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  1. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×0.79 66 | 53 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×1.99 53 | 335 points by misterchocolat 3 days ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?
    ×0.18 63 | 4 points by tuvix 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Does magic link authentication use HTML canvassing?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by trinsic2 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×4.63 41 | 823 points by morpheuskafka 4 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: ChatAi web-based session notation?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by xtiansimon 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?
    ×0.48 79 | 6 points by canterburry 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.82 72 | 78 points by absurdwebsite 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
    ×1.37 93 | 15 points by arikusi 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
    ×0.97 80 | 18 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How can I support the AI resistance movement financially?
    ×2.87 16 | 9 points by roschdal 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?
    ×0.54 87 | 6 points by s_u_d_o 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
    ×0.60 83 | 30 points by fny 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)
    ×0.56 90 | 6 points by leetrout 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error
    ×1.00 103 | 11 points by ascarola 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.86 107 | 25 points by RockstarSprain 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?
    ×0.77 101 | 5 points by coreyp_1 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.72 109 | 13 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.44 121 | 8 points by comrade1234 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.41 97 | 29 points by thewillmoss 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.62 115 | 13 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×0.90 110 | 27 points by baobabKoodaa 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?
    ×0.91 127 | 9 points by sahli 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?
    ×1.31 106 | 15 points by smonk108 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing
    ×0.60 86 | 18 points by limalabs 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?
    ×0.50 128 | 6 points by etherus 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.63 129 | 12 points by time4tea 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.27 149 | 4 points by apatheticonion 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.14 105 | 43 points by ssiddharth 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: SeedLegals Partnerships in London, worth it?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by pain_perdu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Any engineers here with experience of clinical data standards?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by kalturnbull 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
    ×2.01 14 | 316 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Does your DSL little language need operator precedence? (utoronto.ca)
    ×0.91 34 #33 | 11 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Rise against the Machines: The Luddites [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by linsomniac 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. At the HumanX conference, everyone was talking about Claude (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by Rafsark 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.06 47 #67 | 71 points by b-man 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 56 #70 | 66 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.64 3 #75 | 292 points by arkadiyt 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Praxis – Lab data to publication-ready figures in one Python package (github.com/zmtsikriteas)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by zmtsikriteas 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.76 1 #1 | 222 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.00 27 #21 | 88 points by t-3 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×1.83 19 #32 | 295 points by fouronnes3 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I built Panda to get up to 99% token savings (github.com/AssafWoo)
    ×1.37 82 | 4 points by AssafPetronio 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: P2 - Object Storage Server with S3 Compatible API, MIT License (github.com/Suleman-Elahi)
    ×0.68 142 | 3 points by isuleman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Send physical postcards from your coding harness (melonpost.com)
    ×1.52 148 | 5 points by thevelop 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Figma-style visual editor for multi-agent choreography (github.com/dance-of-tal)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by monarchjuno 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.52 18 #38 | 402 points by tkhattra 22 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×1.39 27 #44 | 131 points by azhenley 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.71 31 #84 | 72 points by pjmlp 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC (tracksuccession.com)
    ×1.44 68 | 189 points by porsche959 3 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.71 6 #7 | 344 points by RickJWagner 16 hours ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Cost of Cheap Clone Boards: Streaming Video on an STM32H750 (prose.sh)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by melastmohican 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Robotaxi is now rolling out in Dallas and Houston (twitter.com/robotaxi)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by iknowstuff 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.04 69 | 52 points by rawgabbit 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Trump deal with IRS could see him given $14B in taxpayer money (9news.com.au)
    ×6.24 2 | 38 points by johnbarron 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.08 8 #57 | 688 points by aray07 1 day ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
    ×1.75 1 #86 | 246 points by seanieb 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Software Factory Age: Why 2026 May Be the End of Artisan Coding (argssh.substack.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by argssh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Arrow. Point your phone, walk where it says, find out where (kouh.me)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by kouhxp 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.34 4 #4 | 195 points by gnabgib 9 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Sudomake Friends, personalized AI personas in a Telegram group chat (github.com/audiodude)
    ×1.17 126 | 7 points by audiodude 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Mailinator's Universal IDP (mailinator.com)
    ×1.70 26 | 3 points by zinxq 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Rapid-MLX – Run local LLMs on Mac, 2-3x faster than alternatives (github.com/raullenchai)
    ×1.57 64 | 6 points by raullen 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound (sqlservercentral.com)
    ×1.43 7 #55 | 25 points by tcp_handshaker 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Customer Reviews can be represented through Voice capture/generation (customersvoices.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by Zavora 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Loomfeed – where AI agents and humans post and vote as equals (loomfeed.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by nomadquest 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Opentargets-py – Python SDK for the Open Targets drug discovery database (pypi.org)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by goknurarican 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: nvsx – A hook layer for NVSentinel GPU fault remediation (github.com/nav-beep)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by essekar 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted (xcancel.com)
    ×2.94 56 | 77 points by johanstokking 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Scientists invent new way to detect skin cancer (2024) (bbc.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Self-hosted webmail client for JMAP protocol: Email, calendar, contacts, files (github.com/bulwarkmail)
    ×2.00 16 | 3 points by DASD 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I made Claude Code at least 30% more efficient (for me anyway) (github.com/noahkirsch)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by noahkirsch 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Noodlist – Letterboxd for Instant Ramen (noodl.ist)
    ×1.83 99 | 7 points by mkdirpepper 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.75 24 #14 | 8 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Air Is Full of DNA (nature.com)
    ×2.47 37 #43 | 12 points by howrude 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Mind-OS – First free online AI dependency self‑assessment (iamalex-afk.github.io)
    ×1.11 116 | 3 points by bitkin_dev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Compile English specs into 22 MB neural functions that run locally
    ×2.69 124 | 10 points by yuntian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
    ×1.04 23 #13 | 8 points by dado3212 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What Are Skiplists Good For? (antithesis.com)
    ×0.89 57 #19 | 3 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units (electrek.co)
    ×4.33 33 | 81 points by doener 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)
    ×1.13 9 #24 | 30 points by alzhi7 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
    ×1.48 3 | 226 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: EDDI – Multi-agent AI engine where agent logic lives in JSON, not code (github.com/labsai)
    ×0.30 | 2 points by ginccc 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Finland, Tesla, and the Quiet Revolution in How We Touch Electricity (tonysalas369.substack.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Eterbios 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    ×1.40 7 #3 | 48 points by tyleo 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×0.99 18 #17 | 101 points by drasim 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: SnapReceipts Snap a receipt, split the bill instantly (snapreceipts.fyi)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by armishra 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents (github.com/dropseed)
    ×0.75 85 | 94 points by focom 4 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition (gitori.com)
    ×1.48 125 | 5 points by udit99 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???