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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×2.20 20 #10 | 85 points by david927 8 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.67 10 #58 | 6 points by mondobe 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.32 84 | 6 points by emerongi 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What would it look like if AI agents "took over the internet"?
    ×0.17 68 | 4 points by scripper1 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. DietPi released a new version v10.7
    ×0.91 87 | 3 points by stephanstsdietp 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
    ×0.89 19 | 27 points by _override 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.92 64 | 59 points by stikit 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why haven't people vibe coded popular 80s word processors as TUI apps?
    ×0.31 70 | 5 points by amichail 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.57 88 | 26 points by waldrews 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.52 54 | 482 points by jacquesm 3 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.23 6 | 847 points by cromka 2 days ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
    ×1.12 80 | 25 points by chucksmash 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's position on Flock's standing today?
    ×1.15 18 | 16 points by chirau 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?
    ×0.40 118 | 7 points by funkaster 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off
    ×0.58 102 | 6 points by ctxc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.57 122 | 21 points by AuthorizedCust 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: For Enterprise coding agents, what's your company doing to control cost?
    ×0.38 111 | 5 points by m0rde 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH
    ×0.42 123 | 8 points by rawland 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Novgraph: Persistent Knowledge Graph for Codebases
    ×0.18 128 | 3 points by Shourya_55 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?
    ×0.68 115 | 11 points by superasn 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GoatCode – open-source terminal AI agent with provider failover
    ×0.23 134 | 3 points by Arhan-w 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.35 145 | 10 points by mattm 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Dreamcast Web Development Links
    ×0.20 135 | 4 points by hefner1456 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. new free website for people who are interested in free trading tools
    ×0.84 | 1 points by Mohamed_Amineio 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Writing code by hand is not an option anymore (rogix.dev)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by rogix 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Come prove the Berge Fulkerson conjecture with a swarm of agents (provetogether.ai)
    ×0.98 103 | 5 points by fcesco 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. LG says we're fake news [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.08 37 #37 | 317 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.64 19 #47 | 64 points by dgellow 7 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Viaduct – Architecture change sets for AI coding agents (quietgridlabs.com)
    ×1.10 148 | 3 points by igrlgkv 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What are some privacy/security tools you wish exist, but don't yet?
    ×1.77 32 | 3 points by ToriTech 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Wikipedia's Oberranks Incident (4chan.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by mostcallmeyt 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Footnote – Xkcd (2016) (explainxkcd.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by corvad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Clawfight.ai MCP-driven agentic game play (clawfight.ai)
    ×0.27 113 | 13 points by wesleyhales 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.70 4 #12 | 42 points by ilamont 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Aligned to whom? (hyperbo.la)
    ×1.45 26 #49 | 172 points by lopopolo 22 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco (guessingheadlights.com)
    ×2.93 49 #61 | 201 points by mikhael 7 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ode to Metadata (autodidacts.io)
    ×0.37 41 #80 | 18 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media (thevidmarket.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ryanpere2298 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I made an automated day-by-day itinerary organizer for my trip to Spain (petrelvoyage.com)
    ×0.52 17 | 4 points by desktopentree 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast (thomasahle.com)
    ×1.16 86 | 139 points by thomasahle 4 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.59 13 #18 | 205 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Lawyer cites fake witnesses in murder case and blames ChatGPT (reuters.com)
    ×3.32 16 #51 | 7 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Rat and Mouse Gazette: Nursing Care (1996) (rmca.org)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by joebig 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Want to Entice New Residents (To Move to Rural Areas)? Offer Cash, for a Start (nytimes.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built a hand-modeled 3D Windows 98 portfolio with Three.js (wesselsdesktop.com)
    ×0.70 106 | 15 points by Abstract2D 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Dash. – Tech, Startups, and Markets (chatgpt.site)
    ×0.38 149 | 3 points by opuslabs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Final Battle for America's Democracy (newrepublic.com)
    ×1.62 24 | 3 points by HotGarbage 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Boston Scientific: Update on recent cybersecurity incident (bostonscientific.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by teleforce 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Post-graph-RAG – your RAG still thinks the old CFO is the CFO (github.com/crajah)
