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  1. Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL
    ×0.71 81 | 133 points by Arindam1729 4 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are LLMs an Acceptable Lisp?
    ×0.23 53 | 5 points by tdfirth 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are there any non-SPA front end developers left?
    ×0.60 46 | 6 points by karolinepauls 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Stuck on Cloudflare's Human Verification
    ×0.36 75 | 3 points by emerongi 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Accessibility tools for knowledge workers with low vision
    ×0.38 85 | 3 points by kjellsbells 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone else's short-term memory gone to hell?
    ×1.28 65 | 17 points by pupppet 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I downloaded the german 8 pm news every day since 2014: Ask me anything
    ×0.49 90 | 21 points by passenger09 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you analyze conversations with AI agents in your products?
    ×0.22 115 | 3 points by BohdanPetryshyn 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. WTF is up with everything using Android?
    ×0.93 83 | 7 points by george3d6 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin
    ×0.20 138 | 13 points by terry_hc 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Do you have a collection of old tech?
    ×0.47 112 | 7 points by Molitor5901 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone switched from software to physical world engineering?
    ×0.29 133 | 6 points by pesfandiar 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AI is a bubble, just admit it
    ×2.14 70 | 14 points by zerosizedweasle 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Substack version history deleted a week of my work
    ×0.36 124 | 4 points by richardatlarge 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2025)?
    ×1.26 98 | 14 points by iryndin 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Where can I genetically test myself without risking privacy?
    ×0.45 146 | 9 points by technocrat8080 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. PSA: New GitHub phishing campaign using fake Paradigm grants
    ×1.17 120 | 7 points by nyan-left 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Times the world has dodged a bullet
    ×0.70 136 | 13 points by tempestn 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Where to find PCB dataset for autorouting?
    ×0.12 176 | 4 points by technivis 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you control internet access for your kids?
    ×0.29 148 | 5 points by frereubu 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Looking for a new job, but want to be picky
    ×0.65 149 | 4 points by truetaurus 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you expose telemetry data to non-tech?
    ×0.31 153 | 10 points by mehdig10 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Software jobs with high barriers of entry?
    ×0.67 155 | 4 points by Poomba 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How important is peer programming?
    ×0.56 144 | 9 points by Awesomedonut 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Radar and radio failures at Dallas area airports
    ×0.47 164 | 36 points by pdonner 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
    ×3.25 113 | 456 points by ncarlson 6 days ago | 559 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Exploring the Energy Sector – Looking for Guidance
    ×0.37 161 | 5 points by tminima 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How are you dealing with documentation these days?
    ×0.35 163 | 18 points by yakkomajuri 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Martin Shkreli can be sued for copying unique Wu-Tang Clan album, judge rules (reuters.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by jaredwiener 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Orchestrating Data Quality with Airflow (astronomer.io)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by glawre 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres (dizzy.zone)
    ×2.64 24 #42 | 301 points by redbell 20 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Who invented convolutional neural networks? (idsia.ch)
    ×2.74 18 | 4 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think (github.com/apple)
    ×1.84 #1 | 144 points by kevlened 2 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Bach Cello Suites (2024) (bachcellosuites.co.uk)
    ×1.10 75 #20 | 178 points by bondarchuk 21 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Wild performance tricks (davidlattimore.github.io)
    ×1.08 55 #66 | 127 points by tbillington 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Writing Memory Safe JIT Compilers (medium.com)
    ×1.03 45 #72 | 68 points by sgammon 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Beacon – Lightweight deployment and monitoring for self hosters (github.com/Bajusz15)
    ×1.82 | 2 points by matebajusz 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough? (phishyurl.com)
    ×4.47 94 | 1120 points by jordigh 1 week ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: FingerprinterJS – A tiny JavaScript library for browser fingerprints (github.com/Lorenzo-Coslado)
    ×2.25 23 #38 | 12 points by lococococo 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip (2022) (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.25 50 #48 | 104 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps (reddit.com)
    ×5.39 125 | 466 points by personjerry 1 week ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review (meks.quest)
    ×1.41 43 #73 | 243 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Swift global payments network experiments with Ethereum Layer 2 (theblock.co)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by michaelsbradley 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Netanyahu says UN speech broadcast on tapped cell phones, loudspeakers in Gaza (thehill.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by c420 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day (github.com/JerryZLiu)
    ×2.44 24 | 458 points by jerryliu12 2 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: PossibleWorldWikis – LLM-based fictional world wiki generator (possibleworldwikis.com)
