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  1. Vibecoded 3D Game Running on Veda OS
    ×0.23 | 2 points by vahmoh25 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.44 39 | 766 points by lukehandcool 3 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.83 78 | 570 points by IvanK_net 4 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.91 59 | 414 points by mariocesar 4 days ago | 649 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
    ×0.54 65 | 21 points by lgregg 20 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Open source software is slowly turning into open slop software
    ×0.60 12 | 5 points by theonly1me 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How would you go about domain change and getting a job in the domain?
    ×0.25 79 | 4 points by joddystreet 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting
    ×0.64 86 | 6 points by tsydenzhap 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×1.70 99 | 7 points by Kamabz 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×1.51 90 | 8 points by dfps 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×0.97 97 | 7 points by coherenttemple 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. All startups need is distribution
    ×0.80 82 | 8 points by relaxfolio 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Resources for best practices in software development with AI?
    ×0.83 87 | 7 points by sergio-gdr 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.33 111 | 4 points by sankde 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: MS Outlook login without an extra email address
    ×0.24 126 | 3 points by narevent 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.36 142 | 35 points by onemiketwelve 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How do Lightroom/DxO achieve such good AI denoising results?
    ×0.17 130 | 3 points by febed 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.77 120 | 15 points by consumer451 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.45 129 | 8 points by fragmede 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.50 136 | 11 points by hanstyle 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Does YC use AI agents to review your pitch?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by AravPhi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.50 144 | 12 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.77 147 | 12 points by thelastgallon 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?
    ×0.47 137 | 5 points by dfps 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×0.89 152 | 10 points by amichail 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job?
    ×0.81 113 | 4 points by bumicodes 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.01 158 | 18 points by saimiam 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×1.00 140 | 14 points by scoofy 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.25 166 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.68 162 | 13 points by Crontab 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.68 165 | 6 points by bigmattystyles 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.09 134 | 41 points by trencedamp 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What to do with lots of spare compute in colocation?
    ×0.51 | 1 points by lazyweb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI is automating coding. So why are software developer job postings on the rise? (cnbc.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by snarky-comments 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Vizipedia – free open-source visualizations Wikipedia your agents code (shapelessai.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by FirstClassTree 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Drones Hit Third Yandex Data Center Disrupting over 80 Services (kyivpost.com)
    ×2.28 17 | 4 points by mikelgan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
    ×3.33 20 | 101 points by astlouis44 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI Data Centers Not Paying Their Costs, Will Keep Using NDAs and Seek Tax Breaks (senate.gov)
    ×2.80 66 | 57 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.93 16 #18 | 41 points by ljf 55 minutes ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: RugShield 402 – DEX honeypot simulator via HTTP 402 on Base (github.com/ak10082247-max)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by kurox_real 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Pocketty – iPhone SSH terminal that pings you when an agent is blocked (pocketty.app)
    ×0.57 114 | 32 points by lukeed 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Lunatic Fling – a cel-shaded 3D remake of After Dark's Lunatic Fringe (lunaticfling.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by hoag 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years (phys.org)
    ×1.32 77 #49 | 174 points by geox 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger (ways-of-seeing.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by rafael859 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: BeelineBench – How well do decision models solve multi-step problems? (github.com/kyle-pena-nlp)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by kp1197 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI (wordpress.com)
    ×1.66 50 | 200 points by matt_d 2 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.81 47 | 62 points by bhrlady 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.06 37 #14 | 24 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
    ×2.64 20 #17 | 591 points by Michelangelo11 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Liquid Inference – auto-routing to competitive LLM marketplace (liquidinference.ai)
    ×0.76 155 | 4 points by chairmanlee8 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments (scottbezek.blogspot.com)
    ×1.37 71 | 221 points by scottbez1 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I built a fast spreadsheet engine for the web in Rust/WASM (github.com/podraven)
    ×0.66 153 | 8 points by deathg0d 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A Piet interpreter compiled to a Piet image, running a Piet program (bobbby.online)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by rhgraysonii 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)
    ×0.99 67 #51 | 90 points by speckx 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter (momo5502.com)
    ×1.90 7 #70 | 123 points by davikr 16 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Senro – WebMCP Evals and Observability (senro.ai)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by nartmadi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB (cactuscompute.com)
    ×3.42 26 #90 | 951 points by gmays 3 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Crawlable – We audited 50 top web apps for AI crawler readability (usecrawlable.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by shahidsaleem 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Japan Turns to Ukraine's Battle-Tested Drone Killers, Signs Deal with SkyFall (united24media.com)
    ×1.75 31 | 3 points by Teever 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
    ×5.35 24 | 51 points by bjourne 18 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
    ×3.28 60 | 720 points by SpeakingOfBrad 4 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help (nitter.net)
    ×3.47 9 #15 | 359 points by ForHackernews 7 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. C for Rust programmers (bd103.dev)
    ×1.47 62 #47 | 167 points by xyproto 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Pull Request #5000 (go-micro.dev)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by asim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Notifications for Lit Web Components (github.com/brysonbw)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by Brysonbw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. VigilOSS – Harness for long running code audit and web pentests (reddit.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by lmartineng 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer (peterszentkiralyi.eu)
    ×0.74 123 | 86 points by pentakkusu 5 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools (svg-spark.vercel.app)
    ×0.70 105 | 44 points by Zeus808 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP (github.com/othermod)
    ×1.05 39 #32 | 126 points by therepanic 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. HashSmash: Benchmark for AI-assisted review of cryptanalytic collision claims (github.com/Layr-Labs)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Sibuna an open source web application firewall with proof of work (github.com/insanai)
    ×0.93 125 | 4 points by vikrantrathore 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: PodcastDelay – an open source RSS feed generator (github.com/samcolson4)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by samcolson42 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Bot traffic from Yandex (cloudflare.com)
    ×5.37 23 #26 | 542 points by walrus01 8 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why hasn't SpaceX, worth $2T, paid this Bay Area chef the $70K it owes him? (sfchronicle.com)
    ×7.78 81 | 31 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people (bbc.com)
    ×2.55 57 #85 | 68 points by colinprince 7 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Solar 'traffic controller' for apartments takes top Australian design award (theguardian.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by DamonHD 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Using Microsoft-Decision-1 (out yesterday) to fill 3D indoor levels with assets (github.com/yeme-oss)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by ycosynot 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: tgv: Genome viewer for you and your agents (github.com/zeqianli)
    ×1.22 145 | 4 points by lzqqqqqq 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes (hangul.ink)
    ×0.83 52 #34 | 86 points by jbaudanza 17 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction (ndstudio.gov)
    ×0.68 68 #61 | 96 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)
    ×2.13 50 | 264 points by TheWaffleHax 17 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial (popvax.com)
    ×1.97 13 | 139 points by jajoosam 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 (github.com/anupray95)
    ×0.88 116 | 33 points by anupray 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Pacer – will your AI coding subscription last until the reset? (github.com/dkremsa)
    ×0.76 157 | 10 points by dkremsa 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Thither – Lightweight remote editing over SSH with multi-GB file support (github.com/jsi-textediting)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by stonewell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ten Billion Lines of Code-The most prolific code generator before Copilot (2025) (dvdsgl.co)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ahl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: DuckOnWire – Share one DuckDB file over Postgres wire and Quack (github.com/misaelzapata)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by misaelzapata 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025 (nber.org)
    ×2.13 84 | 52 points by PLenz 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Programming Language Wars: a 2d game about language 0xbeef (avestura.dev)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by avestura 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Crashlytics for AI Coding Agents (github.com/0xfirattamur)
    ×0.80 167 | 3 points by firattamurcw 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???