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  1. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
    ×2.72 32 #41 | 44 points by petecooper 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.42 33 | 4 points by spicygum 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
    ×2.82 43 | 606 points by rzk 3 days ago | 742 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.25 69 | 4 points by parthdesai 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.77 36 | 283 points by petecooper 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.36 65 | 12 points by Mobius01 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.29 72 | 14 points by masterchief166 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.52 75 | 7 points by ovudus 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.37 81 | 11 points by aledevv 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Firefox Auto-Run on Windows
    ×0.41 98 | 3 points by BubbleRings 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.28 64 | 10 points by bigwheels 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.52 68 | 17 points by shakshukan 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old
    ×1.07 67 | 12 points by kaveh808 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Financial Audit of DuckDuckGo?
    ×0.57 83 | 8 points by giantg2 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×1.08 90 | 15 points by lualover 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×0.87 105 | 25 points by Stitch4223 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What's the biologic equivalent of allowing any two cells to communicate?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by datas 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do you know Bitbucket are chaning their SSH endpoints?
    ×0.18 162 | 4 points by mcrmonkey 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
    ×0.46 137 | 21 points by okr 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. TI C66X / Ad Sharc+ Decompilers
    ×0.70 132 | 5 points by kavinsky777 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What should I use instead of Firefox on Android?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by trystrawberries 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day
    ×0.31 116 | 10 points by kinj28 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Wikipedia going to be obsolete soon?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.44 123 | 9 points by thechairman12 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share?
    ×0.68 128 | 9 points by erelong 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. GCP Europe-West2 Outage
    ×2.29 100 | 31 points by jack7e 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: I picked up knitting while waiting for my AI agent to complete
    ×1.08 153 | 10 points by amelius 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why HN dosen't have bot problem?
    ×0.80 142 | 8 points by solarpunk_enthu 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Time to read those programming books?
    ×0.17 127 | 5 points by blinkbat 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What happened to open weights models?
    ×0.34 152 | 5 points by sparse-Matrix 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you cap what your coding agents can spend?
    ×0.43 163 | 4 points by Twirled 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Can LeetCode (or similar) keep critical thinking sharp in the AI era?
    ×0.31 125 | 6 points by ML0037 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What do you hate the most about GitHub Actions?
    ×0.32 138 | 4 points by Bnjoroge 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Are there any programming positions that are safe from AI?
    ×0.49 130 | 5 points by marcAKAmarc 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. CPU-native. Deterministic. O(1) processes. – the Old New Coolness
    ×0.13 | 2 points by KathiaGatterer 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Revolut down – Global ATM withdrawals and bank transfers failing
    ×1.72 113 | 15 points by TomAnthony 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like?
    ×0.31 155 | 4 points by otherayden 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better
    ×0.47 160 | 13 points by asen 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: CertAvert – Free SSL/TLS tools and certificate expiry alerts (certavert.com)
    ×1.12 86 | 4 points by asiliev20 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Renor – private memory for coding agents, shared across tools over MCP (github.com/patrickpassosb)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by patrickpassosbb 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. OpenAI CLI (github.com/openai)
    ×1.81 5 #17 | 167 points by armcat 7 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.20 8 #81 | 398 points by gumby 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Turn a CSV or Google Sheet into a Remote MCP Server (datatomcp.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by Killian1603 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF? (dovepass.com)
    ×0.41 89 | 22 points by nimitmehra 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Beyond the & (lwn.net)
    ×0.99 38 #26 | 83 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. OLED Burn-In Hasn't Improved Like We Expected [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by ksec 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Rule of 2 (googlesource.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery (yale.edu)
    ×2.20 30 | 318 points by speckx 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro (pagetable.com)
    ×1.42 40 #51 | 221 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed (kaba.cx)
    ×2.23 28 #87 | 401 points by kabakabakaba 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine (wsj.com)
    ×15.06 58 | 114 points by jaredwiener 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal (simedw.com)
    ×2.53 3 #5 | 321 points by alphax314 8 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Passkeys Attestation Trap (mjtsai.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by renehsz 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Techlash Is Coming (liberalcurrents.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by cdrnsf 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. GVisor forgot to move one queue when it randomized memory, and sandboxes hung (catchkill9.dev)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by lnahum 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Yana – A local-first, human-governed AI runtime and IDE in Rust (github.com/yanacuti1121)
    ×2.25 129 | 8 points by vutam 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Diplomatic Ways to Critique AI Slop (seascapemodels.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by sebg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out (php.net)
    ×4.70 26 | 277 points by timvdalen 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build (ieee.org)
    ×0.76 27 #16 | 28 points by bojackh 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. PHP 8.2.35 (github.com/php)
    ×3.98 22 #37 | 1047 points by tuyuri 23 hours ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Visual cdecl – edit a C declaration as English, code, or a graph (avestura.dev)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by avestura 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. What Is the Karakoram Anomaly? (nsidc.org)
    ×0.82 39 #21 | 51 points by thunderbong 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash (theverge.com)
    ×5.27 25 #54 | 196 points by babelfish 13 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Automattic begins layoffs following board upheaval and executive departures (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.35 41 | 3 points by RobotToaster 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” (duckdb.org)
    ×1.92 15 #27 | 435 points by nnx 23 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.80 60 #73 | 142 points by unprovable 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Kansas farm equipment factory will put humanoid robots to work in 2027 (techspot.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by speckx 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Toli – Let Claude Code on one computer work with Codex on another (github.com/arjunvlama)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by alama24 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Tablesample Picks Rows (boringsql.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military (bbc.com)
    ×3.90 10 | 124 points by saikatsg 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea (rumple.github.io)
    ×1.31 18 #18 | 123 points by jimauthors 11 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data (openai.com)
    ×1.01 40 #53 | 149 points by raahelb 23 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: EDM – pick a track and a transformer generates a DJ set, track-by-track (electronicdjmodel.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by AlatAnmoku 19 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Most advice is right for the person giving it (coached.com)
    ×1.50 4 | 145 points by rohanm93 23 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake (legendofhyrule.com)
    ×1.62 80 | 225 points by jsomau 4 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Clerkenwell – A Handwritten Clojure Notebook (danieljanus.pl)
    ×0.83 93 | 27 points by nathell 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.66 26 #28 | 67 points by entryleveljobsc 1 hour ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I own a relatively new (2025) Samsung TV. I kept getting weirdly targeted ads (twitter.com/log4j)
    ×3.00 24 #52 | 13 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Qpack amplification attacks against HTTP/3 servers (foxio.io)
    ×0.96 44 #84 | 27 points by kozika 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release (php.net)
    ×6.06 56 | 136 points by choult 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The space shuttle Discovery, the S in Discovery is upside down (theautopian.com)
    ×1.95 30 | 3 points by mauvehaus 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. eMudhra 1FA OTP Login Bypass (catgirl.cloud)
    ×3.16 50 | 5 points by majorchord 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A map of 44 tools that make AI agents' API calls reliable (okapi.bot)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by stosssik 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai (polygonjs.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by frading 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Agent skills that teach agent SRE practices from Google's SRE books (github.com/paulip114)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by paulip114 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Lumabri – Run large AI models across your computers and servers.Pure C (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by vforno 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Quarantine – Simple error isolation and replay for Python data pipeline (github.com/halcyon-past)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by halcyon-past 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: How do you prevent PII leaks in multi-tenant systems?
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Securelytixdev 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 1 in 10 members of Congress traded stocks in companies their committees oversee (kadoa.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by hubraumhugo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP (ncsc.nl)
    ×2.62 15 | 270 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???