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  1. Ask HN: What Is a Skill You're Glad You Learnt Outside of Work?
    ×1.38 37 #75 | 7 points by schappim 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Did someone dig into the JFK files?
    ×0.78 5 #80 | 25 points by ta12653421 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
    ×1.94 16 | 420 points by owendarko 2 days ago | 619 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Is Apple's Self-Repair Program Real?
    ×1.89 37 | 4 points by x0054 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Can't publish on the Play Store without a physical office?
    ×0.39 26 | 6 points by olalonde 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why does OpenAI require an ID to use their image API?
    ×0.79 109 | 4 points by speedylight 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Low Effort but Useful Activities
    ×0.40 66 | 4 points by helloworlddd 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. VC Funds Struggling
    ×1.07 35 | 8 points by kayovin1 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Best audiobooks you've listened to recently? (Cosmic horror/non-fiction)
    ×0.57 83 | 9 points by febed 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
    ×2.34 67 | 108 points by throwaway778 2 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone?
    ×0.57 118 | 43 points by ckemere 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. What If Hacker News Was a Spreadsheet?
    ×1.37 108 | 11 points by annamonaco 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: I am at a loss. What shall I do?
    ×1.83 99 | 31 points by bloomtowns 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Open Sourcing our Startup – AI-powered avatars (UE 5.2)
    ×0.62 128 | 7 points by henryobj 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Pivotal Tracker EOL; Emigrant Stories?
    ×0.12 143 | 3 points by quesera 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Cheapest way to host a back end
    ×1.01 135 | 16 points by Jean-Philipe 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What Programming Skills Will Still Matter in 10 Years?
    ×1.37 106 | 10 points by schappim 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. GPT Code Viewer – Collaborate with ChatGPT on local code (no API keys)
    ×0.49 133 | 6 points by Bumiranks 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The EdTech Chicken and Egg Problem
    ×0.81 147 | 9 points by noemit 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Where are people sharing their blogs these days?
    ×1.05 144 | 30 points by leonheld 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What tools are you using to manage a shared enterprise prompt library?
    ×0.16 137 | 5 points by bredren 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is politeness towards LLMs good training data, or just expensive noise?
    ×0.49 161 | 8 points by scottfalconer 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Running WebAssembly with containerd, crun, and WasmEdge on Kubernetes
    ×0.33 176 | 10 points by sonichigo 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: AI Agent News Aggregator / Reader Idea
    ×0.12 | 2 points by jaypepe 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Do Not Train" Meta Tags: The Robots.txt of AI – Will Anyone Respect Them?
    ×0.55 159 | 4 points by alissa_v 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why so many companies reducing middle management recently?
    ×0.54 158 | 8 points by arduinomancer 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Thoughts on an AI agent that must make money to stay alive?
    ×1.21 153 | 11 points by spenceXu 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Which IT certifications have the highest failure rate and why?
    ×0.29 172 | 7 points by MyrtleD 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Lessons Learned Writing a Book Collaboratively with LLMs
    ×0.89 167 | 16 points by scottfalconer 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do you retain both technical and domain knowledge long-term?
    ×0.33 166 | 4 points by kaushikbose 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Where to Find First Users?
    ×0.29 175 | 7 points by fkhasiyev 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Were early stage products always so buggy?
    ×0.48 177 | 9 points by AbstractH24 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Has anyone used Riak? Thoughts?
