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  1. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.94 2 #36 | 9 points by waldrews 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.65 81 | 761 points by cromka 15 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you (AI researchers) convince yourselves that AI isn't terrible?
    ×0.99 8 | 4 points by l2silver 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Dreamcast Web Development Links
    ×0.29 57 | 4 points by hefner1456 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.62 1 | 474 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Where are the innovations happening today?
    ×0.14 89 | 3 points by cauliflower99 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?
    ×0.56 67 | 6 points by superasn 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH
    ×0.41 81 | 5 points by rawland 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is GPT-6 Astra worth the 2.5x cost increase over GPT-5.6 Sol?
    ×0.53 79 | 6 points by minimaxir 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: AI and Math
    ×0.06 | 2 points by ekm2 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is the average number of hops in your social network to 9-11 death?
    ×0.07 | 2 points by MrCoffee7 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.61 101 | 20 points by AuthorizedCust 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.69 94 | 319 points by imadtaieber 5 days ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Software people, where are you taking your careers next?
    ×3.27 52 | 8 points by cedws 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace
    ×0.30 106 | 7 points by zishutron 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.88 108 | 114 points by maxim-fin 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why isn't decompilation a solved problem in the AI era?
    ×0.34 117 | 6 points by ferfumarma 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Has AI killed the front end engineer role?
    ×1.81 71 | 8 points by johndavid9991 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.99 138 | 29 points by genekrapivin 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.34 134 | 9 points by mattm 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.15 140 | 17 points by pkos98 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why doesn't a Cursor for Word exist?
    ×0.36 122 | 5 points by FabianArevalo 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Is there a genuine space for the Desktop AI assistant, or its solved?
    ×0.26 135 | 3 points by Qhloi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Hacker News datetimes are falsely precise
    ×0.42 129 | 5 points by perilunar 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Copper lined vest to help penguins with recovery (apnews.com)
    ×0.74 54 #37 | 60 points by ninju 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Spanda – Sub-microsecond LLM epistemic uncertainty in Rust (github.com/Adarshent)
    ×5.10 16 | 12 points by Bhupennayak 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast (thomasahle.com)
    ×1.13 68 | 134 points by thomasahle 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Wg-admin – web UI for an existing WireGuard host (github.com/logimaxx)
    ×0.80 130 | 35 points by vsergione 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Feeling Sad about AI (artificialworlds.net)
    ×6.41 69 | 169 points by encyclopedism 11 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released (github.com/GrapheneOS)
    ×1.66 3 #9 | 227 points by microtonal 9 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants (ieee.org)
    ×0.72 36 #18 | 74 points by ltononro 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Measuring the sloppiness of code (earendil.com)
    ×2.32 12 #38 | 253 points by doppp 15 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol (bernat.ch)
    ×1.08 48 #56 | 95 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. They do think AI might kill everyone (seangoedecke.com)
    ×4.71 10 #71 | 24 points by vladmashk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Dynamic Documents as Personal Software (Geoffrey Litt) (youtube.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by henryrobbins00 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
    ×1.05 88 | 172 points by ifz 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: NanoVector – A 120KB zero-dependency vector search engine in C and SIMD (github.com/eminsk)
    ×3.88 80 | 10 points by eminskinfo 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study (berkeley.edu)
    ×0.84 14 #16 | 128 points by dr_kiszonka 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. So you want to use OpenRouter? (mmoustafa.com)
    ×3.82 25 #41 | 701 points by player85 22 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021 (honestlyranked.com)
    ×3.31 22 | 384 points by honestlyranked 1 day ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Underfiction – you direct a scene, a frontier model writes the prose (underfiction.com)
    ×1.14 105 | 3 points by snoshkar 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Dbmask – Discover, mask, and verify sensitive data in SQL databases (github.com/sealandseacat)
    ×0.58 128 | 5 points by SiyuanFeng 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Classifying AI Website Fetches on Behalf of Users (canonry.ai)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by arberx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. ASI existential risk: reconsidering alignment as a goal (michaelnotebook.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof (johndcook.com)
    ×2.12 27 | 176 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Neijuan (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.99 2 | 114 points by vermilingua 20 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025) (nasa.gov)
    ×1.83 11 #87 | 370 points by gumby 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Beautiful Markdown rendering in your terminal (github.com/spencerldixon)
    ×1.34 96 | 6 points by spencerldixon 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: AppLocker – Open-source macOS app blocker using Apple Endpoint Security (github.com/TranPhuong319)
