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  1. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
    ×0.58 24 | 7 points by souravroy78 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×0.96 49 | 70 points by adithyassekhar 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.28 77 | 12 points by sroussey 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.14 90 | 3 points by slake 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI?
    ×0.34 82 | 3 points by namegulf 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.49 85 | 588 points by _-x-_ 5 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?
    ×0.65 89 | 5 points by apatheticonion 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished
    ×0.36 92 | 10 points by Aldipower 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is AI resulting in net revenue gain for non-tech companies?
    ×0.64 86 | 9 points by jusonchan81 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.78 84 | 80 points by altairprime 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?
    ×0.94 97 | 22 points by moomoo11 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. What do you want to see in a next-generation GitHub in the age of AI?
    ×0.22 112 | 4 points by skeedle 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Claude.ai down again?
    ×0.75 87 | 34 points by zh_code 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is Anybody Using Codex?
    ×0.44 115 | 4 points by cl3misch 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is it still worth it to try to get a job in IT
    ×0.22 141 | 8 points by morpheos137 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. RNet: Users pay for their own AI usage instead of apps covering token costs
    ×0.18 149 | 3 points by rNetAi 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Recommended Gemini CLI extensions/skills for token consumption
    ×0.15 | 2 points by elC0mpa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.99 142 | 109 points by LatencyKills 6 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What I changed in how I use Claude Code after Anthropic's postmortem
    ×0.46 131 | 6 points by cinooo 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Increase in Claude Code speed bumps?
    ×0.11 158 | 3 points by jesse_dot_id 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Hosted Fossil for small teams – interesting, or wrong call?
    ×0.46 136 | 7 points by ragelink 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is it just me or is Claude Code getting worse?
    ×0.56 121 | 31 points by e-nouri 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare
    ×0.77 139 | 31 points by rincebrain 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook
    ×0.71 140 | 23 points by samarthv 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: If coding gets faster, where should architecture happen?
    ×0.36 148 | 7 points by karlosh 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. California Police Can Start Ticketing Driverless Cars (nytimes.com)
    ×2.67 25 #82 | 5 points by reaperducer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Public consultation should begins on plans to transform the moon and Mars (theguardian.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway (theregister.com)
    ×1.82 6 | 3 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: AgentSwift – Open-source iOS builder agent (github.com/hpennington)
    ×1.34 113 | 63 points by hpen 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding (simplex.chat)
    ×0.57 55 #70 | 29 points by pmw 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cleanroom software engineering: technology and process (1999) (acm.org)
    ×1.84 9 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
    ×5.32 27 #86 | 1183 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Fruit flies unexpectedly survived hypergravity and even reproduced (ucr.edu)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Turn Git commits and PRs into automated team updates (Slack/email) (gitmore.io)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by dmsozpepnc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me (github.com/carlovalenti)
    ×0.63 43 | 36 points by carlovalenti 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (rivian.com)
    ×3.19 13 #27 | 651 points by Cider9986 16 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (bidprowl.com)
    ×1.49 27 #37 | 287 points by scarsam 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Keep your coding agent on track (github.com/algorismo-au)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by mightymo1 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories (theguardian.com)
    ×1.14 71 | 93 points by Cynddl 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Pi-hosts – Give the Pi coding agent access to your servers (github.com/hunvreus)
    ×5.77 123 | 21 points by hunvreus 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Auto Polo (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.21 10 #28 | 77 points by canjobear 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15B in rush for airline-like rocketry (reuters.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by bilsbie 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Abaxx Announces Release of Open-Source Library for Agentic Identity: Agents++ (abaxx.tech)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by mdhen 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. So, About That AI Bubble (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Company says nuclear fusion could power the grid – and soon (cnn.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by robtherobber 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown (chrisbrunet.com)
    ×2.21 30 | 262 points by RigbyTaro 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis (handyai.substack.com)
    ×4.84 57 | 107 points by sss111 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Japan is building cardboard suicide drones (404media.co)
