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  1. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.98 9 #37 | 14 points by jahala 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.16 38 | 5 points by weinzierl 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.69 13 | 14 points by learner_yearner 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.75 60 | 24 points by TekMol 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?
    ×0.15 87 | 3 points by xiaomaijj 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
    ×0.57 63 | 6 points by arm32 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by d--b 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?
    ×0.20 89 | 5 points by lucasov 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's your iPhone Duo experience so far?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by dgellow 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: I Need Advice
    ×0.48 92 | 11 points by TuxedoBuddy 16 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: I know Firefox has update when it starts to glitch
    ×0.17 137 | 3 points by majkinetor 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Expericencing an issue in Gmail where emails do not delete in Firefox
    ×0.17 135 | 9 points by rc_kas 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Old.reddit.com Gone
    ×1.01 97 | 29 points by Balgair 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why big LLMs use "it's not A, it is B" pattern? Shared dataset supplier?
    ×0.64 101 | 7 points by jumasheff 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?
    ×0.35 130 | 19 points by pelcg 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. DietPi v10.8 has been released
    ×0.20 118 | 19 points by stephanstsdietp 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?
    ×0.48 126 | 32 points by olalonde 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why is pagination gone on "Ask HN", and showing only 19 items?
    ×0.23 111 | 7 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Slow Cloudflare Connections
    ×0.04 152 | 3 points by bryonyoni 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: T'was the night of Claude Reset and quota left: Funniest app you built?
    ×0.36 128 | 10 points by julianpye 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia
    ×0.38 143 | 7 points by justforfunhere 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Pure Particles, an open source art particle toy built with Three.js (pureart-xyz.vercel.app)
    ×0.77 103 | 5 points by exos-xyz 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Fitness Functions for Dbt Projects (github.com/tjirab)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by bartschuijt 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Academic Ancestry – See Who taught the people who taught you (Launch) (academicancestry.org)
    ×0.99 65 | 3 points by Codeblackwell 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I worked at an ATS, so I built Recruiter BFF for Claude and ChatGPT (github.com/kevinmmiddleton)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by kevinmiddleton 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Instance – A clean-room reimplementation of GameMaker 8.1 in Rust (github.com/groverburger)
    ×0.52 151 | 3 points by __grob 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Thoughts while watching myself be automated (2024) (dynomight.net)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by gone35 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The End of Consensus Research? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by chriscbr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Proof by OpenAI of the Existence of Quantum Yang-Mills Theory [pdf] (ucsb.edu)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by bananaflag 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Howler, a macOS menu bar AI that burns the chat after reading (github.com/HiAriesZhou)
    ×0.59 96 | 3 points by AriesIMio 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. IgE disruptor for food allergy with Claude-enabled antibody design [pdf] (divergencelabs.com)
    ×0.45 22 #20 | 29 points by matco11 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tor Browser 16.0 (torproject.org)
    ×1.05 56 #61 | 5 points by acossta 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229 (alpinelinux.org)
    ×1.43 29 #79 | 247 points by sashk 23 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign (paulfwalsh.substack.com)
    ×7.68 39 | 285 points by slowin 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Witnessory – a signed record of the web's move to post-quantum crypto (witnessory.org)
    ×0.67 62 | 6 points by parthod0x 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents
    ×0.43 54 #21 | 46 points by shong0504 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. From Spreadsheets to DuckLake: A Data Engineer's Road to DuckDB (duckdb.org)
    ×0.93 75 #65 | 7 points by andreasha 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI often makes writing worse. (Even if it makes it better) (economist.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Leak website releases data on DHS employees (reuters.com)
    ×2.20 53 | 134 points by wondersky 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok (theconversation.com)
    ×3.48 81 | 77 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Sidekeys – Turn an iPhone into a Mac display and agent control deck (sidekeysapp.com)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by cmillstein 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Aqueous Archive Format (github.com/lifthrasiir)
    ×1.10 142 | 5 points by lifthrasiir 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto (sdf.org)
    ×1.15 18 #33 | 158 points by luke8086 10 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. If-then-else had to be invented (2020) (github.com/e-n-f)
    ×1.67 41 #38 | 162 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: The New Way to Make AI UGC Ads in 2026 (aivideosugc.com)
    ×1.08 125 | 7 points by tuongbadke 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Filmcraft – Free online video editor, color and audio tools (filmcraft.tools)
    ×0.38 149 | 3 points by vantareed 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150 (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
