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  1. I'm creating my own OS system. Please rate this. There's a lot written in C
    ×1.03 59 | 5 points by DrMoris 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Flow-state induction via raw mouse input (a working biohacking protocol)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by rejabusafint 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.30 3 #60 | 621 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 693 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering
    ×1.85 4 | 3 points by pauliusztin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.48 3 #78 | 725 points by petecooper 2 days ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do people self host email and maintain deliverability?
    ×1.03 60 | 5 points by smithbob 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.56 53 | 80 points by stanislavb 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×0.47 72 | 5 points by nonfunctional 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.35 69 | 302 points by petecooper 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.34 99 | 4 points by stdc105 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×0.89 67 | 8 points by cromka 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.45 87 | 5 points by Mutinix 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.38 100 | 4 points by abakh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.78 86 | 12 points by winkelmann 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.20 130 | 4 points by BehanPrW 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.25 115 | 14 points by masterchief166 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.33 123 | 12 points by aledevv 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×0.99 119 | 32 points by Stitch4223 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.35 109 | 14 points by Mobius01 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Have the PHP vulnerabilities been exploited?
    ×0.42 107 | 6 points by crisnoble 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.33 121 | 8 points by parthdesai 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.17 136 | 3 points by vWijdaan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.13 105 | 15 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.43 128 | 8 points by ovudus 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.11 108 | 17 points by shakshukan 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.30 124 | 6 points by spicygum 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.44 147 | 10 points by thechairman12 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×1.00 118 | 17 points by lualover 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. TI C66X / Ad Sharc+ Decompilers
    ×0.42 149 | 5 points by kavinsky777 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Firefox Auto-Run on Windows
    ×0.35 145 | 4 points by BubbleRings 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Zof API Contract Check (github.com/Zof-AI)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by kevinkissi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Defcon like browser game with slower pace and growth (tushynski.me)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by larry-the-agent 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying' (courthousenews.com)
    ×1.94 4 #67 | 60 points by rdmuser 13 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Vericto – Check AI agents' SQL before Postgres or MySQL runs it (github.com/vericto)
    ×0.69 101 | 3 points by donkan168 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: BYOSM, Turn one sentence into a small specialist model (github.com/bsye)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by a0dalbianco 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Amgi – Plain-text spaced repetition with FSRS (github.com/alisheryeginbay)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by yeginbay 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Light captured – An interractive workshop on photography (wasmer.app)
    ×1.81 129 | 4 points by baalimago 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Fire hazard zone, power line risk and fire history for any CA address (firezones.info)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by raffys 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur (martinfinkel.com)
    ×1.46 11 #24 | 90 points by martz 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.82 75 #80 | 135 points by wffurr 2 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Total Historian (theideasletter.org)
    ×0.25 66 #82 | 22 points by benbreen 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I wish restaurants would stop asking for my phone number (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by bookofjoe 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US executives quit $25B gas venture over claims of secret Russian control (ft.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by locknitpicker 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Cascache – A Go cache where slow reads can't undo invalidation (github.com/unkn0wn-root)
    ×0.82 88 | 3 points by unkn0wn_root 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Implications of Links (1997) (w3.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by userbinator 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Own Your Idea with Qalamide (qalamide.dev)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by raxwan 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Twine is a meta-harness with workflows, cross-agent memories and traces (github.com/standing-desks)
    ×1.50 139 | 5 points by SurfingAlpaca 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: What if your website could sell while you sleep? (brevn.com)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by brevn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.90 5 #54 | 49 points by gumby 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: AI text detector that never sees your text (runs 100% in-browser) (kouh.me)
    ×1.79 | 2 points by mrkn1 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. William the Conqueror and the Oath of Sarum (english-heritage.org.uk)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by zeristor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. I ported foot terminal to macOS (github.com/gobijan)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by hit8run 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Php2ShellCheck – Python script that checks for vuln indicators (github.com/jgatka)
    ×1.59 134 | 4 points by ShredOnArrival 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Another Blog Search Engine (outerweb.org)
    ×0.86 133 | 15 points by cosmicgadget 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.68 20 #23 | 28 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers (twitter.com/intcyberdigest)
    ×1.62 23 | 3 points by taubek 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party (bitdefender.com)
    ×5.73 21 | 160 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I made a jobs-near-you map (offpeak.fyi)
    ×1.61 78 | 5 points by vsurraco 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: App Factory – 42 Claude Code skills to ship apps to App Store and Play (github.com/yybd)
    ×0.46 141 | 3 points by yybd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. OBS Studio 33 (github.com/obsproject)
    ×1.72 2 #2 | 185 points by pentagrama 6 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Docker is weird (codeandcake.dev)
    ×3.44 13 #49 | 844 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. At Aberfan I saw father's digging for their missing children (theguardian.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by jimnotgym 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How Improved Voicebot agents now? Does Help Sales and support end to end
    ×0.54 | 1 points by AbhiAmbad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Daddy long-legs–a weird and wonderful railway (railwaymuseum.org.uk)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by ajb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A Brief History of Containers: From the 1970s Till Now (aquasec.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF? (dovepass.com)
    ×0.37 77 | 33 points by nimitmehra 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: pdf editor - I rebuild PDFs into editable HTML objects, in the browser (blueberry-shake.pages.dev)
    ×1.33 131 | 4 points by HopeLion 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How to run a city builder on 16 MHz (larstofus.com)
    ×1.26 9 #10 | 27 points by rex64 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more (nitter.click)
    ×2.05 21 #42 | 169 points by cowlevel 12 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mdfind Guide: macOS Spotlight Search from Terminal (myunix.org)
    ×2.26 53 | 3 points by ankitg12 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. What Instagram Research Taught Me About Scraping Reliability (hikerapi.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by bilalalimansora 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool (github.com/maxilevi)
    ×1.57 30 | 234 points by maxilevi 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left (techpowerup.com)
    ×3.06 22 | 77 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: How religions evolved? Charts, Maps, Citations (howitevolved.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by silly073 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits (petercai.com)
    ×3.48 45 | 936 points by pcai 3 days ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Is this the new cyber normal? (silcock.dev)
    ×1.32 38 #37 | 175 points by drewsberry 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant (cowagent.ai)
    ×0.73 75 #58 | 8 points by ankitg12 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×2.11 12 #71 | 495 points by niemandhier 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. France is looking ungovernable. And it's going to get worse – FT Essay (ft.com)
    ×1.95 5 | 3 points by intunderflow 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Clerkenwell – A Handwritten Clojure Notebook (danieljanus.pl)
    ×0.85 114 | 28 points by nathell 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Stackdome – An open source self-hostable Railway alternative on K8s (github.com/axernel-labs)
    ×3.37 104 | 9 points by basilpbabu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Twelve years of distributed SQLite (philipotoole.com)
    ×1.97 3 #7 | 223 points by otoolep 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026 (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.72 49 #35 | 34 points by civicpivot 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.19 44 #52 | 201 points by gmays 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025) (hallofdreams.org)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by bmacho 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. UK to invest £100M in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.64 | 4 points by chrisjj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework (github.com/vladocar)
    ×0.96 75 | 100 points by bepero 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: ObsidianYouTubeSync – Sync YouTube History into Obsidian (github.com/mr8lu)
    ×0.77 85 | 3 points by mr8lu 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Cocktail Party in the Street: An Interview with Alan Stillman (2010) (ediblegeography.com)
    ×0.22 81 #36 | 7 points by NaOH 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world (impossiblemachines.xyz)
    ×0.69 49 #50 | 76 points by bhaprayan 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???