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  1. Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
    ×1.86 34 | 137 points by IncandescentGas 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Broken "Public Research Articles" Link: Any Support for Google Scholar?
    ×0.13 74 | 3 points by yann-gael 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Can we make up/downvotes/flags visible on Hacker News Archives (delayed)
    ×0.40 65 | 4 points by gpt5 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: The new wave of AI agent sandboxes?
    ×0.60 60 | 9 points by ATechGuy 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How are Iranian drones getting their guidance?
    ×0.37 61 | 5 points by dottenad 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to Find a Job in the UK
    ×0.55 68 | 7 points by 0x3444ac53 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?
    ×0.63 64 | 25 points by neilk17 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: If working with agents means this, robots, please take my job
    ×1.04 44 | 11 points by tiredagent 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are we ready for vulnerabilities to be words instead of code?
    ×0.43 73 | 4 points by lielcohen 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
    ×1.32 71 | 211 points by tathagatadg 4 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
    ×3.19 20 | 147 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. European municipalities leak citizen data to US companies
    ×1.48 63 | 9 points by sam_lowry_ 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. TTal – CLI that turns Claude Code into a multi-agent software factory
    ×0.40 106 | 4 points by neilbb 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who is still using Windsurf and why?
    ×1.12 79 | 9 points by mak8 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I built a game where you argue consumer rights against AI bots
    ×0.33 87 | 5 points by dragonmann 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?
    ×0.97 82 | 33 points by newswangerd 2 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Have you cancelled any software subscriptions because AI replaced them?
    ×0.77 83 | 7 points by maxim_bg 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals
    ×1.32 91 | 98 points by Tim25659 4 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Claude down Again?
    ×0.33 105 | 10 points by rreyes1979 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Open AI is actively censoring information about voting today in the US
    ×0.52 116 | 11 points by resters 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why is everyone on HN obsessed with Rust?
    ×2.25 78 | 15 points by goldkey 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How are you protecting yourself from skill atrophy?
    ×0.70 115 | 5 points by xpnsec 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Claude Code 500s
    ×1.15 108 | 16 points by bavarianbob 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Which router makers do you trust most?
    ×1.21 94 | 9 points by general_reveal 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Skills Manager – manage AI agent skills across Claude, Cursor, Copilot
    ×0.20 140 | 3 points by evergreenxx 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove Opus and Sonnet from their Copilot Pro subscription?
    ×0.64 135 | 14 points by lgl 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to Learn C++ in 2026?
    ×0.52 138 | 15 points by creatorcoder 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Knowledge workers managing AI show collapsed productivity, not just a plateau
    ×0.69 126 | 6 points by dfordp11 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: We need to learn algorithm when there are Claude Code etc.
    ×0.46 128 | 11 points by JasonHEIN 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: We built AI agents that reduce mortgage processing from 18 days to 3–5 (simplai.ai)
    ×2.15 117 | 6 points by SimplAI_ai 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Open-source Typeform (forms.md)
    ×1.65 118 | 5 points by darkhorse13 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Soros – AI for geopolitical macro investing (asksoros.com)
    ×9.07 95 | 25 points by muggermuch 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Git-ownership – A tool to visualize code ownership over time from Git (github.com/MichaelMure)
    ×1.30 131 | 4 points by michaelmure 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Claude Code plugin that gives .svelte files full LSP intelligence (github.com/RA1NCS)
    ×1.26 144 | 8 points by gshreyan 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Lore – Local AI thought capture and recall that runs on your machine (github.com/ErezShahaf)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by ErezShahaf 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: React isn't the terminal UI bottleneck, the output pipeline is
    ×0.63 93 | 3 points by nathan-cannon 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenAI to Acquire Astral (openai.com)
    ×3.58 28 | 159 points by meetpateltech 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: React terminal renderer, cell level diff, no alt screen (github.com/nathan-cannon)
    ×0.78 86 | 3 points by nathan-cannon 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie (theverge.com)
    ×4.50 37 #88 | 100 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Judge Rules Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Workaround Does Not Infringe Masimo Patents (macrumors.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by mgh2 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Power of Playtesting in the Classroom (landenlove.com)
    ×0.26 56 #82 | 12 points by LandenLove 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Open standard for stable machine-readable facts for AI systems (groundingpage.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by fhouser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends (github.com/ndroo)
    ×0.70 49 | 85 points by verelo 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: PlanckClaw an AI agent in 6832 bytes of x86-64 assembly (github.com/frntn)
    ×1.09 129 | 4 points by frntn 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. TI-89 Height-Mapped Raycaster (github.com/dzoba)
