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  1. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.57 88 | 297 points by jmpman 4 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.34 93 | 6 points by mattm 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.70 87 | 312 points by imadtaieber 3 days ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.92 100 | 113 points by maxim-fin 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?
    ×0.63 89 | 7 points by julienreszka 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Reddit saves your keystrokes in text boxes
    ×1.82 70 | 17 points by thomasjeff1 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is there any solution to the AI infestation?
    ×0.51 105 | 4 points by yathern 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How to know when Claude has changed model itself during processing?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by mfaisalghufran 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's your AI coding set up?
    ×0.87 58 | 5 points by asxndu 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. FinOps for LLM Spend – why your bill has changed
    ×0.35 | 2 points by leanroute_ai 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.22 110 | 106 points by usernametaken29 4 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by simonsarris 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Is Google planning for Gemini 4 rather than 3.5 pro?
    ×2.06 128 | 4 points by Qhloi 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.34 91 | 33 points by rietta 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.99 155 | 24 points by genekrapivin 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?
    ×0.77 148 | 6 points by locusofself 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.22 158 | 13 points by pkos98 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem in 2026?
    ×0.40 152 | 4 points by leonagano 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?
    ×0.54 149 | 5 points by websap 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.44 161 | 6 points by chipfixer 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.81 92 | 128 points by spwa4 2 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The universal programming language of LLMs
    ×0.49 151 | 5 points by senorqa 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.48 156 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×0.91 159 | 17 points by UnderABlueMoon 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I'm going back to coding by hand
    ×3.43 54 | 57 points by trencedamp 21 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps stealing my money
    ×0.51 145 | 10 points by dingdong2026 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.33 162 | 5 points by rogerrogerr 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Can I turn my part-time project into a full-time SaaS?
    ×0.81 143 | 3 points by Fotis-Karmpas 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?
    ×0.26 157 | 4 points by TomEleff 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now available for internal beta testing
    ×1.70 129 | 22 points by dares2573 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Best Platforms to Orchestrate Agents
    ×0.52 160 | 3 points by venkat971 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Starwell – give AI agents real statistics instead of made up numbers (starwell.dev)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by adarsh4052 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Planet Labs' open satellite feed (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.19 14 #26 | 161 points by marklit 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales (bbc.com)
    ×0.78 37 #34 | 50 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels (nvidia.com)
    ×2.23 11 #53 | 7 points by xiaoyu2006 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Anyone miss a flip phone with buttons? Anyone?
    ×0.83 | 1 points by wwolfson97 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The AI policy window is open. We need to act (openai.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by johntb86 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent (engadget.com)
    ×5.96 87 | 174 points by _djo_ 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Type.com: Multiplayer Codex/Claude in the cloud for non-tech use cases
    ×7.31 82 | 14 points by krashidov 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Axonpush – Replay production agent failures in CI and fail the build (axonpush.xyz)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by sayanbiswas64 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Can LLM Agents Infer World Models? Evidence from Agentic Automata Learning (arxiv.org)
    ×1.20 42 | 3 points by wslh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: A better ChatGPT for NetSuite questions (trycadbury.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by dopeboy 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: TrailerPark, a place just to talk about film trailers
    ×0.81 | 2 points by ordinarily 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The two Christian saints who are the Buddha (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.62 31 | 245 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Trump promises $5k dividend in convention speech, but only if Republicans win (npr.org)
    ×8.80 77 | 15 points by KingOfMyRoom 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: NYC rideshare market analysis (2019 – 2026) (github.com/omarirfa)
    ×1.24 34 | 3 points by fl4res 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Designing a new conceptual package manager– tell me what's wrong (github.com/Rivis666)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by Rivis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. RDC – Remote Desktop Control for AI Agents (github.com/bscott)
    ×1.54 47 | 3 points by blstech 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. ChatGPT Images 2.5 (openai.com)
