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  1. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.83 13 #69 | 130 points by andylizf 20 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI
    ×0.41 10 | 3 points by dragonman 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.85 52 | 28 points by speedylight 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.02 11 | 87 points by cvhc 20 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.66 73 | 46 points by TheRegularOne 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.83 5 | 224 points by item007 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.44 71 | 3 points by rubyn00bie 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is understanding code becoming "optional"?
    ×0.84 74 | 14 points by mikaelaast 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.73 77 | 16 points by cadabrabra 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's your biggest LLM cost multiplier?
    ×0.66 72 | 5 points by teilom 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.65 98 | 12 points by OhMeadhbh 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×0.56 85 | 11 points by lcastricato 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    ×0.28 | 2 points by pouyathe 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
    ×1.17 94 | 10 points by ruairidhwm 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.71 100 | 9 points by cadabrabra 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Should a software engineer have research exposure?
    ×0.25 109 | 4 points by c_daeda 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.82 92 | 65 points by fnoef 5 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you force yourself to take breaks while coding?
    ×0.60 131 | 4 points by glidea 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI creates over-efficiency. Organizations must absorb it
    ×0.54 101 | 6 points by eriam 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Ergo wireless keyboard with mouse for coding?
    ×0.54 107 | 5 points by MarcelOlsz 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.68 105 | 32 points by superasn 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?
    ×0.25 110 | 12 points by pigon1002 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How are you managing secrets with AI agents?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is free identity theft protection after a data breach worth the bother?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by daoboy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is archive.is currently broken for WSJ links?
    ×0.33 121 | 7 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension
    ×0.12 140 | 6 points by mr_bob_sacamano 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. DietPi released a new version v10.0
    ×0.52 87 | 4 points by StephanStS 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How much recurring income do you generate in 2026 and from what?
    ×0.50 129 | 12 points by djshah 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Where can I find startups looking for fractional product leads?
    ×0.40 144 | 8 points by stulogy 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How are devtool founders getting their paying users in 2026?
    ×0.54 113 | 7 points by yasu_c 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
    ×0.54 133 | 12 points by vldszn 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Vibe Researching" with AI – Anyone Using It for Real?
    ×0.44 141 | 8 points by spenceXu 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I built a C++ runtime with immutable objects and no GIL
    ×0.77 146 | 7 points by gamarino 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Where to find cool companies to work for?
    ×0.31 134 | 7 points by truetaurus 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Beeper deletes inactive accounts without notice
    ×0.46 137 | 4 points by kldx 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why the OpenClaw hype? What's so special?
    ×1.06 102 | 5 points by anon_anon12 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy (phys.org)
    ×0.71 34 #20 | 29 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent (peerweb.lol)
    ×1.65 6 #88 | 368 points by dtj1123 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How I Stopped Babysitting Claude Code (and Started Walking Away) (xr0am.substack.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by xR0am 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Richard Feynman Side Hustles (twitter.com/carl_feynman)
    ×1.88 25 | 185 points by tzury 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
    ×1.49 123 | 5 points by CzaxTanmay 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: How We Run 60 Hugging Face Models on 2 GPUs
    ×1.10 83 | 4 points by pveldandi 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – unified API for automating coding agents (github.com/rivet-dev)
    ×1.27 104 | 20 points by NathanFlurry 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci (cern.ch)
    ×0.96 15 #26 | 43 points by nill0 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Working example of a Yocto setup without unnecessary complications (github.com/bootlin)
    ×1.41 22 #75 | 24 points by transpute 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Next Thing Will Not Be Big (glyph.im)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by BerislavLopac 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ada and Zangemann – A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream (fsfe.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by janisz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I don't use Google Maps in Amsterdam [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by wtf42 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Code signing Windows apps with Azure Artifact service (devclass.com)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. 175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered (techradar.com)
