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  1. Ask HN: How to measure how much data one can effectively process or understand?
    ×0.44 10 #61 | 13 points by mbuda 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Google Cloud APIs (gcloud CLI) seems to be down or broken
    ×0.34 36 | 3 points by thej 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.53 1 | 1131 points by chaseadam17 2 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×1.46 13 | 20 points by zekejohn 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Googling on Brazil about "Gemini said" shows unrevised content from Gemini
    ×0.10 102 | 3 points by yrds96 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?
    ×1.23 81 | 28 points by boredemployee 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.27 91 | 6 points by kwar13 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by arboles 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: (Your) Request for Startups?
    ×0.48 87 | 8 points by dontoni 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?
    ×0.17 132 | 4 points by azebazenestor 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.55 125 | 11 points by fdneng 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.47 108 | 27 points by causal 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News?
    ×0.37 118 | 8 points by ElectroNomad 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.88 104 | 48 points by ColinWright 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.14 110 | 19 points by TazeTSchnitzel 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.39 137 | 17 points by rtrgrd 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?
    ×0.31 140 | 6 points by xgstation 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. SEL Deploy – Cryptographically chained deployment timeline
    ×0.08 | 2 points by chokriabouzid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.29 138 | 12 points by jrs235 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key)
    ×0.13 149 | 3 points by Picknar 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.34 150 | 3 points by AGsist 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong?
    ×0.30 148 | 3 points by terryjiang2020 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips?
    ×0.48 133 | 7 points by uejfiweun 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why don't entrepreneurs talk about starting businesses publicly anymore?
    ×0.95 100 | 8 points by silexia 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.45 146 | 14 points by incognito124 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.42 143 | 9 points by Poomba 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over (thelocalstack.eu)
    ×2.71 55 | 4 points by HotGarbage 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Power generation increased by up to 70% when wind were combined with tidal/wave (surrey.ac.uk)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by JeanKage 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund (github.com/pocketbase)
    ×1.03 58 | 124 points by Onavo 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: I built a "Socratic" AI to stop my daughter from copy-pasting homework (thinkqurio.com)
    ×1.67 95 | 34 points by qurio_dev 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer (jimmyhmiller.com)
    ×1.15 15 #7 | 105 points by andreabergia 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Potatometer – Check how visible your website is to AI search (GEO) (potatometer.com)
    ×0.87 130 | 3 points by apswin 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I built a semiconductor internship job board (semidesignjobs.com)
    ×1.69 111 | 4 points by johncole 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)
    ×2.01 2 | 459 points by jfantl 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The political effects of X's feed algorithm (werd.io)
    ×2.85 63 | 81 points by benwerd 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
    ×1.14 79 | 169 points by elayabharath 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Astroworld – A universal N-body gravity engine in Python (github.com/salinas2000)
    ×0.98 105 | 3 points by salinas00 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. William Latham – Art and the Computer (1990) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.26 58 #62 | 9 points by hyperific 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Persistent memory for Claude Code with self-hosted Qdrant and Ollama (github.com/elvismdev)
    ×2.47 136 | 8 points by elvismdev 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Time could be different on jobs (ft.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by mooreds 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Codedocent – Code visualization for non-programmers (github.com/clanker-lover)
    ×1.02 88 | 3 points by clanker-lover 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial (wsj.com)
    ×2.28 2 #74 | 204 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 23 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (berksoft.ca)
    ×1.45 62 | 245 points by cdegroot 3 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec) (taalas.com)
    ×3.30 2 #6 | 412 points by sidnarsipur 5 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI (github.com/IronsideXXVI)
    ×1.42 4 #3 | 65 points by IronsideXXVI 1 hour ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The AI breakthrough isn't intelligence – it's existence
    ×0.76 | 1 points by Kalpaka 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Artisanal Code, AI, and the Right to Repair the Future (geekyschmidt.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by speckx 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Pmarchive – An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen's 2007 blog (pmarchive.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by hisamafahri 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption (github.com/LadybirdBrowser)
