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  1. Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?
    ×2.67 74 #79 | 100 points by mittermayr 3 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is Codex's 5-hour usage limit back?
    ×0.15 52 | 3 points by linzhangrun 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Claude Code randomly burning through 10% of the weekly limit?
    ×0.42 34 | 6 points by terabytest 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Talk Like Claude Day
    ×0.44 45 | 19 points by KenPainter 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I've tested some local LLMs on prosumer hardware, here are some findings
    ×0.28 67 | 5 points by felineflock 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. When Claude is down, do they have a backup Claude to investigate the root cause?
    ×1.11 37 | 6 points by pykul 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's your experience with AI agent memory systems?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by MeshCtxAgent 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What Happened to dLLMs?
    ×0.30 90 | 3 points by ray__ 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×2.33 69 | 47 points by kaladan 5 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Advice for selling a tech domain name
    ×0.14 95 | 3 points by sm001 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT?
    ×0.22 104 | 4 points by MollyRealized 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What silly or weird web search did you do recently?
    ×0.22 100 | 3 points by RetroTechie 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Sideshow: Give Your Agents a Stage
    ×0.27 | 2 points by handfuloflight 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I built a tool to generate Cornell notes from YouTube videos
    ×0.28 92 | 5 points by cristyg0101 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Where are people finding GPU capacity?
    ×0.24 105 | 5 points by adilhafeez 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Windmill.dev is not "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)"
    ×0.57 111 | 10 points by alpine-rockies 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to plan for a future when the advice is always to focus on the now?
    ×0.32 88 | 4 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Intelligence at pocket scale: Benchmarking small models and mobile phones (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.06 65 | 4 points by pember 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Chrome extension that groups tabs by site automatically (github.com/akiraysh)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by akiraysh09 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: NeonBlocks – A Tokyo neon street billboard (michii.dev)
    ×1.28 85 | 4 points by henchiyb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: A2G (Agent to Agent) Marketplace – Beta Test (a2gmarketplace.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by egbert87 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (complexsystems.fail)
    ×1.79 18 #26 | 355 points by shortcrct 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency (rnz.co.nz)
    ×1.69 3 #64 | 69 points by billybuckwheat 13 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Interactive single-line diagram of a data center power system (rackout.net)
    ×1.89 | 2 points by matt-p 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Bitcoin is great (for systemic theft of aid money) (ft.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by imichael 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Solid State Transformer (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by mindcrime 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction (github.com/omarfakih1)
    ×0.49 74 | 17 points by omarfakih 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Renotify – A WhatsApp operations platform for teams and agencies (renotify.app)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by richbowen 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products (doi.org)
    ×0.84 61 #78 | 43 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Laptop on fire – AA-2398 Airbus A321-200 (avherald.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by r2sk5t 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Running AI agents non-interactively in CI and scripts (octomind.run)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by donk8r 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Electric Approaches Reshape Carbon Capture Tech (ieee.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by rbanffy 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
    ×1.36 2 | 216 points by boilerupnc 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. We must not grant AI agents legal personhood (ft.com)
    ×2.98 8 | 62 points by andsoitis 22 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Declarative, reproducible configuration materializer for AI agents (github.com/tooppoo)
    ×2.07 78 | 6 points by philomagi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
    ×0.87 35 #55 | 105 points by zdw 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (bbc.com)
    ×6.12 5 #75 | 717 points by tartoran 2 days ago | 1634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Values, Morals, and Doing Business (manuelmoreale.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by speckx 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage, but as a 3D Cube (cubeboost.lol)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by its_ajseven 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost (reinvently.co.uk)
    ×3.42 35 | 235 points by ed-is-ai 23 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
    ×0.75 60 #62 | 86 points by rznicolet 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Pipette: A benchmarking suite for on-device intelligence (liquid.ai)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by Philpax 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Skipping with OhmJS (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by surprisetalk 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive (yantraai.app)
    ×0.63 30 | 66 points by skylensspace 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Online LED Scroller (aledscroller.com)
    ×1.53 71 | 5 points by artiomyak 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Gramola, a CoverFlow-style music dock for macOS (apple.com)
