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  1. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×1.06 43 | 7 points by lcastricato 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.49 8 | 5 points by cadabrabra 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Notification Overload
    ×0.52 39 | 39 points by fractal618 3 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AI creates over-efficiency. Organizations must absorb it
    ×0.90 6 | 5 points by eriam 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Ergo wireless keyboard with mouse for coding?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by MarcelOlsz 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why the OpenClaw hype? What's so special?
    ×1.31 | 2 points by anon_anon12 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.70 57 | 39 points by TheRegularOne 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How are you managing secrets with AI agents?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by m-hodges 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is free identity theft protection after a data breach worth the bother?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by daoboy 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
    ×1.14 61 | 4 points by ruairidhwm 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.65 75 | 8 points by OhMeadhbh 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.62 71 | 6 points by cadabrabra 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II
    ×0.59 87 | 101 points by abkt 3 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
    ×0.88 106 | 67 points by znpy 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you force yourself to take breaks while coding?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by glidea 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is archive.is currently broken for WSJ links?
    ×0.38 99 | 7 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
    ×0.67 119 | 56 points by manux81 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How are devtool founders getting their paying users in 2026?
    ×0.64 82 | 7 points by yasu_c 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?
    ×0.24 103 | 11 points by pigon1002 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Beeper deletes inactive accounts without notice
    ×0.62 116 | 4 points by kldx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.90 100 | 63 points by fnoef 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension
    ×0.13 136 | 6 points by mr_bob_sacamano 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.68 111 | 31 points by superasn 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How much recurring income do you generate in 2026 and from what?
    ×0.53 130 | 12 points by djshah 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Vibe Researching" with AI – Anyone Using It for Real?
    ×0.48 144 | 8 points by spenceXu 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Where can I find startups looking for fractional product leads?
    ×0.38 148 | 7 points by stulogy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to prevent Claude/GPT/Gemini from reinforcing your biases?
    ×0.79 132 | 29 points by akshay326 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies
    ×1.16 133 | 40 points by ok_orco 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
    ×0.57 143 | 12 points by vldszn 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: If Everyone Can "Build" a SaaS, What Becomes Valuable?
    ×1.31 129 | 13 points by spenceXu 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How much emphasis to put on unit testing and when?
    ×0.38 154 | 9 points by theturtlemoves 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?
    ×0.70 122 | 9 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I built a C++ runtime with immutable objects and no GIL
    ×0.74 160 | 6 points by gamarino 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Where to find cool companies to work for?
    ×0.28 140 | 6 points by truetaurus 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How to DeGoogle Myself?
    ×0.61 126 | 12 points by neuralkoi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
    ×1.35 46 #40 | 222 points by kieto 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by sowbug 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Let AI agents integrate your product for your customers (uselark.ai)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by crush_robo_1536 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: TiniText – Small tools for transcription, summaries and drafts (tinitext.com)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by neliousness 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again (openclaw.ai)
    ×2.97 11 #4 | 514 points by ed 13 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.64 22 #52 | 453 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 751 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behaviour (nature.com)
    ×1.58 | 1 points by XzetaU8 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity (twitter.com/VitalikButerin)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by wslh 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All (aashvik.com)
    ×1.06 39 #34 | 111 points by MonkeyClub 14 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k (townandcountrymag.com)
    ×2.20 50 | 180 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years in November (yahoo.com)
    ×5.75 41 | 80 points by thomassmith65 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: WordRE, Wordle for Real Estate (reidsherman.com)
    ×0.55 123 | 9 points by reidjs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: CertRadar – Find every certificate ever issued for your domain (certradar.net)
    ×0.97 151 | 21 points by ops_mechanic 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. HTTP Cats (http.cat)
