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  1. DeepSeek launches v4.1 flash, postpones v4 Pro discontinuation
    ×0.10 | 2 points by Audiolite 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Anyone miss a flip phone with buttons? Anyone?
    ×0.17 54 | 3 points by wwolfson97 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.55 68 | 297 points by jmpman 4 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why can I only downvote select comments?
    ×0.70 56 | 6 points by socalgal2 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.69 66 | 312 points by imadtaieber 3 days ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.91 78 | 113 points by maxim-fin 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.35 79 | 7 points by mattm 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Next day thoughts on the millenium prize threads?
    ×0.53 100 | 3 points by seizethecheese 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.22 83 | 107 points by usernametaken29 4 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?
    ×0.57 76 | 7 points by julienreszka 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Reddit saves your keystrokes in text boxes
    ×1.64 65 | 17 points by thomasjeff1 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is there any solution to the AI infestation?
    ×0.46 101 | 4 points by yathern 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to know when Claude has changed model itself during processing?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by mfaisalghufran 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. FinOps for LLM Spend – why your bill has changed
    ×0.31 | 2 points by leanroute_ai 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×1.01 136 | 25 points by genekrapivin 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by simonsarris 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.34 73 | 34 points by rietta 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Is Google planning for Gemini 4 rather than 3.5 pro?
    ×1.64 116 | 4 points by Qhloi 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?
    ×0.73 131 | 6 points by locusofself 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What's your AI coding set up?
    ×0.97 64 | 6 points by asxndu 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.18 140 | 13 points by pkos98 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.43 142 | 6 points by chipfixer 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem in 2026?
    ×0.39 137 | 4 points by leonagano 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?
    ×0.52 134 | 5 points by websap 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.81 74 | 128 points by spwa4 2 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×0.90 141 | 17 points by UnderABlueMoon 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.48 138 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The universal programming language of LLMs
    ×0.48 135 | 5 points by senorqa 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.32 143 | 5 points by rogerrogerr 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps stealing my money
    ×0.57 119 | 11 points by dingdong2026 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?
    ×0.25 139 | 4 points by TomEleff 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I'm going back to coding by hand
    ×3.61 40 | 61 points by trencedamp 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Can I turn my part-time project into a full-time SaaS?
    ×1.14 113 | 4 points by Fotis-Karmpas 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now available for internal beta testing
    ×1.67 103 | 22 points by dares2573 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract (latimes.com)
    ×3.65 18 #41 | 198 points by dbg31415 12 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists (prospect.org)
    ×7.30 50 | 292 points by dn2k 19 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Version control second coming (psantosl.github.io)
    ×1.60 22 #37 | 90 points by bananaboy 6 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Shattered Pixel Dungeon v4.0.0 (shatteredpixel.com)
    ×2.24 58 #66 | 30 points by ErenayDev 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Flushing the toilet may release germ plume at adult face height (umn.edu)
    ×3.59 55 | 5 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Guarantee or accuracy: a CCAR-F question type (claudecertifiedarchitects.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by jockorules 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. India's EV Market Shaped by E-Rickshaws Built in Makeshift Workshops (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Home Hardware, Part 2: Width Matters (jessfraz.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Give your AI agent on-screen guides that show users where to click
    ×0.49 58 | 18 points by pancomplex 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.50 3 #74 | 476 points by _alternator_ 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. React 19.3: View Transitions and Fragment Refs are now stable (react.dev)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by joshcsimmons 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Reducing cost and improving performance with Claude Platform (claude.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by lumpa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Bounty Index ,compare public bug bounty programs across 6 platforms (bountyindex.in)
    ×1.07 117 | 3 points by axolotl619 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Wax – Record a program, change it then replay it (waxlang.dev)
    ×1.21 128 | 3 points by weichx 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast (thomasahle.com)
    ×1.17 11 #22 | 95 points by thomasahle 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. DeepSeek v4.1-Flash on Openrouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by manoji 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Open statistics for every Finnish postal code, with an MCP server (suomiatlas.com)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by itulo 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×2.77 #6 | 373 points by dmitrybrant 9 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Shopify acquires Tailwind (tailwindcss.com)
    ×3.92 4 #8 | 1046 points by EdwinHoksberg 21 hours ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. LeMap – Learning Enterprise Map (datasong.app)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by thallukrish 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. YC founders, I see you (finitynetwork.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. My Interesting Conversation with Jared Diamond (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by smitty1e 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Autark – a self bootstrapping build system (autark.dev)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by adamansky 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Crazy Cursor – Magical Particle Mouse Effects for Chrome (google.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by lucakk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A rated ladder for vibe coders – we rank the human, not the model (vibeladder.dev)
    ×1.23 96 | 4 points by alviso 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Be Using Rootless Containers (miguelgrinberg.com)
    ×1.44 16 #56 | 29 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. CXMT Pioneers Mass-Production of LPDDR6 (cxmt.com)
    ×1.29 45 #61 | 33 points by ENOMEM 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Playing whack-a-mole is losing (dadrian.io)
    ×0.63 32 #72 | 62 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Search engine may access the user's location without prompting them (googlesource.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by kozika 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Find your next client on X (opencreators.ai)
    ×1.42 67 | 4 points by zhangchen0411 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Impress your boss with interactive Scikit-Learn Decision Tree (github.com/mljar)
    ×1.63 114 | 5 points by pplonski86 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. WeWorm: The first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls (calif.io)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by lumpa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Some remarks on being stuck, with digressions on David Hockney (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by jger15 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound (wordpress.com)
    ×0.74 51 | 107 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Maxxwell – The IDE for Optimal Tokenmaxxing (maxxwell.dev)
    ×5.72 77 | 10 points by mserrano258 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Axonpush – Replay production agent failures in CI and fail the build (axonpush.xyz)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by sayanbiswas64 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014) (labguysworld.com)
    ×0.37 62 #53 | 20 points by userbinator 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. We accidentally built a synthetic cell factory (bnext.bio)
    ×0.83 24 #64 | 82 points by rajivm 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity? (nature.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by bookofjoe 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The two Christian saints who are the Buddha (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.62 20 | 246 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: GPT 6 Astra in Lanes (lanes.sh)
    ×2.74 99 | 5 points by s-xyz 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The UN challenges five centuries of cartography (not-ship.com)
    ×1.40 44 #29 | 105 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Coyote v. Acme (1990) (newyorker.com)
    ×1.22 36 #40 | 188 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: What is the proper way of preventing AI labs to use your private data
    ×0.79 | 1 points by ozgung 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Neuriva (facebook.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by rafygabu 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Are credit rating agencies getting fed up with hyperscalers? (ft.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by Betelbuddy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features (manualdousuario.net)
    ×5.77 23 | 710 points by rpgbr 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer (github.com/ayghri)
    ×2.80 9 | 533 points by domhudson 1 day ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America (twitter.com/SouthPark)
    ×8.14 8 | 257 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives (ieee.org)
    ×2.25 16 #10 | 355 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 622 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening (techradar.com)
    ×2.62 18 #35 | 6 points by geox 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please (hofstede.it)
    ×1.32 23 #38 | 164 points by birdculture 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The $2k Phone Should Be Free (victorantos.com)
    ×3.15 62 | 3 points by victorbuilds 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit (newyorker.com)
    ×3.96 59 | 560 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Larger Pacific Striped Octopus (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.03 6 #7 | 71 points by olalonde 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Use Vsock with Libzmq (remijouan.net)
    ×0.75 41 #43 | 46 points by remijouannet 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???