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  1. Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?
    ×0.57 16 | 5 points by s3arch 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How concerned are you about a debt crisis?
    ×2.78 60 | 6 points by bhag2066 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?
    ×0.11 80 | 4 points by kaycebasques 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services
    ×0.07 | 2 points by m3047 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak?
    ×0.27 77 | 5 points by virgildotcodes 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
    ×0.21 86 | 5 points by js98 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.43 68 | 175 points by srameshc 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.42 94 | 15 points by mjb8086 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. "Subligence" – proposed coinage for LLM "intelligence"
    ×0.29 93 | 4 points by akiarie 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.99 105 | 35 points by 0rganize 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.89 101 | 56 points by summonerOS 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. What I learned from tinkering with programming languages in the last 34 days
    ×0.12 121 | 3 points by alonsovm44 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.23 109 | 9 points by paulf38 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?
    ×0.13 127 | 3 points by bridgettegraham 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.58 115 | 31 points by sergiotapia 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Gemini 3.5 Flash breaks in stupid ways
    ×0.59 102 | 8 points by XCSme 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers
    ×5.90 28 | 116 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is HN Blocking Mullvad VPN?
    ×0.13 136 | 3 points by burger_moon 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anyone else struggling with AI and work?
    ×0.45 111 | 7 points by carlgreene 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are there any social media sites that are AI positive?
    ×1.19 119 | 7 points by amichail 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready?
    ×0.16 150 | 3 points by kasnaka 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI?
    ×0.31 145 | 5 points by deku2099 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How to manage AI APIs for SaaS application?
    ×0.23 148 | 4 points by sbinnee 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Can one run AI on source code with the prompt "Find below-avg swear rate files"?
    ×0.12 146 | 3 points by pcwir 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
    ×2.30 18 | 257 points by bojta-lepenye 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark (modelrift.com)
    ×1.82 12 #16 | 366 points by jetter 17 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent (deepseek.com)
    ×4.17 17 #33 | 338 points by Tiberium 12 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI keeps inventing fake cases. Lawyers keep citing them (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.10 1 #52 | 49 points by voxadam 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Pablo – a Chrome extension that copies UI from any website (usepablo.dev)
    ×1.13 46 #77 | 20 points by rayansaleh 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Shelf – Describe a tool in plain English, get a local app forever (getmyshelf.app)
    ×1.17 31 | 3 points by nagabandaru 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation (fatgid.io)
    ×0.72 60 #89 | 103 points by WhyNotHugo 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The commencement speech that shook the world (idiallo.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by shaunpud 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.33 24 #18 | 101 points by Brajeshwar 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
    ×1.73 76 #80 | 195 points by louiereederson 2 days ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The SpaceX IPO filing is filled with AI bets, Starship dreams (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by dotcoma 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Being oncall taught me everything (yaoyue.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by RyeCombinator 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I Need Help (substack.substack.com)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by melissamcguckin 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.11 17 #28 | 750 points by janandonly 17 hours ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT (phys.org)
    ×2.99 8 #44 | 29 points by hyrix 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds (theguardian.com)
    ×4.77 20 | 246 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×0.94 75 | 92 points by mrkn1 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence (businessinsider.com)
    ×5.91 44 #65 | 605 points by signa11 19 hours ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. My Hermes and Obsidian Setup and Use Cases (metedata.substack.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Charm – on-device spelling, grammar, and prediction for macOS (theodorehq.com)
    ×0.64 96 | 3 points by theodorehq 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Physics AI – Visualizing physics problems with step-by-step derivations (physicsai.chat)
    ×0.82 138 | 3 points by vansbree 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Google Is Killing ChromeOS: Aluminium OS, Its Android-Based Replacement (techjournal.org)
    ×2.52 7 #8 | 9 points by pabs3 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. YAML? That's Norway Problem (lab174.com)
    ×0.89 5 #51 | 31 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Culture of Childhood: We've Almost Destroyed It (petergray.substack.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by rendx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Spud – cross-platform remote control, optimised for gaming (github.com/xfoa)
