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  1. Do not use Cloudflare DNS regsitrar
    ×0.83 23 | 5 points by talkingtab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?
    ×1.01 4 | 4 points by ex-aws-dude 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?
    ×0.61 11 | 11 points by seattle_spring 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?
    ×1.04 7 | 14 points by wwwthrowaway256 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
    ×0.27 67 | 8 points by blenderob 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?
    ×0.46 70 | 30 points by mlinhares 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down
    ×0.58 42 | 10 points by cinericius 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why not have an EU browser?
    ×0.22 95 | 5 points by osigurdson 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Train 1T parameter LLM with 8 GPUs?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by kendy1992 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×1.15 81 | 150 points by widenrun 2 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to introduce cloud computing to high schoolers?
    ×0.49 73 | 4 points by shivajikobardan 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you model temporarily invalid data structures
    ×0.15 135 | 5 points by escot 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
    ×0.32 120 | 20 points by MaxTeabag 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Did the Linux memory management maintainer "just quit"?
    ×0.43 129 | 15 points by hliyan 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What Do You Struggle With?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by chistev 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?
    ×2.23 116 | 20 points by dvrp 2 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Android Chrome deletes your browsing history silently
    ×0.10 131 | 4 points by grehbies 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Amdahl's Law for LLM generated code
    ×0.22 145 | 5 points by akiarie 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward?
    ×0.24 140 | 15 points by amichail 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?
    ×0.85 90 | 9 points by jwsteigerwalt 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?
    ×0.21 154 | 6 points by yanbinette 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?
    ×0.41 139 | 22 points by MollyRealized 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. We built a B2B API infrastructure for resume parsing and tailoring
    ×0.08 160 | 3 points by engspeedy 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?
    ×0.51 125 | 16 points by DmitriyBuchilin 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Is Amp more or less expensive than Claude Code? Is it better?
    ×0.44 115 | 4 points by markosn 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×1.36 24 #9 | 72 points by b-man 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A crypto billionaire is taking up the fight to bring crab back for Thanksgiving (sfstandard.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by randycupertino 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: STAX IDE – A zoomable macOS canvas of terminals and tools (staxide.com)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How far behind are open models? (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.85 15 | 6 points by alecco 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.20 57 #46 | 137 points by KnuthIsGod 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Preservatives linked to high blood pressure and heart disease in new study (scitechdaily.com)
    ×2.35 5 #48 | 8 points by brandonb 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: skills-for-humanity – 171 structured reasoning skills for Claude Code (github.com/human-avatar)
    ×5.24 109 | 28 points by finnworks 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Various LLM Smells (shvbsle.in)
    ×2.59 4 #4 | 152 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (claude.com)
    ×1.70 17 #36 | 134 points by mil22 6 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Claude Code's $200 plan is a 17× subsidy on the raw API (github.com/Coral-Bricks-AI)
    ×1.57 98 | 9 points by Hiteshjain118 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference (science.org)
    ×1.19 27 | 166 points by gmays 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Using Tailscale with an OrbStack VM on macOS (github.com/highpost)
    ×0.88 30 #24 | 56 points by highpost 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Taking Children from Their Parents Without a Court Order (newyorker.com)
    ×1.47 10 #56 | 4 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Symposium – Replayable, multi-agent LLM deliberation as a protocol
    ×0.88 | 1 points by robyxyz 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI WordPress and Compliance and Ad Tracking in One Place (laptopformulas.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by leosotx247 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Case Against the AI Thought Partner (personalaisafety.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by sofiaqt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024) (science.org)
    ×1.40 13 #7 | 105 points by o4c 5 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us (retrogamecoders.com)
    ×0.79 62 #66 | 72 points by ibobev 23 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers (mit.edu)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by EA-3167 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Built a robot that scans Cracow's streets for graffiti (twitter.com/staskulesh)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by bfoks 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. What Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email (jacquescorbytuech.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by iamacyborg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Trivial Pursuits (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.32 47 #33 | 22 points by diodorus 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025) (imaginarytext.ca)
