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  1. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×1.17 41 | 5 points by neya 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×1.03 58 | 11 points by tossitawayplz 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.50 53 | 11 points by niyazpk 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are people generally interested using LLMs for learning purposes?
    ×0.24 92 | 5 points by iknownthing 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.63 59 | 73 points by ayi 23 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×0.95 108 | 45 points by xupybd 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×0.80 110 | 5 points by vasko 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×0.18 104 | 6 points by spidy__ 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.11 116 | 152 points by amichail 4 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.95 99 | 19 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 141 | 94 points by asim 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Open source, global vs. proprietary but for US in US, which is fundable in SaaS?
    ×0.22 133 | 4 points by avijeetsingh16 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?
    ×0.81 81 | 18 points by simonebrunozzi 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.43 172 | 25 points by agos 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.44 137 | 40 points by JohnDSDev 3 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
    ×0.38 145 | 8 points by po1nt 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.33 152 | 8 points by hmokiguess 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×0.18 146 | 5 points by blahaj 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by jmount 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What would justify writting an OS kernel in 2026?
    ×0.51 169 | 5 points by alonsovm44 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
    ×0.29 147 | 6 points by AbstractH24 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.37 176 | 8 points by snowhy 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code
    ×0.19 175 | 4 points by gagewoodard 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?
    ×0.34 173 | 5 points by julienreszka 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. My Opinion on RL
    ×0.20 174 | 3 points by umjunsik132 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. GitHub Banned All CI for Our (OSS) Org Because of Bad Drive-By Contributors
    ×0.76 151 | 9 points by BlueMatt 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.36 168 | 10 points by gaggle_dk 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
    ×0.37 170 | 5 points by lkrubner 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say (science.org)
    ×2.01 71 | 156 points by strangeloops85 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: I created agent skill based on Peter Lynch's books (github.com/DjNero11)
    ×1.51 97 | 4 points by DjNero 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: CUDA Profiler for Production Inference (github.com/graphsignal)
    ×2.19 94 | 6 points by npgraph 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Transformer Primitives – A visual explainer you can send to anyone (understandgpt.xyz)
    ×1.93 109 | 5 points by arzt 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: perl-lsp – annotation free static analysis for Perl (github.com/tree-sitter-perl)
    ×1.31 127 | 3 points by rabbiveesh 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. RIP Fable (fable.rip)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by opndragoon 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: HN Game Stories – mini-documentary of games that hit the front page (intellios.ai)
    ×0.31 122 | 15 points by coolwulf 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Typevia live LaTeX editing with AI assistance (typevia.com)
    ×1.30 171 | 4 points by Niqht 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Should I launch a form limiter app on the Google Workspace Marketplace? (2025) (developerwithacat.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by mmarian 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Keep all microservices consistent and make batch changes (infraas.ai)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by danielbedrood 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Lianda and the Long March (georeactor.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by mapmeld 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Stop coding agents from writing prolix comments (github.com/DanverImbue)
    ×1.48 18 | 3 points by nvader 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon (theregister.com)
    ×2.18 66 | 146 points by speckx 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Nvidia Halos (nvidia.com)
    ×1.32 86 | 83 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: FuckUI - AI hates your UI. Feed it the web text first (fuckui.com)
    ×1.71 117 | 4 points by keepamovin 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups (startupsbr.com)
    ×0.92 131 | 19 points by leonagano 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Kitcat 2.0 – A Matplotlib back end for terminal plotting (mil.ad)
    ×1.13 154 | 4 points by playnext 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Moody Mush: An Interactive Mushroom Robot (instructables.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by RRWagner 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Glimm: Shader Driven Page Transitions (glimm.dev)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Source-available post-quantum messenger – crypto core on GitHub (github.com/VeilusDigital)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by VeilusDigital 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GLM 5.2 vs. Opus (techstackups.com)
    ×2.62 25 | 514 points by ritzaco 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A pure ARM64 Assembly web server, now on Linux with CGI for no reason (github.com/imtomt)
