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  1. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×3.31 58 #85 | 485 points by leumon 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
    ×1.68 5 | 76 points by tonymet 18 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.69 57 | 17 points by FireUpTheTorren 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Which class of business model is most resilient to build in the AI era?
    ×0.33 77 | 3 points by chatmasta 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer?
    ×0.88 95 | 5 points by metrofun 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why is AI civil tech and not military first?
    ×0.69 80 | 7 points by esher 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?
    ×1.02 87 | 7 points by stefanos82 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How many of you juggle multiple agent sessions at the same time?
    ×0.64 76 | 5 points by top_rooster 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: AI agent acts. Your logs say so. But you wrote the logs
    ×0.69 83 | 5 points by Yahyaaa 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Does anyone have a VRAM tester? Something like MemTest86+ but for GPUs?
    ×1.37 58 | 9 points by vkaku 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Solving all open source tech debt with Codex
    ×0.44 119 | 3 points by surajkrajan 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Should I leave web development to study medicine in my mid-30s?
    ×0.91 93 | 5 points by lovepuzzles 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you guys stop coding agents from acting out of line?
    ×0.60 122 | 3 points by vivekyyy 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Ideas for dealing with overly-do-gooder agents
    ×0.44 | 2 points by zof3 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Gmail can mark legit mail from google.com as spam
    ×0.68 98 | 5 points by salviati 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why do tools like customer.io abandon self-serve after their Series A?
    ×0.36 105 | 14 points by alessandroetc 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new 5H usage limit in Codex?
    ×0.65 127 | 3 points by embedding-shape 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read?
    ×0.73 114 | 4 points by AmirMakirr 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Another Webpage Screenshot and OG Image Generation API
    ×0.39 | 2 points by foodpad 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.81 118 | 75 points by kaladan 3 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?
    ×0.63 134 | 9 points by JacobWolf 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Where else do you spend time on the internet other than HN?
    ×0.32 126 | 11 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.43 133 | 30 points by foota 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do you still do pair programming in this agentic age?
    ×0.42 115 | 6 points by Andugal 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (blog.google)
    ×2.07 12 #12 | 254 points by saretup 17 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. $900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor (independent.co.uk)
    ×6.48 49 #83 | 123 points by pseudolus 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. YouTube Format IDs (github.com/MartinEesmaa)
    ×1.29 48 #90 | 129 points by ksec 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026 (arcep.fr)
    ×3.54 18 | 317 points by nehalem501 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Understudy: Scenario Testing for AI Agents (github.com/gojiplus)
    ×1.15 56 | 3 points by neehao 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Vertex, your personal archiver and annotator (vertexapp.io)
    ×2.31 112 | 4 points by asheshambasta 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: The lightweight Claude and LMStudio, and memory across sessions. (call-me-vera.vercel.app)
    ×1.27 131 | 3 points by kofdai 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Gemini-3.5-Transcribe (blog.google)
    ×2.25 12 #7 | 287 points by k9294 16 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Judge rules Trump administration illegally punished AI firm Anthropic (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.93 27 | 3 points by mgh2 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Our AI isn't allowed to have memory (sentohq.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by adrved 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Scheduled Claude Code agents that cost nothing on a quiet day (github.com/shadok-ai)
    ×1.67 11 | 3 points by gnarco2 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Warp – Run the 313B GLM-5.3-Flash on a MacBook with 8GB RAM
    ×1.32 120 | 3 points by marcobambini 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS (github.com/AlgorithmicResearchGroup)
    ×1.93 45 #35 | 6 points by modagent 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Terence Tao – How the top mathematician uses AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.81 | 2 points by binyu 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: RepoFlock – Git dashboard for a fleet of repos and submodules (repoflock.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by beannt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM (github.com/swimmingbrain)
    ×1.07 66 | 118 points by swimmingbrain 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Kusama Yayoi has died (nytimes.com)
    ×2.27 3 #89 | 265 points by phantomathkg 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Summer's over: take out your notebooks (or Loreline) (loreline.app)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by gr4vityWall 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist" (crimethinc.com)
    ×7.12 44 | 222 points by robtherobber 21 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity (humanprogress.org)
    ×4.95 1 | 120 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI (ssp.sh)
    ×1.66 50 #64 | 253 points by zazuke 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Queryable Executables (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.96 46 #87 | 332 points by rguiscard 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tim Curry has died (theguardian.com)