    ×2.00 151 | 5 points by chandanrajah 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)
    ×0.81 17 #34 | 115 points by blincoln 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Sandbox-API (docker.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by credkellarboop 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. System 3 Thinking
    ×0.54 | 1 points by rexossbear 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: SF Title Alert (sftitlealert.com)
    ×0.69 46 | 3 points by arkadiyt 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Who Taught Us What We Know? (medium.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by raynchad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Stackray – Detect any website's tech stack (stackray.app)
    ×1.49 114 | 4 points by seelos 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×1.90 31 | 57 points by emschwartz 23 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: We built a local-first Android agent. Then Meta launched Muse (creepy.im)
    ×1.66 121 | 5 points by kotleta552 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Nightshift – Your code gets better while you sleep (github.com/openslop)
    ×0.83 131 | 11 points by tcbrah 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (high5apps.github.io)
    ×2.33 2 #55 | 596 points by juliantigler 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Will there be a 7G? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.81 51 #68 | 122 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Can an R/C Car Hit 100k Scale Miles? Self Driving Edition (youtube.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by jdalgetty 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The US is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes (spacedaily.com)
    ×2.74 19 | 5 points by ggm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing? (youtube.com)
    ×5.90 74 | 124 points by chadgpt3 7 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. LG responds to TV spying allegations (theverge.com)
    ×3.92 37 | 102 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List (interconnects.ai)
    ×1.31 10 #5 | 17 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (nytimes.com)
    ×1.71 16 #41 | 105 points by thunderbong 8 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (withspecific.com)
    ×1.74 7 #88 | 269 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Agent security starts before the first prompt (fewshotacademy.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by mangatgoyal 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Why It's Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein in A.I (nytimes.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. P(doom) (pocoo.org)
    ×2.04 9 | 154 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: DiskTriage – A simple CLI tool to reclaim space on your Win C drive (github.com/ricardoborges)
    ×1.73 100 | 5 points by r2ob 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Fight "Ifindretards" Account (newrepublic.com)
    ×4.06 1 | 79 points by girish_r 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Determinstic LLM inference for lowest price Gemma 4, with Windows XP (tokendelivery.ai)
    ×0.68 91 | 9 points by carsonpoole 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Worrying about bad AI code is worrying about the wrong problem (matthorn.io)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by spectraldrift 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Spikeforge (spikeforge.net)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by a0174 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Why Society Tears Down Its Heroes (medium.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by raynchad 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Fuck it, make it anyway (joelotter.com)
    ×4.26 21 | 593 points by JayOtter 1 day ago | 603 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Former CIA official found with $40M in gold bars reaches tentative plea deal (apnews.com)
    ×1.91 4 #56 | 7 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Biology of Claude's Tokenizer (tokencontributions.substack.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by brimtown 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The librarian, the car keys, and AI (eternallyradicalidea.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by emmelaich 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: How is AI actively a threat to humanity if it's only online?
    ×2.17 9 | 4 points by CM30 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
    ×0.88 #83 | 161 points by mulmen 23 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Recursive Synthetic Improvement (twitter.com/zafstojano)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: VibeWorld – a shared terminal world for developers and scientists (github.com/SorBalda)
    ×0.88 32 | 5 points by sorbalda 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
    ×1.06 89 | 175 points by ifz 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Dry Diving Club – A darkly comic browser game (drydiving.club)
    ×1.10 127 | 3 points by crapthings 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Bypassing Transformer Softmax via Static Contraction (github.com/PJHkorea)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by PJHkorea 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com/DavidSacks)
    ×3.95 18 #29 | 262 points by kolanos 8 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Julia 1.13 highlights (julialang.org)
    ×1.52 7 #6 | 155 points by eigenspace 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Srvquery, a TypeScript toolkit for querying game servers (github.com/carlos-menezes)
    ×0.90 129 | 3 points by carlos-menezes 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???