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  1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.69 17 #17 | 899 points by paveworld 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
    ×0.32 | 2 points by goldenmember 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×0.70 68 | 130 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.12 58 | 266 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.
    ×0.16 | 2 points by LowLevelMahn 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.47 115 | 19 points by jopizio 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1)
    ×0.30 94 | 3 points by anydigital 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.25 102 | 6 points by Dinuda 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.73 100 | 32 points by zcalvin 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
    ×0.37 109 | 5 points by Steaglsz 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
    ×0.62 99 | 18 points by thatonehack 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why Linux is picking up at a rapid pace for AI usage?
    ×0.66 72 | 5 points by keshwanianup 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.37 117 | 7 points by esher 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.29 121 | 9 points by bigfishhk 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GitHub mutuals on AI in life sciences or bioinformatics
    ×0.28 114 | 5 points by arli_ap 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
    ×1.82 96 | 23 points by k9294 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming
    ×1.81 90 | 25 points by temilson 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What landmarks/lighthouses in the era of LLM/AI?
    ×0.17 133 | 3 points by throw_away_ai 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×2.67 14 #12 | 301 points by wiso 18 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How to hack time, with C2PA (vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    ×0.67 44 #89 | 61 points by Retr0id 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Learn to program a modular synthesizer in the browser (ostra.fm)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by nicktikhonov 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Claude Code refuses to login to any website not running on localhost
    ×0.64 | 1 points by xeonax 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils (lavx.hu)
    ×2.46 47 | 31 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Docker Compose implementation in Rust for Windows WSL containers (wslc) (ricardoborges.github.io)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by r2ob 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What Meta got right with Muse (metedata.substack.com)
    ×1.61 50 #59 | 144 points by young_mete 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hacker News addiction and taking simple mundane breaks in life (mataroa.blog)
    ×3.42 30 #65 | 38 points by Imustaskforhelp 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The evolution of effective altruism (economist.com)
    ×1.54 2 #72 | 73 points by bazzmt 19 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Athena – An assistant that listens instead of watching (athenaos.net)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by mirconeri 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code (claude.dev)
    ×2.46 3 | 236 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Use all Codex Plugins inside Pi (github.com/wileai)
    ×1.31 81 | 22 points by alexandroskyr 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Build and fly drones with a C flight controller running as WebAssembly (mrtksn.github.io)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by mrtksn 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Art of not writing all the code (ljtn.github.io)
    ×2.77 54 | 4 points by ionetan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.74 106 | 24 points by ajoski9 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: UtilsDock – 200 free tools that run in the browser (utilsdock.com)
    ×1.28 131 | 3 points by JaumeGar 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Can We Make React Faster Using the React Compiler? (jimmyhmiller.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. OpenDLSS-NR get a ThreeJS port (github.com/bhouston)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by bhouston 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children (teachyourkids.substack.com)
    ×2.35 9 | 106 points by actfrench 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Enki – Write GPU compute kernels in pure stable Rust (github.com/enkiruntime)
    ×1.20 95 | 10 points by enki_runtime 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I'm color blind, so I built a way to show people how I see (josh.ing)
    ×2.37 118 | 5 points by jshchnz 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac + context manager for AI (innerloop.works)
    ×1.48 71 | 49 points by jv22222 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Teacher Planner – A digital planbook with AI tools for teachers (teacherplanner.ai)
    ×1.52 126 | 3 points by sunpy 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.60 18 #62 | 615 points by elffjs 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. CSS does your tooltip positioning now (allthingssmitty.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by AllThingsSmitty 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening (northeastern.edu)
    ×3.37 50 | 213 points by longhaul 21 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (tdk.com)
    ×1.44 62 | 38 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. RuneScape's Position on Gen AI (reddit.com)
    ×1.44 32 | 28 points by cautiouscat 21 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I'm developing a flat-file agent CMS with WASM plugins in Rust. Free (accentcms.dev)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by akapaka 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. We can and must solve alignment (goodfire.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by gmays 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around (gruberbuilds.workers.dev)
