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  1. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.80 8 #27 | 497 points by _-x-_ 20 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How I find a job where what is needed is solid code, not firefighting?
    ×1.55 6 | 16 points by speeder 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×1.07 88 | 94 points by LatencyKills 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Which is Better–Android or iOS?
    ×0.99 2 | 6 points by wasimsk 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript
    ×0.83 87 | 13 points by g48ywsJk6w48 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?
    ×1.14 104 | 16 points by dwa3592 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?
    ×0.81 100 | 9 points by samarthv 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Batteries Included CLI Framework
    ×0.47 114 | 9 points by maxalbarello 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Oh, What Places to Go (Seriously Tho)
    ×1.09 99 | 11 points by thx 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS
    ×0.61 130 | 6 points by lifeisstillgood 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What to Expect in 2030s?
    ×2.19 41 | 13 points by alexander2002 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?
    ×0.61 112 | 12 points by visox 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How did the industry settle on weekly limits?
    ×0.61 108 | 9 points by saratogacx 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?
    ×4.07 105 | 21 points by fandorin 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?
    ×0.90 123 | 7 points by Haeuserschlucht 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?
    ×1.85 134 | 10 points by Erndob 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.82 129 | 32 points by langs 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded
    ×2.34 140 | 16 points by vintagedave 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
    ×0.67 122 | 27 points by honungsburk 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.70 137 | 48 points by 019 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.84 147 | 25 points by AG25 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?
    ×1.82 115 | 9 points by hamiecod 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How to Attend the Altman vs. Musk Trial
    ×3.97 102 | 17 points by major4x 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
    ×1.47 136 | 22 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking
    ×0.76 141 | 22 points by mfi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?
    ×0.66 135 | 13 points by coreyp_1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.72 164 | 30 points by burnt-resistor 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?
    ×1.97 131 | 16 points by zkid18 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?
    ×2.59 139 | 28 points by lyfeninja 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?
    ×1.95 133 | 15 points by namegulf 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.32 166 | 45 points by alpinisme 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Can non-developer build commercial products with AI
    ×1.26 175 | 10 points by rkorlimarla 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?
    ×0.57 151 | 13 points by thinkingtoilet 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Is possible a language easy as py, fast as C, more secure than Rust?
    ×0.87 170 | 10 points by jerryzhang66 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
    ×0.46 181 | 11 points by preston-kwei 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: AgentSwarms – free hands-on playground to learn agentic AI, no setup (agentswarms.fyi)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by rohan044 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) (macchaffee.com)
    ×2.15 63 | 53 points by Wingy 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI Might Be Lying to Your Boss (williamoconnell.me)
    ×2.95 73 #80 | 51 points by annjose 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins (sciencedirect.com)
    ×0.58 82 #83 | 61 points by wslh 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A populist wave is rising to end the 'captive' repair economy (cnbc.com)
    ×1.92 7 #66 | 39 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How the Preview App Solves iOS Document Signing (steaktek.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by Newspaperworld 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
    ×4.60 25 | 405 points by nreece 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) (github.com/nex-crm)
    ×1.94 29 | 251 points by najmuzzaman 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared (cnn.com)
    ×4.70 65 | 113 points by acdanger 8 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. $8800 house design helps prevent fatal diseases in African children (science.org)
    ×1.44 101 | 52 points by gmays 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.66 11 #4 | 194 points by kmdupree 7 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×0.74 43 #38 | 78 points by subset 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Trump Fires the National Science Board (theverge.com)
    ×9.55 81 | 28 points by aaronbrethorst 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Real-Real-Time Chat (kraa.io)
    ×0.59 180 | 10 points by levmiseri 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Great Minds Should Not Think Alike, They Should Think Together (eventsourcingdb.io)
    ×1.27 2 | 3 points by goloroden 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Do I belong in tech anymore? (ky.fyi)
    ×7.95 95 | 45 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite (github.com/russellromney)
