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  1. FYI: Dreamina is shady; do not use
    ×0.36 | 2 points by ronyeh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?
    ×0.55 6 #83 | 7 points by Bulbasaur2015 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
    ×0.41 20 #86 | 8 points by jimsojim 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today?
    ×0.37 37 | 7 points by Mnexium 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
    ×2.29 42 | 5 points by chistev 48 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?
    ×0.29 79 | 17 points by seattle_spring 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?
    ×0.33 85 | 8 points by ex-aws-dude 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?
    ×0.99 76 | 21 points by wwwthrowaway256 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A disk-first C++ vector engine
    ×0.18 93 | 4 points by saeedq 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down
    ×0.50 86 | 12 points by cinericius 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Do not use Cloudflare DNS regsitrar
    ×0.54 81 | 10 points by talkingtab 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
    ×0.32 90 | 11 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Train 1T parameter LLM with 8 GPUs?
    ×0.18 135 | 3 points by kendy1992 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×1.15 84 | 152 points by widenrun 3 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why not have an EU browser?
    ×0.23 112 | 6 points by osigurdson 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
    ×0.31 133 | 20 points by MaxTeabag 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you model temporarily invalid data structures
    ×0.14 144 | 5 points by escot 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Did the Linux memory management maintainer "just quit"?
    ×0.46 136 | 17 points by hliyan 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?
    ×2.57 116 | 28 points by dvrp 3 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Amdahl's Law for LLM generated code
    ×0.26 146 | 6 points by akiarie 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?
    ×0.24 153 | 7 points by yanbinette 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?
    ×0.91 102 | 11 points by jwsteigerwalt 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Android Chrome deletes your browsing history silently
    ×0.10 145 | 4 points by grehbies 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to introduce cloud computing to high schoolers?
    ×0.40 110 | 4 points by shivajikobardan 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Local Git remotes (cblgh.org)
    ×0.85 18 #21 | 72 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue (scalex.dev)
    ×1.74 10 #87 | 366 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Presences API: Track who is online, typing, and active in realtime (appwrite.io)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by codeguyakashdev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Fungible – A local personal finance app in the terminal (github.com/tomfunk)
    ×1.09 122 | 29 points by tomfunk 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Sweetpad – VS Code extension for building iOS/Swift apps (github.com/sweetpad-dev)
    ×2.07 123 | 7 points by hyzyla 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade? (mastrojs.github.io)
    ×2.37 4 #14 | 214 points by xyzal 9 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why German trains are never on time anymore (lemonde.fr)
    ×2.56 18 #46 | 15 points by rawgabbit 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Schrödinger's Kittens Are All Grown Up (nautil.us)
    ×1.80 16 | 3 points by bookofjoe 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores (ft.com)
    ×2.57 46 | 71 points by mmarian 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Tab Council – turn your AI tabs into a model council (github.com/vaddisrinivas)
    ×0.86 66 | 3 points by srinivasvaddi 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)
    ×1.12 8 #17 | 131 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Telegram announcing the surrender of Ft. Sumter (1861) (wikisource.org)
    ×1.05 30 #69 | 3 points by caminanteblanco 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Various LLM Smells (shvbsle.in)
    ×2.69 #77 | 350 points by speckx 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A Postgres-native durable workflow system (earendil-works.github.io)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by yogthos 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term (cnbc.com)
    ×3.04 38 | 311 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.21 14 #34 | 1711 points by craigmart 1 day ago | 1334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home (nytimes.com)
    ×3.99 28 | 463 points by cwwc 1 day ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (latimes.com)
    ×5.58 3 | 402 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Local-first semantic knowledge graph with magnetic-pull retrieval (github.com/Astralchemist)
    ×0.96 70 | 3 points by akashi_dev 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Rapel – chunked resumable downloads in unstable networks (github.com/redraw)
    ×0.57 111 | 20 points by autorun 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: DDoS detection in 500 lines of Python (MIT, no cloud, no account) (github.com/Flowtriq)
    ×1.04 140 | 8 points by jacob_masse 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: WYSIWYG markdown editor for any GitHub repo (dunkdown.com)
    ×1.25 157 | 4 points by ramoz 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Someone used my open source project to phish people (andrej.sh)
    ×1.18 22 #22 | 70 points by andrejsshell 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager (github.com/HeidiSQL)
    ×1.28 50 #55 | 92 points by peter_d_sherman 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Cars collect a startling amount of data about you (bbc.com)
    ×3.09 24 #61 | 470 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. EU-Backed Appeals Center Accidentally Confirms DSA Censorship Regime Is Broken (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×1.67 6 #90 | 6 points by anonymousiam 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Warm up your MacBook (2019) (z3ugma.github.io)
