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Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?

×1.16 25 #28 | 123 points by udl 17 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Anybody tried to cheat AI-HR-system with hidden/white sentences?

×0.74 15 | 3 points by KellyCriterion 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Anyone using Meshtastic/LoRa for non-chat applications?

×0.82 38 | 4 points by redgridtactical 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub has been sending me an email every two seconds.

×1.70 26 | 11 points by colonelspace 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude API Error: 529

×0.54 72 | 23 points by anujbans 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fear of Missing Code

×0.42 87 | 4 points by lukol 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Pangram is easily-defeatable with Claude

×0.12 | 2 points by nunez 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Repsy – A lightweight, open-source alternative to Nexus/Artifactory

×0.24 116 | 4 points by nuricanozturk 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What do you use for normative specs to drive AI agents?

×0.23 117 | 3 points by midnight_eclair 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?

×0.29 119 | 12 points by nickcageinacage 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a $15k Mac app for a random Reddit user

×0.40 96 | 3 points by fujilovesapps33 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work

×0.45 140 | 40 points by noemit 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: TCP/IP Illustrated e2 of v2 & v3?

×0.48 106 | 3 points by mayureshkathe 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you figure out what you wanted to do with your life?

×0.53 126 | 16 points by icwtyjj 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rses – cross-resume between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode

×0.24 130 | 10 points by plawlost 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you deal with obvious AI assistant usage in interviews

×0.30 132 | 6 points by stackdestroyer 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines, how real is the pipeline today?

×0.42 135 | 6 points by imnotlost 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Antigravity code search dropping results recently?

×0.10 149 | 6 points by sankalpnarula 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?

×0.95 144 | 31 points by jawerty 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest?

×0.16 153 | 9 points by latand6 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lazy Tmux – Lazy-loading tmux sessions with a tree view

×0.17 151 | 5 points by Alchemmist 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Russians may soon lose access to the global internet

×1.29 125 | 45 points by taminka 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does the World need more software?

×0.36 152 | 6 points by Vektorceraptor 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pgsemantic – Point at your Postgres DB, get vector search instantly (github.com/varmabudharaju)

×1.14 131 | 18 points by varmabudharaju 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025) (bethmathews.substack.com)

×3.94 9 #45 | 1011 points by Amorymeltzer 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran oil revenue soars as it's the only exporter out of Hormuz (financialpost.com)

×3.63 89 #59 | 95 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Engineers Who Make Product Decisions (ashbyhq.com)

2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate from Geopolitics (wired.com)

×1.96 12 | 3 points by joozio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Machiavellian Maze (robkhenderson.com)

×1.10 | 2 points by barry-cotter 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-Source Animal Crossing–Style UI for Claude Code Agents (github.com/outworked)

×1.21 13 | 45 points by ZeidJ 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DuoRAG – A dual stack RAG that self-evolves (github.com/cagriy)

×1.25 127 | 3 points by cagz 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Schedule tasks on the web (claude.com)

×1.46 18 #49 | 288 points by iBelieve 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why This Jump in Gas Prices Feels Different (nytimes.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by karakoram 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser (simoneamico.com)

×1.37 58 | 91 points by simoneamico 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build (github.com/AmElmo)

×1.07 91 | 157 points by jberthom 4 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LLM-Gateway – Zero-Trust LLM Gateway (github.com/openziti)

×2.47 88 | 7 points by michaelquigley 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Explore the Hidden World of Sand (magnifiedsand.com)

×1.61 9 #20 | 236 points by RAAx707 19 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent-to-agent pair programming (axeldelafosse.com)

×1.28 55 #60 | 130 points by axldelafosse 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineered yeast provides rare but essential nutrition for honeybees (nature.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by ludicrousdispla 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids (latimes.com)

×3.24 21 | 303 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the terminal (github.com/lovromazgon)

×5.61 82 | 15 points by lmazgon 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git Web Manager (github.com/WallabyDesigns)

×0.53 120 | 3 points by wallabydesigns 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent Forge, an agent framework, heuristic routing and graph execution (github.com/Minns-ai)

×2.66 113 | 5 points by gooseyGander 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Post-Productivity (generalistcareer.com)

×2.01 36 | 3 points by millytamati 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sora 2 API and Sora 2 Pro API (sora2-api.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by Mehedy2026 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HTML Viewer with Bidirectional Highlighting (Code ↔ Highlight Element) (html-viewer.org)

×1.20 133 | 3 points by jackxmm 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Faster Alternative to Jq (micahkepe.com)

×1.92 15 #55 | 376 points by pistolario 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Update on Session Limits (reddit.com)

