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  1. Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")?
    ×1.43 6 #74 | 33 points by trashymctrash 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Toolpack SDK, an Open Source TypeScript SDK for Building AI-Powered Applications
    ×0.34 | 2 points by sajeerzeji 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Prompt to make Claude more autonomous in web dev
    ×0.37 24 | 3 points by louison11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Claude broke a ZIP password in a smart way
    ×0.96 2 | 5 points by jgrahamc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I built a platform to help developers find collaborators for new projects
    ×0.14 | 2 points by deiv2002 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How not to fork an open source project
    ×0.56 44 | 4 points by jsattler 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you use Coding Agents/CLIs out of coding?
    ×0.42 82 | 3 points by arbayi 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Would this eliminate bots for good?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by piratesAndSons 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why can't we just make more RAM?
    ×0.55 70 | 21 points by chatmasta 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying
    ×3.07 67 | 86 points by theseusares 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6?
    ×0.62 89 | 10 points by Orellius 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: 100k/year individual token usage?
    ×0.57 85 | 7 points by alecsmart1 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Got cancer, a new job,new boss in less than a year What do I do now?
    ×0.40 97 | 19 points by Goleniewski 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
    ×0.75 108 | 109 points by strongpigeon 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when joining a new developer team?
    ×0.31 111 | 7 points by KevStatic 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Generate tests from GitHub pull requests
    ×0.34 100 | 7 points by Aamir21 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why have co-ops never played a major role in tech?
    ×0.92 104 | 12 points by AbstractH24 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Looking for a job after layoff and burnout. What should I focus on
    ×2.12 56 | 6 points by jacAtSea 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is there prior art for this rich text data model?
    ×0.21 129 | 4 points by chrisecker 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. X is selling existing users' handles
    ×1.71 80 | 196 points by hac 3 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.08 113 | 121 points by ukkare 4 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Has anyone built an AI agent that spends real money?
    ×0.58 128 | 3 points by xodn348 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
    ×1.08 101 | 86 points by coderbants 3 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse – Daren Acemoglu
    ×0.21 133 | 3 points by aanet 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Looking for Partner to Build Agent Memory (Zig/Erlang)
    ×0.30 142 | 6 points by kendallgclark 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Enabling Media Router by default undermines Brave's privacy claims
    ×0.27 144 | 4 points by noguff 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Instagram Ending Encrypted DMs
    ×0.95 118 | 6 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Does anyone here use Discord as their work chat tool?
    ×0.13 151 | 3 points by Poomba 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Claude 4.6 Opus can recite Linux's list.h
    ×1.01 120 | 25 points by itzmetanjim 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. AI is supercharging fake work
    ×1.19 139 | 12 points by rxm233 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you cope with the broken rythm of agentic coding?
    ×0.50 125 | 14 points by pauletienney 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why is my submission not visible if I am not logged in?
    ×0.81 152 | 4 points by beepbooptheory 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Which DNS based ad blocker do you suggest?
    ×0.15 153 | 4 points by SoftwareEn2 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Strait of Hormuz: A systems engineering view on the $20k drone threat
    ×0.18 156 | 3 points by BeyondTheMap 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
    ×2.23 10 #64 | 578 points by kilroy123 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (batsov.com)
    ×2.07 11 #78 | 196 points by psibi 19 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Vite 8.0 Is Out (vite.dev)
    ×3.36 2 | 540 points by kothariji 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.66 38 | 83 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Andrej Karpathy - AI Exposure of the US Job Market (karpathy.ai)
    ×2.31 42 | 3 points by dimamik 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Vibe-budget – CLI to estimate LLM costs before you start vibe coding (npmjs.com)
    ×1.16 109 | 4 points by gabriel_quec016 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites (benzimmermann.dev)
    ×0.82 55 #40 | 152 points by kernelrocks 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: orb-ui – Voice AI UI Components for React (Vapi, ElevenLabs, etc.) (orb-ui.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by alexanderqchen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: OpenClaw docs in Japanese, now open source (openclawdoc.org)
    ×1.46 132 | 4 points by mixfox 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I calculated sun/shade exposure for every seat at World Cup stadiums (seatsun.com)
    ×0.52 147 | 5 points by dkaragas 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Sunsetting Jazzband (jazzband.co)
    ×1.52 9 #17 | 105 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud (theguardian.com)
    ×4.06 71 | 103 points by danso 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites (satproto.org)
