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  1. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×1.05 16 | 64 points by moomoo11 3 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.49 8 | 12 points by rtrgrd 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.65 39 | 12 points by incognito124 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How to get an AI to check your schematic
    ×0.30 71 | 3 points by oldguy101 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.25 89 | 16 points by catapart 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project
    ×0.53 72 | 4 points by firefoxd 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?
    ×0.43 62 | 14 points by surume 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.03 88 | 39 points by gusmally 3 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.22 108 | 6 points by jmount 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's the best realtime, local, TTS solution? Live call interpretation
    ×0.49 64 | 6 points by Wright007 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.61 110 | 21 points by tefloon69 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×0.94 76 | 11 points by absoluteunit1 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: LLMs helping you read papers and books
    ×0.44 77 | 5 points by amelius 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.57 121 | 12 points by syx 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities?
    ×1.23 74 | 11 points by orange_puff 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health
    ×0.63 106 | 8 points by kinj28 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.73 90 | 74 points by alexandrehtrb 4 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.47 135 | 6 points by AlePra00 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is OpenClaw a groundbreaking feat, a highly useful product or both?
    ×0.69 66 | 3 points by chirau 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.65 122 | 5 points by b3rkus 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.34 137 | 5 points by kart23 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.29 133 | 6 points by jerlendds 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. ClawdReview – OpenReview for AI Agents
    ×0.39 112 | 5 points by mingtianzhang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Moving My Blog to IPv6 Only Internet
    ×0.94 111 | 6 points by quaintdev 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's You Opinon on XMTP
    ×0.12 | 2 points by julienreszka 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.87 120 | 11 points by falsework 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.55 127 | 8 points by emerongi 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.34 132 | 10 points by nycdatasci 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.66 101 | 32 points by alexdobrenko 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: My OpenClaw doesn't respond. Anybody met with the same problem?
    ×0.50 129 | 4 points by Fendy1 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Anyone else finding the new Gemini Deep Think troublingly sycophantic?
    ×0.64 124 | 5 points by neom 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. We just released Khaos SDK and khaos-examples (BSL 1.1)
    ×0.32 138 | 3 points by exordex 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.42 140 | 5 points by stosssik 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×0.58 141 | 5 points by legitimate_key 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How to build text-to-app platforms?
    ×0.46 146 | 3 points by desperado1 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×0.50 142 | 5 points by tardis_thad 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×0.65 144 | 5 points by arthurlee 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Are productivity gains due to AI hard-sell where you work?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by newsicanuse 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on
    ×0.28 136 | 4 points by hexagonal-sun 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O
    ×0.56 134 | 5 points by Jyotishmoy 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by asmodeuslucifer 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.38 145 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×1.34 131 | 7 points by SunshineTheCat 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.18 | 2 points by mw1 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code (christopherkrapu.com)
    ×1.01 10 #8 | 15 points by mpcsb 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.30 5 #36 | 156 points by mikhael 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Breaking the spell of vibe coding (fast.ai)
    ×3.28 4 #69 | 411 points by arjunbanker 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Switch Codex accounts without leaving the terminal (github.com/oli799)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by oli799 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface (kotaku.com)
    ×3.66 15 | 217 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research (arxiv.org)
    ×0.84 23 #38 | 100 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A Pokémon of a Different Color (verive.me)
    ×1.63 18 | 57 points by Risse 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
    ×0.98 10 #12 | 58 points by luu 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Chinese periodic table goes hard [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by surprisetalk 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone (github.com/alichherawalla)
    ×1.71 20 | 121 points by ali_chherawalla 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Prod.bd – Open-Source Ngrok Alternative Powered by Cloudflare Workers
    ×1.56 115 | 4 points by mrmillon 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Language a Wood for Thought: Susan Howe's Work (poetryfoundation.org)
    ×0.50 43 #49 | 25 points by apollinaire 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (stargazingbuddy.com)
    ×1.07 22 #74 | 117 points by constantinum 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Any mechanism to build for AI-only services to filter off human?
    ×0.58 | 1 points by socrateslee 50 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Azazel – Lightweight eBPF-based malware analysis sandbox using Docker (github.com/beelzebub-labs)
    ×1.01 123 | 3 points by mariocandela 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Logtide – Open-source log management and SIEM for European SMBs (github.com/logtide-dev)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by polliog 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Flixa – MIT-licensed VS Code coding agent with a $4/mo plan (visualstudio.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by imraicdev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state (greenwald.substack.com)
    ×5.89 21 #33 | 871 points by mikece 1 day ago | 598 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. LEDs Enter the Nanoscale, But efficiency hurdles challenge the smallest LEDs yet (ieee.org)
    ×0.58 55 #48 | 35 points by oldnetguy 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction (note.com)
    ×0.84 43 #64 | 92 points by uolmir 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems (speedata.de)
    ×0.70 19 #65 | 19 points by patrickg 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. OpenAI should build Slack (latent.space)
    ×1.84 23 #70 | 246 points by swyx 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Knights of Malta (2024) (economist.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by andsoitis 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending (nytimes.com)
    ×2.46 27 #86 | 49 points by JumpCrisscross 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Claude Rate Widget Native macOS Widget to Monitor Claude Code Limits (github.com/hulryung)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by hulryung 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar (github.com/Geek-1001)
    ×0.98 41 | 88 points by ahmed_sulajman 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Retry script for Oracle Cloud free tier ARM instances
    ×0.45 | 2 points by ekadet 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved (flashpointarchive.org)
    ×1.80 2 #56 | 339 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How to talk to any GitHub repo (theaithinker.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by faikadam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. US Military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations (reuters.com)
    ×5.11 54 | 44 points by mhb 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: ScreenKite: Free alternative to Screen Studio with 4x export speed (screenkite.com)
    ×1.13 126 | 3 points by imWildCat 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library (oat.ink)
    ×3.36 18 #54 | 503 points by twapi 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012) (wordpress.com)
    ×0.91 26 #84 | 92 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: WCAG 2.2 AAA Toolkit – AI Skill for Accessible Web Apps (github.com/simonplmak-cloud)
    ×1.01 81 | 4 points by simonmak 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Terminalcore – The Rhythm Game for PC (terminalcore.vercel.app)
    ×1.12 128 | 3 points by Kejii_2770 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: MicroGPT in 243 Lines – Demystifying the LLM Black Box
    ×2.61 125 | 9 points by madugula 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Is Dark Energy Evolving? (universetoday.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by Betelbuddy 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. What happened to Keyvalue.com? (edit don't know why it became keyvalue.systems) (keyvalue.systems)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by qwertytyyuu 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Move Faster Manifesto (brianguthrie.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by fagnerbrack 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Never mind cod, it's tilapia and chips please (bbc.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by teleforce 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. An open-source AI browser agent [Yamak]
    ×0.55 | 1 points by threos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Droptheslop.ai – pastebin alternative with human typing verification (droptheslop.ai)
    ×4.75 64 | 6 points by parsabg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Katipo is a minimal alternative internet with a Vulkan based browser (github.com/mjdave)
    ×0.67 61 | 3 points by majicDave 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Bubble sort on a Turing machine (github.com/purplejacket)
    ×0.48 83 | 10 points by purplejacket 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
    ×0.92 4 #7 | 55 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found (nytimes.com)
    ×1.37 4 #23 | 70 points by Brajeshwar 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???