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  1. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.61 29 #22 | 22 points by onemiketwelve 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
    ×0.80 13 #38 | 39 points by Gooblebrai 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×1.18 | 2 points by mtmosestn 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×3.28 8 #65 | 9 points by mariocesar 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.95 12 #67 | 6 points by saimiam 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×3.63 35 | 9 points by nunorbatista 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work
    ×1.24 70 | 5 points by microflash 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by maxignol 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What would you like to see in a new AI technology release?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by ikishade 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. ChatGPT self-distances when admitting fault
    ×0.90 30 | 3 points by chrisjj 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Vibecoding Follies
    ×1.46 80 | 4 points by vegnus 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How come everyone is an LLM expert?
    ×1.01 84 | 3 points by delis-thumbs-7e 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.63 54 | 54 points by IvanK_net 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Show me your agentic SDE semantics
    ×0.41 | 2 points by danielovichdk 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is observability broken for you?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by tmach32 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure
    ×6.17 72 | 11 points by akg_67 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Agent access to chat data should require participant consent?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by maxwellito 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Alternatives to NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML
    ×1.15 108 | 3 points by john-titor 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What brings you back to personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse?
    ×0.96 111 | 3 points by sdrth 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos
    ×0.31 104 | 8 points by iliashad 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why does Astra compact context so frequently vs. Fable?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by yesitcan 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What do you think about AI generated slides for conferences?
    ×1.31 109 | 4 points by Hixon10 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How are AI budgets changing in your company?
    ×1.92 106 | 5 points by bobby-cb 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop, agent-adjusted
    ×1.03 130 | 3 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
    ×1.59 61 | 101 points by goldenmember 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week
    ×0.97 94 | 12 points by Steaglsz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.
    ×0.18 142 | 4 points by LowLevelMahn 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Who is cleaning up all the garbage LLMs generate?
    ×2.15 131 | 6 points by kbrannigan 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anyone accepted into OpenAI "Codex for open source"?
    ×1.83 119 | 4 points by awb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.46 148 | 11 points by esher 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.24 149 | 7 points by Dinuda 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is Freelancing Dead After AI?
    ×1.32 143 | 4 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
    ×0.27 153 | 5 points by Steaglsz 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1)
    ×0.56 138 | 8 points by anydigital 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: SPrav Job AI Client-side career tool with WebGPU and direct ATS queries (sprav-jobai.vercel.app)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by SVSPraveen 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI (penguin-mail.com)
    ×1.80 7 #4 | 71 points by kavourias 4 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (dinculescu.dev)
    ×0.94 23 #63 | 126 points by faithraven 12 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Self-custody USDC billing for metered APIs – no Stripe, no bank, $0/mo (github.com/web4-watchbot)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by madansa7 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught (erdosproblems.com)
    ×1.80 28 #34 | 95 points by pfdietz 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Building a Better Working Dog (science.org)
    ×1.35 22 | 3 points by bucket2015 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: An eBPF kernel guard for vTPM access (github.com/bschaatsbergen)
    ×1.81 136 | 5 points by bschaatsbergen 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Approvegate – Deploy approvals enforced in your pipeline, not in Jira (approvegate.io)
    ×1.17 126 | 4 points by chidog99 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mapping the Shared Infrastructure Behind Pedophile Sites (gpatricksec.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by sdko 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Browser-Based F1 Game (lift-and-coast.vercel.app)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by Hussain04 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    ×1.08 96 | 94 points by nor-and-or-not 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared (smarthomescene.com)
    ×1.64 43 #48 | 236 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by soheilpro 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Frutjam – Accessible UI components in pure CSS, no JavaScript (frutjam.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by nezanuha 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. When random is not actually random enough (ersc.io)
