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  1. Ask HN: I'm investing $100k in cool people with boring skills. Any leads?
    ×0.88 47 | 5 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×1.03 | 34 points by ColinWright 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?
    ×1.18 47 | 37 points by 101008 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.97 62 | 73 points by moomoo11 4 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.33 72 | 10 points by jrs235 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.51 58 | 6 points by Poomba 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.43 87 | 15 points by rtrgrd 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
    ×1.08 64 | 13 points by mr-pink 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
    ×0.36 92 | 4 points by endorphine 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.24 123 | 17 points by catapart 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×0.91 114 | 39 points by gusmally 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.48 100 | 12 points by incognito124 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How's Business These Days for Fiverr Freelancers?
    ×3.04 45 | 11 points by burnerToBetOut 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Microsoft Edge self-destroys updating it in Debian based distros
    ×0.23 91 | 6 points by usr1106 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.59 130 | 22 points by tefloon69 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?
    ×0.42 105 | 15 points by surume 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.19 137 | 6 points by jmount 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project
    ×0.43 125 | 5 points by firefoxd 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.56 142 | 13 points by syx 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: LLMs helping you read papers and books
    ×0.66 115 | 8 points by amelius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×0.80 120 | 11 points by absoluteunit1 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health
    ×0.62 132 | 9 points by kinj28 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.41 148 | 6 points by AlePra00 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tadpole the Language for Scraping 0.2.0 – Complex Control Flow, Stealth and More
    ×0.72 84 | 6 points by zachperkitny 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's the best realtime, local, TTS solution? Live call interpretation
    ×0.40 118 | 6 points by Wright007 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities?
    ×1.13 117 | 12 points by orange_puff 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.31 149 | 5 points by kart23 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.55 144 | 5 points by b3rkus 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.34 146 | 7 points by jerlendds 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.78 143 | 11 points by falsework 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.49 145 | 8 points by emerongi 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. ClawdReview – OpenReview for AI Agents
    ×0.36 141 | 5 points by mingtianzhang 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Moving My Blog to IPv6 Only Internet
    ×0.73 138 | 6 points by quaintdev 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What's You Opinon on XMTP
    ×0.11 | 2 points by julienreszka 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.69 122 | 34 points by alexdobrenko 4 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: JeffTube (jmail.world)
    ×3.88 67 | 40 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: OpenEntropy – 47 hardware entropy sources from your computer's physics (github.com/amenti-labs)
    ×1.27 86 | 3 points by amentiflow 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs (google.com)
    ×0.62 47 #31 | 30 points by somesortofthing 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation (chrislewis.au)
    ×0.84 56 #38 | 70 points by knackers 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Building a model that visualizes strategic golf (golfcoursewiki.substack.com)
    ×0.59 55 #60 | 32 points by scoofy 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ukraine turned war into a point-based game with a real-world rewards market (wearethemighty.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by u1hcw9nx 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults (usc.edu)
    ×2.33 60 | 81 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing (github.com/preservim)
    ×1.29 41 #57 | 151 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Quoting ROUGH DRAFT 8/2/66 (simonwillison.net)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by surprisetalk 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Deep Research for Flights (flightdeepresearch.com)
    ×5.16 61 | 11 points by aiddun 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Privilege is bad grammar (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.47 1 #40 | 313 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Rover – Embeddable web agent (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.60 79 | 29 points by arjunchint 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs (cloudrouter.dev)
    ×0.95 83 | 137 points by austinwang115 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone (github.com/alichherawalla)
    ×1.70 75 | 123 points by ali_chherawalla 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Auto-Layouting ASCII Diagrams (github.com/switz)
    ×0.54 135 | 6 points by switz 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code (christopherkrapu.com)
    ×0.98 52 #54 | 123 points by mpcsb 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (heise.de)
    ×7.08 85 | 118 points by layer8 5 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Your binary is no longer safe (reorchestrate.com)
    ×0.78 99 | 3 points by seddonm1 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
    ×0.84 37 #21 | 104 points by dogline 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Deep in China's Mountains, a Nuclear Weapons Revival Takes Shape (nytimes.com)
    ×2.47 54 | 3 points by bookofjoe 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A variety of platform naming schemes (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by chmaynard 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Android will become a locked-down platform in 195d (f-droid.org)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by parrellel 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Planetary Scientists Discover Recent Tectonic Activity on the Moon (si.edu)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by geox 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Big B-Router – Steps to create ALPR-less maps for OsmAnd with OSM data (github.com/pickpj)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by gentile 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Ambient CSS – Physically Based CSS and React Components (ambientcss.vercel.app)
    ×1.85 27 | 3 points by kikkupico 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Nothing as a Service – Premium nothingness for minimalists (euphonious-blancmange-24c5b0.netlify.app)
    ×0.95 103 | 3 points by Nabil_Bellaali 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SurrealDB 3.0: Improved stability, performance, and tooling (surrealdb.com)
    ×14.52 88 | 17 points by tobiemh 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: 2d platformer game built with Codex (zero code)
    ×2.15 82 | 10 points by armcat 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is (newscientist.com)
    ×0.87 12 #6 | 43 points by pella 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)
    ×3.03 21 #12 | 68 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)
    ×1.16 14 #16 | 125 points by MrFinch 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
    ×3.37 2 #72 | 688 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The left is missing out on AI (transformernews.ai)
    ×2.06 | 2 points by powera 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Script to check if Notepad++ is backdoored by Lotus Blossom APT (github.com/nHunter0)
    ×1.81 73 | 4 points by 10000000001 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL (github.com/mickamy)
    ×1.24 70 | 230 points by mickamy 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
    ×0.98 44 #66 | 124 points by tosh 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.63 45 #87 | 26 points by neogoose 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Internet Is Dead (joinkith.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by elliotbnvl 12 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a structured knowledge registry for autonomous agents
    ×0.71 | 1 points by prasadhbaapaat 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Rollin – Wheelchair accessibility scores for 56K+ locations (free API) (joinrollin.com)
    ×1.24 94 | 4 points by thattechiedude 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Windows 98½ – fake desktop, real Internet (win9-5.com)
    ×5.49 119 | 14 points by keepamovin 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
    ×1.47 4 #9 | 100 points by elayabharath 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary (github.com/nineties)
    ×0.77 72 #52 | 67 points by tosh 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Vinyl Cache has left GitHub (vinyl-cache.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Open Notes – Community Notes-style context for Discord (opennotes.ai)
    ×0.45 110 | 15 points by anateus 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: 20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source) (github.com/mutable-state-inc)
    ×0.80 112 | 53 points by austinbaggio 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Klaw.sh – Kubernetes for AI agents (github.com/klawsh)
    ×1.07 68 | 60 points by eftalyurtseven 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: DSCI – Dead Simple CI (github.com/melezhik)
    ×0.32 90 | 18 points by melezhik 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Prompt to Planet, generate procedural 3D planets from text (n4ze3m.com)
    ×0.46 128 | 12 points by error404x 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Undo in Vi and Its Successors (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.26 3 #8 | 19 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
    ×0.71 47 #35 | 90 points by lirbank 18 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution (svardos.org)
    ×1.34 7 #42 | 61 points by d_silin 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
    ×3.37 19 #71 | 379 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Please hack my C webserver (it's a collaborative whiteboard) (ced.quest)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by cedric_h 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. JPEG XL, the New Image Format Nobody Wanted or Needed (2021) (blobfolio.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by Tuldok 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???