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  1. Ask HN: Is $300/HR too low these days for custom full stack?
    ×0.72 12 | 7 points by noduerme 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?
    ×0.67 28 | 6 points by Cheesebh 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do small teams securely share env files?
    ×1.47 4 | 4 points by tmr_praveen 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?
    ×0.35 69 | 5 points by s3arch 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.42 70 | 175 points by srameshc 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?
    ×0.10 94 | 4 points by kaycebasques 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services
    ×0.06 | 2 points by m3047 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak?
    ×0.30 83 | 6 points by virgildotcodes 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.41 100 | 15 points by mjb8086 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
    ×0.21 98 | 5 points by js98 21 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.97 106 | 35 points by 0rganize 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. "Subligence" – proposed coinage for LLM "intelligence"
    ×0.28 107 | 4 points by akiarie 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.88 102 | 56 points by summonerOS 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.23 121 | 9 points by paulf38 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. What I learned from tinkering with programming languages in the last 34 days
    ×0.12 130 | 3 points by alonsovm44 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.57 118 | 31 points by sergiotapia 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?
    ×0.13 137 | 3 points by bridgettegraham 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Gemini 3.5 Flash breaks in stupid ways
    ×0.58 108 | 8 points by XCSme 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How concerned are you about a debt crisis?
    ×1.56 43 | 6 points by bhag2066 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers
    ×5.69 42 | 116 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is HN Blocking Mullvad VPN?
    ×0.13 144 | 3 points by burger_moon 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Anyone else struggling with AI and work?
    ×0.44 122 | 7 points by carlgreene 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are there any social media sites that are AI positive?
    ×1.12 127 | 7 points by amichail 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready?
    ×0.16 154 | 3 points by kasnaka 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI?
    ×0.37 148 | 6 points by deku2099 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby (github.com/amatsuda)
    ×2.07 6 #1 | 48 points by winebarrel 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Sp.h is the standard library that C deserves (spader.zone)
    ×2.13 25 #38 | 109 points by dboon 8 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can (osnews.com)
    ×3.65 34 | 218 points by speckx 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The current AI pricing was always going to go away (arnon.dk)
    ×2.25 21 | 81 points by arnon 23 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Blacknode – Visual workflow builder Claude can drive via MCP (github.com/temiroff)
    ×0.79 110 | 3 points by temiroff 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Runner – desktop app for running Claude Code, Codex as a crew (github.com/yicheng47)
    ×1.06 113 | 3 points by yicheng47 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why Japanese companies do so many different things (davidoks.blog)
    ×2.82 7 #3 | 695 points by d0ks 19 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×4.01 14 #74 | 1038 points by Timofeibu 2 days ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Klimkit: my Codex setup for multiple machines (github.com/klimentij)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by klimentij 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)
    ×1.97 16 | 419 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: PocketWebTools – Private AI tools that run in the browser (pocketweb.tools)
    ×1.24 140 | 4 points by shafkathullah 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack (pcmag.com)
    ×2.55 14 #29 | 158 points by bilalq 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket (nbcnews.com)
    ×3.97 48 #57 | 237 points by busymom0 11 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Most people seeking green cards must now apply from outside US (bbc.com)
    ×2.64 62 | 3 points by Lyngbakr 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware (pcguide.com)
    ×2.58 6 | 100 points by gpi 22 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Mechs.lol – a free, web-based autoshooter game (mechs.lol)
    ×1.40 92 | 4 points by spaceships 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. What spec-driven development gets wrong (augmentcode.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by fagnerbrack 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. After Automation (every.to)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by jibcage 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Generate free golf yardage books from OpenStreetMap data (npilk.github.io)
    ×1.01 86 | 4 points by npilk 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Remote Job Board (remotejobs.place)
    ×2.15 136 | 8 points by beefive 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt (github.com/mkaramuk)
    ×2.77 64 | 94 points by mkaramuk 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Deno 2.8 (deno.com)
    ×2.13 23 #13 | 367 points by roflcopter69 23 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor (arcbrush.com)
    ×1.04 25 #19 | 9 points by NatKarmios 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ontology vs. Semantic Layer (lowhangingdata.com)
