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  1. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×2.02 5 #21 | 82 points by mlaux 5 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]
    ×3.63 23 #27 | 63 points by minimaxir 2 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
    ×0.66 20 #40 | 16 points by tkdb 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.54 10 #41 | 19 points by shriy-singh 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.60 73 #58 | 8 points by sathomasga 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.74 30 #61 | 5 points by consumer451 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.55 103 #62 | 19 points by GustavHartz 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.54 58 | 4 points by cehgmaster 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.46 | 2 points by iambateman 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma
    ×1.74 50 | 4 points by vdfs 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.27 79 | 4 points by jviotti 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: LM Studio Bionic with Python?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by HoldOnAMinute 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×0.98 84 | 3 points by george_max 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by har-ki 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by par 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to secure your code and services?
    ×1.04 108 | 3 points by cpa 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Migrating personal email domain from Gmail to iCloud?
    ×1.53 113 | 4 points by osener 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
    ×0.94 112 | 153 points by semidror 4 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Where to look for jobs?
    ×2.04 119 | 5 points by 0x737368 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.20 131 | 5 points by esher 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by preommr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Does a startup need both founder and company X accounts?
    ×1.05 139 | 3 points by OnionLayers 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?
    ×1.08 140 | 3 points by ak39 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Folks familiar with infections after TKA
    ×0.94 144 | 3 points by zafka 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.42 126 | 22 points by phendrenad2 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?
    ×1.03 147 | 3 points by sarangk90 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.42 146 | 16 points by xnx 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.41 136 | 21 points by itsjeremiahs 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: PSA: AI can make old games run on 64-bit macOS
    ×0.95 99 | 5 points by Razengan 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. When Claude CLI asks for feedback, responding authorizes conversation capture
    ×0.62 151 | 25 points by mmaunder 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Understanding Runtime Governance for Enterprise AI Deployment
    ×0.10 153 | 4 points by thespotlessmind 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?
    ×0.28 158 | 10 points by kooldeep7 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?
    ×0.22 152 | 5 points by d675 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I Built a Wine Atlas
    ×0.43 157 | 5 points by keremiis 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?
    ×0.48 130 | 14 points by Hex08 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?
    ×0.59 137 | 11 points by mattm 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Which harness do you use with Qwen3.8 27B? And why?
    ×0.17 164 | 4 points by grigio 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Declarative vs. Imperative
    ×0.10 | 2 points by KenPainter 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why AI is booming, but productivity isn't (socialcapital.com)
    ×2.07 | 2 points by gmays 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Allow babywearing carriers on planes (jefftk.com)
    ×2.11 62 | 191 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers (medium.com)
    ×2.03 65 | 141 points by ArielSimon 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative (radius.to)
    ×1.08 118 | 169 points by radius89 5 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Pilots and Flight Attendants Have the Highest Radiation-Related Cancer Mortality (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.33 84 #63 | 5 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 2DWillNeverDie (2dwillneverdie.com)
    ×2.02 7 #79 | 327 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps (ahmedhossamdev.com)
    ×2.50 1 #84 | 415 points by ahmedhossamdev 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width (mesh.host)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by z-mach9 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Solon – Docker on Windows Without Docker Desktop or WSL (github.com/v94lere)
    ×2.33 16 | 4 points by v94lere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. LabConsole for live online IT training (gurulabs.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by 4onthefloor124 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: jevals – replacing LLM judges with typed Jev decisions (github.com/openlayer-ai)
    ×1.34 142 | 47 points by gbayomi 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. We All Hated Busy Work. Now That It's Disappearing, It Turns Out We Miss It (wsj.com)
    ×2.78 12 #37 | 3 points by talon8635 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OpenAI’s Systems Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (nytimes.com)
    ×3.75 15 #46 | 11 points by jbegley 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We're Gonna Need More Mathematicians (wordpress.com)
    ×1.88 62 #77 | 11 points by abiro 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI Is a Boring Technology (chrbutler.com)
    ×1.27 34 | 3 points by devonnull 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Hard Stop: Kernel-level preemption for autonomous AI agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by joseluispino 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Pics by Google (google.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by emmelaich 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems (berkeley.edu)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by nlpnerd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Modos E-Ink Screen Framework 13 Laptop (thingiverse.com)
    ×1.10 107 | 3 points by cittadhammo 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.50 23 #11 | 118 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer' (theregister.com)
    ×1.96 10 #47 | 55 points by whh 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers (usestable.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity (ft.com)
    ×2.59 33 | 151 points by Betelbuddy 14 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Xudanu – Nelson's Xanadu Gold, Working in Rust (xudanu.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by jgdgj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by Jtsummers 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. It Got to My Field (4gravitons.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by Hbruz0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Timebar, a Mac timer shown as a thin line below the menu bar (github.com/velvet-shark)
    ×1.12 128 | 6 points by sabon 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Custom Models in Oh My Pi: vLLM, Llama.cpp, SGLang and More (doug.sh)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by dougcalobrisi 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. New Zealand woman runs 1000 ultramarathons in 1000 days (rnz.co.nz)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by lostlogin 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Listen Up You Imposters (fuck-off.ai)
    ×2.40 35 | 3 points by gfody 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page (apeleg.com)
    ×0.90 51 | 83 points by emurlin 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: BuyerCue – Find potential customer by paid-placement evidence (buyercue.io)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by apsquared 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres (bbc.com)
    ×6.14 73 | 91 points by dabinat 6 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.02 72 | 89 points by speckx 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)
    ×0.65 105 | 66 points by hsfzxjy 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: InstinctFlash – High-Performance Serving Runtime for Robotics Models (github.com/General-Instinct)
    ×0.33 133 | 27 points by guanming0717 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Put a Run Button on the SQL in Your Blog Posts (seaquel.app)
    ×1.59 135 | 4 points by mikenikles 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer (github.com/bertaye)
    ×0.60 38 | 32 points by bertaye 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: PipeFitter – Quick, Browser-Based, Parametric Pipe Connectors (mankyd.github.io)
    ×1.38 132 | 4 points by mankyd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2 (safateam.com)
    ×0.74 55 #39 | 108 points by safateam 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. California is chasing wealth that has feet (landeconomics.org)
    ×2.64 10 #82 | 280 points by idbnstra 1 day ago | 811 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Smarter Than Yesterday (abovegradelevel.substack.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by barry-cotter 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Too Many Roads (maxmautner.com)
    ×1.80 23 | 3 points by mslate 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Gdocs-me-up: a high-fidelity Google Docs exporter (github.com/behdad)
    ×0.84 160 | 23 points by behdad 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
    ×1.58 7 #3 | 141 points by pancomplex 6 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Nokia Design Archive (2025) (aalto.fi)
    ×1.15 36 | 249 points by pillars 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Mdash as a Service (tsak.dev)
    ×3.46 70 | 15 points by tsak 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I made a WWI dogfight game that runs in the browser (gamedev.pl)
    ×1.32 92 | 3 points by fullstackwife 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Choreoglyphs – our new, invisible writing system (choreoglyphs.com)
    ×1.83 86 | 5 points by spython 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. First Principles Thinking (sunilsadasivan.com)
    ×1.62 13 #14 | 210 points by sunils34 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Deterministic Concurrency [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by surprisetalk 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Wallstreetclaws.com – Create AI Agents for Trading (wallstreetclaws.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by iceman_w 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???