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  1. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.31 21 | 3 points by kwar13 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by arboles 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.59 14 | 1122 points by chaseadam17 2 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: (Your) Request for Startups?
    ×0.57 13 | 6 points by dontoni 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?
    ×1.28 64 | 22 points by boredemployee 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?
    ×0.21 110 | 4 points by azebazenestor 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News?
    ×0.45 93 | 8 points by ElectroNomad 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.49 97 | 27 points by causal 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why don't entrepreneurs talk about starting businesses publicly anymore?
    ×1.05 82 | 7 points by silexia 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.46 122 | 8 points by fdneng 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. SEL Deploy – Cryptographically chained deployment timeline
    ×0.11 | 2 points by chokriabouzid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.90 96 | 47 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.22 95 | 18 points by TazeTSchnitzel 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?
    ×0.35 132 | 6 points by xgstation 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong?
    ×0.34 137 | 3 points by terryjiang2020 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.40 138 | 17 points by rtrgrd 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key)
    ×0.13 141 | 3 points by Picknar 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.40 142 | 3 points by AGsist 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips?
    ×0.53 118 | 7 points by uejfiweun 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.30 136 | 12 points by jrs235 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.44 139 | 9 points by Poomba 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?
    ×2.73 45 | 44 points by jensmtg 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.47 140 | 14 points by incognito124 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
    ×0.81 133 | 15 points by mr-pink 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
    ×0.23 143 | 4 points by endorphine 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor (ekrsulov.github.io)
    ×0.57 59 #84 | 83 points by ekrsulov 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. MIT's Missing Semester Features Agentic Coding (mit.edu)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by kurinikku 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Nom – Turn GitHub activity into updates (nomit.dev)
    ×2.12 121 | 4 points by Lws803 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How microbes Got Their Crawl (Asgards: Origins of eukaryotes) (nytimes.com)
    ×1.41 29 #78 | 5 points by marojejian 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Agent skills to build photo, video and design editors on the web (github.com/imgly)
    ×1.44 79 | 3 points by hauschildt 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Mithril fork with Signals, state, store and SSR
    ×0.51 | 1 points by jvanveen 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content (theguardian.com)
    ×1.77 37 | 3 points by n1b0m 30 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Ghost OS – Let AI agents use your Mac, not just the terminal (github.com/ghostwright)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by mcheemaa 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection (theguardian.com)
    ×5.74 8 #11 | 212 points by Geekette 2 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The DOJ's Top Antitrust Officer Has Left as Lobbying Surges (jacobin.com)
    ×2.08 4 #48 | 18 points by wahnfrieden 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AI made coding more enjoyable (weberdominik.com)
    ×2.84 49 #65 | 82 points by domysee 4 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Chat with your Okta tenant directly from Slack (Open-source AI agent)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by danFctr 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The only moat left is money? (elliotbonneville.com)
    ×3.56 8 | 274 points by elliotbnvl 1 day ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted' (theguardian.com)
    ×3.34 4 | 83 points by xyzal 13 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
    ×3.11 59 | 481 points by dvrp 3 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users (pcmag.com)
    ×1.84 11 #32 | 11 points by ripe 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use (claude.com)
    ×4.26 17 #41 | 587 points by theahura 17 hours ago | 720 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: gwt-zsh – Stupidly simple Git worktree management (github.com/aasimsani)
    ×2.26 105 | 5 points by aasimsani 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (simonhalvdansson.github.io)
    ×0.40 111 | 41 points by swesnow 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Nedagram – Transfer Text Over Sound, when internet isn't available (nedagram.com)
    ×3.56 114 | 6 points by shayanbahal 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed] (microsoft.com)
    ×5.39 35 #87 | 341 points by anonymous908213 21 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. SpaceX's Starbase city is getting its own court (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by geox 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenClaw Is the Canary in the Coalmine (osohq.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by meghan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.77 49 #56 | 64 points by neogoose 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant) (github.com/DatanoiseTV)