    ×1.53 73 #54 | 17 points by mryagerr 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. ChatGPT as the AOL of AI (rebecca-powell.com)
    ×2.22 5 | 4 points by maille 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Null Linux (github.com/Duck25543)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by PvsLH102 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Pablo – a Chrome extension that copies UI from any website (usepablo.dev)
    ×1.20 51 | 24 points by rayansaleh 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: OpenRig – a control plane for multi-agent coding topologies (openrig.dev)
    ×1.47 75 | 5 points by mschwarz 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Glimpse, Markdown reader using Apple's on-device foundation model (apple.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by duman 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.29 21 #83 | 323 points by jaredwiener 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. More Dads Are Scaling Back at the Office for Kids and Housework (wsj.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by Anon84 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB (github.com/xataio)
    ×1.11 117 | 38 points by tee-es-gee 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent (deepseek.com)
    ×4.28 18 #40 | 388 points by Tiberium 18 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics (davidoks.blog)
    ×3.01 3 #56 | 512 points by d0ks 1 day ago | 603 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The success of 'natural language programming' (brooker.co.za)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by jruohonen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SerpSpur vs. SEO Giants
    ×0.53 | 1 points by WildSense 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encrypt (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by joozio 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The New Luddite Movement (ft.com)
    ×1.87 27 | 3 points by quick_brown_fox 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't (libertas.software)
    ×3.50 35 | 200 points by soft-research 23 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
    ×4.27 5 #44 | 1158 points by speleo 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.14 29 #70 | 363 points by mattas 1 day ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)
    ×1.89 54 #82 | 300 points by aurareturn 2 days ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Supply chain attacks and OSS sustainability go hand in hand (twitter.com/mitchellh)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. - -dangerously-skip-reading-code – olano.dev (olano.dev)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by fagnerbrack 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft (modrinth.com)
    ×2.01 6 #15 | 222 points by Jotalea 14 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Spanish Court Declines to Fine NordVPN over LaLiga Piracy Blocking Order (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.21 28 #32 | 63 points by gslin 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)
    ×2.62 20 | 483 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Open-Source Agentic QA Harness with Memory (vostride.com)
    ×0.77 128 | 17 points by pranshuchittora 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT (phys.org)
    ×2.43 8 #75 | 37 points by hyrix 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.99 42 | 139 points by coloneltcb 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Myco – coordinate Claude and DeepSeek and other LLMs in one agent swarm (github.com/primoia)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by cezarvil 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI Reconstructed Dead Pilots' Voices from Public NTSB Records (firethering.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by steveharing1 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Church Encoding, Parametricity, and the Yoneda Lemma (wybxc.cc)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by g0xA52A2A 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: expo-callkit-telecom – easily integrate CallKit/Core-Telecom (github.com/mfairley)
    ×0.94 149 | 4 points by mfairley 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The death of the brick and mortar toy store (brainbaking.com)
    ×1.19 67 #49 | 154 points by speckx 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI keeps inventing fake cases. Lawyers keep citing them (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.90 12 #80 | 59 points by voxadam 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD (crocidb.com)
    ×1.73 4 #87 | 364 points by speckx 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Dario and Daniela Amodei on Oprah [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by kerim-ca 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I reproduced a Claude Code RCE. The bug pattern is everywhere (vechron.com)
    ×4.14 44 | 7 points by GeorgeWoff25 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket (ssrn.com)
    ×1.25 57 #81 | 159 points by vcf 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Building an AWS Lambda-Like Runtime with Firecracker MicroVMs (medium.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by nreece 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Is AI Profitable Yet? (isaiprofitable.com)
    ×4.21 86 | 218 points by poyu 8 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. London Mayor Blocks Palantir (theguardian.com)
    ×5.74 37 | 193 points by ZiiS 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks? (thek6project.co.uk)
    ×0.87 57 | 87 points by Kaibeezy 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Logatory – local-first log analysis and threat detection, no SIEM (github.com/T0nd3)
    ×1.56 74 | 4 points by T0nd3 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???