×3.17 74 | 58 points by chunkycapybara 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source API for IACS vessel classification data (tsolman.github.io)

×1.35 110 | 4 points by tsolman 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mantyx – A platform to orchestrate, manage, and share your agents (mantyx.io)

×1.01 136 | 10 points by grillorafael 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Superfast – Cognitive Memory Graphs for Enterprise AI Agents

×1.28 142 | 3 points by prabhatkr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3 512k context via TurboQuant on Mac mini (twitter.com/powtac)

×2.10 42 | 3 points by pow-tac 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AV1's open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec (arstechnica.com)

×2.76 47 | 4 points by pjmlp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Superorganism Explained in 7 Minutes (natehagens.substack.com)

×1.11 | 2 points by shrubby 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer (github.com/ViciousSquid)

×0.81 78 #74 | 91 points by vicioussquid 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex Plugins (openai.com)

×1.55 83 #78 | 17 points by epaga 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Says No iPhone in Lockdown Mode Has Ever Been Hacked (macrumors.com)

×1.83 | 2 points by 7777777phil 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (gwern.net)

×1.27 | 2 points by gggscript 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VizTools – 16 free tools for PMs and freelancers, deliberately no AI (viztools.app)

×1.02 45 | 3 points by mizarau 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent (arstechnica.com)

×3.05 13 | 81 points by pseudolus 17 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Build AI Trading Agents in Cursor/Claude with an MCP Server (financialdata.net)

×1.55 98 | 4 points by financial-data 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can It Resolve DOOM? Game Engine in 2k DNS Records (core-jmp.org)

×0.70 51 #52 | 47 points by Einenlum 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3 (github.com/russellromney)

×1.27 49 #73 | 169 points by russellthehippo 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WordGen a Robust Wordlist Maker

×0.47 | 1 points by CzaxTanmay 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs on a PowerPC Mac (theresistornetwork.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by austinallegro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do (derekthompson.org)

×4.99 56 | 888 points by mmcclure 1 day ago | 680 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it (stateofutopia.com)

×7.35 5 | 60 points by logicallee 15 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Local Bernstein theory, and lower bounds for Lebesgue constants (wordpress.com)

×0.49 85 #56 | 45 points by jjgreen 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenHelm – OpenClaw but free (using your Claude Code subscription) (openhelm.ai)

×0.94 114 | 3 points by maxbeech 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent-CI (Run GitHub Actions on your local machine.) (agent-ci.dev)

×1.34 129 | 3 points by pistoriusp 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Burn Room – End-to-End Encrypted Ephemeral SSH Chat (burnroom.chat)

×0.87 146 | 3 points by joematrix 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD (lwn.net)

×1.64 9 #62 | 68 points by corbet 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop Calling Them VPNs (2024) (flameeyes.blog)

×1.63 29 | 3 points by sysoleg 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments (deploytarot.com)

×1.90 19 | 203 points by rembish 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme (dfarq.homeip.net)

×0.75 62 #39 | 72 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
John Bradley, author of xv, has died (voxday.net)

×1.91 29 #69 | 301 points by linsomniac 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gridpaper (scientific plotting tool) reaches 1.0 (gridpaper.org)

×2.39 49 | 3 points by hnarayanan 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tree Editor – apply and remove types without breaking your data (github.com/justindmassey)

×1.12 | 2 points by justindmassey 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FileWash – File tools that never see your files (filewash.app)

×0.99 115 | 3 points by PressKeyProdigy 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (home.cern)

×1.65 22 #86 | 248 points by JohnHammersley 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atomic Rockets – Build your own spaceship (projectrho.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by vismit2000 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked (arstechnica.com)

×4.36 83 | 253 points by sebastian_z 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware (techcrunch.com)

×1.83 22 | 99 points by jbegley 17 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SpedFind – An open-source internet speed test (React/Python and CLI)

×1.29 124 | 3 points by nishalk 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests (bbc.com)

×2.07 57 #71 | 134 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenTTD for Windows NT RISC (virtuallyfun.com)

×0.77 | 1 points by jandeboevrie 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building shared coding guidelines for AI (and people too) (stackoverflow.blog)

×0.49 | 1 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chroma Context-1: Training a Self-Editing Search Agent (trychroma.com)

×0.76 62 | 68 points by philip1209 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How much precision can you squeeze out of a table? (johndcook.com)

×0.61 77 | 60 points by nomemory 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Alumnium – SOTA Browsing for Claude Code (alumnium.ai)

×1.51 105 | 4 points by p0deje 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???