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  1. Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
    ×1.06 39 #78 | 158 points by udl 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by bhaviav100 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?
    ×1.21 37 | 3 points by whatarethembits 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
    ×1.90 33 | 63 points by acmerfight 12 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is it just me?
    ×0.80 53 | 9 points by twoelf 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I built an AI that tailors your CV to every job in seconds
    ×0.14 | 2 points by alebarbon 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anyone using Meshtastic/LoRa for non-chat applications?
    ×0.80 89 | 10 points by redgridtactical 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Claude API Error: 529
    ×0.53 91 | 25 points by anujbans 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Anybody tried to cheat AI-HR-system with hidden/white sentences?
    ×0.27 104 | 4 points by KellyCriterion 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. GitHub has been sending me an email every two seconds.
    ×1.30 88 | 15 points by colonelspace 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Repsy – A lightweight, open-source alternative to Nexus/Artifactory
    ×0.26 124 | 5 points by nuricanozturk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Fear of Missing Code
    ×0.37 110 | 5 points by lukol 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Pangram is easily-defeatable with Claude
    ×0.16 136 | 3 points by nunez 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work
    ×0.46 132 | 41 points by noemit 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you use for normative specs to drive AI agents?
    ×0.28 128 | 4 points by midnight_eclair 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?
    ×0.30 117 | 13 points by nickcageinacage 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Rses – cross-resume between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
    ×0.28 125 | 12 points by plawlost 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you deal with obvious AI assistant usage in interviews
    ×0.45 121 | 9 points by stackdestroyer 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Lazy Tmux – Lazy-loading tmux sessions with a tree view
    ×0.30 155 | 8 points by Alchemmist 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?
    ×0.94 142 | 32 points by jawerty 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest?
    ×0.18 159 | 10 points by latand6 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is Antigravity code search dropping results recently?
    ×0.11 156 | 7 points by sankalpnarula 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. DB Explorer – free Java desktop SQL client with live DB health dashboard (sourceforge.net)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by adeptashish 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD (lwn.net)
    ×1.57 57 | 72 points by corbet 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Sup AI, a confidence-weighted ensemble (52.15% on Humanity's Last Exam) (sup.ai)
    ×0.63 90 | 25 points by supai 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: ReactNative.run – Browser Metro bundler that runs React Native (reactnative.run)
    ×0.34 157 | 3 points by sanketsahu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors (online.fr)
    ×1.13 6 #5 | 57 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ötzi the Iceman's DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5k Years Later (familytreedna.com)
    ×1.91 30 #67 | 30 points by ilamont 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. UK joins global push to rein in children's screen use with national guidance (reuters.com)
    ×2.05 37 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Hold on to Your Hardware (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×3.34 17 #83 | 639 points by LucidLynx 1 day ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How flat is your name (matthewc.dev)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by matthewfcarlson 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. GitHub Actions for Gradle v6: What's Changing and Why (gradle.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by arkon_hn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Decadelong Feud Shaping the Future of AI (wsj.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by danielcampos93 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner (sightlessscribbles.com)
    ×3.38 27 | 572 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 467 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust? (ft.com)
    ×3.18 18 #23 | 16 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 57 minutes ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI (pneuma.computer)
    ×1.51 57 #49 | 15 points by evanbarke 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars (xdavidhu.me)
    ×3.51 54 #61 | 966 points by driesdep 3 days ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I built a site that maps the web from a bounty hunter's perspective (neobotnet.com)
    ×0.60 106 | 46 points by caffeinedoom 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Clipboard-MCP – System clipboard access for AI assistants (github.com/mnardit)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by MaxNardit 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them (psychologytoday.com)
    ×6.12 4 | 90 points by ndr42 19 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Foundry: a Markdown-first CMS written in Go (github.com/sphireinc)
    ×0.93 84 | 29 points by nsayoda 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: VizTools – 16 free tools for PMs and freelancers, deliberately no AI (viztools.app)
    ×1.73 93 | 7 points by mizarau 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. TurboQuant: KV Cache Quantization to 3.5 Bits with Zero Accuracy Loss- ICLR 2026 (darshanfofadiya.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by DARSHANFOFADIYA 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Catching crumbs from the table by Ted Chiang (2000) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by sendes 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Built Loony for builders who want to spin up data infrastructure fast (loony.dev)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by maxmealing 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude (danieljanus.pl)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules (gadgetreview.com)
