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  1. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×3.79 75 | 6 points by mc-0 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Cancelling Claude subscription renewal immediately revokes Design access
    ×0.39 | 2 points by o10449366 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.52 19 #69 | 437 points by mittermayr 2 days ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.47 44 | 1636 points by CliffStoll 3 days ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.18 64 | 4 points by tinnitus_crazy 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?
    ×0.30 97 | 3 points by nicku711 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT
    ×1.85 21 | 8 points by Jsttan 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Before Open Source took over the server, what was the discourse like?
    ×0.69 70 | 5 points by mbgerring 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How are folks affordably self-training in AI?
    ×0.51 79 | 7 points by macartain 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. LLM generated parsers and compliance checkers for Sparrow DSL
    ×0.27 101 | 3 points by melezhik 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is the underlying stack behind multi-agent platforms?
    ×0.29 107 | 3 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Reflections on NetBSD 11
    ×0.37 108 | 8 points by morpheos137 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.43 111 | 15 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?
    ×0.30 135 | 5 points by softneon 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.33 116 | 19 points by lishunsheng 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Can NPM, pnpm etc. use frontier models to check packages for malware?
    ×0.28 117 | 5 points by VikRubenfeld 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Novel macro signals for AI-related job loss?
    ×0.36 118 | 5 points by sfmz 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.73 112 | 134 points by idontwantthis 1 week ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.47 110 | 14 points by MetaWhirledPeas 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?
    ×0.55 104 | 9 points by shantnutiwari 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.49 136 | 14 points by alexyan0431 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs
    ×0.29 124 | 9 points by omertt27 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.31 128 | 18 points by Gooblebrai 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I caught the car (undecidability.net)
    ×0.74 34 #53 | 48 points by holden_nelson 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.98 58 | 304 points by bstrama 3 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents (allbsides.com)
    ×1.79 140 | 25 points by Parkado 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. France moves to break encrypted messaging (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.89 19 #49 | 240 points by Cider9986 16 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How LEDs are made (2014) (sparkfun.com)
    ×1.19 28 #50 | 138 points by smig0 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A construction of the Hat tilings by a Markov partition (dal.ca)
    ×0.32 61 #52 | 9 points by robinhouston 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved (programbench.com)
    ×4.15 134 | 23 points by lieret 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×0.67 35 #51 | 83 points by msephton 23 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI Agent Passport – an open identity standard for AI agents (github.com/StacyStarchum)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by Stacy_Starchum 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: AirScore – Daily air-quality emails synthesizing EPA, NOAA, and pollen (getairscore.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by JHARDIMAN 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Typing Is Being Replaced by Whispering–and It's More Annoying (wsj.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by cebert 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Global AI Diffusion in Q1 2026 – Microsoft (microsoft.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Akmon, a Rust AI coding agent for regulated engineering (github.com/radotsvetkov)
    ×1.26 18 | 3 points by radotsvetkov 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: UltraCompress – first mathematically lossless 5-bit LLM compression (github.com/sipsalabs)
    ×1.05 119 | 5 points by mounnar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Task Paralysis and AI (g5t.de)
    ×1.98 1 #17 | 83 points by MrGilbert 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (moq.dev)
    ×2.34 1 #62 | 493 points by atgctg 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (mozilla.org)
    ×2.65 46 #77 | 374 points by HieronymusBosch 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount (waltonfamilyfoundation.org)
    ×5.49 76 | 73 points by mgh2 6 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance (nytimes.com)
    ×4.06 31 | 52 points by susiecambria 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Ovlt – Lightweight Auth Server That Runs in ~20MB RAM (ovlt.tech)
    ×1.19 106 | 5 points by Shrpp 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Disputron – AI small claims court for petty disputes (disputron.ai)
    ×2.18 123 | 8 points by etaheri 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I made a vertical-pedalling bike with a novel drivetrain [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.83 100 | 26 points by tonyonodi 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)
    ×2.41 14 #85 | 393 points by homebrewer 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A Deeper Dive into the Proxima Centauri Swarm (centauri-dreams.org)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by JPLeRouzic 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Academic Research Skills for Claude Code (github.com/Imbad0202)
