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  1. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.71 24 #20 | 178 points by mlaux 19 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How to Freelance Now?
    ×1.30 39 | 5 points by Alexadar 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.55 40 | 26 points by shriy-singh 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
    ×0.51 53 | 19 points by tkdb 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.61 73 | 11 points by sathomasga 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×1.07 68 | 10 points by consumer451 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.54 72 | 26 points by GustavHartz 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Indie hackers on X (Twitter) feels like a mega bubble these days
    ×2.69 13 | 7 points by sankalpdomore 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.51 87 | 5 points by cehgmaster 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×1.12 88 | 5 points by george_max 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.38 86 | 6 points by jviotti 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.24 | 2 points by iambateman 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma
    ×1.37 83 | 5 points by vdfs 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: LM Studio Bionic with Python?
    ×0.54 103 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?
    ×0.65 109 | 3 points by har-ki 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by par 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
    ×0.94 93 | 153 points by semidror 5 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to secure your code and services?
    ×1.09 110 | 4 points by cpa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Migrating personal email domain from Gmail to iCloud?
    ×1.07 122 | 4 points by osener 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.23 129 | 6 points by esher 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Where to look for jobs?
    ×1.51 123 | 5 points by 0x737368 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.44 139 | 17 points by xnx 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.42 116 | 22 points by phendrenad2 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.43 128 | 22 points by itsjeremiahs 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription?
    ×1.00 134 | 4 points by preommr 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does a startup need both founder and company X accounts?
    ×0.80 146 | 3 points by OnionLayers 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?
    ×1.29 137 | 4 points by ak39 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Folks familiar with infections after TKA
    ×0.76 149 | 3 points by zafka 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?
    ×1.30 142 | 4 points by sarangk90 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. When Claude CLI asks for feedback, responding authorizes conversation capture
    ×0.62 145 | 25 points by mmaunder 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?
    ×0.28 154 | 10 points by kooldeep7 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Understanding Runtime Governance for Enterprise AI Deployment
    ×0.10 156 | 4 points by thespotlessmind 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?
    ×0.22 153 | 5 points by d675 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Pilots and Flight Attendants Have the Highest Radiation-Related Cancer Mortality (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.18 89 #54 | 23 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: RemoveBackgroundMusic – preview background music reduction (removebackgroundmusic.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by robot1996 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres (bbc.com)
    ×6.18 13 | 97 points by dabinat 19 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
    ×1.02 80 | 148 points by florianstandhar 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Special Projects (2016) (openai.com)
    ×0.83 42 | 69 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Gdocs-me-up: a high-fidelity Google Docs exporter (github.com/behdad)
    ×0.84 152 | 23 points by behdad 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale (dbos.dev)
    ×1.44 8 #39 | 88 points by KraftyOne 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027 (homelabfest.org)
    ×1.53 8 #50 | 66 points by geerlingguy 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Amiga Screens: A Primer (datagubbe.se)
    ×1.16 40 #73 | 137 points by msephton 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Unit tests mark territory more than squash bugs (yosefk.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by luu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Sbm: plain-text bookmarks synced across terminal, browser, Android (sbmsync.com)
    ×0.99 161 | 4 points by equwal 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Clue Me – Describe the word you're given, Jev tries to guess it (yorohan.com)
    ×1.04 140 | 5 points by rohanm93 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. One Month Without AI (bustikiller.com)
    ×3.60 21 #25 | 127 points by saibotk 4 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Novel attack slashes computing power needed to crack textbook RSA cryptography (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Allow babywearing carriers on planes (jefftk.com)
    ×2.15 24 | 197 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in boot sector (github.com/0xAX)
    ×0.59 108 | 27 points by 0xAX 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Hard Stop: Kernel-level preemption for autonomous AI agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by joseluispino 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git (github.com/git-bug)
    ×1.83 4 #45 | 342 points by alentred 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Typst makes big strides (lwn.net)
    ×2.70 2 #82 | 121 points by leephillips 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by theanonymousone 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I'm tired of being on the network (matduggan.com)
    ×3.27 8 | 141 points by sagacity 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)
    ×0.65 92 | 66 points by hsfzxjy 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Choreoglyphs – our new, invisible writing system (choreoglyphs.com)
    ×1.75 95 | 5 points by spython 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Ctxfw – In-memory AST pruner and token firewall for Cursor and Claude (github.com/heuristicolab)
    ×1.15 118 | 3 points by mikemo88 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: PipeFitter – Quick, Browser-Based, Parametric Pipe Connectors (mankyd.github.io)
    ×1.37 138 | 4 points by mankyd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Uncle's frozen Mac says it's infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what? (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.97 16 #46 | 16 points by joozio 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Fly Language Model (kuber.studio)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by kuberwastaken 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fear and Loathing in the Bunker (nytimes.com)
    ×1.86 29 | 3 points by limbicsystem 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Print Graph Paper (printgraphpaper.app)
    ×1.08 66 | 3 points by artiomartiom 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes (github.com/aru-labs)
    ×0.62 117 | 67 points by aru-labs 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error (votebeat.org)
    ×2.76 65 | 101 points by hn_acker 2 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML (jointhefreeworld.org)
    ×0.66 5 #15 | 52 points by jjba23 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I'm coding directly in production with AI and I'm not looking back (joydemo.com)
    ×2.25 56 | 3 points by sh_tomer 42 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by torutofu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Minecraft random seed world record (with a particle accelerator) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by Zusor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy (gmays.com)
    ×0.99 49 #44 | 99 points by gmays 21 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Skate 3 Rust Rewrite (github.com/SK8-ENGINE)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by ivanjermakov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Critic – Review code with the agent that wrote it (critic.run)
    ×0.23 113 | 8 points by snyy 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
    ×2.61 63 | 3 points by chmaynard 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Recurse – Develop and deploy specialist agents faster (recurse.run)
    ×0.24 79 | 5 points by ozankabak 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Jevlang. delegate every if/while condition to Jev (github.com/RoyWiggins)
    ×1.00 77 | 3 points by roywiggins 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Scientists build most accurate atomic clock (phys.org)
    ×0.81 38 #22 | 36 points by wglb 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.74 15 #24 | 314 points by pseudolus 13 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Remembering Johannes Doerfert (llvm.org)
    ×1.24 33 #35 | 106 points by sdko 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An ad-free, zero-signup fullscreen color tool for monitor testing and light (blackscreen.vip)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by wangxili1997 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support (droprun.sh)
    ×1.17 76 | 189 points by mixedbit 4 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative (radius.to)
    ×1.08 102 | 169 points by radius89 5 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Typed-lm: a Rust jev open source alternative (github.com/neurono-ml)
    ×1.95 1 | 3 points by andrelgcclaudin 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Goodbye Google (ocallahan.org)
    ×7.26 4 | 251 points by Murmuring9087 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. GitLab Outage (gitlab.com)
    ×1.60 64 | 68 points by kunley 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The Tine Build System (amutable.com)
    ×0.51 33 #31 | 26 points by Levitating 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck (epestr.com)
    ×1.18 46 #36 | 82 points by epestr 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.67 56 #38 | 130 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How Virus-Like 'Jumping Genes' Became Our Partners in Evolution (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by magoghm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: jevals – replacing LLM judges with typed Jev decisions (github.com/openlayer-ai)
    ×1.34 135 | 47 points by gbayomi 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (launchvideo.io)
    ×3.02 1 #90 | 414 points by iacguy 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Lean 4-Intrinsic Uniqueness and Reconstruction Across Mathematical Presentations (github.com/mripr-institute)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by alex_albert 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???