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  1. Ask HN: Where are the innovations happening today?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by cauliflower99 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×9.47 88 | 711 points by cromka 7 hours ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?
    ×0.66 20 | 4 points by superasn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH
    ×0.33 52 | 3 points by rawland 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is GPT-6 Astra worth the 2.5x cost increase over GPT-5.6 Sol?
    ×0.45 45 | 4 points by minimaxir 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: AI and Math
    ×0.08 | 2 points by ekm2 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What is the average number of hops in your social network to 9-11 death?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by MrCoffee7 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.63 1 | 468 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Has AI killed the front end engineer role?
    ×1.68 44 | 6 points by johndavid9991 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.57 98 | 18 points by AuthorizedCust 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace
    ×0.32 100 | 7 points by zishutron 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.68 95 | 317 points by imadtaieber 5 days ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.88 104 | 114 points by maxim-fin 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why isn't decompilation a solved problem in the AI era?
    ×0.36 109 | 6 points by ferfumarma 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.35 133 | 9 points by mattm 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why doesn't a Cursor for Word exist?
    ×0.38 117 | 5 points by FabianArevalo 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.97 139 | 28 points by genekrapivin 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Is there a genuine space for the Desktop AI assistant, or its solved?
    ×0.27 135 | 3 points by Qhloi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Hacker News datetimes are falsely precise
    ×0.44 121 | 5 points by perilunar 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.12 140 | 16 points by pkos98 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?
    ×0.54 132 | 9 points by julienreszka 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Raiders at the Gate – tower defense web game (chrisbeach.co.uk)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by cbeach 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How I Prompt (thorstenball.com)
    ×1.71 30 #59 | 55 points by luu 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Cretan Method (hintjens.com)
    ×1.00 28 #76 | 6 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×2.10 68 #79 | 108 points by matheusml 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health (cell.com)
    ×1.93 2 | 128 points by qclibre22 16 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Beautiful Markdown rendering in your terminal (github.com/spencerldixon)
    ×1.35 88 | 6 points by spencerldixon 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: News observability site tracks coverage by party lean/distraction/etc. (pressaudit.org)
    ×1.35 130 | 3 points by SLHamlet 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Tab Atlas – A visual tab manager that never auto-closes your tabs (google.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by mysticmetal 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post (gettogether.dev)
    ×0.87 110 | 107 points by nchudleigh 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Room 641A (wikipedia.org)
    ×3.56 8 #17 | 97 points by paimapi 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. CIA Releases President's Daily Briefs in Commemoration of 9/11 (cia.gov)
    ×2.63 2 #18 | 38 points by stmw 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (cognition.com)
    ×1.97 1 | 437 points by seelos 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out (mastodon.social)
    ×3.86 82 | 97 points by doener 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Model pricing board for DeepSeek Harness: 7k models, cheapest route (github.com/vitas)
    ×0.92 136 | 3 points by vitass 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. UK economy unexpectedly grows 0.4% in July boosted by AI (theguardian.com)
    ×1.33 33 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise (psypost.org)
    ×2.83 28 #56 | 16 points by geox 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Neki – Sharded Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.62 16 | 271 points by simon_weber 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Table – A fast, streaming-first table renderer for Go (github.com/nekrassov01)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by nekrassov01 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Dash. – Tech, Startups, and Markets (chatgpt.site)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by opuslabs 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Open-source simulation testing infra for voice agents (github.com/egma-ai)
    ×5.34 94 | 15 points by Nischalj10 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants (ieee.org)
    ×0.80 30 #7 | 27 points by ltononro 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Apple A20 Pro Geekbench Result (geekbench.com)
    ×1.10 68 #83 | 30 points by aurareturn 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Orca – The Agent Development Environment (onorca.dev)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by tyleo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.01 18 | 597 points by dmitrybrant 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in (twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en)
    ×2.27 72 | 84 points by HatchedLake721 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A browser IDE for m68000, Z80 assembly (and more), with graphics (specy.app)
    ×0.74 79 | 30 points by specy 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering (getzep.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol (bernat.ch)
