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  1. Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
    ×2.79 5 #25 | 380 points by rzk 14 hours ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't
    ×0.86 7 #44 | 17 points by gumby 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.87 6 #59 | 4 points by thechairman12 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×1.18 9 | 12 points by Stitch4223 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like?
    ×0.57 | 2 points by otherayden 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Anyone migrate off Google Voice?
    ×1.38 14 | 8 points by thomas536 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share?
    ×0.67 70 | 3 points by erelong 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What happened to open weights models?
    ×0.85 75 | 4 points by sparse-Matrix 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Bring-your-own-AI hardware
    ×0.53 | 2 points by flying_sheep 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you know Bitbucket are chaning their SSH endpoints?
    ×0.44 107 | 3 points by mcrmonkey 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why HN dosen't have bot problem?
    ×2.12 86 | 6 points by solarpunk_enthu 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Any good technical podcasts to listen to while driving?
    ×1.35 78 | 4 points by 0-bad-sectors 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why can't Ukraine use LoRA instead of Starshield?
    ×0.33 85 | 4 points by xrd 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
    ×0.43 110 | 17 points by okr 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you cap what your coding agents can spend?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by Twirled 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Getting spam after commenting on monthly Who's Hiring posts. Who else?
    ×2.54 84 | 6 points by yosito 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Beyond traces, how do you know your agent did the job?
    ×1.39 98 | 3 points by rstagi 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: I picked up knitting while waiting for my AI agent to complete
    ×1.67 109 | 8 points by amelius 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Do you also feel that it's impossible to keep up with AI?
    ×0.98 106 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×2.92 96 | 7 points by tha_infra_guy 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: New Outlook` sends everything through Microsoft Servers
    ×0.16 113 | 4 points by NicoJuicy 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better
    ×0.39 130 | 10 points by asen 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is anyone still running Token Ring or FDDI networks?
    ×0.28 137 | 12 points by robotnikman 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Massive amount of spam from "Who Wants to be hired"
    ×0.40 105 | 10 points by 0xmattf 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: System One models for autonomous agents
    ×0.15 143 | 3 points by manlymuppet 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What Got You into Rust?
    ×0.34 150 | 4 points by cloaky233 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why do computers/phones have a restart option along with the power off option?
    ×0.25 139 | 7 points by saonnet 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How can we stop UX people from changing UIs to get promotions?
    ×0.27 133 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026?
    ×0.54 142 | 13 points by abhishekbasu 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless
    ×0.68 147 | 14 points by bb88 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Flying Car Practical Tech
    ×0.32 155 | 7 points by NarcisMirandes 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do I stop Gemini Live from asking."Would like to know more about..?"
    ×0.09 | 2 points by orsenthil 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work)
    ×0.84 146 | 12 points by pieratt 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas (simpleflying.com)
    ×1.64 10 #46 | 117 points by Stratoscope 15 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling (crystl.dev)
    ×1.48 31 #61 | 155 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. You could have invented transformers from memory (alexwang.ai)
    ×2.75 56 #90 | 650 points by speckx 3 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Claude Code skills and hooks that prove a fix's test fails without it (github.com/ehnruiz)
    ×1.08 82 | 3 points by ehnruiz 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: ECG Signal Processing Starter Kit – Python, SciPy, and FastAPI (github.com/banisond)
    ×1.42 92 | 4 points by banisond 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: CallSitter – bot that answers my calls and wastes scammers' time (github.com/szerintedmi)
    ×1.21 101 | 14 points by szert 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (uaf.edu)
    ×0.92 29 #45 | 85 points by ankitg12 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike (ieee.org)
    ×0.62 57 #53 | 69 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: TMPlayer, a TV player for the videos in your own Telegram chats (github.com/dracu-lah)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by nevilkrishnak 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body (github.com/IsuruMaduranga)
    ×2.63 16 | 128 points by isuruwijesiri 18 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft (starskirmish.com)
    ×1.37 80 | 252 points by __cayenne__ 3 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: OmniPTY – Opinionated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux (github.com/omnipty-terminal)
    ×0.96 94 | 14 points by bobbycoleman-de 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. It's still ok to enjoy programming (chriskiehl.com)
    ×3.35 3 #14 | 548 points by goostavos 17 hours ago | 488 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Websites are closing their doors to AI agents (theverge.com)
