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  1. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.76 6 #52 | 340 points by x______________ 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?
    ×0.90 16 | 6 points by czhu12 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Old experimental website that made photos sing?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by jesuisdieu 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.92 65 | 39 points by stillatit 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×0.42 76 | 5 points by fosco 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.79 71 | 44 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×1.36 43 | 16 points by ikelos 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.78 82 | 19 points by all2 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.44 93 | 31 points by jahala 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.87 92 | 38 points by learner_yearner 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.62 100 | 7 points by Gooblebrai 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?
    ×0.60 95 | 6 points by sky2224 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are you using AI to do election choices like Mayor, Special Measures
    ×0.86 75 | 6 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Will apps be going away in favor of personal assistants?
    ×0.63 86 | 4 points by talmr 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. "Wrong" Email
    ×0.99 77 | 26 points by rbmm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.29 102 | 10 points by throwaway3309 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What's the future like? For normies, will it still be apps and websites?
    ×0.87 113 | 4 points by talmr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.45 103 | 11 points by japhyr 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.76 99 | 33 points by TekMol 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. GEMM Tutorial and UlmBLAS
    ×0.52 119 | 4 points by michael-lehn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.17 124 | 8 points by weinzierl 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?
    ×0.41 118 | 5 points by winrid 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What back end and database are you choosing for new projects in 2026?
    ×0.83 138 | 3 points by ibbie 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
    ×0.51 123 | 10 points by arm32 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you verify a reported domain sale is real?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by mousabelhag 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Antrophic tightened usage limits?
    ×0.52 136 | 6 points by lukan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts (parameter.ai)
    ×1.85 5 #23 | 327 points by armcat 22 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Sayloe – Speak in one language, type in another on Mac (sayloe.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by johngail 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Janet LSP with VS Code Extension (visualstudio.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by kulkarniniraj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Full Python 3.15 Implemented in 25k LoC C11
    ×1.30 140 | 9 points by soasme 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The VPN Manager I want to build: let different apps use their own VPNs (dennysora.me)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by dennysora-main 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Who pays for the AI power boom? (axios.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by latentframe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power (theguardian.com)
    ×6.54 76 | 212 points by mpweiher 15 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AO3 Down for Maintenance (otwstatus.org)
    ×2.01 30 | 129 points by idlewords 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game (episodle.com)
    ×1.27 7 #74 | 236 points by francisofascii 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Amiga Constellation (kexperiments.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by onename 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Multi-Layer ASCII Art (mitpit.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by MitPitt 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites (twitter.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm)
    ×7.25 48 | 124 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Subfaro – track subscriptions and price hikes without linking a bank (subfaro.com)
    ×0.93 89 | 3 points by giozadi 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Keyward – a TUI to manage SSH keys and audit your –/.ssh security (github.com/gateway-of-last-resort)
    ×0.88 137 | 3 points by weiqur 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half (fullycharged.show)
    ×2.25 17 #18 | 98 points by toomuchtodo 13 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) (epoyraz.github.io)
    ×0.82 16 #25 | 83 points by tevlon 13 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Othismo, a Runtime for Sandboxed Objects (othismo.com)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by mamidon 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I built a crawler that finds personal websites by a /.well-known/josh (joshternet.org)
    ×1.90 90 | 4 points by TheWoollyBully 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Typebook.lol read books by typing the letters only (typebook.lol)
    ×0.45 121 | 10 points by vegnus 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. If CA matched TX on property taxes, it would raise more than the billionaire tax (fortune.com)
    ×2.56 3 | 6 points by jameslk 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax (lesnumeriques.com)
    ×11.64 34 | 139 points by nick486 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Ultrafast Rust Based Agent Workspace (trypalomino.com)
    ×1.41 96 | 10 points by gpt-7 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. BikeZap: Zap through first person cycling videos around the world (bikezap.pages.dev)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by rr0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises (binarysecurity.no)
