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  1. Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law
    ×1.31 10 #49 | 34 points by niklas_anzinger 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.44 68 #87 | 369 points by david927 2 days ago | 1168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x
    ×0.43 | 2 points by Marciok 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
    ×0.43 67 | 8 points by learner_yearner 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker because of AI?
    ×1.07 59 | 11 points by rizsyed1 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. We struggled with DevOps, so built a open source agentic platform just for this
    ×0.12 | 2 points by abmuhammadhamza 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A mnemonic-free wallet where the private key never leaves the phone's TEE
    ×0.21 107 | 3 points by niumeta_TZ 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27
    ×0.50 88 | 13 points by lucasoshiro 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.66 121 | 11 points by rylando 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Started Learning Pentesting
    ×0.18 138 | 3 points by muzan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock
    ×0.11 | 2 points by timedude 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.41 110 | 16 points by amichail 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×2.12 82 | 72 points by nunez 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down
    ×0.23 114 | 4 points by alt_tab 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. SuperColoring – a simple crossword generator for learning and fun
    ×0.28 127 | 3 points by irusik 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Where is all of the AI coded software?
    ×0.83 98 | 7 points by wNjdbfm 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Working on Plug and Play personal AI Memory that works across AI agents
    ×0.30 134 | 3 points by heysrb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why 17?
    ×0.67 103 | 6 points by tonyvince7 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.18 139 | 4 points by Aditya_0315 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.85 106 | 61 points by stikit 4 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.36 137 | 11 points by mondobe 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent (theregister.com)
    ×4.33 52 | 228 points by throwworhtthrow 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Berlin-based Langdock moves its parent company from the US to Germany (euronews.com)
    ×1.84 11 #39 | 47 points by jethronethro 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How big are factorials? (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.78 26 #31 | 78 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (apple.com)
    ×2.64 3 #51 | 491 points by imwally 20 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. God's Eye View (github.com/bilawalsidhu)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by simonebrunozzi 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing (lispbm.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by so-cal-schemer 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Padwan-LLM, a lightweight LLM Python client (github.com/polarsen-io)
    ×1.26 46 | 3 points by Orelus 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Async multi-agent coordination across physical environments (github.com/BlahBlah23406)
    ×1.27 131 | 3 points by BlahBlah23406 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
    ×2.03 3 #5 | 323 points by signa11 6 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs (ploeh.dk)
    ×1.92 6 #52 | 225 points by moneroloop2018 13 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×3.42 5 | 311 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: YOLO FPS-per-dollar numbers for edge AI boards ($75-$215) (github.com/chorylee)
    ×1.65 61 | 4 points by chorylee 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (microsoft.com)
    ×2.38 #9 | 95 points by soheilpro 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Artemis II Launch 35mm High Speed Film (01.apr.2026) (nasa.gov)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by HelloUsername 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Racing driver is about to race 100 karts at once (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Linux Doctor – read-only health checks that explain what's wrong (github.com/zShaD0w7x)
    ×5.00 94 | 10 points by 7sh1d0w7x 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: FlareDB – a Rust-based streaming database with Apache Beam as interface
    ×0.91 | 2 points by ganeshsivakumar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Destroying Humanity Is Against the Law (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.61 8 | 3 points by samizdis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Characterizing ~375 GB Kimi K2.5 on a 128 GB Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 PC (zenodo.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by NHApplied 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)
    ×1.75 13 #25 | 113 points by vertigoruntime 7 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (notnottalmud.substack.com)
    ×4.67 8 #74 | 1113 points by networked 1 day ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all (heise.de)
    ×2.57 13 #80 | 29 points by Topfi 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. iTerm2 Buddy – iTerm2 Companion App (iterm2.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by hmokiguess 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it (thenextweb.com)
    ×4.37 32 | 146 points by cwwc 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
    ×1.04 18 #14 | 169 points by bananaflag 8 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. House Defies Automakers and Mandates AM Radio in New Cars (wsj.com)
    ×3.67 23 #72 | 7 points by fortran77 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)