    ×3.24 49 | 154 points by evolve2k 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Online Piano – Play a Free Virtual Piano Keyboard (urpiano.com)
    ×1.93 125 | 14 points by artiomartiom 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping (sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app)
    ×1.40 50 | 252 points by critiquebrowser 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers (evidence.dev)
    13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Integer to String Conversion (2014) (tia.mat.br)
    ×0.53 56 #58 | 27 points by jstrieb 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Training a Search-R1 Agent with Flame (xflops.io)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by k82cn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Supreme Court agrees to review ban on distilling spirits in private homes (apnews.com)
    ×2.57 18 | 6 points by geox 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: AML CYCLE 2, a benchmark for long-term agent memory (x.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by IreneAI 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse (hoaspy.com)
    ×2.58 30 | 198 points by lovewins 1 day ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam (steampowered.com)
    ×3.49 62 | 86 points by MatiErnst 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Capy-flash – a 125B MoE model on two 16 GB consumer GPUs (github.com/ValerioDolci)
    ×1.58 152 | 8 points by Feyd 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: PrimerKit, financial market work at agent speed (primerkit.ai)
    ×0.89 157 | 3 points by KalskiTheDan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.64 12 #62 | 258 points by gslin 20 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Parser Combinators (t3.at)
    ×1.67 46 | 249 points by schindlabua 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. FaderBuddy – Plug-and-play motorized faders for ESPHome and more (github.com/scottbez1)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by foltik 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests (deepseek.com)
    ×2.80 4 | 599 points by fagnerbrack 2 days ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions (niemanlab.org)
    ×1.60 42 | 231 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: InfiniDomino – practically infinite world of dominoes to knock over (infinidomino.io)
    ×1.64 118 | 4 points by Static2280 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models (mistral.ai)
    ×2.98 8 #38 | 577 points by groar 20 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories (po-ru.com)
    ×5.79 40 #52 | 458 points by phoronixrly 14 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. My Neighbor, Me, and a Grand Principle (lastwordonnothing.com)
    ×0.29 59 #89 | 7 points by royalroad 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on? (jrdsgl.com)
    ×2.07 7 | 296 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Public Pays to Produce Research. Shareholders Collect the Return (sparcopen.org)
    ×1.78 79 | 71 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare (2023) (oro.gay)
    ×2.18 47 | 68 points by jannesan 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache (github.com/kividbio)
    ×0.76 7 | 66 points by murtazayusuf 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: The Lion King (SNES, 1994), running as a native PC program (github.com/kinduff)
    ×1.61 99 | 6 points by kinduff 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I built a drone with only one motor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.83 1 #10 | 494 points by hakonjdjohnsen 13 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22 (os2museum.com)
    ×1.56 44 #36 | 5 points by userbinator 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I built a programming language that LLMs can't use (picheta.me)
    ×2.42 16 #86 | 272 points by dom96 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. What if the world hadn't built wind and solar? (theclimatebrink.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by xbmcuser 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: An Open Source Aircraft (adampaigge.github.io)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by adampaigge 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Open-source early-reading reader with phonics help (github.com/finereli)
    ×0.41 39 | 21 points by zoozla 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.98 16 #87 | 547 points by mdp2021 1 day ago | 779 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. EFF Launches Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS (eff.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by XzetaU8 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I put my cell number on my startup's homepage
    ×0.91 | 2 points by civitasinnovare 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform (github.com/0x23)
    ×1.39 45 | 218 points by _Microft 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off (ieee.org)
    ×2.04 6 #47 | 335 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua (bbc.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by bryanrasmussen 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Why elevators keep anesthesia professionals up at night [4 min] [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by privacyishuman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Field access in a Rust debug REPL, without reflection (github.com/100010)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by yoheisenju 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation (dri.es)
    ×1.02 34 #43 | 32 points by scottfalconer 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Hey
    ×0.75 | 1 points by the1andonlyy69 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching (neilmadden.blog)
    ×1.21 44 | 184 points by hnisjafx40 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ukraine carries out aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier (dailymail.com)
    ×4.99 42 | 121 points by theflyingelvis 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???