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  1. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×2.68 34 #46 | 204 points by zkldi 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.44 60 | 16 points by rjzzleep 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
    ×0.18 98 | 3 points by akarshhegde18 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is Codex with GPT 5.5 Extra High being dumbed down?
    ×0.23 86 | 5 points by setnone 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.11 130 | 165 points by syntaxbush 6 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.78 120 | 105 points by gcanyon 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.66 136 | 66 points by oscgam1 4 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is aerc better than neomutt now?
    ×0.13 143 | 5 points by hardikxk 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.41 152 | 9 points by petemc_ 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.54 166 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 6 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives?
    ×1.07 109 | 18 points by rpastuszak 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?
    ×0.52 117 | 14 points by current_robot 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
    ×0.21 153 | 4 points by ovi_firstqa 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.27 144 | 37 points by mzubairtahir 3 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.42 115 | 112 points by PhilipDaineko 3 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×0.43 138 | 14 points by andyjohnson0 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.59 165 | 12 points by justanything 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.33 176 | 6 points by howToTestFE 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.39 175 | 6 points by i_am_rocoe 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.33 171 | 8 points by thoughtpeddler 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.60 173 | 19 points by mellosty 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Shacam for macOS – Screen sharing you can touch (shacam.com)
    ×0.86 154 | 5 points by renatoworks 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting (onmy.cloud)
    ×2.67 2 #63 | 661 points by HumanCCF 1 day ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it (lucassifoni.info)
    ×1.03 52 #89 | 150 points by chantepierre 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. An opinionated (and mainly correct) guide to naming (adamtornhill.substack.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: PDFMergely – In-browser PDF tools that never upload your files (pdfmergely.com)
    ×0.94 84 | 16 points by pdfmergely 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Nano Banana 2 Lite (deepmind.google)
    ×1.87 6 #7 | 302 points by minimaxir 9 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Discretizing Reward Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Morph Reflexes – Multi-head classifiers for agent traces
    ×0.88 67 | 3 points by bhaktatejas922 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: ServerKit – A mobile UI for server management (google.com)
    ×0.65 92 | 5 points by iishanto 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. 1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller (ti.com)
    ×1.05 64 #32 | 144 points by kristianpaul 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023) (xcancel.com)
    ×3.25 93 | 56 points by therein 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee lower stress, depression and impulsivity (ucc.ie)
    ×2.21 90 | 53 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Privacy policy generator for AI apps (LLM disclosure, EU AI Act) (ai-policy-gen.pages.dev)
    ×0.96 108 | 6 points by wyss0513 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML (davidpoblador.com)
    ×2.42 81 | 64 points by nirvanis 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com/inkeep)
    ×1.89 111 | 380 points by engomez 5 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How p-hacking built the world's most expensive safety regime (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.93 89 #55 | 3 points by Lihh27 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tor’s Arti 2.5.0 Released: Stable Counter Galois Onion (torproject.org)
    ×1.71 1 | 3 points by iamnothere 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. JWST spots mature galaxy cluster, redefining "cosmic noon." (eurekalert.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by croes 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Trump to lift limits on Anthropic's Fable model (politico.com)
    ×6.13 46 | 11 points by cyunker 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Hawkeye – local code search for MS/Linux, fast 500k+ file codebase (zaragsoft.se)
    ×0.60 151 | 3 points by hawkeye_zarag 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Context Warp Drive – deterministic folding for LLM agents (github.com/dogtorjonah)
    ×1.00 146 | 4 points by VoxxoAI 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Loko Scheme 0.13.0 (weinholt.se)
    ×1.12 10 #29 | 14 points by azhenley 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Vroni Is a Software Delegate (vroni.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by doener 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×3.80 75 | 157 points by b-man 2 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format (metaspec.dev)
    ×0.65 148 | 17 points by dlowe-net 6 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. NixOS 26.05 (nixos.org)
    ×2.58 66 | 119 points by lostmsu 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough (nytimes.com)
    ×5.82 71 | 84 points by tangled 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why Jet Engines Aren't "Made in China" (aakash.substack.com)
