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  1. Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward?
    ×0.42 23 #54 | 9 points by amichail 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Best worldwide / classic phone games?
    ×0.20 72 | 4 points by bix6 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?
    ×0.54 69 | 19 points by MollyRealized 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Is a Claw driven Hacker News user a problem?
    ×0.58 54 | 6 points by delichon 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Are Tech Meetups Dead?
    ×0.75 50 | 9 points by mlinhares 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. $100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading
    ×0.41 87 | 3 points by jph 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Does anyone what a "RiotCache.dat" file was doing in my EFI partition?
    ×0.14 106 | 5 points by kromerless 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The solution the supply chain problems is removing your deps from .gitignore
    ×0.61 86 | 8 points by SchizoDuckie 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is $300/HR too low these days for custom full stack?
    ×0.45 96 | 15 points by noduerme 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?
    ×0.30 100 | 5 points by creatorcoder 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.39 83 | 177 points by srameshc 4 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Using games/cards to learn new skills
    ×0.34 102 | 5 points by dominikz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.88 110 | 59 points by summonerOS 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.92 116 | 36 points by 0rganize 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you have a colophon for your personal website?
    ×0.37 98 | 8 points by susam 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.46 117 | 19 points by mjb8086 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit
    ×0.43 111 | 5 points by Stanlyya 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
    ×0.34 122 | 9 points by js98 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak?
    ×0.33 125 | 8 points by virgildotcodes 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: I went to Alaska's northernmost town and this was the GeoIP location
    ×0.64 150 | 5 points by ironmagma 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.57 131 | 32 points by sergiotapia 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?
    ×0.39 108 | 8 points by Cheesebh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.29 137 | 12 points by paulf38 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?
    ×0.33 118 | 7 points by s3arch 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?
    ×0.12 141 | 5 points by kaycebasques 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. "Subligence" – proposed coinage for LLM "intelligence"
    ×0.24 151 | 4 points by akiarie 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out (adventuresinoss.com)
    ×3.08 35 #67 | 309 points by RyeCombinator 20 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Bone Keeper AI Assisted Feature Film (sosuke.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by sosuke 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.89 80 | 204 points by moh_maya 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce "WWE" (twitter.com/LarryBundyJr)
    ×3.94 44 | 70 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Greg Brockman interview [video] (fs.blog)
    ×1.60 26 #15 | 172 points by prakashqwerty 16 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Parsing IPv6 Addresses Crazily Fast with AVX-512 (lemire.me)
    ×2.60 15 #68 | 7 points by mfiguiere 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: The first (free) podcast ad blocker (apple.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by hamza_q_ 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite (twitter.com/YoavCodes)
    ×2.02 23 | 146 points by bundie 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Bun.Image (bun.com)
    ×2.51 52 | 35 points by chakintosh 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Mechs.lol – a free, web-based autoshooter game (mechs.lol)
    ×1.33 147 | 4 points by spaceships 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Building Pi with Pi (pocoo.org)
    ×2.73 18 #37 | 23 points by mplanchard 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Why Trump Lost to Iran (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by chmaynard 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S. (washingtonpost.com)
    ×4.08 62 | 80 points by michaelsbradley 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)
    ×2.02 51 | 378 points by sanity 3 days ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Haystack – Review the PRs that need human attention (haystackeditor.com)
    ×0.46 121 | 45 points by akshaysg 6 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Logatory – local-first log analysis and threat detection, no SIEM (github.com/T0nd3)
    ×1.30 142 | 4 points by T0nd3 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression (apple.github.io)
    ×1.13 20 #24 | 86 points by ksec 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket (space.com)
    ×3.03 17 #63 | 426 points by busymom0 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. TID: Linux kernelmodule–flushes CPU cache after wiping sensitive data CLFLUSHOPT (github.com/ahmaaaaadbntaaaaa-byte)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by TID_Ahmad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built Istanbul live transit map (tarif.ist)
    ×0.70 148 | 11 points by berkaycubuk 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs (epoch.ai)
    ×2.26 #4 | 283 points by intelkishan 8 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Where to begin in removing "safety" features from new cars?
