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  1. Ask HN: Losing motivation to work in the IT field, need advice
    ×0.91 19 | 14 points by trowa159 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
    ×0.97 60 | 114 points by keymasta 2 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Remember N8n? Anyone?
    ×0.24 70 | 4 points by sankalpdomore 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. My Thoughts on AI and LLMs
    ×0.21 72 | 11 points by leonardovb 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: You Can Use "Screen Mirroring" in EU on iOS 27 via Xcode and Device Hub
    ×0.41 67 | 4 points by giuliomagnifico 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
    ×2.56 34 | 311 points by jakemanger 2 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What happens when Claude Code goes away?
    ×0.20 97 | 4 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ESP32 p4 pico and IMX477 camera
    ×0.16 104 | 3 points by time-q 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Co-Founder(s). Do I need any? How would I even find them?
    ×0.52 101 | 11 points by bhollan 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Does this mean it's fine to use Claude subscriptions with third party harnesses?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by jakemanger 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Help choosing between AWS ECS and EKS
    ×0.30 98 | 5 points by pigradish 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
    ×0.56 108 | 19 points by learner_yearner 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset
    ×3.15 69 | 73 points by nandakishor_ml 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Claude Desktop Silently Associates with Common Files
    ×0.39 116 | 5 points by 3371 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily?
    ×0.34 111 | 5 points by osr00 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Alternatives to Twitter/X?
    ×0.97 88 | 6 points by throwaway2027 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.51 136 | 13 points by rylando 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What Makes Tokens Expensive?
    ×0.26 134 | 3 points by mtokarski 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties?
    ×0.17 137 | 4 points by cpsk 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (prinzai.com)
    ×2.32 3 #11 | 283 points by nsoonhui 11 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Cyclomatic Complexity in C# (ndepend.com)
    ×0.73 68 #41 | 73 points by gone35 22 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Computers turn 1's and 0's into Text and Images [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by dadawei 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Waymo in Singapore (waymo.com)
    ×1.96 39 | 121 points by ramanan 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM) (byteshape.com)
    ×1.06 49 | 102 points by syntaxing 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. New wild cat species discovered – with only one known living member (bbc.com)
    ×1.27 53 | 64 points by drgo 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Free game to destroy any web page (page-rage.com)
    ×4.96 78 | 18 points by alexreardon 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions (scmp.com)
    ×2.85 9 #61 | 140 points by yogthos 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. CNN, MS NOW and Politico denied access to White House after Trump 'ban' (cnn.com)
    ×2.07 43 | 3 points by thm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization (github.com/Tombert)
    ×2.19 24 | 88 points by tombert 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Founder.best – Help your product get found by AI, not just Google (founder.best)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by NimeshikaP 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Google will no longer satisfy Zero Data Retention through OpenRouter routing (reddit.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse (iankduncan.com)
    ×4.88 29 | 228 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Microsoft, OpenAI lose fight to hide internal docs admitting scraping is theft (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.48 68 | 53 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: AutoBot – live voice control for long-running AI work (github.com/demeyer1)
    ×0.85 82 | 19 points by demeyer1 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Open-source passive NFC tag that signs with ECDSA, verified on-chain (github.com/mwbpNFTechnology)
    ×1.11 135 | 9 points by boust16 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Linting 216 public Claude Code skills – 69% won't reliably trigger (skillcrossroads.com)
    ×1.51 131 | 3 points by sgharlow 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing (lispbm.com)
    ×0.64 59 #64 | 32 points by so-cal-schemer 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. From Geometry to Algebra and Back Again: 4000 Years of Papers (2023) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.66 49 #80 | 44 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (nvidia.com)
    ×3.90 10 #90 | 961 points by nonmaskable 2 days ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Don't Just Say Hello (nohello.net)
    ×3.16 63 | 76 points by ninju 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (jock.pl)
    ×0.77 74 | 80 points by joozio 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. SDCC – Small Device C Compiler (sourceforge.net)
    ×0.92 23 #24 | 115 points by lioeters 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Jev vs. XGBoost and Bert (explainx.ai)
    ×1.66 | 2 points by cagz 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Multi-agent workflows to reproduce error logs and open PRs (nishantjani.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by nishantjani10 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built a PDF accessibility checker that is cross platform (github.com/visionably)
    ×0.94 115 | 3 points by yashbhatnagar 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Free Tournament Bracket Maker and Generator (snapbracket.com)
