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  1. My first experience with an "AI"-ed call centre?
    ×0.70 17 #83 | 13 points by chrisjj 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?
    ×1.56 15 | 7 points by givemeethekeys 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How Real-Time Voice Agents Work: Media Infrastructure and Latency
    ×0.29 | 2 points by gokuljs 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story
    ×0.73 4 | 12 points by matijash 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.51 24 | 1136 points by chaseadam17 3 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Reddit Ads support is leaking PII and actively crossing user sessions
    ×0.81 32 | 13 points by arashvakil 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×1.10 64 | 25 points by zekejohn 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Google Cloud APIs (gcloud CLI) seems to be down or broken
    ×0.16 112 | 3 points by thej 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.36 111 | 9 points by kwar13 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?
    ×0.17 135 | 4 points by arboles 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?
    ×1.08 102 | 30 points by boredemployee 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Googling on Brazil about "Gemini said" shows unrevised content from Gemini
    ×0.09 141 | 3 points by yrds96 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.54 144 | 12 points by fdneng 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.15 129 | 21 points by TazeTSchnitzel 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: (Your) Request for Startups?
    ×0.52 110 | 10 points by dontoni 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.46 128 | 27 points by causal 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?
    ×0.16 145 | 4 points by azebazenestor 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.86 125 | 48 points by ColinWright 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News?
    ×0.34 140 | 8 points by ElectroNomad 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.37 147 | 17 points by rtrgrd 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.41 150 | 4 points by AGsist 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.28 148 | 12 points by jrs235 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?
    ×0.29 149 | 6 points by xgstation 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Fundamental Limits of LLMs at Scale (arxiv.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by o4c 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Asos co-founder dies in fall from 18-storey building in Thailand (theguardian.com)
    ×3.20 24 | 6 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hitler's Greenland Obsession (theatlantic.com)
    ×8.42 65 | 76 points by speckx 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.14 10 #39 | 278 points by el_duderino 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. No Skill. No Taste (kinglycrow.com)
    ×2.02 43 #75 | 176 points by ianbutler 12 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. OpenAI had banned account of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooter; reached out to RCMP (cbc.ca)
    ×2.00 9 | 4 points by colinprince 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: TypstMe – Build ATS-proof resumes using Typst and WASM
    ×0.85 | 2 points by yoangilliand 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Excessive token usage in Claude Code (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.31 21 #29 | 38 points by behnamoh 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh (zknill.io)
    ×1.40 24 #33 | 52 points by zknill 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives (github.com/redruM0381)
    ×1.14 47 #40 | 8 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tiny QR code achieved using electron microscope technology (newatlas.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by jonbaer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. CSLib: A Focused Effort on Formalizing Computer Science in Lean (cslib.io)
    ×1.39 34 | 3 points by md224 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: MatsuriMap – Free interactive map for events and festivals in Japan (kageknight.com)
    ×1.18 121 | 3 points by wrryyyy 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: NF-1 – A resource-zero programming language for low-end hardware (github.com/sonamsingh25437-ship-it)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by aditya_rai-331 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. In SF for a couple of days, looking for someone that can host us in their office
    ×0.63 | 1 points by jackota 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Checkset – a Ruby gem for repeatable verifications using Playwright (afomera.dev)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: 17MB pronunciation scorer beats human experts at phoneme level
    ×1.13 116 | 3 points by fabiosuizu 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What Is OAuth? (leaflet.pub)
    ×1.89 1 #8 | 66 points by cratermoon 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The coding agent is dead (ampcode.com)
    ×2.34 6 | 5 points by ElasticBottle 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Flask Is My Go-To Web Framework (flaskvibe.com)
    ×0.92 109 | 3 points by astonfred 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Gave AI $100 and no instructions – it donated $40 to a hospital (letairun.com)
    ×3.58 115 | 10 points by gleipnircode 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Legion Health (YC) Is Hiring Cracked SWEs for Autonomous Mental Health (ashbyhq.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency (mojodojo.io)
    ×2.20 39 | 3 points by zenincognito 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A man who triggered the AI explosion(2020) – Alex Krizhevsky [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by o4c 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt (cnn.com)
    ×4.05 55 | 72 points by rawgabbit 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How were video transfers made? (2011) (film-tech.com)