    ×2.01 13 | 30 points by bilsbie 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Rank every HN "Who is hiring?" post against your resume, locally (github.com/MaxwellVolz)
    ×1.67 88 | 13 points by intervolz 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: We built a real-time desktop companion for patient's telehealth visits (openhand.health)
    ×0.89 92 | 12 points by nikilr 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.65 38 #37 | 52 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Incentives in Academic Research (msoos.org)
    ×0.84 39 #49 | 51 points by zero_k 19 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Deep Learning Mechanics on Mnist (stochastic.blog)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by Anon84 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. OntoPrune – Pruning 85% LLM context tokens and 6.7x TTFT on CPU (github.com/vigmarcarlo)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by vigmarcarlo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Second Strike, a 200-player world war on a 3D globe in the browser (secondstrike.io)
    ×1.30 86 | 5 points by kyleclouthier 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: KubeZap – Declarative workflow automation for Kubernetes (github.com/kubezap)
    ×1.04 110 | 3 points by borfswitch 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Web Search API (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.47 1 #3 | 103 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
    ×0.95 36 #88 | 116 points by edverma2 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Web4kit, web pages that pick what to show each visitor (shd8.github.io)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by shadyfast8 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (techspot.com)
    ×7.57 71 | 80 points by emptybits 7 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Open Grind – An unofficial open-source Grindr client (opengrind.org)
    ×1.02 75 | 3 points by hloth 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches? (gnome.org)
    ×2.24 9 #16 | 14 points by birdculture 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. What is going on with ceiling fans (mcmansionhell.com)
    ×3.47 28 #28 | 350 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws (scimigo.com)
    ×0.61 37 #60 | 38 points by davidwshao 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold (transportenvironment.org)
    ×3.52 51 #63 | 73 points by geox 5 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (stelabouras.com)
    ×1.48 119 | 3 points by stelabouras 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Spotlight Off – Automatically Disable macOS Spotlight Indexing (github.com/titleunknown)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by titleunknown 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (danielchasehooper.com)
    ×1.76 10 #7 | 35 points by AlexeyBrin 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Browsentic Open-source Claude for Chrome alternative for any agent CLI (github.com/imshaikot)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by imshaikot 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.59 62 | 3 points by finnlab 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Emails to and from Elon Musk that have been made public (elonemails.com)
    ×5.09 65 | 33 points by measurablefunc 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Metacognitive Agents (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Bluestein 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Radium Girls (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by tosh 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Draw from your friends' Claude quota (github.com/jaynlabs)
    ×2.48 113 | 6 points by hugopuybareau 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: CoIsland – Your whole engineering stack in a notch (coisland.app)
    ×1.42 129 | 5 points by LeDonT 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Science Slop Index (yerimoh.github.io)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by 7777777phil 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Radium Dial (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: HyperCMD, write CLI applications using plain HTML (github.com/fusor-rs)
    ×1.31 60 | 4 points by andreespirela 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (haskell.org)
    ×1.85 13 #9 | 19 points by signa11 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers (redhat.com)
    ×2.08 5 #26 | 103 points by tomncooper 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Mcpward – black-box contract and security testing for MCP servers (github.com/TsvetanG2)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by pwizard234 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Anthropic wants your thoughts on AI (anthropic.com)
    ×2.20 48 | 3 points by ramijames 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Gitframes (github.com/gatewai-dev)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by oknaslnkn 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AlphaSteel (facebook.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by losyhanu 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Zebu - time tracking/invoicing for freelancers and small teams (zebu.work)
    ×0.87 123 | 3 points by waffl 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites (articlesofinterest.substack.com)
    ×0.83 27 #19 | 41 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.86 23 #25 | 33 points by greghn 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025) (wiley.com)
    ×1.31 8 #27 | 89 points by thelastgallon 8 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I need to stop looking up reviews for everything I buy (nate.spot)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by surprisetalk 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???