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  1. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.83 62 #46 | 131 points by Ixander 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser
    ×0.64 40 #72 | 15 points by mhloo 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How does your organization make build vs. buy decisions now?
    ×0.64 40 | 6 points by bigblind 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. In-car display of surrounding environment in AVs
    ×0.17 | 2 points by ajahso4 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.77 71 | 576 points by IvanK_net 6 days ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.42 54 | 775 points by lukehandcool 4 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.92 65 | 423 points by mariocesar 6 days ago | 663 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is voice becoming your main input? What happens to open-plan offices?
    ×0.42 67 | 4 points by ProblemExplorer 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
    ×0.56 83 | 25 points by lgregg 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
    ×0.66 76 | 10 points by le_curious 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: AIs Do Not Laugh
    ×0.81 63 | 5 points by AnimalMuppet 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?
    ×0.32 84 | 8 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is the most obscure book you own?
    ×0.74 85 | 7 points by Kovah 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A hub that controls all your coding agents in one place
    ×0.35 99 | 4 points by mubashir1osmani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×0.88 127 | 8 points by Kamabz 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I don't think image containers supporting both lossless and lossy is good
    ×0.56 93 | 5 points by functionmouse 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Vibecoded 3D Game Running on Veda OS
    ×0.13 130 | 3 points by vahmoh25 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.35 143 | 35 points by onemiketwelve 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting
    ×0.52 115 | 7 points by tsydenzhap 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×1.05 107 | 9 points by dfps 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×0.71 126 | 8 points by coherenttemple 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.65 116 | 9 points by sankde 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How would you go about domain change and getting a job in the domain?
    ×0.26 123 | 5 points by joddystreet 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.51 144 | 12 points by hanstyle 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.76 132 | 16 points by consumer451 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. All startups need is distribution
    ×0.73 102 | 9 points by relaxfolio 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Resources for best practices in software development with AI?
    ×0.66 120 | 7 points by sergio-gdr 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: MS Outlook login without an extra email address
    ×0.21 150 | 3 points by narevent 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.75 148 | 13 points by thelastgallon 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.52 138 | 10 points by fragmede 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.51 147 | 13 points by bigwheels 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How do Lightroom/DxO achieve such good AI denoising results?
    ×0.15 152 | 3 points by febed 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Pre-AI, did you think harder? Or are you thinking more (and better) now?
    ×1.28 87 | 6 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read (readrare.com)
    ×1.57 68 | 185 points by miletus 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector (github.com/akawashiro)
    ×0.89 118 | 62 points by a_kawashiro 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path with Some Performance Gains (phoronix.com)
    ×1.93 17 #44 | 8 points by khalidkhair 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Realtek UDPServer Exposure (getnetchek.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by thegodhand 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP (github.com/othermod)
    ×1.02 55 | 132 points by therepanic 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle (nirajrajgor.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by nirajrajgor 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Abliterated models can get you pwned (projectdiscovery.io)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by cthackers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Muse Wonder (meta.ai)
    ×5.11 11 #14 | 489 points by meetpateltech 6 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 (sky.com)
    ×5.59 11 #15 | 53 points by austinallegro 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)
    ×0.72 46 #29 | 62 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Clotr, a browser extension that warns you before you send PII (github.com/clotr-app)
    ×1.04 92 | 3 points by BilliamBaSH 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD (github.com/prabanta-dev)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by khalidkhair 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Turn spoken thoughts into system design diagrams (github.com/triggeredcode)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by triggered_code 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser (quake-srp.pages.dev)
    ×1.94 69 | 239 points by ilreb 3 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth (bbc.com)
    ×4.44 54 #70 | 580 points by Betelbuddy 13 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Portless: Vercel Labs Replaces Localhost Ports with Named URLs (themenonlab.blog)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by olalonde 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Adm Programming Language (github.com/admlang)
    ×1.68 6 | 3 points by cthackers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com/h0m3us3r)
    ×2.13 15 #10 | 235 points by djfergus 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 3D Fan Remake of Z (github.com/playopenz)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by fenio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack (cloudflare.com)
    ×5.01 28 | 219 points by rooftopzen 18 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter (momo5502.com)
    ×1.75 34 | 207 points by davikr 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Aura – a self-hosted, multi-user AI agent with per-person graph memory (github.com/chetto1983)
    ×1.12 154 | 7 points by chettto983 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (markround.com)
    ×0.97 13 #6 | 60 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done (avclub.com)
    ×3.55 36 #49 | 70 points by pavel_lishin 3 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Orion2re: A restoration effort for the Master of Orion II game engine (github.com/orion2re)
    ×1.80 3 | 3 points by JohnHammersley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I ran the same founder dilemma through ChatGPT, Claude, and BAAB AI (askbaab.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by chumze 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux (lsantos.dev)
    ×0.91 73 | 121 points by khaosdoctor 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×3.19 5 #3 | 66 points by pngmangi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser (brickbrag.com)
    ×0.83 19 #19 | 13 points by neuling 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol (github.com/ClickHouse)
    ×0.62 54 #82 | 45 points by saisrirampur 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: NabuSQL – Rust Database GUI for MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQLite, Mssql (nabu.work)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by nabukodonozor 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Apogee: Rebuilding Mozilla's Orbit, fully local and private (github.com/darshi1337)
    ×2.88 88 | 66 points by zxdc7896 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The CEO's of Broadcom and Intel Say the Quiet Part Out Loud about AI and ROI (wolfstreet.com)
    ×1.68 1 #37 | 8 points by metadat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? (wordpress.com)
    ×2.55 40 #89 | 256 points by amosbatto 18 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis (economist.com)
    ×2.04 25 | 102 points by andsoitis 23 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones (shokunin.studio)
    ×4.72 17 | 126 points by riffraff 16 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Two browser games set inside one real Gaussian-splat scan (yanisfalaki.com)
    ×0.74 56 | 3 points by empyreanite 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: HarmoNova: A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for Chrome (github.com/chaosmanage)
    ×0.73 103 | 4 points by chaosmanage 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)
    ×2.16 14 #8 | 49 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Llmtobinary – get an LLM to write machine code (llmtobinary.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by thomasfromcdnjs 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AWS Lambda Web Functions (amazon.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by squiwardStan5 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.71 43 | 84 points by ljf 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Seodata.dev (1.1) Free search data for AI agents (seodata.dev)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by alentodorov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025) (thetravel.com)
    ×0.35 50 #26 | 6 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Fish Farming Industry's Dirty Secrets (nytimes.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by mikhael 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute (latimes.com)
    ×3.42 47 | 96 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I paid people to try and follow my README (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.12 5 #88 | 415 points by edent 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.72 46 | 147 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo (github.com/hashicorp)
    ×1.28 31 | 84 points by vmatsiiako 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Quaesito: a self-hosted app for quiz nights with friends (github.com/ggirelli)
    ×0.87 134 | 3 points by ggirelli 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Free website speed audit with real Lighthouse metrics (sazm.in)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by sabayrid 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Free LED pixel-pitch and display-size calculators (open source) (boardsy.co.uk)
    ×1.06 136 | 5 points by Boardsy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google (simonkoeck.com)
    ×2.12 25 #31 | 178 points by soeckly 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Bag of Decisions Reranker (softwaredoug.com)
    ×0.69 53 #48 | 65 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Using Jev to make your agents write the code and design the app the way you do (a7ul.com)
    ×1.14 | 3 points by atulfiled 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A functioning Celery Man computer (celeryman.fun)
    ×2.06 108 | 11 points by turtlesoup 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???