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  1. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.97 19 | 4 points by megamike 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by lpjstack 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?
    ×0.18 99 | 4 points by amichail 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Stripe's opt-out Radar price increase dressed up as a free trial
    ×0.30 62 | 7 points by rapind 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I built an independent peptide testing lab that accepts mailed samples
    ×0.26 85 | 4 points by peptidelabs 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects)
    ×0.57 101 | 5 points by thekey 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Robotics development made dead simple (open source)
    ×0.28 140 | 22 points by Ekami 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should authors disclose if they are paid to write a blog post?
    ×0.40 137 | 4 points by wseqyrku 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Airbnb updated "necessary" cookies aren't
    ×0.34 123 | 7 points by janalsncm 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed
    ×1.72 110 | 17 points by codexon 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Which one do you use for planning and coding between sonnet and Opus?
    ×0.17 139 | 3 points by neverenderr 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app
    ×0.63 133 | 13 points by gaborme 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Is Cloudflare classifying opencode.ai as malware?
    ×0.22 141 | 3 points by _raz 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SFR (French Internet provider) is blocking opencode.ai
    ×0.82 122 | 6 points by krikou 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Grant Writers, Worth It?
    ×0.45 90 | 5 points by Fundnai 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
    ×0.80 128 | 43 points by Jgoauh 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How to get more coding productivity with LLMs
    ×0.96 132 | 8 points by DaveParkCity 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is everybody's Claude weekly quota reset time the same?
    ×0.78 134 | 8 points by 0gs 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474?
    ×0.56 143 | 4 points by Bender 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Hacker Fables – A satirical cyberpunk novel you can read as a man page (sebastiancarlos.github.io)
    ×1.47 107 | 4 points by httbs 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: secure FFmpeg
    ×0.86 | 2 points by finbot 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: A browser extension that flags GitHub repos with suspicious star growth (ayoublidjici-dotcom.github.io)
    ×2.43 120 | 4 points by KageFX 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (anthropic.com)
    ×2.62 22 #27 | 106 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Great Spectations, the Spec Checker (greatspectations.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by RustyRussell 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Cursor Benchmark Partners (cursor.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by MehrdadKhnzd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions (github.blog)
    ×0.87 72 | 88 points by nyku 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Widen – Open-source Mac Postgres GUI with local or cloud text-to-SQL (widen.dev)
    ×2.60 40 | 5 points by thedreammachine 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Refinement types for Rust (github.com/flux-rs)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by AsyncBanana 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library (github.com/reflex-dev)
    ×0.99 87 | 132 points by apetuskey 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: AgentCouch – let your agents chat with other agents (agentcouch.dev)
    ×2.36 79 | 7 points by spstoyanov 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: stock-tui – an open-source terminal app inspired by StockTouch (github.com/chatcode-lab)
    ×1.59 104 | 4 points by borkasm 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms (supapool.io)
    ×0.67 1 #79 | 27 points by kevo1ution 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I'm a senior estimator, I open sourced my construction takeoff tool (github.com/Kentucky-ai)
    ×1.26 92 | 3 points by kentucky-ai 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: State of the Feed – TikTok usage analyzed (vantezzen.io)
    ×1.45 94 | 3 points by bennett_dev 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors (bbc.com)
    ×2.84 93 | 74 points by yogthos 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Save and restore may be coming to GNOME (lwn.net)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by signa11 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Two AI eyes argue about morality, using the sociology of justification (orb-eye-ten.vercel.app)
    ×1.26 136 | 3 points by zamtam 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.56 19 #38 | 131 points by jjgreen 15 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)
    ×0.86 17 #48 | 121 points by benn_88 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Glass Famine (edconway.substack.com)
    ×1.28 50 #47 | 116 points by baud147258 20 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Superlogical (superlogical.com)
    ×3.56 29 #84 | 760 points by yan 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Showdown Elo: weighted Elo for baseball (tanji.systems)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by merriman-xyz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Real Estate Agent Email List – 1.1M+ US Realtor Contacts (usagentleads.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by qwikhost 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×2.29 12 | 434 points by JLO64 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit) (prilik.com)
    ×1.64 32 | 203 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The lost civic life of movie rental stores (mit.edu)
    ×1.65 15 #25 | 129 points by facundo_olano 12 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.28 24 #34 | 91 points by gmays 12 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers (micrologics.org)
