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  1. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by emerongi 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×1.00 6 | 57 points by stikit 20 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.58 79 | 24 points by waldrews 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
    ×1.25 47 | 23 points by chucksmash 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.33 39 | 834 points by cromka 1 day ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off
    ×0.80 83 | 6 points by ctxc 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?
    ×0.40 106 | 6 points by funkaster 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.55 29 | 481 points by jacquesm 2 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: For Enterprise coding agents, what's your company doing to control cost?
    ×0.35 96 | 4 points by m0rde 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Novgraph: Persistent Knowledge Graph for Codebases
    ×0.20 111 | 3 points by Shourya_55 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. GoatCode – open-source terminal AI agent with provider failover
    ×0.26 116 | 3 points by Arhan-w 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.57 114 | 20 points by AuthorizedCust 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?
    ×0.67 109 | 10 points by superasn 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Namecheap Hosting Is Down
    ×1.20 85 | 4 points by wolfgangbabad 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH
    ×0.33 118 | 6 points by rawland 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Dreamcast Web Development Links
    ×0.21 121 | 4 points by hefner1456 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Where are the innovations happening today?
    ×0.21 120 | 5 points by cauliflower99 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is GPT-6 Astra worth the 2.5x cost increase over GPT-5.6 Sol?
    ×0.51 115 | 7 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace
    ×0.28 129 | 7 points by zishutron 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: AI and Math
    ×0.05 | 2 points by ekm2 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is the average number of hops in your social network to 9-11 death?
    ×0.06 | 2 points by MrCoffee7 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.32 143 | 9 points by mattm 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why isn't decompilation a solved problem in the AI era?
    ×0.31 139 | 6 points by ferfumarma 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices with CSS (2023) (stephaniestimac.com)
    ×0.56 78 #61 | 60 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. GCC AI Policy Announcement (gnu.org)
    ×3.72 72 | 5 points by signa11 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (nih.gov)
    ×3.20 52 | 5 points by AFF87 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. New 'Zuckoff' App Detects Nearby Meta Smart Glasses Amid Privacy Backlash (channelnews.com.au)
    ×2.60 37 | 4 points by firstordefault 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.83 7 #71 | 71 points by dgroshev 18 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization (science.org)
    ×1.37 19 | 215 points by geneticdrifts 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Open-Sourced Chrome Extension to Save, Organize and Switch Bookmarks (github.com/ringlochid)
    ×1.91 42 | 7 points by ringlochid 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: PDFidelity – Translate PDFs while preserving the original layout (pdfidelity.com)
    ×1.01 90 | 3 points by andygeek 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Come prove the Berge Fulkerson conjecture with a swarm of agents (provetogether.ai)
    ×0.99 84 | 5 points by fcesco 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Rdltr – Inbox zero for your reading list (rdltr.app)
    ×0.62 119 | 24 points by eduardosasso 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Navier-Stokes Announcement (claymath.org)
    ×2.18 9 #66 | 324 points by rvz 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants (ieee.org)
    ×0.69 67 #70 | 103 points by ltononro 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released (github.com/GrapheneOS)
    ×1.78 14 #73 | 317 points by microtonal 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Beyond the Waters of Traditional RAG (gumroad.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by Senura 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What happens when an agent crashes between side effect and recording it?
