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  1. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.53 #81 | 6 points by AG25 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Dear astronomers, what are the most interesting things in space lately?
    ×0.59 39 | 7 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.50 42 | 29 points by 019 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)
    ×0.32 84 | 38 points by DogRunner 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    ×0.85 75 | 146 points by alegd 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.53 69 | 19 points by burnt-resistor 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×1.80 73 | 300 points by modelcroissant 4 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?
    ×0.60 62 | 10 points by smackeyacky 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
    ×0.74 92 | 33 points by sunny678 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by preston-kwei 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What's your favorite Emacs package?
    ×0.47 72 | 4 points by blenderob 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition?
    ×0.31 95 | 6 points by gokuljs 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are cloud coding agents useful in real workflows yet?
    ×0.09 127 | 3 points by Rperry2174 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users
    ×0.68 98 | 15 points by darkhorse13 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.15 85 | 32 points by alpinisme 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. OpenClaw stats don't add up
    ×0.44 100 | 10 points by iliaov 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?
    ×0.57 102 | 10 points by nnurmanov 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session
    ×0.35 136 | 14 points by agentseal 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are there any engineering orgs that use incentives?
    ×0.18 144 | 3 points by jppope 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask Anthropic: Requesting clarity on Claude -p situation
    ×0.58 131 | 5 points by andai 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. My file access workaround for cron in Tahoe
    ×0.17 145 | 4 points by noduerme 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GPT 5.5 Released in Codex
    ×2.08 89 | 16 points by zuzululu 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Hypochondriac's Complaint (publicbooks.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by lermontov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: A free tool for non-technical folks to easily publish a website (weejur.com)
    ×0.59 117 | 3 points by npilk 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Hydra – Never stop coding when your AI CLI hits a rate limit (github.com/saadnvd1)
    ×2.36 115 | 8 points by saadn92 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The active ingredients: physical activity features linked to healthy brain aging (springer.com)
    ×0.88 9 #73 | 17 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Trainly – Free 72-hour audit of your AI agent's production traces (trainlyai.com)
    ×0.28 94 | 6 points by kavin_key 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean (github.com/mmaaz-git)
    ×0.76 148 | 13 points by mmaaz 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025) (ar-ms.me)
    ×0.98 29 #24 | 136 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. DOJ arrests soldier who made $400k betting on Maduro's removal (abcnews.com)
    ×2.56 32 #71 | 13 points by morkalork 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Blame The Pentagon, Not AI, for Preventable Targeting Mistakes (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by hn_acker 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud (github.com/besimple-oss)
    ×0.61 52 | 70 points by yzhong94 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: MemFactory: Unified Inference and Training Framework for Agent Memory (arxiv.org)
    ×1.99 105 | 8 points by MemTensor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Your hex editor should color-code bytes (simonomi.dev)
    ×2.68 13 #14 | 499 points by tobr 18 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model (qwen.ai)
    ×4.00 3 #47 | 945 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. It Ain't Broke: Why Software Fundamentals Matter More (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by whizusukite 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ghost 6.0 (ghost.org)
    ×3.30 44 | 6 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Gentital Costume Protester Exonerated in Short, Absurd Trial (theintercept.com)
    ×1.65 12 | 3 points by rconti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: OpenDeck – DIY MIDI Platform Based on Zephyr RTOS (github.com/shanteacontrols)
    ×0.85 103 | 4 points by somemisopaste 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: macOS VMs to let you agents run wild (ghostvm.org)
    ×2.00 91 | 7 points by CarolineWang 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: FMQL – graph query and bulk-edit CLI for Markdown and YAML frontmatter (github.com/buyuk-dev)
    ×1.72 116 | 7 points by buyukdev 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: gcx – The Official Grafana Cloud CLI (github.com/grafana)
    ×2.10 111 | 7 points by annanay 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I Built SwiftUI but for macOS MDM (github.com/photon-hq)
    ×2.63 132 | 9 points by RyanZhuuuu 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: CyberWriter – a .md editor built on Apple's (barely-used) on-device AI (cyberwriter.app)
    ×1.39 120 | 15 points by uncSoft 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Bodega cats of New York (bodegacatsofnewyork.com)
    ×1.36 40 #55 | 212 points by zdw 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 3.4M Solar Panels (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.58 #85 | 312 points by marklit 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Free AI Stock analysis in 6 seconds, any US ticker, no signup (helmterminal.dev)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by helmterminal 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. MationX – Android Automation Made Simple (mationx.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by SkalekMarek 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for JRR Tolkien (zig.art)