    ×1.45 52 #46 | 13 points by zoba 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API (github.com/traccar)
    ×0.79 32 #71 | 63 points by tananaev 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: QCCBot – Android in a browser tab, with AI agent control
    ×1.96 119 | 7 points by Eastra 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell (science.org)
    ×2.52 1 #1 | 300 points by bookstore-romeo 6 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Monuses and Heaps (doisinkidney.com)
    ×0.57 45 #74 | 29 points by aebtebeten 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.88 49 #79 | 82 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Bernie Sanders: I spoke to AI agent Claude [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by epaga 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Death to Scroll Fade (dbushell.com)
    ×2.44 3 | 406 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source (github.com/joaoh82)
    ×1.02 51 | 105 points by joaoh82 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute (qlabs.sh)
    ×1.23 14 #26 | 149 points by sdpmas 15 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. CAIveat Emptor: What You Tell AI Can and Will Be Used Against You (natlawreview.com)
    ×1.30 25 #54 | 8 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL (oseifert.ch)
    ×1.02 57 | 124 points by ImGajeed76 3 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Consensus Board Game (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.66 39 #58 | 75 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Transformer Architecture, Visualized (vizuaranewsletter.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Anon84 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Initial thoughts about the ThinkPad E14: wow (rubenerd.com)
    ×1.99 11 | 3 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI coding is gambling (visaint.space)
    ×3.61 2 | 344 points by speckx 1 day ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How many branches can your CPU predict? (lemire.me)
    ×1.52 13 | 122 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Download entire/partial Substack to ePub for offline reading (github.com/kevinlong206)
    ×0.97 59 | 3 points by locusofself 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011) (github.com/mattmanning)
    ×1.49 8 #8 | 144 points by robotnikman 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. GrapheneOS: Duress Pin/Password (grapheneos.org)
    ×1.46 53 #48 | 31 points by davikr 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: M68k assembly emulator that runs in the browser (github.com/gianlucarea)
    ×2.68 111 | 19 points by aldino97 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Budibase Agents Beta – model-agnostic AI agents for internal workflows (budibase.com)
    ×0.72 76 | 7 points by mjashanks 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Website lets you post only once for life (fausto.me)
    ×0.96 137 | 3 points by faustoct 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: LLMadness – March Madness Model Evals (llmadness.com)
    ×1.12 90 | 5 points by rjkeck2 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: NC Web – Norton Commander for the web, built with vanilla JavaScript (github.com/victorantos)
    ×2.44 102 | 10 points by victorbuilds 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. How Do LLMs Compute Verbal Confidence (DeepMind) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.94 4 | 3 points by armcat 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE (thijsverreck.com)
    ×0.81 53 | 86 points by thijsverreck 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework (blog.google)
    ×1.17 56 #78 | 141 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Yog-Fsharp – A Graph Library for F#. A Port of Gleam's Yog (github.com/code-shoily)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by TheWiggles 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: 3 AI agent trust systems cross-verified each other's delegation chains (github.com/kanoniv)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by dreynow 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Waymo Safety Impact (waymo.com)
    ×2.98 16 #30 | 322 points by xnx 14 hours ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Uber to Invest Up to $1.25B in Rivian Robotaxis (wsj.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Mac OS X 25th Anniversary: The Foundation of Apple's Rise (goto10retro.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)
    ×2.28 18 #83 | 509 points by Stwerner 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (stripe.com)
    ×1.26 31 #86 | 199 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Role-based AI persona packs for Claude Code and Cursor
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ratnesh_maurya 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. We Have Learned Nothing (colossus.com)
    ×1.56 30 | 85 points by lukestevens 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Oku – One tab to filter out noise from feeds and content sources (oku.io)
    ×1.13 80 | 4 points by oan 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: PearlOS: we gave AI a talking desktop environment instead of a text box
    ×1.60 84 | 4 points by stephanieriggs 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Bento – Save and restore multi-monitor app layouts (bentodesktop.com)
    ×2.29 112 | 7 points by aarmenante 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. No semicolons needed: a survey of programming language syntaxes (terts.dev)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by fanf2 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. VS Code Sessions: an attempt at competing with Cursor and Antigravity (twitter.com/_EDM115)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by EDM115 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. YouTube is asking users if videos "feel like AI slop" (dexerto.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (tigsource.com)
    ×2.08 8 #11 | 372 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages (esolang-bench.vercel.app)
    ×1.01 14 #39 | 91 points by matt_d 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Local Document Parsing for Agents (llamaindex.ai)
    ×5.35 38 | 20 points by cheesyFish 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???