    ×1.39 131 | 4 points by tranphuong319 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rune is now open source (rune.build)
    ×1.50 20 #19 | 158 points by ernestrc 13 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Hepburn Romanization: How to Read Japanese in the Latin Alphabet (fink-translate.com)
    ×0.66 3 #50 | 32 points by miuraboy 6 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. 1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.61 11 | 7 points by vg 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I think I hate the internet (bearblog.dev)
    ×4.42 55 | 183 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI (unslop.news)
    ×2.76 43 #68 | 179 points by otherayden 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Menu Hub – a native macOS menu bar manager in SwiftUI/AppKit (github.com/Talljack)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by talljack 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Better coding agents need more than better models (github.com/Wholiver)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by oliverhuchenrui 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds (upsocl.com)
    ×3.07 22 | 378 points by rguiscard 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Minimal Static Website Hosting Tool (github.com/VictorioBerra)
    ×1.74 84 | 4 points by Lord_Zero 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Bastiontrace – Forensics for prompt-injected AI agents (github.com/Rinkia)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by Rinkia 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Vulnerability in balcony solar panel inverter (de) (ccc.de)
    ×2.10 34 | 3 points by yitchelle 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Discovery Loop is raising again, now at $50B valuation (businessinsider.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by utiiiD 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Nightshift – Your code gets better while you sleep (github.com/openslop)
    ×0.84 104 | 11 points by tcbrah 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (sprinklz.io)
    ×2.42 9 #61 | 112 points by sammy0910 12 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Self Host Your Own Minecraft Java Server with Ease (github.com/5TN1rcZRS79VAEFuUCRB)
    ×0.87 119 | 3 points by CMboSqdTACiEX27 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Logo Programming Language (mit.edu)
    ×1.52 10 #21 | 250 points by azhenley 15 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How good are LLMs at porting software in 2026?
    ×0.77 | 1 points by estranhosidade 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: NodehistJ – FTN Nodelist Server (github.com/oldzoomer-ru)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by oldzoomer 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. "What Is an 'AI Warning Shot'?" (2024) (gwern.net)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. river-classic - dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible configuration (codeberg.org)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by modinfo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go (github.com/galaxy-io)
    ×0.53 90 | 31 points by ikswolzok 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Table – A fast, streaming-first table renderer for Go (github.com/nekrassov01)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by nekrassov01 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them (cbc.ca)
    ×1.09 13 #8 | 17 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 118M Queries per Second on Neki (planetscale.com)
    ×0.83 21 #39 | 87 points by joshmgross 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree (devz.cl)
    ×0.84 69 #85 | 105 points by DanielVZ 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×2.07 59 #90 | 114 points by matheusml 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Dance MIDI Sample Pack Creator (monictheory.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by song_synth 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Raggy – A lightweight CLI tool for RAG over local documents (github.com/paulknysh)
    ×1.69 91 | 4 points by paulknysh 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: HungryGPU – Track local AI models, patches and recipes by hardware (hungrygpu.com)
    ×1.16 86 | 3 points by clawterminal 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A Decade of Hype, 3k Roofs, and One Redirect URL: Tesla Kills the Solar Roof (gadgetreview.com)
    ×1.63 5 #67 | 11 points by upofadown 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. New York thoracic surgeon: "For many patients 9/11 is not over" (statnews.com)
    ×1.92 21 #89 | 102 points by EA-3167 14 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. US lawmakers urge secretive British court to open up about Apple case (theguardian.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by CGMthrowaway 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. ATR Rules to Google SecOps Converter for Detection Engineers (github.com/ajaynyayapathi)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by nvajay 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Fog 2.0: I removed the AI auto-organizing I built my first app around (apple.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by akshatsaladi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale (neki.dev)
    ×1.42 60 | 101 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Open-source simulation testing infra for voice agents (github.com/egma-ai)
    ×5.33 102 | 15 points by Nischalj10 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Loop Pedal for Video (github.com/haxybaxy)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by haxybaxy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF (ayles.github.io)
    ×0.77 77 | 52 points by ayles 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies (gadgetreview.com)
    ×3.03 14 #23 | 75 points by upofadown 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OpenAI Agents API (openai.com)
    ×1.86 15 #75 | 338 points by aquir 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A method for finding interrelations bethween constants of physics and maths (sinscienceandspirituality.blogspot.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by djbarrow 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???