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  1. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.64 25 #56 | 1090 points by chaseadam17 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by azebazenestor 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News?
    ×0.57 66 | 5 points by ElectroNomad 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Chinese New Year v.s. Lunar New Year
    ×1.15 26 | 4 points by dogclaw 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. SEL Deploy – Cryptographically chained deployment timeline
    ×0.43 | 2 points by chokriabouzid 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: We analyzed our dev time.80% is still infrastructure'setup',notfeatures
    ×1.03 71 | 12 points by thesssaism 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.52 97 | 26 points by causal 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong?
    ×0.45 117 | 3 points by terryjiang2020 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.51 116 | 7 points by fdneng 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?
    ×0.42 122 | 6 points by xgstation 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips?
    ×0.34 119 | 4 points by uejfiweun 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.90 103 | 45 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.09 100 | 13 points by TazeTSchnitzel 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.39 134 | 16 points by rtrgrd 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.31 131 | 12 points by jrs235 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key)
    ×0.09 | 2 points by Picknar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.33 | 2 points by AGsist 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.42 132 | 8 points by Poomba 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
    ×0.81 129 | 14 points by mr-pink 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
    ×0.25 141 | 4 points by endorphine 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.45 137 | 13 points by incognito124 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.16 144 | 6 points by jmount 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?
    ×0.38 139 | 15 points by surume 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project
    ×0.43 143 | 6 points by firefoxd 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Microsoft Edge self-destroys updating it in Debian based distros
    ×0.32 136 | 9 points by usr1106 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×0.75 140 | 12 points by absoluteunit1 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: LLMs helping you read papers and books
    ×0.53 142 | 8 points by amelius 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Creating the Heart of a Quantum Computer: Developing Qubits(2020) (energy.gov)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by rolph 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.77 36 | 4 points by barryvan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: SalaryScript – The FAANG Negotiation Playbook
    ×0.60 | 1 points by corefiredrill 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A Thick-Skulled Troodontid Theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico (mdpi.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart (hannahritchie.substack.com)
    ×1.82 70 | 68 points by speckx 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: SunnyFlight – Find cheap weekend flights to sunny destinations (sunnyflight.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by coderai 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: TUI open-source Python tool for network discovery and port auditing (github.com/mennylevinski)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by mennylevinski 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: PolyMCP – MCP Tools, Autonomous Agents, and Orchestration
    ×0.54 | 2 points by justvugg 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring (theregister.com)
    ×3.17 16 | 272 points by benji8000 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I curated 130 US PDF forms and made them fillable in browser (simplepdf.com)
    ×4.57 114 | 11 points by nip 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox (fortune.com)
    ×5.33 13 #45 | 767 points by virgildotcodes 1 day ago | 706 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Breccia: Single-file, append-only, blob storage with efficient random access (github.com/petertodd)
    ×0.71 79 #52 | 15 points by StingyJelly 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024) (nasa.gov)
    ×6.33 62 #67 | 191 points by doener 6 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. PicoLM: Run a 1B parameter LLM on a $10 board (github.com/RightNow-AI)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by OsamaJaber 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.62 58 | 192 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
    ×1.60 53 | 273 points by zachlatta 2 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript (github.com/n-e)
    ×0.63 73 #80 | 67 points by n_e 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Env-rx – Catch missing .env variables before they break your CI (github.com/xserhio)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by xserhio 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard (hawksley.org)
    ×2.09 124 | 5 points by hawksley 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Self-hosting my websites using bootable containers (yorickpeterse.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by YorickPeterse 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How Codex is built – by Gergely Orosz (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by sharjeelsayed 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.68 #18 | 101 points by benbreen 6 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A solver for Semantle (victoriaritvo.com)
