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  1. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.68 11 #42 | 109 points by mlaux 12 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.58 95 #65 | 24 points by GustavHartz 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.55 30 #73 | 24 points by shriy-singh 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
    ×0.52 26 #89 | 18 points by tkdb 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.53 65 | 9 points by sathomasga 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×1.00 46 | 8 points by consumer451 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.41 80 | 4 points by cehgmaster 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×1.14 83 | 4 points by george_max 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.26 87 | 4 points by jviotti 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.31 | 2 points by iambateman 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma
    ×1.68 75 | 5 points by vdfs 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: LM Studio Bionic with Python?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by HoldOnAMinute 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by har-ki 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by par 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to secure your code and services?
    ×0.84 115 | 3 points by cpa 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
    ×0.94 100 | 153 points by semidror 4 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Migrating personal email domain from Gmail to iCloud?
    ×1.26 114 | 4 points by osener 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.20 133 | 5 points by esher 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Where to look for jobs?
    ×1.75 118 | 5 points by 0x737368 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription?
    ×1.12 128 | 4 points by preommr 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does a startup need both founder and company X accounts?
    ×0.91 139 | 3 points by OnionLayers 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?
    ×0.93 140 | 3 points by ak39 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.42 120 | 22 points by phendrenad2 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.42 142 | 16 points by xnx 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.43 132 | 22 points by itsjeremiahs 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Folks familiar with infections after TKA
    ×0.84 146 | 3 points by zafka 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?
    ×0.92 148 | 3 points by sarangk90 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. When Claude CLI asks for feedback, responding authorizes conversation capture
    ×0.62 145 | 25 points by mmaunder 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: PSA: AI can make old games run on 64-bit macOS
    ×1.36 96 | 6 points by Razengan 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Understanding Runtime Governance for Enterprise AI Deployment
    ×0.10 153 | 4 points by thespotlessmind 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?
    ×0.28 154 | 10 points by kooldeep7 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?
    ×0.22 151 | 5 points by d675 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I Built a Wine Atlas
    ×0.42 156 | 5 points by keremiis 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?
    ×0.48 126 | 14 points by Hex08 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?
    ×0.59 135 | 11 points by mattm 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini (nyaa.sh)
    ×1.60 7 #44 | 271 points by hugh4life 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin (robertmay.photography)
    ×0.41 65 #49 | 24 points by robotmay 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers (usestable.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Biggest design mistake I made when we moved OpenClaw to SQLite: using sync db (twitter.com/steipete)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by tosh 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Great news from Saturn's moon Enceladus in the search for life in space (eurekalert.org)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Most Hated Tools (mosthatedtools.app)
    ×1.20 86 | 29 points by leonagano 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Aslmp, an async Python SLMP client for Mitsubishi MELSEC PLCs (github.com/AcaysiaChem)
    ×1.26 93 | 3 points by AiasT 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Factorio that you can touch (factorio.com)
    ×3.65 23 #40 | 328 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. We asked Seedance, Veo and Kling to spill a glass of water. None of them could (humansignal.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by ReDeiPirati 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Finding the Purpose of Life (medium.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by ravitandon1990 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why (ai-rete-rag.com)
    ×0.44 117 | 44 points by ZaharaHussain 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes (github.com/aru-labs)
    ×0.62 121 | 67 points by aru-labs 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us (theguardian.com)
    ×3.29 44 #84 | 201 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Typst makes big strides (lwn.net)
    ×2.70 5 #55 | 111 points by leephillips 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Jev4j (github.com/maxsumrall)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by jsumrall 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering (madhukaraphatak.in)
    ×1.10 60 | 107 points by phatak-dev 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.59 77 | 46 points by miguelrios 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.60 49 | 848 points by MitPitt 2 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy (gmays.com)
    ×0.99 24 #31 | 91 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Botbin.io – pastebin for AI agent artifacts (botbin.io)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by obilgic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Recurse – Develop and deploy specialist agents faster (recurse.run)
    ×0.27 90 #69 | 5 points by ozankabak 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Is this the best condom? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by thelastgallon 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Tenjin – A Jev based x402 tool router for Claude Code (github.com/BackTrackCo)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by AliAbdoli 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Pencils Down, Notation Up (intertwingly.net)
    ×1.44 4 #57 | 9 points by ghuntley 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. An LLM Beat NetHack (kenforthewin.github.io)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by EvgeniyZh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I built a seriously detailed free financial planner (finzot.com)
    ×0.84 147 | 3 points by ryan3789437 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html) (arusekk.pl)
    ×1.31 51 #74 | 147 points by arusekk 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk (cnbc.com)
    ×3.29 16 #25 | 438 points by cramer4next 16 hours ago | 756 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Initial DIY cleanroom experimentation (jefftk.com)
    ×0.84 42 #62 | 23 points by luu 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system (robertsdotpm.github.io)
    ×0.61 32 #64 | 14 points by Uptrenda 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: WhiteScreenLight.com– A pure white screen for testing/ lighting (whitescreenlight.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by TechDevArchitec 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Two-tier encryption in the UK (macanorak.com)
    ×2.36 2 | 502 points by ReturnoftheHack 1 day ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Allow babywearing carriers on planes (jefftk.com)
    ×2.15 56 | 196 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Born after 26 Sept. 1983? You may never have existed (surge.sh)
    ×1.29 108 | 3 points by BaudouinVH 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin (ieee.org)
    ×1.13 38 #20 | 40 points by marc__1 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.37 11 #37 | 138 points by behoove 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special (mouse.dev)
    ×1.94 9 #41 | 129 points by Aeroi 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.01 64 | 90 points by speckx 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Wave – Layered gradient wave backgrounds using Three.js and shaders (subworkflow.ai)
    ×2.09 95 | 5 points by jimle_uk 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Xudanu – Nelson's Xanadu Gold, Working in Rust (xudanu.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by jgdgj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models (ollaya.dev)
    ×2.18 3 #4 | 423 points by Ardakilic 13 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and Churches (2017) [pdf] (bgas.org.uk)
    ×0.32 51 #81 | 15 points by dvt 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by blutack 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? (safenotsafe.dev)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by vira28 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Translate a SVG back to a diagram – drawio (zoosky.github.io)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by akapaka 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
    ×1.80 12 #32 | 384 points by yurivish 20 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (launchvideo.io)
    ×3.04 4 #82 | 411 points by iacguy 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI’s Systems Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (nytimes.com)
    ×3.94 23 #67 | 39 points by jbegley 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in boot sector (github.com/0xAX)
    ×0.59 109 | 27 points by 0xAX 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Wiki Deep dive into Standard diving dress (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by sans_souse 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: A game about fake news and memes (unspin.app)
    ×0.44 60 #35 | 15 points by azermite 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. US DOE will give $5.25B to upgrade the grid for AI datacenters (theregister.com)
    ×2.12 9 #48 | 4 points by meredithbloom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Getting Deeper into Local Inference (octet-stream.net)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by thombles 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Goodbye Google (ocallahan.org)
    ×7.35 17 | 249 points by Murmuring9087 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor (github.com/microsoft)
    ×2.34 44 | 74 points by 2Ucoder 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???