    ×0.37 57 #41 | 14 points by exvi 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Linux 7.0 Shows Significant PostgreSQL Performance Gains on AMD EPYC (phoronix.com)
    ×1.75 6 #81 | 23 points by snowhale 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. They Do Mean the Effect on Jobs (wordpress.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data (github.com/Veirt)
    ×1.38 12 | 255 points by forinti 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I hate AI side projects (dylancastillo.co)
    ×2.93 63 | 63 points by dcastm 7 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: LobsterHelper – Managed OpenClaw on Firecracker VMs (lobsterhelper.com)
    ×1.24 84 | 4 points by alex_trekkoa 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization (mines.fyi)
    ×0.66 20 #14 | 63 points by irasigman 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Agent Passport – OAuth-like identity verification for AI agents
    ×0.78 52 #37 | 7 points by samerismail 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Escaping Misconfigured VSCode Extensions (2023) (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.39 61 #55 | 12 points by abelanger 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I made a local AI creature that runs on integers (itch.io)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by pmeade-ds 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How to stop being boring (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×2.37 22 | 100 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory (github.com/sstraust)
    ×0.73 72 | 77 points by sammy0910 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Are – Rule engine for JavaScript, C#, and Dart with playground (are-playground.netlify.app)
    ×1.45 43 | 4 points by beratarpa 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023) (adamj.eu)
    ×1.75 5 #20 | 61 points by frou_dh 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Skill Check CLI for your skill.md (github.com/thedaviddias)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by thedaviddias 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Saturn's Rings Came from a Two-Moon Collision About 100M Years Ago (gizmodo.com)
    ×1.94 35 | 4 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Polya's urn – essays on complexity and emergence (polyasurn.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by pcarolan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025) (kodiak64.co.uk)
    ×0.94 54 | 138 points by atan2 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. SwiftForth IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS (forth.com)
    ×1.35 30 #15 | 7 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse (pimoroni.com)
    ×1.04 41 #38 | 141 points by Lwrless 20 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: AI Code Review Agent – Automated PR Reviews with Google ADK and Gemini (github.com/mkantwala)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by tme15b014 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Precise exceptions in relaxed architectures [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by matt_d 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter (github.com/SpaceTurth)
    ×0.54 123 | 63 points by turth 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010) (singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com)
    ×0.81 71 | 99 points by exvi 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024) (cep.dev)
    ×3.18 8 #63 | 498 points by Meetvelde 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss (together.ai)
    ×1.12 11 #69 | 211 points by zagwdt 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Takedown Campaign Against archive.today (2025) (algustionesa.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by pabs3 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. dwata: Local Financial Data Extraction from Emails with Ministral 3 3B, Ollama (youtube.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by brainless 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A perceptual-first mobile audio DSP experiment
    ×0.45 | 1 points by adriel_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An Archaeological Dig Through the Extropian Archives (mtabarrok.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by jdkee 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes (github.com/interpiduser5)
    ×2.44 20 | 312 points by interpidused 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: AI agent audited its platform, got 80% wrong, rewrote its methodology (openseed.dev)
    ×2.02 139 | 4 points by rsdza 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching (arxiv.org)
    ×0.67 66 #65 | 65 points by cbracketdash 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Can we debug a living cell like a running binary? (cellhacker.substack.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by efim_bushmanov 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging (hankgreen.com)
    ×1.78 29 | 154 points by ZeroGravitas 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: 17MB model beats human experts at pronunciation scoring (huggingface.co)
    ×3.04 89 | 12 points by fabiosuizu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel (macleans.ca)
    ×1.08 12 #18 | 51 points by mhb 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks (governance.fyi)
    ×1.48 11 | 304 points by guardianbob 1 day ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: MephistoMail – A RAM-only, tracker-free disposable email client
    ×1.24 51 | 3 points by benmxrt 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Testing Super Mario Using a Behavior Model Autonomously (testflows.com)
    ×0.49 21 #70 | 25 points by Naulius 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Let's Burn Some Tokens – AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector (dixken.de)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by snigsnog 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Facebook Is Doing A-Okay
    ×1.01 10 | 5 points by givemeethekeys 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???