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  1. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.54 48 #43 | 260 points by mlaux 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.45 70 | 28 points by shriy-singh 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?
    ×0.53 58 | 7 points by SMAAART 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
    ×0.40 74 | 20 points by tkdb 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.39 90 | 11 points by sathomasga 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.88 82 | 13 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.49 81 | 26 points by GustavHartz 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. How to Freelance Now?
    ×0.83 68 | 13 points by Alexadar 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.31 103 | 5 points by cehgmaster 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×0.58 106 | 5 points by george_max 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.38 98 | 7 points by jviotti 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.14 | 2 points by iambateman 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma
    ×1.03 100 | 6 points by vdfs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: LM Studio Bionic with Python?
    ×0.34 123 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.46 125 | 18 points by xnx 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription?
    ×0.99 129 | 5 points by preommr 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?
    ×0.40 130 | 3 points by har-ki 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by par 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.42 115 | 22 points by itsjeremiahs 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?
    ×1.60 127 | 6 points by sarangk90 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.22 131 | 6 points by esher 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to secure your code and services?
    ×0.71 121 | 4 points by cpa 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.43 107 | 23 points by phendrenad2 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Migrating personal email domain from Gmail to iCloud?
    ×0.74 128 | 4 points by osener 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Indie hackers on X (Twitter) feels like a mega bubble these days
    ×1.77 79 | 8 points by sankalpdomore 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Where to look for jobs?
    ×1.38 117 | 6 points by 0x737368 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Does a startup need both founder and company X accounts?
    ×0.57 147 | 3 points by OnionLayers 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?
    ×0.93 139 | 4 points by ak39 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Folks familiar with infections after TKA
    ×0.57 148 | 3 points by zafka 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?
    ×0.27 145 | 10 points by kooldeep7 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why do humans have an innate need to escape the surface of the Earth? (onverticality.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by momentmaker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Jevmem – automatic project memory for Claude Code, built on Jev (github.com/Avinash-jetwani)
    ×1.37 63 | 61 points by avinashjetwani 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles (adekau.github.io)
    ×0.86 58 #75 | 77 points by cebert 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. New generation of Business analytics Intelligence (blunxai.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by rima_667 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Colyseus – Real-Time Multiplayer Framework for Node.js (colyseus.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by eustoria 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. L'implant cochléaire entre technique, éthique et politique (cairn.info)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ouzb64ty 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Obsidian Plugin for OpenModelica (obsidian.md)
    ×0.46 110 | 4 points by cs3f16 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (sciencenews.org)
    ×1.21 4 #10 | 51 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. All you need is accessibility (maheepk.net)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by technusm1 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Commodified Intelligence (herecomesthemoon.net)
    ×2.13 14 | 3 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor (github.com/microsoft)
    ×2.39 51 | 80 points by 2Ucoder 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone (arxiv.org)
    ×0.63 92 | 73 points by jochenmadler 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News (authorsguild.org)
    ×5.10 2 #4 | 508 points by papergirl 8 hours ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Active speaker detection for deaf and hard-of-hearing (captivision.app)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by trobifi 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career? (wired.com)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by danielmorozoff 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. >1B tokens/minute/GPU by combining query planner and inference engine (modal.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by birdculture 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres (bbc.com)
    ×5.62 41 | 99 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding (worldofreel.com)
    ×2.30 57 | 75 points by crossroadsguy 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Sousveillance (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.98 16 | 41 points by xeonmc 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Introducing Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifact (casita.rs)
    ×0.97 74 #47 | 9 points by domenkozar 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    ×0.52 31 #83 | 19 points by zeristor 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. State of Pandemic Early Warning (jefftk.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by torutofu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California (reuters.com)
    ×2.29 65 | 41 points by geox 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Trail – new kind of logic game (franzai.com)
    ×2.66 24 | 5 points by franze 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Digitron – a virtual analog synth and sequencer (apple.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by sillydevices 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Evolution of Vending Machines (saturdayeveningpost.com)
    ×0.72 54 #42 | 39 points by ohjeez 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Peas and Pans – meal planning software for nutrition coaches (peasandpans.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by ssnxd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike (motherjones.com)
    ×10.08 42 | 80 points by cdrnsf 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior (lasso.security)
    ×1.16 13 | 56 points by nisosguy 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Cashing in on Dust
    ×1.44 | 2 points by spottedmarley 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Review of Don Quixote (flowtwo.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by thejoeflow 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 5 #9 | 79 points by yu3zhou4 4 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Accelerated Out of Core Shuffling (quasiben.github.io)
    ×0.36 45 #33 | 7 points by quasiben 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe (economist.com)
    ×2.42 21 #63 | 196 points by vinni2 23 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (codinghorror.com)
    ×5.10 77 #87 | 191 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: InstinctFlash – High-Performance Serving Runtime for Robotics Models (github.com/General-Instinct)
    ×0.33 113 | 27 points by guanming0717 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: BuyerCue – Find potential customer by paid-placement evidence (buyercue.io)
    ×0.84 119 | 3 points by apsquared 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (github.com/devdotfast)
    ×1.78 18 | 413 points by sidharthkmenon 2 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)
    ×0.66 89 | 67 points by hsfzxjy 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Choreoglyphs – our new, invisible writing system (choreoglyphs.com)
    ×1.71 109 | 5 points by spython 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special (mouse.dev)
    ×1.83 22 | 142 points by Aeroi 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs (github.com/eval-exec)
    ×1.15 15 | 42 points by tagfowufe 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: What about a no-SSH agentic access tool (getfda.dev)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by laotree 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Emacs Cat: Running Emacs in MicroVM (olddeuteronomy.github.io)
    ×1.09 45 | 41 points by hndhyc0bdt 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes (forensicdbg.com)
    ×0.53 94 | 37 points by Loren_SL 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station (lightspeedmagazine.com)
    ×0.95 26 #38 | 76 points by bucket2015 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Remembering Johannes Doerfert (llvm.org)
    ×1.19 28 #88 | 118 points by sdko 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: AI agent running cost calculator (and when a SaaS platform is cheaper) (broutonlab.com)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by myurushkin 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Jev and the Return of AI/ML Engineering (leehanchung.github.io)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by mustaphah 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (privatemode.ai)
    ×1.49 5 #27 | 116 points by flxflx 16 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Revise, a new document editor library for React (npmjs.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by artursapek 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Sixb, a TypeScript ontology framework for modeling your domain (sixb.ai)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by ademattos 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.65 76 | 51 points by miguelrios 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons (fu-berlin.de)
    ×1.09 31 #24 | 81 points by geox 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    ×0.96 10 #37 | 63 points by torutofu 11 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I spent 10 months building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web (markdown.beauty)
    ×2.16 74 | 5 points by thiagoperes 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ten Lines of Code That Changed My World (pixelambacht.nl)
    ×1.95 48 | 3 points by dimonomid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Reteach – AI tutor that feels human (reteach.study)
    ×0.98 143 | 3 points by antariksh_verma 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Offline recorder and transcriber on your MacBook's notch (memorynotch.app)
    ×2.26 118 | 7 points by choyiny 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models (allanrbo.blogspot.com)
    ×1.01 49 #52 | 146 points by allanrbo 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???