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  1. Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace
    ×1.49 4 | 4 points by zishutron 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×4.02 79 | 428 points by jacquesm 12 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.65 66 | 14 points by AuthorizedCust 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why isn't decompilation a solved problem in the AI era?
    ×0.36 92 | 4 points by ferfumarma 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why doesn't a Cursor for Word exist?
    ×0.58 84 | 5 points by FabianArevalo 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is there a genuine space for the Desktop AI assistant, or its solved?
    ×0.43 113 | 3 points by Qhloi 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Hacker News datetimes are falsely precise
    ×0.33 115 | 3 points by perilunar 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.69 101 | 314 points by imadtaieber 4 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.90 124 | 114 points by maxim-fin 3 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.35 140 | 8 points by mattm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. DeepSeek launches v4.1 flash, postpones v4 Pro discontinuation
    ×0.04 | 2 points by Audiolite 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?
    ×0.54 139 | 8 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.94 153 | 25 points by genekrapivin 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why can I only downvote select comments?
    ×0.55 129 | 7 points by socalgal2 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: I was laid off from PlanetScale this week on Vitess side
    ×0.84 | 2 points by vt_throwaway 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.23 156 | 15 points by pkos98 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Next day thoughts on the millenium prize threads?
    ×0.32 152 | 3 points by seizethecheese 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Reddit saves your keystrokes in text boxes
    ×1.55 123 | 19 points by thomasjeff1 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.34 125 | 34 points by rietta 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is there any solution to the AI infestation?
    ×0.59 146 | 6 points by yathern 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How to know when Claude has changed model itself during processing?
    ×0.34 155 | 3 points by mfaisalghufran 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. FinOps for LLM Spend – why your bill has changed
    ×0.25 | 2 points by leanroute_ai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?
    ×0.87 151 | 8 points by locusofself 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by simonsarris 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What are your plans for when Software Engineering is no longer a viable career?
    ×1.38 67 | 5 points by hackersnooze1 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.39 157 | 6 points by chipfixer 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Is Google planning for Gemini 4 rather than 3.5 pro?
    ×1.39 150 | 5 points by Qhloi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.48 154 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.79 120 | 129 points by spwa4 3 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (tokenstead.ai)
    ×0.82 24 #34 | 58 points by cdnsteve 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.75 47 #41 | 42 points by snyy 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Steam's Programming Fest (steampowered.com)
    ×2.49 9 | 4 points by embedding-shape 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Faint Light, 10-100x faster plate-solving/astrometry in Rust (github.com/fschuindt)
    ×1.02 89 | 4 points by fschuindt 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography (merybenavente.me)
    ×1.35 6 #28 | 68 points by mariabg 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. 1M+ German households have hung solar panels off their balcony railings (spacedaily.com)
    ×4.58 27 #52 | 31 points by nixass 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The UN challenges five centuries of cartography (not-ship.com)
    ×1.27 83 #66 | 124 points by speckx 1 day ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Real-time push notifications for Hacker News comments (hcker.news)
    ×1.51 104 | 4 points by postalcoder 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac (auberon.xyz)
    ×1.76 2 #6 | 81 points by auberonedu 3 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. New audit combo for AI agents (lexifina.com)
    ×1.96 7 | 3 points by alansaber 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Dbmask – Discover, mask, and verify sensitive data in SQL databases (github.com/sealandseacat)
    ×0.62 91 | 5 points by SiyuanFeng 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: AppLocker – Open-source macOS app blocker using Apple Endpoint Security (github.com/TranPhuong319)
    ×0.97 103 | 3 points by tranphuong319 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: ShipCheck – Catch when AI breaks old fixes (useshipcheck.dev)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by karunsarvajith 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE (codeberg.org)
    ×1.47 12 #14 | 151 points by weierstass 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. INDUS-SDE: A Language Model for Scientific Content Curation and Discovery (nasa.gov)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by sudobear 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus (genesmindsmachines.com)
    ×4.46 50 | 82 points by jryb 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: An app for passively watching Product Hunt launches as a video playlist (github.com/OlegIGalkin)
