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  1. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.64 9 | 567 points by _-x-_ 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GitHub Alternatives?
    ×0.84 5 | 8 points by krthr 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing and retiring annual plans
    ×0.59 26 | 6 points by websku 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Can you tell the difference between Claude Sonnet and Opus?
    ×0.41 76 | 4 points by muddi900 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: RedHat for Personal Use
    ×0.36 85 | 4 points by bozdemir 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.98 88 | 95 points by LatencyKills 3 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?
    ×0.86 107 | 18 points by dwa3592 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Anyone want to collaborate on a local-first AI-based research assistant
    ×0.19 110 | 4 points by venkatram-s 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are you concerned by TLS-terminating proxies like Cloudflare Tunnels?
    ×0.72 86 | 4 points by thom-gtdp 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Consider GNU/Linux?
    ×0.44 95 | 3 points by xlmnxp 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript
    ×0.71 101 | 15 points by g48ywsJk6w48 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How I find a job where what is needed is solid code, not firefighting?
    ×1.03 83 | 20 points by speeder 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS
    ×0.47 145 | 7 points by lifeisstillgood 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How did the industry settle on weekly limits?
    ×0.68 117 | 12 points by saratogacx 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.83 128 | 34 points by langs 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Batteries Included CLI Framework
    ×0.39 132 | 9 points by maxalbarello 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?
    ×0.58 123 | 13 points by visox 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?
    ×2.85 105 | 22 points by fandorin 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?
    ×0.62 121 | 9 points by samarthv 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Which is Better–Android or iOS?
    ×0.97 91 | 11 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Oh, What Places to Go (Seriously Tho)
    ×0.86 115 | 11 points by thx 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.69 129 | 48 points by 019 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded
    ×1.94 137 | 17 points by vintagedave 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?
    ×1.31 147 | 10 points by Erndob 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
    ×0.64 127 | 27 points by honungsburk 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.81 141 | 25 points by AG25 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?
    ×0.84 139 | 8 points by Haeuserschlucht 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.70 150 | 30 points by burnt-resistor 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
    ×1.40 133 | 23 points by wasimsk 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?
    ×1.55 130 | 10 points by hamiecod 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking
    ×0.73 136 | 22 points by mfi 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?
    ×2.44 131 | 29 points by lyfeninja 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?
    ×0.63 143 | 13 points by coreyp_1 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Can non-developer build commercial products with AI
    ×1.14 161 | 10 points by rkorlimarla 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?
    ×1.72 135 | 16 points by zkid18 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?
    ×1.74 140 | 15 points by namegulf 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What to Expect in 2030s?
    ×2.01 92 | 15 points by alexander2002 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud (techzine.eu)
    ×4.32 31 #41 | 287 points by benterix 6 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. My husband and son dived to see the wreck of the Titanic, and never came back (theguardian.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by makerdiety 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Smolvm
    ×0.93 | 1 points by fukuzaki 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I'm open-sourcing an AI gateway/control layer what should it become? (orionslock.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by Edward9055 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The origin of human eyes traces back to an ancient "cyclops" (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by yusufaytas 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad (github.com/Hanqaqa)
    ×1.23 5 #3 | 131 points by Hanqaqa 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings (github.com/garritfra)
    ×0.88 28 #35 | 78 points by garritfra 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024 (aschmelyun.com)
    ×1.10 33 #38 | 86 points by xupybd 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built a reference site for the recurring hard problems in software (thehardparts.dev)
    ×2.51 61 | 7 points by ludovicianul 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. You have to have an account to read IMDB reviews now (reddit.com)
    ×2.84 17 #43 | 22 points by Markoff 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Zero-config Go heap profiling (coroot.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by valyala 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good (routerjockey.com)
    ×4.25 49 | 92 points by tonhe 8 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: #1 On This Day (onthisday-theta.vercel.app)
    ×5.16 134 | 18 points by starzmustdie 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (github.com/WeebLabs)
