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  1. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×3.03 30 | 511 points by leumon 2 days ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?
    ×0.42 24 | 11 points by isomorph 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Best way to archive 25 years of emails
    ×0.54 96 | 3 points by astatine 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why do we need MCP?
    ×0.31 77 | 8 points by jwally 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's a Good Physical Printer?
    ×0.36 126 | 8 points by xrd 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
    ×0.26 125 | 5 points by gmarkwa 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What BOYK AI client are you using?
    ×0.15 127 | 3 points by yeeyang 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Alternatives to Fail2ban?
    ×0.30 139 | 5 points by jech 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.68 121 | 21 points by FireUpTheTorren 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why are onionv3 services not more popular?
    ×0.17 129 | 6 points by smalltorch 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?
    ×0.64 113 | 11 points by dhruv3006 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Any blogs/personal notes from game devs who self-published a game?
    ×0.39 141 | 5 points by ssenssei 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is observability over the dependencies in codebases still a problem?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by enismustafaj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: AI writes better code than me. How to keep my identity?
    ×0.67 94 | 13 points by jdw64 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.79 133 | 78 points by kaladan 5 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
    ×1.65 82 | 84 points by tonymet 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why still no unified standard file to describe all skills/mcps for repo?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by opwizardx 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you use multiple sessions for software engineering?
    ×0.27 146 | 4 points by top_rooster 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read?
    ×0.76 152 | 8 points by AmirMakirr 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Zed: Edit predictions are leaving the free Personal plan on October 7
    ×0.62 112 | 8 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.44 153 | 31 points by foota 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Debian and the Sirens (joeyh.name)
    ×2.12 43 #59 | 7 points by frizlab 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why Everybody Hates Palantir (economist.com)
    ×2.74 57 #85 | 11 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Algorithmic Rent-Pricing Litigation Expands Under New State and Local Laws (morganlewis.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Itsuki – shared memory for Claude Code, Cursor and 24 other AI tools (itsuki.app)
    ×0.75 117 | 3 points by 12ziyad 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems (sigma-star.at)
    ×1.01 34 #38 | 106 points by birdculture 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Animal Size Comparison (skeletaldrawing.com)
    ×0.55 80 #74 | 6 points by kretaceous 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. ProveIT – a short game to help you learn how formal proofs work in Logic (itch.io)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Stopping the smart TV from being used against you (s-config.com)
    ×2.61 1 | 195 points by speckx 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Identifying fake cosmetics using AI (groverlab.org)
    ×0.92 52 | 59 points by wgrover 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: AMC Stocks Hub – asset-manager profiles, 13F holdings, and co-holdings (assetmanagementcompany.net)
    ×0.92 114 | 4 points by lzyuan1006 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Text editor and light-weight publishing platform (kraa.io)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by levmiseri 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. SQLite as a Document Database (2020) (dgl.cx)
    ×1.28 16 #10 | 178 points by lioeters 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Google translate is a better writer than me (theoo.dev)
    ×1.28 81 #60 | 11 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. State of the Map 2026 (stateofthemap.org)
    ×1.22 45 #65 | 179 points by lode 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. HTTPX2 – A next-generation HTTP client for Python (github.com/pydantic)
    ×1.32 55 #80 | 129 points by tosh 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.36 48 | 194 points by 1986 2 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest (science.org)
    ×2.56 58 | 120 points by shymaple 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022) (coolboulder.org)
    ×0.70 43 #24 | 35 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ditch the 40-Ounce Water Bottle: You're Probably Hydrated Enough (wsj.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Texttile, a multiplayer blog engine for people who write together (texttile.blog)
    ×0.64 110 | 13 points by klausbreyer 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise (nature.com)
    ×1.29 56 #68 | 153 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Personal Holding Companies, Tax Progressivity, and Inequality (nber.org)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by marojejian 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Twitter (Not affiliated with X Corp) (twitter.now)
    ×3.73 47 | 12 points by JetSpiegel 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Postgres isn't slow. Your storage is (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.79 37 | 3 points by gpavanb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Don't use musl if you care about performance (brokk.ai)
    ×1.53 45 | 103 points by jbellis 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: ContextSwitch – Make your LLM chats provider agnostic (contextswitch-blue.vercel.app)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by rajtilakjee 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map (cartographia40k.com)
