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  1. OVH Currently Experiencing an Outage
    ×0.85 40 | 5 points by DC-3 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. RocketSDR – Are they faking being backed with YC?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by blendertom 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
    ×1.12 58 | 218 points by memet_rush 2 days ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why Don't More Product Teams Collaborate on Domain Models?
    ×0.73 57 | 3 points by adangit 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's the Most Effective Way You've Improved Focus?
    ×1.30 2 | 14 points by schappim 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you raise your kids in the age of AI?
    ×0.70 88 | 4 points by MichaelMoser123 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Understanding Some Limits of DeepSeek
    ×0.31 107 | 7 points by hazymemory 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?
    ×1.43 120 | 168 points by splimeproject 4 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
    ×0.84 159 | 8 points by iMario 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: A realization I've had about working with AIs and building software
    ×0.60 127 | 18 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is the best font and styling combo for readability on the web?
    ×0.44 135 | 12 points by duxup 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How can sending emails cost Let's Encrypt five figures?
    ×0.32 134 | 5 points by rrr_oh_man 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind
    ×0.87 128 | 46 points by figassis 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why don't we have a functional DSL for data+embedding+API pipelines?
    ×0.59 148 | 21 points by codingmoh 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Slopsquat CVE?
    ×0.40 194 | 3 points by ChuckMcM 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Notion's Lies Sunsetting Skiff Mail
    ×1.44 100 | 22 points by notioned 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Has anyone quit their startup (VC-backed) over cofounder disagreements?
    ×0.81 144 | 77 points by stuck12345 5 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Did Bing and Gemini Got Dumbed Down Recently?
    ×0.27 170 | 4 points by xchip 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Good laptop alternatives to MacBook Pro for running Linux?
    ×1.87 75 | 5 points by jiwidi 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do I jump from Senior PM –> Senior Product Engineer?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by KomradeKeeks 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What are the best books with problem sets that test your understanding?
    ×0.44 162 | 10 points by jimsojim 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Sites are bluffing with their cookie pop-ups
    ×0.36 167 | 8 points by ConspiracyFact 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Zoom Is Down?
    ×9.37 17 | 26 points by chipgap98 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: SPA vs. SSR in 2024?
    ×0.66 175 | 9 points by _bin_ 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How does the iOS Lyft app detect that I landed at the airport?
    ×0.31 160 | 6 points by stpn 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How to unit test AI responses?
    ×0.99 138 | 10 points by bikamonki 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. RAG Without Vectors – Reasoning-Based RAG using PageIndex
    ×0.62 171 | 34 points by vectify_AI 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are there any truly private chat apps?
    ×0.52 166 | 6 points by fir3dvst 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Does any one know if Firebase is a successful from Google's perspective?
    ×0.57 173 | 26 points by pritambarhate 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why Is Every Company Building Own Agent Framework? Isn't One Enough?
    ×0.52 198 | 12 points by notaiagent 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Seeking advice on doing Computer science research (as undergraduate)
    ×0.26 191 | 6 points by ad34bacf35a2 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Has Google Search's index shrunk?
    ×0.89 169 | 16 points by h2zizzle 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What Tools Did You Use to Land Your Current Job?
    ×0.89 156 | 8 points by schappim 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Preserving Ireland's Bogs– Memory, Identity, and the Path Forward (worldsensorium.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by dnetesn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Landing Lab – A growing collection of landing page templates (landinglab.xyz)
    ×2.30 90 | 7 points by drdruide 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal (github.com/openai)
    ×2.34 5 #4 | 345 points by mfiguiere 9 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Business of the AI Labs (omega-prime.co.uk)
    ×0.61 48 #81 | 14 points by gpjt 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Judge berates AI entrepreneur for using a generated 'lawyer' in court (theverge.com)
    ×2.64 19 #84 | 5 points by sksxihve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What Is Entropy? (jasonfantl.com)
    ×1.70 56 | 285 points by jfantl 2 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Cloud Snitch, an open source visualization for AWS activity (github.com/ccbrown)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by ccbrown1 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct (bitbashing.io)
    ×1.27 28 #12 | 10 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The API Churn/Security Trade-Off (2016) (intercoolerjs.org)
    ×0.55 43 #61 | 26 points by aaossa 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to dazzle the night sky beginning this week (npr.org)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by andsoitis 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Emacs Lisp Elements (protesilaos.com)
    ×1.96 97 | 349 points by robenkleene 4 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I made Python project template so you don't need to spend hours on it (github.com/akopdev)
    ×2.41 136 | 6 points by akopkesheshyan 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a (grapheneos.social)