    ×0.45 174 | 11 points by ag_rin 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. LLMs can see and hear without any training (github.com/facebookresearch)
    ×1.22 6 #22 | 155 points by T-A 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Built a tool to find deep work that normal PR reviews miss (veritum.ai)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Zoup 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run (atuin.sh)
    ×2.41 49 | 566 points by freetonik 4 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life (github.com/ericjenott)
    ×2.40 72 | 560 points by harryvederci 5 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems (github.com/rowboatlabs)
    ×0.98 110 | 158 points by segmenta 4 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Evidence overturns theories of the origin of water on Earth (ox.ac.uk)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by geox 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials (github.com/The-Pocket)
    ×3.72 82 | 896 points by zh2408 1 week ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Python’s new t-strings (davepeck.org)
    ×2.88 78 | 612 points by tambourine_man 5 days ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. First and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in Oct 2025 (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.24 40 #89 | 75 points by xattt 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Netflix plans to bring streaming into the $1T club by 2030 (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by ossusermivami 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Stability of optical knots in atmospheric turbulence (nature.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Photo.codes – Free, privacy-first photo editor for the web (photo.codes)
    ×1.11 141 | 3 points by ozdemirdev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Trailmarks – Huge, browser-based, Carmen Sandiego-style travel game (trailmarks.earth)
    ×1.61 156 | 19 points by matsxmats 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers (npr.org)
    ×4.12 7 #27 | 10 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Vatican Railway (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by mickgardner 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" (fxrant.blogspot.com)
    ×3.14 97 | 453 points by CharlesW 6 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: AgenticSeek – Self-hosted Manus alternative (github.com/Fosowl)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by Fosowl 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I made an AI copilot for Maps that answers open-ended map questions (smartmap.space)
    ×2.71 148 | 9 points by shekharupadhaya 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Thank you for holding my duck (2021) (naml.us)
    ×0.83 16 #23 | 65 points by jxmorris12 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. An AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months (theverge.com)
    ×1.52 13 #71 | 13 points by thm 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand (nature.com)
    ×5.39 64 | 8 points by geox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Power laser, low-cost device to neutralise any pest (youtube.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by Christiangmer 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs (googleblog.com)
    ×2.41 88 | 600 points by emrah 6 days ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenAI releases image generation in the API (openai.com)
    ×1.96 1 | 483 points by themanmaran 2 days ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Robot Dexterity Still Seems Hard (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.81 16 #19 | 32 points by mhb 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Differential Coverage for Debugging (swtch.com)
    ×0.67 60 #67 | 64 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 150-Line Go Script Is a Full-On Load Balancer (hackernoon.com)
    ×1.94 | 2 points by ValentineC 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM (github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi)
    ×2.31 94 | 410 points by xfeeefeee 5 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside (theregister.com)
    ×6.04 56 | 343 points by rntn 3 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting (harvard.edu)
    ×2.51 9 #15 | 332 points by 47thpresident 12 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. We still don't use includeAllNetworks (mullvad.net)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by crcastle 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: We made a blazing-fast, open-source GitHub front end (gitfaster.dev)
    ×2.51 112 | 39 points by Arian81 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Document agent example that can parse and chat over unstructured data (github.com/dapr)
    ×1.05 151 | 15 points by yaronsc 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: FundMyServer – Verified micro-sponsorship for indie dev server/API cost (fundmyserver.com)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by sksin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. It's not The Incentives–it's you (talyarkoni.org)
    ×1.88 24 | 3 points by amadeuspagel 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Native visionOS platform support (github.com/godotengine)
    ×2.07 63 | 374 points by whalee 3 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Echo – Open Hardware Music Player (github.com/amachronic)
    ×0.96 63 #59 | 90 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: How the same LLM "instance" serve multiple clients?
    ×0.60 | 1 points by BiraIgnacio 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. They made computers behave like annoying salesmen (exotext.com)
    ×4.45 57 | 292 points by NotInOurNames 3 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Colanode, open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative (github.com/colanode)
    ×1.39 71 | 138 points by hakanshehu 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Keep your PyTorch model in VRAM by hot swapping code (github.com/valine)
    ×0.67 145 | 77 points by valine 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ACM's flagship magazine seeks submissions by/for practitioners (acm.org)
    ×0.81 69 #51 | 48 points by underscoreF 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The True Size Of (thetruesize.com)
    ×1.47 22 #79 | 26 points by thunderbong 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Stochastic-Quantum Theorem and Simulations of Stochastic Processes [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ur-whale 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: E2fsgui – Simple Electron GUI to Access Linux Ext2/3/4 Disks on macOS (github.com/delaneyb)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by bdelaney 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Logiquiz – Daily Self-Referential Puzzles (logiquiz.com)
    ×0.60 79 | 37 points by slig 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fifteen new giant radio galaxies discovered with ASKAP (phys.org)
    ×0.64 22 #43 | 33 points by wglb 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch? (morling.dev)
    ×1.66 42 #61 | 233 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Caning, punishment, and prison: more thoughts (greyenlightenment.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: StackHound - Stop guessing repo's tech stack, analyze it in seconds (stackhound.vercel.app)
    ×0.55 121 | 8 points by lorenzopalaia 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Wiredoor – Securely expose private services (wiredoor.net)
    ×0.96 34 | 6 points by dmesad 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Fix unplayable tracks in Spotify playlists (playlisthospital.com)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by srvaroa 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locally (github.com/morphik-org)
    ×1.31 98 | 195 points by Adityav369 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Lucidia, a WebGL visualizer inspired by Drempels (alana314.github.io)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by alana314 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built a No Code Dockerized MCP Server for any API - AI Agent (github.com/ckanthony)
    ×1.07 170 | 6 points by ckanthony 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP (http-feeds.org)
    ×1.22 31 #16 | 25 points by sea-gold 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: How do you manage multiple Git profiles (GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket)?
    ×0.48 | 1 points by vseplet 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???