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Ask HN: Who is smarter than you that you listen to what they have to say?

×0.73 64 | 4 points by SMAAART 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API

×2.63 70 | 8 points by GustavHartz 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How would you know if you have learned something?

×0.19 84 | 6 points by rearview 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I just talked to an AI-obsessed client, and I need a shower afterwards

×0.63 86 | 26 points by platevoltage 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?

×0.16 95 | 4 points by shriy-singh 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?

×0.20 100 | 4 points by esher 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

×0.96 96 | 152 points by semidror 3 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?

×0.43 103 | 21 points by phendrenad2 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?

×0.44 110 | 21 points by itsjeremiahs 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode

×0.45 119 | 16 points by xnx 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding Runtime Governance for Enterprise AI Deployment

×0.11 117 | 4 points by thespotlessmind 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?

×0.24 118 | 5 points by d675 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Built a Wine Atlas

×0.39 129 | 4 points by keremiis 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Claude CLI asks for feedback, responding authorizes conversation capture

×0.63 128 | 24 points by mmaunder 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?

×0.47 107 | 13 points by Hex08 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?

×0.58 109 | 10 points by mattm 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ask HN:Are we locking ourselves in the Google ecosystem?

×0.28 97 | 6 points by KinetiNode 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Which harness do you use with Qwen3.8 27B? And why?

×0.18 139 | 4 points by grigio 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?

×0.27 132 | 9 points by kooldeep7 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Declarative vs. Imperative

×0.11 | 2 points by KenPainter 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LinkedIn is a terrible quality website

×2.01 101 | 22 points by skyfantom 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do GitHub Copilot and Anthropic Claude compare in cost?

×0.14 150 | 3 points by erwindegroot 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Dead Internet

×0.70 134 | 16 points by basilikum 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why does it matter if no one reads your novel as long as the AIs do?

×0.46 147 | 10 points by amichail 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Which is cheaper: ChatGPT tokens or a 2nd Pro 20x subscription?

×0.12 158 | 3 points by yesitcan 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do your teams share and distribute agent skills?

×0.14 159 | 3 points by juanviera23 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD

×0.35 148 | 6 points by xeonmc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft tried to ban "Microslop", and six months later it has given up (windowslatest.com)

×5.67 35 | 83 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes (forensicdbg.com)

×0.53 87 | 37 points by Loren_SL 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Best LLM for every budget, updated daily (terrydjony.com)

×2.76 33 #80 | 173 points by terryds 19 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My First Language Front End with MLIR (whereisalan.dev)

×1.94 2 | 3 points by alankarmisra 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Year of Internal Tools (geocod.io)

×0.86 79 #65 | 63 points by thecodemonkey 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CozyToolkit – Free everyday tools for creators (cozytoolkit.com)

×0.38 | 1 points by SamuelYMChen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest (github.com/nestrilabs)

×1.25 32 | 151 points by WanjohiRyan 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A benchmark comparison of C++ vs. Node.js performance (vikky2810.github.io)

×2.08 36 | 4 points by vikky2810 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: graf (1000x faster graphify in Rust) (github.com/ctxrs)

×1.47 125 | 13 points by ripped_britches 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The forgotten battle of East Lansing (eastlansinginfo.news)

×0.93 38 #30 | 98 points by rmason 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)

×2.16 46 #39 | 530 points by avidly 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Shapefile converter that fixes the winding you didn't know was wrong (9revolution9.com)

×0.56 | 2 points by glassonion999 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nokia Design Archive (2025) (aalto.fi)

×1.15 30 #25 | 236 points by pillars 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You Cry [video] (youtube.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by mrroryflint 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series (qualcomm.com)

×2.49 5 #47 | 600 points by aaronday 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit (arxiv.org)

×1.78 23 #71 | 307 points by JohnHammersley 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. Rules changed and all hell broke loose (bostonglobe.com)

×1.85 9 | 3 points by TMWNN 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Timebar, a Mac timer shown as a thin line below the menu bar (github.com/velvet-shark)

×1.13 93 | 6 points by sabon 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FreeCoffee – Self-hostable donation tool with crypto support (github.com/freecoffee-bio)

×0.82 157 | 3 points by jacksun788 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead' (afr.com)

×1.45 39 #35 | 114 points by theanonymousone 18 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us (theguardian.com)

