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  1. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.51 9 #21 | 266 points by ex-aws-dude 16 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
    ×3.53 11 #28 | 626 points by petecooper 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.70 | 2 points by Mutinix 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.75 31 #85 | 66 points by stanislavb 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.58 | 2 points by stdc105 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by abakh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
    ×2.81 52 | 615 points by rzk 4 days ago | 748 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.88 58 | 10 points by winkelmann 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.44 55 | 295 points by petecooper 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.24 94 | 4 points by BehanPrW 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Have the PHP vulnerabilities been exploited?
    ×0.53 71 | 6 points by crisnoble 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.20 98 | 3 points by vWijdaan 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.26 97 | 14 points by masterchief166 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.34 88 | 13 points by Mobius01 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.27 109 | 6 points by parthdesai 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.36 108 | 12 points by aledevv 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.13 84 | 13 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.47 110 | 8 points by ovudus 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.26 105 | 5 points by spicygum 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×0.91 120 | 28 points by Stitch4223 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
    ×0.46 141 | 22 points by okr 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.22 87 | 17 points by shakshukan 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do you know Bitbucket are chaning their SSH endpoints?
    ×0.24 145 | 5 points by mcrmonkey 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Firefox Auto-Run on Windows
    ×0.29 136 | 3 points by BubbleRings 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old
    ×0.88 92 | 12 points by kaveh808 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×1.02 111 | 16 points by lualover 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.46 137 | 10 points by thechairman12 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Friends, what is your Plan B?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by wombat-man 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. TI C66X / Ad Sharc+ Decompilers
    ×0.50 143 | 5 points by kavinsky777 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Financial Audit of DuckDuckGo?
    ×0.56 114 | 9 points by giantg2 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Should HN add a "Show AI" prefix for AI-related or AI-assisted projects?
    ×0.64 107 | 3 points by wslh 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day
    ×0.30 131 | 10 points by kinj28 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: I picked up knitting while waiting for my AI agent to complete
    ×1.11 144 | 12 points by amelius 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share?
    ×0.68 138 | 10 points by erelong 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I built ESP32-S3 LED tubes for live coding (github.com/genbs)
    ×0.79 139 | 3 points by genbs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Kstreams-ts – Kafka Streams-style stateful processing for Node.js (github.com/biogin)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by modernnn 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Make headless screenshots of GeoJSON on maps with a fast, native app (github.com/baol)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by baol 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. PHP 8.5 reimplemented from scratch in Rust (github.com/francescotinti)
    ×1.38 35 | 3 points by hiccuphippo 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Crusoe to deploy AI cloud in Paraguay powered by the Itaipu dam (crusoe.ai)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by dvaplima 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability (eliastaylor.com)
    ×3.86 23 | 618 points by zkldi 1 day ago | 459 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” (duckdb.org)
    ×1.92 14 | 457 points by nnx 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Rule 30: one black cell (wolframcollatzmahler.com)
    ×0.62 24 #64 | 20 points by amichail 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OpenAI CLI (github.com/openai)
    ×1.78 14 #83 | 237 points by armcat 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: pdf editor - I rebuild PDFs into editable HTML objects, in the browser (blueberry-shake.pages.dev)
    ×1.36 95 | 4 points by HopeLion 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: App Factory – 42 Claude Code skills to ship apps to App Store and Play (github.com/yybd)
    ×0.47 115 | 3 points by yybd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What Is a "Harness"? (twitter.com/theo)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by cmpit 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents (github.com/omnara-ai)
    ×0.99 45 | 111 points by kmansm27 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Walkman – turn-by-turn routing in the browser, built from vector tiles (walkman.uz)
    ×1.48 73 | 4 points by sardor_r1 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Tinytowns, a small model to generate realistic sounding town names (quirkyagents.com)
    ×0.58 124 | 3 points by dave8172 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices (github.com/oosexgang)
    ×2.27 12 #20 | 471 points by aghuang 22 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.22 6 #55 | 29 points by vintagedave 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework (github.com/vladocar)
    ×0.93 61 | 97 points by bepero 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides (claude.com)
    ×1.79 43 | 88 points by gmays 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer (celphase.github.io)
    ×1.20 89 | 179 points by celphase 6 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Php2ShellCheck – Python script that checks for vuln indicators (github.com/jgatka)
    ×1.63 101 | 4 points by ShredOnArrival 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: CodeCatch gets 2FA codes from texts and email for you and your agents (github.com/ugzv)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by survivingg 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out (php.net)
    ×4.42 28 | 278 points by timvdalen 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose (wvez.org)
    ×1.92 60 | 85 points by wvez22 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Hexal – Modal text editor with feature parity with Helix, Lua plugins (hexal.pages.dev)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by whatever990 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: State Machines for Software Factories (twitter.com/backnotprop)
    ×1.61 90 | 3 points by ramoz 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best (harvard.edu)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by torutofu 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Beef production in Brazil is the largest driver of global deforestation (ourworldindata.org)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by surprisetalk 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Chicken Bench (github.com/mohsen1)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by mohsen1 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: How to Speed Up VLA Training Step by Step:3× Acceleration on Pi0.5 (baidu-baige.github.io)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by nullnonenilNULL 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Anthropic strikes deal to launch European consultancy (ft.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by doener 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Vazhaipoo Vadai – Banana Flower Recipe (vegrecipesofindia.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by mooreds 27 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. No iPad Till After Dinner, Mom (readwise.io)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by ColinWright 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. TOKI: Officially Licensed Ports for Mega Drive, Neo Geo and Amiga AGA (newoldpixels.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by doener 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Plex laid off the whole player team (plex.tv)
    ×4.54 38 | 160 points by zzyzxd 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name (404media.co)
    ×4.33 30 #57 | 644 points by oidar 1 day ago | 655 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Meta Muse hits 10M users (fortune.com)
    ×1.25 8 #80 | 9 points by satvikpendem 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: CertAvert – Free SSL/TLS tools and certificate expiry alerts (certavert.com)
    ×1.06 130 | 4 points by asiliev20 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video] (yle.fi)
    ×0.66 41 #81 | 68 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic (oist.jp)
    ×1.01 50 | 128 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Fire hazard zone, power line risk and fire history for any CA address (firezones.info)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by raffys 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms (globus.software)
    ×1.14 45 #41 | 220 points by molind 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Scrolling Text – animated text overlays in the browser (scrollingtext.app)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by perryzheng 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN (ranet3.com)
    ×0.50 122 | 40 points by StepBroBD 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight (eigenmoon.vercel.app)
    ×0.72 59 #68 | 69 points by jessicarumbelow 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I built a Markdown and raw HTML blog platform scoring 99 on PageSpeed (bloffy.co)
    ×1.24 69 | 28 points by textlanes33 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. EU Member States approve "digital expropriation" of Europeans for AI companies (noyb.eu)
    ×2.29 55 | 3 points by ibobev 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden (berget.ai)
    ×2.78 78 | 127 points by jlundberg 6 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher (github.com/AbdullahAlhariri)
    ×0.88 81 | 66 points by abdullahalharir 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Renor – private memory for coding agents, shared across tools over MCP (github.com/patrickpassosb)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by patrickpassosbb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.66 30 #30 | 338 points by entryleveljobsc 1 day ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Build a Small Transformer from Scratch (stochastic.blog)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by Anon84 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Who has patched PHP2Shell? I checked nearly 1M websites (vu.co.uk)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by hawke 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping (sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app)
    ×1.40 80 | 253 points by critiquebrowser 5 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 2 #69 | 136 points by jrepinc 19 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???