    ×0.91 118 | 3 points by littlelight 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.70 59 #40 | 101 points by rochansinha 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. New England RetroFest and the Maine Vintage Computer Society (goto10retro.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by rbanffy 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Dassi – Control desktop Chrome to automate web tasks (dassi.ai)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by imvyarqoyzcuem 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue (koreajoongangdaily.com)
    ×4.58 55 | 322 points by throw7 22 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September (nats.aero)
    ×0.68 47 | 56 points by asplake 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Talos – A personal agent whose kernel gates every tool call (github.com/talos-kernel)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by kurdman_007 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer's study due to Trump cuts (theguardian.com)
    ×2.46 59 | 3 points by hn_acker 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Pentagon weighs pulling nearly a third of U.S. forces from Europe (nbcnews.com)
    ×4.30 59 | 79 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app (flat.social)
    ×0.86 64 | 97 points by pawelwentpawel 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: ManyBot – Framework to build WhatsApp bots, without the boring part (manybot.org)
    ×0.50 119 | 9 points by synt-xerror 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: A map of 68 programs and jobs in AI safety research (cleverhack.com)
    ×0.40 129 | 3 points by jlark77777 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him (nytimes.com)
    ×2.81 18 #82 | 309 points by saimiam 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. You could have built Jev (sgnt.ai)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by baobabKoodaa 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, -58.3% thinking, x1.95 speed, accuracy of xhigh (huggingface.co)
    ×2.26 95 | 29 points by kisjovan 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them (medium.com)
    ×5.05 55 | 52 points by Bitu79 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek (linguisticdiscovery.com)
    ×1.31 59 #60 | 184 points by axiologist 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die (github.com/jasonepage)
    ×0.69 61 #87 | 10 points by jpage2 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The scourge of x86 emulation (fex-emu.com)
    ×1.73 6 | 285 points by dagmx 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments (wolfstreet.com)
    ×4.67 | 149 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Repodify: Make Podcasts Out of Podcasts (repodify.app)
    ×1.76 121 | 4 points by runnr_az 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (hartnup.uk)
    ×6.16 #2 | 920 points by ereiamjh 9 hours ago | 555 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.91 39 #43 | 228 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite (withcapsule.app)
    ×1.70 65 | 377 points by bashtian 4 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I made a browser tool that creates newspaper and book text match cuts (papereffects.site)
    ×1.93 109 | 5 points by AhmedDionic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks (github.com/ordewell)
    ×0.66 93 | 54 points by ac-ciano 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It (arxiv.org)
    ×1.53 61 #56 | 6 points by amichail 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Astra for Law (openai.com)
    ×2.39 4 #74 | 574 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 677 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Mac Mini Alternatives for Local LLMs: M6, M5 and Strix Halo (terminalbytes.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Infillion Buys Foursquare (dealroom.co)
    ×2.39 31 | 4 points by edent 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Live honeypot telemetry – 941K attack events, 160 countries (lurescope.com)
    ×1.59 123 | 4 points by lurescope 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum (github.com/mindbox77)
    ×1.20 3 #4 | 103 points by graemep 4 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.53 1 #5 | 113 points by ksec 4 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Loss. a tiny satire about AI progress (workatloss.com)
    ×1.80 105 | 38 points by pbobak 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. One engineer shipped 2k PRs a month to production. Verification is the key (thenewstack.io)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by geoffbp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: VOSR 2 image upscaling, in the browser (getemerald.co)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by gangster_dave 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes (science.org)
    ×1.44 18 #53 | 217 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Stepfun Step 5 Preview (LLM): On AA Pareto frontier (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.55 58 #70 | 14 points by AnodicElegy 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by jonbaer 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. FAA to launch AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by drknownuffin 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. In 2024 I fine-tuned an LLM. Jev could have removed the side quests (kasra.blog)
    ×1.58 8 | 3 points by jc4p 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early (reproof.app)
    ×0.65 13 #27 | 27 points by maguay 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Paris probes smart glasses use for suspected sexual harassment (siliconrepublic.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by eustoria 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four (reuters.com)
    ×7.69 49 | 193 points by wslh 20 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult (bsky.app)
    ×9.44 81 | 60 points by olalonde 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???