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  1. Ask HN: Quickbooks Alternative?
    ×0.73 | 2 points by bix6 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
    ×1.58 35 | 4 points by something765478 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?
    ×1.94 60 #54 | 72 points by syntaxbush 15 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
    ×2.00 36 #57 | 95 points by shantnutiwari 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.33 68 | 68 points by jvilalta 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
    ×0.72 30 | 4 points by ex-aws-dude 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.49 95 | 29 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Got access to Gemini's actual thinking
    ×0.24 96 | 4 points by StizzurpXDD 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.27 116 | 5 points by iaziz786 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.50 134 | 17 points by niyazpk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.43 125 | 15 points by neya 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×0.20 161 | 8 points by spidy__ 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks?
    ×0.48 113 | 8 points by fur-tea-laser 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.87 128 | 20 points by tossitawayplz 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.09 137 | 153 points by amichail 5 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions
    ×0.55 120 | 8 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.08 145 | 15 points by vasko 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 159 | 96 points by asim 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE?
    ×0.30 126 | 10 points by mariopt 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.40 171 | 25 points by agos 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anyone else feels many LLMs are heavily biased towards consumerism these days?
    ×0.33 140 | 8 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.57 102 | 80 points by ayi 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.94 148 | 22 points by julienreszka 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
    ×2.29 88 | 10 points by chistev 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.38 160 | 43 points by JohnDSDev 4 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Elastic Layoffs?
    ×1.22 106 | 9 points by nunocoracao 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (reuters.com)
    ×3.40 14 #15 | 713 points by htrp 18 hours ago | 1154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups (startupsbr.com)
    ×0.62 48 #46 | 51 points by leonagano 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Pull request limits are cutting down the noise (github.blog)
    ×1.18 67 #80 | 97 points by ingve 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show your hands honor for the power they bring you (aresluna.org)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by matthberg 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How to get your first customers [video] (ycombinator.com)
    ×1.38 7 #18 | 41 points by aurenvale 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Qualcomm to Acquire Modular (reuters.com)
    ×1.31 48 #48 | 234 points by timmyd 22 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Distro Fighter (distrofighter.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by FergusArgyll 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Crespo – Tree-sitter AST blueprints instead of raw code for LLMs (github.com/hrudulmmn)
    ×0.67 167 | 14 points by ByteJoseph 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions? (epfl.ch)
    ×0.51 26 #35 | 43 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The AI Data-Center Boom Is Sparking a Third Wave of Inflation (wsj.com)
    ×1.88 2 #50 | 4 points by gmays 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I Fine-Tuned an AI Model on My Mac for Less Than a Cent, and You Can Too (medium.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by tanmaydesh5189 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Feistel Cipher (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by tosh 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice (paolino.me)
    ×4.77 19 | 592 points by earcar 1 day ago | 731 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Multi Agent Protocol for AI Scientist by Hexo Labs (github.com/hexo-ai)
    ×1.79 82 | 5 points by martianvoid 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents (github.com/block)
    ×5.51 155 | 21 points by ThomPete 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)
    ×3.23 2 #1 | 185 points by verditelabs 2 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OS9Map (yllan.org)
    ×2.11 12 #5 | 63 points by LaSombra 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 52-hertz whale (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.13 16 #21 | 37 points by brightbeige 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Maybe "is AI a bubble?" is the wrong question (emilesilvis.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by gmays 16 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. HRM-Text: Efficient Pretraining Beyond Scaling (huggingface.co)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by root-parent 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected) (euronews.com)
    ×3.36 69 | 86 points by cs702 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Tree, truth, druid and tar share one Proto-Indo-European root (migdal.pl)
    ×2.32 89 | 5 points by stared 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Shumai – open-source Frame.io alternative for creative work (github.com/shumaiOne)
