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  1. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×2.20 24 #49 | 177 points by linsomniac 8 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Be Careful with Stripe Connect
    ×1.67 44 | 12 points by breue 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.21 49 | 724 points by jameslk 2 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Slickdeals.net Is Compromised
    ×2.88 19 | 15 points by intenex 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.18 53 | 540 points by eggbrain 2 days ago | 675 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. A new protocol and software suite for AIs
    ×0.37 | 2 points by homingpigeon 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What fun things to do with an iPhone 11?
    ×0.51 86 | 5 points by wanderingpixel 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?
    ×0.88 107 | 86 points by mike_richards 3 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Looking for a CTO
    ×0.47 94 | 3 points by alpbahadur 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are forgotten topics in computing that deserve a new revisit?
    ×1.09 75 | 40 points by draxen 20 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I tried to connect every GPU on the planet together (kinda)
    ×0.79 87 | 4 points by lukefrisker 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Seeking advice: Wix stolen my .com domain
    ×0.48 91 | 7 points by wixcom 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Banned for Reddit inauthentic ads?
    ×1.02 69 | 3 points by polywickstudio 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How are companies hiring developers nowadays?
    ×0.72 118 | 3 points by Frazzlebilt 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: AI isn't intelligent :/ what is intelligence?
    ×1.19 100 | 4 points by aaditsingal7859 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.92 83 | 527 points by user052919 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. OpenClaw SaaS?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by alexfthom 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to resist endless app directories listing your product?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by gosen 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Verifying a satellite image with temporal evidence
    ×0.40 | 2 points by avijeetsingh16 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Executive (C-Level) Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Large Language Models
    ×0.41 | 2 points by northlondoner 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is anyone running multi/always-on agents that don't cost a fortune?
    ×0.95 115 | 4 points by abejora 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.14 120 | 164 points by punchmesan 3 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How's your home-cooked software revolution going?
    ×0.95 131 | 3 points by nihakue 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.58 121 | 108 points by neya 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Is Paywall Bypassing Dead?
    ×1.70 52 | 5 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is the most secure OS for mobile phone?
    ×1.87 116 | 5 points by Muralnick 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How can I get informed in the static vs. dynamic typing debate?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by zingar 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Engineers Focus Using AI
    ×0.39 | 2 points by elchuzade 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Has anyone used LLMs to audit TrueCrypt for backdoors?
    ×1.46 125 | 4 points by dlphii 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. If your code chatbot was genuinely honest
    ×0.76 | 2 points by chrisjj 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Codet JSON
    ×0.40 139 | 3 points by fifflesticks 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What's one coding habit that separates great dev from average dev?
    ×1.38 104 | 5 points by dhruonweb 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.06 133 | 166 points by stockresearcher 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.11 140 | 81 points by werrett 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How do AI agents help you in your daily life?
    ×0.28 141 | 5 points by gonzar79 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Where should I start to do marketing?
    ×0.77 147 | 6 points by dhruonweb 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What workspace/productivity tools do you use and why?
    ×1.07 135 | 4 points by anragyadev 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Canva lays off 22% of its workforce; 1,270 people
    ×3.30 134 | 33 points by princevegeta89 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Is it possible for a residential proxy provider to exist ethically?
    ×1.03 148 | 5 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How to verify response generated by AI in API response quickly
    ×0.13 | 2 points by mehtahet619 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Local AI Models for Coding and General Tasks?