    ×1.94 23 #21 | 36 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models (counterpointresearch.com)
    ×1.38 32 | 63 points by TMWNN 22 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client (xda-developers.com)
    ×4.52 11 #23 | 547 points by franczesko 11 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why I Always End Up Going Back to C (deplet.ing)
    ×1.92 55 #58 | 59 points by indy 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What Happened at the OpenSSL Conference 2025 (i-programmer.info)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by aquastorm 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Mark Mills on the Roaring 20s: AI, Energy, and the Next Commodity Boom [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by measurablefunc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: TheBaduk – A Go/Baduk Platform Built with Vanilla JavaScript (thebaduk.com)
    ×1.32 135 | 4 points by bugon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Curvy turtle graphics for SVG paths (open-source) (github.com/mmkns)
    ×0.52 159 | 3 points by mmkns 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Software Pump and Dump (tautvilas.lt)
    ×2.39 24 #49 | 302 points by brisky 12 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. "Is It Worth It?" Automation Evaluator (claude.ai)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by TrudosKudos 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Native Linux VST plugin directory (linuxmusic.rocks)
    ×1.28 68 | 96 points by Aldipower 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I made a new compression algorithm (github.com/BrowserBox)
    ×2.21 107 | 7 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
    ×1.65 44 #56 | 174 points by unsolved73 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) (mit.edu)
    ×3.21 18 #64 | 662 points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Practical Strategies for Optimizing Gemini API Calls (irwinbilling.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by niwri 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M (mahadk.com)
    ×3.06 13 | 398 points by JustSkyfall 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: We added memory to Claude Code. It's powerful now (supermemory.ai)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by dhravya 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Analyzing Semantic Redundancy in LLM Retrieval (Google GIST Protocol)
    ×0.44 139 | 4 points by aggeeinn 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How AI Impacts Skill Formation (arxiv.org)
    ×2.15 10 #25 | 213 points by northfield27 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers (tedium.co)
    ×1.10 2 #83 | 94 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Lithe – A Web Framework for Lean4 (github.com/JoshuaPurtell)
    ×2.34 34 | 3 points by JoshPurtell 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Sly Dunbar RIP (syracuse.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.58 3 | 125 points by ishener 23 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit (jamieclarketype.com)
    ×1.51 4 #8 | 180 points by tobr 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents (github.com/amlalabs)
    ×0.69 1 #13 | 88 points by souvik1997 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer (grid.space)
    ×1.70 24 #27 | 361 points by cyrusradfar 21 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. WICG Proposal – AI Content Disclosure (github.com/WICG)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by embedding-shape 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Formatter Workspace – A multi-pane JSON/XML inspector and formatter (formatter-workspace.com)
    ×1.20 125 | 4 points by maggie-r-m-88 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Ghostly: The Ultimate Platform for Ghosting Candidates (Satire) (wasmer.app)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by dw1014 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Ourguide – OS wide task guidance system that shows you where to click (ourguide.ai)
    ×0.59 38 #78 | 51 points by eshaangulati 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AI product isn't expensive, your pricing is lazy (flexprice.io)
    ×4.69 59 | 8 points by NIKHILFP 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. U.S. threat of 100% tariff on Korean memory chips at odds with reality (joins.com)
    ×3.39 12 | 57 points by walterbell 17 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: vind – A Better Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) (github.com/loft-sh)
    ×5.29 78 | 15 points by saiyampathak 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law (themarkup.org)
    ×3.23 9 #19 | 31 points by jyunwai 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Sometimes Never Compete on Price (asmartbear.com)
    ×1.46 2 #68 | 8 points by gk1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Health risks of 3D printing – often overlooked (oru.se)
    ×0.83 67 #82 | 6 points by JeanKage 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Notification Underload (zuma9pt5.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic (cnbc.com)
    ×3.66 16 | 132 points by donutshop 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.90 12 #72 | 423 points by MBCook 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Apache Doris Up to 40x Faster Than ClickHouse (velodb.io)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by ahachete 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions (github.com/Pickle-Pixel)
    ×2.68 69 | 80 points by picklepixel 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: We review YC applications for free – with feedback from YC founders (ycroaster.com)
    ×1.99 91 | 6 points by gjarrosson 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???