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  1. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×1.21 28 #87 | 50 points by stikit 9 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
    ×1.68 9 | 18 points by chucksmash 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off
    ×1.81 57 | 5 points by ctxc 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.60 74 | 22 points by waldrews 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: For Enterprise coding agents, what's your company doing to control cost?
    ×0.33 86 | 3 points by m0rde 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Novgraph: Persistent Knowledge Graph for Codebases
    ×0.23 93 | 3 points by Shourya_55 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.42 47 | 816 points by cromka 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?
    ×0.38 105 | 5 points by funkaster 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.58 35 | 481 points by jacquesm 2 days ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. GoatCode – open-source terminal AI agent with provider failover
    ×0.29 109 | 3 points by Arhan-w 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.68 102 | 319 points by imadtaieber 6 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?
    ×0.64 108 | 9 points by superasn 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH
    ×0.34 116 | 6 points by rawland 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.58 118 | 20 points by AuthorizedCust 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.88 117 | 115 points by maxim-fin 5 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Dreamcast Web Development Links
    ×0.22 119 | 4 points by hefner1456 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Where are the innovations happening today?
    ×0.22 120 | 5 points by cauliflower99 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is GPT-6 Astra worth the 2.5x cost increase over GPT-5.6 Sol?
    ×0.53 114 | 7 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: AI and Math
    ×0.06 | 2 points by ekm2 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace
    ×0.29 133 | 7 points by zishutron 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is the average number of hops in your social network to 9-11 death?
    ×0.06 | 2 points by MrCoffee7 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.95 151 | 29 points by genekrapivin 6 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.07 153 | 17 points by pkos98 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why isn't decompilation a solved problem in the AI era?
    ×0.32 143 | 6 points by ferfumarma 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.33 150 | 9 points by mattm 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization (science.org)
    ×1.37 56 #41 | 213 points by geneticdrifts 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems (rubyhack.ai)
    ×5.97 26 #45 | 922 points by chao- 1 day ago | 576 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Vince Carter called out modern NBA players for checking social media at halftime (basketballnetwork.net)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by hbcondo714 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: A Technical Book for the Age of AI (codeberg.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by juurej 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie (honest-broker.com)
    ×4.63 67 | 63 points by antlas 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training (twitter.com/DavidAgranovich)
    ×2.22 75 | 62 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them (cbc.ca)
    ×1.09 47 #34 | 149 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Stuxnet – A reconstructed source code of the infamous cyber-weapon (github.com/Sadpainy)
    ×1.64 107 | 178 points by CMDDestory 5 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go (github.com/galaxy-io)
    ×0.53 110 | 31 points by ikswolzok 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: ResolveHQ – A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues (github.com/mirza-rizvi)
    ×0.57 70 #67 | 67 points by mirza_rizvi 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Competitive Landscape Cubacadabra (cubacadabra.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by cs1996 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Beyond Traditional RAG? (gumroad.com)
    ×3.82 48 | 7 points by GeorgeTj 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Poisoned Chalice and the Court of the Opened Eye (danverbraganza.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by nvader 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Top mathematicians are outraged by OpenAI's methods (economist.com)
    ×3.75 44 | 94 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Resist "AI" (ronjeffries.com)
    ×3.97 77 | 65 points by mborch 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest (github.com/gauravapiscean)
    ×1.05 25 #27 | 96 points by gauravapiscean 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Viaduct – Architecture change sets for AI coding agents (quietgridlabs.com)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by igrlgkv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Endless Execution (hey.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree (quesma.com)
    ×0.92 38 | 167 points by michalwarda 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research (agentsdock.net)
    ×1.92 23 | 3 points by ZihuiGeorgia 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Xkcd-Font: The Xkcd Font (github.com/ipython)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by birdculture 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Recurrent Looped Transformer (yifanzhang-pro.github.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by MayCXC 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A Skeptic's Guide to AI Regulation (twitter.com/cesifoti)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released (github.com/GrapheneOS)
    ×1.74 10 #62 | 305 points by microtonal 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart (newyorker.com)
