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  1. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.55 54 #77 | 101 points by syntaxbush 22 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.33 28 | 3 points by mellosty 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
    ×1.80 32 | 108 points by shantnutiwari 11 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Trying to recover from thin content penalty from Google
    ×0.26 96 | 3 points by anitroves 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×1.11 83 | 7 points by yiyingzhang 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.39 19 | 75 points by jvilalta 11 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.50 114 | 30 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Quickbooks Alternative?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by bix6 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
    ×0.67 99 | 4 points by something765478 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
    ×0.67 106 | 5 points by ex-aws-dude 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. As; HN: I was curious why MTP affects PP TPS in llama.cpp. My PoC recovers it?
    ×0.92 | 2 points by i_am_rocoe 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What is one thing about AI that annoys you the most?
    ×1.32 90 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Got access to Gemini's actual thinking
    ×0.22 132 | 4 points by StizzurpXDD 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.51 152 | 18 points by niyazpk 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.31 139 | 6 points by iaziz786 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.09 155 | 153 points by amichail 6 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×0.19 180 | 8 points by spidy__ 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.42 147 | 15 points by neya 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.84 149 | 20 points by tossitawayplz 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks?
    ×0.46 142 | 8 points by fur-tea-laser 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.03 165 | 15 points by vasko 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions
    ×0.53 146 | 8 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 176 | 96 points by asim 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.40 182 | 25 points by agos 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE?
    ×0.29 151 | 10 points by mariopt 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.56 123 | 80 points by ayi 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Anyone else feels many LLMs are heavily biased towards consumerism these days?
    ×0.33 163 | 8 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.92 164 | 22 points by julienreszka 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.36 178 | 43 points by JohnDSDev 5 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Replyt – Track which Reddit discussions become customers (replyt.co)
    ×1.68 1 | 4 points by hectorguedea 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Hollywood-backed nonprofit launches machine-readable AI consent registry (rslmedia.org)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by navs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: DPI Bypass – directory of tools and clients to evade DPI (github.com/ubub111)
    ×0.79 129 | 3 points by ububus 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Multi Agent Protocol for AI Scientist by Hexo Labs (github.com/hexo-ai)
    ×1.68 117 | 5 points by martianvoid 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Half-Life 2 in a Browser (slqnt.dev)
    ×2.86 18 #46 | 639 points by panza 19 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Four Years After Dobbs, Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Keep Coming for Online Speech (eff.org)
    ×2.45 23 #71 | 12 points by hn_acker 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AI Email Template Design (madooai.com)
    ×1.86 | 1 points by andreponce 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I taught a bucket to speak Git (tigrisdata.com)
    ×0.85 87 | 88 points by xena 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Hikaru Labs – Bulk image and file processing, 100% in-browser (hikarulabs.xyz)
    ×1.23 110 | 4 points by CFBL 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: RLM-based local debugger for AI agent traces (github.com/context-labs)
    ×0.48 138 | 25 points by mikepollard_dev 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing (argusred.com)
    ×1.00 159 | 93 points by dk189 5 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Launchpad Is Down (launchpad.net)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by rebelwebmaster 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Johnson and Johnson web apps (eaton-works.com)
    ×1.42 84 | 93 points by EatonZ 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A Deep Dive on China's "LineShine" All-CPU, Exaflops-Class Supercomputer (nextplatform.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by jonbaer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Trump administration asks to hold OpenAI's next model (axios.com)
    ×3.94 49 | 9 points by dramebaaz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×2.99 8 | 559 points by shadowtree 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The war on terror primed America for autocracy (economist.com)
    ×4.65 69 | 291 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward (techstrong.ai)
    ×2.98 45 | 230 points by CrankyBear 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11 (github.com/GloriousEggroll)
    ×1.06 12 #26 | 57 points by d3Xt3r 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf] (group.softbank)
