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  1. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.76 4 | 3 points by Gooblebrai 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.83 4 #75 | 33 points by karakoram 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.86 19 | 12 points by all2 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. "Wrong" Email
    ×0.99 3 | 22 points by rbmm 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?
    ×0.42 90 | 4 points by winrid 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.28 88 | 8 points by throwaway3309 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.44 94 | 29 points by jahala 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.31 97 | 7 points by japhyr 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.83 95 | 33 points by learner_yearner 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.15 114 | 7 points by weinzierl 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.74 102 | 31 points by TekMol 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
    ×0.56 112 | 10 points by arm32 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Antrophic tightened usage limits?
    ×0.51 128 | 4 points by lukan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: I Need Advice
    ×0.59 113 | 16 points by TuxedoBuddy 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you using AI in your personal life?
    ×0.18 147 | 3 points by whall6 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?
    ×0.11 148 | 3 points by xiaomaijj 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?
    ×0.38 129 | 5 points by d--b 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?
    ×5.81 25 | 140 points by mellosty 15 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?
    ×0.17 132 | 5 points by lucasov 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What's your iPhone Duo experience so far?
    ×0.41 142 | 4 points by dgellow 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Expericencing an issue in Gmail where emails do not delete in Firefox
    ×0.16 162 | 9 points by rc_kas 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Alternative to Tldraw Draw Fast?
    ×0.93 160 | 4 points by outlore 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?
    ×0.46 151 | 32 points by olalonde 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?
    ×0.35 155 | 20 points by pelcg 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: I know Firefox has update when it starts to glitch
    ×0.28 159 | 5 points by majkinetor 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. DietPi v10.8 has been released
    ×0.20 141 | 19 points by stephanstsdietp 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Black October: At least nine AI developer platforms breached this month (wiz.io)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by acossta 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Be a Loser (makemeacto.cc)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by larsfaye 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Utah charges Kalshi and its CEO with illegally promoting online gambling (theverge.com)
    ×2.95 71 | 94 points by entryleveljobsc 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Tyrtulia, a headless forum with no passwords, made for the terminal (andros.dev)
    ×0.84 107 | 3 points by andros 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Turn the prompts you keep retyping into slash commands (github.com/kishormorol)
    ×0.85 164 | 3 points by kishoremorol 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (phorion.io)
    ×3.61 26 #4 | 747 points by _chall 17 hours ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. RAM wasted on users PCs.. should be concentrated on datacenters (duckduckgo.com)
    ×2.07 12 #74 | 16 points by xlayn 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Thaura Constitution (thaura.ai)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by conferza 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ignore AI and ask for that pay rise (economist.com)
    ×0.91 34 | 3 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I created a 3D model viewer that runs in the terminal (github.com/Murat65536)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by bob65536 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Are You a Forward Deployed Engineer?
    ×1.47 49 | 3 points by tkdb 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang (nypost.com)
    ×2.39 | 353 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector (github.com/4yk5)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by 4yk5 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required) (github.com/chris124567)
    ×1.91 15 #2 | 44 points by costco 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Chess960v2 – Over 800 Rounds Played (chess960v2.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by lavren1974 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Somoene bets $10M on Reddit stock anad loses half of it (reddit.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: AgentTrust – Zero-trust security and human approvals for AI agents (github.com/SRN0129)
    ×0.96 165 | 16 points by SRN0129 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser (elementary.codes)
    ×1.01 59 #82 | 121 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Fail2Ban Notifier (github.com/eyeskiller)
    ×1.46 44 | 3 points by eyeskiller 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Agent-relay for multi-vendor coding sessions (github.com/saranyan)
    ×0.66 163 | 8 points by svts 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance (arkm.com)
    ×6.47 16 #49 | 1724 points by Tiberium 1 day ago | 1213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Capo-S3 – a typed, async-first S3 client for Python (pypi.org)
    ×4.13 103 | 16 points by karpetrosyan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: SLCR – An open standard for agent-native software requirements (slcr.dev)
