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Sorting 1M u64 KV-pairs in 20ms on i9-13980HX using a branchless Rust impl

×0.23 35 | 3 points by EfurDec 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?

×0.89 41 | 48 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

×2.02 33 | 335 points by misterchocolat 2 days ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?

×0.44 42 | 4 points by canterburry 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

×4.64 22 | 820 points by morpheuskafka 3 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month

×0.81 58 | 76 points by absurdwebsite 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?

×0.64 61 | 6 points by s_u_d_o 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?

×1.54 84 | 14 points by arikusi 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)

×0.54 69 | 5 points by leetrout 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?

×0.89 65 | 15 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?

×0.76 85 | 4 points by coreyp_1 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?

×0.11 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?

×0.62 70 | 30 points by fny 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

×3.89 78 | 50 points by decide1000 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error

×1.10 92 | 11 points by ascarola 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?

×0.85 98 | 24 points by RockstarSprain 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?

×0.75 95 | 13 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Advice for tracking down a listening device?

×0.46 105 | 8 points by comrade1234 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning

×2.47 91 | 28 points by thewillmoss 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?

×0.64 99 | 13 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing

×0.58 73 | 17 points by limalabs 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?

×1.38 94 | 15 points by smonk108 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version

×0.85 102 | 25 points by baobabKoodaa 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?

×0.98 115 | 9 points by sahli 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?

×0.53 112 | 6 points by etherus 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call

×0.64 120 | 12 points by time4tea 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?

×0.28 140 | 4 points by apatheticonion 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?

×1.30 113 | 19 points by kwar13 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.

×3.27 97 | 43 points by ssiddharth 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: SeedLegals Partnerships in London, worth it?

×0.14 | 2 points by pain_perdu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why most AI projects feel useless

×0.62 138 | 10 points by vaishcodescape 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)

×1.00 30 #47 | 114 points by marklit 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Australia Stopped the Boats (worksinprogress.co)

×0.86 66 #85 | 6 points by barry-cotter 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)

×3.68 18 | 335 points by evo_9 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber (medium.com)

×4.00 22 | 50 points by anon-ex-uber 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task (github.com/AgentSeal)

×0.82 43 | 106 points by agentseal 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)

×1.88 5 #9 | 228 points by fouronnes3 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links (clojure.org)

×2.02 4 #87 | 333 points by adityaathalye 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pyra – a Python toolchain experiment inspired by uv and Bun (github.com/treyorr)

×0.60 67 | 6 points by trey-orr 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: US keyboards don't have enough keys, so I switched to Japanese (simone.org)

×2.09 116 | 7 points by smnrg 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A tool to calculate LLM model API costs when coding (the-designengineer.com)

×0.76 117 | 4 points by canxerian 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
French Mobile Network Datasets (marksblogg.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by marklit 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An LLM becomes more coherent as we train it (gilesthomas.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (play.date)

×1.95 5 | 266 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: NoFS – What if files are just projections, graph is the truth? (nofs.ai)

×0.81 119 | 3 points by mmethodz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)

×0.80 26 | 119 points by _fizz_buzz_ 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Noodlist – Letterboxd for Instant Ramen (noodl.ist)

×1.85 78 | 7 points by mkdirpepper 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Generate a realistic handwriting animation from any text (getmycursive.com)

×0.50 | 2 points by chunza2542 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Scope-structured arena memory for C, O(1) cleanup, no GC/borrow checker (github.com/hollow-arena)

×1.53 132 | 5 points by theperezident 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)

×2.53 7 #19 | 391 points by binsquare 22 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs (zatanna.ai)

×0.54 66 #74 | 96 points by alexblackwell_ 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT Shopping (chatgpt.com)

×0.77 | 1 points by mg 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex for almost everything (openai.com)

×3.83 42 | 990 points by mikeevans 1 day ago | 540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fulu bounty for Ring Camera jailbreak reaches $23k (fulu.org)

×1.54 57 #63 | 25 points by SomaticPirate 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Huoziime: An On-Device LLM-Enhanced Input Method for Deep Personalization (arxiv.org)

×0.50 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Instantiate Consciousness (deepmind.google)

×0.57 | 1 points by jonbaer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)

×2.73 2 #4 | 236 points by tkhattra 8 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)

×1.34 20 #43 | 176 points by zdw 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Liberation Day" at OpenAI as multiple senior executives announce leaving (mas.to)

×3.73 15 #55 | 53 points by riffraff 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe Coders Confessions (horror.vc)

×1.31 | 2 points by melonheader 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Compile English specs into 22 MB neural functions that run locally

×2.71 109 | 10 points by yuntian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)

×1.92 1 #2 | 144 points by f_r_d 3 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: StegoForge – A zero-dependency steganography and forensics engine (github.com/Nour833)

×0.76 | 1 points by nour833 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
National Design Studio (ndstudio.gov)

×0.60 | 1 points by hecanjog 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)

×4.66 84 | 54 points by sylvainkalache 3 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free API and widget to look up US representatives (repscontact.com)

×0.99 114 | 3 points by waterproof 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: P2 - Object Storage Server with S3 Compatible API, MIT License (github.com/Suleman-Elahi)

×0.68 130 | 3 points by isuleman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dbg – One CLI debugger for every language (AI-agent ready) (redknightlois.github.io)

×2.33 144 | 7 points by redknight666 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)

×1.73 23 #25 | 222 points by seanieb 22 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (thomsonreuters.com)

×1.40 65 #78 | 192 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PushToPost – Automate social posts and SEO changelogs from Git pushes

×0.66 | 1 points by batu1509 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toward Autonomous Long-Horizon Engineering for ML Research (arxiv.org)

×0.50 | 1 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Graph RAG finds what's similar. We should aim for what's relevant (github.com/FlowElement-ai)

×38.54 87 | 66 points by hjeffery 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)

×2.38 12 #17 | 261 points by louiereederson 18 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)

×2.02 14 #28 | 299 points by LorenDB 23 hours ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.85 40 #34 | 60 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What life is like when you have an unfortunate surname (bbc.co.uk)

×0.61 | 1 points by YeGoblynQueenne 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ilha – a UI library that fits in an AI context window (ilha.build)

×0.95 83 | 23 points by ryuzyy 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantum 'Jamming' Explores the Fundamental Principles of Nature (quantamagazine.org)

×0.54 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (cloudflare.com)

×1.45 37 #79 | 211 points by jgrahamc 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)

×3.44 16 #86 | 456 points by simonw 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gradle Avro Plugin to generate Java POJOs from Avro schemas (github.com/flumennigrum)

×0.78 | 1 points by ysgomes 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left" (apnews.com)

×4.51 36 | 120 points by ck2 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: External admission gate for GitHub Actions before execution (ai-admissibility.com)

×0.73 | 2 points by pinfloyd 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Monadic Networking Library for Go (github.com/philip-peterson)

×0.78 142 | 3 points by ironmagma 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Binary Encodings for JSON and Variant (jincongho.com)

×0.42 27 #27 | 7 points by jincongho 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using a USB switch as a full KVM (hsiao.dev)

×1.87 42 #52 | 43 points by lwhsiao 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (vulture.com)

×0.23 72 #64 | 8 points by prismatic 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale (waxletter.com)

×0.81 8 #72 | 22 points by hjconstas 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling (victoriametrics.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by valyala 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???