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  1. Ask HN: Broken "Public Research Articles" Link: Any Support for Google Scholar?
    ×0.79 | 2 points by yann-gael 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How are Iranian drones getting their guidance?
    ×0.62 9 | 5 points by dottenad 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. New Open Source Release
    ×0.93 5 | 6 points by BrainDAnderson 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: The new wave of AI agent sandboxes?
    ×0.68 32 | 8 points by ATechGuy 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: If working with agents means this, robots, please take my job
    ×1.02 12 | 9 points by tiredagent 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are we ready for vulnerabilities to be words instead of code?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by lielcohen 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
    ×1.94 42 | 135 points by IncandescentGas 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. European municipalities leak citizen data to US companies
    ×1.38 49 | 7 points by sam_lowry_ 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to Find a Job in the UK
    ×0.54 60 | 6 points by 0x3444ac53 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?
    ×0.62 69 | 24 points by neilk17 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
    ×3.24 15 | 145 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. TTal – CLI that turns Claude Code into a multi-agent software factory
    ×0.43 106 | 4 points by neilbb 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
    ×1.32 80 | 210 points by tathagatadg 3 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who is still using Windsurf and why?
    ×1.22 82 | 9 points by mak8 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I built a game where you argue consumer rights against AI bots
    ×0.35 85 | 5 points by dragonmann 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Have you cancelled any software subscriptions because AI replaced them?
    ×0.82 87 | 7 points by maxim_bg 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?
    ×0.99 95 | 33 points by newswangerd 2 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals
    ×1.33 101 | 98 points by Tim25659 4 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Claude down Again?
    ×0.33 108 | 10 points by rreyes1979 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why is everyone on HN obsessed with Rust?
    ×2.24 88 | 14 points by goldkey 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are you protecting yourself from skill atrophy?
    ×0.76 113 | 5 points by xpnsec 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Open AI is actively censoring information about voting today in the US
    ×0.53 119 | 11 points by resters 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Which router makers do you trust most?
    ×1.26 98 | 9 points by general_reveal 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Claude Code 500s
    ×1.18 111 | 16 points by bavarianbob 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Skills Manager – manage AI agent skills across Claude, Cursor, Copilot
    ×0.21 144 | 3 points by evergreenxx 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. WFH is becoming a benefit again
    ×2.48 2 | 61 points by sharemywin 13 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Knowledge workers managing AI show collapsed productivity, not just a plateau
    ×0.73 130 | 6 points by dfordp11 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove Opus and Sonnet from their Copilot Pro subscription?
    ×0.65 141 | 14 points by lgl 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How to Learn C++ in 2026?
    ×0.52 145 | 15 points by creatorcoder 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: We need to learn algorithm when there are Claude Code etc.
    ×0.47 135 | 11 points by JasonHEIN 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you handle payments for AI agents?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by bahaghazghazi 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Apple Screen Sharing High Performance
    ×0.59 131 | 8 points by chapoly1305 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Claude Is Having an Outage
    ×1.64 92 | 49 points by theahura 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How are you doing technical interviews in the age of Claude/ChatGPT?
    ×0.25 142 | 6 points by jonjou 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: ContextD – OCRs your screen activity, use it with LLMs via local API (github.com/thesophiaxu)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by thesophiaxu 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. One year of developing my own operating system (mrunix.me)
    ×1.47 30 | 3 points by mrunix 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. GlassWorm malware hits 400 code repos on GitHub, NPM, VSCode, OpenVSX (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by djinn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Can we make up/downvotes/flags visible on Hacker News Archives (delayed)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by gpt5 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm (bristol.ac.uk)
    ×1.89 4 #3 | 81 points by hhs 3 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Claude vs. Gemini vs. ChatGPT vs. Grok (boreal.social)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by bazlightyear 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (unc.edu)
    ×3.71 4 #71 | 968 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 446 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Prism MCP – Session Memory and 94% Context Reduction for AI Agents (github.com/dcostenco)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by dcostenco 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (svgbackgrounds.com)
    ×2.47 6 | 376 points by visiwig 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel (phoronix.com)
    ×1.47 56 | 102 points by speckx 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: MDX Docs – a lightweight React framework for documentation sites (mdxdocs.com)
    ×0.85 91 | 3 points by thequietmind 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Basalt – IDE-like documentation for infrastructure and API (basalt-docs.com)
