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  1. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.58 9 | 1126 points by chaseadam17 2 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Googling on Brazil about "Gemini said" shows unrevised content from Gemini
    ×0.16 69 | 3 points by yrds96 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.24 71 | 4 points by kwar13 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by arboles 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: (Your) Request for Startups?
    ×0.62 56 | 8 points by dontoni 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?
    ×1.21 75 | 23 points by boredemployee 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?
    ×0.19 117 | 4 points by azebazenestor 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News?
    ×0.42 103 | 8 points by ElectroNomad 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.49 100 | 27 points by causal 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.49 125 | 9 points by fdneng 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.88 97 | 47 points by ColinWright 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. SEL Deploy – Cryptographically chained deployment timeline
    ×0.10 | 2 points by chokriabouzid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.17 102 | 18 points by TazeTSchnitzel 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why don't entrepreneurs talk about starting businesses publicly anymore?
    ×0.93 89 | 7 points by silexia 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.40 140 | 17 points by rtrgrd 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?
    ×0.33 134 | 6 points by xgstation 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong?
    ×0.32 142 | 3 points by terryjiang2020 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key)
    ×0.13 144 | 3 points by Picknar 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.30 138 | 12 points by jrs235 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.38 145 | 3 points by AGsist 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips?
    ×0.51 123 | 7 points by uejfiweun 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.44 141 | 9 points by Poomba 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.46 143 | 14 points by incognito124 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
    ×0.80 131 | 15 points by mr-pink 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
    ×0.23 146 | 4 points by endorphine 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. OpenEnv in Practice: Evaluating Tool-Using Agents in Real-World Environments (huggingface.co)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by gmays 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Dishonest People Self-Select into Public Service (In China) [pdf] (uchicago.edu)
    ×2.25 3 | 3 points by marojejian 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock (finbold.com)
    ×4.45 32 | 166 points by fauria 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The political effects of X's feed algorithm (werd.io)
    ×2.95 49 | 81 points by benwerd 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024) (zyedidia.github.io)
    ×0.82 70 #54 | 72 points by userbinator 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: OtherFunc – Serverless functions in Brainfuck, Forth, BASIC, and more (otherfunc.com)
    ×1.88 124 | 4 points by mdeeds 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: DovahScript – A language for the Thu'um-powered developer (github.com/basteez)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by basteez 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Opaal Visual multi-agent prompt designer for Claude Code and agentic AI (github.com/Agravak)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by Kinanhamwi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024) (planetscale.com)
    ×0.98 26 #24 | 87 points by Ozzie_osman 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.84 68 #76 | 88 points by Thevet 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed] (microsoft.com)
    ×5.43 23 | 350 points by anonymous908213 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Wakapadi – Meet locals and travelers nearby and join free walking tours (wakapadi.io)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by CodePapi_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Generate a 3D-printable STL terrain tile of the Lunar surface (moontoprint.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by 1970-01-01 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Open Source Software Projects Are Brands (reidkleckner.dev)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by matt_d 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Hawara Labyrinth – Preservation and Recovery Master Plan (archaeologicalrescue.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by FloorEgg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Expanding our long-running agents research preview · Cursor (cursor.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by zachdotai 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript (blackboard.sh)
    ×2.49 5 | 154 points by merlindru 22 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM (wordpress.com)
    ×0.73 62 | 117 points by vermaden 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern (nicolasdickenmann.com)
    ×1.23 22 #66 | 197 points by fp64enjoyer 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Arc Raiders companion – Quest tracker,maps,crafting and bots weaknesses (arcraiders.website)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by wainguo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. OWASP Top Ten Web Application Security Risks (owasp.org)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation (remobjects.com)
    ×0.77 52 | 112 points by vintagedave 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: SkillForge – Turn screen recordings into agent skill files (skillforge.expert)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by YaraDori 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Cistercian Numbers (omniglot.com)
