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My GLM-5.1 coding agent scored 94.3% on LiveCodeBench Lite (348/369)

×0.34 12 | 3 points by univence 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?

×0.19 | 2 points by preston-kwei 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hey, it's Earth Day today

×0.68 3 | 8 points by burnt-resistor 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition?

×0.46 30 | 6 points by gokuljs 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)

×0.35 68 | 36 points by DogRunner 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?

×0.86 65 | 144 points by alegd 2 days ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

×1.82 70 | 297 points by modelcroissant 3 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are cloud coding agents useful in real workflows yet?

×0.10 84 | 3 points by Rperry2174 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

×0.73 85 | 29 points by sunny678 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenClaw stats don't add up

×0.46 74 | 9 points by iliaov 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users

×0.71 82 | 13 points by darkhorse13 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?

×0.61 76 | 9 points by nnurmanov 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic bans orgs without warning

×2.54 67 | 29 points by alpinisme 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are there any engineering orgs that use incentives?

×0.14 | 2 points by jppope 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?

×0.79 118 | 73 points by fnoef 5 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.5 Released in Codex

×1.96 72 | 11 points by zuzululu 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask Anthropic: Requesting clarity on Claude -p situation

×0.90 110 | 5 points by andai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session

×0.37 131 | 14 points by agentseal 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My file access workaround for cron in Tahoe

×0.19 130 | 4 points by noduerme 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

×7.20 22 | 313 points by jonthepirate 21 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Getting back into photography, ditching the phone camera in 2026?

×0.41 127 | 7 points by eigenhombre 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is GitHub's #1 repo fake? build-your-own-x 491K stars

×0.49 116 | 11 points by throwawaysoso 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Warning: If you search "Claude Desktop" on Google, the 2nd ad result is a scam

×0.30 134 | 7 points by diogenescynic 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager

×0.43 143 | 10 points by chairhairair 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?

×0.98 157 | 20 points by arikusi 6 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: May be a basic question, but how can I use AI well?

×0.40 150 | 9 points by jdw64 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?

×0.53 152 | 14 points by canterburry 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating (yale.edu)

×1.54 44 | 128 points by speckx 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids (universetoday.com)

×1.45 63 | 65 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What killed the Florida orange? (slate.com)

×1.53 16 #22 | 91 points by danso 7 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laws of Software Engineering (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)

×4.32 8 #65 | 1125 points by milanm081 1 day ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A visual CSS editor, Mac native (bendansby.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by webwielder2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oxford Calculators (wikipedia.org)

×1.15 | 2 points by danielam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG (github.com/yapstudios)

×0.56 132 | 29 points by olliewagner 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI Coding Agent Guardrails enforced at runtime (sigmashake.com)

×1.01 139 | 5 points by cavalrytactics 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: fmsg – An open distributed messaging protocol (markmnl.github.io)

×1.61 144 | 5 points by markmnl 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A printing press for biological data (owlposting.com)

×0.63 60 #67 | 57 points by crescit_eundo 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grasshopper: Advanced Tab Manager (mozilla.org)

×0.39 | 1 points by madprops 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex (github.com/dchu917)

×0.78 59 | 71 points by dchu17 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aide – A customizable Android assistant (voice, choose your provider) (aideassistant.com)

×1.67 86 | 7 points by yincrash 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely (science.org)

×0.99 61 #85 | 143 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy (exe.dev)

×0.68 50 #88 | 44 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau (luau.org)

×2.16 23 | 3 points by vrn-sn 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
生き甲斐 (ikigai) “a reason for being” (wikipedia.org)

×1.11 | 2 points by guessmyname 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Humanoid.js – One HTML file that scores how human your clicks look (bensontech.dev)

×1.67 108 | 5 points by informal007 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agentkit-CLI, one canonical context file for AI coding agents (mikiships.github.io)

×0.71 160 | 3 points by miki_ships 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)

×5.11 #1 | 1125 points by Kaibeezy 6 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Expansion Artifacts (mattstromawn.com)

×0.25 61 #64 | 23 points by tobr 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Forge-Core released on GitHub, Parse JSON in your data warehouse (github.com/foxtrotcommunications)

