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  1. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.60 35 #71 | 1102 points by chaseadam17 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?
    ×1.37 19 | 9 points by boredemployee 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?
    ×0.25 81 | 3 points by azebazenestor 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News?
    ×0.48 76 | 6 points by ElectroNomad 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why don't entrepreneurs talk about starting businesses publicly anymore?
    ×1.06 40 | 3 points by silexia 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. SEL Deploy – Cryptographically chained deployment timeline
    ×0.18 | 2 points by chokriabouzid 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.50 87 | 26 points by causal 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.54 114 | 8 points by fdneng 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.17 88 | 15 points by TazeTSchnitzel 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong?
    ×0.40 122 | 3 points by terryjiang2020 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Chinese New Year v.s. Lunar New Year
    ×0.79 70 | 4 points by dogclaw 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.89 92 | 45 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?
    ×0.39 121 | 6 points by xgstation 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips?
    ×0.41 116 | 5 points by uejfiweun 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key)
    ×0.14 135 | 3 points by Picknar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.48 136 | 3 points by AGsist 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.39 131 | 16 points by rtrgrd 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.31 129 | 12 points by jrs235 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.41 130 | 8 points by Poomba 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
    ×0.85 127 | 15 points by mr-pink 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.44 133 | 13 points by incognito124 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
    ×0.24 138 | 4 points by endorphine 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.16 140 | 6 points by jmount 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?
    ×0.41 134 | 16 points by surume 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project
    ×0.50 139 | 7 points by firefoxd 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×0.74 137 | 12 points by absoluteunit1 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Eurisko (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by tosh 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Any good resources for basic cryptography?
    ×1.13 | 2 points by yamapikarya 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor (ekrsulov.github.io)
    ×0.58 42 #42 | 80 points by ekrsulov 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini (mnemom.ai)
    ×0.72 39 #83 | 34 points by alexgarden 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.55 9 #89 | 917 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. After AI, there is no product (sidu.in)
    ×7.38 81 | 9 points by kaiwren 32 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: TUI open-source Python tool for network discovery and port auditing (github.com/mennylevinski)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by mennylevinski 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API (get-nerve.com)
    ×0.41 126 | 16 points by mprast 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A solver for Semantle (victoriaritvo.com)
    ×0.66 50 #43 | 42 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Onairos SDK– Unified Context API, unlocking cross platform user history (onairos.io)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by BlasianHokage 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Not Objective-C (inessential.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (mit.edu)
    ×0.87 48 | 83 points by anarbadalov 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I built a fuse box for microservices (openfuse.io)
    ×0.68 36 #35 | 16 points by rodrigorcs 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Roads to Rome (2015) (benedikt-gross.de)
    ×0.52 42 #45 | 22 points by robin_reala 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Refine.tools – 10 client-side career tools (Next.js, no DB) (refine.tools)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by HarakiriGod 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Database Skills for AI Agents by PlanetScale (planetscale.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by zzake 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. War of Dots (warofdots.net)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by kqr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Nom – Turn GitHub activity into updates (nomit.dev)
    ×2.14 96 | 4 points by Lws803 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Claims of disability are highest at elite universities (robkhenderson.com)
    ×3.35 54 | 82 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Env-rx – Catch missing .env variables before they break your CI (github.com/xserhio)
    ×1.42 85 | 3 points by xserhio 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Keystone – configure Dockerfiles and dev containers for any repo (github.com/imbue-ai)
    ×4.22 61 | 11 points by thad_imbue 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization (acm.org)
    ×0.88 37 #30 | 76 points by underscoreF 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Assigning Open Problems in Class (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.35 71 #53 | 18 points by baruchel 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Bifrostbridge.xyz – open-source MIT license P2P discord replacement (gitlab.com)
    ×1.72 10 | 3 points by reklis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (heise.de)
    ×7.53 49 | 169 points by layer8 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (arthurcnops.blog)
    ×3.22 3 | 509 points by acnops 1 day ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)
    ×1.95 3 | 423 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Codereport – track TODOs, refactors, and bugs in your repo with a CLI
    ×1.65 67 | 4 points by pulko 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Updating the Verge's Background Policy (2021) (theverge.com)
    ×1.28 64 #57 | 21 points by eric_h 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Gentoo on Codeberg (gentoo.org)
    ×1.94 #86 | 415 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. 'No red lines': Spain reveals EU supergroup's plan to challenge US and China (politico.eu)
    ×2.60 54 | 3 points by saubeidl 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. HackMyClaw (hackmyclaw.com)
    ×1.82 5 | 359 points by hentrep 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout (theshamblog.com)
    ×2.82 43 | 118 points by scottshambaugh 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Sports-skills.sh – sports data connectors for AI agents (github.com/machina-sports)
    ×1.78 80 | 4 points by andreantonelli 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Persistent memory for Claude Code with self-hosted Qdrant and Ollama (github.com/elvismdev)
    ×2.49 124 | 6 points by elvismdev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe (cepr.org)
    ×2.23 10 #12 | 99 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted' (theguardian.com)
    ×3.67 12 #16 | 39 points by xyzal 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip (righto.com)
    ×0.70 59 #66 | 69 points by pwg 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Tuple Spaces (anl.gov)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates (reddit.com)
    ×2.20 9 #2 | 315 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use (claude.com)
    ×4.13 3 #5 | 316 points by theahura 6 hours ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: How fetch(keepalive) Broke in High-Latency Regions (adwait.me)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by adwait12345 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Hardware.dog: automated schematic and PCB review (hardware.dog)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by ariwasch 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital (governance.fyi)
    ×2.84 38 | 183 points by bigbobbeeper 1 day ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll
    ×1.07 24 #28 | 85 points by FailMore 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How I use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)
    ×1.96 41 #73 | 177 points by hisamafahri 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. When interfaces become disposable (chrisloy.dev)
    ×0.87 17 #80 | 27 points by chrisloy 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Understanding Deep Learning (udlbook.github.io)
    ×1.79 11 | 3 points by duck 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Mullet Bike (saylecycle.de)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by joejeff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (techoversight.org)
    ×6.87 70 | 513 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing (thunderseethe.dev)
    ×1.20 21 #9 | 91 points by thunderseethe 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×4.78 5 #44 | 1307 points by adocomplete 1 day ago | 1182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. MaxAssist – 100% Anthropic TOS-compatible personal assistant using Claude Max (github.com/ktamas77)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by pro_methe5 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. V&A Museum acquires YouTube's earliest video from 2005 (cnn.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by helsinkiandrew 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway (cleantechnica.com)
    ×6.37 12 | 335 points by whynotmaybe 1 day ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Clawy, a companion device to track your Claude Code sessions (clawy.lol)
    ×2.51 95 | 5 points by mrcv 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: SunnyFlight – Find cheap weekend flights to sunny destinations (sunnyflight.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by coderai 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: m6502, a 6502 CPU for FPGAs and Tiny Tapeout (github.com/chrismoos)
    ×1.51 119 | 5 points by chrismoos 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Breccia: Single-file, append-only, blob storage with efficient random access (github.com/petertodd)
    ×0.80 64 #79 | 21 points by StingyJelly 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Using LLMs to evaluate technical interview performance (dokasto.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by ud0 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Convert: A universal file format converter, running in the browser (p2r3.github.io)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by memalign 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB (github.com/datavorous)
    ×1.30 91 | 230 points by datavorous_ 4 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OAI: EVM Bench LLM Accuracy on Smart Contract Review and Pentesting (openai.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by GustavHartz 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains (theconversation.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by 1659447091 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???