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  1. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.51 17 #74 | 21 points by foota 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×2.31 39 | 63 points by kaladan 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Coding is a solved problem. What is left for experienced engineers?
    ×0.68 33 | 6 points by gokuljs 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How I Read Books
    ×0.40 54 | 12 points by nomilk 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A technology that counts reps and scores muscle failure from the Apple Watch
    ×0.07 | 2 points by baraa_bilal 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What AI companies provide human support?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by kbrannigan 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: HN Algolia Search not showing new results from the past 24 hours
    ×0.38 86 | 4 points by infinitifall 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I write my own Markdown
    ×0.22 | 2 points by KenPainter 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Talk Like Claude Day
    ×0.41 82 | 19 points by KenPainter 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Do teams still use scrum and sprints?
    ×0.28 80 | 5 points by peter_retief 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Trust Between Agent's Companies
    ×0.11 | 2 points by mathieu_aithos 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is there any way to use workflow to control Harness?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by juntz 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why is my innovative IDEA is always behind the others?
    ×0.36 105 | 3 points by juntz 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. You Don't Need AI to Generate Code
    ×0.53 91 | 4 points by Lozybug 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Harpoon for Sublime Text 4
    ×0.37 111 | 3 points by tomoekn 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is Codex's 5-hour usage limit back?
    ×0.12 115 | 3 points by linzhangrun 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Claude Code randomly burning through 10% of the weekly limit?
    ×0.34 100 | 6 points by terabytest 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I've tested some local LLMs on prosumer hardware, here are some findings
    ×0.30 114 | 6 points by felineflock 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I built a tool to generate Cornell notes from YouTube videos
    ×0.31 116 | 6 points by cristyg0101 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?
    ×2.65 7 | 120 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT?
    ×0.20 119 | 4 points by MollyRealized 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What Happened to dLLMs?
    ×0.34 117 | 4 points by ray__ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Advice for selling a tech domain name
    ×0.13 118 | 3 points by sm001 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. In defense of two-state theme toggles (joshcollinsworth.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by speckx 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Great Recession (nicholasdecker.substack.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by surprisetalk 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: TextToolsStudio – text tools that never leave the browser (texttoolsstudio.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by harsh_patel14 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.67 74 | 57 points by jardy 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Linux's History by Linus Torvalds (cmu.edu)
    ×3.04 66 | 3 points by janvdberg 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. 25 August 1991: "Hello everybody out there using minix" (archive.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by theanonymousone 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: AI Stock Sentiment Tool (valovest.fi)
    ×1.31 110 | 3 points by Ile09 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines (itch.io)
    ×1.20 31 #25 | 87 points by Gorsefound 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog (textlog.cc)
    ×0.95 50 #40 | 75 points by stagas 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Polars – Prototype on a laptop, scale to 16B rows: one Polars query (pola.rs)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by speckx 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: A skill for uploading full-resolution images to ChatGPT mobile runtime (github.com/Byte-Naut)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by Byte-Naut 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Dashi – a 214KB Chrome new tab dashboard with no servers or analytics (trydashi.app)
    ×1.56 69 | 9 points by trydashi 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage (github.com/murerkinn)
    ×1.34 30 #17 | 131 points by arbayi 14 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Clojurists Together Short Term Project Updates (clojuriststogether.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by dragandj 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Extending Life Perception (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by HermanMartinus 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A path through time-series anomaly detection, z-scores to deep learning (github.com/JulienAu)
    ×1.32 103 | 3 points by Julien-Au 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed (cnn.com)
    ×1.63 8 #54 | 169 points by related 16 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Apple Unified Logging for Stdio MCP and LSP (github.com/paaloeye)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by paaloeye 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Third drone and suspected military explosives found near Leipzig airport (theguardian.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by osivertsson 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Nonograms TUI (github.com/dtnewman)
    ×1.11 88 | 3 points by dtnewman 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I built a museum of AI interfaces (kylejeong.com)
    ×1.92 76 | 6 points by Kylejeong21 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Fake Zoom, hang out with AI coworkers and feel the synergy (fake-zoom.pages.dev)
