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  1. Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?
    ×0.29 26 | 3 points by tuvix 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Does magic link authentication use HTML canvassing?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by trinsic2 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: ChatAi web-based session notation?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by xtiansimon 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×0.84 65 | 52 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×2.00 59 | 335 points by misterchocolat 3 days ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?
    ×0.44 74 | 5 points by canterburry 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How can I support the AI resistance movement financially?
    ×3.24 52 | 7 points by roschdal 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×4.64 50 | 823 points by morpheuskafka 4 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.81 72 | 77 points by absurdwebsite 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
    ×1.47 98 | 15 points by arikusi 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
    ×0.94 81 | 17 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?
    ×0.57 83 | 6 points by s_u_d_o 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)
    ×0.59 87 | 6 points by leetrout 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
    ×0.61 85 | 30 points by fny 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?
    ×0.84 100 | 5 points by coreyp_1 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error
    ×1.04 106 | 11 points by ascarola 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.87 113 | 25 points by RockstarSprain 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.73 114 | 13 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.45 123 | 8 points by comrade1234 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.46 103 | 29 points by thewillmoss 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.63 117 | 13 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×0.87 119 | 26 points by baobabKoodaa 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?
    ×1.34 110 | 15 points by smonk108 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing
    ×0.61 88 | 18 points by limalabs 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?
    ×0.93 132 | 9 points by sahli 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?
    ×0.51 131 | 6 points by etherus 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.63 134 | 12 points by time4tea 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.28 154 | 4 points by apatheticonion 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
    ×4.21 34 | 58 points by decide1000 11 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×1.27 128 | 19 points by kwar13 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.20 112 | 43 points by ssiddharth 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.62 5 #18 | 51 points by bryanrasmussen 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: TTS.ai (tts.ai)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by nadermx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Flint – A 30B model fine-tuned for less repetition (springboards.ai)
    ×1.75 135 | 6 points by thmsmxwll 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: OpenRig – agent harness that runs Claude Code and Codex as one system (github.com/mvschwarz)
    ×2.20 147 | 7 points by mschwarz 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×1.96 3 #6 | 302 points by f_r_d 10 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.61 11 #10 | 361 points by tkhattra 15 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I'm building Eigen, a self-hosted Google Workspace alternative (reindernijhoff.net)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by reindernijhoff 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How Unique Are Mythos's Hacking Capabilities? (jonathanpgabor.substack.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by BenPace 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.34 50 #48 | 121 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mysterious figure has summited Sphere in Las Vegas: It appears it's Alex Honnold (sfgate.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by bookofjoe 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)
    ×0.95 34 | 117 points by charleslpan 2 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: External admission gate for GitHub Actions before execution (ai-admissibility.com)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by pinfloyd 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Noodlist – Letterboxd for Instant Ramen (noodl.ist)
    ×1.84 99 | 7 points by mkdirpepper 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built a Wikipedia based AI deduction game (sleuththetruth.com)
    ×1.03 125 | 9 points by brikym 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.42 4 #51 | 748 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Kazakhstan still relies on its ageing industrial giants (mondediplo.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Matt Mullenweg Says "The Wheels Have Fallen Off" in WordPress (therepository.email)
    ×1.80 29 #89 | 15 points by rpgbr 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: How Are You-elderly fall detection app I built solo with AI in 6 months
    ×1.26 | 2 points by sminchev 40 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness (whitehouse.gov)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by bkudria 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: OCI MicroVMs for Proxmox VE (github.com/rcarmo)
    ×2.89 16 | 6 points by rcarmo 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Rapid-MLX – Run local LLMs on Mac, 2-3x faster than alternatives (github.com/raullenchai)
    ×1.11 49 | 5 points by raullen 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Compile English specs into 22 MB neural functions that run locally
    ×2.70 126 | 10 points by yuntian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×3.90 2 #5 | 609 points by yusufusta 8 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Any Color You Like: NIST Scientists Create 'Any Wavelength' Lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.95 8 #7 | 8 points by rbanffy 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Coelanox – auditable inference runtime in Rust (BERT runs today) (coelanox.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Shark1n4Suit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Agent-cache – Multi-tier LLM/tool/session caching for Valkey and Redis
    ×0.28 104 | 17 points by kaliades 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Link Shortener – Itlinks.me (itlinks.me)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by IgorStojanov 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
    ×2.00 9 #78 | 312 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Praxis – Lab data to publication-ready figures in one Python package (github.com/zmtsikriteas)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by zmtsikriteas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Version 1.0 Released: WireGuard for Windows and WireGuardNT (kernel.org)
    ×1.90 12 #58 | 10 points by zx2c4 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    ×1.65 15 #4 | 9 points by weaksauce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Sherry Turkle: "We're losing the raw human part of being with each other" (2013) (theguardian.com)
    ×1.40 6 #56 | 28 points by plenched 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Trump deal with IRS could see him given $14B in taxpayer money (9news.com.au)
    ×6.51 43 | 37 points by johnbarron 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Themery – A theme engine that compiles one palette to every major IDE (themery.dev)
    ×1.15 145 | 4 points by Tiagopeter 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.41 46 #55 | 112 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day (theverge.com)
    ×2.51 37 | 165 points by dotmanish 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I built a tool that reads 2000 health studies a day so you dont have to (polivora.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by ledil 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I built a simple uptime monitoring tool focused on fewer false alerts (pulsorup.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by shura_dev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Hyperloom – A concurrent state broker and time-travel debugger for AI
    ×0.53 | 1 points by debabhishek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: ILTY – AI mental health companion that does not pat your back
    ×1.70 155 | 3 points by sklyarov 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.59 10 #61 | 440 points by binsquare 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Code → Eval → HLD → LLD → Code (p10q.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by tmsh 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A Roman fable about a PHP suite that exposed 100 tables in 3 days (medium.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by marius-ciclistu 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine (github.com/gainsec)
    ×1.32 36 | 224 points by scaredpelican 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Building a Grow-Only Counter on a Sequentially Consistent KV Store (brunocalza.me)
    ×0.26 59 #45 | 5 points by brunocalza 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Scientists discover "cleaner ants" that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.94 16 #11 | 58 points by t-3 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Modern Common Lisp with FSET (common-lisp.dev)
    ×0.47 1 #13 | 25 points by larve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (npr.org)
    ×2.11 22 #36 | 62 points by nuke-web3 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)
    ×0.99 44 #82 | 145 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why Postgres wants NVMe on the hot path, and S3 everywhere else (thenewstack.io)
    ×1.80 14 #77 | 3 points by tanelpoder 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Best Sports Game Nobody Played [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by pulkitsh1234 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Nilbox – Run OpenClaw without exposing your API tokens (nilbox.run)
    ×0.76 105 | 3 points by rednakta 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: StockFit API – structured SEC EDGAR data with a free tier (stockfit.io)
    ×2.06 146 | 7 points by areimann 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×1.00 14 #9 | 67 points by drasim 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.53 39 #54 | 274 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×0.98 49 #43 | 105 points by unsuspecting 23 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Eating more fruits and vegetables tied to unexpected lung cancer risk (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by amichail 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How Long Can You Keep Peptides After Reconstitution? (robustenough.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by BenPace 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???