    ×1.21 | 2 points by sky2224 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Baby's First Cards – real photo flash cards for toddlers (apple.com)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by ailocalrecorder 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Lessons I Learned from Creating Searx (hister.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by xosc 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I Miss Terry Pratchett (mahl.me)
    ×2.53 3 | 235 points by gorgmah 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees (fortune.com)
    ×4.88 21 | 228 points by nreece 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I made an open-source memory layer for agents (agentrecall.cloud)
    ×2.19 133 | 8 points by MarsB 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bolt Challenges Nvidia with a Focus on Cutting-Edge Graphics (ieee.org)
    ×1.91 14 | 3 points by mroche 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SpaceX is being killed to save Grok (peq42.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by peq42 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.83 71 | 32 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Local LLMs perform better when you teach them to ask before they answer (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.53 31 | 29 points by froh 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Coder Words – An offline-first PWA word puzzle for programmers (kenamick.com)
    ×2.05 119 | 8 points by p2detar 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization (aresluna.org)
    ×0.77 50 #56 | 40 points by anotherevan 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 'What Matters Most'–Google Is Changing Your Gmail Inbox (forbes.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by healsdata 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. My First PyCon Experience (jayshah.fyi)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by ahahs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Workspaces in 4todo (4to.do)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by haoya 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Postings for software engineering jobs increasing (twitter.com/DavidSacks)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by JessieJanie 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Verifying a Caliptra Boot-FSM Bug with Mununu (marianocerrutti.substack.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by hasheddan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Ifmhy – An Internationalization Version of Fmhy (ifmhy.org)
    ×0.30 | 2 points by valorantPanda 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more (lwn.net)
    ×0.96 28 #31 | 77 points by mkesper 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Agent evals should feel like real work (zohaib.cc)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by zed_labs_dev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Densest (Urban) Environment in the World (oldurbanist.blogspot.com)
    ×1.76 37 | 3 points by Neuronaut 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Anthropic and OpenAI race to embed engineers inside Wall Street workflows (thenewstack.io)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by dr_dshiv 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What to know about the AI models that are jolting Washington (politico.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by TMWNN 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Texas Woman files lawsuit after arrest for Facebook post about polluted water (fox4news.com)
    ×5.37 61 | 44 points by SilverElfin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Yt-x v0.8.0 – Browse, play, and download YouTube from the terminal (github.com/Benexl)
    ×0.93 138 | 27 points by Benex254 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×1.55 7 #44 | 77 points by BaudouinVH 14 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Improving C# Memory Safety (microsoft.com)
    ×1.46 45 #76 | 161 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Neoclassical C++: segmented iterators revisited (boostedcpp.net)
    ×0.89 28 #85 | 44 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI for Design Needs Solving (freedium-mirror.cfd)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by vinayak-shukla 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: My tool found 1 DELETE TABLE log from 1M logs (rocketgraph.app)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by kvaranasi_ 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Delivery Is a Routing Problem, Not a Messaging Problem (bridgexapi.io)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by Bridgexapi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Appbun turn any webpage into an inspectable Electrobun desktop app (github.com/bigmacfive)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by bigmacfive 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Roughform, a free Browser-Based 3D Creation Tool (roughform.app)
    ×1.00 165 | 3 points by benhmoore 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date” (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.97 22 #11 | 420 points by DamnInteresting 23 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: SaveNeighbor – food delivery through your own personal network (saveneighbor.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by JJonesRatio 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: The Front Page – Newspaper-style front page for Hacker News (thefrontpage.dev)
    ×2.01 40 | 8 points by stagas 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×0.98 94 | 97 points by mrkn1 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents (github.com/InsForge)
    ×0.55 124 | 62 points by mrcoldbrew 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. On The <dl> (2021) (benmyers.dev)
    ×1.81 4 #62 | 432 points by ravenical 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. We ended up with Palantir and how to replace it (berthub.eu)
    ×3.33 73 | 41 points by ahubert 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: CoreMem – Portable context for AI agents (coremem.app)
    ×1.37 139 | 5 points by 20wenty 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: We're building an open-source battery [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.15 134 | 8 points by kirksmith 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility (sales-and-dungeons.app)
    ×1.11 44 #42 | 132 points by hyperific 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???