    ×0.77 109 | 60 points by Yiling-J 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch (github.com/paytonjjones)
    ×1.66 103 | 215 points by paytonjjones 4 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Garry Tan: Put a Leash on Your YC Founders (twitter.com/looksmaxxvc)
    ×2.52 36 | 3 points by mellosouls 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code (posthog.com)
    ×2.44 36 | 139 points by robbie-c 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format (metaspec.dev)
    ×1.37 147 | 4 points by dlowe-net 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com/DDecoene)
    ×2.07 158 | 4 points by ddecoene 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. CSS on the ESP32 (hackaday.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by arbayi 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Podman 6 Configuration File Changes (podman.io)
    ×1.88 8 | 3 points by mroche 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Swift Package Index joins Apple (swiftpackageindex.com)
    ×1.11 73 | 234 points by JDevlieghere 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark (twitter.com/mfts0)
    ×8.91 76 | 211 points by mmunj 5 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Hikaru Labs – Bulk image and file processing, 100% in-browser (hikarulabs.xyz)
    ×1.48 28 | 4 points by CFBL 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: FileVeil · Hide Any File Inside Another File (fileveil.com)
    ×1.21 76 | 3 points by fileveil 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser (github.com/NotASithLord)
    ×0.93 77 | 67 points by NotASithLord 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I created agent skill based on Peter Lynch's books (github.com/DjNero11)
    ×1.71 164 | 5 points by DjNero 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements (ziglang.org)
    ×1.26 8 #3 | 139 points by kouosi 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour (oxide.computer)
    ×2.11 18 #4 | 28 points by darthcloud 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors (bloomberg.com)
    ×6.03 33 #34 | 531 points by alanwreath 3 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended for Better Performance: 360% in MySQL (phoronix.com)
    ×1.47 2 #51 | 7 points by dabinat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Getting Back into Blogging (alexhyett.com)
    ×1.67 20 | 3 points by speckx 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. About Climate.us (climate.us)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by thehoff 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Pythond, Persistent Python daemon where state survives across calls (pythond.sh)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by rangersui 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring (stanford.edu)
    ×1.88 87 | 153 points by sizzle 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The truth about being a manager (sofiakodar.github.io)
    ×2.32 93 | 111 points by adunk 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Neural Particle Automata (selforg-npa.github.io)
    ×0.83 101 | 87 points by esychology 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Apple's Skating in the Right Direction, but the Puck Is Still Ahead (ofb.biz)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by trbutler 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. My Advertising Is So Efficient It No Longer Works (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by 1317 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Claudecaine (bfontaine.net)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by hk__2 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors” (theregister.com)
    ×2.44 33 | 179 points by connorboyle 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Treedocs: Documentation that automatically checks for staleness (dandylyons.github.io)
    ×0.66 105 | 52 points by DandyLyons 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)
    ×3.07 8 #10 | 447 points by ytkimirti 4 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero (nvidia.com)
    ×2.81 29 #58 | 449 points by nitin_flanker 1 day ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A battery-free NFC payment ring we make in our workshop (ewear.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by ewear 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. More billing options and lower service fees on Google Play (googleblog.com)
    ×2.44 16 | 4 points by mtlebe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I taught a bucket to speak Git (tigrisdata.com)
    ×0.86 64 | 88 points by xena 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility (github.com/DatanoiseTV)
    ×1.24 142 | 103 points by sylwester 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Wordit – Change One Letter, Keep the Chain Going (victorribeiro.com)
    ×0.72 82 #83 | 35 points by atum47 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Nuclear battery production facility moves into Sunol (pleasantonweekly.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by Bender 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Quarterly planning is an outdated scarcity ritual (readtheinference.substack.com)
    ×1.92 9 | 3 points by mmayernick 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions (github.com/LuaJIT)
    ×1.25 29 #36 | 214 points by phreddypharkus 17 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? (natkr.com)
    ×0.86 93 #64 | 98 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis (svpow.com)
    ×0.95 72 #87 | 98 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The biggest problems in using AI (shearer.org)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by smartmic 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???