    ×2.89 6 | 378 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Open source FPGA: the next frontier is silicon (reddit.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by random__duck 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Antiquated CSS and why we needed it (omgmog.net)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by HotGarbage 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework (github.com/TauricResearch)
    ×1.05 85 | 119 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs (readthedocs.com)
    ×1.37 11 #25 | 174 points by davidfischer 13 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Coyote v. Acme (1990) (newyorker.com)
    ×1.21 25 #33 | 179 points by ChrisArchitect 19 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (treybastian.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by zdw 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Garnet: A Next-Generation Cache-Store for Accelerating Applications and Services [pdf] (vldb.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by k_138z 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Trump promises $5k payout to U.S. adults if Republicans win election (reuters.com)
    ×5.68 74 | 17 points by nateb2022 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Tech Event Bingo – Track Events in Tech on a Bingo Card (techeventbingo.com)
    ×1.06 113 | 3 points by aviflombaum 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: DriveSync – fast Git-styled Google Drive sync CLI (github.com/scaleninja)
    ×0.60 115 | 23 points by rohityadavcloud 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Wg-admin – web UI for an existing WireGuard host (github.com/logimaxx)
    ×0.80 137 | 35 points by vsergione 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: AI-first open-source alternative to Microsoft and Google Office (github.com/injectinglabs)
    ×1.44 132 | 6 points by nickpismenkov 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Ctrlb-decompose: Strip the noise from logs before sending to LLMs (github.com/ctrlb-hq)
    ×7.06 86 | 13 points by ruhani_grover 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. OpenAI might have stolen another major proof (twitter.com/ValerioCapraro)
    ×10.85 43 #44 | 40 points by tamnd 47 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA (blog.google)
    ×2.22 1 #75 | 592 points by utiiiD 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. DHS Program Analyzes Americans' Finances to Flag Drivers for Traffic Stops (military.com)
    ×2.54 5 #78 | 32 points by randycupertino 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger (techdirt.com)
    ×3.23 6 | 384 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Story of VS Code [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by soheilpro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Real photos of young girls were in nudify-app ads on Facebook, Instagram (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.98 77 | 75 points by Bender 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014) (labguysworld.com)
    ×0.39 57 #32 | 17 points by userbinator 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments (openai.com)
    ×1.00 35 #49 | 145 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer (github.com/ayghri)
    ×2.77 11 | 527 points by domhudson 1 day ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs (github.com/argonautlabsai)
    ×1.87 5 | 276 points by Argonautlabs 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Mercury 2.5 (inceptionlabs.ai)
    ×1.51 17 | 245 points by Topfi 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Open Source AI Stack (together.ai)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by simonpure 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Csirac emulator with Interprogram – first .au computer & language (grahame.dev)
    ×0.78 104 | 3 points by grahameb 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Mnemiq – Open-source text-to-SQL tuned to your own database (github.com/agenticfabriq)
    ×0.87 133 | 3 points by paulinazhxu 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Buymydeadstartup.com – Sell your IP to AI labs (buymydeadstartup.com)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by bkfh 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. New app: Yesterday, an iPhone app for yesterday's weather (interconnected.org)
    ×0.94 73 #62 | 31 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. False DMCA claim issued to BleachBit (bleachbit.org)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by fishgoesblub 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What Builders Made with GPT-6 Astra (So Far) (clipnotebook.com)
    ×0.42 56 | 3 points by diddddy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: A terminal Tetris game I made as my first Rust project (github.com/orangishcat)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by orangishcat 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Whetuu – An opinionated, zero-config status line and history picker (github.com/yamafaktory)
    ×0.54 83 | 12 points by yamafaktory 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Castforge – run Claude Code, Codex and Gemini as one dev team (castforge.ai)
    ×1.02 103 | 5 points by jabenhaim 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Maxxwell – The IDE for Optimal Tokenmaxxing (maxxwell.dev)
    ×5.75 90 | 10 points by mserrano258 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Impress your boss with interactive Scikit-Learn Decision Tree (github.com/mljar)
    ×1.63 126 | 5 points by pplonski86 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Generating the P3 Tiling (k-monk.org)
    ×0.51 50 #43 | 40 points by evakhoury 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The "rnull" Rust block driver (lwn.net)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by pykello 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. California enacts AI safety evaluation laws backed by Anthropic and OpenAI (politico.com)
    ×1.66 57 | 3 points by utiiiD 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Release 13.0.8 · Grafana/Grafana (github.com/grafana)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by kyisaiah47 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' (404media.co)
    ×6.79 79 | 175 points by doener 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???