    ×0.72 35 #22 | 34 points by evakhoury 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Grandson of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups inventor says Hershey is cutting corners (apnews.com)
    ×4.23 23 #50 | 14 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Will I Be Paid in Tokens? (tomtunguz.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Google's Lyria 3: make 30-second audio tracks using text or images (in beta) (blog.google)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by tummler 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Sanna – Enforce AI agent constitutions with cryptographic receipts (github.com/nicallen-exd)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by nicallen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Writing a C++20M:N Scheduler from Scratch (EBR, Work-Stealing) (github.com/lixiasky-back)
    ×0.98 96 | 18 points by lixiasky 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: LaminarDB – Streaming SQL database in Rust, zero-alloc hot path (github.com/laminardb)
    ×2.20 110 | 6 points by sujitn 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Discrete Structures [pdf] (kyleormsby.github.io)
    ×0.94 22 #25 | 47 points by mathgenius 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty (replay.software)
    ×1.76 42 #63 | 105 points by sgottit 7 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Nedagram – Transfer Text Over Sound, when internet isn't available (nedagram.com)
    ×1.76 109 | 3 points by shayanbahal 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Jarvish – A New AI Integrated Shell inspired by J.A.R.V.I.S. on marvel (github.com/tominaga-h)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by tominaga-h 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Link Between Air Pollution and Alzheimer's Is Now Clearer (sciencealert.com)
    ×2.50 6 #75 | 11 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Spec driven development – new workflows and spec types (kiro.dev)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by t2f2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Setting up an Overpass API server (openstreetmap.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by altilunium 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File (github.com/christopherkarani)
    ×1.97 45 | 127 points by ckarani 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School (404media.co)
    ×1.94 56 | 89 points by trinsic2 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial (reuters.com)
    ×2.08 14 #85 | 27 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Codereport – track TODOs, refactors, and bugs in your repo with a CLI
    ×0.91 | 2 points by pulko 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: The Answering Machine – A screenless AI phone for kids with questions (tdaltonc.github.io)
    ×4.87 59 | 8 points by tdaltonc 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Opaal Visual multi-agent prompt designer for Claude Code and agentic AI (github.com/Agravak)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by Kinanhamwi 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Script to check if Notepad++ is backdoored by Lotus Blossom APT (github.com/nHunter0)
    ×4.13 130 | 10 points by 10000000001 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: m6502, a 6502 CPU for FPGAs and Tiny Tapeout (github.com/chrismoos)
    ×1.52 115 | 5 points by chrismoos 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How to Choose Between Hindley-Milner and Bidirectional Typing (thunderseethe.dev)
    ×1.94 19 #9 | 14 points by thunderseethe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 (asahilinux.org)
    ×3.44 9 #35 | 402 points by mkurz 16 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Updating the Verge's Background Policy (theverge.com)
    ×2.08 11 #71 | 18 points by eric_h 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A secure dotenv – from the creator of dotenv (dotenvx.com)
    ×1.99 20 | 3 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage (lesswrong.com)
    ×4.26 69 | 84 points by cubefox 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
    ×0.79 73 | 116 points by dogline 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM (bashtorio.xyz)
    ×2.53 95 | 18 points by elijahcham 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. All Look Same? (alllooksame.com)
    ×1.08 7 #13 | 34 points by mirawelner 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction (github.com/khalildh)
    ×1.10 30 #64 | 134 points by prathyvsh 10 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: ThresholdIQ – Alert threshold simulator (100 % client-side) (thresholdiq.app)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by vigneshj 31 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.23 67 | 126 points by bilsbie 8 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: gwt-zsh – Stupidly simple Git worktree management (github.com/aasimsani)
    ×2.05 42 | 4 points by aasimsani 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI (cpojer.net)
    ×1.13 5 #58 | 107 points by cpojer 14 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
    ×1.84 64 #87 | 259 points by presbyterian 2 days ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The History of Sushi (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by BiraIgnacio 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Algorithms 1.0.0 – Minimal and clean implementations of algorithms (github.com/keon)
    ×2.06 121 | 6 points by kwk236 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Nobody asked for OpenClaw in the cloud. I did it anyway (accordio.ai)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by deduxer 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021) (sceneandheardnu.com)
    ×3.83 3 #38 | 691 points by walterbell 23 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???