    ×0.81 33 #61 | 58 points by dmmalam 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Lelu – gate OpenAI agent actions on confidence and prompt injection (github.com/Lelu-ai)
    ×1.96 160 | 5 points by abeni1990 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Staff Framework – Tornando Desejos Em Metas Verificáveis (Smart Method ) (fidelissauro.dev)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by lsferreira42 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Linux Foundation Launches Akrites to Defend FOSS from AI-Enabled Exploits (phoronix.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by LorenDB 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology (ibm.com)
    ×1.55 7 #8 | 258 points by porridgeraisin 9 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs (minipcs.zip)
    ×1.08 30 #40 | 103 points by yathern 12 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Accent Roulette – guess a stranger's country from their voice (accent-roulette.com)
    ×0.45 177 | 3 points by townload 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: DeepSeek Flash inverted the economics of agent products (rtrvr.ai)
    ×2.86 22 | 8 points by arjunchint 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub (github.com/BohemiaInteractive)
    ×1.47 28 #56 | 185 points by dewey 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Wall Street Embraces the Dollar as Warsh's Fed Activates Bulls (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.23 20 | 3 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader (omgmog.net)
    ×1.94 16 | 296 points by felixdoerp 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt (lookaway.com)
    ×0.82 88 | 70 points by _kush 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Graphical SQL Builder and Debugger (github.com/webofmarius)
    ×0.52 136 | 21 points by matei88 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (cauenapier.com)
    ×1.65 125 | 272 points by cauenapier 5 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) (github.com/overflowy)
    ×1.44 143 | 155 points by overflowy 5 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Graft – one golden VM image for your Mac dev box and CI runners (github.com/arborist-sh)
    ×1.64 174 | 4 points by phtowel 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why Dark Sky Lighting? (savingourstars.org)
    ×1.27 68 #45 | 22 points by alexandrehtrb 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on (github.com/Fran314)
    ×0.46 58 #82 | 28 points by Fran314 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude AI's link handling and fix (foolquest.com)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by Aaron_Agassi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ford could bring F1-inspired 'skunkworks' EVs to Europe (autocar.co.uk)
    ×1.18 44 | 3 points by breve 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Chinese A.I. Models Close the Gap with Anthropic and OpenAI (nytimes.com)
    ×4.06 9 | 8 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
    ×1.48 29 | 239 points by swolpers 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control (politico.eu)
    ×3.25 104 | 74 points by miohtama 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A privacy-first tool to email your MP about Canada's surveillance bill (stopc22.ca)
    ×1.20 41 | 4 points by braunshizzle 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Record type inference for dummies (haskellforall.com)
    ×0.79 39 #19 | 8 points by g0xA52A2A 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Stealing Is a Skill (ben-mini.com)
    ×1.61 51 #86 | 254 points by bewal416 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents (github.com/block)
    ×5.46 172 | 21 points by ThomPete 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Van Halen test (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.75 12 #52 | 8 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition (cwu.org)
    ×3.33 70 | 118 points by addshore 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. New macOS malware embeds fake errors to confuse AI analysis tools (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by thewebguyd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20% (ft.com)
    ×5.30 72 | 258 points by bazzmt 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Parallel Parentheses Matching (williamdue.github.io)
    ×0.80 20 #11 | 50 points by Athas 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by Alupis 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Forte – Cloud infra to get startups to production faster (forteplatforms.com)
    ×2.61 154 | 7 points by mvand 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: Anyone Here Work for Google? Specifically on the Google SMB Newsletter?
    ×1.23 23 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Administration asks OpenAI to stagger release of new model (yahoo.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by OutOfHere 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Investors bet on AI again after Micron reports 346% sales jump (cnn.com)
    ×1.78 4 | 4 points by dabinat 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tropius: Detect AI Tropes in Prose (tangled.org)
    ×1.22 21 | 3 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. OS9Map (yllan.org)
    ×1.53 14 #15 | 180 points by LaSombra 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: How did you set up a multi-agent orchestration for personal use?
    ×0.93 | 2 points by cromka 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Omega Sandbox – a real‑time system built on the Laws of Change (zenodo.org)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by CarloLoopTheory 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Hermetic builds help contain Shai-Hulud attacks (flox.dev)
    ×1.46 60 | 3 points by mathewpregasen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???