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  1. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×9.07 39 #84 | 222 points by petecooper 18 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
    ×2.85 8 | 592 points by rzk 1 day ago | 715 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What should I use instead of Firefox on Android?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by trystrawberries 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×1.17 32 | 5 points by lualover 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is Wikipedia going to be obsolete soon?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by piratesAndSons 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day
    ×0.29 69 | 8 points by kinj28 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×0.95 74 | 22 points by Stitch4223 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Time to read those programming books?
    ×0.15 86 | 4 points by blinkbat 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.55 93 | 9 points by thechairman12 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. GCP Europe-West2 Outage
    ×2.82 56 | 30 points by jack7e 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Can LeetCode (or similar) keep critical thinking sharp in the AI era?
    ×0.29 87 | 5 points by ML0037 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What do you hate the most about GitHub Actions?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by Bnjoroge 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
    ×0.42 135 | 18 points by okr 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you know Bitbucket are chaning their SSH endpoints?
    ×0.12 149 | 3 points by mcrmonkey 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share?
    ×0.66 109 | 7 points by erelong 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are there any programming positions that are safe from AI?
    ×0.50 97 | 4 points by marcAKAmarc 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. AGI-S – an AI platform I'm building
    ×0.30 | 2 points by smitsjoshi 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why HN dosen't have bot problem?
    ×0.92 125 | 7 points by solarpunk_enthu 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What happened to open weights models?
    ×0.45 126 | 5 points by sparse-Matrix 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. CPU-native. Deterministic. O(1) processes. – the Old New Coolness
    ×0.15 | 2 points by KathiaGatterer 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Revolut down – Global ATM withdrawals and bank transfers failing
    ×2.11 73 | 15 points by TomAnthony 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: I picked up knitting while waiting for my AI agent to complete
    ×1.23 141 | 9 points by amelius 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you cap what your coding agents can spend?
    ×0.38 152 | 3 points by Twirled 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by otherayden 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Bring-your-own-AI hardware
    ×0.28 | 2 points by flying_sheep 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Any good technical podcasts to listen to while driving?
    ×0.59 133 | 4 points by 0-bad-sectors 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why can't Ukraine use LoRA instead of Starshield?
    ×0.28 138 | 4 points by xrd 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Getting spam after commenting on monthly Who's Hiring posts. Who else?
    ×1.20 128 | 6 points by yosito 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Beyond traces, how do you know your agent did the job?
    ×1.16 137 | 5 points by rstagi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better
    ×0.45 146 | 12 points by asen 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Do you also feel that it's impossible to keep up with AI?
    ×0.47 145 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is anyone still running Token Ring or FDDI networks?
    ×0.27 151 | 12 points by robotnikman 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×2.06 127 | 9 points by tha_infra_guy 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: New Outlook` sends everything through Microsoft Servers
    ×0.15 148 | 4 points by NicoJuicy 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN (ranet3.com)
    ×0.50 82 | 40 points by StepBroBD 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick (sosnierz.me)
    ×1.26 35 #67 | 166 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ahead-of-Time Compilation of JavaScript to WebAssembly via Static Type Inference [video] (vimeo.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by Klaster_1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity (theatlantic.com)
    ×5.89 59 | 74 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake (legendofhyrule.com)
    ×1.61 57 | 222 points by jsomau 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Koody for Business – AI bookkeeping for people who aren't accountants (koody.com)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by Halimah 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers (github.com/tywr)
    ×2.52 23 #70 | 554 points by noriax86 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Why is Elon Musk plotting a mega-merger of SpaceX and Tesla? (bbc.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by SenHeng 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna (yale.edu)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by throwaway2037 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Wine ported to OpenBSD (marc.info)
    ×2.44 1 | 611 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest (ign.com)
    ×5.81 33 | 177 points by 4gateftw 18 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.28 5 #10 | 204 points by Bender 11 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Learning to live with Waymos (newyorker.com)
    ×1.08 21 #75 | 42 points by njrc 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I made a disk usage tool in Swift, and on macOS it beats the Rust ones (reddit.com)
