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  1. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.36 82 | 33 points by rietta 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.52 46 | 253 points by Animats 6 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.58 71 | 4 points by mattm 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?
    ×0.41 73 | 3 points by julienreszka 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is there any solution to the AI infestation?
    ×0.53 89 | 3 points by yathern 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Reddit saves your keystrokes in text boxes
    ×2.52 18 | 17 points by thomasjeff1 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to know when Claude has changed model itself during processing?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by mfaisalghufran 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. FinOps for LLM Spend – why your bill has changed
    ×0.49 | 2 points by leanroute_ai 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.57 92 | 296 points by jmpman 4 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by simonsarris 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.70 91 | 309 points by imadtaieber 3 days ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.92 114 | 112 points by maxim-fin 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.04 145 | 198 points by sukit 6 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.23 126 | 106 points by usernametaken29 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×1.98 134 | 404 points by halcdev 6 days ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?
    ×0.85 139 | 6 points by locusofself 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.98 150 | 23 points by genekrapivin 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem in 2026?
    ×0.43 144 | 4 points by leonagano 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Can I turn my part-time project into a full-time SaaS?
    ×1.01 118 | 3 points by Fotis-Karmpas 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?
    ×0.58 140 | 5 points by websap 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I'm going back to coding by hand
    ×3.39 23 | 55 points by trencedamp 13 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The universal programming language of LLMs
    ×0.52 146 | 5 points by senorqa 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.29 153 | 13 points by pkos98 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.46 155 | 6 points by chipfixer 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.82 103 | 128 points by spwa4 2 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps stealing my money
    ×0.52 135 | 10 points by dingdong2026 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.55 156 | 20 points by fastest963 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.49 151 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?
    ×0.27 152 | 4 points by TomEleff 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×0.87 154 | 16 points by UnderABlueMoon 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.35 157 | 5 points by rogerrogerr 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?
    ×4.54 41 | 61 points by sph 7 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now available for internal beta testing
    ×1.74 131 | 22 points by dares2573 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Would you support an anti-AI organization financially?
    ×0.89 104 | 3 points by roschdal 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Apple Announces Foldable 'iPhone Duo' (macrumors.com)
    ×4.62 33 #56 | 44 points by TomAnthony 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme (codeberg.org)
    ×0.51 67 #77 | 30 points by jjba23 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Hybrid-voice-agent – on-device and cloud fallback voice agent for iOS (github.com/switchboard-sdk)
    ×1.66 16 | 3 points by jimsrand 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis (weirdgloop.org)
    ×3.22 26 | 563 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Mercury 2.5 (inceptionlabs.ai)
    ×1.50 6 | 242 points by Topfi 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: A browser IDE for m68000, Z80 assembly (and more), with graphics (specy.app)
    ×2.88 147 | 7 points by specy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. We built our house for LAN parties (2024) (lanparty.house)
    ×3.27 47 #57 | 575 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ChatGPT Voice can now use GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra (twitter.com/athyuttamre)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer (github.com/ayghri)
    ×2.76 12 | 524 points by domhudson 1 day ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Persistent Jupyter kernel execution and live output streaming in VSCode (github.com/rnoro)
    ×1.58 112 | 3 points by rnoro_ 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Briff – Site Summarizer (briff.site)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by Kuyawa 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Type.com: Multiplayer Codex/Claude in the cloud for non-tech use cases
    ×7.42 39 | 14 points by krashidov 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device (desertant.com)
    ×1.87 6 #12 | 345 points by willwhitedc 9 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A FOSS Expense Splitter
    ×2.46 67 | 5 points by montenegrohugo 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Unblur – Analyze your spending in the browser, no bank connection (unblur.money)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by hammaz 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.37 6 #51 | 3 points by worik 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Chdb Postgres extension: Faster COPY from cloud storage (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by saisrirampur 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Mistral raises €3B (mistral.ai)