    ×1.00 19 #15 | 32 points by steveklabnik 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Lask – A task runner with a type system and pinned Docker environments (github.com/lask-task-runner)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by torudev 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Jotbus – a shared encrypted scratchpad for coding agents (jotbus.com)
    ×0.39 48 #71 | 22 points by shake-n-fries 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hexagon (antieau.github.io)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by pfdietz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com/ahmetomerv)
    ×0.77 47 | 59 points by ahmetomer 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 'Complete devastation': How NSF gutted its social sciences research (science.org)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Jev-pages – Building landing pages real time with Jev (github.com/sagapranav)
    ×1.43 141 | 4 points by pranavsanga 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Future of Mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×1.69 33 | 122 points by smilelamp 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: VoxScribe, a local hold-to-talk voice dictation app for Windows (github.com/ahmedhmam1994)
    ×0.79 67 | 3 points by ahmedibrahim199 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Sideloop – Re-sign sideloaded iOS apps over Wi-Fi before they expire (github.com/filippofinke)
    ×1.61 110 | 5 points by filippofinke 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Live carbon intensity and power prices for 15 European grids (scienceshot.com)
    ×0.91 129 | 3 points by major_stef 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. California closed the Montana license plate loophole (thedrive.com)
    ×2.21 30 #23 | 60 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
    ×1.48 38 #40 | 308 points by ishan0102 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. ESP32-C3 Adblock (github.com/M-Abozaid)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by jayhoon 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. OpenAI releases 722 math manuscripts (github.com/openai)
    ×2.07 43 | 9 points by jumploops 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I finetuned 1.5B Qwen to near GPT-4o level bash generation perf (dirac.run)
    ×1.57 113 | 6 points by GodelNumbering 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace (offrun.dev)
    ×1.09 103 | 78 points by arunbhatia 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Integer multiplication below n log n (github.com/openai)
    ×1.93 4 #12 | 61 points by E-Reverance 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Zero dependency cross-language background job queue server (github.com/zizq-labs)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by d11wtq 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Anagrams.lol (anagrams.lol)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by flwns 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com/anteloc)
    ×1.40 92 | 166 points by antelocnova 4 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Boston Dynamics Appoints Rohit Prasad as Chief Executive Officer (bostondynamics.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by ilreb 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust (github.com/rui314)
    ×2.32 24 | 245 points by roflcopter69 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick's links to Epstein dies (thebanker.com)
    ×5.86 45 | 76 points by gravisultra 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Pixel-exact HTML-to-PDF in the browser, no Puppeteer or server (github.com/zztaeha)
    ×1.48 71 | 4 points by silly-tae 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Near-Earth Asteroid 2026 TB3 Provides Valuable Insight into Close Approaches (astrophyzix.com)
    ×2.37 45 | 3 points by SpaceNewsNow 23 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
    ×0.81 49 | 72 points by stratts 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed (sregym.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by matt_d 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. OpenAI Decisions API is now available in Public Beta (openai.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by soheilpro 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Researchers Backdoor Open AI Model to Steal Credentials in Coding Agents (projectdiscovery.io)
    ×1.75 6 | 3 points by skpd 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia (yahoo.com)
    ×1.28 27 | 3 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason (reuters.com)
    ×3.84 61 | 118 points by semiquaver 9 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
    ×1.05 30 #35 | 95 points by mauriziocalo 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: TerrainSR – fast, realistic heightmap upscaling model (huggingface.co)
    ×1.19 15 #46 | 3 points by joegibbs 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres (bbc.com)
    ×2.54 8 #89 | 22 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The bad science polluting our media landscape (rnz.co.nz)
    ×0.38 32 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Toronto-based VPN provider plans to quit Canada over lawful-access bill (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×2.44 15 | 5 points by rdmuser 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Mathematics of Geothermal Energy (ebsco.com)
    ×0.51 44 #31 | 67 points by srameshc 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (vivienhenz.com)
    ×2.49 22 #86 | 281 points by misterchocolat 23 hours ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: ZWhispr – Three speech models are better than one (zwhispr.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by jakobov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Chrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks (blog.google)
    ×1.37 39 #69 | 14 points by agwa 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.68 | 1 points by Crontab 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???