    ×1.72 40 | 3 points by frizlab 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. So yeah it was written using AI (berthub.eu)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by kimi 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Maybe We Were Wrong About Blockchain (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by monkeydust 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account (josie.lol)
    ×1.98 15 | 284 points by pfeifferj 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All (politico.com)
    ×3.59 36 | 228 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph (github.com/KatrielMoses)
    ×3.58 31 | 185 points by coding-maniac 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Vibe Prospecting – B2B Prospecting from Claude and Claude Code via MCP (github.com/explorium-ai)
    ×0.41 114 | 3 points by zivnadil 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs (github.com/google-pytorch)
    ×1.83 5 #18 | 342 points by ilreb 17 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ship Your Interpreter (basis.ai)
    ×0.63 5 #55 | 20 points by gopiandcode 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Finland Buying a Million Landmines (yle.fi)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by vrganj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Claude Code skills and hooks that prove a fix's test fails without it (github.com/ehnruiz)
    ×1.34 134 | 4 points by ehnruiz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission (science.org)
    ×1.07 40 #40 | 114 points by Muhammad523 18 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Guy made a site to spot SLOP games on NEXT FEST – it is vibe coded (reddit.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by ibackstrom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Local DirectML AI and Floating Toolstrip for PhotoCraft in Rust (github.com/kobaltgit)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by kobaltGIT 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: OpenFlow – AI Agent Workflow Builder (github.com/SeeRay11)
    ×2.41 115 | 6 points by searay112023 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026 (poh.org)
    ×0.66 51 #44 | 45 points by mdahardy 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Non-call, an on-call simulator mini-game (serum.sh)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by cyberfart 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: AHP Matrix, local, open-source Analytic Hierarchy Process decision tool (github.com/Xafloc)
    ×0.90 81 | 3 points by xafloc 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits (petercai.com)
    ×3.22 2 #5 | 803 points by pcai 15 hours ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Db4 is open source: local RAG on Postgres in a browser tab (lab4.app)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by lab4app 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The reverts will continue until morale improves (eisentraut.org)
    ×2.05 27 | 232 points by hans_castorp 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Clerkenwell – A Handwritten Clojure Notebook (danieljanus.pl)
    ×0.76 50 | 24 points by nathell 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: RoadRash ported to Three.js to run in the browser (roadrash.pages.dev)
    ×1.57 67 | 33 points by olucurious 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster (fb.com)
    ×1.18 27 #46 | 86 points by stokedmartin 14 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619) (jackalsyn.com)
    ×4.35 86 | 178 points by rfarley04 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO (wsj.com)
    ×1.62 46 | 151 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz? (jevcards.com)
    ×1.06 19 | 62 points by totisjosema 19 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.80 45 #48 | 99 points by gumby 19 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2 (jepsen.io)
    ×0.81 30 #73 | 59 points by aphyr 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I built a task system to handle the drudgery so I could focus on tasks (3anddoneapp.com)
    ×0.73 63 | 60 points by dmayle 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: OmniPTY – Opinionated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux (github.com/omnipty-terminal)
    ×0.96 124 | 14 points by bobbycoleman-de 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Indian certification authority eMudhra's private keys leaked–one of them was '4' (theregister.com)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by user_7832 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware (llmspeed.dev)
    ×1.78 66 | 329 points by albinstman 4 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Maap 4B model that does RL for calibrated **Estimates (hitl.systems)
    ×1.31 110 | 3 points by gamebit07 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.99 5 #6 | 179 points by gumby 9 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Norway to extend proposed <16 social media ban to online games/messaging apps (euronews.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by Markoff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership (home.cern)
    ×2.70 18 | 357 points by kensai 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Four Years with Decker (beyondloom.com)
    ×0.75 13 #19 | 42 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. SCOTUS couldn't take up a copyright case because four justices have book deals (bloomberglaw.com)
    ×3.50 20 #86 | 58 points by pessimizer 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. PHP CVE's: early mitigation steps (ttias.be)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by Mojah 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. WCS recrute un Chef de garage et un Gestionnaire de charroi (impactpool.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by kivuhub 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.95 36 #36 | 73 points by jackdoe 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Google's servers can scan what you copy in Chrome for unsafe content (neowin.net)
    ×3.21 39 #81 | 39 points by bundie 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???