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  1. Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset
    ×0.94 23 | 5 points by nandakishor_ml 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.44 76 #83 | 372 points by david927 3 days ago | 1175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by cpsk 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
    ×0.54 77 | 12 points by learner_yearner 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x
    ×0.50 73 | 5 points by Marciok 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27
    ×0.51 98 | 14 points by lucasoshiro 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker because of AI?
    ×0.91 75 | 12 points by rizsyed1 19 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.65 126 | 12 points by rylando 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. We struggled with DevOps, so built a open source agentic platform just for this
    ×0.10 | 2 points by abmuhammadhamza 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.40 121 | 16 points by amichail 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A mnemonic-free wallet where the private key never leaves the phone's TEE
    ×0.19 128 | 3 points by niumeta_TZ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×2.09 86 | 73 points by nunez 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Started Learning Pentesting
    ×0.16 152 | 3 points by muzan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why serialize documents to disk instead of memory-mapping runtime state?
    ×0.85 135 | 3 points by ShengATsao 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock
    ×0.11 | 2 points by timedude 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down
    ×0.22 131 | 4 points by alt_tab 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.84 115 | 61 points by stikit 4 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.17 153 | 4 points by Aditya_0315 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. SuperColoring – a simple crossword generator for learning and fun
    ×0.26 144 | 3 points by irusik 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Where is all of the AI coded software?
    ×0.88 110 | 8 points by wNjdbfm 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Working on Plug and Play personal AI Memory that works across AI agents
    ×0.28 150 | 3 points by heysrb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why 17?
    ×0.76 117 | 7 points by tonyvince7 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Saving Jet Fuel (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.16 57 #68 | 133 points by marklit 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: YOLO FPS-per-dollar numbers for edge AI boards ($75-$215) (github.com/chorylee)
    ×1.48 91 | 4 points by chorylee 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks (github.com/ordewell)
    ×0.63 78 | 51 points by ac-ciano 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Voice AI that runs on CPUs (lokutor.com)
    ×1.83 138 | 4 points by lokutor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server (watchtowr.com)
    ×1.19 10 #10 | 42 points by paimapi 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state (economist.com)
    ×1.59 20 | 3 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Field notes from a phone-free future (etymology.substack.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by inatreecrown2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Over 12% of links posted to Hacker News are Show HN projects now (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×1.82 67 | 94 points by oyster143 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Hacker News, without AI (hcker.news)
    ×2.52 97 | 207 points by postalcoder 5 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How the Watch_Dogs Video Game Series Predicted Real World Digital Rights Issues (eff.org)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by xeonmc 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped (josprague.com)
    ×1.08 54 | 154 points by yosito 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (xiaomi.com)
    ×2.63 1 #6 | 395 points by krackers 10 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster (linum.ai)
    ×0.88 47 #36 | 49 points by schopra909 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.98 42 #39 | 51 points by spathak 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Webhook Proxy – Fail-safe logging and 1-click retries for webhooks (webhook-proxy-zeta.vercel.app)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by MAHADDD 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I built a Mac app to make technical PDF textbooks easier to study (marginstudy.app)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by alricsiu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.46 53 | 116 points by Brajeshwar 11 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I built a tiny camera that knows where it is (mightycamera.com)
    ×1.07 129 | 5 points by asadm 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A Zoomable Equal-Area Map Projection that interpolates to Mercator (benjoffe.com)
    ×1.71 142 | 4 points by benjoffe 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit (reddit.com)
    ×5.54 46 | 147 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview (marc.info)
    ×0.92 57 | 123 points by sippingabonedry 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior." (dayzlegame.com)
    ×4.04 9 | 77 points by nickabe 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: SeasonMap – when to travel where? visualized with climate data (seasonmap.app)
    ×0.82 56 | 13 points by alongtheflow 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Collected every single "What are you working on" project into a website (reachpad.app)
    ×0.94 80 | 3 points by sakuraiben 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Put an AI agent on a FaceTime audio/video call (open source, WebRTC) (github.com/cherthq)
    ×0.97 96 | 3 points by garygao 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning (madshrimps.be)
    ×3.80 88 | 53 points by perelin 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
