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  1. GitHub
    ×0.88 | 2 points by Julipaz 24 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What's Up with Archive.today?
    ×0.23 80 | 4 points by nobody9999 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Claude used my pipeline to find a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture
    ×0.61 39 | 6 points by JGPTechCo 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GPL Infection of LLMs?
    ×0.48 91 | 4 points by sl_convertible 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×4.59 36 | 472 points by Thrashed 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate
    ×1.15 10 | 9 points by rellyattd 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do I find startups that are looking for a dev? How to approach them?
    ×0.14 100 | 4 points by need_a_work23 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Two Gov Websites Compromised
    ×1.00 87 | 7 points by relunsec 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are your current favorite monitoring and observability solutions?
    ×0.75 97 | 3 points by Exoristos 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: ChatGPT exports do not contain all conversation messages
    ×0.45 98 | 5 points by afpx 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to get in touch with Paddle (MoR)
    ×0.27 113 | 6 points by probst 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.44 102 | 30 points by amichail 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.84 110 | 29 points by sam_lowry_ 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone giving out tokens for benchmarking LLMs?
    ×0.19 124 | 3 points by emosenkis 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Can we get a day that is free from AI news?
    ×1.65 89 | 8 points by MichaelMoser123 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How are you getting decent front end interface results out of LLMs?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by VladVladikoff 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
    ×1.10 132 | 12 points by nothrowaways 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What are your thoughts on spec-driven development?
    ×0.40 88 | 4 points by Austin_Conlon 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?
    ×0.19 121 | 4 points by lellow 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Has your typing gotten worse with AI?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by aizk 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Single-click and remote OpenCode session right in the browser
    ×0.27 144 | 3 points by jashandeep31 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. A VSCode extension for AI to understand your project
    ×0.20 | 2 points by bailingyuan 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Any Good Pi.dev Setups?
    ×0.43 146 | 3 points by galsapir 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Pixel phones getting ad notifications
    ×0.84 137 | 8 points by explodes 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why call it "inference" instead of just "model hosting"?
    ×1.49 92 | 6 points by bluebic 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Convince me to not to shelve my app (I've decided to)
    ×0.26 | 2 points by asdfbank 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?
    ×0.54 135 | 31 points by dondraper36 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?
    ×1.39 96 | 23 points by addajones 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How Chinese tech and Russian tactics are aiding Iran's bombing of US bases (theguardian.com)
    ×1.33 29 | 3 points by 0in 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Life Tile – Passive time tracker that shows your day as a Mondrian grid (apple.com)
    ×0.92 142 | 7 points by choyongjoon 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Chrome's Breaking and Entering (aresluna.org)
    ×1.63 35 #53 | 26 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Michael Stevens and Hannah Fry: The Rest Is Science (therestis.com)
    ×1.82 30 | 3 points by tomfakes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Two Chinese win top Maths prize (bbc.com)
    ×1.39 2 | 3 points by Alien1Being 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cage-lite:Prebind assurance for consequential AI agent actions (github.com/roopamwsure)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by roopamsure10 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Stock market indices on a spinning 3D globe (finances.info)
    ×1.14 111 | 4 points by recruiterinfo 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: A Website Introducing Flux 3 (flux-3.io)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by akseli_ukkonen 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. "We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Opus 5 and Fable 5" (twitter.com/trq212)
    ×3.23 24 #73 | 12 points by nreece 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Visualizing the Artemis II Mission (foxglove.dev)
    ×0.27 62 #84 | 8 points by intrepidsoldier 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why Do Autistic People Talk Like Animé Villains? (dispatchesfromtheautismwars.substack.com)
    ×3.84 58 | 7 points by barry-cotter 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Reddit Calls Anthropic a 'Freeriding Pirate' (runtimewire.com)
    ×3.34 6 | 6 points by ryanmerket 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Fountible: Agentic Figma (fountible.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by handfuloflight 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC (swingnyc.com)
    ×0.98 104 | 76 points by shahahmed 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US tech groups cut 140k jobs (ft.com)
    ×2.46 33 | 5 points by Alien1Being 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Escaping Claude Cowork's local VM sandbox via CVE-2026-46331 (accomplish.ai)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by _orcaman_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Km/h and only traffic tickets? What gives? (kylaleelawyer.substack.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by kylaleelawyer 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: PartSense – Smart inventory and BOM management for hardware labs (partsense.app)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by loicd31 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Devdex – a pixel-art identity page for builders (devdex.tech)