    ×3.53 11 | 94 points by Brajeshwar 22 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Xmemory: Benchmarking Structured AI Memory Against RAG and Hybrid RAG (arxiv.org)
    ×0.45 76 #51 | 3 points by alex_petrov 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Task Manager for AI Agents (MCP, Opensource) (github.com/agentrq)
    ×1.52 126 | 6 points by mrtnx 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
    ×7.26 17 #50 | 2089 points by salkahfi 1 day ago | 675 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. CA Billionaire Spends $3.5M to oppose OpenAI in NY house race (nytimes.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by dolomo 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ling-2.6-1T: A Trillion-Parameter Comprehensive Flagship Model for Complex Tasks (huggingface.co)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by darkhorse13 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things (rip.so)
    ×1.35 54 | 181 points by bozdemir 2 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game (playtiao.com)
    ×1.38 127 | 75 points by trebeljahr 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mit.edu)
    ×2.50 13 #6 | 634 points by the-mitr 20 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com/mozilla)
    ×3.29 11 #56 | 626 points by jaffathecake 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Your Website Is Not for You (websmith.studio)
    ×1.68 2 #1 | 80 points by pumbaa 2 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014) (ieee.org)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by downbad_ 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Glyph – byte-exact substring retrieval (~1.5ms, FM-index) (github.com/yasha1971-coder)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by EMPTYCONTOUR 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Berkshire Has a Website from the '90s and Buffett Fans Say Don't Mess with It (wsj.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by meyum33 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related con (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by joozio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Maladaptive Frugality (herbertlui.net)
    ×1.48 23 #17 | 129 points by herbertl 12 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How People ask Claude for personal guidance (anthropic.com)
    ×1.33 51 #49 | 13 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Productivity Panic Is Your Problem Now (stratechgist.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by bartdegoede 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: AgentSwarms – free hands-on playground to learn agentic AI, no setup (agentswarms.fyi)
    ×1.44 152 | 26 points by rohan044 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (openwall.com)
    ×2.71 14 #10 | 538 points by ori_b 20 hours ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: WeSearch – Anonymous news aggregator with no algorithm, 700 sources (wesearch.press)
    ×2.29 40 #73 | 6 points by EGCstudy 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Monad Tutorials Timeline (haskell.org)
    ×0.88 43 #89 | 98 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker (github.com/electricant)
    ×0.76 75 | 93 points by electricant 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task (github.com/browser-use)
    ×1.09 135 | 132 points by gregpr07 6 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023) (skysedge.com)
    ×1.12 8 #23 | 42 points by tzury 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve (phys.org)
    ×1.34 47 #69 | 26 points by wglb 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
    ×1.59 32 #80 | 200 points by noleary 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Multiplayer Voronoi (charlespierre.fr)
    ×1.08 132 | 4 points by cpa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Grok 4.3 (x.ai)
    ×3.10 2 #8 | 168 points by simianwords 4 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It (theverge.com)
    ×5.07 1 | 122 points by karakoram 22 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) (github.com/drio)
    ×1.52 125 | 74 points by drio 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: WorkProof – JSON schema for skill evidence graphs (github.com/TalentProof)
    ×0.56 153 | 3 points by parth4 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Vatican Observatory has asteroid named after Pope Leo XIII (vaticannews.va)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by thinkingemote 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Juan Alday: Why C++ Wins in Finance [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by KnuthIsGod 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Git-issues – Issue tracker that lives in your repo as Markdown (steviee.github.io)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by steviee 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing (jeffschomay.com)
    ×0.85 61 | 132 points by jschomay 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h (canonical.com)
    ×3.11 24 #36 | 84 points by jtlebigot 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: LocalVQE: Tiny ~1M param audio model that cancels echo and noise (huggingface.co)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by richiejp 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Sanders splits with Washington on AI arms race with China (axios.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: "Woo", a multi-user world for agents (hughpyle.workers.dev)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by inguz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com/anthropics)
    ×5.32 40 | 1235 points by homebrewer 1 day ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. "People who don't use AI will be left behind" (bearblog.dev)
    ×4.74 39 | 168 points by speckx 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.77 44 #60 | 66 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???