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  1. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×1.05 34 #68 | 47 points by Ixander 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
    ×0.38 98 | 3 points by le_curious 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is the most obscure book you own?
    ×0.97 87 | 5 points by Kovah 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.82 124 | 572 points by IvanK_net 5 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.43 82 | 770 points by lukehandcool 3 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. A hub that controls all your coding agents in one place
    ×0.42 118 | 3 points by mubashir1osmani 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.90 104 | 415 points by mariocesar 5 days ago | 652 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I don't think image containers supporting both lossless and lossy is good
    ×0.79 108 | 4 points by functionmouse 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?
    ×0.29 94 | 6 points by dsrtslnd23 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
    ×0.54 125 | 22 points by lgregg 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Vibecoded 3D Game Running on Veda OS
    ×0.15 132 | 3 points by vahmoh25 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×1.31 148 | 8 points by Kamabz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Pre-AI, did you think harder? Or are you thinking more (and better) now?
    ×1.17 115 | 3 points by rishikeshs 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting
    ×0.63 140 | 7 points by tsydenzhap 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How would you go about domain change and getting a job in the domain?
    ×0.22 145 | 4 points by joddystreet 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×1.36 139 | 9 points by dfps 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×0.75 152 | 7 points by coherenttemple 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. All startups need is distribution
    ×0.82 134 | 9 points by relaxfolio 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Resources for best practices in software development with AI?
    ×0.75 142 | 7 points by sergio-gdr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.36 185 | 35 points by onemiketwelve 6 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Will Microsoft sue vibe coded wordcraft for copying its Word GUI?
    ×0.73 136 | 3 points by amichail 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Open source software is slowly turning into open slop software
    ×0.62 123 | 6 points by theonly1me 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.56 153 | 7 points by sankde 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: MS Outlook login without an extra email address
    ×0.22 180 | 3 points by narevent 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.75 169 | 15 points by consumer451 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How do Lightroom/DxO achieve such good AI denoising results?
    ×0.16 187 | 3 points by febed 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.49 182 | 11 points by hanstyle 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.50 176 | 9 points by fragmede 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Does YC use AI agents to review your pitch?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by AravPhi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.81 192 | 13 points by thelastgallon 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.49 190 | 12 points by bigwheels 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?
    ×0.44 188 | 5 points by dfps 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×0.85 198 | 10 points by amichail 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×0.99 200 | 18 points by saimiam 5 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.67 203 | 13 points by Crontab 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×0.98 184 | 14 points by scoofy 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.24 205 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.64 204 | 6 points by bigmattystyles 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.02 177 | 41 points by trencedamp 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Artificial Insanity (richwhitehouse.com)
    ×2.54 42 | 59 points by leglock 8 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Let's Encrypt on an HP LaserJet M553, Renewed from a Proxmox Container (ryjones.org)
    ×1.01 131 | 4 points by RyJones 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Rezoom – one chat list for all your Claude Code sessions (github.com/BEX-Robotics)
    ×1.01 144 | 4 points by bugpower 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)
    ×1.56 10 #4 | 33 points by subset 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: LLMxRay an open-source observability tool for LLMs (github.com/LogneBudo)
    ×0.39 128 #65 | 4 points by lognebudo 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. American Academy of Pediatrics renews call for ban on raw milk (cspi.org)
    ×3.63 31 | 8 points by geox 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I made an agent can self-improving while working (yehuitang0316.github.io)
    ×1.92 29 | 5 points by yt1998 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector (github.com/akawashiro)
    ×0.89 163 | 62 points by a_kawashiro 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Sibuna an open source web application firewall with proof of work (github.com/insanai)
