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  1. Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?
    ×1.22 60 | 3 points by sandruso 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are people aware OpenAI Dots intercept SSL?
    ×1.17 43 | 4 points by Benjamin_Dobell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.12 7 | 654 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 738 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.42 3 | 735 points by petecooper 3 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?
    ×0.70 64 | 12 points by jqpabc123 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Kimi Code hit its 5-hour limit after $1.37 of API usage
    ×0.24 86 | 3 points by waximabbax 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.53 63 | 86 points by stanislavb 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Flow-state induction via raw mouse input (a working biohacking protocol)
    ×0.43 82 | 5 points by rejabusafint 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.24 68 | 304 points by petecooper 4 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Game trips modem/router breaker
    ×0.26 80 | 4 points by simpaticoder 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering
    ×0.55 89 | 4 points by pauliusztin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.34 105 | 5 points by stdc105 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do people self host email and maintain deliverability?
    ×0.82 84 | 7 points by smithbob 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×0.53 91 | 7 points by nonfunctional 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×0.70 90 | 8 points by cromka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.69 96 | 12 points by winkelmann 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.37 103 | 5 points by Mutinix 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.24 115 | 14 points by masterchief166 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.23 135 | 5 points by BehanPrW 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.31 121 | 4 points by abakh 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.42 114 | 15 points by aledevv 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.34 110 | 14 points by Mobius01 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.40 119 | 10 points by parthdesai 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.19 102 | 17 points by bigwheels 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.46 129 | 9 points by ovudus 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Have the PHP vulnerabilities been exploited?
    ×0.39 123 | 6 points by crisnoble 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.22 140 | 4 points by vWijdaan 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.11 104 | 18 points by shakshukan 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.28 134 | 6 points by spicygum 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×1.03 113 | 18 points by lualover 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Reflections on Trusting Lean (arxiv.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by bananaflag 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. GMRT Update Free for Commercial Use and Source Access (gamemaker.io)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ferryth 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Agentsh – A Decentralized, Scalable Multiagent Harness (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.77 66 | 7 points by brunoborges 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits (petercai.com)
    ×3.48 36 | 937 points by pcai 4 days ago | 425 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Mark – AI chat that answers with diagrams, quizzes and 3D models (saanora.com)
    ×0.69 130 | 3 points by AKSaathwik 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I don't understand quantum physics (2018) (southampton.ac.uk)
    ×1.57 25 #15 | 315 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Musk says SpaceX restricted Ukraine's Starlink connection as service restored (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.64 | 2 points by iamflimflam1 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The AI and Steve Strogatz (cultureandcompass.substack.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by artninja1988 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A wysiwyg Markdown editor for macOS that works with agents (kirahowe.com)
    ×0.76 143 | 3 points by kmclean 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Econvitals (econvitals.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by Ihmahr 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Free SEO audit and AI search tools. No sign-up (seowins.net)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by dilumrane 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025) (quantum5.ca)
    ×0.69 56 | 55 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Dánwò – Open-source E2E testing with emulators and fault injection (github.com/carbonmeai)
    ×0.77 116 | 3 points by faithfulojebiyi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics (xtramagazine.com)
    ×4.44 4 #6 | 43 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (kimi.ai)
    ×3.90 #35 | 1066 points by Jowsey 1 day ago | 661 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal (simedw.com)
    ×2.59 62 #45 | 641 points by alphax314 3 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.49 | 139 points by amichail 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I created instruments for people who have no idea how to play one (boondoggle.studio)
    ×2.78 124 | 12 points by DJSnackySnack 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Cecilia Berdichevsky, Clementina expert (1961) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.47 55 #50 | 33 points by fedecaccia 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. ElectIt: U.S. Elections Forecast (harvard.edu)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by alexander2002 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Surprising Popularity of AI (economist.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by pingou 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI (typeui.sh)
    ×0.88 69 | 80 points by elwingo1 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tablesample Picks Rows (boringsql.com)
    ×0.27 50 #32 | 4 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Daylight Saving Time (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by pretext 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Joining the 2026 Asian Apiculture Association Conference (boussejra.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by malikolivier 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Koala – Run AI Agents in Isolated Linux VMs on macOS (kunalkushwaha.github.io)
    ×0.92 125 | 3 points by kunalkushwaha 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Apple Music 404 Not Found (apple.com)
    ×3.99 8 #51 | 919 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Brutalist Architecture (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by tosh 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. TaskWire An MCP-based taskboard for managing AI agent workflows (taskwire.si)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by aeroo 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Hindsight – Lightweight, elegant, open-source tracker for Windows/macOS (github.com/Tomotsugu-dev)
    ×0.24 | 2 points by Tomotsugu-dev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.61 47 | 66 points by njx 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? (arxiv.org)
    ×3.31 14 #37 | 202 points by canjobear 16 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Difftastic, a Structural Diff (wilfred.me.uk)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by Tomte 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms (blast-info.fr)
    ×3.38 78 | 4 points by noplay 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.21 36 #84 | 215 points by gmays 2 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Be Aware of What's in Your Logs (mataroa.blog)
    ×2.06 | 2 points by joshcsimmons 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: How religions evolved? Charts, Maps, Citations (howitevolved.com)
    ×0.86 97 | 3 points by silly073 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Buildnotes – Turn pull requests into "how it's made" posts (releases.sh)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by zachdunn 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai (polygonjs.com)
    ×1.24 16 #8 | 20 points by frading 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps (aikido.dev)
    ×2.00 27 #17 | 321 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz (missileer.watch)
    ×1.41 21 #40 | 175 points by liotier 14 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities (alexsci.com)
    ×1.18 41 #63 | 177 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501 (rune.build)
    ×0.74 53 | 62 points by ernestrc 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: BYOSM, Turn one sentence into a small specialist model (github.com/bsye)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by a0dalbianco 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. France needs to read my paper (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×4.15 65 | 63 points by Wilsoniumite 2 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Dream-1 (dreamlabs.ai)
    ×2.01 41 #69 | 167 points by GaggiX 16 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. No Effect Before Its Cause: From Einstein to Lamport (itworkslocally.dev)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying' (courthousenews.com)
    ×2.03 40 | 71 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says (reuters.com)
    ×3.21 49 #83 | 137 points by firesteelrain 15 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Animations for System Builders (brooker.co.za)
    ×0.63 56 #90 | 67 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Vectors ATC (vectorsatc.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by marklit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Temporary Pleasure of Conversation (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.81 27 | 120 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. SpeedCrunch 1.1 (speedcrunch.org)
    ×1.47 18 #9 | 151 points by LordNibbler 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards (github.com/Zagitta)
    ×2.20 23 #24 | 250 points by fragebogen 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer (corgi.computer)
    ×1.13 45 #61 | 131 points by eiopa 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs' (gizmodo.com)
    ×6.01 16 | 60 points by warrenmiller 17 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money (ayoships.com)
    ×1.39 24 #73 | 114 points by motionlessveloc 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Docker is weird (codeandcake.dev)
    ×3.48 6 #76 | 866 points by psxuaw 2 days ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.70 45 | 78 points by Michelangelo11 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???