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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.47 70 #54 | 363 points by david927 2 days ago | 1136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. We struggled with DevOps, so built a open source agentic platform just for this
    ×0.93 | 2 points by abmuhammadhamza 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A mnemonic-free wallet where the private key never leaves the phone's TEE
    ×0.37 | 2 points by niumeta_TZ 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock
    ×0.18 | 2 points by timedude 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27
    ×0.64 66 | 13 points by lucasoshiro 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down
    ×0.29 87 | 4 points by alt_tab 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Started Learning Pentesting
    ×0.32 127 | 3 points by muzan 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Which crossword generator do you use?
    ×0.28 104 | 3 points by irusik 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. SuperColoring – a simple crossword generator for learning and fun
    ×0.37 106 | 3 points by irusik 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Where is all of the AI coded software?
    ×0.97 78 | 6 points by wNjdbfm 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Working on Plug and Play personal AI Memory that works across AI agents
    ×0.24 | 2 points by heysrb 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why 17?
    ×0.70 93 | 5 points by tonyvince7 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×2.32 60 | 72 points by nunez 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.44 114 | 16 points by amichail 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.65 130 | 9 points by rylando 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why is Pulley (cap table) shutting down?
    ×0.85 85 | 4 points by AnhTho_FR 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.19 137 | 4 points by Aditya_0315 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What are you building,Lets explore each others
    ×0.79 99 | 4 points by Vineetyadav2 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.86 122 | 61 points by stikit 3 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.38 132 | 11 points by mondobe 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.31 138 | 8 points by emerongi 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.49 86 | 485 points by jacquesm 5 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.55 136 | 27 points by waldrews 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What would make self-hosting easy enough for average consumers?
    ×0.37 134 | 5 points by dani4299 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Developers – Do you let agents write production code?
    ×0.53 131 | 6 points by smurf9852 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Has anyone made a legacy codebase more legible to AI coding agents?
    ×0.22 139 | 3 points by iacobandrei 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A repo gained 3,278 stars while GitHub showed Andrej Karpathy as a contributor
    ×0.56 133 | 6 points by newshackee 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Screenshots on macOS don't have to be date named files with spaces
    ×0.55 135 | 5 points by cs1996 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils (omgubuntu.co.uk)
    ×2.46 50 #58 | 281 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GRP-Obliteration: Unaligning LLMs with a Single Unlabeled Prompt (arxiv.org)
    ×0.55 73 #72 | 21 points by vital101 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band (github.com/callbacked)
    ×0.90 61 | 119 points by callbacked 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network (haveibeenproxied.com)
    ×1.74 3 | 68 points by microcode 16 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.83 7 #10 | 103 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told (sunnyguha.com)
    ×0.99 15 #13 | 32 points by momentmaker 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×3.63 27 #45 | 290 points by hn_acker 14 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 (apple.com)
    ×2.97 11 #64 | 702 points by throw0101d 1 day ago | 839 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Bashka – static analyzer for bash install scripts (for safety and convenience) (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by neogoose 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.15 83 | 628 points by dmitrybrant 6 days ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol (rheinmetall.github.io)
    ×1.49 #12 | 185 points by summarity 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet (404media.co)
    ×6.30 68 | 218 points by pavel_lishin 14 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Trains.fyi – Global Train Tracker (trains.fyi)
    ×1.09 115 | 3 points by ryderdamen 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Remoc – Rust RPC where channels are first-class values (remoc.rs)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by surban 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)
    ×2.38 1 #8 | 376 points by leumon 13 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Distributed Systems Classics (2017) (nvartolomei.com)
    ×1.56 2 | 342 points by grep_it 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Agenttik – work on multiple projects in parallel with AI agents (github.com/pausan)
    ×1.00 70 | 4 points by psanchez 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Bodily Oddities (vester.si)
    ×1.89 84 | 340 points by vesterde 5 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports (screensize.net)
    ×0.69 91 | 41 points by zenpe 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background (github.com/pizza-bot-app)
    ×0.85 25 #30 | 47 points by jd_ 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Arrival of Java 27 (inside.java)
    ×2.33 18 | 4 points by ejboy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A beginning for mathematics (daniellitt.com)
    ×1.53 14 | 267 points by robinhouston 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it (thenextweb.com)
    ×4.55 60 | 143 points by cwwc 12 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Claude is a Contrarian (medium.com)
    ×1.73 49 | 131 points by rdsubhas 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture (theregister.com)
    ×2.80 67 | 119 points by joebuckwilliams 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Llmbridge, a C++ LLM gateway with sub-millisecond overhead (github.com/kottos-ai)
    ×1.14 119 | 3 points by lluisantoni 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Fusion in Devin Desktop and CLI (cognition.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by ludovicianul 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)
    ×1.56 8 #43 | 250 points by rmoff 22 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. IOS27 removes feature to hide safari, why?