    ×1.86 43 | 3 points by arnon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.86 142 | 55 points by brettnbutter 1 week ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)
    ×2.43 18 #31 | 489 points by pretext 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. We asked 72 AI models which brands are best (peaktoken.ai)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by svensauleau 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Suits in 5 Nations Allege Apple Quashed "Watch Room" Competition (law.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Six Seven Six Seven
    ×1.17 | 2 points by babaeo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests (nhtsa.gov)
    ×2.50 41 | 90 points by amanaplanacanal 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally (github.com/ReviewStage)
    ×0.67 89 | 45 points by cpan22 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (colorado.edu)
    ×0.95 42 #82 | 104 points by geox 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Train your AI code review instincts (siftly.dev)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by svensauleau 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Pomotuimer – a dependency-free Pomodoro timer for your terminal (github.com/wtbates99)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by wtbates99 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.27 102 | 168 points by yunusabd 1 week ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. LUKSbox – Store sensitive files in the cloud without trusting the host (github.com/PentHertz)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by danborn26 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot (pages.casa)
    ×3.25 14 | 183 points by edent 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Discord Incident – Resolved (discordstatus.com)
    ×2.05 48 | 89 points by moelf 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Israel's AI targeting system: data from a phone become a death sentence (latimes.com)
    ×3.12 11 #43 | 16 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. ModelDocker – OpenRouter LLM Desktop Client (github.com/Skynet-Pro-Plus)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Skynetproplus1 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Sparse Cholesky Elimination Tree (reidatcheson.com)
    ×0.81 35 #37 | 36 points by selimthegrim 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. People Hate AI Art (mccue.dev)
    ×10.14 12 | 143 points by 3dedb728-3f77 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. What's a Mathematician to Do? (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.29 4 #3 | 37 points by ipnon 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback (rewildingmag.com)
    ×1.38 14 #8 | 26 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
    ×1.52 17 #27 | 129 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.45 146 | 44 points by 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Owl Alpha – A free closed-source model for agentic workloads (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by webninja 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Save the Taxi Drivers (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
    ×1.89 17 | 420 points by speckx 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why the Mars Probe went off course (1999) (ieee.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by s1291 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI Is Forcing CEOs to Make a Stark Choice: Lay Off Workers or Make Them Do More (wsj.com)
    ×3.82 70 | 8 points by gpi 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mapping every European defence tech SME (defencejobs.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by omikk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
    ×1.51 1 | 219 points by mufeedvh 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" (cyberinsider.com)
    ×5.96 7 #48 | 598 points by muse900 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
    ×2.16 5 #86 | 508 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Nayuta Space Is Building Bellyflopping Rocket Boosters (china-in-space.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by JPLeRouzic 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: tltv – Federation protocol for 24/7 TV channels (timelooptv.org)
    ×1.61 113 | 6 points by tltv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend (piruet.app)
    ×1.37 130 | 71 points by patillacode 1 week ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)
    ×0.68 27 #78 | 60 points by zdw 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Changing Role of Low-Fidelity (LoFi) Signals in the AI Era (microsoft.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by nirwandogra 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Midori Sync: Midori is the first Gecko-based browser to have its own Sync (astian.org)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by ponchale 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Local privilege escalation via execve() (freebsd.org)
    ×1.65 17 #21 | 189 points by Deeg9rie9usi 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. "openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (bsky.app)
    ×2.96 18 #45 | 24 points by ndr42 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023) (kutilek.de)
    ×0.89 39 #68 | 74 points by tangus 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Selvedge – an MCP server that captures why AI agents change code (selvedge.sh)
    ×0.97 147 | 4 points by masondelan 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Random tie knots (2014) (tieknots.how)
    ×0.32 73 #61 | 18 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???