    ×1.11 44 #39 | 86 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024) (brown.edu)
    ×1.53 53 #78 | 176 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Space Warfighting Environment 2040 [pdf] (spacecom.mil)
    ×2.36 10 | 5 points by tolerance 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality (vertumnus.fyi)
    ×0.57 71 #90 | 47 points by perspectivezoom 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. From 1 to 33 anycast sites at one cloud provider: a staircase, not a curve (anycast.dev)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by portalix 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory (system76.com)
    ×1.41 26 | 119 points by jonifico 21 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Loudkit, Local TTS with Native Swift, Go, Rust and TypeScript Ports (github.com/loudreader)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by mowmiatlas 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Global Glacier Extinction Explorer (glacierextinction.com)
    ×1.24 3 #19 | 131 points by guillego 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by thinkafterbef 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Kosciusko County Council Defunds Flock Cameras, Other Surveillance Tech (inkfreenews.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by pavel_lishin 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: TriageBox – AI checker for Gmail that flags phishing and clutter (pfa87.cc)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by pfa87 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Runyte – a modal editor with integrated terminals and a file manager (runyte.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by boredCoconut 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How I manage my agents (arslan.io)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by ingve 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale (neki.dev)
    ×1.43 53 | 101 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A local, open-source version of Claude Code (github.com/just-not-google)
    ×0.71 102 | 3 points by waratecs123 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 118M Queries per Second on Neki (planetscale.com)
    ×0.95 20 #11 | 71 points by joshmgross 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Working with Git Worktrees in Magit (emacsredux.com)
    ×0.86 59 #37 | 108 points by srijan4 15 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. South Park creators rename show 'South America' (bbc.co.uk)
    ×5.15 84 | 122 points by hermitcrab 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Calmscroll – a reader that shows the current paragraph in the library (calmscroll.com)
    ×0.96 114 | 6 points by amadeuspagel 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How LLMs work, with interactive simulations (fazamhd.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by faza 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Which C++ hash map should you use? (ankerl.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by klaussilveira 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: ZestSSH, my capstone SSH client that people started paying for (zestssh.com)
    ×0.97 125 | 3 points by affluentlabs 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Experiment – Projectional Viewer (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)
    ×0.24 75 #62 | 15 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft (rustfoundation.org)
    ×3.09 4 #65 | 715 points by mmastrac 1 day ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)
    ×0.85 70 #70 | 100 points by Skinney 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance (lemire.me)
    ×1.07 68 #82 | 105 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch (torproject.org)
    ×1.65 91 | 67 points by woofcat 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. 1M+ German households have hung solar panels off their balcony railings (spacedaily.com)
    ×4.69 51 | 66 points by nixass 22 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Claude is only available to people over 18 years (claude.com)
    ×3.74 10 #5 | 484 points by Muhammad523 9 hours ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Cherenkov Radiation (iaea.org)
    ×1.32 13 #33 | 209 points by andsoitis 11 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Mike Johnson urged to cancel House recess over AI warnings (axios.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by rafaelc 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Memories of 9/11 (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021 (honestlyranked.com)
    ×3.31 17 | 381 points by honestlyranked 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Kern Agent – See inside your agent's brain (github.com/oguzbilgic)
    ×1.13 112 | 3 points by obilgic 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. GPT-6 Astra does 3D camera tracking and VFX in Blender (twitter.com/ryanvogel)
    ×1.63 8 #44 | 13 points by ryanvogel 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Matt Mullenweg Returns as CEO of Automattic (twitter.com/4thhubbard)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by taubek 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AltStore Classic 2.3rc: Get Onboard Remote AltServer (patreon.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by pzmarzly 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Remember Hong Kong (thenextmove.org)
    ×3.50 35 | 66 points by throw0101d 8 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Simseeder – an MMO Roguelike where players build the game (simseeder.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by Mytrill 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I created a translation service prompt (github.com/AlkalineGarrett)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by alkaline9 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Eating Fruit Skins (pgadey.ca)
    ×1.61 25 #16 | 18 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. iPod Classic 6G in QEMU (reddit.com)
    ×1.40 30 #34 | 137 points by dmonterocrespo 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???