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  1. Ask HN: How do you review code nowadays?
    ×1.30 39 | 3 points by waylandsmithers 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.77 69 #79 | 151 points by Ixander 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. JNISleuth-MCP – Recover Stripped JNI Bindings and Ollvm Branches for Ghidra/Ida
    ×0.52 | 2 points by akdapunk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Anyone using Jev / other decision models? What for?
    ×0.24 43 | 4 points by simonw 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser
    ×0.47 82 | 20 points by mhloo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.74 91 | 579 points by IvanK_net 1 week ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.39 76 | 776 points by lukehandcool 5 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.91 84 | 424 points by mariocesar 6 days ago | 666 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
    ×0.10 95 | 3 points by reacharavindh 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. ChatGPT Plugin in Review for Weeks
    ×0.20 104 | 3 points by dthedavid 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
    ×0.54 108 | 26 points by lgregg 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How does your organization make build vs. buy decisions now?
    ×0.45 101 | 7 points by bigblind 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. In-car display of surrounding environment in AVs
    ×0.19 122 | 3 points by ajahso4 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
    ×0.72 106 | 13 points by le_curious 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?
    ×0.37 116 | 10 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you build a reputation without social media?
    ×1.17 115 | 6 points by unbeholden 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.35 138 | 35 points by onemiketwelve 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is voice becoming your main input? What happens to open-plan offices?
    ×0.32 118 | 4 points by ProblemExplorer 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×0.69 137 | 8 points by Kamabz 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is the most obscure book you own?
    ×0.70 120 | 8 points by Kovah 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A hub that controls all your coding agents in one place
    ×0.29 135 | 4 points by mubashir1osmani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting
    ×0.47 136 | 7 points by tsydenzhap 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I don't think image containers supporting both lossless and lossy is good
    ×0.45 130 | 5 points by functionmouse 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×0.91 133 | 9 points by dfps 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: AIs Do Not Laugh
    ×0.61 112 | 5 points by AnimalMuppet 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Vibecoded 3D Game Running on Veda OS
    ×0.13 140 | 3 points by vahmoh25 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×0.73 134 | 9 points by coherenttemple 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.67 132 | 10 points by sankde 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.48 139 | 12 points by hanstyle 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Everything you learned about SSL is deprecated – Todd Gardner – NDC Toronto 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by da02 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector (github.com/akawashiro)
    ×0.89 127 | 62 points by a_kawashiro 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: DevShelf – 500 free developer tools with a CLI and validation bot (github.com/RitualDev-Lab)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by ritualdevin 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. ASCII Porn Predates the Internet but It's Still Everywhere (vice.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by pavel_lishin 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: pg_vectorsearch: Scalable Open-Source Vector Search in PostgreSQL (github.com/timescale)
    ×0.51 49 | 3 points by enordstr 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: shadowclone, skills learned from your coding agent corrections (github.com/theonly1me)
    ×0.94 79 | 3 points by theonly1me 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Seekter – an open-source job-search agent that runs in Claude Code (github.com/selfishprimate)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by selfishprimate 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany (ua.news)
    ×1.87 2 #3 | 100 points by paaloeye 2 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)
    ×2.04 77 | 431 points by simplyalec 4 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Nitro – a Python static site generator (nitro.sh)
    ×0.60 125 | 3 points by sswn 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD (github.com/prabanta-dev)
    ×1.43 33 #38 | 210 points by khalidkhair 20 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Solar panels that plug into your wall (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×1.84 43 #54 | 251 points by speckx 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The DNA test was supposed to settle everything. It launched a year+ legal battle (dallasnews.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by randycupertino 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack (cloudflare.com)
    ×4.79 41 | 222 points by rooftopzen 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser (quake-srp.pages.dev)
    ×1.96 90 | 241 points by ilreb 4 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Thunderbird for iOS (thunderbird.net)
    ×2.33 1 #5 | 190 points by mjorgers 3 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Creatine might protect the brain from gut inflammation (psypost.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Exoristos 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)