    ×1.65 146 | 6 points by temakonkin 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf] (cwi.nl)
    ×0.68 28 #81 | 81 points by ivanbelenky 19 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Age Verification Status of Open Source Operating Systems (github.com/BryanLunduke)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by gasull 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root (qualys.com)
    ×1.12 42 #90 | 150 points by askl 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. FreeAgent – 60-tool local AI agent, no API keys, no cloud, no cost (github.com/transformer24)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by transformer24 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I got tired of print(x.shape) so I built runtime type hints for Python (github.com/yiheinchai)
    ×2.40 109 | 7 points by chaiyihein 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. GopherHole – A universal hub for AI agent-to-agent communication (gopherhole.ai)
    ×2.67 39 | 4 points by brettwaterson 38 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source (github.com/joaoh82)
    ×1.02 63 | 105 points by joaoh82 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers (github.com/cockpit-project)
    ×1.25 1 #7 | 177 points by modinfo 5 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.90 44 #41 | 27 points by jt-hill 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API (github.com/traccar)
    ×0.80 23 #57 | 60 points by tananaev 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Goal.md, a goal-specification file for autonomous coding agents (github.com/jmilinovich)
    ×1.63 132 | 31 points by jmilinovich 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Soros – AI for geopolitical macro investing (asksoros.com)
    ×9.08 103 | 25 points by muggermuch 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: UpdateBerry – Turn Git commits into marketing assets (prototype) (updateberry.com)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by wjr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Store birth date in systemd for age verification (github.com/systemd)
    ×2.27 41 #76 | 64 points by sadeshmukh 18 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Australia's New South Wales State to Prohibit New Coal Mines (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I made Java 8 run Java 9 bytecode (github.com/DanexCodr)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by DanexCodr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. SSH has no Host header (exe.dev)
    ×1.56 59 | 180 points by apitman 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP (theregister.com)
    ×2.18 73 | 86 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Budibase Agents Beta – model-agnostic AI agents for internal workflows (budibase.com)
    ×0.72 74 | 7 points by mjashanks 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A 4-layer self-audit system for AI behavioral evolution (github.com/oscarsterling)
    ×1.43 149 | 4 points by jhaugh 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.49 #5 | 523 points by 0xedb 9 hours ago | 615 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.89 55 #74 | 80 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends (github.com/ndroo)
    ×0.71 58 | 85 points by verelo 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: 3 AI agent trust systems cross-verified each other's delegation chains (github.com/kanoniv)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by dreynow 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: ATO – a GUI to see and fix what your LLM agents configured (github.com/WillNigri)
    ×0.56 105 | 6 points by WillNigri 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Score your GitHub repo for AI coding agents (twill.ai)
    ×2.08 136 | 6 points by danoandco 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos (nytimes.com)
    ×4.24 65 | 384 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: BamBuddy – a self-hosted print archive for Bambu Lab 3D printers (bambuddy.cool)
    ×0.94 79 | 3 points by maziggy 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Website lets you post only once for life (fausto.me)
    ×0.96 140 | 3 points by faustoct 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier (undeadly.org)
    ×0.94 14 #28 | 178 points by defrost 12 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying (wsj.com)
    ×1.41 55 #88 | 135 points by jgalt212 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. JPMorgan, Goldman offer hedge funds way to short private credit (msn.com)
    ×1.74 1 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Pentagon Seeks $200B to Fund Iran War (nytimes.com)
    ×3.33 30 | 6 points by mizzao 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Bento – Save and restore multi-monitor app layouts (bentodesktop.com)
    ×2.29 112 | 7 points by aarmenante 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The day I discovered type design (marksimonson.com)
    ×1.76 5 #12 | 42 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Shape of Inequalities (andreinc.net)
    ×0.80 28 #32 | 100 points by nomemory 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How to defer US taxes (taylor.town)
    ×2.19 15 #46 | 146 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Need for an Independent AI Grid (amppublic.com)
    ×0.63 2 #65 | 21 points by olalonde 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (stripe.com)
    ×1.27 37 #85 | 197 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily (hackerbrief.vercel.app)
    ×1.42 100 | 82 points by p0u4a 3 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: M68k assembly emulator that runs in the browser (github.com/gianlucarea)
    ×2.69 115 | 19 points by aldino97 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta (theverge.com)
    ×3.05 23 #45 | 133 points by mikece 7 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Plotra – A digital proof of life for autonomous AI agents (plotra.xyz)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by olllo 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety (googleblog.com)
    ×1.22 21 #36 | 33 points by WalterSobchak 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???