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  1. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×6.40 6 #11 | 826 points by CliffStoll 9 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×3.73 13 #18 | 60 points by mittermayr 7 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?
    ×0.83 30 | 4 points by shantnutiwari 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Reflections on NetBSD 11
    ×0.60 9 | 3 points by morpheos137 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 0ctx – Local-first project memory for AI workflows
    ×0.24 61 | 3 points by som3on3 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?
    ×0.30 65 | 3 points by softneon 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude Flags Hantavirus Vaccine Questions as Security Risk
    ×1.15 7 | 9 points by pell 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.50 60 | 12 points by MetaWhirledPeas 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.47 63 | 13 points by ex-aws-dude 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. "Surface" a Governed AI-Agentic Surface
    ×0.07 | 2 points by paulbernard 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs
    ×0.35 72 | 9 points by omertt27 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.30 76 | 16 points by lishunsheng 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.31 91 | 17 points by Gooblebrai 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.43 103 | 11 points by alexyan0431 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.74 89 | 130 points by idontwantthis 5 days ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
    ×0.89 95 | 24 points by ge96 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?
    ×0.82 74 | 30 points by zeven7 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC?
    ×0.25 125 | 7 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Terafab – Smart move or insane financial risk?
    ×0.09 136 | 3 points by imheretolearn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.38 122 | 17 points by devstein 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?
    ×1.53 101 | 17 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by chistev 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Reviewing in the Age of AI
    ×0.46 108 | 9 points by maxalbarello 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Just Use Go (blainsmith.com)
    ×13.61 39 #42 | 130 points by xngbuilds 2 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.22 18 #84 | 97 points by mobeigi 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: I built a game where AI agents compete to ship code (aion.quest)
    ×2.50 94 | 9 points by xkoda 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by CharlesW 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Lidar threatens to rewrite everything we know about photography (digitalcameraworld.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by leopoldj 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Deepfakes are everywhere. The godfather of digital forensics is fighting back (science.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by speckx 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
    ×5.24 6 #8 | 1115 points by PriorityLeft 20 hours ago | 760 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Inventing Cyrillic (historytoday.com)
    ×0.88 59 #20 | 30 points by lermontov 11 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Four stable kernels with partial fixes for Dirty Frag (lwn.net)
    ×1.06 18 #41 | 13 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Rolling the Root Key (apnic.net)
    ×0.60 35 #80 | 36 points by jandeboevrie 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Three Resume Tips (sumnerevans.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by chilipepperhott 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.96 15 | 299 points by bstrama 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: SereneUI – A VSCode-inspired, open-source UI for Postgres (github.com/serenedb)
    ×5.62 67 | 15 points by gnusi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Perplexity's New Mac App Brings Personal Computer to Pro Users (macrumors.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by samsolomon 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. RFK Jr. clears path for minors to use tanning beds, much to dermatologist dismay (latimes.com)
    ×3.12 59 | 72 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Rig – a Ghostty sidecar for managing agents (github.com/backnotprop)
    ×1.19 84 | 4 points by ramoz 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Plus Codes (google.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by smartmic 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Using AI for Work (thomasmcgee.co)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by SunshineTheCat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.52 1 | 264 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.79 64 | 148 points by mtricot 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
    ×1.06 16 #37 | 136 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Mac Juice Monitor – Bluetooth battery levels in the macOS menu bar (github.com/p32929)
    ×1.45 110 | 7 points by heliskyr2 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.12 19 #46 | 92 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Key Exchange Utility for Key Analysis (github.com/nickolasburr)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by nburr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software (adaptivesoftware.substack.com)
    ×1.84 56 | 78 points by iristenteije 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Naval Strike – simultaneous turn-based fleet combat in the browser (navalstrike.app)
    ×0.32 127 | 4 points by pinchydev 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: AI-DLC-UML (AI-Driven Development Life Cycle with UML Modeling) (github.com/takaakit)
    ×1.35 145 | 5 points by takaakit 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads (neowin.net)
    ×1.35 10 #21 | 74 points by bundie 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport (ietf.org)
    ×0.73 34 #82 | 66 points by mondainx 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Building a Harper Desktop App (elijahpotter.dev)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by chilipepperhott 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Resurf – realistic, reproducible test framework for AI browser agents (github.com/lightfeed)
    ×1.32 77 | 5 points by andrew_zhong 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Bilig – a headless spreadsheet engine for Node services and agents (github.com/proompteng)
    ×0.65 93 | 3 points by GregKonush 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. QBE – Compiler Back End (c9x.me)
    ×1.18 18 #23 | 56 points by smartmic 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved (programbench.com)
    ×4.26 100 | 23 points by lieret 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.45 129 | 44 points by 6 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Orch8 – Durable workflow engine in Rust, one binary, Postgres or SQLite (github.com/orch8-io)
    ×1.67 105 | 24 points by _alphageek 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com/graemeg)
    ×0.91 5 #35 | 85 points by peter_d_sherman 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools and Colleges Nationwide (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×0.71 53 #60 | 10 points by lschueller 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love (etke.cc)
    ×1.02 9 #68 | 56 points by anotherevan 16 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.40 7 #83 | 1725 points by john-doe 3 days ago | 1127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement (ohio.news)
    ×3.83 10 | 79 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation (lwn.net)
    ×0.88 19 #45 | 51 points by signa11 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. k on PDP-11 (ktye.github.io)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by tosh 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.26 86 | 167 points by yunusabd 5 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Kill-The-Backlog, self-hosted background agents (github.com/jvaill)
    ×0.72 78 | 4 points by jvaill 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: LaoTzu Writer Studio
    ×2.30 81 | 8 points by homeonthemtn 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Gpu.fund, live GPU cloud rental prices (gpu.fund)
    ×1.16 124 | 4 points by justacatbot 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
    ×1.74 2 #44 | 179 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 5x perf increase on writes with FPW disabled in Postgres (databricks.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by sp_from_db 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: AI Fluency Diagnostic (ai-pilled.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by chrija 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×6.23 47 | 499 points by Qem 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.15 20 | 148 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: BattleClaws – A battle arena where AI agents fight autonomously (battleclaws.ai)
    ×2.89 114 | 8 points by bryhaw 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. iPhone Launch – Studio C (Comedy Sketch) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by mrtimo 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply (kmph.com)
    ×3.57 3 | 98 points by cdrnsf 23 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally (github.com/ReviewStage)
    ×0.64 38 | 42 points by cpan22 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
    ×4.56 1 #3 | 106 points by ribtoks 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
    ×1.24 33 #64 | 202 points by stereo-highway 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The IT Productivity Paradox (2008) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.92 48 #69 | 26 points by simonpure 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Noyb: "LinkedIn locks GDPR rights behind a paywall" (heise.de)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by thm 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Ploopy Bean – External trackball with 4 buttons (ploopy.co)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by namanyayg 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Skymap – a 3D galaxy catalog explorer in the browser via WebGPU (rulkens.com)
    ×1.56 126 | 5 points by thereallex 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Migrate your Evernote archive to Google Drive or local files (github.com/meizy)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by meizy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Upskill – skill to find skills for your AI agents (github.com/Autoloops)
    ×1.16 131 | 4 points by kushalpatil07 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Banks are funding climate chaos. You don't have to (not-ship.com)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by ndr42 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Leaving the Party: the politics of Sterling Hayden (1988) (newcriterion.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak (wordtrak.com)
    ×0.83 75 | 78 points by qrush 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???