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  1. Ask HN: Open-Source Software in Aerospace Imaging?
    ×0.57 48 | 3 points by lightedman 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project?
    ×1.37 43 | 3 points by postexitus 39 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.87 54 #51 | 712 points by andrehacker 2 days ago | 1091 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project?
    ×0.59 8 | 5 points by postexitus 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.24 21 | 451 points by Ekami 2 days ago | 747 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.73 87 | 106 points by juliusceasar 4 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.88 63 | 23 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you stay focused while working from home?
    ×1.47 3 | 5 points by infoinlet 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.88 68 | 160 points by dv35z 2 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given
    ×1.24 66 | 12 points by cuz-reasons 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×0.98 113 | 38 points by f311a 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?
    ×0.43 81 | 5 points by ed_balls 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: I made an image watermarking tool. What are the issues open-sourcing it?
    ×0.35 97 | 3 points by minimaxir 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used
    ×0.98 83 | 6 points by prmph 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.51 122 | 24 points by bix6 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×0.91 104 | 9 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.76 117 | 15 points by JohnnyZhang483 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Where do you get the latest updates about AI?
    ×0.62 115 | 5 points by d0able 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.85 101 | 36 points by sunshine-o 3 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.52 127 | 11 points by saveitincork 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What are the best examples of good technical writing you know of?
    ×1.52 64 | 6 points by CSMastermind 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.63 156 | 9 points by iliaov 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×0.57 121 | 6 points by kingleopold 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.55 128 | 8 points by themasterchief 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members
    ×0.34 135 | 3 points by joshwprinceton 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×4.10 110 | 26 points by antihero 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.45 119 | 37 points by cpu_ 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×0.84 123 | 10 points by chistev 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.66 131 | 23 points by vadumo 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.53 134 | 5 points by amichail 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×1.33 163 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.67 137 | 11 points by lanycrost 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What would you name your own LLM?
    ×0.46 155 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.05 158 | 9 points by wqtz 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Kilo Code: Getting my Hands dirty (mariusb.net)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by mariusb16 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. DeepSeek Made AI Cheap. Now It Needs Billions to Keep It Cheap (chinacompany.substack.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by zacfire 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tech sell-off widens as South Korea index plunges (ft.com)
    ×2.51 22 | 57 points by JumpCrisscross 12 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Vim Classic 8.3 Released (vim-classic.org)
    ×1.81 52 | 52 points by tempodox 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Modern GPU Programming in Rust (2024) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by apitman 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. 'Big Short' investor Steve Eisman: I'm 'not a fan' of the upcoming SpaceX IPO (youtube.com)
    ×2.06 44 | 3 points by root-parent 37 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. SecretSpec 0.12: audit logs and coding agents (secretspec.dev)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by domenkozar 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Melia: A Privacy-First, Modern Desktop Email Client Made Just for Linux (itsfoss.com)
    ×2.00 21 | 3 points by mikece 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed (github.com/schildep)
    ×1.12 79 | 91 points by permute 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Sub-Agent MCP: LLM delegation and sub-agent orchestration via MCP (github.com/stormaref)
    ×1.57 132 | 6 points by avestura 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Inbox-beam – notifications in your inbox without sending email (github.com/toyoshi)
    ×1.88 77 | 12 points by toyoshi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea (nvidia.com)
    ×1.41 10 #19 | 23 points by spwa4 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.99 19 | 187 points by supermatou 22 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Multica: Orchestrating business agents like a real leadership team (multica.ai)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by wagnermb 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Iran Severely Damaged US Air Ops Center in Qatar Soon After War Began (airandspaceforces.com)
    ×3.60 25 | 53 points by ilamont 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting (gwern.net)
    ×1.23 62 | 47 points by telotortium 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid (mojodojo.io)
    ×1.77 46 | 42 points by zenincognito 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm (nosuggest.com)
    ×1.25 27 | 51 points by VJ-2-108 4 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm (microsoft.com)
    ×0.59 45 #34 | 37 points by soheilpro 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× (fergusfinn.com)
    ×1.08 38 #63 | 149 points by kkm 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Background Be Gone – Free App and CLI for Bg Removal on Mac (franzai.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by franze 26 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Boy's brain tumor tied to gene therapy (science.org)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by Ralfp 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I put my Claude Code rate-limit burndown in the status line (aimhuge.com)
    ×2.23 56 | 6 points by fotoflo 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×0.67 129 | 50 points by shikhar 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Aegis – post-quantum cyberdefense proxy (471 attacks, 0 breaches) (github.com/conchaestradamiguelangel-droid)
    ×0.79 148 | 3 points by conchaestrada 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Exposing the Solid State Donut Battery. It's over [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by cmrdporcupine 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Reliable Biohazard Waste Disposal in Tennessee: Safe and Compliant Services (trihazsolutions.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by rehmanasghar 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Elfeed 4.0 (Emacs) (github.com/emacs-elfeed)
    ×4.78 71 | 43 points by DASD 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs (github.com/luke8086)
    ×2.82 78 | 9 points by luke8086 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. GitHub Is Down (githubstatus.com)
    ×5.89 68 | 58 points by cosuhi 6 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: PWNC – A dependency-free web platform I've been building for 25 years (github.com/heydev-de)
    ×2.05 99 | 5 points by katzito 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Fact check, summarize, explain any article or webpage on local CPU (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×2.01 100 | 5 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone (github.com/shiihaa-app)
    ×0.78 118 | 67 points by shiihaa 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (bearblog.dev)
    ×5.91 16 #36 | 1056 points by poisonfountain 1 day ago | 998 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Visualizing sound waves with a custom Pico 2W ultrasonic phased array (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by PaulGilli 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Thoughts on starting new projects with LLM agents (thegreenplace.net)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by ibobev 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How the modern world turned gray (and why color may be coming back) (bigthink.com)
    ×2.70 47 | 4 points by Digit-Al 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Lint Your Markdown with ESLint (github.com/lumirlumir)
    ×0.62 162 | 14 points by beenzinozino 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The OnlyFans Economy of American AI (leoveanu.com)
    ×2.65 8 | 143 points by futurisold 23 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: About Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage (kodiqa-solutions.github.io)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by open_source_new 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Aquifer – an MCP runtime for spiky agent tool traffic (github.com/rjpruitt16)
    ×0.86 145 | 3 points by rjpruitt16 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: NullRead – A simple HN Android client (0x96f.dev)
    ×0.89 152 | 4 points by 0x96f 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated? (reeserichardson.blog)
    ×2.85 7 #6 | 148 points by mhrmsn 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Bitcoin Manga (bitcoinbacheen.com)
    ×2.03 38 | 3 points by muddahfuddah 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Bending Spoons Form F-1 (sec.gov)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ea016 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Dario's fictional origin story using Seedance 2 (xcancel.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by hmokiguess 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue (respeak-io.github.io)
    ×0.96 57 | 58 points by evolabs 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003) (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.43 47 #45 | 16 points by userbinator 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. My automated doubt development process (alexself.dev)
    ×0.84 40 #49 | 82 points by aself101 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×1.07 42 #64 | 167 points by gscott 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The lawsuits that could give AI its 'Big Tobacco' moment (politico.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. In a World Where Change Has Become the Norm, Which Companies Are Built to Last? (wsj.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The curious case of low-protein diets (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×1.48 16 | 48 points by curmudgeon22 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I Love Lisp (medium.com)
    ×1.42 74 | 42 points by tacoda 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised (gotski.workers.dev)
    ×0.55 90 | 36 points by gotski 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Spherical Voronoi Diagram (jasondavies.com)
    ×1.21 13 #13 | 59 points by marysminefnuf 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???