    ×4.52 9 | 840 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | 592 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: GBDL – one Markdown+YAML file to save a multi-agent Grok Bot setup (github.com/jcpsimmons)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by joshcsimmons 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Starwell – give AI agents real statistics instead of made up numbers (starwell.dev)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by adarsh4052 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: URL Roulette – redesigned site for discovering human-submitted links (urlroulette.net)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by mmathias 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter (gpu-lexer.vercel.app)
    ×1.06 48 #68 | 113 points by bpierre 19 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Bounty Index ,compare public bug bounty programs across 6 platforms (bountyindex.in)
    ×1.19 86 | 3 points by axolotl619 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Browser-based Nginx config generator with live preview (techtransit.org)
    ×1.63 141 | 5 points by techgpt 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Be Engineering Insights: Adventures in Graphics Drivers (haiku-os.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by markus_zhang 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Arm Neoverse CSS N4: Fast, Scalable, and Flexible (arm.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by ksec 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I resigned from Anthropic today (twitter.com/hilbertspaess)
    ×10.97 56 | 668 points by yurivish 20 hours ago | 937 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: ZWPlayer 3.3.2, a free HTML5 video player with ads and music mode (zwplayer.com)
    ×0.65 142 | 3 points by logicplayer 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Factoring RSA 260 (cognition.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by samyok 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: TabBench-Bio: A benchmark for ML methods on tabular biomedical datasets (tabbench-bio.eu)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by not_a_feature 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on (electrek.co)
    ×5.66 85 | 168 points by FabHK 2 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A rated ladder for vibe coders – we rank the human, not the model (vibeladder.dev)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by alviso 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post (gettogether.dev)
    ×0.87 122 | 107 points by nchudleigh 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Prepare your app for iPhone Duo [video] (apple.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by alwillis 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Artificial: Follows the confusing firing and rehiring cycle of Sam Altman at OAI (imdb.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by johnnyApplePRNG 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. GNU Radio in the browser (gnuradioworld.com)
    ×1.21 3 #11 | 137 points by kristianpaul 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.63 75 | 80 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: 2K Animated Images (gifrun.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by builderone 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Whetuu – An opinionated, zero-config status line and history picker (github.com/yamafaktory)
    ×0.61 76 #58 | 10 points by yamafaktory 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1) (note.com)
    ×0.85 47 #59 | 96 points by porridgeraisin 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.60 1 #63 | 463 points by _alternator_ 1 day ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy (science.org)
    ×2.16 37 #67 | 209 points by pseudolus 10 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature papers (arxiv.org)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by marojejian 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Post by Val.sheshed.rocks – Bluesky (bsky.app)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by untitledsource 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits (404media.co)
    ×3.46 12 | 352 points by abraham 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.29 33 | 166 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: A free, open-source agent orchestrator for knowledge work (itsverso.xyz)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by SchezHugo 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Emailclaw–Email lovers' AI agent that creates scheduled task in 5 steps (github.com/emailclaw)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by markyu 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Apple Watch Ultra 4 (apple.com)
    ×2.00 12 #28 | 62 points by tech234a 3 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language (eighty-twenty.org)
    ×0.64 42 #36 | 50 points by tonyg 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Fileless ELF Execution via Kernel Keyring (matheuzsecurity.github.io)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by matheuzsec_ 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Project Callisto: a 2015–2024 search for LENR in deuterium-loaded palladium (callisto.report)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by jasondavies 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Locksmith: Store Maven Secrets in the macOS Keychain (Or a Unix Socket) (github.com/exabrial)
    ×0.74 84 | 3 points by exabrial 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Castforge – run Claude Code, Codex and Gemini as one dev team (castforge.ai)
    ×1.03 81 | 5 points by jabenhaim 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Buymydeadstartup.com – Sell your IP to AI labs (buymydeadstartup.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by bkfh 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants (phys.org)
    ×0.88 52 #43 | 152 points by mdp2021 19 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???