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  1. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.42 29 #66 | 423 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 829 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish
    ×1.17 13 | 6 points by neilv 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.53 93 | 6 points by jopizio 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle
    ×0.49 | 2 points by pranshuchittora 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×1.06 39 | 28 points by zcalvin 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.30 101 | 293 points by mlaux 5 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by conqrr 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out?
    ×1.12 78 | 11 points by jackgavigan 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.34 111 | 15 points by amina124 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion
    ×0.20 117 | 4 points by yash_salesup 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Google now ships "ads" with their Android system update?
    ×0.34 109 | 10 points by y42 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.43 137 | 34 points by shriy-singh 6 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.49 126 | 19 points by will10pa 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.33 153 | 14 points by sathomasga 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address
    ×0.28 150 | 7 points by luckman212 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Management is forcing us to use AI
    ×0.66 116 | 20 points by aksjfveoq 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?
    ×0.20 154 | 4 points by variety8675 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over (derekthompson.org)
    ×4.34 18 | 812 points by barry-cotter 1 day ago | 721 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Firebase SDK is crashing all iOS apps since this morning (twitter.com/GergelyOrosz)
    ×3.71 64 | 132 points by pranshuchittora 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Claude Says (ohhfishal.net)
    ×2.94 63 | 66 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Domainpuff.com – Find memorable domain names within your budget (domainpuff.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by brunoelylemon 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS (tomshardware.com)
    ×5.51 18 | 384 points by mywacaday 1 day ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.03 5 #3 | 98 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.95 85 #53 | 93 points by primitivesuave 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Uber Wait Times Rise 19% as Prices Climb 53%: Study (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.85 37 #61 | 12 points by richardbarosky 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.45 27 #69 | 1045 points by crorella 1 day ago | 927 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Readable Regular Expressions for JavaScript/TypeScript, Inspired by Emacs' Rx (rahuljuliato.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by RahulMJ 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Vast-10M (voltropy.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by amirhirsch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (anthropic.com)
    ×5.42 25 | 244 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Clx 0.4.0 – native compiler for Lua (samyeyo.github.io)
    ×1.10 130 | 3 points by _samt_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Bough, Visualize your vibe coded project: progress, time, cost and more (github.com/nickelsec)
    ×0.97 141 | 3 points by nikhilkxmar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry (amutable.com)
    ×0.49 52 #33 | 16 points by Levitating 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. USPS to Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for 'Community Safety' (404media.co)
    ×3.56 34 #88 | 9 points by dualvariable 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Invisible XML (2025) (xml.com)
    ×1.44 8 | 6 points by devonnull 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom (thenationalnews.com)
    ×6.07 23 | 218 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)
    ×3.68 53 | 201 points by Thom2503 12 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev) (sezwhere.com)
    ×1.87 98 | 19 points by irs 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Social news aggregator, RSS feed tracker, and publishing platform (rsscal.com)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by Dotnaught 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Rivian: LiDAR R2 reaches customers in 2027, employees get it this year (electrek.co)
    ×1.61 1 | 3 points by cisc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Jev predicts every plate appearance of the 2026 MLB postseason (bitgraph.ing)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by mikeargento 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Gitea 28.0 (gitea.com)
    ×1.68 21 #28 | 57 points by porridgeraisin 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
    ×0.51 33 #38 | 14 points by OlympicMarmoto 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com/mogrinz)
    ×0.96 10 #41 | 65 points by mogrinz 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
    ×1.18 20 #44 | 73 points by dancablam 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)
    ×0.90 89 #51 | 3 points by sshah03 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report (prospect.org)
    ×3.99 30 #56 | 27 points by paimapi 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: BreachProbe, find out if your app leaks its database (thecompound.tech)
    ×0.58 90 | 3 points by kyisaiah47 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Enterprise Postgres for AI and more, from prototype to production (pgedge.com)
    ×2.32 136 | 7 points by bonesmoses 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Dear Software Makers (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.88 6 #11 | 47 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Turbo Haskell (reddit.com)
    ×3.14 47 #74 | 9 points by simonmic 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)
    ×1.15 75 | 129 points by henrychannel 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer (github.com/bertaye)
    ×0.67 142 | 37 points by bertaye 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose (lathoa.ai)
    ×1.16 11 #21 | 14 points by thanouil1411 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (wiley.com)
    ×0.70 18 #34 | 53 points by croes 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.24 42 #78 | 145 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Parasitic Computing (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com/magnitudedev)
    ×0.90 8 #5 | 115 points by anerli 5 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy (daringfireball.net)
    ×6.56 62 #72 | 45 points by danaris 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Adding Giscus to Your Hugo Site – Hayden's Blog (mrhaydendp.com)
    ×0.45 70 #89 | 4 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Building big things in the U.S. is hard. A Senate deal aims to fix that (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by scythe 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs (reuters.com)
    ×7.49 72 | 137 points by 6thbit 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.65 91 | 861 points by MitPitt 1 week ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records (faav.net)
    ×2.17 1 #20 | 235 points by luispa 10 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The data center buildout, county by county (pressaudit.org)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by SLHamlet 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez (2014) (techrepublic.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by bananaboy 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How many hats are in the world? (hat.observer)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by civilchaos 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Scientific Case for Being Less in Touch with Your Friends (nytimes.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by gumby 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Qc: Video quality check and h264/HEVC/av1 ladder optimization (github.com/eko)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by eko 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.21 12 #82 | 747 points by plesiv 1 day ago | 695 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Distillation Defenses Easily Break After Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by ollybritton 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. China's 2,250kW chargers are in service, US thinks about 750kW next year (electrek.co)
    ×4.13 48 | 7 points by cisc 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Origin: Computer Science Not About Computers, Astronomy Not About Telescopes (quoteinvestigator.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by pcfwik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Jylus – give AI systems evidence from changing data. (jylus.ai)
    ×1.81 133 | 6 points by JoshJH 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (thespacereview.com)
    ×2.13 #2 | 64 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.40 81 #60 | 339 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Airbnb Backfire (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. It's the Kernel's Fault! Custom Page Fault Handling With bpf_fault (acm.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support (droprun.sh)
    ×1.19 122 | 193 points by mixedbit 1 week ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter (github.com/dsummersl)
    ×0.98 131 | 74 points by 91awebsi 1 week ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A crypto trading demo using WebGPU and QuestDB (scitrader.io)
    ×0.88 105 | 3 points by abtgraphics 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: We built a way for web apps to message users' phones without SMS (thenotifier.app)
    ×2.37 110 | 7 points by bubbamack 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Commit description as a thinking tool (yedhu.me)
    ×1.18 10 #30 | 103 points by yedhukrishnan 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Stacking Oranges in 24 Dimensions (empirical.health)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by brandonb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The AI Race Just Got Awkward (insufferable.dev)
    ×7.79 88 | 366 points by allisdust 7 hours ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.70 11 | 295 points by dmux 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability (electrek.co)
    ×5.89 1 | 147 points by ciconia 18 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Meta's new AI agent built lists of people in vulnerable groups on request (hntrbrk.com)
    ×3.16 76 | 85 points by iamacyborg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A goal tracker that looks like a 1983 terminal, drawn in Swift (apple.com)
    ×2.15 115 | 7 points by NSergeevich 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Swatting Calls: A Couple's Fight Against Online Stalkers and the Police (nytimes.com)
    ×2.26 3 | 4 points by nonfamous 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.20 66 | 67 points by ewpratten 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???