    ×2.83 34 | 5 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Free Online GIS Viewer and Format Converter (geodataviewer.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by twainyoung 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails (apparent.social)
    ×0.94 1 | 23 points by west_subject 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: XSDR – Real-time event monitoring infrastructure for agents (xsdr.app)
    ×0.50 145 | 9 points by wcrann3 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant (nickcarr.com)
    ×1.65 7 #18 | 72 points by mkmk 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What happens when you run a CUDA kernel? (fergusfinn.com)
    ×1.45 48 #76 | 286 points by mezark 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Exploring The Spectrum -Dr. John Ott documentary on the health effects of light [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Eaglo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. WhiteHouse lifts export control on Anthropic that froze its most advanced models (cnn.com)
    ×1.89 21 | 3 points by dstala 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: macOS Native Markdown Reader with Vim Keybinding Using Swift (intellios.ai)
    ×0.84 133 | 7 points by coolwulf 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Bible as RAG Database (crosscanon.com)
    ×1.85 125 | 163 points by jacksonastone 6 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Solid-state material converts sunlight into UV light (phys.org)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by indynz 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Scalable GANs with Transformers (arxiv.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by MediaSquirrel 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: The Three Idempotencies of an Agent (agentsxbackend.substack.com)
    ×2.16 114 | 5 points by Venky1729 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Matrix URIs, a URL syntax from Tim Berners-Lee that never shipped (1996) (w3.org)
    ×0.71 29 #31 | 50 points by napolux 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. US lifts curbs on Anthropic's Fable, Mythos AI models (reuters.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by lossolo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Open USD (joinopenstandard.com)
    ×1.60 24 | 3 points by Kinrany 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI models' values are very different from most people's (economist.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Engye – transfer files between any two devices by scanning a QR code (fuzzyworld.net)
    ×1.30 162 | 14 points by psafronov 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Bouvet Island (lifeinnorway.net)
    ×0.37 58 #56 | 7 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Anthropic restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from tomorrow (twitter.com/AnthropicAI)
    ×4.11 86 | 43 points by schappim 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×5.86 11 | 905 points by taubek 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says (reuters.com)
    ×2.66 53 #72 | 206 points by tartoran 9 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Future of Software Engineering Is Here but Not Evenly Distributed (Updated) (twitter.com/jmugan)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by jmugan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Keybr: Adaptive Touch Typing Trainer (keybr.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. EU countries move to revive temporary message-scanning regime (euronews.com)
    ×2.05 99 | 55 points by latexr 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base (github.com/mat-mgm)
    ×1.02 52 #90 | 105 points by triska 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Backtest a futures strategy described in plain English (askfutures.com)
    ×0.90 147 | 5 points by jmulla 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Use-zerostack – delegate any task to a lightweight coding agent (github.com/gi-dellav)
    ×1.18 172 | 4 points by gidellav 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Google copybara: moving code between repositories (github.com/google)
    ×1.74 4 #3 | 38 points by reconnecting 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery (meta.com)
    ×1.40 3 #5 | 107 points by alok-g 4 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Frame Error (linch.substack.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fanianolima667 Gmail.com (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by Alefmax 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Open Source Low Tech (opensourcelowtech.org)
    ×3.07 12 #49 | 624 points by grep_it 21 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Antares achieves criticality of Mark-0 reactor (antaresindustries.com)
    ×1.04 62 #50 | 71 points by clarionbell 17 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Xsnow "protestware" in Debian (lwn.net)
    ×1.60 51 #86 | 118 points by 6581 9 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I like Claude Desktop, so I created my own (zandrey.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by rats 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Claude Science (claude.com)
    ×2.21 3 #6 | 364 points by lebovic 9 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting (verdagon.dev)
    ×1.43 11 #11 | 47 points by g0xA52A2A 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Set up your own DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service (nochan.net)
    ×1.05 14 #33 | 61 points by Bender 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. SedonaDB 0.4: GPU-accelerated spatial joins (apache.org)
    ×0.73 41 #41 | 34 points by dr-jia-yu 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators (appaca.ai)
    ×0.62 129 | 21 points by susros 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Bare-metal RTOS(TamgaOs) for Cortex-M4, written in C and ARM assembly (github.com/hrasityilmaz)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by hrasity 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???