    ×1.90 87 | 370 points by moelf 4 days ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Fun with -fsanitize=undefined and Picolibc (keithp.com)
    ×0.85 45 #50 | 107 points by JNRowe 20 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Significant performance improvements with Edge 134 (windows.com)
    ×0.60 52 #83 | 55 points by ksec 22 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Canva Dev MCP Server (canva.dev)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by ghuntley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: FastMCP 2.0 – fast, Pythonic MCP servers and clients (github.com/jlowin)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by jlowin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Google to embrace MCP (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.52 66 | 267 points by thoughtpeddler 6 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I made a tool to extract YouTube transcripts and skip the fluff (transcriptgenerator.org)
    ×1.01 114 | 3 points by jiajunyan 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Speak your target language with real people, not just an app
    ×1.02 152 | 5 points by ayoubdrissi 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Bptree – A B+ tree implementation in C (github.com/habedi)
    ×0.87 197 | 3 points by habedi0 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain (zoom.us)
    ×2.53 #1 | 158 points by RVRX 2 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf] (nsf.gov)
    ×0.81 23 #36 | 93 points by otras 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Whistleblower claims Musk's DOGE potentially caused significant security breach (pbs.org)
    ×10.35 78 | 18 points by mergy 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Spam SMS filter app that use on-device machine learning (apple.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by ashidiqidimas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs (geoffreylitt.com)
    ×3.16 16 | 770 points by stevekrouse 2 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser (ironclad.sh)
    ×2.40 96 | 320 points by IroncladDev 4 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Resonate – real-time high temporal resolution spectral analysis (alexandrefrancois.org)
    ×0.58 72 | 71 points by arjf 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [fixed] (csoonline.com)
    ×7.76 76 #88 | 1877 points by healsdata 1 day ago | 1041 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Both Reacts (tylur.blog)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by tylersayshi 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Founders and Momentum (weisser.io)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by sebg 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money (data-and-politics.ghost.io)
    ×6.84 76 | 789 points by pulisse 4 days ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash (petapixel.com)
    ×3.19 101 | 548 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 726 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Portable Giant File Viewer (github.com/sunny-chung)
    ×0.69 111 | 34 points by sunny41 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: TimeSlate – A Free Pomodoro Focus Timer and Revision Planner, No Signup (timeslate.app)
    ×2.08 163 | 6 points by henrikdev 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Damn Vulnerable MCP Server (github.com/harishsg993010)
    ×1.04 22 #8 | 159 points by mrxhacker99 11 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. "Vivarium": The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction] (jsomers.net)
    ×0.86 26 #13 | 12 points by jsomers 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads (searchengineland.com)
    ×2.86 37 | 374 points by rexbee 2 days ago | 688 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A gallery of ChatGPT image styles for inspiration (imagestyles.ai)
    ×3.40 186 | 16 points by mwhuss 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.02 19 #29 | 78 points by libpcap 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Terak Museum (threedee.com)
    ×0.34 49 #43 | 22 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot (probablydance.com)
    ×1.30 36 #49 | 113 points by juancampa 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. .localhost Domains (inclouds.space)
    ×2.52 132 | 301 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules (muppetlabs.com)
    ×1.67 133 | 276 points by spudlyo 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. SQLite File Format Viewer (sqlite-internal.pages.dev)
    ×1.76 64 | 266 points by ilumanty 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Elephant in Cairo (Byte Magazine, 1989) (york.ac.uk)
    ×0.66 45 #58 | 31 points by atrudeau 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub user has been up to (githubdetective.vercel.app)
    ×2.75 154 | 14 points by bilater 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A high-throughput parser for the Zig programming language (github.com/Validark)
    ×1.22 26 #28 | 106 points by jedisct1 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Launch HN: Jasmine (YC S22) – Automating REC compliance and payouts for solar
    ×0.39 67 #33 | 36 points by mmayberry 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Musk's shadow grows over space industry (politico.com)
    ×4.91 54 | 10 points by c420 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.39 50 | 11 points by decimalenough 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.30 32 | 243 points by doener 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Breaking the Llama Community License (victor.earth)
    ×1.20 5 #20 | 118 points by mkl 9 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands (nature.com)
    ×0.67 61 #65 | 43 points by rntn 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. What "Silicon Valley" TV Show Knew About Tech-Bro Paternalism (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.24 20 #80 | 9 points by ryan_j_naughton 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Building products that require behavior shifts
    ×0.68 | 2 points by cleung11 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Open source and self hostable/private file converter (vert.sh)
    ×2.63 81 | 592 points by sandybonks 4 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???