    ×0.88 149 | 6 points by foax 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada (bbc.com)
    ×2.83 35 #88 | 154 points by JumpCrisscross 15 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. It is time to build a new internet (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.38 35 | 73 points by mrmarket 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta) (silentshark.app)
    ×1.37 64 | 121 points by epaga 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: PocketWebTools – Private AI tools that run in the browser (pocketweb.tools)
    ×1.24 133 | 4 points by shafkathullah 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Circle Medical (YC S15) Is Hiring a Mobile Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ontology vs. Semantic Layer (lowhangingdata.com)
    ×1.46 55 #69 | 6 points by mryagerr 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
    ×3.02 44 | 673 points by zambelli 3 days ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Glimpse, Markdown reader using Apple's on-device foundation model (apple.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by duman 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
    ×2.80 6 #75 | 553 points by apwheele 1 day ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. London Mayor Blocks Palantir (theguardian.com)
    ×5.82 25 | 193 points by ZiiS 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: AI Guided 3D atomic orbital simulation (plumocracy.com)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by plumocracy 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Why Japanese companies do so many different things (davidoks.blog)
    ×2.44 8 #2 | 557 points by d0ks 13 hours ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation (1940airterminal.org)
    ×0.88 25 #19 | 101 points by weaponeer 11 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.90 45 #23 | 36 points by Vaslo 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Instant YouTube channel analysis using public metrics
    ×0.33 | 1 points by Aafy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide (wired.com)
    ×2.71 21 | 249 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Generate free golf yardage books from OpenStreetMap data (npilk.github.io)
    ×1.04 73 | 4 points by npilk 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Coder Words – An offline-first PWA word puzzle for programmers (kenamick.com)
    ×1.33 67 | 4 points by p2detar 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cleve Moler has died (mathworks.com)
    ×1.91 33 #37 | 275 points by mychele 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses (theverge.com)
    ×4.12 57 #83 | 165 points by robertkarl 11 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. WebFinder for Tailscale (zeulewan.github.io)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by zeulewan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. FigMirror – Plot your data in a reference paper's style (github.com/VILA-Lab)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by xiaohan_zhao 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Shunning AI is the human choice (thehandbasket.co)
    ×5.68 6 | 366 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Vince Is Dead (2023) (tildas.org)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by kniffy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Notiqo – Visual analytics tracking validation directly from Figma (notiqoapp.com)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by abeltarazona 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com/helvesec)
    ×1.01 41 | 182 points by shideneyu 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation (ieee.org)
    ×0.82 71 | 79 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)
    ×2.72 15 #66 | 618 points by sofumel 1 day ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Agent Substrate (github.com/agent-substrate)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by ahmedtd 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Shocker: Docker implemented in ~300 lines of bash (github.com/traceypooh)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by traceypooh 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: ChangeSpec is an open specification for software change communication (github.com/changespec)
    ×1.36 134 | 4 points by cdnsteve 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Perplexity Bumblebee: Read-Only Tool for Dev Supply Chain Checks on macOS/Linux (github.com/perplexityai)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by 882542F3884314B 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Making of Indian Statistics (altermag.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by trojanalert 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map (openculture.com)
    ×2.35 33 | 115 points by leopoldj 14 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
    ×2.19 83 | 324 points by stephenlthorn 4 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Domain-Camouflaged Injection Attacks Evade Detection in Multi-Agent LLM Systems (arxiv.org)
    ×0.62 41 #36 | 35 points by sbulaev 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Waiting for AI Grand Prix racing SIM? Me too So I made one (github.com/elodin-sys)
    ×1.97 | 2 points by danAtElodin 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Megalodon: Mass GitHub Repo Backdooring via CI Workflows (safedep.io)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Is the Government Running a Dragnet on VPN Users? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by Cider9986 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Microcodegen.py – PRD → FastAPI app, one file, no LLM calls (github.com/Anioko)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by anioko1 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: HEVCut, AVIF photo encoding for iPhone, iPad and Mac (apple.com)
    ×0.80 103 | 3 points by alepacheco-dev 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???