    ×2.09 87 | 4 points by stets 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: AI_stream – Ruby gem for the Vercel AI SDK stream protocol (github.com/tachyurgy)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by entaroadun123 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Winnow – scores X posts by freshness and headroom, no AI, no login (winnowapp.app)
    ×1.66 95 | 4 points by alexcloudstar 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (xusheng.dev)
    ×3.17 11 #8 | 771 points by ComputerGuru 22 hours ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.19 2 #9 | 28 points by MC995 57 minutes ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model (thomsonreuters.com)
    ×2.94 30 #57 | 125 points by giuliomagnifico 11 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Casio MQ24: Hands-On with the (Often) Cheapest Watch on Amazon (hodinkee.com)
    ×2.02 54 | 3 points by xeonmc 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Anthropic Claude and API service outages (claude.com)
    ×1.48 42 | 76 points by vikrantrathore 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. SiFive's First Server Platform (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.08 22 #12 | 84 points by geerlingguy 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.75 52 #36 | 92 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why some US restaurants are banning tips (bbc.com)
    ×3.73 54 #59 | 164 points by rock_artist 3 hours ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost (reinvently.co.uk)
    ×3.33 28 | 239 points by ed-is-ai 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I ported Omarchy (Linux) to a phone (ivan.codes)
    ×4.89 77 | 5 points by hypendev 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. My life was changed by four sentences in four books (sive.rs)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by surprisetalk 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive (yantraai.app)
    ×0.64 64 | 68 points by skylensspace 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Agentize lets AI agents query your website instead of crawling it (github.com/nicolasakf)
    ×1.49 96 | 3 points by nicolasakf 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage, but as a 3D Cube (cubeboost.lol)
    ×2.05 90 | 4 points by its_ajseven 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. An open protocol for AI-mediated product discovery (github.com/open-receipt-protocol)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by NiklasHenkel 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Hot Chips 2026: Micron warns HBM wafer penalty is widening with every generation (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by rbanffy 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (complexsystems.fail)
    ×1.85 14 | 376 points by shortcrct 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Shepherdr – A mobile-first web UI for agents on Herdr (github.com/luiscleto)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by lfcc 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour (skimmiq.com)
    ×0.72 52 | 18 points by Pawel_SkimmIQ 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff (dover.com)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful (zdnet.com)
    ×4.00 3 #87 | 32 points by jethronethro 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Em Dash Is Fine – It Is AI That Sucks (torh.net)
    ×1.56 53 #88 | 21 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)
    ×1.42 36 | 194 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics' (npr.org)
    ×8.38 46 | 119 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Recent public co filings analyzed: AI not generating profit yet (aiearnings.dev)
    ×4.73 68 | 7 points by epsteingpt 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)
    ×1.62 41 | 164 points by allisdust 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Open-source remote controller for your Claude Code/codex session (github.com/antoinedc)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by antoinec 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Color Patch – browser visual puzzles game (colorpatch.app)
    ×1.33 98 | 4 points by ootdrate 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. What Is a Syslog Server? (greencloudvps.com)
    ×0.91 46 #50 | 70 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems (sigma-star.at)
    ×3.81 59 | 5 points by Deeg9rie9usi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Sign Android APKs with schemes v2, v3 pure Python CLI (github.com/adityatelange)
    ×1.21 109 | 3 points by adityatelange 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3 (github.com/ovenpasta)
    ×1.05 17 #51 | 54 points by ovenpasta 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Canned Web – Lock a Mac to a single website (kiosk mode, no MDM) (cannedweb.app)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by kazbeki 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Manygit – a lazygit-style TUI for a whole folder of Git repos (rabeeh-ta.github.io)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by rabeeh0ta 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me (pantel.is)
    ×2.53 39 #46 | 367 points by pantelisk 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: "Flying Toasters!" reverse-engineered 1:1, in the browser (backslasher.github.io)
    ×1.35 26 | 3 points by Backslasher 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Interactive single-line diagram of a data center power system (rackout.net)
    ×2.50 84 | 5 points by matt-p 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: See how much your AI knows about you (withcorpus.com)
    ×1.08 55 | 18 points by cgnry 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) (kylezhe.ng)
    ×1.49 21 #24 | 106 points by subset 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walk through (flostep.dev)
    ×1.05 60 #65 | 22 points by pandurang90 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI Chip Architectures (jepeake.com)
    ×1.24 61 #67 | 149 points by Finbarr 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms (cntraveler.com)
    ×1.49 48 | 108 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System (vanillaos.org)
    ×0.49 57 | 28 points by NN708 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???