    ×0.92 179 | 4 points by vikrantrathore 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 (github.com/anupray95)
    ×0.88 161 | 33 points by anupray 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter (momo5502.com)
    ×1.83 39 #22 | 185 points by davikr 18 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Multi-agent harnesses need separate message channels (harshalgajjar.com)
    ×0.98 108 #58 | 8 points by harshalgajjar 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Flock: A Flock of Birds in your Browser (nicobrenner.github.io)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by nico 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: tgv: Genome viewer for you and your agents (github.com/zeqianli)
    ×1.22 196 | 4 points by lzqqqqqq 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Drune – Personalize your AI and use it anywhere (drune.ai)
    ×0.32 | 1 points by vskalyan 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tandem Himalaya Server S7000
    ×0.76 | 2 points by combarbala 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser (quake-srp.pages.dev)
    ×1.94 110 | 239 points by ilreb 2 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute (github.com/TerseAI)
    ×0.62 167 | 52 points by thomask1995 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)
    ×2.19 3 #73 | 454 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Multi-Agent Bug Fix Pipeline: Architecture of Role Separation (github.com/Mininglamp-OSS)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by ElenaDaibunny 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments (scottbezek.blogspot.com)
    ×1.37 122 | 221 points by scottbez1 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Babytalk: Offline speech to text and text to speech on ESP32 (github.com/tlack)
    ×1.38 162 | 14 points by tlack 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Whatever became of holography? (2011) (americanscientist.org)
    ×0.77 7 #2 | 97 points by cainxinth 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)
    ×1.44 33 #23 | 174 points by kartik017 16 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Sightline – In-browser verification for CV dataset labels (No cloud uploads) (europe-west2.run.app)
    ×1.45 42 | 3 points by joshuageoschool 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
    ×3.27 84 | 103 points by astlouis44 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.01 14 #66 | 8 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Codesmith's flagship open source project compromised, thousands at risk (deepwoodssec.com)
    ×2.14 16 | 5 points by michaelnovati 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A Chromium browser you drive with HTTP requests (no Selenium) (github.com/techxcelerate)
    ×0.76 119 | 3 points by nitikshkumar 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Shpyrd – A new type of cloud for AI era (shpyrd.io)
    ×2.36 59 | 7 points by patricknegri 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Free LED pixel-pitch and display-size calculators (open source) (boardsy.co.uk)
    ×1.07 158 | 5 points by Boardsy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE (tommyb3ll.github.io)
    ×0.69 51 #27 | 38 points by jgx0 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com/rociiu)
    ×1.50 50 | 323 points by rociiu 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Computers Cannot Make Decisions (cateat.fish)
    ×2.08 81 | 208 points by heavensteeth 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I made a TV game console inside an antenna plug (raytriangle.com)
    ×1.88 194 | 5 points by pst723 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. IRCv3 (ircv3.net)
    ×2.44 4 #35 | 367 points by basilikum 18 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity (vt.edu)
    ×1.48 77 | 183 points by gmays 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Takeshi's Castle (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.29 76 | 113 points by tosh 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos (wordminos.com)
    ×0.85 174 | 23 points by dyarosla 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests (phys.org)
    ×1.86 74 #45 | 68 points by optimalsolver 16 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)
    ×2.01 73 | 424 points by simplyalec 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB (pivotlake.io)
    ×2.67 186 | 15 points by dkgs 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: OpenWants – A Simulated City Where AI Agents Handle Residents Needs (openwants.com)
    ×1.80 171 | 6 points by ddaniel10 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: A functioning Celery Man computer (celeryman.fun)
    ×2.06 143 | 11 points by turtlesoup 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
    ×2.65 13 #63 | 609 points by Michelangelo11 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How Protein Took over the World (ft.com)
    ×1.34 101 | 82 points by thm 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Free website speed audit with real Lighthouse metrics (sazm.in)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by sabayrid 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.79 83 | 414 points by franze 2 days ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline? (mdelcaro.substack.com)
    ×1.45 8 #78 | 30 points by fathermarz 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. European Alternatives (buy-european.net)
    ×3.87 52 #86 | 131 points by doener 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
    ×3.19 31 #87 | 769 points by modinfo 2 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???