    ×1.27 60 #78 | 147 points by gbxyz 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Free English shadowing app for your own videos (github.com/TideSparrow)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by markyuan123 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Teamnaire – Discover Your Role in a Team (teamnaire.com)
    ×1.39 84 | 4 points by humphrey_liu 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Vim's UserGettingBored Autocmd (evanhahn.com)
    ×1.16 11 #81 | 32 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Anthropic's Claude for Mac desktop app now has built-in browser (thenewstack.io)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by thoughtpeddler 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska (19thnews.org)
    ×3.54 71 | 49 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: SSH Ache – open-source desktop SSH client with SFTP, tunnels and MCP (github.com/SSH-Ache)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by tanvirmahin24 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Proval – Self-hosted code review agent for GitLab, Forgejo, and GitHub (github.com/seoes)
    ×1.39 134 | 13 points by dowonseo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Marked Share – Markdown Publishing (brettterpstra.com)
    ×2.34 19 #84 | 5 points by alsetmusic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven (ckardaris.com)
    ×4.01 15 #47 | 1009 points by ckardaris 1 day ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OpenContext – Persistent, project-local memory for AI coding agents via MCP (opencntx.dev)
    ×1.77 4 | 4 points by slxca 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Birds Are Shit (birdsareshit.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ohjeez 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Some frameworks for helping each other amidst the mess (jembendell.com)
    ×2.70 13 | 4 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker (pantsforbirds.com)
    ×0.71 120 | 37 points by CoolNamesAllTkn 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler? (iafisher.com)
    ×0.96 17 #13 | 20 points by hellerve 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Full-Bandwidth Transformer (arxiv.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. When AI Writes the Code Verification Is the New Implementation (sarpex.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by TheSorcerer 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Kosh – Bash shell runtime with 100x faster Shellcheck and LSP built-in (github.com/toiletbril)
    ×2.69 115 | 7 points by toiletbril 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: cdai cli – cd with Intent (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by franze 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Is SQLite Having a Moment? (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by diwash007 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Hy4 Preview (tencent.ai)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. India's 'Cockroaches' Are Fighting Back (nytimes.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by mikhael 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why (github.com/kelviq)
    ×1.52 81 | 88 points by sachinneravath 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Kith – AI clinical notes for therapists from ambient session audio (kith.space)
    ×1.30 103 | 4 points by kithmedai 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Redesigning the Inference Chip: From Nvidia GPU's Flaws to OpenAI Jalapeño (zartbot.github.io)
    ×1.12 82 #71 | 4 points by hasheddan 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: HexRaid – Real-time competitive multiplayer territory canvas (hexraid.lol)
    ×1.49 86 | 4 points by its_ajseven 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. “It works better in the app” (shkspr.mobi)
    ×3.59 38 | 688 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 467 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A glacier collapse triggered a deadly landslide and flooding (reuters.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by mdani 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How Dactyl Works (dactyl.dev)
    ×0.88 64 | 71 points by anorak27 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Convert PNG and JPG to clean SVG in seconds (vectorify.co)
    ×1.08 66 | 3 points by not_wowinter13 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I feel like AI start being a reflect of the CEO behind it (his political) (baseline-rouge-mu.vercel.app)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by SachaSOL 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Flint – A minimal C/C++ package manager and build tool written in C (github.com/mainak55512)
    ×1.07 58 #72 | 9 points by mbhatt99 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF (huggingface.co)
    ×2.23 35 #75 | 7 points by walrus01 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. China is fueling America's data center rage (axios.com)
    ×4.38 66 | 7 points by ksec 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Git3 – Use an S3 bucket as a Git remote (github.com/robertpitt)
    ×1.51 12 | 3 points by robertpitt 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Qwiksi a CLI tool for adding your signature to a PDFs (github.com/krisraven)
    ×1.01 76 | 8 points by krisraven 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes them (github.com/opslane)
    ×1.00 92 | 38 points by aray07 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator (github.com/stemdeckapp)
    ×1.56 37 #29 | 209 points by thclpr 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Popular code generator for TanStack Query hit by supply chain worm (aikido.dev)
    ×2.41 56 | 3 points by lbw1215 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Experiments with Plotter Art (sometimes.digital)
    ×1.03 57 #51 | 94 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms (latimes.com)
    ×3.82 17 #19 | 119 points by measurablefunc 3 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service (parowozowniawolsztyn.pl)
    ×0.92 41 #37 | 108 points by GungulSurm 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???