    ×1.09 140 | 3 points by the1ronit 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)
    ×3.36 22 | 355 points by Shortness8 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending (jpost.com)
    ×3.15 10 | 73 points by DemiGuru 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
    ×4.07 2 | 1009 points by starfallg 2 days ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Writing a Debugger from Scratch (timdbg.com)
    ×0.91 29 #75 | 43 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Joy of Being Wrong (shortdiv.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by haritha1313 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Fighting Cancer (2016) (hintjens.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by gurjeet 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Names with the largest count in their first appearance on the national list (nobodynamed.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by michaelcolenso 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com/izeigerman)
    ×1.13 60 | 107 points by s0ck_r4w 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Mourning Dan Williams (lwn.net)
    ×1.52 61 | 91 points by speckx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Maplike – Rust traits for operations on containers (get, set, push...) (github.com/mikwielgus)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by mikolajw 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. US moves to regulate hidden car handles (semafor.com)
    ×4.62 9 | 8 points by jmsflknr 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type (mariusbancila.ro)
    ×0.73 75 #51 | 67 points by signa11 23 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Points as Tori: Fast Pointwise Signed Distance for Point Clouds (nzfeng.github.io)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by nill0 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use? (ourworldindata.org)
    ×1.38 82 | 72 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Audio Player with "Binaural Beats" tuned to the same key as your music (github.com/henrygabriels)
    ×0.75 83 | 18 points by gabriel666smith 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: PDFly – 56 free PDF tools that run in the browser (pdfly.uk)
    ×3.86 117 | 10 points by pagalannu01 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales (dbos.dev)
    ×1.62 4 #3 | 269 points by KraftyOne 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality (worseonpurpose.com)
    ×4.65 70 | 118 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system (theguardian.com)
    ×4.28 59 | 110 points by pastemato 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. What happens when the information runs out (jimgrey.net)
    ×1.10 81 | 78 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Proving Go 1.26's runtime/secret keeps secrets out of core dumps (towardsdev.com)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by cheikhdev 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Tawrida – Global Trade Tools – Export-Document Generators (tawrida.xyz)
    ×1.63 143 | 3 points by m-zakarya 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The hardest way to make a GIF (willgrant.org)
    ×0.73 29 #55 | 42 points by plaguna 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Extinct Media Museum Tokyo (blog.jp)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by sohkamyung 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Rivers – a Rust/Python orchestrator with native OIDC and forward auth (github.com/ion-elgreco)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by ion-elgreco 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
    ×4.46 31 | 680 points by technewssss 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)
    ×4.54 21 #59 | 1038 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 855 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×1.70 79 | 215 points by oyster143 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I built an app where tasks live inside calendar events (apple.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by zesfyapp 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: YC Has It – describe your problem, find the YC startup that solves it (ychasit.com)
    ×2.02 118 | 5 points by intelligentleak 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.67 8 #7 | 560 points by sohkamyung 18 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Hitchcock and Herrmann: The friendship and film scores that changed cinema (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.28 55 #67 | 17 points by mitchbob 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
    ×1.12 46 #85 | 185 points by hchtin 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Global Justice Report (wid.world)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by homarp 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Starship's Thirteenth Test Flight (spacex.com)
    ×1.64 57 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)
    ×2.35 6 | 375 points by dhorthy 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Proving a human wrote something (gjtorikian.online)
    ×0.93 34 #46 | 52 points by gjtorikian 13 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
    ×5.24 23 #50 | 1437 points by dwwoelfel 1 day ago | 650 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fields Medals 2026 (mathunion.org)
    ×1.64 44 #81 | 213 points by nill0 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing? (elsewhere.news)
    ×0.86 23 #83 | 53 points by ilreb 18 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Emacs Is a Lispboard (andros.dev)
    ×1.14 68 | 112 points by andros 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: TechStacks – Popular Tech news summarized, including comments (techstacks.io)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by mythz 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: LLM Proxy - Python with SSE stream aggregation and timeout prevention (github.com/lordraw77)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by lordraw 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???