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  1. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.73 57 | 461 points by jacquesm 23 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace
    ×0.39 60 | 7 points by zishutron 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.64 66 | 18 points by AuthorizedCust 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.68 72 | 315 points by imadtaieber 4 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.89 81 | 114 points by maxim-fin 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why isn't decompilation a solved problem in the AI era?
    ×0.34 79 | 5 points by ferfumarma 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why doesn't a Cursor for Word exist?
    ×0.43 83 | 5 points by FabianArevalo 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is there a genuine space for the Desktop AI assistant, or its solved?
    ×0.32 116 | 3 points by Qhloi 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Hacker News datetimes are falsely precise
    ×0.52 88 | 5 points by perilunar 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.33 128 | 8 points by mattm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.98 131 | 27 points by genekrapivin 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.21 133 | 16 points by pkos98 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?
    ×0.57 121 | 9 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. DeepSeek launches v4.1 flash, postpones v4 Pro discontinuation
    ×0.04 | 2 points by Audiolite 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why can I only downvote select comments?
    ×0.51 114 | 7 points by socalgal2 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Reddit saves your keystrokes in text boxes
    ×1.46 91 | 19 points by thomasjeff1 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.34 90 | 34 points by rietta 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.37 134 | 6 points by chipfixer 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Next day thoughts on the millenium prize threads?
    ×0.28 132 | 3 points by seizethecheese 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is enough funding a self-fulfilling prophecy for startups?
    ×0.67 | 1 points by msejas 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. PythonOS – A tiny OS that boots into Python (github.com/jordanhubbard)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by indigodaddy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives (ieee.org)
    ×2.27 4 | 437 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 835 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Working with Git Worktrees in Magit (emacsredux.com)
    ×0.92 16 #10 | 73 points by srijan4 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (cognition.com)
    ×2.00 #28 | 426 points by seelos 21 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.79 52 #90 | 81 points by Gaishan 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Takeaway cups release microplastics into your coffee (uq.edu.au)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by the-mitr 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Parmesan: The cheese used as bank collateral (elpais.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by geox 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: SubnetLens – OSS local network scanner built in Go with a TUI (github.com/ostefani)
    ×2.68 104 | 6 points by ostefani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm (thenextweb.com)
    ×3.86 33 #37 | 48 points by hsuduebc2 1 hour ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. We need to build more data centers (hunchfox.substack.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by sahil_chaudhary 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Family Greenhouse – shared plant care for a household (familygreenhouse.net)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by ChelseaKR 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months (sudomoin.com)
    ×1.67 61 | 72 points by dimitri-vs 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative (researchagenda.news)
    ×2.24 #1 | 131 points by JohnHammersley 1 hour ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025) (nasa.gov)
    ×1.93 22 #15 | 349 points by gumby 21 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I got GPTBot to crawl my site in 100 seconds (blackbook.dk)
    ×1.70 | 2 points by jeppesc 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A visualization of how a codebase was produced, not who produced it (artificialfallibility.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by camilochs 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. We accidentally built a synthetic cell factory (bnext.bio)
    ×0.81 57 | 83 points by rajivm 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Foldelight – the iPhone Duo folding effect the MacBook was owed (lufzle.dev)
    ×2.07 11 #12 | 6 points by riffonio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Thinking with Looped Flows (arxiv.org)
    ×0.87 70 #61 | 7 points by E-Reverance 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A Inefficient Way to Learn (justinmath.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by surprisetalk 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' (404media.co)
    ×6.11 29 | 180 points by doener 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments (github.com/OtoDock)
    ×0.51 71 | 46 points by dimitrismrtzs 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks (arstechnica.com)
    ×7.94 44 | 139 points by worik 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models (magic.dev)
    ×1.08 29 #52 | 116 points by ronfriedhaber 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.78 7 #78 | 445 points by LeoPanthera 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac (tensorsandtokens.com)
    ×0.98 16 #80 | 27 points by etoxin 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Dopamine Sites Sell Nothing, and People Cannot Get Enough (nytimes.com)
    ×2.77 61 | 3 points by thelastgallon 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Why Codex burns a weekly limit in a day while the agent waits for the tide (relux.works)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by strfrthwb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Boy developed "toasted skin" condition from using a laptop every day (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by pseudolus 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: How do HN domain filters work?
