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Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

×1.98 14 | 457 points by e-topy 4 days ago | 700 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

×1.68 25 | 127 points by meander_water 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

×0.45 43 | 19 points by tree666 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you encountering AI-related questions in the hiring market?

×0.30 38 | 5 points by somthingwrong 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yuku – A fast, spec-compliant JavaScript parser written in Zig

×0.42 88 | 4 points by arshadyaseen 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

×1.24 94 | 137 points by lazarkap 3 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What would you do with an AI model capable of continuous learning?

×0.39 97 | 4 points by jballanc 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IMDB created my account for merely visiting the site

×1.75 69 | 11 points by astr0n0m3r 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?

×0.21 111 | 16 points by ed_elliott_asc 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?

×0.51 115 | 13 points by orbanlevi 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

×1.07 100 | 100 points by tinchox6 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hybrid Attention

×0.39 106 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?

×0.26 126 | 3 points by dandaka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going?

×0.17 127 | 6 points by kjok 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks?

×0.49 131 | 9 points by sjt-at-rev 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Early precursor signals observed before incidents (RTT/DNS/HTTP telemetry)

×0.12 | 2 points by ravensystems 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic banned Pi, a third party harness

×0.24 136 | 3 points by rapiz 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?

×1.11 134 | 14 points by vixalien 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

×0.98 135 | 23 points by p-o 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: S3(AWS) vs R2(CF)–Which is better?

×0.39 128 | 4 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compact multi-port network setup (2.5G / 10G / SFP+) – looking for feedback

×0.17 138 | 3 points by Qotom 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you orchestrating multi-agent AI workflows in production?

×0.30 137 | 8 points by swrly 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents (github.com/marimo-team)

×1.52 8 #17 | 53 points by manzt 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exponential quantum advantage in processing classical data (arxiv.org)

×0.66 | 1 points by fuglede_ 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Survivor' Style Corporate Retreat Descends into Hellish Nightmare (thedailybeast.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by cainxinth 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)

×3.12 6 | 384 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We fingerprinted 178 AI models' writing styles and similarity clusters (rival.tips)

×1.14 71 | 76 points by nuancedev 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets (bbc.co.uk)

×3.03 6 #11 | 104 points by chrischapman 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Art of Risk Management (2017) (bcg.com)

×0.56 34 #22 | 32 points by walterbell 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reasons to think that the Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown (garymarcus.substack.com)

×0.56 | 2 points by hansmayer 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source (unknown-universe.co.uk)

×1.51 17 | 75 points by TheIPW 21 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Top laptops to use with FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.github.io)

×1.72 9 #62 | 316 points by fork-bomber 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anatomy of Mercor's Data Breach (jotbird.com)

×2.51 45 | 4 points by gmays 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built Dirac, Hash Anchored AST native coding agent, costs -64.8 pct (github.com/dirac-run)

×0.43 | 2 points by GodelNumbering 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths (wired.com)

×5.19 #1 | 253 points by smurda 1 hour ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do You Snore?

×0.66 | 1 points by kva 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered (iucn.org)

×2.38 15 | 157 points by darth_avocado 22 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Run GUIs as Scripts (github.com/skinnyjames)

×0.55 | 2 points by zero-st4rs 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Undocumented Qualcomm mesh topology 802.11 frames (weekly.org)

×0.37 | 2 points by dweekly 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 500k+ events/sec transformations for ClickHouse ingestion (github.com/glassflow)

×0.75 110 | 13 points by super_ar 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Go-Bt: Minimalist Behavior Trees for Go (github.com/rvitorper)

×0.39 77 | 61 points by rvitorper 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead (aywren.com)

×3.49 18 #63 | 229 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Goodbye Bloop (vibekanban.com)

×1.16 | 2 points by arrowsmith 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lawsuits over Meta Glasses Point to Privacy Risks Around AI Training (law.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EFF Logs Out of X (twitter.com/EFF)

×4.65 21 | 65 points by nord73 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a skill to tell AI on how to use human as Dobby (github.com/LittleLittleCloud)

×1.21 96 | 4 points by BigBigMiao 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robots eat cars (endeff.com)

×0.84 43 #47 | 62 points by JMill 16 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory (github.com/fulcrumresearch)