    ×0.68 123 | 7 points by fulltimefeline 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
    ×1.46 27 #31 | 267 points by bwb 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.70 9 #59 | 333 points by taubek 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: The Complete Guide (cameronrwolfe.substack.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Algorithm::Viterbi – Compute Viterbi path and probability (metacpan.org)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by Bluestein 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels? (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×2.14 52 | 3 points by at1as 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. NetBSD and my life (2005) (netbsd.org)
    ×1.07 29 | 152 points by gnyeki 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP (github.com/paulsp94)
    ×0.98 83 | 56 points by paulsp 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Apple's Foldable iPhone Will Help Bring Some Magic Back (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by snooty 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Bessent could tap $1T Treasury General Account to fund bond buybacks (cnbc.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by cocacola1 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A Human for Your AI (yourhuman.ai)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by sanj 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Fast and Hard Code (pocoo.org)
    ×1.23 18 | 114 points by tosh 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I make my AI agents file paperwork before they're allowed to code (github.com/kidus-tiliksew)
    ×1.14 125 | 3 points by kidustiliksew 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online (torrentfreak.com)
    ×4.48 5 #8 | 34 points by Brajeshwar 25 minutes ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.60 31 #88 | 639 points by Cider9986 3 days ago | 907 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Terra Silica – AI Infrastructure Across Pax Silica and Waico (terrasilica.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by rmsaksida 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Modern demo of Douglas Hofstadter et al.'s 2001 Letter Spirit project (github.com/Paul-G2)
    ×1.18 89 | 3 points by Paul-G2 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Gogress a simple SQL database in Go with WAL support (github.com/igomez10)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by igomeza 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: NoteCount – Offline-first cash counter and digital ledger for Android (google.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by diptenusarkar 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A For-Profit Hospital Slashed Costs. Then a Patient Froze to Death on Its Roof (motherjones.com)
    ×2.39 4 #39 | 36 points by brandonb 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.43 7 #66 | 356 points by raybb 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Open-source calculator for "will my GPU run this LLM?" (jaeseok614.github.io)
    ×0.69 49 | 5 points by jaeseok614 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Squat Counter Uses phone's accelerometer to count squats automatically (julienreszka.github.io)
    ×1.12 96 | 3 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How an LLM Serves a Request (mapathak-commits.github.io)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by sudomax 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer (galaxium.app)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by guillaumec 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)
    ×4.68 62 | 668 points by dr_pardee 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Dev // Cyber Toolkit – a free floating dev/cybersecurity widget (dev-cyber-toolkit.netlify.app)
    ×0.48 62 | 7 points by axoupicsou 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Forst – migrate TypeScript back ends to Go incrementally (forst-lang.org)
    ×0.99 119 | 4 points by haveyaseen 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: LayoutLens: AI-Powered Visual UI Testing (github.com/gojiplus)
    ×1.15 114 | 3 points by neehao 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps (github.com/biw)
    ×0.39 124 | 24 points by biwills 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Continuous Diffusion Language Models (sander.ai)
    ×0.46 70 #44 | 4 points by benanne 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why is Anthropic's public writing style so unlike Claude's? (cmart.blog)
    ×1.83 7 #48 | 67 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Manygit – a lazygit-style TUI for a whole folder of Git repos (rabeeh-ta.github.io)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by rabeeh0ta 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AliExpress Silent WebAudio Fingerprinting Uses Bluetooth Hardware (beyondmachines.net)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by MBCook 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. One of the World's 'Most Wanted' Lost Fish Is Rediscovered (yale.edu)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical (erikengdahl.se)
    ×7.88 12 | 112 points by verisimi 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Hands-Rust MCP/CLI that sees the Windows desktop and clicks real Chrome
    ×2.34 99 | 5 points by ryan-b 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 'Cookies' made from plastic may be on the menu for future astronauts (theguardian.com)
    ×0.97 7 #74 | 8 points by sandebert 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A year of Org Social, my social network (andros.dev)
    ×2.20 53 | 3 points by andros 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Doop – open-source live canvas for AI agents to design (github.com/kgoedecke)
    ×0.84 84 | 3 points by kgoedecke 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: ArchSentry – Deterministic architectural enforcement for CI (github.com/comerade2134)
    ×0.99 102 | 3 points by light82083 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
    ×1.51 13 | 181 points by cocacola1 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.11 26 | 139 points by stared 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage (cnn.com)
    ×2.25 41 | 109 points by MilnerRoute 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Rackast, a screen recorder with a built in editor, made with Tauri (rackast.com)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by SzegiRoli 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???