    ×0.85 15 #4 | 12 points by beatstop 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Building an AI-native engineering org (twitter.com/sgondala2)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by sgondala_ycapp 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tech Tips for Parents This Digital Parenting Week (eff.org)
    ×1.51 11 | 3 points by hn_acker 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Search2o Simplifies AI Agents (search2o.com)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by ramvenkat11 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Should a medical diagnosis reshape the past? (2025) (chengela.substack.com)
    ×0.50 40 #17 | 5 points by wyndham 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Nango (YC W23) Is Hiring Across Eng, FDE, Marketing, DevRel (nango.dev)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Economic Organisation of a POW Camp [pdf] (cornell.edu)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by sebg 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: KernelCash – Privacy First Budgeting
    ×1.94 3 | 4 points by LoftyHobbitMan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen (slidebyside.com)
    ×0.55 71 | 79 points by denismenace 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Studio 3e8: Mesa 1, affordable Metal 3D Printer (studio3e8.com)
    ×2.03 113 | 8 points by danthompson41 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin (stealmybitcoin.com)
    ×4.03 94 | 623 points by cloudlandsdev 5 days ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014) (animationstudies.org)
    ×0.77 49 #15 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months (electrek.co)
    ×2.33 30 #66 | 262 points by ljf 12 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Rockstar is a programming language based on 1980s hard rock lyrics (codewithrockstar.com)
    ×1.48 9 | 3 points by mooreds 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Pretty Git Tree – Your Git history as generative art (hmillerbakewell.github.io)
    ×0.87 76 | 3 points by hda-hda 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: AgentTrust – Zero-trust security and human approvals for AI agents (github.com/SRN0129)
    ×0.96 144 | 16 points by SRN0129 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. DAO DE JING (factsanddetails.com)
    ×1.09 89 #27 | 3 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A (lukewarm) defense of Minsky and Papert (federicomilanesio.substack.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by sebg 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Perspectiva Kogui: A message on artificial intelligence from the Kogui people (sonidoselva.com)
    ×5.42 21 | 122 points by andreisag 11 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Turn the prompts you keep retyping into slash commands (github.com/kishormorol)
    ×0.88 119 | 3 points by kishoremorol 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees (npr.org)
    ×3.05 47 #74 | 252 points by firefax 10 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. LeadPilot (getleadpilot.tech)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by ktoznet 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Reddit will require you to log in eventually, CEO confirms (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.06 42 | 7 points by canucker2016 57 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: SiteSpin – Build and update business websites through chat (sitespin.app)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by adamhsn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Archive.today links going forward (reddit.com)
    ×2.72 51 | 211 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17B (doordash.com)
    ×2.52 53 | 122 points by DeepLogin 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. El Niño Is Flooding California's Coasts with the Highest Tides to Come (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.73 71 #42 | 3 points by gumby 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 (divagr.com)
    ×2.80 17 #67 | 676 points by csmantle 22 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic (vut.cz)
    ×1.63 19 #35 | 160 points by armcat 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Newly discovered Kerberos delegation abuse path (hunio.org)
    ×0.43 48 #84 | 17 points by hunio 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Reddit will force users to log in as AI is killing search traffic (engadget.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by kotaKat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Undisclosed Patch Vulnerability Caused HTTP2Shell via If-Statement (bugsink.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: An open-source app for IELTS preparation (github.com/Luxshan2000)
    ×0.66 73 | 3 points by luxshan_t 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers (github.com/arterialist)
    ×2.64 68 | 5 points by Arterialist 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Lighthouses, War and a Puffling (wordpress.com)
    ×0.38 46 #30 | 4 points by aways 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape (github.com/lonthq)
    ×0.41 27 #32 | 23 points by rvanderlinden 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.35 86 | 95 points by hn-aarvin 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Dead APIs – a graveyard for the integrations that left us (deadapis.dev)
    ×0.25 | 2 points by gertjandewilde 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Popkern – open-source CAD kernel with G2 corner blends, browser IDE (popkern.dev)
    ×1.09 107 | 14 points by geedy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Cirkit – Annotate, Trace, and Ask AI About Schematic PDFs (cirkit.us)
    ×0.98 138 | 5 points by Tal005 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I Made a Public Transit Optimization Puzzle Game (metromaneuver.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by rjrozenbaum 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Rhyme-as-Reason Effect (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by epestr 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Git for the US Code (lexifina.com)
    ×1.93 52 | 447 points by alansaber 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Thursday: A SerenityOS for Myself (shantaram.xyz)
    ×0.33 57 #89 | 7 points by _shantaram 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???