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  1. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.61 47 #39 | 251 points by mlaux 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by SMAAART 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.48 69 | 28 points by shriy-singh 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
    ×0.43 76 | 20 points by tkdb 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.43 89 | 11 points by sathomasga 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.91 83 | 12 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.50 81 | 26 points by GustavHartz 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. How to Freelance Now?
    ×0.82 67 | 10 points by Alexadar 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.34 103 | 5 points by cehgmaster 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×0.66 105 | 5 points by george_max 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.34 101 | 6 points by jviotti 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.15 | 2 points by iambateman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma
    ×1.15 99 | 6 points by vdfs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: LM Studio Bionic with Python?
    ×0.38 121 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?
    ×0.44 125 | 3 points by har-ki 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by par 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.46 129 | 18 points by xnx 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to secure your code and services?
    ×0.78 122 | 4 points by cpa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Indie hackers on X (Twitter) feels like a mega bubble these days
    ×1.88 77 | 8 points by sankalpdomore 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.23 130 | 6 points by esher 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.43 119 | 22 points by itsjeremiahs 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.43 110 | 23 points by phendrenad2 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Migrating personal email domain from Gmail to iCloud?
    ×0.80 127 | 4 points by osener 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Where to look for jobs?
    ×1.49 117 | 6 points by 0x737368 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription?
    ×0.81 137 | 4 points by preommr 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does a startup need both founder and company X accounts?
    ×0.62 149 | 3 points by OnionLayers 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?
    ×1.01 139 | 4 points by ak39 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Folks familiar with infections after TKA
    ×0.61 154 | 3 points by zafka 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?
    ×1.40 136 | 5 points by sarangk90 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?
    ×0.27 147 | 10 points by kooldeep7 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Understanding Runtime Governance for Enterprise AI Deployment
    ×0.10 155 | 4 points by thespotlessmind 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?
    ×0.21 150 | 5 points by d675 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Details of how Tumbler Ridge mass shooter used ChatGPT (cbc.ca)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by Alien1Being 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled (lemonde.fr)
    ×6.46 25 | 90 points by thibaut_barrere 18 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. First Principles Thinking (sunilsadasivan.com)
    ×1.63 3 | 281 points by sunils34 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Amiga Screens: A Primer (datagubbe.se)
    ×1.16 52 | 139 points by msephton 2 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization
    ×17.92 67 | 68 points by lorenzomassaro 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News (authorsguild.org)
    ×7.04 83 | 9 points by papergirl 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Citizenship Restored (2023) (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward (movingimagearchive.com)
    ×1.39 19 #9 | 155 points by momentmaker 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Watch all the AI agents on your machine (github.com/markwylde)
    ×0.95 160 | 7 points by turblety 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Friends embark on 20-year board game battle (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by erehweb 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Solomon's Paradox (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by thelastgallon 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade (tuckerosman.com)
    ×1.65 26 #42 | 152 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles (adekau.github.io)
    ×0.86 59 #66 | 75 points by cebert 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Eikos - OSS Jev-like model (github.com/caiovicentino)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by emersonrsantos 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Eliza Effect (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by extr0pian 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance (mit.edu)
    ×3.61 7 | 257 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy (economist.com)
    ×2.97 21 | 201 points by runeks 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Yes, Claude can do nine loops (anthropic.com)
    ×2.74 37 | 103 points by tzury 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe (economist.com)
    ×2.45 20 #47 | 182 points by vinni2 16 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon's ocean (theguardian.com)
    ×1.90 1 | 4 points by saikatsg 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: CubeLV – AI that designs your automation before building it (cubelv.com)
    ×1.39 153 | 4 points by qqrun 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Encryption as a Service (rypt.dev)
    ×0.98 126 | 3 points by levidurfee 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Choreoglyphs – our new, invisible writing system (choreoglyphs.com)
    ×1.72 109 | 5 points by spython 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ten Years of the Creative Independent (thecreativeindependent.com)
    ×2.04 18 | 4 points by cookingoils 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini (nyaa.sh)
    ×1.60 12 | 282 points by hugh4life 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike (motherjones.com)
    ×7.37 62 | 57 points by cdrnsf 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
    ×1.02 82 | 149 points by florianstandhar 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (ranum.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by mashally 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. What the 'recent invention' of reading does to our brains (rnz.co.nz)
    ×0.60 42 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nom Army: Don't trust coding agents when they say they're done (github.com/rayson-tech)
    ×1.41 26 | 3 points by RaysonTech 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Trader News – Hacker News for Finance
    ×1.89 98 | 25 points by FailMore 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A $25 DIY alternative to $159 AI voice recorders – BYOK or local (zephclick.com)
    ×4.15 107 | 11 points by shmlkv 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Rig – Open-source cloud desktops for AI agents (github.com/ShadowWalker2014)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by fengjiabo2400 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
    ×3.76 6 #8 | 129 points by kspacewalk2 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators (basin.la)
    ×1.48 1 #30 | 99 points by big_toast 12 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A new world airport and its baggage (computer.rip)
    ×1.20 36 #74 | 70 points by firloop 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Valley fever spreading to Central Valley cities, linked to oil drilling (latimes.com)
    ×2.27 26 | 4 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Try SpikeUI (for free) and make .exe apps the easy way (nimoxi.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by Caronte3D 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I'm tired of being on the network (matduggan.com)
    ×3.16 38 | 141 points by sagacity 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)
    ×0.66 94 | 67 points by hsfzxjy 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview (mgrebler.substack.com)
    ×1.27 9 #25 | 27 points by fagnerbrack 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers (castle-engine.io)
    ×1.27 28 #26 | 167 points by birdculture 21 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview (doom-or-bloom.com)
    ×1.17 64 | 56 points by transitivebs 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Perfectly Replicating Red Bull Then Making It Caffeine-Free [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by gw32 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Clue Me – Describe the word you're given, Jev tries to guess it (yorohan.com)
    ×1.04 142 | 5 points by rohanm93 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
    ×1.76 15 | 3 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Online Sound Meter (asoundmeter.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by artiomartiom 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Ppgrid – Rasterising points in minutes, not hours (mrzk.io)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by marzukia 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.62 6 | 854 points by MitPitt 3 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (floci.io)
    ×1.57 21 #37 | 174 points by theanonymousone 23 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell (microsoft.com)
    ×2.18 16 #63 | 261 points by luispa 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The 1783 sheep, duck and rooster balloon flight as a WebGL diorama (echohive.ai)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by echohive42 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Blender Copilot (github.com/XEonAX)
    ×2.72 66 | 6 points by xeonax 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I'm crawling 11k homepages every week to track which fonts they use (fontsovertime.com)
    ×0.70 148 | 4 points by fcjr 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (righto.com)
    ×1.38 11 #14 | 71 points by pwg 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue (francisbach.com)
    ×0.95 4 #23 | 22 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Cocytus – an esolang where freezes after N accesses (github.com/fireside25a-beep)
    ×1.08 79 | 3 points by natgrish 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. You don't have to choose. You don't have to win or lose
    ×0.94 | 1 points by ijjbvghij 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???