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  1. Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
    ×0.68 42 | 123 points by reacharavindh 3 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?
    ×0.53 51 | 4 points by chessnode 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has anyone decompiled Claude Code yet?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by matt3210 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How to make my business survives it's first 5 years?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by SSDIE 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.73 96 | 160 points by Ixander 5 days ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless
    ×0.62 68 | 8 points by bb88 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
    ×0.32 106 | 17 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Apple HomeView. What problem is Apple Home solving?
    ×0.17 112 | 4 points by NarcisMirandes 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Demonstrating Skills When Everything Is a Prompt
    ×0.35 120 | 7 points by Brisk4t 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Did you 'invest' in NFTs or memecoins?
    ×0.57 89 | 9 points by agent008t 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?
    ×0.93 101 | 35 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Domain Health
    ×0.24 138 | 8 points by anjalibery 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
    ×0.42 123 | 8 points by nikanj 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser
    ×0.43 134 | 22 points by mhloo 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Can I tell my managers to skip the corporate bs and get to the point?
    ×0.55 102 | 11 points by nhgiang 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: ChatGPT on macOS grants local computer access to cloud account
    ×0.42 137 | 9 points by lxgr 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training
    ×0.92 104 | 24 points by jrowilliams 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Twitterwebviewer.net Is Back Online
    ×0.32 105 | 4 points by orange999 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Don't mass spam employers with LLM generated emails
    ×0.37 122 | 7 points by karamazov 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Any secrets for reaching a human at large companies?
    ×0.46 133 | 5 points by elebant 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Are there any more startups with real technical challenges?
    ×0.51 136 | 5 points by artifix 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is the black swan event that could bring down GPU costs?
    ×0.66 95 | 5 points by whatdowecallu 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Any way to remove ads in Apple apps?
    ×0.27 127 | 6 points by mark_l_watson 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Speculative Sauropods (svpow.com)
    ×0.32 72 #66 | 15 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam (reuters.com)
    ×1.85 50 | 173 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux (github.com/watzon)
    ×2.14 117 | 25 points by watzon 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Chickadee Bandit – Build private apps for your family (chickadeebandit.com)
    ×1.27 85 | 4 points by ChickadeeBandit 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: I'll Call You Later, an interactive 3D browser short film (jashtechno.com)
    ×1.67 129 | 4 points by Jashwanth_13 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale (krea.ai)
    ×1.77 12 #30 | 324 points by dvrp 22 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Landed Cost Kit – landed cost and tariff what-ifs per SKU (landedcostkit.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by gitvim 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Elon Musk unveils flying car (cbsnews.com)
    ×2.41 33 | 3 points by K2h 52 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tesla makes cars that fly? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.94 51 | 68 points by merinpapz10 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab (github.com/swimmingbrain)
    ×1.02 128 | 35 points by swimmingbrain 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Herdr for Android – The runtime coding agents run on (droidtty.com)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by michael-sumner 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: VX – I got tired of Turbo and Nx, so I built vx (vznjs.github.io)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by exelord 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Geoffrey Hinton: 'We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to choose humans' (theguardian.com)
    ×2.55 18 #48 | 29 points by Michelangelo11 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. PS5 hack delivers native PS2 disc support and 4K upscaling where Sony refused to (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by hattar 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I made puzzle game IT THINKS – you build a GPU from logic gates (catchy.games)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by benbenhere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote (startupfortune.com)
    ×3.03 9 | 380 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Endo – A Higher-Order Harness (github.com/longsurf-ai)
    ×2.52 81 | 6 points by Warren93 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox (github.com/johnrash)
    ×1.00 43 #37 | 80 points by rguiscard 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI is a tool and using it well takes skill (yyhh.org)
    ×3.52 45 #85 | 793 points by layer8 3 days ago | 604 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What was a Token Ring network? (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×2.34 40 | 3 points by ibobev 43 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Israeli Firms Placed Spyware at Al Jazeera via Ads, Report Says (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.32 7 | 99 points by sbulaev 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (github.com/SaarthurR)
    ×1.07 98 | 115 points by SaarthRanka 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Forwarder.cc – Static-site forms sent to your inbox, pay per message (forwarder.cc)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by calyhre 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: RSI-Anything – JEPA world models for self-improving agents (github.com/Gen-Verse)
