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  1. Ask HN: Data engineers, What suck when working on exploratory data-related task?
    ×0.26 45 | 5 points by robz75 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: You have $35,000 how do you invest it?
    ×1.10 28 | 10 points by asim 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. BMW ConnectedDrive lets me control my returned rental car (Sixt)
    ×1.18 31 | 85 points by derturm666 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Is there a way to run an LLM as a better local search engine?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by oblio 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Is GitHub Down?
    ×1.33 29 | 38 points by Mahn 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. GitHub API Is Down
    ×0.62 55 | 17 points by carstonh 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Tech people who are self employed. How do you do it?
    ×1.81 80 | 15 points by throwaway_owe98 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Job searching and torrent-related homelab infra
    ×0.15 | 2 points by McAlpine5892 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What newspaper are you paying for these days?
    ×0.72 96 | 10 points by mynti 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?
    ×2.98 41 | 83 points by finik_throwaway 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?
    ×1.04 149 | 125 points by akktor 1 week ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?
    ×2.38 62 | 395 points by jupiterglimpse 5 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
    ×6.73 51 | 2431 points by dang 1 week ago | 905 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: In a guide to inner work for founders and engs, what topics to cover?
    ×0.25 151 | 3 points by cjbarber 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. What does it mean to use C++ in the front end?
    ×0.79 124 | 11 points by AliceHe2003 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. PSA: iwantmyname is utterly broken
    ×0.43 138 | 5 points by kelstar18 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career?
    ×2.15 126 | 93 points by 7402 5 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is there an AI bot that works like a literate programming build step
    ×0.32 155 | 16 points by bryanrasmussen 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level
    ×1.64 143 | 248 points by upmind 1 week ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Engineers at our startup don't build features anymore
    ×0.32 140 | 13 points by s4293918 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Genuine alternatives to Google and Apple for releasing paid apps
    ×0.93 160 | 22 points by asjdflakjsdf 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Prevent Secrets from Committing to Repos
    ×0.27 168 | 6 points by abhijais1 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem?
    ×4.60 105 | 149 points by leonagano 5 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Casual Math Book Suggestions
    ×1.25 171 | 14 points by vriendspookstem 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Seeking ways to improve my planning skills and follow-through
    ×0.65 166 | 22 points by skuuuLaPoo 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Minecraft's UI element style (vs. modern flat glass interface)
    ×0.44 172 | 20 points by xeonmc 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What is the latest on treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer?
    ×0.75 173 | 28 points by hazrmard 1 week ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: DIY virtual HDMI monitor using "AR" glasses (github.com/mgschwan)
    ×0.92 146 | 112 points by blensor 1 week ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server (mastra.ai)
    ×1.60 134 | 213 points by codekarate 1 week ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Free local security checks for AI coding in VSCode, Cursor and Windsurf
    ×1.22 26 #29 | 21 points by jaimefjorge 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices (apnews.com)
    ×4.41 25 #75 | 338 points by rdrd 1 day ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. What happens when clergy take psilocybin (nautil.us)
    ×1.62 6 #90 | 346 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why is your open source project still hosted on GitHub? (unixdigest.com)
    ×4.29 71 | 5 points by jamesgill 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Volkswagen Will Sell You an ID. Buzz Robotaxi (insideevs.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by PhilippGille 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Judge smacks down Pentagon plan to slash university research funding awards (theregister.com)
    ×2.85 52 | 4 points by rntn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cannabis use linked to a doubled risk of heart disease death, new study finds (cbsnews.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by xbmcuser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Introduction to the A* Algorithm (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.66 12 #11 | 198 points by auraham 11 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Framework Laptop 12 review (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.63 10 #14 | 154 points by moelf 5 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI agents working with zero Human intervention to set up an ELK stack [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by jcyriac 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Comprehensive sovereign solutions empowering European organizations (microsoft.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by ajdude 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×3.91 54 | 342 points by spwestwood 4 days ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Nexus.js - Fabric.js for 3D (punk.cam)
    ×0.70 49 | 88 points by ges 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: gRPSQLite – A SQLite VFS for remote databases via gRPC (github.com/danthegoodman1)
    ×3.13 154 | 15 points by dangoodmanUT 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Internet Relay Chat Protocol (1993) (ietf.org)
    ×2.92 54 | 4 points by coloneltcb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Attend Boot Camp) (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.65 56 | 5 points by ks2048 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination (jgc.org)
    ×2.23 102 | 408 points by jgrahamc 1 week ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU (github.com/ChefKissInc)