    ×1.47 7 #21 | 236 points by BoingBoomTschak 12 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Electrostatics and High Voltage Links (amasci.com)
    ×0.50 70 #50 | 38 points by ludicrousdispla 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Revocation of X.509 Certificates (apnic.net)
    ×0.70 51 #81 | 48 points by jandeboevrie 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Duckville, a persistent-world life SIM where you're a duck (duckville.town)
    ×1.56 158 | 4 points by stfurkan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Kaniop – Kubernetes Operator for Kanidm (github.com/pando85)
    ×1.42 165 | 4 points by pando85 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
    ×6.62 22 | 1160 points by milkglass 1 day ago | 828 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (gnupg.org)
    ×1.23 55 | 172 points by zdkaster 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Algorithmic String Art, accessible to all (string-loom.pages.dev)
    ×0.91 160 | 15 points by s_e__a___n 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Pdfnative-MCP – Model Context Protocol server for the pdfnative engine (npmjs.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by nizoka 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them (road.cc)
    ×3.89 4 | 240 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: SherifDB, a databe written in Golang under 500 LOC (emmanuel326.github.io)
    ×0.87 169 | 3 points by Nya-kundi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: WhiskeySour – A 10x faster drop-in replacement for BeautifulSoup
    ×2.40 142 | 8 points by ayas_behera 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
    ×3.96 4 #49 | 802 points by koshyjohn 1 day ago | 563 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Welcome to the World of Machine Audiences (economist.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by paulpauper 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: MyFriendlyWallet – a wallet running 54 chains on Cloudflare Workers (myfriendlywallet.io)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by sebjornstad 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft (ft.com)
    ×1.81 17 | 107 points by donsupreme 20 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025) (fosdem.org)
    ×0.66 66 | 59 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience (github.com/RivoLink)
    ×1.25 108 | 45 points by RivoLink 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.52 28 #18 | 24 points by Vigier 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Low-Dose Aspirin Usage for Primary Prevention Has Fallen by >50% Since 2018 (epicresearch.org)
    ×1.22 53 #84 | 36 points by salkahfi 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Version Sentinel – Claude Code plugin that blocks outdated dependency installs (github.com/KSEGIT)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by dupadupa234 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Play on your TV using mobile phones as controllers – PadlessBox (padlessbox.com)
    ×3.11 111 | 8 points by b4rtaz__ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Networking changes coming in macOS 27 (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.31 7 #8 | 158 points by pvtmert 5 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: Will fixed applications become a thing of the past with agentic AI?
    ×1.16 34 | 4 points by ex-aws-dude 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Building apps for single purpose, always on iPhones 6 (twitter.com/angadsg)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by angadsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers (quarkdown.com)
    ×2.14 8 #27 | 220 points by amai 12 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I analyzed 571M Amazon reviews to find the most profanity-filled customer rants (burla-cloud.github.io)
    ×1.42 40 #37 | 26 points by jmp1062 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist (Health Intelligence) (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Klutch MCP: control your credit card programmatically via Claud (klutchcard.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by renatost 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
    ×3.38 27 | 355 points by gasull 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ex-GitHub CTO on Git internals (twitter.com/tnm)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by conormccarter 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bubbles (bubbles.town)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by sonicrocketman 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Rick and Morty Tried to Warn Us About Agentic AI (jadarma.github.io)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by tymscar 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CETaS Paper – From Cybercrime to Vibercrime? (turing.ac.uk)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by susan_segfault 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Copilot Student GPT-5.3-Codex removal from model picker (github.blog)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by uncognic 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Draw Together Online (vidzert.com)
    ×1.91 114 | 10 points by vidzert 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tokenmaxxing Isn't an AI Strategy (theregister.com)
    ×1.39 16 | 3 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Peril of Piloting Ships Through the Strait of Hormuz (nytimes.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Logic Designer – Webapp (logic-designer.github.io)
    ×1.48 100 | 5 points by logic-designer 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Odozi – open-source iOS journaling app (odozi.app)
    ×2.21 149 | 6 points by jlarks32 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???