    ×1.42 45 | 61 points by heresie-dabord 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Interactive Equation Solver
    ×0.68 | 2 points by dharmatech 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev (somehowmanage.com)
    ×1.30 29 #60 | 150 points by Ozzie_osman 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers (piunikaweb.com)
    ×5.02 10 | 195 points by croes 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents (github.com/amlalabs)
    ×0.72 33 | 143 points by souvik1997 2 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Pinecone Explorer – Desktop GUI for the Pinecone vector database (pinecone-explorer.com)
    ×0.36 62 | 30 points by arsentjev 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show (theguardian.com)
    ×10.12 43 | 71 points by 1986 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. You are being misled about renewable energy technology [video] (youtube.com)
    ×5.74 41 | 64 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)
    ×1.88 12 #14 | 216 points by ingve 18 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Outsourcing thinking (erikjohannes.no)
    ×1.66 9 #22 | 180 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Trust in Ranking (marginalia.nu)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Jscipy now available on Maven Central (sonatype.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by hissain 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time? (ztechtalk.com)
    ×3.60 6 | 378 points by imalerba 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011) (gwern.net)
    ×1.42 14 | 84 points by teej 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Stop using low DNS TTLs (apnic.net)
    ×1.36 55 | 63 points by swills 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 4chan founder created /pol/ board after meeting with Epstein (bsky.app)
    ×9.14 9 | 52 points by DustinEchoes 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
    ×1.90 1 #2 | 152 points by SatvikBeri 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (dywa.ng)
    ×3.10 #8 | 745 points by cbeuw 21 hours ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf] (usenix.org)
    ×1.12 3 #49 | 119 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Banning Syntax Highlighting Steroids (brainbaking.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending (github.com/jmuncor)
    ×1.30 57 | 217 points by jmuncor 3 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Decompiling and rewriting a 2003 game from its binary in two weeks (banteg.xyz)
    ×2.38 45 | 3 points by banteg 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Elon Musk asks Jeffery Epstein for invitation to 'let loose' [pdf] (justice.gov)
    ×11.50 47 | 60 points by jrflowers 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    ×2.19 2 #3 | 9 points by doener 51 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)
    ×1.38 #4 | 121 points by 0x54MUR41 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis' (electrek.co)
    ×6.91 42 #65 | 41 points by MilnerRoute 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tesla scraps models in pivot to AI as annual revenue falls for first time (ft.com)
    ×1.67 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Everything Is Remixed – Serverless Web Audio Mixer with URL State (ichbinsoftware.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by ichbinsoftware 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Think DSP 2 – An Introduction to Digital Signal Processing in Python (allendowney.github.io)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by simonpure 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Julie Zero – my screen-aware desktop AI that works out of the box (github.com/Luthiraa)
    ×1.86 108 | 5 points by luthiraabeykoon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I made a dual-bootable NixBSD (NixOS and FreeBSD) image (github.com/jonhermansen)
    ×2.87 111 | 9 points by jonhermansen 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: SROS Self-Compiler (OSS) – a chat-first compiler to XML build packages (github.com/skrikx)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by skrikx1 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked (viewfromthewing.com)
    ×8.35 3 | 215 points by datsci_est_2015 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenClaw security assessment [pdf] (zeroleaks.ai)
    ×1.94 40 | 59 points by nreece 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Hebo Gateway, an embeddable AI gateway with OpenAI-compatible endpoints (github.com/8monkey-ai)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by dselvaggio 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Quorum-free replicated state machine built atop S3 (github.com/io-s2c)
    ×1.79 70 | 6 points by mzazaipsc 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
    ×1.51 11 #25 | 62 points by merelysounds 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition) (jaisenmathai.com)
    ×2.10 8 #76 | 278 points by jmathai 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Synth Town (synth.town)
    ×1.40 46 #82 | 21 points by count_zero 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: HyprKCS – A fast, native GTK4/Adwaita keybind manager for Hyprland (github.com/kosa12)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by kosa12 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code (github.com/zuckermanai)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by ddaniel10 59 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???