    ×1.82 143 | 8 points by mrkn1 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Things to know when you get cancer (jjmaxwell4.com)
    ×6.91 16 #44 | 1906 points by jjmaxwell4 1 day ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: A WebGL hommage to PS1 demo discs (pixelnest.io)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by valryon 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Sufuku – Sudoku, but Numbers Repeat (crossnum.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by matthorse 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ICE's Lies About a Man Officer Ran over Undone by Footage from CCTV Camera (techdirt.com)
    ×6.07 12 | 72 points by hn_acker 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine (pulseos.finance)
    ×1.15 77 | 119 points by niztk 2 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: TowerPanic – a family party game on a small FastAPI realtime engine (towerpanic.com)
    ×0.51 140 | 3 points by ms209495 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally (sygal.app)
    ×0.59 36 | 42 points by cyrillsemah 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Ask a technical question, get an animated explainer you can interrupt (openlume.com)
    ×0.93 97 | 17 points by shadaba 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr (thereallo.dev)
    ×2.68 3 #28 | 389 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit (dfb.sh)
    ×1.96 4 #75 | 367 points by 0xdeafbeef 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. UK Police Arrest 15-Year-Old over Posts Mocking Politician (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.90 30 #89 | 7 points by nickslaughter02 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. There's Nothing Mysterious or Unusual About the German Sexual Harassment Robot (404media.co)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by neom 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft (arxiv.org)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by burrito_brain 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks (pdftomp3.com)
    ×1.01 78 | 172 points by janpmz 3 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Can a Radioactive Ore Break China's Grip on Rare Earths? (ieee.org)
    ×0.93 25 #58 | 3 points by andreshb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand (indigene.app)
    ×0.87 46 #73 | 112 points by olivierlacan 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tesla Roadster: It Flies, Flips, and Hits 0-60 in 0.81s (notateslaapp.com)
    ×2.43 55 | 3 points by Cabal 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. What Life Is Like in Kyiv as Russia Tries to Make It Unlivable (nytimes.com)
    ×3.01 60 | 4 points by pretext 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Decisions (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by surprisetalk 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10 (github.com/mixelpixx)
    ×1.77 8 #10 | 52 points by ofrzeta 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Lightpanda headless browser written in Zig (lightpanda.io)
    ×1.50 39 #79 | 18 points by zlu 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Siri is so bad at everything (reddit.com)
    ×6.80 1 | 126 points by haunter 23 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom (reuters.com)
    ×2.52 19 | 71 points by tartoran 22 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Sonia. Local AI Assistant Linux. 13Gb RAM, No GPU, Skills Supported (github.com/grigio)
    ×0.86 145 | 3 points by grigio 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Yagi DSP Modulation SIM (brian-armstrong.github.io)
    ×0.35 144 | 5 points by brian-armstrong 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How many planets could fit in the solar system? (scientificamerican.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by dxs 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland (dpa-international.com)
    ×2.24 8 | 385 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released (ubuntu.com)
    ×2.90 30 | 70 points by dgavrilov 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add (lasu.dev)
    ×0.88 87 | 77 points by lasu 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Frontier Pre-Training at Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
    ×1.06 48 #81 | 42 points by psoulos 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Redis now has compressed bitmaps (Roaring) (lemire.me)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by ibobev 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop (anuragbhatia.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by porridgeraisin 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: BlastLoop, a structure-first coding method for AI agents (github.com/rlshaw-ml)
    ×0.60 75 | 14 points by rossleeshaw 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: T0: We trained a 256M SOTA open-weights time-series forecasting model (github.com/theforecastingcompany)
    ×3.92 110 | 14 points by LTMeyer 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Creating a Garmin "MCP" (jackantico.io)
    ×0.72 61 #87 | 60 points by ricotico060 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. It Ain't AGI Until H100s Go for $30 an Hour (corbt.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by gmays 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale (huggingface.co)
    ×2.44 56 | 3 points by lainsoykaf 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Britain's batteries just had their best month. Where did the money come from? (a115.co.uk)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by a115ltd 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs (qawolf.com)
    ×0.74 70 | 93 points by jadenlemmon 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat (pcmag.com)
    ×1.43 16 #22 | 170 points by giuliomagnifico 15 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work (404media.co)
    ×3.79 76 | 65 points by Luc 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Beeline Multiplayer Agent Harness (usebeeline.app)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by lunchboxfortwo 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Jevcrawl – A web crawler for AI agents with no LLM in the crawl loop (github.com/RayenMlayeh)
    ×1.03 114 | 21 points by rayenmlayeh 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???