    ×1.01 48 #76 | 111 points by natolambert 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Claude.md is good for taste and project context.It's a weak place for invariants (tesseracted-labs-blog.vercel.app)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by kkm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Can we stop with the uptime percentages? (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.09 20 #45 | 126 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. waterfall: Induction Proofs in Lean (samth.github.io)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by matt_d 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What we learned from our traces (traces.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by sriharis 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Warp – Run DeepSeek v4.1 Flash with 5 GB of RAM at 3.77 tok/s (github.com/sqliteai)
    ×4.38 90 | 12 points by marcobambini 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I ported COLMAP (photogrammetry) to the browser in WASM and WebGPU (offlinetools.io)
    ×1.38 128 | 3 points by rsp1984 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Claude Meter – a macOS menu-bar meter for Claude's usage limits (github.com/sanchitkd)
    ×1.27 130 | 3 points by sanchitkd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Eulix - Code navigation for large codebases
    ×1.97 109 | 5 points by Nurysso 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Rewic – Turn Git commits into client-ready progress updates (rewic.in)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by jenilrs176 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.16 53 #79 | 157 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Arrow 2 and Arrow 2 Telos (quiver.ai)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model (poltora.dev)
    ×1.54 56 | 179 points by poltora 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: OmnisBench, a re-gradable, open LLM routing benchmark on fresh tasks (github.com/Fortitude-Group)
    ×1.09 79 | 3 points by fortitudedev 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: DaiDocs, AI memory as a plain-text file format, not a service (github.com/Kerneta)
    ×1.64 96 | 7 points by Amin_Rigi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.42 10 #15 | 160 points by mococa 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Rhythm of Your Breath Leaves a Fingerprint on Your Thoughts (nautil.us)
    ×1.61 22 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped (josprague.com)
    ×1.08 42 | 154 points by yosito 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? (tintotint.eu)
    ×1.48 53 | 142 points by _ZeD_ 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (enclave.ai)
    ×2.52 14 #57 | 152 points by talhof8 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview (marc.info)
    ×0.92 43 | 123 points by sippingabonedry 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step (github.com/awlevin)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by rahimnathwani 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant (2013) (davidgraeber.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by fnoef 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: An MCP server that lets AI agents create, send and analyze surveys (zigpoll.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by jason_zig 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (effort.news)
    ×4.85 13 #81 | 669 points by yusufozkan 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Write Linters and Tools Before Code (cookie.engineer)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by cookiengineer 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Panel – A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes (github.com/greentfrapp)
    ×0.48 69 | 51 points by greentfrapp 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A chess analyzer that runs in the browser (github.com/huytd)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by huydotnet 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: TabPFN-3.5, a Tabular Foundation Model for messy real-world tables (priorlabs.ai)
    ×4.50 93 | 9 points by onasta 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com/GraafHenk)
    ×1.34 46 #70 | 174 points by Liogra123 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Model Misalignment Reporting Framework (openai.com)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by raahelb 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Put an AI agent on a FaceTime audio/video call (open source, WebRTC) (github.com/cherthq)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by garygao 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Introducing System One Models and Jev (typesafe.ai)
    ×6.62 10 #36 | 1779 points by albelfio 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Better routing, probe fixes, plugin updates in Freenet/Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1507 (hyphanet.org)
    ×0.31 55 #90 | 18 points by ArneBab 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ms. Rachel on Gaza Controversy, YouTube Fame, and Her New Album (rollingstone.com)
    ×1.53 1 | 3 points by ledoge 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Open-1B: the first model you don't have to trust (gensyn.ai)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by modinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. An air taxi that floats: Regent's Seaglider takes flight with people on board (smartcitiesdive.com)
    ×1.53 21 | 3 points by rmason 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary (reutersconnect.com)
    ×11.66 8 | 316 points by Markoff 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents (openai.com)
    ×2.60 44 #78 | 148 points by vertigoruntime 8 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A warning about 'model welfare' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
    ×2.61 8 #29 | 177 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 470 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Chopping up books when they're physically too big (mattkirkland.com)
    ×1.44 14 | 212 points by matt_kirkland 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The k-server conjecture is true (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 63 | 105 points by iamsyr 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Reversing Factorio's RNG (gegell.github.io)
    ×1.92 4 #8 | 81 points by jheitmann 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???