×4.15 27 #38 | 161 points by YeGoblynQueenne 21 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amiga Screens: A Primer (datagubbe.se)

×3.30 30 | 5 points by msephton 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Entail – what your model files declare vs. what the engine runs (github.com/wwoosshh)

×0.54 | 1 points by wwoosshh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Volum – An open-source visual library for 3D model files (didac.dev)

×1.60 135 | 4 points by sabatesduran 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini (nyaa.sh)

×2.27 1 #2 | 50 points by hugh4life 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963 (github.com/pkimpel)

×0.37 73 #42 | 48 points by abrax3141 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI for Creativity (twitter.com/jeffreykWNDR)

×1.79 12 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quiet-guardrails: Claude Code manual mode, minus the nagging (github.com/SeanMcMillan)

×0.50 | 1 points by northbridgedev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de)

×2.47 1 | 4 points by h0ek 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jensen Huang says with AI 'in order to save you, they've got to hurt you first.' (theverge.com)

×2.87 7 | 5 points by pera 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
F-Droid 2.0 (f-droid.org)

×4.80 #4 | 1248 points by daveoc64 18 hours ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dutch Hackers Collective Hacked (divd.nl)

×1.52 | 2 points by HelloUsername 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Appocalypse (chrysalisbyauke.substack.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by Poefke 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NHS bodies in England impose 2-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments (theguardian.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by chrisjj 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clue Me – Describe the word you're given, Jev tries to guess it (yorohan.com)

×1.05 104 | 5 points by rohanm93 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance (koi.rest)

×2.04 19 #33 | 183 points by hxii 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Docker releases cloud sandboxes, enabling safe agentic workloads in the cloud (docker.com)

×1.71 64 #52 | 21 points by pheonixblade9 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop (lwn.net)

×2.31 2 #56 | 392 points by signa11 1 day ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack (notesfrompoland.com)

×4.20 11 #89 | 175 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LabLoop – isolated infrastructure for LLM-driven scientific experiments (github.com/cloudcell)

×0.62 | 1 points by cloudcell 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia [video] (youtube.com)

×1.22 | 2 points by dvrp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed] (szypowi.cz)

×2.43 9 | 480 points by pszypowicz 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm crawling 11k homepages every week to track which fonts they use (fontsovertime.com)

×0.70 106 | 4 points by fcjr 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space (blog.google)

×1.76 14 #18 | 183 points by xnx 17 hours ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016) (robot-daycare.com)

×0.54 56 #37 | 43 points by loughnane 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hormuz Signal – Iran war escalation risk from real data (hormuzsignal.com)

×1.70 91 | 5 points by mrPaul658 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire? (github.com/karmanyaahm)

×2.04 67 | 51 points by karmanyaahm 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ambits – agentic grep/rg tool will history tracking (github.com/joshLong145)

×0.94 161 | 5 points by joshLong145 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Orient Cables IPO Explained (finshots.in)

×0.53 | 1 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On The Role of Theory in Biology (asimov.press)

×1.10 | 2 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TiddlyInstall – Single HTML file that makes cross-platform installers (robertsdotpm.github.io)

×1.88 15 | 3 points by Uptrenda 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy (apnews.com)

×5.33 51 | 882 points by geox 1 day ago | 781 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is Hacker News like that? (drewdevault.com)

×31.57 21 | 326 points by caution 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fine-tuned 110M encoder beat 7B LLMs and hybrid search for NIST mapping (github.com/applied-inference-lab)

×0.40 | 2 points by jpusateri 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Foremerge – Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents (github.com/naw103)

×0.43 114 | 45 points by foremerge 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The mystery animal on an ancient god's head (signoregalilei.com)

×1.25 68 #73 | 150 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (fly.io)

×1.65 20 #81 | 304 points by Rapzid 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Just how hot and dry was your summer? – UK postcode lookup (bbc.co.uk)

×1.60 44 | 3 points by ColinEberhardt 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Z80 REPL (2018) (abagames.github.io)

×0.92 63 | 159 points by adunk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Put a Run Button on the SQL in Your Blog Posts (seaquel.app)

×1.65 98 | 4 points by mikenikles 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CubeLV – AI that designs your automation before building it (cubelv.com)

×1.41 116 | 4 points by qqrun 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (launchvideo.io)

×3.56 7 #17 | 261 points by iacguy 13 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that (animationobsessive.substack.com)

×1.33 68 #49 | 155 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???