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  1. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×2.28 15 #28 | 35 points by kilroy123 1 hour ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.94 18 #35 | 39 points by joshmarinacci 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×1.45 61 #37 | 7 points by vira28 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×1.54 171 #50 | 52 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Agents get dumber before release of new model version?
    ×1.71 30 #62 | 3 points by sporkland 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×1.22 78 #64 | 7 points by thisislorenzov 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.05 25 #81 | 761 points by eries 1 day ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is anyone shorting the overspend in AI yet?
    ×2.99 67 | 13 points by ggm 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×2.08 21 | 197 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is there a metric for AI code quality?
    ×0.62 80 | 3 points by fractalf 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.47 18 | 411 points by TomAnthony 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: np.reddit.com now redirects to www.reddit.com
    ×2.04 26 | 3 points by kevinwang 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.53 30 | 234 points by hnthrow10282910 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Degree apprenticeships in engineering, do they exist?
    ×1.23 | 2 points by adamofeden 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is anyone else seeing a Slack auth bug?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by HoyaSaxa 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.39 87 | 259 points by mdni007 2 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Claude Code keeps getting worse
    ×0.59 73 | 4 points by prmph 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Just me feeling that Mythos/Fabel just 1% there?
    ×0.42 96 | 4 points by punnerud 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.28 72 | 165 points by y1n0 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.32 71 | 431 points by aryamaan 2 days ago | 754 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I added a prompt to future ASI – TLBIC Policy Proposal v5 now available
    ×0.59 | 2 points by michikawa59 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Temporal Awareness in LLM?
    ×0.52 | 2 points by Pamar 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Discussion: Fable 5 is weak at flagging prompts correctly
    ×0.56 | 2 points by eckelhesten 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?
    ×1.70 92 | 7 points by linzhangrun 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
    ×2.43 85 | 6 points by limondas 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?
    ×1.00 105 | 5 points by zionsati 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Anyone building a local-first companion for Google Fitbit Air straps?
    ×0.52 | 2 points by joalavedra 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?
    ×2.06 88 | 7 points by Adam-Hincu 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×1.89 101 | 9 points by BugsJustFindMe 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.63 132 | 23 points by modzu 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Stack Overflow seems down
    ×0.69 120 | 5 points by tom1337 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Summary of recent buggy Kindle updates since Nov 2025: dictionary, fonts, manga
    ×0.40 | 2 points by seam_carver 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: The next evolutionary step in LLM usage?
    ×0.44 139 | 3 points by tomaytotomato 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What internal tool did you build that became a product?
    ×1.27 98 | 4 points by nehpets 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are we all walking into a trap?
    ×0.90 122 | 7 points by skor 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: Codex once again automatically activates /fast on app update
    ×0.16 | 2 points by mfi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Prediction for SpaceX IPO?
    ×0.56 144 | 7 points by bix6 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.51 147 | 14 points by jasonephraim 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Those who quit Software Eng. to do something else, what did you do?
    ×1.70 116 | 6 points by trwhite 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
    ×0.37 170 | 5 points by j1000 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?
    ×0.15 169 | 5 points by randomor 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Will the next high value profession be people who can think independently?
    ×1.25 114 | 5 points by ciwolex 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Options for critical thinking and learning outside work?
    ×0.58 168 | 6 points by hnthrow10282910 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.46 173 | 6 points by amichail 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. LeetCode is the best way to learn a new language
    ×0.05 | 2 points by JasonHEIN 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: How to get your child interested in math?
    ×0.61 171 | 3 points by gitowiec 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: What is happening with the Meta Ads dashboard?
