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  1. AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?
    ×0.63 | 2 points by d675 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.37 56 | 13 points by phendrenad2 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Making my vibe-coded app best as possible (I am perfectionist), umm for 0 users
    ×0.91 | 2 points by arpanghoshal 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?
    ×0.41 43 | 9 points by Hex08 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?
    ×0.48 58 | 6 points by mattm 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.48 82 | 20 points by itsjeremiahs 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
    ×0.99 76 | 151 points by semidror 2 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. LinkedIn is a terrible quality website
    ×2.12 48 | 16 points by skyfantom 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Which harness do you use with Qwen3.8 27B? And why?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by grigio 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.43 89 | 13 points by xnx 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Declarative vs. Imperative
    ×0.13 | 2 points by KenPainter 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill?
    ×0.89 57 | 4 points by skwasimin 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do GitHub Copilot and Anthropic Claude compare in cost?
    ×0.16 99 | 3 points by erwindegroot 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?
    ×0.29 93 | 9 points by kooldeep7 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. When Claude CLI asks for feedback, responding authorizes conversation capture
    ×0.62 106 | 22 points by mmaunder 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Porting a clearing-house money market to a smart contract
    ×0.46 102 | 3 points by citizensinan 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
    ×0.88 109 | 122 points by keymasta 6 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Which is cheaper: ChatGPT tokens or a 2nd Pro 20x subscription?
    ×0.13 122 | 3 points by yesitcan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do your teams share and distribute agent skills?
    ×0.15 123 | 3 points by juanviera23 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD
    ×0.29 112 | 5 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why does it matter if no one reads your novel as long as the AIs do?
    ×0.50 116 | 10 points by amichail 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Remember N8n? Anyone?
    ×0.41 139 | 15 points by sankalpdomore 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Dead Internet
    ×0.71 107 | 15 points by basilikum 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Is Claude 20x actually 20x?
    ×0.34 115 | 6 points by ko3us 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×0.89 41 #26 | 42 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Katamari Object Library (andrew-boylan.com)
    ×2.24 64 #63 | 25 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE (github.com/WordPress)
    ×1.14 24 | 234 points by vntok 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship' (bbc.com)
    ×2.85 29 | 110 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Notes on Agentic AI – A text-first guide for practicing engineers (github.com/mrsachindixit)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by tbaadm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Shadow roots, explained with live examples (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Build a CPU from gates, in TypeScript, in the browser (simten.dev)
    ×0.43 87 | 3 points by charlesfrisbee 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car (drivingbench.com)
    ×3.20 34 #54 | 274 points by plurby 11 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website (channelnewsasia.com)
    ×3.47 12 #20 | 18 points by doppp 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS (github.com/geastack)
    ×1.03 45 #87 | 125 points by arbayi 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A Key Safety Feature Shipped in the May OpenTofu Release (masterpoint.io)
    ×1.96 19 | 3 points by mooreds 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: An on-device OSS alternative to Wispr Flow (frigade.com)
    ×1.68 18 | 3 points by pancomplex 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Fusion-runtime – self-hosted voice agents, STT+LLM+TTS in one process (github.com/SamarthUrs18)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by samarthurs18 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school (bloomberg.com)
    ×5.53 3 #55 | 895 points by devonnull 1 day ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Death of Reading (With James Marriott) [audio] (econtalk.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by mooreds 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. SnakeCharmer: Fuzzing Harness Generation for Pure and Hybrid Python Libraries [pdf] (utah.edu)
    ×2.34 11 | 4 points by luu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Arumayi (arumayi.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by samyak007 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You (alexn.org)
    ×3.76 12 | 383 points by dimonomid 1 day ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told (bbc.com)
    ×1.89 15 #41 | 142 points by thm 8 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Transit rewards (waymo.com)
    ×1.46 6 #70 | 249 points by raybb 23 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Hard Startups (2020) (samaltman.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by alentodorov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Can gzip be a language model? (nathan.rs)
    ×1.88 28 | 397 points by networked 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Crest – Answer Claude Code approvals from your MacBook's notch (crestnotch.app)
    ×0.97 70 | 5 points by zack40x 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The mystery animal on an ancient god's head (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.24 19 #16 | 59 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster (claude.dev)