    ×1.16 68 | 3 points by ruthvik947 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Ggc – A Git CLI tool written in Go with interactive UI (github.com/bmf-san)
    ×0.65 132 | 43 points by bmf-san 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Investigating a Forged PDF (dreamwidth.org)
    ×2.65 9 #76 | 278 points by teddyh 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Genie3 Generated Video Glimps (youtube.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by faizan2700 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Helium Browser (helium.computer)
    ×2.67 15 | 592 points by spacebuffer 1 day ago | 525 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on (reddit.com)
    ×3.32 43 | 424 points by greazy 2 days ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Traefik's 10-year anniversary (traefik.io)
    ×1.63 10 #10 | 147 points by beckford 8 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor (brutalita.com)
    ×2.55 5 #81 | 589 points by fibo 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. BlockNote – The open source Block-Based rich text editor (blocknotejs.org)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by TheTaytay 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Give Me 12 Minutes and I'll Give You 30 Years of Productivity Advice [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by gmays 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Early Television Foundation and Museum (earlytelevision.org)
    ×0.84 31 #44 | 19 points by Teever 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web
    ×0.59 77 #59 | 103 points by mfkhalil 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A GNOME developer now homeless in Nashville USA, needs place to stay (fosstodon.org)
    ×3.20 15 #74 | 10 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. OpenAI: We Built the Responses API (openai.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. EU age verification app not planning desktop support (github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet)
    ×3.26 32 | 579 points by sschueller 2 days ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Product Hunt is dead (sedimental.org)
    ×3.35 47 | 319 points by mhashemi 2 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Birmingham city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more (theregister.com)
    ×1.55 6 #88 | 11 points by erremerre 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Write Off (antoniokov.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by antoniokov 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I made an app that reminds you about upcoming subscriptions and bills (apple.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by calebchiang 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? (2020) (grubstreet.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: WindowSill (getwindowsill.app)
    ×1.65 167 | 7 points by veler 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: ZenScript – When you open Instagram, your textbook opens instead (google.com)
    ×0.56 174 | 3 points by walix2 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: AvoSmash – AI video storytelling made easy (avosmash.io)
    ×1.08 182 | 12 points by zhuofengli 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website (nseldeib.com)
    ×1.40 27 #18 | 110 points by nadis 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott (nytimes.com)
    ×2.47 41 | 6 points by jaredwiener 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version (larian.com)
    ×2.77 41 | 624 points by _JamesA_ 2 days ago | 446 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: PrevelteKit – Static-first Svelte/Rsbuild/jsdom framework (tbocek.github.io)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by tbocek 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory (weuseelixir.com)
    ×1.28 134 | 211 points by taddgiles 1 week ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Quantum Lings – A LeetCode-style platform for quantum computing (quantumlings.com)
    ×0.49 172 | 3 points by accelerationa 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Inactive H5N1 influenza virus in pasteurized milk poses minimal health risks (stjude.org)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by geox 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Köln Concert (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.94 26 | 4 points by nycdatasci 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf] (pup-e.com)
    ×3.49 102 | 703 points by jolux 1 week ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tell the EU: Don't Break Encryption with "Chat Control" (mozillafoundation.org)
    ×5.50 93 | 333 points by nickslaughter02 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Why AI systems may never be secure, and what to do about it (economist.com)
    ×1.96 37 #34 | 11 points by loosescrews 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. It's Not Rocket Science It's Materials Science (universetoday.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by rbanffy 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI Framework for Full-Stack Apps by Google (genkit.dev)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.46 97 | 397 points by akyuu 5 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: FlyCode – Recover Stripe payments by automatically using backup cards
    ×0.43 152 | 20 points by JakeVacovec 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers (wired.com)
    ×6.21 12 | 491 points by rendx 1 day ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now (runnercode.com)
    ×1.71 20 #29 | 146 points by zmccormick7 5 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.03 8 #41 | 32 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Palm Bread – Open method to scale up home baking (100 loaves/day) (palmbread.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by akumpf 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Chrome DevTools MCP (addyosmani.com)
    ×2.28 8 | 3 points by ksbrooksjr 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Huntington's disease treated for first time (bbc.com)
    ×3.00 27 | 693 points by _zie 2 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees (travelandtourworld.com)
    ×3.61 28 | 657 points by duxup 2 days ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???