    ×1.00 67 | 135 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. On Labubu and the Hyperreal (2earth.github.io)
    ×0.79 72 | 90 points by 2earth 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Droast, a Dockerfile linter that stopped being polite (ewry.net)
    ×0.97 151 | 3 points by immanuwell 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Expertise in the age of AI (moderndescartes.com)
    ×1.13 14 #24 | 80 points by brilee 6 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Teaching LLMs to one-shot complex back ends at scale, report #1 (redplanetlabs.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by nathanmarz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions (fortune.com)
    ×4.09 3 | 229 points by ianrahman 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness (elodin.systems)
    ×0.58 65 | 74 points by danAtElodin 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: htop for the airwaves — a live 802.11 RF dashboard in your terminal (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×2.23 78 | 9 points by r3tr0 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Beacon CLI for self-hosted monitoring, remote access and deployments (github.com/Bajusz15)
    ×1.06 98 | 7 points by matebajusz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Promptloop – create, run, and improve prompt evals from the terminal (github.com/Bella3202019)
    ×0.61 72 #51 | 5 points by velapod 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I analysed 20 years of my chats (drobinin.com)
    ×1.72 40 | 251 points by valzevul 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle (sverre.me)
    ×1.34 61 | 235 points by homarp 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Oort – A prompt library where every listing has a shipped project (oortstack.com)
    ×1.09 62 | 3 points by Wesearchpress 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.75 6 #18 | 58 points by wapasta 2 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test (twitter.com/nasaspaceflight)
    ×3.29 1 #44 | 462 points by enraged_camel 19 hours ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Paint.NET developer gets "paint.net" domain from scammers after 22 years (twitter.com/i)
    ×4.67 23 #54 | 6 points by notRobot 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Financial Models as Code (github.com/Orcaset)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by jrdnocs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave (hallucinate.site)
    ×2.18 22 | 433 points by stagas 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Game Boy pixel pipeline explorer (pixelpipeline.xyz)
    ×2.23 107 | 14 points by blueblazin 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Step 3.7 Flash (stepfun.com)
    ×1.49 23 #49 | 36 points by tarruda 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Deadly fungal storms are sweeping US and spreading disease few doctors recognize (sciencefocus.com)
    ×2.46 16 #59 | 14 points by ck2 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Autoimmunity Drives Long Covid Symptoms (neurosciencenews.com)
    ×1.90 | 2 points by amichail 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A Theory of Everything Is Revolutionizing the Democratic Party (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by whatisabcdefgh 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Agents-Collab.md – A live handoff protocol for multi-agent projects (github.com/Rlealbarili)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by Rlealbarili 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How to become the AI-native hire every company wants (twitter.com/anitakirkovska)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by anitakirkovska 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: LaunchPact – get upvotes for your ProductHunt launch (launchpact.io)
    ×1.30 108 | 6 points by devtanna 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris (koenvangilst.nl)
    ×2.02 3 #3 | 238 points by vnglst 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV (tvexplorer.live)
    ×1.45 4 #13 | 55 points by dtagames 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Can you see my post?
    ×0.82 | 1 points by xodn348 7 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Can someone explain this information theory puzzle paper in simple terms? (researchgate.net)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by JustSittingHere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.45 68 | 86 points by doppp 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Volt – front end tooling for Phoenix that runs inside the BEAM (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×1.31 130 | 25 points by dannote 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I am retiring from tech to live offline (openpath.quest)
    ×4.74 19 #20 | 627 points by PinkG 5 hours ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. MCP: defending the runtime layer of agent security (arcis-website.pages.dev)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by gagancm 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cybersecurity challenge: be nice to each other [IMPOSSIBLE] (sdomi.pl)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by ambigious7777 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Why Companies Keep Tokenmaxxing (caseorganic.substack.com)
    ×3.03 31 | 5 points by SLHamlet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: AT4K Launcher - Apple TV inspired Launcher for Android TVs (at4klauncher.com)
    ×1.39 106 | 6 points by avadhesh18 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Harbor v0.4.19 – harbor launch –back end vLLM –web codex (github.com/av)
    ×0.98 155 | 4 points by everlier 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. What "Memory Compiler" Actually Means: From Bitcells to GDS Tiling (thecloudlet.github.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by matt_d 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes (kadoa.com)
    ×1.94 91 | 61 points by hubraumhugo 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???