    ×1.90 5 #7 | 190 points by afilipovski 9 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. OpenAI reveals six more safety issues and unveils plan to disclose incidents (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.00 34 | 3 points by dr_scully 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. PC ports of old console games are the new AI vibe coding battleground (pcgamer.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by FMecha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Chonkstep: A traditional floating compositor for Omarchy (github.com/iconidentify)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by temphaaa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Texio, reliable Markdown operations for shell scripts and AI agents (github.com/Allra-Fintech)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by yuzong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Is Physics Dead: Broken benchmarks and re-evaluating frontier models in physics (jsous.github.io)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by teleforce 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
    ×2.43 1 #9 | 489 points by signa11 15 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Quire – Humans and AI agents edit local Markdown together (github.com/heetdalsania)
    ×1.56 28 | 3 points by heet_dalsania 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: DeadLock OS – A Linux terminal puzzle game (crazygames.com)
    ×1.10 139 | 3 points by devejesus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Hazzel — a tiny, transparent coding agent for your terminal (github.com/mukundzha)
    ×2.45 127 | 5 points by mukundzha6 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com/vinnylarouge)
    ×1.58 18 #26 | 113 points by rochansinha 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.25 14 #47 | 167 points by mococa 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why Canada may become the European Union's first ever 'associate member' (theconversation.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by emptybits 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design (formas.ai)
    ×0.77 61 | 113 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Open-source passive NFC tag that signs with ECDSA, verified on-chain (github.com/mwbpNFTechnology)
    ×1.12 111 | 9 points by boust16 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Talk to Claude – voice agent designs, plans, builds across all projects (github.com/ethanplusai)
    ×1.43 148 | 3 points by ethanplusai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (jock.pl)
    ×0.75 44 #56 | 72 points by joozio 18 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Shakespeare Skill: Make agents sound like William Shakespeare characters (github.com/cookiengineer)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by cookiengineer 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Faster Louder Brighter How the attention economy overwhelmed children's TV (theguardian.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by rdmuser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet (404media.co)
    ×5.98 29 | 229 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality (dallincrump.com)
    ×3.93 36 | 185 points by speckx 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Kaflow Search – A desktop tool for locally indexed Kafka message search (whsoul-tools.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by whsoul 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com)
    ×3.02 4 #5 | 25 points by jakeasmith 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Snail shell can act a natural archive of weather and landscape changes (ansto.gov.au)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by rdmuser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go (cloudx.ai)
    ×0.76 42 #61 | 68 points by peterldowns 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Panel – A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes (github.com/greentfrapp)
    ×0.48 76 | 52 points by greentfrapp 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Claude Meter – a macOS menu-bar meter for Claude's usage limits (github.com/sanchitkd)
    ×1.27 146 | 3 points by sanchitkd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. ASCII City (asciicity.live)
    ×2.23 42 | 13 points by anjel 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Bodily Oddities (vester.si)
    ×1.89 92 | 341 points by vesterde 6 days ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space (github.com/browser-use)
    ×1.83 14 #23 | 21 points by rahimnathwani 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents (axios.com)
    ×2.73 1 #66 | 25 points by toomuchtodo 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Can we stop with the uptime percentages? (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.03 21 #77 | 137 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Everybody's Lost Their Minds (netmeister.org)
    ×4.15 5 #79 | 13 points by HotGarbage 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. iOS 27.2 Could Save Your Marriage (macrumors.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' (bbc.com)
    ×6.02 70 | 659 points by hackernj 21 hours ago | 838 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Kival – A self-hosted knowledge system for organizations (github.com/selemis-com)
    ×1.86 95 | 5 points by zerosnacks 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Visual HTML – a source-preserving WYSIWYG editor for AI-generated HTML (kong75.github.io)
    ×3.13 122 | 6 points by kong75 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
    ×1.53 40 #51 | 203 points by luu 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app (oldmanrahul.com)
    ×0.79 32 #57 | 31 points by oldmanrahul 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. William Buckland's Theology of Geology (historytoday.com)
    ×0.05 89 #72 | 4 points by Petiver 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? (tintotint.eu)
    ×1.48 64 | 143 points by _ZeD_ 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???