    ×1.51 15 | 336 points by swq115 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Sketch Stadium – watch your agent play Pictionary (wakeshift.ai)
    ×0.39 73 | 35 points by ericlevine 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2 (kevs3d.co.uk)
    ×1.62 106 | 3 points by kevs3d 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. DeepSeek launches advanced coding agent to rival Claude Code (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.13 | 2 points by albert_e 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. CurateClick – A curated directory of developer tools and products (curateclick.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by dotcurio 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Defeating highly encrypted and obfuscated code – tutorial (SRBMiner-MULTI 3.7.3) (yourdev.net)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by noppers 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat (catcopter.com)
    ×1.11 58 | 84 points by pawelwentpawel 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer (github.com/mottopanikeiku)
    ×0.83 68 | 129 points by falperc 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Fraktur, a DJ mixing app in the browser (greenvitriol.com)
    ×1.07 81 | 25 points by janesconference 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. TeamViewer RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2026-111585) (remedio.io)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by omrid-remedio 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. CardGroove – 52 on-line EMV tools, issuer, transactions simulator (polywickstudio.net)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by polywickstudio 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural (theguardian.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by nephihaha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bubbuild/republic: A Python library for AI providers (github.com/bubbuild)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by l2dy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Claude Code VS Code extension with backdoor released on Cursor marketplace (doublepulsar.com)
    ×5.37 4 | 399 points by bashtoni 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?" (github.com/johncassil)
    ×0.89 67 | 154 points by johncassil 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems) (mit.edu)
    ×1.10 2 #15 | 31 points by peter_d_sherman 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Screen Capture for macOS – Open-source sticky-aware scrolling capture (github.com/nasadunadu)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by nasadunadu 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Infinite Mac: BeOS (persistent.info)
    ×1.37 19 | 193 points by ecliptik 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I didn't know I was lacking in Vitamin D until I collapsed at work (bbc.com)
    ×2.06 60 | 80 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (nolanlawson.com)
    ×2.28 #3 | 44 points by luu 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing (jetstream.security)
    ×1.75 1 #5 | 108 points by doodlesdev 6 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (phorion.io)
    ×3.81 5 #42 | 976 points by _chall 2 days ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. When electric cars were for women (ieee.org)
    ×0.95 18 #48 | 64 points by dverlaeckt80 10 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: OpenProject Agent Engine – Automated Workflow and Agent Dispatch (github.com/310networks)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by kookster310 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers (github.com/arterialist)
    ×1.21 56 | 52 points by Arterialist 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Double Trouble (From Macbeth) (potw.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by joebig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: StackVitals – CI failure triage and DORA metrics, no server (github.com/stackvitals)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by kaushik-yadav 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Altoids Project (uvdn7.github.io)
    ×1.38 #11 | 108 points by uvdn7 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000 (acm.org)
    ×0.80 20 #16 | 24 points by gjvc 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards (bbrouter.com)
    ×0.75 24 #27 | 29 points by creack 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Vela, a New Linux Desktop Environment (velade.org)
    ×1.52 54 #58 | 10 points by BrandoDev_it 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Working at Big Tech Companies Can Be a Trap (2019) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by wseqyrku 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Similarity, a spiritual successor to 2000s-era OkCupid (similarity.com)
    ×1.88 87 | 4 points by stickfigure 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Radix - A WebGPU-powered 3D Gaussian Splat renderer built on Three.js (sparkjs.dev)
    ×2.14 120 | 11 points by dmarcos 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. elect.horse (elect.horse)
    ×2.85 13 | 556 points by solarist 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.60 1 | 71 points by gloxkiqcza 19 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Aruma – clean-room self-hosted backend for the official Firebase SDKs (github.com/arumadev)
    ×1.04 84 | 3 points by osama200 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Nasscad – local-first 3D CAD for browser and Windows (nasscad.com)
    ×0.42 114 | 26 points by Nasser-13 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×5.87 #1 | 1240 points by karpathy 13 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Six days, 742 turns, one chat window. A pseudonymised DeepSeek thread (github.com/UKA-135)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by pinuslongaeva 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Wall Street closes sharply lower as AI cash burn fears spark tech selloff (reuters.com)
    ×3.78 54 | 69 points by geox 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???