    ×1.49 109 | 3 points by cantouch 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A Vacuum Diode for Make: Magazine (nickpoole.me)
    ×1.86 22 | 3 points by luu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. On Really Trying (2009) (gwern.net)
    ×0.99 72 | 108 points by whoami_nr 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools? (misalignedmag.com)
    ×2.87 69 | 74 points by lcubw 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Matcha Filter Remover – browser-first green cast correction (matchafilterremover.net)
    ×1.49 112 | 3 points by robot1996 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Xfinlab – a financial intelligence API with an MCP server for AI agents (github.com/lnanology)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by lnanology 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: They chose your competitor. Find out why (drop.space)
    ×0.56 132 | 6 points by zhangchen0411 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads (xlii.space)
    ×2.07 17 | 425 points by xlii 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. iPhone Duo (apple.com)
    ×4.56 10 | 322 points by an0malous 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety (politico.eu)
    ×5.59 82 | 81 points by taubek 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Math Gambling (kuber.studio)
    ×1.19 77 | 7 points by kuberwastaken 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post (gettogether.dev)
    ×0.87 131 | 107 points by nchudleigh 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. GE Acquires NBC – 1985 (s-1.site)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by anthonybourdain 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. GNU Radio in the browser (gnuradioworld.com)
    ×1.21 53 #74 | 217 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Easter egg: binary code on top of Golden Gate Bridge (week-of-ai.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Scouttie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Persistent Jupyter kernel execution and live output streaming in VSCode (github.com/rnoro)
    ×0.30 100 | 7 points by rnoro_ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple (github.com/marsbos)
    ×0.66 136 | 101 points by bosmarcel 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. iPhone Duo (apple.com)
    ×5.20 7 #24 | 1414 points by thecosmicfrog 1 day ago | 2438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Larger Pacific striped octopus (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.92 57 #50 | 125 points by olalonde 20 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hired to Code, He Built Hudson River Trading and a $27B Fortune (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by aanet 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months (sudomoin.com)
    ×1.70 70 | 72 points by dimitri-vs 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: See Sounds on Your Webcam (darebuild.com)
    ×1.11 119 | 3 points by jimhi 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.59 22 #26 | 17 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening (techradar.com)
    ×2.55 30 | 156 points by geox 15 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Casablanca: How an unproduced play marched into movie history (thecollector.com)
    ×0.66 39 #46 | 45 points by mdp2021 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou (bsky.app)
    ×4.60 67 | 256 points by ColinWright 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch (github.com/Atomburstofficial)
    ×0.56 90 | 47 points by atomburst 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I have a theory that software drives people insane (graybeard.ing)
    ×3.45 50 #56 | 407 points by rglover 9 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant (bbc.com)
    ×2.66 2 #3 | 67 points by lukaspetersson 59 minutes ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Pragma Twice – A dystopian sci-fi themed programming game (bryanpg.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by umvi 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin (shopify.engineering)
    ×3.52 #2 | 774 points by fnthawar2 11 hours ago | 525 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Chasm: The Shape of Unfinished AI Codebases (jimmyhmiller.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents (eterdb.com)
    ×1.45 108 | 3 points by fdeth 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. ClassicPress: Forked from WordPress without the block editor (classicpress.net)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
    ×2.73 20 | 415 points by nickweb 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF (ayles.github.io)
    ×0.63 46 #44 | 34 points by ayles 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators (thelec.net)
    ×0.60 75 #64 | 56 points by peter_d_sherman 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI Is Not Going to Kill My Love of Math (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×2.15 10 | 6 points by crescit_eundo 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×2.81 13 #33 | 365 points by haunter 13 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain (ericgoldman.org)
    ×2.53 56 | 225 points by progval 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments (openai.com)
    ×0.97 65 | 148 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Three Weeks in a Village of Builders (edventures.co)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by measurablefunc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT (marketingdive.com)
    ×1.38 24 | 88 points by thm 11 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. AI Has a Discovery Problem (mhacevedo.com)
    ×1.88 95 | 69 points by miguelacevedo 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024) (brown.edu)
    ×1.77 3 #31 | 151 points by paimapi 9 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???