    ×2.46 21 #33 | 182 points by matthieu_bl 7 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Greedy Decoding Is Not Precision-Invariant: Cross-Precision Output Divergence (arxiv.org)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by sbulaev 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. One setup, every AI CLI with agnostic-AI (agnostic-ai.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by Chemaclass 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.61 53 | 121 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B (verda.com)
    ×1.20 72 | 87 points by cmrdporcupine 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Livenerf – a benchmark for whether Opus 5.5 gets nerfed (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×0.76 118 | 3 points by ninjahawk1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: TetherPHP – a small PHP framework designed for agents and humans (tetherphp.com)
    ×0.90 147 | 3 points by dillonsmartdev 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days (unlisted.careers)
    ×2.69 18 #35 | 238 points by rubatrejo 9 hours ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev (arcturus-labs.com)
    ×1.58 40 #65 | 317 points by JohnBerryman 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support (droprun.sh)
    ×1.16 41 #90 | 185 points by mixedbit 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages (huggingface.co)
    ×0.85 22 #14 | 59 points by victormustar 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer (questdb.com)
    14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" (kenklippenstein.com)
    ×4.00 8 #7 | 21 points by nmeagent 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed] (szypowi.cz)
    ×2.44 12 #31 | 454 points by pszypowicz 14 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Surprise, Meta's latest AI gimmick is just underpaid humans (avclub.com)
    ×3.15 4 #59 | 24 points by randycupertino 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel (reddit.com)
    ×4.96 18 #78 | 357 points by ksec 22 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Fertility rate dropped over 50% within 10 years in Argentina (twitter.com/JesusFerna7026)
    ×2.18 1 #81 | 38 points by jameslk 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. S3 is not a filesystem, and LSM trees never needed one [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by rcron 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Libnix: Nix as a Backend to Cargo (github.com/nixcloud)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by lovesegfault 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: QBasic 1.1 in the Browser (vahidyousefzadeh.com)
    ×2.08 44 | 6 points by vahidce 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Open Jev Playground – try all the open source alternatives to Jev (beam.cloud)
    ×0.86 81 | 3 points by Mernit 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Moon Rabbit (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by red369 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963 (github.com/pkimpel)
    ×0.41 59 #48 | 39 points by abrax3141 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Race – Terminal Multiplexer on Infinite Canvas (macOS and Linux Beta) (race-term.com)
    ×1.18 143 | 4 points by xlii 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: AURA – Open-source behavioral threat detection for LLMs (github.com/kate8382)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by kate8382 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin (robertmay.photography)
    ×0.62 51 #44 | 9 points by robotmay 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. iPhone 18 Pro Max SSD drops lower than hard drive at 1.1 MBs during heavy writes (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by ajdude 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Distributed SQLite on Modal (github.com/modal-projects)
    ×1.52 140 | 4 points by botirk 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.58 4 #38 | 1769 points by km144 1 day ago | 1098 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Chatlo – an iOS-native AI agent, now with Jev (apple.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by qingbin 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Reverse Jev: Ending a Reply with a Choice (kvit.app)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by skolos 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Sol 6 and Opus 5.5 compared on an agentic CAD harness (partforge.ai)
    ×2.02 5 | 4 points by Mazer23 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. We've Turned Starlink into a Planetary Barometer (spaceweather.com)
    ×1.18 27 | 11 points by NKosmatos 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Vellum, the best diagram editor you'll ever use (blueprintr.io)
    ×3.65 101 | 24 points by JoshJamesAnthon 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup (snapdrop.me)
    ×1.10 110 | 111 points by Capira 6 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Frost – frosted-glass Linux icons where file types say what they are (github.com/thissayantan)
    ×0.84 134 | 14 points by thissayantan 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die (github.com/jasonepage)
    ×0.86 141 | 13 points by jpage2 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Set, offline Markdown note-taking app with device-to-device sync (writewithset.com)
    ×2.72 138 | 11 points by aavshr 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy (techradar.com)
    ×4.35 9 #75 | 785 points by MC995 1 day ago | 578 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Posting Puzzle – A Game Made of Post's Correspondence Problem (itch.io)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by mametter 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Jev – A curation of Jev demos on X, tools, skills, and integrations (github.com/Amal-David)
    ×1.76 62 | 91 points by frostbyte7 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A GUI for non programmers for Epic's version control system Lore (anchorpoint.app)
    ×2.00 131 | 6 points by m_niedoba 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???