    ×0.74 | 1 points by druhinbala 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Coway Airmega Halo Review: Is Your Air Clean? (wired.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by joozio 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree (quesma.com)
    ×0.92 41 | 167 points by michalwarda 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE (github.com/paradise-runner)
    ×1.06 61 | 81 points by dividedcomet 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Cse-bridge, a drop-in for Google's Custom Search API (off Jan 2027) (github.com/Booyaka101)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by Booyaka101 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The $440M Collapse of Guidepost Montessori (nytimes.com)
    ×2.05 33 | 3 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative (researchagenda.news)
    ×2.09 9 | 332 points by JohnHammersley 2 days ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI (unslop.news)
    ×2.68 25 | 193 points by otherayden 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Give Claude Code / Cursor a real eng team (tiers, roles, escalation) (github.com/khuynh22)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by timhuyn 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record (accuweather.com)
    ×1.94 8 #50 | 66 points by RickJWagner 11 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Usenet rewind archive search engine (usenet-rewind.com)
    ×0.96 50 #53 | 129 points by cstadler1869 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Xenobot (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by binyu 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Toposes are NOT scary – Urs Schreiber [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by hackandthink 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I wrote a book on using AI in game design production (free on GitHub) (github.com/eremes81)
    ×0.79 113 | 3 points by eremes81 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Table – A fast, streaming-first table renderer for Go (github.com/nekrassov01)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by nekrassov01 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Dash. – Tech, Startups, and Markets (chatgpt.site)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by opuslabs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A succession crisis that tore England apart (2023) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.71 15 #22 | 37 points by pepys 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold (wired.com)
    ×1.18 42 #33 | 130 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021) (transformer-circuits.pub)
    ×0.66 41 #36 | 99 points by Bluestein 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin (shopify.engineering)
    ×4.62 9 #65 | 1262 points by fnthawar2 2 days ago | 948 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: As-an-engineer – A skill to make AI treat you like an engineer (github.com/mayooot)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by mayooot-go 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Make better humans and race them (darebuild.com)
    ×1.16 137 | 3 points by jimhi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to Build a Custom Agent Harness (langchain.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by porridgeraisin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English (sessioncontext.org)
    ×2.91 66 | 7 points by oddurs 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Determinstic LLM inference for lowest price Gemma 4, with Windows XP (tokendelivery.ai)
    ×0.47 86 | 6 points by carsonpoole 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch (github.com/Atomburstofficial)
    ×0.58 110 | 49 points by atomburst 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Operation Smart Kettle – Börzels Blog (boerzel.de)
    ×0.65 23 #11 | 19 points by marbartolome 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (eiln.github.io)
    ×1.70 6 #21 | 157 points by eiln 14 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: See Sounds on Your Webcam (darebuild.com)
    ×0.36 62 #57 | 17 points by jimhi 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tell HN: GitHub Is Down Again
    ×1.37 | 2 points by dhruv3006 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Race-Switching the Dukes of Hazzard (plover.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by jjgreen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution (capitalbnews.org)
    ×3.44 28 | 499 points by doener 1 day ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Remember Hong Kong (thenextmove.org)
    ×3.28 71 | 72 points by throw0101d 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: The Kinect is dead, so I rebuilt it in a browser tab for my kids (hoplagames.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Gri22lyBear 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: ToolVerve – 75 client-side web tools running 100% in browser RAM
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Abdullah_Sattar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Stackray – Detect any website's tech stack (stackray.app)
    ×1.54 93 | 4 points by seelos 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Apple iPod Engraver (2019) (dunstanorchard.com)
    ×1.83 14 #8 | 233 points by NaOH 15 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (righto.com)
    ×0.91 30 #30 | 114 points by pwg 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A few good ideas in programming languages (prydt.xyz)
    ×1.55 32 #51 | 96 points by airhangerf15 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. TuneWorks: Conversational AI analysis for Haltech ECU datalogs (tuneworks.ai)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Sharanxxxx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Standupd, a Letterboxd for stand-up comedy (standupd.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by alpkorpe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering (getzep.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Andrey Vyshedskiy about the evolution of language and brain development [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by binyu 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 10-Year-Old Children Predict the Future (nytimes.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Our Eukaryotic Moment (venkateshrao.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by jger15 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I built a hand-modeled 3D Windows 98 portfolio with Three.js (wesselsdesktop.com)
    ×0.71 98 | 15 points by Abstract2D 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Botbin.io – pastebin for AI agent artifacts (botbin.io)
    ×0.65 132 | 10 points by obilgic 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots (dayzlegame.com)
    ×3.50 1 #48 | 741 points by nickabe 1 day ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown (supuk.ch)
    ×1.77 37 #54 | 198 points by mhitza 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What's Left of the Back-to-the-Landers (newyorker.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by rdmuser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Man arrested after allegedly sexually abusing koi fish in Bangkok (khaosodenglish.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by face2sunny 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist (theguardian.com)
    ×6.51 21 | 63 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Chess960v2.com – 960×960 asymmetric chess, 600/960 rounds done (chess960v2.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by lavren1974 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???