    ×0.77 59 | 86 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. OpenClaw is dangerous (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×5.13 57 | 80 points by theahura 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: PostForge – A PostScript interpreter written in Python (github.com/AndyCappDev)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by AndyCappDev 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Learn GPU programming with coding agents (vtemian.com)
    ×2.08 76 | 6 points by vtemian 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser (boratto.ca)
    ×1.74 81 | 280 points by b44 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 (asahilinux.org)
    ×3.46 11 | 450 points by mkurz 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption (github.com/LadybirdBrowser)
    ×2.85 17 | 299 points by thewavelength 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Netbase: A port of the NetBSD utilities for Linux (github.com/littlefly365)
    ×0.94 81 #40 | 15 points by jaypatelani 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A Beginner's Guide to Split Keyboards (justinmklam.com)
    ×1.67 44 #72 | 43 points by thehaikuza 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bluesky Head of Product soliciting feedback on upcoming search upgrade (bsky.app)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by verdverm 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: URL-Based Geospatial Processing (geoblob.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by roniemartinez 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Optimise Your LLM Workflow with the Chief Wiggum Workflow (etoxin.net)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by etoxin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Gemini 3.1 Pro (deepmind.google)
    ×4.41 88 | 600 points by PunchTornado 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Env-rx – Catch missing .env variables before they break your CI (github.com/xserhio)
    ×1.35 127 | 3 points by xserhio 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging (hankgreen.com)
    ×1.89 9 #21 | 109 points by ZeroGravitas 5 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.85 8 #90 | 312 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Gemini Pro 3.1's Sage Take on HN and YC (github.com/crisdosaygo)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by keepamovin 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction (github.com/khalildh)
    ×1.10 44 | 136 points by prathyvsh 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
    ×2.03 36 | 465 points by moWerk 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron (github.com/kurouna)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by kurouna 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.73 21 #8 | 82 points by bryanrasmussen 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010) (singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com)
    ×0.92 69 #35 | 96 points by exvi 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup (theregister.com)
    ×5.01 49 #57 | 227 points by freitasm 7 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AskVerdict – AI agents debate your decisions before you commit (askverdict.ai)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by thegdsks 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Use digests, not tags, in your Dockerfiles (interrupt.sh)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by arwt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund (github.com/pocketbase)
    ×1.03 45 | 123 points by Onavo 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory (github.com/sstraust)
    ×0.75 62 #37 | 66 points by sammy0910 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way (phys.org)
    ×0.83 58 #73 | 40 points by bikenaga 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Skills Manager (github.com/razbakov)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by razbakov 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Claude-Nonstop – Auto Account Switching and Slack Remote in Claude Code (github.com/rchaz)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by rchaz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Free printable micro-habit tracker inspired by Atomic Habits (atomichabits-calendar.com)
    ×0.95 106 | 13 points by winmonaye 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates (reddit.com)
    ×2.16 17 #47 | 442 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.20 4 | 131 points by lisper 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: AI agent audited its platform, got 80% wrong, rewrote its methodology (openseed.dev)
    ×2.21 79 | 4 points by rsdza 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: See – searchable JSON compression, smaller than ZSTD (on our data) (github.com/kodomonocch1)
    ×0.52 129 | 3 points by Tetsuro 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton (kasava.dev)
    ×2.77 16 #26 | 154 points by benbeingbin 6 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)
    ×5.74 26 | 1024 points by cheeaun 1 day ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)
    ×0.96 73 | 90 points by simquat 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Sports-skills.sh – sports data connectors for AI agents (github.com/machina-sports)
    ×1.74 121 | 4 points by andreantonelli 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Nom – Turn GitHub activity into updates (nomit.dev)
    ×2.12 126 | 4 points by Lws803 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: TUI open-source Python tool for network discovery and port auditing (github.com/mennylevinski)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by mennylevinski 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Gemini 3.1 Pro (blog.google)
    ×2.97 5 #1 | 545 points by MallocVoidstar 11 hours ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???