    ×0.82 59 #58 | 111 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Iron – A Programmable Compiler that can convert 6.3M LOC/s (github.com/dogmaticdev)
    ×2.10 100 | 7 points by dogmaticdev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Pgcraft – a lazygit-style TUI for Postgres (github.com/lucasfrederico)
    ×1.69 146 | 6 points by lucasfrederico 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Permanent Upper Crow (jasonwu.ink)
    ×1.22 14 #11 | 140 points by whiteblossom 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Ask (randsinrepose.com)
    ×0.95 36 #65 | 138 points by digitallogic 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI coding is at L3 autonomy, but infrastructure is stuck at L1 (aranya.tech)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by druid 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: rik – Limited Agent Edition (github.com/exlee)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by xlii 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Kakeibo – a simple budget tracking app for simple people (getkakeibo.com)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by palpfiction 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Aircraft owners lease out engines rather than whole planes as prices soar (ft.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.66 9 | 334 points by maxnoe 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The VibeSec Reckoning (martinfowler.com)
    ×0.98 65 | 62 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. EU moderation watchdog says social media giants hate taking down hate speech (theregister.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by Bender 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. HartBreaker: Deterministic Fuzzing of Multi-Hart RISC-V CPUs (ethz.ch)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Training our own AI models (posthog.com)
    ×1.75 17 | 210 points by tartieret 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff (tinyvolt.com)
    ×0.54 103 | 74 points by nivter 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.43 10 #26 | 291 points by jjp 9 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. New Threat Actor 'Jinx-0164' Targets Crypto Firms with Custom macOS Malware (netsecops.io)
    ×1.53 3 | 3 points by jaybode 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud” (gingerlime.com)
    ×3.95 34 | 317 points by gingerlime 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Where does next-token prediction leave us? (rdi.sh)
    ×2.56 49 | 210 points by 0x5FC3 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: VAEN – Package and import portable AI coding-agent Harnesses (github.com/sjhalani7)
    ×2.08 97 | 8 points by sjhalani7 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Open-source alternative to Duolingo for learning anything (zoonk.com)
    ×2.14 101 | 7 points by ceolin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Map drawing tool where the map lives in the URL (drawonamap.com)
    ×2.77 110 | 7 points by singiamtel 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Workout to Work – A desktop app that annoys you into exercising (gitlab.com)
    ×1.19 59 | 3 points by blingojames 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Game Boy pixel pipeline explorer (pixelpipeline.xyz)
    ×2.27 96 | 14 points by blueblazin 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Built a tool to create brand-consistent images using AI (inktag.io)
    ×1.33 163 | 4 points by gsharma1 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Pubflow, Backend trust layer for build faster AI based apps (pubflow.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by SamuelRecio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Go: Support for Generic Methods (github.com/golang)
    ×1.80 14 | 301 points by f311a 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.56 24 | 81 points by doppp 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Mind-expander, a visual workspace for coding with AI agents (github.com/mbbill)
    ×0.70 156 | 3 points by mbbill 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I Made a Million Dollar Product from My Dorm Room (2025) (winans.io)
    ×2.34 3 #3 | 97 points by mattrighetti 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Gradle Is Javamaxxing (gradle.org)
    ×0.95 68 #41 | 15 points by kassovic 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Bootstrap a team of coding agents from a template, OSS (github.com/awebai)
    ×0.42 92 #57 | 3 points by juanre 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Green Side of the Lua (arxiv.org)
    ×0.89 60 #61 | 66 points by radiator 20 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. XLIDE: VBA without excel (github.com/WilliamSmithEdward)
    ×0.45 68 | 65 points by sts153 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Perplexity launches Bumblebee: Its new read-only developer laptop code scanner (zdnet.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by CrankyBear 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Scientists say they've reversed brain aging in mice with a nasal spray (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.94 82 | 67 points by bookmtn 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Tunecat: Simple Internet Radio (codeberg.org)
    ×0.77 84 | 67 points by croottree 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Hodor – a 701KB native macOS prompt launcher for AI tools (hodor.design)
    ×2.40 102 | 9 points by woodydesign 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Claude Opus 4.8: 4 Features That Change Our Daily Work with Claude (medium.com)
    ×1.51 8 | 3 points by jungard 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Can these dumbphone evangelists convince you to dump smartphones? (theguardian.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by rorylawless 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. On Labubu and the Hyperreal (2earth.github.io)
    ×0.75 44 | 85 points by 2earth 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection (mybricklog.com)
    ×4.59 #2 | 462 points by philips 4 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???