    ×2.83 9 | 301 points by thewavelength 1 day ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The only moat left is money? (elliotbonneville.com)
    ×3.49 24 | 276 points by elliotbnvl 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
    ×2.03 32 | 465 points by moWerk 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI (github.com/ggml-org)
    ×2.53 1 #1 | 206 points by lairv 1 hour ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)
    ×2.04 5 | 466 points by sz4kerto 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×1.11 39 #44 | 218 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Accenture 'links staff promotions to use of AI tools' (theguardian.com)
    ×2.78 48 | 4 points by layer8 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: EagerORM – A Lightweight Java ORM Between Hibernate and JOOQ
    ×0.55 | 1 points by SavkoDinamitas 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Session-graph – A knowledge graph from your AI coding sessions (github.com/robertoshimizu)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by rshimizubr 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science (theguardian.com)
    ×5.40 60 | 489 points by mitchbob 18 hours ago | 488 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.85 18 | 315 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript (blackboard.sh)
    ×2.52 21 | 159 points by merlindru 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Notes on Clarifying Man Pages (jvns.ca)
    ×0.80 26 #20 | 35 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up
    ×0.17 86 | 8 points by acarminati 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. She Wanted a Quiet House in the Berkshires for About $800k (nytimes.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by whack 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 13h disruption in December after Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (reuters.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by r2sk5t 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other (mage-bench.com)
    ×0.96 80 | 115 points by GregorStocks 2 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Behavr – Run realistic user simulations on your prototypes in minutes
    ×1.00 | 2 points by Behavrai 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks (governance.fyi)
    ×1.51 33 #31 | 299 points by guardianbob 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Star Trek Removed from Amazon Prime [TNG and Voyager Refunded] (oldcynic.com)
    ×2.93 43 | 4 points by xvxvx 47 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: 17MB pronunciation scorer beats human experts at phoneme level
    ×1.06 | 2 points by fabiosuizu 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: BLite a Document embedded database for .NET (AOT, no deps) (github.com/EntglDb)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by lucafabbri 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Aguara – Security scanner for AI agent skills and MCP servers (github.com/garagon)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by garagon 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data (github.com/Veirt)
    ×1.39 25 #36 | 237 points by forinti 21 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows (medicalxpress.com)
    ×2.70 37 #51 | 78 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. 15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern (nicolasdickenmann.com)
    ×1.23 20 | 201 points by fp64enjoyer 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Sports-skills.sh – sports data connectors for AI agents (github.com/machina-sports)
    ×1.73 134 | 4 points by andreantonelli 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs (spencer.wtf)
    ×2.81 1 #2 | 149 points by spencerldixon 1 hour ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ask HN: Giving AI agents a credit card
    ×1.25 | 2 points by nyellin 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)
    ×0.95 77 | 90 points by simquat 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents (georgeguimaraes.com)
    ×2.02 47 #86 | 132 points by ellieh 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life (bbc.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by ohjeez 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What the Spring Festival robots show about China's technological prowess [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by vintagedave 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. West Virginia Claims That Apple Allows Sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material (nytimes.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by iamnothere 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll
    ×1.05 56 | 108 points by FailMore 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apple.com)
    ×0.96 93 | 105 points by AnujNayyar 3 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a blow to the president (nbcnews.com)
    ×3.40 46 #75 | 4 points by csomar 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. We Used CRDTs to Build Real-Time Collaborative Retrospectives (rootly.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by sylvainkalache 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: An e-ink air traffic monitor built with Cloudflare Workers (github.com/Jay9185)
    ×1.14 48 | 7 points by jerr12939 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×0.35 55 #81 | 21 points by chunkles 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Learning Resources vs. Trump, President of the United States [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by verzali 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The only taboo left is copyright infringement (garbageday.email)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Tomte 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???