    ×1.84 48 | 253 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Thousands of User Signals You're Missing Every Week (agenmatic.ai)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by Yummiy 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. LinkedIn adds a 'seems like AI slop' button (theverge.com)
    ×1.78 23 | 3 points by cwnyth 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Coinkite warns Coldcard hardware wallet users of firmware flaw (cryptobriefing.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by ParentiSoundSys 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part three: testing overtraining (gilesthomas.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by gpjt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. WTF per Minute – An Actual Measurement for Code Quality (medium.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by compiler-guy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Kimi K3-256k (kimi.com)
    ×2.80 29 | 483 points by monneyboi 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals (emergingtrajectories.com)
    ×0.99 61 | 85 points by cl42 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money (usetokenless.com)
    ×0.50 74 | 69 points by rohaga 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) (hillelwayne.com)
    ×1.43 20 #41 | 116 points by Thom2503 14 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Modern-Apps: Ecosystem of open source apps written using modern technologies (github.com/vayun-mathur)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by nalinidash 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: ZeroShot: Agent session monitoring to make your team go faster (tryzeroshot.com)
    ×10.46 28 | 18 points by chaos_emergent 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python (github.com/sawfwair)
    ×0.55 59 #57 | 10 points by sawfwair 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fixing miss-aligned monospace text in Android browsers (moritzhamann.com)
    ×0.16 60 #32 | 4 points by mrtz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Port Zero – How I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0 (portzero.net)
    ×0.55 6 #53 | 19 points by octopoc 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal (github.com/MemoireMorte)
    ×0.82 23 #15 | 57 points by sciences44 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
    ×1.18 3 #29 | 139 points by bmacho 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. One Ring to Rule Them All: Wiring Radios to Laptops the Hard Way (lysk.ai)
    ×0.97 15 #55 | 18 points by majke 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Logic for Programmers (logicforprogrammers.com)
    ×2.10 22 #77 | 194 points by _doctor_love 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Reimagine the World with Nano Banana in Google Earth (blog.google)
    ×1.71 22 | 3 points by soheilpro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. KOReader (koreader.rocks)
    ×3.10 23 | 736 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.87 16 #7 | 20 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (uefa.com)
    ×7.77 12 #13 | 821 points by dickfickling 8 hours ago | 449 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles (github.com/SerhiiKorniienko)
    ×1.22 82 | 62 points by skorniienko 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A VS Code extension buffers NPM updates to avoid supply chain attacks (visualstudio.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by about14sheep 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Dreeve, a self-hosted dashboard for your sports and fitness data (github.com/dreeveapp)
    ×0.91 124 | 15 points by frogfuhrer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: FBSimCity – an explorable city that shows how Firebird works (mariuz.github.io)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by mariuz 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself (echologue.com)
    ×0.64 106 | 29 points by arisAlexis 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Predictable RNG Fallback and 32-Bit Reseed in Coldcard Firmware (block.xyz)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by greyface- 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: ResiliReplay - Chaos testing for AI agents and MCP servers (github.com/aliengineering-byte)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by ali110v 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word (enklypesalt.com)
    ×2.12 17 | 380 points by Canopy9560 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Productivity Mirage (frantic.im)
    ×2.80 25 | 345 points by msephton 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Agentic data transformation & analytic for corporate finance (trysecondstate.com)
    ×1.22 116 | 3 points by ELAmrani 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (github.com/AminBlg)
    ×2.30 4 #4 | 220 points by navs 7 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Concurrency, interactivity, mutability, choose two (n16f.net)
    ×0.82 44 #89 | 58 points by billiob 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Offloading I/O to Dedicated Cores: An Asymmetric io_uring Back end for Seastar (scylladb.com)
    ×1.09 82 #68 | 4 points by cyndunlop 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The first watch featuring computer functions (seiko-design.com)
    ×1.01 37 #70 | 82 points by stefanv 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Today's Market = 1999 Capex and 2008 Credit (investor.fm)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by mapping365 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: After 8 Years of Failed Apps, Should I Give Up?
    ×1.30 | 2 points by asoomi07 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: RunNburn – Run a 295B Moe from a 98GB GGUF on a 64GB RAM Desktop (github.com/coderredlab)
    ×2.93 115 | 11 points by coderredlab 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: HimitsuObfuscator – a lightweight LLVM-17 obfuscator for any Linux (github.com/HimitsuShell)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by mushstory 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (science.org)
    ×0.93 23 #16 | 29 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)
    ×2.61 8 #20 | 245 points by arto 15 hours ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???