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  1. We need tech news sources which exclude AI
    ×4.53 14 #15 | 68 points by botfriendsarent 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
    ×0.42 35 | 12 points by anitroves 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×1.03 7 | 12 points by andyjohnson0 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.43 76 | 3 points by petemc_ 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.34 104 | 154 points by syntaxbush 3 days ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
    ×1.36 16 | 52 points by trowa159 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.88 86 | 101 points by gcanyon 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.74 103 | 65 points by oscgam1 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.50 48 | 105 points by PhilipDaineko 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.37 114 | 7 points by thoughtpeddler 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.56 105 | 33 points by mzubairtahir 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.67 116 | 9 points by justanything 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.54 122 | 5 points by i_am_rocoe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.51 138 | 36 points by JohnDSDev 4 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.29 151 | 4 points by howToTestFE 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Fast feedback loops is the way
    ×0.60 115 | 5 points by skyglider 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Recursive self improvement for human skills
    ×0.43 130 | 4 points by rando77 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×1.03 121 | 9 points by aurenvale 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.20 164 | 4 points by HoldOnAMinute 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.54 143 | 15 points by mellosty 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Data Privacy while using API tools
    ×0.21 140 | 4 points by 11shyam11 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Mojo is becoming open source
    ×1.04 119 | 8 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?
    ×0.62 124 | 7 points by reinhardt 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.60 157 | 5 points by throwaw12 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×1.83 113 | 23 points by notsure357 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan?
    ×3.86 67 | 14 points by vantareed 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.51 168 | 20 points by niyazpk 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.32 154 | 8 points by netfortius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.59 145 | 16 points by othmanosx 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×0.71 155 | 8 points by VaderAi 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Running local LLMs? What's your model and hardware
    ×2.09 111 | 11 points by alfiedotwtf 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn?
    ×0.48 166 | 4 points by datsci_est_2015 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.53 169 | 8 points by yiyingzhang 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.85 163 | 23 points by tossitawayplz 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.50 134 | 81 points by ayi 5 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How is GPU power draw measured at scale?
    ×0.27 170 | 5 points by anax32 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together (ethz.ch)
    ×0.67 83 | 47 points by tspng 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js (github.com/nubjs)
    ×1.45 99 | 275 points by colinmcd 4 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron (github.com/y-times-y)
    ×0.82 150 | 35 points by HetPatel106 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.69 45 #29 | 69 points by Rochus 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Usefulness of AI Agents (erikjohannes.no)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by Curiositry 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
    ×6.63 33 | 751 points by HotGarbage 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Hacker Times – HN Reader (hntrends.net)
    ×2.32 88 | 8 points by bencevans 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: ZeroGate – API gateway to scale cloud GPUs to zero when idle (github.com/noah-garner)
    ×1.30 165 | 5 points by ngarner 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: DeepSeek Flash inverted the economics of agent products (rtrvr.ai)
    ×2.59 158 | 9 points by arjunchint 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. It's dead, Jim – the old Microsoft UEFI CA from 2011 expired yesterday (einval.com)
    ×2.07 76 #75 | 43 points by zdw 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Reacting to Two French Entrepreneurs Who Built a $100K SaaS (thenewassociationwebmasters.blogspot.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by odilelof 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Choosing a Public DNS Resolver (evilbit.de)
    ×1.82 8 | 270 points by pawal 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams (jayacunzo.com)
    ×4.92 35 | 368 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet (ipcrawl.com)
    ×1.96 6 | 327 points by arm32 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Open Tag, the open source Claude Tag (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×1.28 146 | 4 points by nathan_tarbert 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Image2JXL – a native macOS JPEG XL converter (reddit.com)
    ×1.29 5 | 3 points by givebest 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. /Dev/Notion (notion.com)
    ×1.51 1 | 5 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. New Manager Guide Series (yusufaytas.com)
    ×2.67 4 | 8 points by yusufaytas 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Treedocs: Documentation that automatically checks for staleness (dandylyons.github.io)
    ×0.67 141 | 53 points by DandyLyons 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM (github.com/ilbertt)
    ×0.46 139 | 55 points by ilbert 5 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (quickish.space)
    ×0.93 80 | 110 points by PaybackTony 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown (elpais.com)
    ×3.92 5 #2 | 258 points by geox 9 hours ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI and Liability (schneier.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by lwhsiao 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Beer CSS – Build material design in record time (beercss.com)
    ×1.14 69 | 134 points by Seb-C 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Peruvians promised jobs in Russia, but landed on the front lines in Ukraine (cnn.com)
    ×5.53 28 | 11 points by breve 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf] (github.com/deepseek-ai)
    ×3.34 13 #83 | 784 points by aurenvale 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: The Cascade Graph – An interactive map of AI and energy constraints (atomprophet.io)
    ×0.48 160 | 26 points by antisyzygy 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks (semgrep.dev)
    ×3.10 1 #1 | 446 points by jms703 7 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Historical memory prices 1960-2026 (stanford.edu)
    ×1.80 5 #5 | 160 points by vga1 7 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Staying Awake (2008) (harpers.org)
    ×0.54 30 #35 | 19 points by NaOH 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram (nsspot.herokuapp.com)
    ×0.35 129 | 9 points by jupr 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A pure ARM64 Assembly web server, now on Linux with CGI for no reason (github.com/imtomt)
    ×0.76 148 | 51 points by imtomt 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (jim.sh)
    ×3.52 106 | 9 points by foodevl 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: role-model, a router for hybrid local/cloud AI (github.com/try-works)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by try-working 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Fixed-Rate Mortgages Are Rent Control for Homeoweners (precon.substack.com)
    ×3.27 11 | 8 points by NomNew 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×0.89 18 #13 | 94 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenRA (openra.net)
    ×3.36 7 #69 | 779 points by tosh 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: Local CJK/Latin entity extraction without shipping a model?
    ×0.93 50 | 3 points by zphou 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: best.free (best.free)
    ×1.62 25 | 4 points by nadermx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1 (openttd.org)
    ×1.99 57 | 231 points by untilted 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I Derived a Steak (absurdlyoptimized.com)
    ×2.32 142 | 8 points by bkazez 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920) (pudding.cool)
    ×1.68 6 #6 | 324 points by xbryanx 11 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days (github.com/bikini)
    ×3.90 25 #78 | 924 points by binyu 1 day ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI 'exuberance' risks ending in lengthy investment bust (ft.com)
    ×1.60 14 #81 | 4 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.42 55 #70 | 128 points by saisrirampur 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Play puzzle games in a feed like TikTok (puzzle.express)
    ×1.38 135 | 6 points by trancence 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Mantis, A self-hosted LLM gateway (github.com/mantis-llm-gateway)
    ×1.11 159 | 5 points by rizsyed1 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech (theintercept.com)
    ×5.47 31 #49 | 45 points by xrd 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other (cauenapier.com)
    ×2.08 38 #61 | 300 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Slavoj ŽIžek: Should We Grasp AI Not Only as Substance but Also as Subject? (youtube.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by AndrewKemendo 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Excavator That Digs to a Line It Cannot See – Mobility and Field Robotics (atomsfrontier.substack.com)
    ×0.45 49 #53 | 9 points by jpatel3 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I built a "living proof-of-work" for builders (Show HN that persists) (kritive.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by sonOfHades 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Codeberg Is Down (anoxinon.de)
    ×2.92 68 | 56 points by sscaryterry 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???