    ×1.75 74 | 388 points by 71bw 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: AskMedically – a research-backed AI copilot for clinical questions (askmedically.com)
    ×0.30 | 2 points by arunbhatia 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: FaynoSync Self-Hosted API for Automatic App Updates (github.com/ku9nov)
    ×0.35 111 | 9 points by ku9n 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Recipes – A Vibe Coding Pattern for Common Code Transformations (arcturus-labs.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by JnBrymn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Launch of GPT-4 (andrewmayne.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by jxmorris12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole (port.ac.uk)
    ×3.51 61 | 767 points by zaik 1 week ago | 603 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: How to Read Code (codedump.info)
    ×2.03 142 | 13 points by codedump 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player (github.com/rommapp)
    ×1.25 117 | 238 points by gassi 1 week ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs (jakelazaroff.com)
    ×1.42 3 #7 | 158 points by jakelazaroff 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket (global.honda)
    ×4.73 11 #35 | 1235 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: ht-mcp – a Rust MCP server of headless terminal for agents (github.com/memextech)
    ×4.05 7 #57 | 13 points by alphag33k 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Iran's Internet Blackout Adds New Dangers for Civilians Amid Israeli Bombings (wired.com)
    ×1.66 | 2 points by 01-_- 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York's Subways (2017) (nytimes.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by zelias 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Easy Percentage Calculator (easypercentcalculator.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by filipstefano 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Kichan AI, free Chrome extension that generates and injects userscripts (google.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by k1rd 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch (github.com/piyushgupta53)
    ×1.80 95 | 211 points by piyushgupta53 5 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Real-time action chunking with large models (pi.website)
    ×0.71 4 #25 | 54 points by pr337h4m 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Trieve CLI – Terminal-based LLM agent loop with search tool for PDFs (github.com/devflowinc)
    ×0.50 26 #31 | 16 points by skeptrune 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Spain had resources to prevent a blackout, but they didn't respond (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.33 1 #74 | 5 points by amendegree 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub (github.com/AasishPokhrel)
    ×4.65 69 | 623 points by petercooper 6 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Tikt.com – Remove the "OK" from TikTok URL's to Download as MP3 or MP4 (tikt.com)
    ×2.93 71 | 99 points by nadermx 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)
    ×1.38 6 #10 | 182 points by xeonmc 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: GAI, a Go-idiomatic, lightweight abstraction on top of LLMs (maragu.dev)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by markusw 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: McWig – A modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go (github.com/firstrow)
    ×1.10 119 | 152 points by andrew_bbb 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: SmartScan – Android ML-powered on-device media search and management (github.com/dev-diaries41)
    ×1.09 169 | 3 points by fpflabs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Darknet Bible has been updated after Archetyp dark web drug market arrests (darknetbible.info)
    ×6.16 77 | 6 points by DarknetBible 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests (cnn.com)
    ×6.20 84 | 706 points by sapphicsnail 1 week ago | 1681 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Shelly, terminal assistant that translates natural language into shell (github.com/nestordemeure)
    ×2.46 170 | 13 points by nestorD 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009) (cbc.ca)
    ×1.96 28 #87 | 70 points by xattt 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. FAA air traffic overtime costs soar as hiring lags, report says (reuters.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by petethomas 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Steam Beta enables Proton on Linux making Linux gaming simpler (gamingonlinux.com)
    ×3.44 16 #48 | 21 points by haunter 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Proofs Without Words (artofproblemsolving.com)
    ×1.16 30 #51 | 94 points by squircle 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Endometriosis is an interesting disease (owlposting.com)
    ×2.66 58 | 391 points by crescit_eundo 4 days ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future (latimes.com)
    ×7.55 85 | 312 points by voxadam 6 days ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Socket-call – Call socket.io events like normal JavaScript functions (github.com/bperel)
    ×0.60 78 | 44 points by bperel 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Zero-config AWS CUR → interactive cost dashboard (DuckDB and Rill)
    ×1.95 152 | 6 points by adamkabak 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Sly Stone has died (go.com)
    ×2.16 116 | 380 points by brudgers 1 week ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Android 16 is here (blog.google)
    ×3.37 110 | 333 points by nsriv 1 week ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor (tattoy.sh)
    ×1.34 90 | 200 points by tombh 5 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Glowstick – type level tensor shapes in stable rust (github.com/nicksenger)
    ×0.41 167 | 53 points by bietroi 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Delve, an open source (AGPL) enterprise-grade data analytics platform (github.com/iLoveTux)
    ×0.95 26 #32 | 10 points by ilovetux 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court (thecity.nyc)
    ×9.55 30 | 318 points by sjsdaiuasgdia 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I built a tool that automates social content for busy startup founders (outbrand.design)
    ×2.31 59 | 7 points by jsathianathen 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A touch sensor you can 3D print in any shape and size (e-flesh.com)
    ×1.73 | 2 points by raunaqmb 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???