    ×1.36 85 | 308 points by russellthehippo 3 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: #1 On This Day (onthisday-theta.vercel.app)
    ×5.26 132 | 18 points by starzmustdie 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Joy of Folding Bikes (korny.info)
    ×1.89 41 #45 | 247 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. More ancient Linux device support faces the chop (theregister.com)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by Bender 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: AgentSearch – Self-hosted search and MCP for AI agents, no API keys (github.com/brcrusoe72)
    ×0.88 185 | 5 points by bricrusoe 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Run coding agents in microVM sandboxes instead of your host machine (github.com/superhq-ai)
    ×9.74 117 | 62 points by phoenixranger 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×0.97 10 #30 | 96 points by Jach 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Odozi – open-source iOS journaling app (odozi.app)
    ×1.78 142 | 5 points by jlarks32 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (gnupg.org)
    ×1.23 40 #29 | 157 points by zdkaster 17 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. New HEIC to JPG/PNG Converter (runtime-hub.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by RunTimeZero 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Semantic segmentation reveals unexpected disk galaxies in the early universe (nvidia.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by bcaulfield 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Thermoacoustic heat pumps on the verge of commercial breakthrough (pv-magazine.com)
    ×1.17 17 | 3 points by simonebrunozzi 59 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How to Kill a Philosophical Zombie (sopathaye.substack.com)
    ×1.38 8 | 3 points by sopathaye 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: RoboAPI – A unified REST API for robots, like Stripe but for hardware (github.com/amitb-quantum)
    ×4.45 143 | 11 points by xmas123 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Human Source License (HSL) (github.com/xdgrulez)
    ×2.18 11 #5 | 10 points by xdgrulez 20 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025) (fosdem.org)
    ×0.71 32 #25 | 43 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Mise-En-Place (jdx.dev)
    ×1.95 73 | 32 points by dotmanish 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Auge Vision from Your Terminal (franzai.com)
    ×2.76 4 #23 | 10 points by franze 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
    ×1.78 44 #39 | 371 points by robinhouston 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Lambda ERP – Open-source ERP you can run through chat (github.com/lambdadevelopment)
    ×1.91 52 | 5 points by jcfrei 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeep (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.35 11 #58 | 13 points by joozio 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Long Reply (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×0.87 72 #68 | 50 points by NaOH 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Xtrace – Unix-Style macOS Profiling for Instruments (CPU/GPU/Memory) (github.com/Kr1sso)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
    ×3.38 6 #9 | 393 points by jamesponddotco 4 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Podcast Where You Can Eavesdrop on the A.I. Elite (nytimes.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by rafaelc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Good AI Task – a tool for asking AI what it can and can't do (goodaitask.com)
    ×1.75 119 | 6 points by jmt710 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base (atomicapp.ai)
    ×1.06 107 | 61 points by kenforthewin 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
    ×1.14 6 #88 | 75 points by gurjeet 15 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Behind-the-Scenes of MacBook Neo Introduction Video (youtube.com)
    ×13.65 66 | 75 points by 0xbg 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Roids – Open Source Steroids for your Agents (github.com/Developing-Gamer)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by DevelopingGamer 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is a Local LLM on Framework Desktop (phoronix.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by guerby 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Embedding a 3D scene in a React app, SSR-safe – Vectreal viewer walkthrough (vectreal.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by Vectreal-Admin 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Forcing Scammers to Pass a "Face Captcha" [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by akavel 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Pdfnative – zero-dependency TypeScript PDF engine (npmjs.com)
    ×1.79 182 | 6 points by nizoka 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)
    ×1.30 69 #55 | 75 points by mji 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. GPT-5.5 (openai.com)
    ×5.84 32 #78 | 1563 points by rd 3 days ago | 1045 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Digesting Duck: a 1739 automaton that appeared to eat, digest, and defecate (wikipedia.org)
    ×9.87 83 | 48 points by AgentNews 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: LLM-wiki – One command Karpathy's wiki with QMD search for Claude/Codex (github.com/ivankuznetsov)
    ×0.72 148 | 3 points by ivankuznetsov11 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: easl – Instant hosting for AI agents (github.com/AdirAmsalem)
    ×1.59 184 | 5 points by Adir 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???