    ×0.74 77 | 48 points by imtomt 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors (github.com/Intuned)
    ×0.62 98 | 36 points by ahmadilaiwi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. SHOW HN: Huskmail - A disposable email with private inboxes and trial library (huskmail.xyz)
    ×1.59 130 | 4 points by draggodra 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I was tired of stock research in messy tabs, so I built my own terminal (finqos.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by marmmaz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026 (00f.net)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by theanonymousone 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Trump Gets Negative Reviews Internationally as Fewer Say US Is Reliable Partner (pewresearch.org)
    ×1.30 31 | 3 points by Bondi_Blue 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Sakana Fugu: a multi-agent system delivered as one model (github.com/SakanaAI)
    ×1.35 18 | 6 points by aurenvale 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (microsoft.com)
    ×2.84 10 #7 | 276 points by saikatsg 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Treedocs: Documentation that automatically checks for staleness (dandylyons.github.io)
    ×0.61 36 #85 | 46 points by DandyLyons 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ten years on, Brexit's economic impact is becoming clearer (bbc.co.uk)
    ×3.25 44 | 14 points by mellosouls 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors (epfl.ch)
    ×1.19 52 | 3 points by azhenley 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why (thedrive.com)
    ×8.06 56 | 188 points by theanonymousone 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser (github.com/NotASithLord)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by NotASithLord 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit (ps.tc)
    ×1.26 5 #11 | 120 points by givinguflac 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Deltatensors – store model fine-tunes as compressed weight deltas (github.com/AaravGaurdev)
    ×1.47 13 | 3 points by AaravGaur 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. MSc Thesis – The Limits of Generalized Sync (aalto.fi)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by bebraw 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: How important is college after AI?
    ×1.17 | 2 points by akashwadhwani35 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Age of Agents (github.com/agentsmill)
    ×1.51 5 | 3 points by skogstokig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Aharness – Enforce coding-agent workflows as state machines on Codex (github.com/Alfredvc)
    ×1.69 126 | 4 points by alfredvc 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Vulnerability reports are not special anymore (filippo.io)
    ×1.30 3 #1 | 179 points by goranmoomin 6 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Printing Gaussian Splats (patreon.com)
    ×1.87 11 #8 | 241 points by ilnmtlbnm 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I scanned every YC Spring 2026 startup for what AI crawlers see (potatometer.com)
    ×1.07 150 | 3 points by apswin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Ze.sh – a z.sh-derived directory jumper that uses an event clock (github.com/jghub)
    ×1.42 157 | 5 points by jghub 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×1.07 17 #4 | 33 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM (github.com/ilbertt)
    ×0.47 46 #68 | 54 points by ilbert 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Child care is becoming more affordable (economist.com)
    ×1.29 67 | 3 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time (fca.org.uk)
    ×0.86 88 | 103 points by monkeydust 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Recall – Local project memory for Claude Code (github.com/raiyanyahya)
    ×1.11 90 | 134 points by mateenah 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Duckle a drag-and-drop visual pipeline designer (github.com/slothflowlabs)
    ×1.57 159 | 5 points by souravroy78 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Jerry's Map (jerrysmap.com)
    ×1.78 7 #2 | 402 points by turtleyacht 11 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.73 34 #29 | 52 points by neogoose 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mistral OCR 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×3.47 32 #52 | 449 points by meetpateltech 15 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I Read the Palantir Manifesto (corbettreport.com)
    ×2.51 28 #87 | 13 points by paulnpace 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. In praise of memcached (jchri.st)
    ×1.61 7 | 257 points by j03b 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing (youtube.com)
    ×0.70 61 #17 | 5 points by unleaded 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron (github.com/y-times-y)
    ×0.87 14 #42 | 27 points by HetPatel106 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Dietary guidelines do not yield sufficient flavanol for cardiovascular benefit (rsc.org)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by littlexsparkee 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A leaderboard of most popular open-weight LLMs (hf.space)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by hosolmaz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Sklearn-genetic-opt – evolutionary optimization for scikit-learn (rodrigo-arenas.github.io)
    ×1.42 93 | 4 points by rodrigo-arenas 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Smolsonic – A Subsonic-compatible music server written in Rust (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×1.15 158 | 4 points by tsiry 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft (primecrunch.com)
    ×0.63 27 #25 | 14 points by andyhedges 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???