    ×2.66 47 | 137 points by vidyesh 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Gaza toddler released from Israeli custody with 'cigarette burn' wounds (middleeasteye.net)
    ×10.78 10 | 42 points by Imustaskforhelp 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Minimalist library to generate SVG views of scientific data (github.com/alefore)
    ×0.76 87 | 46 points by afc 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Matadisco – Decentralized Data Discovery (matadisco.org)
    ×0.78 54 #56 | 58 points by biggestfan 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia (theguardian.com)
    ×3.80 21 #63 | 73 points by Brajeshwar 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kee – Key combination matching on the modern web (github.com/juzerzarif)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by juzerzarif 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Top Things Not to Do at KubeCon (medium.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by valyala 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial (bbc.com)
    ×3.75 1 | 158 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)
    ×1.47 28 | 51 points by philjohnson 11 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer (georgelarson.me)
    ×1.58 39 | 331 points by j0rg3 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML (emailmd.dev)
    ×1.85 81 | 379 points by dancablam 4 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (bmj.com)
    ×1.80 #4 | 47 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Peer-to-peer sync for a reading app with mTLS, CRDTs, and HLCs (stonecharioteer.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by stonecharioteer 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Milawa on Jitawa, a Verified Theorem Prover (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by poppingtonic 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. OpenClaw Is LangChain 2.0 (justinflick.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by pamplemeese 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147 (ft.com)
    ×3.99 78 | 62 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Build AI Trading Agents in Cursor/Claude with an MCP Server (financialdata.net)
    ×1.66 113 | 5 points by financial-data 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com/BoWang87)
    ×1.27 4 #6 | 161 points by mean_mistreater 8 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)
    ×3.50 1 #10 | 410 points by amarcheschi 11 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer (cnbc.com)
    ×1.07 52 #46 | 101 points by goplayoutside 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Rick – Open-source AI CEO that autonomously runs your startup (meetrick.ai)
    ×1.85 152 | 8 points by MeetRickAI 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Mushroom hunting catch and cook in Southern California [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by teleforce 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Octopus, Open-source alternative to CodeRabbit and Greptile (octopus-review.ai)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by redoh 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A tool to create and evaluate document processing pipelines for RAG (ragbandit.com)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by martimchaves 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots (reutersconnect.com)
    ×2.98 8 #9 | 230 points by _____k 4 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Stop picking my Go version for me (howardjohn.info)
    ×1.60 7 #22 | 32 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A simple explanation of the key idea behind TurboQuant (reddit.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: OpenHelm – OpenClaw but free (using your Claude Code subscription) (openhelm.ai)
    ×0.91 139 | 3 points by maxbeech 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. StationeryObject (stationeryobject.com)
    ×0.69 36 #42 | 44 points by NaOH 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: JSONPath Benchmark in Java (SJF4J vs. Jayway)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by hannyu 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Anvil – Desktop App for Spec Driven Development (github.com/zdenham)
    ×2.63 103 | 9 points by zdenham 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. New EV sales drop 28% in Q1 2026, but used EVs surge 12% to near-record levels (electrek.co)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by Bender 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Forkrun – NUMA-aware shell parallelizer (50×–400× faster than parallel) (github.com/jkool702)
    ×2.71 107 | 9 points by jkool702 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Alumnium – SOTA Browsing for Claude Code (alumnium.ai)
    ×2.21 112 | 6 points by p0deje 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.27 3 #16 | 367 points by msephton 15 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Future of SCIP (sourcegraph.com)
    ×0.89 62 #74 | 92 points by jdorfman 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Woman visiting ER for back pain shocked after doctor suggests euthanasia (dailymail.co.uk)
    ×3.50 22 | 7 points by Bender 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Attie.ai (attie.ai)
    ×2.12 | 6 points by m-hodges 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Undroidwish – a single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms (androwish.org)
    ×0.96 15 #26 | 70 points by smartmic 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Embracing Bayesian methods in clinical trials (jamanetwork.com)
    ×0.94 54 #88 | 109 points by nextos 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Pretext Demos (chenglou.me)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Linux 7.0-Rc6 Bringing a Lot of Audio Quirks / Fixes (phoronix.com)
    ×1.49 36 | 3 points by Bender 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing (bbc.com)
    ×3.45 5 | 193 points by measurablefunc 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026 (bsky.app)
    ×2.31 60 | 91 points by timpera 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???