    ×0.97 62 #85 | 126 points by sylwester 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium (github.com/HenryNdubuaku)
    ×0.83 90 | 88 points by HenryNdubuaku 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I Made a Programming Language with Python Syntax, zero-copy and C-Speed (github.com/CrimsonDemon567PC)
    ×1.01 107 | 10 points by CrimsonDemon567 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: LockFS (github.com/ghost-in-a-jar-00)
    ×1.60 131 | 3 points by 0xGhostInAJar 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Berkshire Hathaway reduces Apple stake as Warren Buffett officially retires (9to5mac.com)
    ×1.44 7 #74 | 6 points by ksec 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption (github.com/LadybirdBrowser)
    ×2.84 31 | 296 points by thewavelength 21 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down (reddit.com)
    ×3.27 6 | 93 points by switz 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron (github.com/kurouna)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by kurouna 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth (github.com/phreda4)
    ×0.68 66 #61 | 93 points by tosh 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild (googleblog.com)
    ×1.84 11 #69 | 369 points by idoxer 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock (finbold.com)
    ×4.38 23 | 160 points by fauria 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: OtherFunc – Serverless functions in Brainfuck, Forth, BASIC, and more (otherfunc.com)
    ×1.20 125 | 3 points by mdeeds 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: DovahScript – A language for the Thu'um-powered developer (github.com/basteez)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by basteez 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Against Theory-Motivated Experimentation (sagepub.com)
    ×0.42 42 #23 | 27 points by paraschopra 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I created a webapp to track the latest OpenClaw news (lobstersauce.news)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Tjerkienator 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (github.com/Zaneham)
    ×2.26 29 | 455 points by rurban 2 days ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.05 15 #43 | 8 points by lisper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A High Performance Neural Network for Energy-Efficient Copyright Violation [pdf] (raw.githubusercontent.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by em-tg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sanders and Newsom become adversaries over push to tax California billionaires (apnews.com)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by donsupreme 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: X402 Agent Starter Kit: AI agents that pay for their own APIs (gitlab.com)
    ×1.19 134 | 3 points by peiyaooo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (google.com)
    ×2.88 10 #19 | 182 points by MallocVoidstar 5 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI makes you boring (marginalia.nu)
    ×5.40 24 #25 | 339 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I created an app to remove Reels, now on iOS too (apple.com)
    ×1.70 65 | 4 points by adrianhacar 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A DuckDB-based metabase alternative (github.com/taleshape-com)
    ×1.23 45 #90 | 176 points by wowi42 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI (cpojer.net)
    ×1.12 50 | 110 points by cpojer 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Palantir partnership is at heart of Anthropic, Pentagon rift (semafor.com)
    ×1.87 8 | 3 points by everybodyknows 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: JeffTube (jmail.world)
    ×4.44 115 | 47 points by dvrp 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Malicious NPM Package Hides Pulsar .NET Malware Inside PNG Images (veracode.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by SamHoustonCM 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Git worktree manager for Niri (Wayland compositor) (github.com/nskha101)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by nithiiyan25 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents (georgeguimaraes.com)
    ×2.48 57 #51 | 119 points by ellieh 21 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.33 28 | 136 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed (stepfun.com)
    ×1.55 35 #33 | 194 points by kristianp 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked (404media.co)
    ×2.25 18 #40 | 14 points by latexr 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Google Public CA is down (pki.goog)
    ×2.95 38 | 277 points by aloknnikhil 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: The Answering Machine – A screenless AI phone for kids with questions (tdaltonc.github.io)
    ×4.77 98 | 8 points by tdaltonc 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory (github.com/sstraust)
    ×0.83 33 #28 | 58 points by sammy0910 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)
    ×3.28 8 #38 | 782 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Reproducing autonomous Super Mario play with a genetic algorithm (open source) (github.com/testflows)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by vfinix 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Google Translate – Google Search (google.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by iiipoi 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Helicobacter Pylori: A Nobel Pursuit? (nih.gov)
    ×1.07 13 #66 | 10 points by o4c 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: OctoFlow – A GPU-native programming language
    ×2.24 43 | 3 points by mr_octopus 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???