    ×1.87 54 | 410 points by remywang 2 days ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Cloud to Desktop in the Fastest Way (nativedesktop.com)
    ×0.57 155 | 3 points by lasgawe 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben (spiegel.de)
    ×2.24 18 #38 | 136 points by sebastian_z 7 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Ink – Deploy full-stack apps from AI agents via MCP or Skills (ml.ink)
    ×0.59 42 #45 | 25 points by august- 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. AI #159: See You in Court (thezvi.substack.com)
    ×2.09 | 2 points by paulpauper 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI (hostilevolume.com)
    ×0.92 6 #5 | 53 points by Velocifyer 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps (fb.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by y1n0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025) (88mph.fm)
    ×0.83 51 | 107 points by matteocantiello 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included (klausai.com)
    ×0.87 90 | 159 points by robthompson2018 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Algorithms and Data Structures in TypeScript – Free Book (~400 Pages) (amoilanen.github.io)
    ×1.06 64 | 65 points by jsontwikkeling 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Nmap in the movies (2008) (nmap.org)
    ×2.19 11 #21 | 132 points by homebrewer 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)
    ×4.34 2 #24 | 1089 points by meetpateltech 21 hours ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Hammerspoon (github.com/Hammerspoon)
    ×1.78 #76 | 333 points by tosh 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Reddit Post 3 (reddit.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by KaoruAK 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.48 18 | 4 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Anthrology – Time-Traveling Radio (anthrology.site)
    ×2.38 106 | 7 points by airstrike 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Marketing for Founders (github.com/EdoStra)
    ×2.11 5 #4 | 43 points by jimsojim 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cathars and Cathar Beliefs in the Languedoc (cathar.info)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Drift-guard – Protect your UI from AI agents' design drift
    ×0.53 | 1 points by stayicon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Please do not A/B test my workflow (backnotprop.com)
    ×2.77 61 | 153 points by ramoz 9 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I built Chronoscope, because Google Maps won't let you visit 3400 BCE (shiphappens.xyz)
    ×4.21 141 | 9 points by tinkeringtechie 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Wired headphone sales are exploding (bbc.com)
    ×3.24 17 #43 | 390 points by billybuckwheat 1 day ago | 646 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War with Iran Causes Chaos Online (nytimes.com)
    ×1.84 8 #72 | 8 points by saikatsg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I built an ISP infrastructure emulator from scratch with a custom vBNG (saphal.me)
    ×0.78 107 | 68 points by saphalpdyl 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit) (github.com/dougdonohoe)
    ×0.81 124 | 71 points by dougdonohoe 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Secure Secrets Management for Cursor Cloud Agents (infisical.com)
    ×0.55 55 #48 | 36 points by vmatsiiako 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.35 14 #49 | 668 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 590 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996) (mit.edu)
    ×0.58 48 #56 | 34 points by o4c 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube Like It's Cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
    ×1.93 49 | 73 points by speckx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics (github.com/obsessiondb)
    ×1.05 76 | 142 points by keks0r 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Bellingcat: The Osint Gatekeepers Who Can't Secure Their Own Site (ringmast4r.substack.com)
    ×2.82 49 | 5 points by mostcallmeyt 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Shall I implement it? No (github.com/bretonium)
    ×6.70 30 | 1535 points by breton 2 days ago | 554 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ceno, browse the web without internet access (ceno.app)
    ×1.03 52 | 128 points by mohsen1 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI (github.com/yuuichieguchi)
    ×0.75 116 | 27 points by yuu1ch13 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Pipechart – pipe any JSON into your terminal and get a chart, zero dependencies (github.com/davitotty)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Davitotty1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. DOOM fully rendered in CSS (bsky.app)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by ck2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com/drojaazu)
    ×0.95 29 #22 | 104 points by XzetaU8 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable (mit.edu)
    ×2.96 23 #26 | 276 points by inaros 4 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Microservices: Shackles on Your Feet (howtocenterdiv.com)
    ×1.44 3 #52 | 4 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: ZaneOps, A beautiful and fast self hosted alternative to Vercel (zaneops.dev)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by fredkisss 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Do you ship vibe coded apps with security issues? (usevibescore.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by terrythreatt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: DJX – Convention over Configuration for Django (Rails-Inspired CLI)
    ×1.72 121 | 5 points by RedsonNgwira 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Mesa – A collaborative canvas IDE built for agent-first development (getmesa.dev)
    ×4.83 96 | 15 points by visekr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. MCP Is Dead; Long Live MCP (chrlschn.dev)
    ×1.95 5 #1 | 50 points by CharlieDigital 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???