×0.61 | 1 points by brady_bastian 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The IOC's decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness (theguardian.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by vlebb 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 4.7 is having a rough day. double check its work (imgur.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by prallo 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs (theregister.com)

×7.34 42 | 218 points by jjgreen 14 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Browser Extension for Testing Content Security Policy (csptool.net)

×1.01 129 | 3 points by bootbloopers 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (maurycyz.com)

×2.82 1 #5 | 347 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maryland to become first state to ban 'dynamic pricing' in grocery stores (yahoo.com)

×2.87 14 #53 | 35 points by jonbaer 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Google Spanner (google.com)

×2.52 6 #72 | 19 points by tanelpoder 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker (grapheneos.org)

×2.83 11 | 257 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness (mediator.ai)

×1.02 54 | 155 points by sanity 2 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean (github.com/mmaaz-git)

×0.76 146 | 13 points by mmaaz 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3.4M Solar Panels (marksblogg.com)

×1.59 8 #15 | 276 points by marklit 10 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The invisible engineering behind Lambda's network (allthingsdistributed.com)

×0.76 43 #90 | 20 points by ingve 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SAW-INT4: System-Aware 4-Bit KV-Cache Quantization for Real-World LLM Serving (arxiv.org)

×0.67 | 1 points by matt_d 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The opportunity is in building ethical software that respects users needs (bhurghundii.substack.com)

×0.95 | 2 points by sailorganymede 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Netlify for Agents (netlify.ai)

×3.88 9 | 12 points by bobfunk 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open Chronicle – Local Screen Memory for Claude Code and Codex CLI (github.com/Screenata)

×1.37 93 | 5 points by taoh 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Muxforge Tmux Plugin Manager (muxforge.dev)

×1.56 114 | 4 points by techalchemist 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cursor for LibreOffice, Week 4-6 (keithcu.com)

×0.94 | 1 points by keithcu2 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Design.md: The New Open Contract Between Designers and AI (kyanfeat.substack.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by kyanfeat 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Archon-memory-core – agent memory that resolves contradictions (divergencerouter.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by Divergence42 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MemFactory: Unified Inference and Training Framework for Agent Memory (arxiv.org)

×2.06 83 | 8 points by MemTensor 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Palmier – bridge your AI agents and your phone (github.com/caihongxu)

×1.61 120 | 7 points by caihongxu 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First per-image PCA decomposition of Kodak suite reveals deliberate curation (github.com/PearsonZero)

×0.72 53 #19 | 6 points by PearsonZero 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (nationsreportcard.gov)

×2.54 43 #48 | 169 points by u1hcw9nx 4 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tim Cook Regrets Maps Flub, Sees Apple Watch as His Proudest Work (bloomberg.com)

×1.00 | 2 points by amrrs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bolt AI builder: Create apps and websites by chatting with AI (bolt.new)

×0.42 | 1 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter (zef-lang.dev)

×1.44 48 | 246 points by pizlonator 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a map of the GeminiNet (rbtms.github.io)

×0.49 | 2 points by rbtms 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WeTransfer Alternative for Developers (dlvr.sh)

×1.06 87 | 23 points by mariusbolik 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation (github.com/google-deepmind)

×0.90 39 #44 | 106 points by modinfo 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans (github.blog)

×3.65 23 #75 | 521 points by zorrn 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM (jasoneckert.github.io)

×1.18 12 #81 | 183 points by jasoneckert 23 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Your Digital Life Vanishes (newyorker.com)

×1.93 17 | 3 points by benbreen 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kuri – Zig based agent-browser alternative (github.com/justrach)

×0.88 42 #89 | 55 points by sorcercode 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)

×0.79 113 | 46 points by arjunchint 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an AI that assigns YOU tasks (pause.build)

×0.90 138 | 4 points by chaidhat 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Books are not too expensive (millersbookreview.com)

×0.97 11 #17 | 17 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen (asteriskmag.com)

×4.23 37 #82 | 670 points by nkurz 23 hours ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A free tool for non-technical folks to easily publish a website (weejur.com)

×0.43 | 2 points by npilk 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Flight Risk: Can you break an AI agent? (lorikeetcx.ai)

×0.72 135 | 3 points by tetrakai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (microsoft.com)

×1.58 32 #33 | 199 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???