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  1. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×0.34 14 | 3 points by spidy__ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?
    ×0.81 42 | 11 points by simonebrunozzi 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
    ×2.28 30 | 336 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Open source, global vs. proprietary but for US in US, which is fundable in SaaS?
    ×0.33 76 | 4 points by avijeetsingh16 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×1.07 77 | 44 points by xupybd 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.78 58 | 12 points by julienreszka 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.13 90 | 151 points by amichail 3 days ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×0.20 97 | 5 points by blahaj 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.70 110 | 94 points by asim 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
    ×0.46 102 | 8 points by po1nt 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by jmount 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.36 116 | 8 points by hmokiguess 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.44 146 | 25 points by agos 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.61 105 | 40 points by JohnDSDev 2 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
    ×0.32 104 | 6 points by AbstractH24 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What would justify writting an OS kernel in 2026?
    ×0.60 127 | 5 points by alonsovm44 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Has Codex gotten slower recently?
    ×0.99 78 | 6 points by aurenvale 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code
    ×0.22 151 | 4 points by gagewoodard 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×3.81 41 | 55 points by ayi 8 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.40 161 | 8 points by snowhy 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?
    ×0.38 144 | 5 points by julienreszka 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. My Opinion on RL
    ×0.21 145 | 3 points by umjunsik132 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GitHub Banned All CI for Our (OSS) Org Because of Bad Drive-By Contributors
    ×0.83 109 | 9 points by BlueMatt 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
    ×0.39 131 | 5 points by lkrubner 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.38 133 | 10 points by gaggle_dk 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?
    ×0.56 152 | 7 points by hbarka 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose?
    ×0.51 141 | 10 points by bix6 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?
    ×0.27 140 | 6 points by elcritch 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What are your favourite Hacker News comments?
    ×0.30 157 | 4 points by Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to get ideas for space startups?
    ×0.31 148 | 6 points by asxndu 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Forked CozoDB to give agents cognitive primitives
    ×0.45 159 | 6 points by shanrizvi 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.28 158 | 14 points by uejfiweun 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.55 160 | 8 points by lordkrandel 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?
    ×0.52 136 | 9 points by johndavid9991 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Any AI native Anki alternatives?
    ×0.72 114 | 5 points by shadag 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?
    ×0.64 137 | 9 points by JohnDSDev 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.59 142 | 16 points by vantareed 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Finding signal in noisy street recording over 2 weeks (amlucas.github.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by amlucas 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Rent collections are down in New York (politico.com)
    ×1.27 56 | 124 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 545 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform (owulveryck.info)
    ×0.80 40 #46 | 38 points by owulveryck 10 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. GLM 5.2 vs. Opus (techstackups.com)
    ×2.63 16 #77 | 510 points by ritzaco 1 day ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents (interconnects.ai)
    ×1.24 45 #86 | 15 points by vantareed 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Browse the web your way (browse-your-way.vercel.app)
    ×0.83 126 | 4 points by MaxLeiter 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects (clevercrow.io)
    ×0.46 98 #61 | 56 points by zhubert 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Never Give Them Your Face (nevergivethemyourface.com)
    ×5.59 57 | 721 points by audiodude 1 day ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups (startupsbr.com)
    ×0.88 98 | 18 points by leonagano 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How Lume Works: The Retrieval Primitives (deepbluedynamics.com)
    ×0.24 73 #69 | 10 points by kordlessagain 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Agent skills that review user-facing agent UX from your codebase (github.com/Correl8AI)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by romz 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Cachet – A drop-in semantic cache for LLM APIs, 100% local, in Rust (github.com/abhix2112)
    ×1.28 31 | 3 points by Abhi_2112 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Steam Machine launches today (steampowered.com)
    ×6.59 7 #5 | 1796 points by theschwa 22 hours ago | 1534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM (github.com/ilbertt)