    ×0.33 145 | 4 points by giantg2 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them (github.com/anteloc)
    ×0.65 23 #26 | 22 points by antelocnova 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Elon Musk is about to learn how much America hates him (independent.co.uk)
    ×5.54 46 | 11 points by Zigurd 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What Is Pico Ballooning? (traquito.github.io)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: IMDb for YouTube (Long-Form Videos Only) (eamag.me)
    ×1.74 64 | 4 points by eamag 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander (fireflyk64.github.io)
    ×1.75 78 | 254 points by daniel_rh 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 18 #13 | 74 points by handfuloflight 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity (reuters.com)
    ×2.73 27 #57 | 75 points by brazukadev 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 1994 After Dark Files Rat Race, Ported to the Browser (heyitsjam.es)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by shijie 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Splitsetter – my attempt at a bill splitting app (splitsetter.com)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by tantanel 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Pixel Buddy, a pixel pet for Claude Code that grows from your work (github.com/SimakovIgor)
    ×0.75 138 | 3 points by igorsimakov 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. 88x31 GIF Stickers for 2026 (a90.com)
    ×2.14 42 #53 | 5 points by saint11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Live now: attacking P vs. NP using only AI, written out in real time (x.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by sunbagger 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Upvoted – Up First but with HN stories (upvoted.dev)
    ×1.13 105 | 3 points by cpan22 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Curious HN – Hacker News without the snark (curioushn.com)
    ×1.08 137 | 11 points by cochne 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Pangram Image 1.0 (pangram.com)
    ×1.18 50 #87 | 144 points by gmays 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. *sshole, or when are we going to get rid of C? (sunshowers.io)
    ×6.97 80 | 20 points by hasheddan 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: TubeHaus – an open-source YouTube client with no Google account (github.com/biolend83)
    ×0.91 124 | 21 points by invidiouslove12 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Stenvakt, a server hardening and patching tool (stenvakt.com)
    ×0.31 | 2 points by ranwhatcom 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Swipeblocked: The phrases your iPhone won't suggest (swipeblocked.com)
    ×2.26 24 #55 | 34 points by lladnar 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: KeepPlain – ask your coding agent why a line of code exists (keepplain.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by kagen 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Weeny.Cloud – A Linux server for your coding agent's apps (weeny.cloud)
    ×1.25 126 | 3 points by isaacrolandson 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS (github.com/PrivSec-dev)
    ×3.20 18 #35 | 610 points by microtonal 14 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. MTG-I2 First Images (eumetsat.int)
    ×1.04 29 #40 | 61 points by N19PEDL2 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Budget Friendly City Discovery (geesling.ca)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by bmods 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Drone warfare in space: Autonomous laser cubesat swarms could defend satellites (space.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by gmays 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app (shayon.work)
    ×4.12 70 | 97 points by yewenjie 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Flawless UI-UX Skill 1.0.0 (github.com/smokeeaasd)
    ×0.71 26 #54 | 21 points by 99lcccss 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Formula for Lovable Cities (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.81 72 #75 | 9 points by rafaelc 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Swapping LLMs in Under Two Seconds: A Sleep Mode for Llama.cpp (zaage.it)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by phirdev 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Future Of Instrastructure, As I see It (djoker.dev)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by dj0k3r 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Where each U.S. state gets its tax revenue from (visualcapitalist.com)
    ×2.58 34 | 68 points by peter_d_sherman 8 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: EasyRunCraft – An office and creative suite for your AI agent (easyruncraft.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by xiaosen 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Free real-time order book heatmap for Bitcoin, gold and US 500 (swiftedge.uk)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by Stangenberg295 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Size-It-Up (Game) (magnitudle.com)
    ×0.81 19 #17 | 59 points by whoishiding 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. SketchAgentBench – evaluate LLMs on 3D spatial reasoning (sketchagent.dev)
    ×0.39 42 #51 | 7 points by wsxiaoys 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Desktop icon behavior survey results (akselmo.dev)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by TrianguloY 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The hardware bet is wrong. It is running from a war (twitter.com/withYougori)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by Yougori 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. One of the greatest scam artists ever used Ghana’s colonial past to get rich (foreignpolicy.com)
    ×1.99 6 | 4 points by prmph 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Download your favourite YouTube videos (criminallyvulgar.dev)
    ×2.04 10 | 394 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: The 100 prisoners, German tank and 61 more puzzles, with simulations (mathparadoxes.com)
    ×1.92 114 | 4 points by dmitrykudrenko 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Archiving a Shuttered Japanese Drift Magazine's Back Catalog Is a Labor of Love (thedrive.com)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by rdmuser 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Expecting rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence (interconnects.ai)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by pretext 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Beans on the Air, Or, I Ate My CW Key (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by austinallegro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I wish tech companies knew more about me (exotext.com)
    ×3.04 3 | 546 points by freetonik 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming (crusoe.ai)
    ×1.93 31 #12 | 21 points by rexbee 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.63 22 #59 | 174 points by porridgeraisin 18 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (koenvangilst.nl)
    ×2.08 11 | 4 points by vnglst 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Dub Digger – dub techno, deep, ambient and experimental (dubdigger.com)
    ×1.12 123 | 3 points by ferrarosimone 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Claude Code sends your email address to websites (github.com/anthropics)
    ×6.00 17 #41 | 1545 points by motoroco 1 day ago | 488 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???