    ×0.31 172 | 4 points by ramon156 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Abundance Illusion (carlyle.com)
    ×1.88 50 | 82 points by cwal37 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Nucleus – A security-hardened, Nix-native container runtime (github.com/sig-id)
    ×0.73 100 | 38 points by 0kenx 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (dronexl.co)
    ×3.14 8 #9 | 593 points by vrganj 10 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Waymo Premier (waymo.com)
    ×1.76 10 #15 | 18 points by boulos 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.58 13 #17 | 36 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Agent-Shell 0.55 Updates (xenodium.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by xenodium 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. MiMo Code is now released and open-source (xiaomi.com)
    ×1.87 1 #1 | 218 points by apeters 2 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes (vorpus.github.io)
    ×4.47 48 | 1169 points by lizhang 3 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Catalyst Maze: biotech trading game (baybridgebio.com)
    ×1.41 113 | 4 points by aaavl2821 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs (github.com/luke8086)
    ×0.93 86 | 126 points by luke8086 4 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Nightwatch, The open-source, read-only AI SRE (github.com/ninoxAI)
    ×1.10 140 | 33 points by egorferber 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C (nanochess.org)
    ×0.99 34 #82 | 94 points by nanochess 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Homebrew CPU (homebrewcpu.com)
    ×1.69 19 | 3 points by hggh 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Which AI prototyping tools can export a self-contained HTML file? (productnow.ai)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by kadhirvelm 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Claumon – forecasting Claude Code usage limits with a Gamma process (github.com/fabioconcina)
    ×0.98 68 | 5 points by fabioconcina 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: KnowledgeMCP – Turn any docs into an MCP endpoint (0 LLM at query time) (github.com/hashwnath)
    ×0.74 161 | 3 points by Hashwanths 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.07 27 #18 | 35 points by ljf 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Semantic Bioinformatics List (github.com/SmartMonkey-git)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by smart_monkey91 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation (blog.google)
    ×3.39 1 | 315 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely (matteast.io)
    ×2.00 26 | 182 points by meast 23 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Jailbreak this model to get 3B tokens (opir.ai)
    ×2.02 108 | 5 points by copypirate 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Stop returning raw JSON from MCP servers, build rich inline UIs (medium.com)
    ×0.61 62 #21 | 6 points by muhammad-shafat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The First Taste Is Free (atlasprimeai.substack.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by atlasprimeai 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness for Project Glasswing (github.com/visa)
    ×1.78 14 | 3 points by guessmyname 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Fable on Humanity (twitter.com/MathiasChu)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by jger15 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: A quarterly check-in for co-founders, as a conversation game (seesaw.social)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by diongeorge 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. GeoLibre 1.0 (geolibre.app)
    ×1.98 3 | 290 points by jonbaer 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi (theatlantic.com)
    ×4.99 63 | 83 points by SanjayMehta 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: AutoGPU – AI designs a real 7nm GPU, from Verilog to GDSII (github.com/npip99)
    ×1.20 162 | 4 points by npip99 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents (github.com/denoland)
    ×4.15 24 #20 | 24 points by rough-sea 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.78 14 #26 | 26 points by freejoe76 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A new era for software testing (antirez.com)
    ×1.63 32 #27 | 43 points by Chrisszz 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Global population movements from 1990 to 2023 (nature.com)
    ×1.90 19 #29 | 59 points by tzury 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Mach – A compiled systems language looking for contributions (github.com/octalide)
    ×0.72 121 | 32 points by octalide 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE (planetscale.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by hollylawly 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Private image and PDF tools that run in the browser (photovoid.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by thegamer 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust (gitdot.io)
    ×2.09 79 | 327 points by pybae 3 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Impress your boss with interactive Decision Tree Visualization (github.com/mljar)
    ×1.26 129 | 5 points by pplonski86 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you (pgdog.dev)
    ×2.35 15 #89 | 526 points by levkk 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon (oscars.dev)
    ×1.60 54 | 281 points by ozcap 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Camel Mono – a monospace font that makes camelCase easier to read (github.com/TJHdev)
    ×3.40 112 | 9 points by tjhdev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails (theverge.com)
    ×3.01 1 #2 | 97 points by rarisma 1 hour ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux (nns.ee)
    ×1.26 24 #49 | 127 points by theanonymousone 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???