    ×0.75 5 #8 | 17 points by ilbert 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010) (norvig.com)
    ×1.11 52 | 193 points by tosh 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Health insurance claim denial rates range from 13% to 35% by insurer (randalolson.com)
    ×3.97 79 | 71 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts (gerrymandle.cc)
    ×1.56 94 | 238 points by realmofthemad 5 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.73 44 #71 | 96 points by zdw 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I sleep less when I exercise more (mdickens.me)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by surprisetalk 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: AGI will not come from better models, it will come from meta harness (github.com/the-open-engine)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by covibes 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Help I accidentally a wigglegram (lmao.center)
    ×2.38 31 #42 | 549 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators (wsj.com)
    ×3.69 33 #55 | 440 points by Vaslo 16 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Reimplementation of Mario Kart Wii's physics engine in C++ (github.com/vabold)
    ×1.92 | 2 points by klaussilveira 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend (github.com/kyle-ssg)
    ×1.34 55 | 50 points by kyle-ssg 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: KeyGhost – Keyboard app launcher for macOS (keyghost.dev)
    ×0.72 103 | 8 points by 3stacks 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Quikdown – 17 KB bidirectional Markdown parser and rich-fence editor (github.com/deftio)
    ×3.04 135 | 7 points by deftio 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. SHOW HN: I built a social profile for vibecoders to share & store their projects (kritive.com)
    ×1.08 154 | 3 points by sonOfHades 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Open Source for IBM Z and LinuxONE (ibm.com)
    ×0.28 76 #22 | 3 points by ncruces 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs (xenodium.com)
    ×2.33 7 #63 | 136 points by xenodium 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Blaiso Launches Today (blaiso.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by msass 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.60 6 | 100 points by petethomas 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (intheweights.com)
    ×3.52 81 | 469 points by turtlesoup 4 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript? (brainfrog.lol)
    ×0.91 101 | 15 points by AlexanderZ 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
    ×6.89 80 | 94 points by FergusArgyll 3 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Will It Mythos? (swelljoe.com)
    ×1.51 8 #12 | 235 points by mindingnever 11 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Prompt Injection as Role Confusion (role-confusion.github.io)
    ×1.70 25 #50 | 209 points by x312 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres (crunchydata.com)
    ×0.89 8 #75 | 133 points by sprawl_ 20 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025) (lwn.net)
    ×1.33 9 #83 | 126 points by weaksauce 21 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: The Cascade Graph – An interactive map of AI and energy constraints (atomprophet.io)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by antisyzygy 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. FDA Allows New Sunscreen, but Consumers Are Still Being Burned by Cronyism (independent.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by littlexsparkee 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The minimum viable unit of saleable software (brandur.org)
    ×1.36 48 | 210 points by brandur 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. PowerFox Browser (jazzzny.me)
    ×1.24 49 | 164 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships (wsj.com)
    ×1.81 12 | 131 points by julienchastang 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends (hbr.org)
    ×2.58 71 | 112 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Prismag – Per-block model routing for the terminal and any IDE (github.com/rufus-SD)
    ×0.57 117 | 5 points by arthur-G 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Smolsonic – A Subsonic-compatible music server written in Rust (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×0.85 121 | 3 points by tsiry 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Agentic coding workflows built on Git worktrees and task evidence (github.com/alex-reysa)
    ×1.17 132 | 10 points by alexreysa 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Pure Effect – Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DB (pure-effect.org)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by tie-in 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf (the-criterion-closet.vercel.app)
    ×1.62 48 #87 | 185 points by olievans 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Elastic Loop: A framework for everyone delegating work to machines (robert-glaser.de)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by youngbrioche 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Jobs and Software Is Fucked (bearblog.dev)
    ×6.59 48 | 307 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing (argusred.com)
    ×0.99 89 | 92 points by dk189 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Revenant – automatic LLM powered reverse engineering and reimplement
    ×1.78 100 | 7 points by sylwester 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???