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  1. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×3.26 2 #4 | 212 points by _-x-_ 7 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript
    ×0.43 49 | 3 points by g48ywsJk6w48 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?
    ×0.42 59 | 3 points by samarthv 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×1.12 52 | 90 points by LatencyKills 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Oh, What Places to Go (Seriously Tho)
    ×0.55 62 | 4 points by thx 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?
    ×0.85 80 | 8 points by dwa3592 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How did the industry settle on weekly limits?
    ×0.22 89 | 3 points by saratogacx 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Batteries Included CLI Framework
    ×0.30 92 | 5 points by maxalbarello 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS
    ×0.45 104 | 4 points by lifeisstillgood 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?
    ×0.39 91 | 7 points by visox 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?
    ×3.03 84 | 11 points by fandorin 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by Haeuserschlucht 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?
    ×0.81 141 | 4 points by Erndob 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?
    ×1.81 81 | 7 points by hamiecod 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How to Attend the Altman vs. Musk Trial
    ×2.22 74 | 8 points by major4x 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.74 116 | 28 points by langs 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
    ×0.55 109 | 22 points by honungsburk 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.58 129 | 39 points by 019 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.66 137 | 19 points by AG25 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?
    ×0.36 133 | 7 points by coreyp_1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
    ×1.05 130 | 15 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking
    ×0.35 144 | 10 points by mfi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?
    ×0.84 139 | 7 points by zkid18 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?
    ×1.05 134 | 8 points by namegulf 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded
    ×1.42 136 | 9 points by vintagedave 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?
    ×2.33 123 | 24 points by lyfeninja 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.60 149 | 25 points by burnt-resistor 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?
    ×0.58 125 | 13 points by thinkingtoilet 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Can non-developer build commercial products with AI
    ×1.37 152 | 10 points by rkorlimarla 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.37 148 | 44 points by alpinisme 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Is possible a language easy as py, fast as C, more secure than Rust?
    ×0.92 147 | 10 points by jerryzhang66 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
    ×0.47 165 | 11 points by preston-kwei 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?
    ×0.67 151 | 14 points by smackeyacky 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Dear astronomers, what are the most interesting things in space lately?
    ×1.05 135 | 19 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Any Developer from Wales?
    ×1.98 119 | 10 points by danver0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users
    ×1.05 157 | 26 points by darkhorse13 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases (github.com/refactoringhq)
    ×1.72 48 | 300 points by lucaronin 2 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
    ×2.16 #13 | 196 points by tanelpoder 11 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Consumer routers hacked by Russia's military (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.19 23 | 3 points by pabs3 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.83 25 | 4 points by nippoo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com/niri-wm)
    ×3.27 64 | 231 points by nickjj 15 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Godot 4.7 Beta with HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements and Editor Enhancements (phoronix.com)
    ×2.62 25 #53 | 16 points by shpat 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations (gigazine.net)
    ×1.07 55 #82 | 140 points by gslin 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Is the world ready for a car without a rear window? (msn.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses (nytimes.com)
    ×4.00 35 | 168 points by duxup 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Digesting Duck: a 1739 automaton that appeared to eat, digest, and defecate (wikipedia.org)
    ×14.30 28 | 48 points by AgentNews 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I'm 15 and built a cryptographic accountability layer for AI agents (github.com/arian-gogani)
    ×1.61 153 | 4 points by arian_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Work with the garage door up (2024) (andymatuschak.org)
    ×1.26 43 #74 | 190 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. APL is more French than English (jsoftware.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by tosh 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it (newrepublic.com)
    ×10.69 80 | 234 points by chirau 10 hours ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: AgentSearch – Self-hosted search and MCP for AI agents, no API keys (github.com/brcrusoe72)
    ×0.89 169 | 5 points by bricrusoe 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Joy of Folding Bikes (korny.info)
    ×1.90 4 #19 | 157 points by pavel_lishin 12 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What async promised and what it delivered (causality.blog)
    ×2.00 15 #32 | 201 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (seriouseats.com)
    ×2.25 33 #55 | 138 points by jstrieb 11 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Economic growth is a power law (julienreszka.github.io)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by julienreszka 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Talk a stranger for fun or everything else (bakbak.fun)
    ×1.50 22 | 3 points by chintan39 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: LLM-wiki – One command Karpathy's wiki with QMD search for Claude/Codex (github.com/ivankuznetsov)
    ×0.89 86 | 3 points by ivankuznetsov11 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Why C Remains the Gold Standard for Cryptographic Software (wolfssl.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by LinuxJedi 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Scrum-to-POM Transition Is a Role Repositioning Event (age-of-product.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by swolpers 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. San Francisco must preserve the birthplace of the Mission burrito (sfchronicle.com)
    ×1.80 27 | 3 points by divbzero 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I Reverse Engineered Codex Background Computer Use (github.com/actuallyepic)
    ×2.90 127 | 9 points by anupamb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.51 11 #40 | 575 points by calcifer 1 day ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Stt.ai MCP Server (pypi.org)
    ×0.33 | 1 points by nadermx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tesla discloses $2B AI hardware company acquisition in filing (electrek.co)
    ×1.98 65 | 76 points by Bender 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Behind-the-Scenes of MacBook Neo Introduction Video (youtube.com)
    ×18.28 1 | 74 points by 0xbg 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Code garden deep-dive: my Forth C64 tetromino game (github.com/ekipan)
    ×0.30 178 | 3 points by ekipan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I made a simple bill of sale maker (makebillofsale.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by atharvtathe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Composition shouldn't be this hard (cambra.dev)
    ×1.15 63 | 124 points by larelli 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances? (driggsby.com)
    ×1.84 56 | 81 points by mbm 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
    ×2.04 3 #11 | 150 points by Nrbelex 9 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
    ×1.37 14 #21 | 107 points by sleepyguy 12 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Blueprint: AI Hardware Design (blueprint.am)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL (hostednowhere.com)
    ×2.37 64 | 105 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: VT Code – Rust TUI coding agent with multi-provider support (github.com/vinhnx)
    ×0.85 90 | 16 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Wedges and Control Points in Product Strategy (edwardhsu.substack.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by rahimnathwani 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty (openai.com)
    ×1.27 17 #38 | 144 points by Murfalo 17 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI Might Be Lying to Your Boss (williamoconnell.me)
    ×4.27 39 #68 | 22 points by annjose 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Revocation (potaroo.net)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by aragilar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Track official AI company news and blogs in your Chrome side panel (google.com)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by tughvn 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: Is "agentic" coding working for everyone except me?
    ×0.82 | 2 points by canttestthis 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite (github.com/russellromney)
    ×1.32 57 | 300 points by russellthehippo 2 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Endo Familiar, an O-cap based JavaScript agent sandbox (dcfoundation.io)
    ×3.65 146 | 13 points by zmanian 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Core – open-source AI butler that clears your backlog without you (getcore.me)
    ×0.27 179 | 3 points by Manik_agg 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)
    ×0.70 16 #57 | 49 points by neo2006 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Codex MSN Interface (codexmessenger.net)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by blef 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Seven database engines in a single Rust binary (github.com/nodeDB-Lab)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by mansarip 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC is funding it (twitter.com/TheMidasProj)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by pretext 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically (hisorty.app)
    ×2.61 103 | 72 points by damiannn 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) (parl.ai)
    ×0.65 43 #47 | 56 points by jxmorris12 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The American Wealth Curve: How the Gap Widens 8x Between Age 25 and 65 (efficientdollar.com)
    ×1.73 17 | 4 points by lundj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???