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  1. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.24 #4 | 689 points by chaseadam17 9 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.56 19 | 9 points by TazeTSchnitzel 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.54 34 | 23 points by causal 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.60 54 | 5 points by fdneng 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?
    ×0.58 64 | 5 points by xgstation 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.91 77 | 43 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key)
    ×0.11 | 2 points by Picknar 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.93 90 | 77 points by moomoo11 4 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.60 | 2 points by AGsist 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.33 110 | 12 points by jrs235 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.41 118 | 16 points by rtrgrd 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.41 113 | 7 points by Poomba 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.23 142 | 17 points by catapart 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
    ×0.89 106 | 14 points by mr-pink 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
    ×0.28 132 | 4 points by endorphine 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.44 127 | 12 points by incognito124 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?
    ×0.40 130 | 15 points by surume 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.17 148 | 6 points by jmount 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Microsoft Edge self-destroys updating it in Debian based distros
    ×0.26 126 | 7 points by usr1106 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project
    ×0.38 146 | 5 points by firefoxd 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health
    ×0.64 147 | 10 points by kinj28 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?
    ×1.10 89 | 38 points by 101008 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How's Business These Days for Fiverr Freelancers?
    ×2.36 98 | 13 points by burnerToBetOut 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: LLMs helping you read papers and books
    ×0.58 141 | 8 points by amelius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×0.81 140 | 12 points by absoluteunit1 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.60 149 | 6 points by b3rkus 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities?
    ×1.03 139 | 12 points by orange_puff 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What's the best realtime, local, TTS solution? Live call interpretation
    ×0.37 144 | 6 points by Wright007 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tadpole the Language for Scraping 0.2.0 – Complex Control Flow, Stealth and More
    ×0.64 123 | 6 points by zachperkitny 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Migrating from Postgres to ClickHouse for faster dashboards (fiveonefour.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by oatsandsugar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security (openclaw.ai)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by thanthtet 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Galatea – Real personality for your AI agent (galatea.sh)
    ×1.20 116 | 3 points by ianpcook 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I graded 234 stocks on free cash flow (not earnings) (aureus-swart.vercel.app)
    ×2.27 94 | 17 points by babylonprince 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. So you want to build a tunnel (practical.engineering)
    ×1.24 13 #14 | 201 points by crescit_eundo 13 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Western Digital is sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.49 18 #73 | 45 points by linolevan 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Tanin – TUI Noise Generator (github.com/AnonMiraj)
    ×1.02 134 | 6 points by anongazelle 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.73 20 #29 | 91 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.66 21 #72 | 192 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
    ×2.32 4 #80 | 528 points by ssgodderidge 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AI Story Generator with Pictures (genstory.app)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by RyanMu 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.29 31 | 77 points by meetpateltech 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (tomaszdunia.pl)
    ×4.65 28 #37 | 1100 points by to3k 20 hours ago | 785 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Google trying to recover footage from other Guthrie home cameras (youtube.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by busymom0 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Way to Understand the Irish Economy (stephenkinsella.substack.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Russia's economy has entered the death zone (economist.com)
    ×5.54 44 | 82 points by thelastgallon 11 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks (github.com/dataspren-analytics)
    ×2.05 112 | 4 points by alx-net 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Fieldnotes (fieldnote.ink)
    ×0.73 125 | 14 points by samcgraw 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Bubble sort on a Turing machine (github.com/purplejacket)
    ×0.48 145 | 10 points by purplejacket 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Google Public CA is down (pki.goog)
    ×4.05 12 #18 | 234 points by aloknnikhil 5 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I Use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)
    ×2.04 3 #32 | 71 points by hisamafahri 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: LaminarDB – Streaming SQL database in Rust, zero-alloc hot path (github.com/laminardb)
    ×1.68 41 | 3 points by sujitn 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: OdinForge – Breach simulation that chains vulns into attack paths (odinforgeai.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by Doc_Dre 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life (macrumors.com)
    ×2.48 69 | 111 points by tosh 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Start an Apple Container in Seconds (github.com/beachdevs)
    ×1.54 62 | 3 points by dpweb 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)
    ×4.73 #1 | 81 points by cheeaun 35 minutes ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (github.com/Zaneham)
    ×1.93 6 #6 | 253 points by rurban 10 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite (notnotp.com)
    ×0.70 60 #44 | 73 points by enz 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
    ×5.45 18 #83 | 1428 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 1112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: ClipPath – Paste screenshots as file paths in your terminal (github.com/BiteCraft)
    ×0.66 143 | 18 points by viniciusborgeis 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024) (tardis.ac)
    ×0.51 49 #35 | 40 points by luu 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)
    ×3.13 2 #65 | 238 points by zdw 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market (cnbc.com)
    ×5.71 35 | 82 points by rustoo 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
    ×1.55 3 | 263 points by zachlatta 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School (404media.co)
    ×1.93 35 | 85 points by trinsic2 13 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM (bashtorio.xyz)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by elijahcham 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I curated 130 US PDF forms and made them fillable in browser (simplepdf.com)
    ×2.95 80 | 7 points by nip 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API (get-nerve.com)
    ×0.41 105 | 16 points by mprast 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter (github.com/SpaceTurth)
    ×0.53 81 | 61 points by turth 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: GPU Perpetual Futures Prototype (github.com/zacharyfrederick)
    ×0.82 135 | 9 points by ozzymandiaz96 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Telescope now queries Kubernetes logs directly (github.com/iamtelescope)
    ×3.68 117 | 9 points by r0b3r4 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (mit.edu)
    ×0.80 23 #20 | 43 points by anarbadalov 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D (edbn.me)
    ×1.41 9 #22 | 239 points by kewonit 16 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: StatusPing – Uptime monitoring for $9/mo (statusping.dev)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by pdtech_apps 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How the Olympics Are Mixed Live 4k Miles Away [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by geerlingguy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript
    ×0.96 101 | 50 points by jv22222 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Windows 98 web desktop with a functional remote browser (no CORS) (win9-5.com)
    ×1.33 124 | 3 points by keepamovin 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. pg_ash: Active Session History for PostgreSQL wait event sampling (github.com/NikolayS)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by tanelpoder 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Instagram Saved Collection Exporter (google.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by qwikhost 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)
    ×1.10 42 #60 | 159 points by MrFinch 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (openculture.com)
    ×0.78 71 #79 | 82 points by tesserato 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript (github.com/n-e)
    ×0.72 26 #26 | 59 points by n_e 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Q4 2025: Where 8,500 institutional investors put $1.3T in new capital (13finsight.com)
    ×2.30 40 | 4 points by vicchenai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×4.09 5 | 371 points by righthand 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: OpenBoot – 2 commands to replace a 3-hour Mac setup ritual (github.com/openbootdotdev)
    ×0.68 78 | 10 points by superjam2026 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: JVM hot-path execution analysis for Java in the age of vibe coding (github.com/sfkamath)
    ×1.64 102 | 4 points by sfkamath 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)
    ×1.69 6 #13 | 322 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How persistent is the inference cost burden? (epochai.substack.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
    ×2.36 15 | 427 points by danielhanchen 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: ViewLint – Lint UI, Not Code (github.com/EvanZhouDev)
    ×1.43 138 | 3 points by EvanZhouDev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
    ×0.90 63 | 162 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???