    ×1.13 134 | 4 points by robbiemckinstry 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Zellic's and V12's Work on x86 Binary Formal Verification (v12.sh)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by drdrey 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. $20 plans, $1 of Sol costs 7x what $1 of Opus does. A task, only 1.3x (twitter.com/AdamHoltererer)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by marcellosso 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.21 21 | 336 points by theHocineSaad 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic (vut.cz)
    ×1.55 39 | 180 points by armcat 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB) (resetera.com)
    ×3.49 40 #43 | 83 points by bko 2 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Python on My Wrist (tildeweb.nl)
    ×0.92 47 #81 | 85 points by roywashere 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Google's $500B bloodbath reflects the danger it faces from AI (economist.com)
    ×1.86 11 | 4 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax (lesnumeriques.com)
    ×11.12 60 | 104 points by nick486 6 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Yavashark: I've Built a JavaScript Engine Every Day for 950 Days (yavashark.dev)
    ×0.83 110 | 38 points by sharktheone 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Radix - A WebGPU-powered 3D Gaussian Splat renderer built on Three.js (sparkjs.dev)
    ×2.17 109 | 11 points by dmarcos 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards (freehire.me)
    ×0.99 146 | 39 points by i_strelov 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat (catcopter.com)
    ×1.10 21 #35 | 78 points by pawelwentpawel 9 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Native gnome markdown viewer with mermaid support (github.com/jefersondaniel)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by jefersondaniel 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why my AI agents keep lie-ing? How do we trust? (dotpals.vercel.app)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by Rikin_shah 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Optimized CUDA forced alignment kernels. 10x – 1000x faster (github.com/brthor)
    ×1.31 69 | 3 points by bthornbury 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The N64's GPU Is a Technical Marvel [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.43 16 | 3 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning (research.google)
    ×1.60 20 #26 | 156 points by acossta 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole' (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.56 3 #51 | 103 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. JWST reveals a distant galaxy that may let most of its ionizing radiation escape (phys.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by wglb 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.23 76 #19 | 4 points by Thevet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The global rise of listening bars (salon.com)
    ×1.92 5 | 5 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The biggest feud in artificial intelligence (afr.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by jacquesm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.69 45 | 239 points by terminalbraid 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT (github.com/FrigadeHQ)
    ×1.55 105 | 175 points by pancomplex 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe (workatastartup.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B (oxfam.org)
    ×5.74 92 | 104 points by botanical 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Popkern – open-source CAD kernel with G2 corner blends, browser IDE (popkern.dev)
    ×1.09 131 | 14 points by geedy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014) (nytimes.com)
    ×3.77 6 | 435 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The FSF is now on Bluesky (fsf.org)
    ×2.64 7 #65 | 26 points by kristianpaul 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. North Korea Steals USD 6.36B from Binance in the Largest Hack in History (trmlabs.com)
    ×2.35 93 #73 | 30 points by entryleveljobsc 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. SpaceX No longer needs NASA (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.12 6 #59 | 24 points by amosj 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Bee Cleansing Flight (What's It All About?) (beekeepinginsider.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by thunderbong 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: Will future archeologist know about us, with everything encrypted?
    ×1.56 54 | 3 points by kbrannigan 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Proton goes all in on using AI (convo.casa)
    ×3.91 47 | 115 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027 (timeanddate.com)
    ×1.81 87 | 104 points by n_plus_1_acc 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it (sciencenorway.no)
    ×1.53 14 #10 | 77 points by dxs 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Hey linker, can you spare a meg? (tailscale.com)
    ×1.38 8 #57 | 20 points by luu 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Reddit shares plunge as Google's AI search squeezes traffic (reuters.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by tartoran 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ggwave – Data-over-Sound Library (github.com/ggerganov)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by esher 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Charter, field-level control over agents' calls into customer accounts (github.com/r28ai)
    ×0.94 121 | 4 points by nathanqueme 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Dead APIs – a graveyard for the integrations that left us (deadapis.dev)
    ×0.25 | 2 points by gertjandewilde 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???