    ×0.51 | 1 points by robglick 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk (reddit.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by dwaltrip 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Continual Learning Mechanisms Compose for Long-Horizon Memorization (arxiv.org)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by donk8r 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by the-mitr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by danielmorozoff 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.33 12 #22 | 53 points by djfergus 4 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.75 44 #47 | 54 points by emerongi 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS (github.com/JamesRyanATX)
    ×0.65 51 | 84 points by fretlessjazz 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I built Otis, a minimal AI agent that runs local models out of the box (triangllabs.ai)
    ×0.70 109 | 19 points by petrenk0n 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design (formas.ai)
    ×0.78 21 #37 | 106 points by eustoria 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Nature Is Our Learning Environment (periodic.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by EvgeniyZh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows (macrumors.com)
    ×2.33 29 | 225 points by tosh 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Loss. a tiny satire about AI progress (workatloss.com)
    ×1.48 32 | 30 points by pbobak 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Check an NPM package or MCP server for malicious code before install (bouncer.run)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by nader 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis (google.github.io)
    ×0.95 32 #50 | 23 points by Bluestein 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Looking back on Servo's first donation-funded role (servo.org)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by luu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. SGLang and Miles Add Day-0 Support for DeepSeek-v4.1 (lmsys.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by aray07 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Antonio Gramsci: How Language Makes Power Feel Like Common Sense (linguistically.substack.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by akbarnama 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I built a tiny camera that knows where it is (mightycamera.com)
    ×1.11 97 | 5 points by asadm 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Async multi-agent coordination across physical environments (github.com/BlahBlah23406)
    ×1.29 111 | 3 points by BlahBlah23406 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Java 27 (openjdk.org)
    ×2.18 15 #40 | 329 points by mkurz 17 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I wrote a kill number before I wrote the landing page copy (deskthaw.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by aaaan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost (narilabs.com)
    ×0.88 64 | 90 points by toebee 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. We don't need AI regulation – leave safety to us, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.39 53 | 3 points by girish_r 26 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Two MMLU Scores: What a Benchmark Name Does Not Fix (zatona.dev)
    ×0.23 81 #73 | 8 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability (tenderlovemaking.com)
    ×2.51 7 | 507 points by gregnavis 1 day ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: An open source safety layer for AI agent actions (github.com/CTRLRun)
    ×1.78 96 | 4 points by arpanghoshal 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month (codyho.dev)
    ×2.65 #11 | 261 points by ADevWithAnIdea 11 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. GPT-6 Astra vs. GPT-5.6 Sol: Is a 1.6x Higher Cost Worth It per Verified Bug? (ent-website-gamma.vercel.app)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Entelligence25 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. China would face a "hellscape" in a war over Taiwan (economist.com)
    ×2.29 31 | 4 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Is pasta a type of noodle? The surprisingly serious debate over beloved carbs (theconversation.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by rdmuser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. EU approves sending mountains of trash to Turkey despite environmental fears (politico.eu)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by leonidasrup 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Inference Is the Last LLM Moat (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by vincent_s 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: FlareDB – a Rust-based streaming database with Apache Beam as interface
    ×0.93 | 2 points by ganeshsivakumar 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???