    ×0.67 72 #74 | 77 points by signa11 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What's behind the big interest in miniatures? (economist.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by andsoitis 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Muse, in Its Own Files (futuresociety.ch)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Kaedon 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: News.txt – world news by region, from each region's own outlets (freestuffsthat.work)
    ×2.09 97 | 6 points by dd_xplore 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices (apple.com)
    ×1.57 #14 | 183 points by acossta 6 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kroger to lay off 3K corporate employees over 3 years as it leans into AI (abcnews.com)
    ×3.77 57 | 6 points by theanonymousone 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AWS Lambda Web Functions (amazon.com)
    ×1.79 20 #28 | 75 points by HatchedLake721 8 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Pundit's Trilemma – Authoritative, general, prolific: pick any two (programmablemutter.com)
    ×0.43 45 #85 | 4 points by herbertl 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972) (ways-of-seeing.com)
    ×0.81 65 #90 | 149 points by rafael859 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Maestro: A new free music notation app (maestroscore.app)
    ×2.41 38 | 3 points by ssttoo 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Glossdex – semantic search that returns nothing when nothing matches (github.com/miranpoor)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by miranpoor 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) (github.com/bherbruck)
    ×1.35 42 #49 | 124 points by bherbruck 18 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)
    ×1.41 41 #61 | 210 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (nyc.gov)
    ×3.59 15 | 610 points by gregsadetsky 2 days ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Let Claude Code answer with a diagram page instead of a wall of text (github.com/QingYunA)
    ×2.15 73 | 6 points by sorlia7z 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: ManimGX – Manim's API on a Rust/wgpu engine, for 3D videos in Python (github.com/academa-labs)
    ×1.30 131 | 10 points by sinaatalay 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×2.92 2 #6 | 581 points by formerly_proven 8 hours ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis (economist.com)
    ×1.99 68 | 103 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Pi-Infinite-Context (github.com/fdietze)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by manx 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia (artfrompixels.com)
    ×1.39 107 | 174 points by jasontr 6 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tools make LLMs less likely to refuse requests (arxiv.org)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by jameslk 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy (lawcommentary.com)
    ×2.12 | 2 points by claytongulick 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data
    ×0.52 16 #15 | 26 points by ericmags 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Amiga Graphics – A Real Bitmap Screen in C (retrogamecoders.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by ibobev 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her (inc.com)
    ×3.37 46 | 282 points by bhrlady 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Fable Took My Job (cendyne.dev)
    ×6.06 26 | 223 points by jllyhill 1 day ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Teilifís Seán – A Jellyfin Plugin for Channel Surfing (xn--teilifssen-04a4l.ie)
    ×2.24 63 | 6 points by s_dev 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux (github.com/watzon)
    ×3.79 35 #46 | 7 points by watzon 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.02 19 #31 | 868 points by Zeekaas 1 day ago | 969 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Yet another catalogue of fast matrix multiplication algorithms (univ-lille.fr)
    ×0.48 77 #41 | 3 points by bmc7505 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Multi-modal Muse assistant on an ESP32 (github.com/raullenchai)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by raullen 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Virtual machines that live in your menu bar [macOS 27] (swiftvm.app)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by 543310 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: RL environment for complex ML Development (blazerops.ai)
    ×1.41 94 | 4 points by jiminseo 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Yagi, Rust DSP Library (github.com/brian-armstrong)
    ×0.74 114 | 3 points by brian-armstrong 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic (sammystraus.com)
    ×2.15 2 #7 | 135 points by sammy0910 3 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)
    ×2.63 20 #84 | 685 points by jttnr 2 days ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (anthropic.com)
    ×3.93 31 | 95 points by artninja1988 23 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.00 53 #65 | 413 points by helsinkiandrew 8 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Give Your Agents GPUs (supercomputer.sh)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by jaderiverstokes 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Search for AI agents with usefulness score built in (github.com/Ayobamiu)
    ×0.21 | 2 points by Ayobamiu 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.40 29 #80 | 271 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (markround.com)
    ×1.09 44 #51 | 173 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Origin Story of Kid Pix (red-green-blue.com)
    ×1.21 67 #77 | 32 points by MBCook 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Commit-Aware Router, route LLM traffic around your AI/cloud commitments (github.com/tejaspruthi)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by tpruthi 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???