    ×0.74 | 1 points by behindai 15 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE (codeberg.org)
    ×1.36 35 #25 | 196 points by weierstass 21 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography (merybenavente.me)
    ×1.14 35 #29 | 118 points by mariabg 17 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 (anthropic.com)
    ×1.67 33 #33 | 150 points by garo-pro 19 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. DeepSeek 4.1 Flash (deepseek.com)
    ×1.92 43 #48 | 30 points by thatxliner 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored (huggingface.co)
    ×3.24 30 #51 | 48 points by soltanov 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Faint Light, 10-100x faster plate-solving/astrometry in Rust (github.com/fschuindt)
    ×1.00 94 | 4 points by fschuindt 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Matcha Filter Remover – browser-first green cast correction (matchafilterremover.net)
    ×1.47 115 | 3 points by robot1996 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Neijuan (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.46 10 #20 | 76 points by vermilingua 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Losing control of AI is the plan – by Kelsey Piper (theargumentmag.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by streptomycin 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract (latimes.com)
    ×3.61 13 | 243 points by dbg31415 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out (mastodon.social)
    ×4.03 37 | 97 points by doener 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Draw a wheel. See the road it rolls on (baselashraf.com)
    ×1.78 93 | 6 points by BaselAshraf81 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Apparat/UI – React UI library for vibecoded creative tools (github.com/tommyjepsen)
    ×1.38 125 | 3 points by tommyjepsen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol (bernat.ch)
    ×1.07 9 #24 | 27 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls (pv-magazine.com)
    ×1.50 17 #73 | 311 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. People We Meet Along the Way (rinaldoj.substack.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by jrinaldo68 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Oldest Architecture in Computing (allthingsdistributed.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by jreynar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B (bendingspoons.com)
    ×2.72 2 | 98 points by andygcook 23 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. OpenAI Agents API, here we go, the assistant API again? (openai.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by ltononro 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: NanoVector – A 120KB zero-dependency vector search engine in C and SIMD (github.com/eminsk)
    ×1.87 30 | 3 points by eminskinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Code Contracts: Structured specifications colocated with code (code-contracts.cc)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by spolu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 (hugovergnes.github.io)
    ×1.17 38 | 113 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Whetuu – An opinionated, zero-config status line and history picker (github.com/yamafaktory)
    ×0.57 107 | 13 points by yamafaktory 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I created a translation service prompt (github.com/AlkalineGarrett)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by alkaline9 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Rdltr – Inbox zero for your reading list (rdltr.app)
    ×0.62 78 | 24 points by eduardosasso 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024) (brown.edu)
    ×1.64 29 #38 | 171 points by paimapi 21 hours ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.62 47 #63 | 30 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. OpenAI might have stolen another major proof (twitter.com/ValerioCapraro)
    ×8.29 19 | 294 points by tamnd 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent (engadget.com)
    ×5.56 20 | 183 points by _djo_ 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast (thomasahle.com)
    ×1.13 34 | 134 points by thomasahle 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: We served 5k dynamic websites from a 2-vCPU, 4 GB VPS (github.com/Kooboo)
    ×0.59 75 | 8 points by zguoqi 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Globalping CLI – Run network commands from anywhere in the world (globalping.io)
    ×1.47 108 | 3 points by jimaek 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I built an AI 'Fog of War' to kill my 3AM Notion templates (tryworthit.app)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by AvityN 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree (quesma.com)
    ×1.26 3 #2 | 50 points by michalwarda 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. What Comes After Git (ersc.io)
    ×1.88 4 #50 | 52 points by tangled 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by pseudolus 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×2.41 7 | 512 points by ModelForge 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
    ×1.03 63 | 169 points by ifz 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds (upsocl.com)
    ×2.98 5 #17 | 272 points by rguiscard 12 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm (jo3-l.dev)
    ×0.88 46 #57 | 19 points by haeseong 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???