1134 points by bo0tzz 1 day ago | 737 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure (amazon.com)
    ×2.54 34 | 267 points by cubefox 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden (berget.ai)
    ×2.97 14 | 140 points by jlundberg 16 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left (techpowerup.com)
    ×2.85 29 #40 | 61 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know (rentes.github.io)
    ×1.69 91 #48 | 9 points by jcbhmr 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Kurt Vonnegut envelope quote fact check (snopes.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by inatreecrown2 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Beam – Play Local MKV/MP4 Files from a Mac on a Chromecast (github.com/prasad-kumkar)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by PrasadKumkar 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Ts-polyglot – Call C/C++ or Rust functions directly from TypeScript (ts-polyglot.dev)
    ×1.06 79 | 3 points by emykhailenko 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz? (jevcards.com)
    ×1.17 101 | 71 points by totisjosema 3 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Crystal 1.22 (crystal-lang.org)
    ×1.48 45 | 176 points by ksec 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: ZapFast, a native WhatsApp client with voice and video calls on Linux (zapfast.rocks)
    ×1.12 70 | 3 points by earcar 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: RoadRash ported to Three.js to run in the browser (roadrash.pages.dev)
    ×1.66 124 | 36 points by olucurious 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.98 2 #47 | 15 points by khalidkhair 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI Just Raised the Stakes on Continuous Delivery (bradoyler.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by bradoyler 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Walmart Makes It Possible for Agents to Shop on Behalf of Customers (walmart.com)
    ×2.75 4 | 5 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Mark – AI chat that answers with diagrams, quizzes and 3D models (saanora.com)
    ×0.72 87 | 3 points by AKSaathwik 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Reforming English Spelling (oup.com)
    ×0.44 63 #22 | 15 points by jruohonen 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Brokerage Firms Want to Yank Away Your Investor Protections (wsj.com)
    ×1.68 12 #71 | 14 points by JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone (twitter.com/jaredkushner)
    ×4.37 67 | 287 points by teekert 12 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Empirical agents with hard constraints, strict isolation and trusty protocols (qip.dev)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by codesparkle 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Overdesigned Simple Solitaire (defaultsolitaire.app)
    ×0.65 144 | 5 points by fsloth 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Docker is weird (codeandcake.dev)
    ×3.37 6 #37 | 813 points by psxuaw 23 hours ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Agents fail like engineers, so I review them like engineers (greenflagged.dev)
    ×0.96 58 #74 | 11 points by Azkar 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???