    ×2.98 73 | 72 points by Michelangelo11 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Next Notes – local dictation, meeting notes, and actions app (github.com/spyhack225)
    ×0.81 122 | 3 points by Sergekad0 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Korva turns podcasts into insight cards you can revisit and share (getkorva.co)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by michaelfallon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants (ieee.org)
    ×0.69 79 #55 | 100 points by ltononro 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. LLMs are real, AI is fake (pluralistic.net)
    ×5.06 41 | 69 points by danaris 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Eric Betzig on Live-Cell and Super-Resolution Microscopy [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by kaivi 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Killing with a car costs $1.6M, California requires drivers to carry $30K (maxmautner.com)
    ×3.74 27 #38 | 42 points by mslate 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun" (latimes.com)
    ×2.72 15 #43 | 115 points by mmayberry 10 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 118M Queries per Second on Neki (planetscale.com)
    ×0.81 64 #74 | 99 points by joshmgross 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Atlantic hurricane season 2026 sets a new record (usatoday.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by RickJWagner 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Lumae Native macOS screen-demo recorder that agents can edit over MCP (lumae.app)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by happyyeti 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (withspecific.com)
    ×1.56 7 #2 | 96 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe (economist.com)
    ×1.64 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Booting straight into a local LLM (no linux) on my Raspberry Pi (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.08 52 | 4 points by encyclopedism 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Explore Changes with Drafts (lovable.dev)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Pratyaya – VSCode Extension to Monumentally Scale Your Prompts (visualstudio.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by kapv89 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Come prove the Berge Fulkerson conjecture with a swarm of agents (provetogether.ai)
    ×1.03 36 | 5 points by fcesco 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Mercator vs. UN's new Equal Earth map, synced side by side (newworldsize.com)
    ×2.05 115 | 6 points by respectattentio 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices with CSS (2023) (stephaniestimac.com)
    ×0.55 79 #49 | 56 points by mooreds 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: OSM Edit MCP (github.com/skywinder)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by skywinder 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Post-graph-RAG – your RAG still thinks the old CFO is the CFO (github.com/crajah)
    ×2.01 148 | 5 points by chandanrajah 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Determinstic LLM inference for lowest price Gemma 4, with Windows XP (tokendelivery.ai)
    ×0.56 89 #60 | 6 points by carsonpoole 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by Retro_Dev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. An Alternative Syntax for Type Inference in Java (aghasemi.github.io)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI (unslop.news)
    ×2.70 15 | 192 points by otherayden 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×4.68 27 | 148 points by Iuz 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison (twitter.com/venturetwins)
    ×3.96 42 | 63 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Hopera, a free musical soothing rhythmic game (jgthms.com)
    ×14.06 88 | 27 points by bbx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await (brown.edu)
    ×2.16 33 #23 | 423 points by wcrichton 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Room 641A (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.88 13 | 179 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Nightshift – Your code gets better while you sleep (github.com/openslop)
    ×0.83 128 | 11 points by tcbrah 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Fuck it, make it anyway (joelotter.com)
    ×4.08 33 #46 | 540 points by JayOtter 13 hours ago | 540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Align AI and Mathematics–To Something Else (wordpress.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by nitrogenpuddle 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Void Linux Maintainer Orphans 100 Packages over AI Policy Dispute (phoronix.com)
    ×1.88 17 #80 | 15 points by Bender 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Know Your Paradoxes (coredump.cx)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by encyclopedism 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Transferable sessions between Claude Code instances (getcesar.dev)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by apkhydr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Claude is only available to people over 18 years (claude.com)
    ×3.66 27 | 665 points by Muhammad523 1 day ago | 644 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Claude Read Aloud – Hear Claude's Replies Instead of Reading (github.com/MichaelPGifford)
    ×1.20 121 | 4 points by michaelgifford 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Whetuu – An opinionated, zero-config status line and history picker (github.com/yamafaktory)
    ×0.57 140 | 13 points by yamafaktory 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat (github.com/kennethwolters)
    ×0.98 61 #44 | 173 points by kennethwolters 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Using LLMs After a TBI (urgentteam.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by tj_astro 1 minute ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???