    ×3.66 20 | 63 points by IdahoSpring 21 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage (juanpabloaj.com)
    ×0.93 96 | 57 points by juanpabloaj 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Romancy – a lightweight durable execution framework (github.com/i2y)
    ×1.89 29 | 3 points by gavmor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro's Ouster (nytimes.com)
    ×2.00 55 | 7 points by mizzao 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Claude Code channels not available for Personal Max plan (twitter.com/pranay01)
    ×1.53 6 | 3 points by pranay01 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
    ×6.94 19 | 339 points by jonthepirate 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (anthropic.com)
    ×3.43 3 #7 | 556 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys (wired.com)
    ×7.08 8 #11 | 710 points by pavel_lishin 7 hours ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A History of Erasures Learning to Write Like Leylâ Erbil (thepointmag.com)
    ×0.27 42 #54 | 26 points by lermontov 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.73 36 #89 | 53 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Meta Layoffs – 10% in May (npr.org)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by dzonga 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. NixPaint – Paint with Lambda's (extranix.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by mipselaer 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Agents grew up, so did our docs (neon.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by danieltprice 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: No JavaScript Club (nojs.club)
    ×1.68 113 | 7 points by basilikum 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Palmier – bridge your AI agents and your phone (github.com/caihongxu)
    ×1.61 135 | 7 points by caihongxu 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Eris – desktop PGP workstation with simple GUI (sibexi.co)
    ×0.40 154 | 3 points by Sibexico 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Ohita – a tool to simplify API key management for AI agents (ohita.tech)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by jusasiiv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Hands-on x86-64 page table walk:finding a flag in physical RAM with GDB (github.com/jazho76)
    ×1.78 139 | 4 points by jazho76 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Our newsroom AI policy (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.33 26 #32 | 182 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why Async Rust? (2023) (without.boats)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by cosmic_quanta 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Bitwarden engineers who had the compromised Checkmarx VSCode extension got hit (reddit.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by milkglass 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Core – open-source AI butler that clears your backlog without you (getcore.me)
    ×0.32 70 | 3 points by Manik_agg 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I am building a cloud (crawshaw.io)
    ×4.10 7 #8 | 983 points by bumbledraven 20 hours ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way (skyandtelescope.org)
    ×1.21 13 #15 | 77 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (maurycyz.com)
    ×3.50 5 #50 | 792 points by zdw 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A Clean Room RFC for NTFS Structural Repair (github.com/seb3773)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by seb3773 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Gemini Plugin for Claude Code (github.com/m-ghalib)
    ×2.63 99 | 11 points by morawr 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. U.S. Soldier Charged with Using Classified Info to Profit from Prediction Market (justice.gov)
    ×6.20 2 #4 | 175 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs (theregister.com)
    ×6.66 23 | 227 points by jjgreen 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (alvarezrosa.com)
    ×1.47 8 | 58 points by dalvrosa 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Cooked (take.surf)
    ×1.61 17 | 3 points by alsetmusic 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign (socket.dev)
    ×2.95 4 #2 | 634 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI GTM plugin for SEO and GEO in Claude Code (github.com/zhizdev)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by zhizdev 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. MCP Gateways Aren't Enough: AI Agents Need Identity, Authorization, and Proof (diagrid.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by mwfussell 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. ChatGPT Images 2.0 (openai.com)
    ×3.98 1 #69 | 1033 points by wahnfrieden 2 days ago | 958 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A fake small claims court for petty complaints (benlirio.com)
    ×1.62 137 | 6 points by blirio 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.20 8 #18 | 352 points by robtherobber 9 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GPT-5.5: Mythos-Like Hacking, Open to All (xbow.com)
    ×2.11 4 #36 | 41 points by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Bring Your Agent to Teams (microsoft.github.io)
    ×0.89 51 #68 | 76 points by umangsehgal93 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How Have Universities Survived for Nearly a Millenium (nber.org)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Lovable admits public project chats and source code were exposed, apologizes (lovable.dev)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by chaosprint 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Zev helps you remember (or discover) CLI commands with natural language (github.com/dtnewman)
    ×2.79 123 | 6 points by dtnewman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???