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  1. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.87 45 #24 | 359 points by mariocesar 1 day ago | 578 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.61 8 #53 | 731 points by lukehandcool 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.92 44 | 567 points by IvanK_net 2 days ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×1.03 8 | 9 points by consumer451 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.72 61 | 10 points by hanstyle 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.67 74 | 12 points by bigwheels 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×1.18 94 | 11 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.37 106 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×1.08 99 | 7 points by amichail 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×1.21 78 | 12 points by scoofy 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.38 115 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.13 | 2 points by northlondoner 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence
    ×1.02 89 | 8 points by butlersean 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What happened with quantum computers anyway?
    ×0.56 114 | 4 points by pera 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×1.01 141 | 5 points by bigmattystyles 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.48 113 | 12 points by penskymaterial 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.79 136 | 13 points by Crontab 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Learning practical system design
    ×1.00 119 | 5 points by rcdmrl 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×0.97 133 | 15 points by saimiam 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are we trading model capacity for compute?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by olirex99 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.48 138 | 7 points by Bender 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.68 96 | 39 points by trencedamp 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Any Insight Here into French High School Unrest?
    ×0.87 105 | 4 points by giardini 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.58 142 | 7 points by maxignol 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.46 12 #64 | 604 points by ent101 1 day ago | 638 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Microsoft 365 Cuts Family OneDrive Storage from 6 TB to 2 TB (techpowerup.com)
    ×2.08 17 #78 | 21 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Trade Direction in Prediction Markets (arxiv.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by 7777777phil 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support (github.com/moritzwilksch)
    ×1.93 110 | 5 points by mwil1000 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (stelabouras.com)
    ×0.49 120 | 37 points by stelabouras 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (niklasroy.com)
    ×1.34 90 | 235 points by r0r0 1 week ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information" (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.72 7 #23 | 239 points by trakkstar 8 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Can we identify the next stock to be hit by Iran sanctions (petervijeh.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by p-s-v 5 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. English Instead of Code (dalerank.github.io)
    ×2.49 41 | 4 points by zakirullin 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM (github.com/pingdotgg)
    ×1.39 62 | 112 points by jcbhmr 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Upfling.host – Free static site hosting for HTML, CSS and JavaScript (upfling.host)
    ×1.66 108 | 4 points by guylr 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world (pumpkins.sh)
    ×1.06 135 | 33 points by linesofcode 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.72 26 #15 | 28 points by vinhnx 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization (github.com/SamsungLabs)
    ×0.88 60 #72 | 87 points by brainless 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: See *almost* any carriers phone settings (carrierexplode.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by simplyalec 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools (svg-spark.vercel.app)
    ×0.70 28 | 44 points by Zeus808 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Excali-mode (github.com/yibie)
    ×0.93 84 | 4 points by oliverchan2024 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? (thoreaubasic.com)
    ×0.97 124 | 96 points by Gorsefound 6 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Portfolio Risk Lab: uncertainty-aware rebalancing in Python (github.com/garroshub)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by garrosgong 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex (openai.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Reducing undefined behavior in the C language (lwn.net)
    ×1.15 19 | 122 points by signa11 16 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Singularity – memory that makes coding agents cheaper on repeat work (github.com/pandacover)
    ×0.85 129 | 4 points by luvmakin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB (cactuscompute.com)
    ×3.27 14 #13 | 890 points by gmays 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Rolling the Root Key (apnic.net)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by speckx 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. EKV (github.com/chrismccord)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by handfuloflight 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction (ndstudio.gov)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by nateb2022 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I'm not paying $20 for ChatGPT or Claude because a free local LLM does (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.17 76 | 51 points by hsnewman 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: RcloneView 1.6 – A desktop GUI for rclone with 40 cloud storages (rcloneview.com)
    ×0.67 33 | 3 points by newclone 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.75 6 #5 | 313 points by franze 7 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB (pivotlake.io)
    ×2.57 81 | 14 points by dkgs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I've release the demo of my FTL-inspired autobattler game – Cosmo Cargo (itch.io)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by valryon 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Crashlytics for AI Coding Agents (github.com/0xfirattamur)
    ×0.82 123 | 3 points by firattamurcw 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: BerryDB – Open-source macOS database client written in Swift and AppKit (github.com/berry-apps)
    ×0.29 140 | 3 points by berryhubapp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it (reddit.com)
    ×2.48 58 #35 | 250 points by pyduan 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×7.39 4 #85 | 2034 points by Philpax 3 days ago | 1211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Jevfree – repurposing EmbeddingGemma 2 for Jev-like decisions (johnnys.news)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by speckx 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)
    ×0.71 97 #44 | 3 points by speckx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nathan Boya; the man behind the Plunge-O-Sphere (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by sans_souse 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Microsoft is about to hobble your O-365 Family Storage (microsoft.com)
    ×1.79 31 | 3 points by AdmiralAsshat 42 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes (hangul.ink)
    ×1.79 72 | 6 points by jbaudanza 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com/anteloc)
    ×1.41 117 | 168 points by antelocnova 6 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Orkut.com (orkut.com)
    ×1.64 51 #43 | 216 points by andreynering 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Cable Giants Ironically to Sue FCC for Illegally Killing Media Ownership Limits (techdirt.com)
    ×1.75 | 2 points by hn_acker 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work (nature.com)
    ×5.28 62 | 68 points by bluenose69 6 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) (github.com/p10node)
    ×0.72 32 | 67 points by pierreneter 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: HCSM – An Open Framework for the Hodge Complex Standard Model (github.com/007STAN)
    ×0.65 86 | 3 points by 007STAN 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read (readrare.com)
    ×1.77 21 | 3 points by miletus 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 2026 – The Year Software Was Commoditized (jbernier.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by jeremybernier 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Internal AI Language
    ×0.49 | 1 points by wvlia5 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth (404media.co)
    ×1.64 24 | 278 points by gumby 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment (themirror.com)
    ×5.08 1 | 66 points by bcaulfield 15 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    ×1.13 127 | 98 points by nor-and-or-not 1 week ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. ChatGPT for Teens is not necessarily 'safer than the previous version,' (cnbc.com)
    ×0.64 14 #51 | 9 points by cramer4next 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Time Travel in Braid (2015) (qntm.org)
    ×0.97 53 #76 | 108 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Trump Announces Formation of AI "Super Intelligence Force" (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.95 66 | 6 points by gmays 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 15-Minute Lesson Plan: A.I.-Assisted Mathematics (nytimes.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by westurner 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Margaret Hamilton has died (mit.edu)
    ×10.13 49 | 2104 points by muglug 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I think we might lose public key cryptography (twitter.com/matthew_d_green)
    ×2.87 26 | 62 points by meken 21 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. CXMT's covert campaign to obtain Samsung tech by any means necessary (koreajoongangdaily.com)
    ×1.23 20 | 3 points by giuliomagnifico 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Letterkin – Make every letter count (letterkin.io)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by onion92 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay (nobelprize.org)
    ×2.17 5 #8 | 350 points by Anon84 8 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteorites and More (jessewaites.com)
    ×0.86 46 #10 | 6 points by piratebroadcast 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. ModRetro Chromatic: Transparent (modretro.com)
    ×1.12 | 1 points by tosh 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. THX-01: An Open-Source Decision Model That Runs on Your Phone and Beats Jev (doofz.substack.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by lebagetdefrance 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI (github.com/edrisranjbar)
    ×0.68 36 | 39 points by edris0077 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust (github.com/project-minigraf)
    ×0.71 130 | 41 points by adityamukho 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???