×0.65 55 #51 | 55 points by etherio 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running NixOS Micro VMs on macOS (abhinavsarkar.net)

×0.67 | 1 points by abhin4v 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zeroclawed: Secure Agent Gateway (github.com/bglusman)

×1.60 34 | 3 points by bglusman 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PSA Crypto: The P is for Portability (danielmangum.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by hasheddan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Best Python Data Visualization Libraries 2026 Comparison and Guide (kellton.com)

×1.15 | 2 points by johandoc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: chop.ax – strip sites down to just their content (chop.ax)

×1.70 101 | 4 points by foax 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once (govauctions.app)

×1.48 72 | 318 points by player_piano 3 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Homebutler – I manage my homelab from chat. AI never gets raw shell (homebutler.dev)

×1.24 124 | 3 points by swq115 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (newyorker.com)

×8.79 33 #70 | 2142 points by adrianhon 4 days ago | 900 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI (nytimes.com)

×7.15 2 | 129 points by elsewhen 23 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December (thehill.com)

×3.69 66 | 67 points by c420 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Social media has become a freak show (natesilver.net)

×0.67 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon ending support for older Kindles (techcrunch.com)

×1.20 | 2 points by eggy 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com/mohshomis)

×0.81 104 | 100 points by mohshomis 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Guardians – Verify tool-using agent workflows before execution (github.com/metareflection)

×1.17 118 | 5 points by namin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (cockroachlabs.com)

×1.23 6 #32 | 111 points by vermilingua 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rethinking the Riemann Hypothesis through wave interactions (Flux perspective) (zenodo.org)

×0.51 | 2 points by kimhanhee 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire (ft.com)

×2.56 49 | 172 points by pavlov 2 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than $300 (well almost) (indraneelpatil.github.io)

×0.69 70 | 106 points by indraneelpatil 4 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git-worm, the simple worktree manager (github.com/ThatXliner)

×0.39 | 2 points by thatxliner 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications

×0.47 24 #9 | 9 points by qvac 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code (darkounity.com)

×0.76 60 #72 | 76 points by hacker_13 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals (duckdb.org)

×0.56 | 1 points by mpweiher 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Propulsion and Energy Physicist Photos at Deep Tech Week NYC 2026 (flickr.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by timventura 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent Skill Based on "Open Source Security at Astral" (github.com/backnotprop)

×1.07 129 | 3 points by ramoz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989 (dfarq.homeip.net)

×1.14 3 #3 | 87 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The growth metric Silicon Valley loves most is also its least trusted (latimes.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts (akshaychugh.xyz)

×2.06 29 | 267 points by akshay2603 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No Taco: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure (phillipspobrien.substack.com)

×4.06 65 | 58 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi (github.com/matt-virgo)

×0.90 87 | 44 points by Virgo_matt 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The King James Bible deserved a better website (officialkingjamesbible.com)

×2.44 132 | 11 points by L23234 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent Tuning, using recursion to achieve predictable agent output (github.com/adam-s)

×1.82 92 | 5 points by dataviz1000 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Protected quantum gates using qubit doublons in dynamical optical lattices (ethz.ch)

×1.88 12 #4 | 185 points by joko42 10 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ads in ChatGPT (openai.com)

×2.23 24 #19 | 15 points by cbility 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general) (demandsphere.com)

×0.89 39 #40 | 88 points by rgrieselhuber 17 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EFF is leaving X (eff.org)

×8.91 46 #54 | 1353 points by gregsadetsky 21 hours ago | 1180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Anthropic Enshittifying Claude Code?

×0.65 | 1 points by yoaviram 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proton: Born Private (proton.me)

×1.25 | 2 points by qkc3p3Jbf4 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects (kagi.com)

×1.98 34 #29 | 135 points by treetalker 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes (skypilot.co)

×1.14 37 #30 | 194 points by hopechong 21 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GitByBit – Learn Git by practice in your code editor (gitbybit.com)

×2.39 56 | 3 points by neochief 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stricline: A meta-framework to easily build robust CLI apps w/stricli (codeberg.org)

×0.76 | 2 points by reesericci 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generative art over the years (veitheller.de)

×1.47 10 #18 | 198 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???