    ×4.58 30 | 716 points by mykowebhn 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Devx – Autonomous AI coding agent built for Android Termux and desktop (github.com/apvcode)
    ×0.68 113 | 12 points by apvcode 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (alyssarosenzweig.ca)
    ×2.94 #1 | 40 points by luu 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida (cbsaustin.com)
    ×2.68 23 #37 | 92 points by cocacola1 8 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. On the way to automate user manuals and knowledge bases (typemill.net)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by trendschau 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Unique Bronze Age "Treasures of Villena" Stolen in Spain (radar.am)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Backprompter – create, test, and deploy agents without a back end (backprompter.com)
    ×1.44 123 | 3 points by aj-srivastava 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (codecanary.org)
    ×1.11 88 | 131 points by tke248 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal (newscientist.com)
    ×2.05 13 #9 | 129 points by eutropheon 11 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati (noblogs.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by rapnie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: 18 Words, Zanagrams and Sunflowers Are Now PZL Games
    ×4.09 62 | 6 points by pompomsheep 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SoapProxyApp – A lightweight HTTP/SOAP API debugger (github.com/milanmilic)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by milan_milic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Semiconductor tariffs could cost U.S. $90B a year and 243,000 jobs (thenextweb.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by rbanffy 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Puppetflow a free browser automation platform (github.com/puppetflow)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by jierka 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. More Japan hotels offer sleep tourism experiences to promote better sleep (mainichi.jp)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.68 20 | 263 points by blimmer 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform (techdirt.com)
    ×4.13 60 | 136 points by ano-ther 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: ASOGrade – App Store keyword research using Apple Search Ads demand (asograde.com)
    ×2.01 90 | 5 points by ashwinn11 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Revenue Agents that monitor churn, upsell, and deal risk (rimplo.com)
    ×1.57 124 | 3 points by Hoss-Elkhateeb 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. 12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive (getty.edu)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by gregoire 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game (pushup.quest)
    ×0.99 86 | 21 points by not_wowinter13 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. MicroSD card torture test reveal SanDisk as the outlier: 6 fails of the 7 tested (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.53 | 4 points by Markoff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore (github.com/ahmadpiran)
    ×0.46 66 #60 | 44 points by ahmadpiran 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab (github.com/calmrocks)
    ×1.36 58 | 111 points by calmrocks 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.01 51 | 6 points by KingMob 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Requests to remove DHH impression from Neovim website prompts heated argument (github.com/neovim)
    ×6.41 61 | 9 points by drayfield 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
    ×4.86 44 | 190 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Another look at SQLite's WAL-Reset bug (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.91 18 | 3 points by blueshoess 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Markdown Database Pattern (wayofmarkdown.com)
    ×1.29 53 #63 | 43 points by rufuspollock 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Less Paper – native iOS/iPadOS client for Paperless-ngx (github.com/plu)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by jplunien 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring back end engineers (ycombinator.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers (acceptmarkdown.com)
    ×1.29 31 | 174 points by tilt 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter-Cultural Education (1966)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by dwrodri 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Beckon, distinct sounds for what your AI coding agent needs (github.com/Isa1asN)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by esayas_beshah 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: KinoPipe – FFmpeg as a service for AI agents (typed ops, no shell) (kinopipe.com)
    ×1.34 121 | 3 points by nicniclapanique 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Knowl – agent memory with write-time supersession, 0.90 on MAB (knowl.cloud)
    ×1.80 130 | 3 points by dat999zx 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes them (github.com/opslane)
    ×0.98 79 #38 | 23 points by aray07 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A Looming Rare Earth Shortage Threatens Critical Tech (ieee.org)
    ×1.56 13 #62 | 12 points by JeanKage 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. M5Stack Launches PaperMono (m5stack.com)
    ×1.25 22 #23 | 142 points by marksully 16 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Sanjeev Gupta’s family takes out £24mn mortgage on Belgravia mansion (ft.com)
    ×1.59 20 #74 | 12 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Grid Data Explorer (open-energy-transition.github.io)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by ly0n 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane' (bbc.com)
    ×3.19 54 | 181 points by vinni2 16 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem (comaps.app)
    ×1.14 8 #61 | 137 points by janandonly 20 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???