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  1. Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?
    ×1.07 | 2 points by coolcoder613 49 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward?
    ×0.30 22 | 10 points by amichail 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Best worldwide / classic phone games?
    ×0.16 76 | 4 points by bix6 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?
    ×0.51 69 | 19 points by MollyRealized 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Is a Claw driven Hacker News user a problem?
    ×0.47 68 | 6 points by delichon 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Are Tech Meetups Dead?
    ×0.75 59 | 10 points by mlinhares 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. $100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading
    ×0.33 92 | 3 points by jph 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does anyone what a "RiotCache.dat" file was doing in my EFI partition?
    ×0.14 105 | 5 points by kromerless 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is $300/HR too low these days for custom full stack?
    ×0.44 90 | 15 points by noduerme 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.40 77 | 178 points by srameshc 4 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The solution the supply chain problems is removing your deps from .gitignore
    ×0.65 85 | 9 points by SchizoDuckie 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?
    ×0.29 99 | 5 points by creatorcoder 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.91 102 | 61 points by summonerOS 5 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Using games/cards to learn new skills
    ×0.33 101 | 5 points by dominikz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.93 112 | 37 points by 0rganize 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.45 113 | 19 points by mjb8086 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
    ×0.33 123 | 9 points by js98 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do you have a colophon for your personal website?
    ×0.37 96 | 8 points by susam 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit
    ×0.42 111 | 5 points by Stanlyya 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: I went to Alaska's northernmost town and this was the GeoIP location
    ×0.61 145 | 5 points by ironmagma 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak?
    ×0.37 119 | 9 points by virgildotcodes 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.57 127 | 32 points by sergiotapia 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.29 133 | 12 points by paulf38 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?
    ×0.39 106 | 8 points by Cheesebh 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?
    ×0.33 116 | 7 points by s3arch 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?
    ×0.12 138 | 5 points by kaycebasques 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I Miss Terry Pratchett (mahl.me)
    ×2.52 | 235 points by gorgmah 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust (github.com/harmont-dev)
    ×0.59 118 | 53 points by suis_siva 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24 (clarityboss.com)
    ×0.94 18 #18 | 78 points by dan_sbl 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.18 57 #47 | 199 points by gslin 2 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Switchberry Turns a Raspberry Pi CM4 into a Time-Focused Ethernet Switch (hackster.io)
    ×2.80 69 | 3 points by teleforce 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Remote Job Board (remotejobs.place)
    ×2.14 151 | 8 points by beefive 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tank leaking toxic chemicals in Orange County will spill or explode (abc7.com)
    ×2.32 63 | 32 points by panda88888 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
    ×3.03 66 | 721 points by zakirullin 6 days ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: AI Guided 3D atomic orbital simulation (plumocracy.com)
    ×0.75 148 | 3 points by plumocracy 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Texas Woman files lawsuit after arrest for Facebook post about polluted water (fox4news.com)
    ×5.14 61 | 44 points by SilverElfin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: A platform to find people to jam on side projects with (letsjam.live)
    ×2.89 75 | 13 points by itsmechase 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Darnix – Darwin Built with Nix (github.com/jonhermansen)
    ×3.32 104 | 13 points by jonhermansen 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Agent Chat Bridge – give AI IDE agents an async callback (github.com/sathvikc)
    ×1.11 160 | 4 points by sathvikchinnu 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU (mozilla.com)
    ×1.57 9 #9 | 57 points by luu 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.21 34 #69 | 112 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend (hollandtech.net)
    ×5.56 80 | 241 points by cdrnsf 12 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers (wired.com)
    ×3.06 3 | 207 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. New Attack "Megaladon" Compromises 5.5K+ GitHub Repos (theregister.com)
    ×2.60 52 | 51 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Open-Source Agentic QA Harness with Memory (vostride.com)
    ×0.77 137 | 17 points by pranshuchittora 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: ReTab – a Cmd+Tab-style switcher for Safari tabs (apple.com)
    ×0.62 150 | 3 points by hyouuu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Building Pi with Pi (pocoo.org)
    ×2.33 25 #21 | 67 points by mplanchard 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street (victoriaritvo.com)
    ×1.16 47 #46 | 183 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: Security Analysis of Password Managers (iacr.org)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by Ember_Wipe 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. QG: A speculative protocol treating presence and attention as value primitives (github.com/Mureskae)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by Mureskae 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Encouraging a child's gaming PC build despite fear of gaming addiction?
    ×0.39 | 1 points by marttt 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com/helvesec)
    ×1.05 71 | 190 points by shideneyu 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A satirical idle game about running an AI startup (trae.academy)
    ×1.41 86 | 11 points by haebom 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. C constructs that still don't work in C++ (lospino.so)
    ×1.42 6 #11 | 36 points by jalospinoso 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The C64 Dead Test Font (masswerk.at)
    ×1.16 40 #32 | 131 points by masswerk 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Judson's Last Ride (realclearpolitics.com)
    ×1.32 39 #51 | 135 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Robotaxis Aren't as Autonomous as They Seem (junkoyoshidaparis.substack.com)
    ×1.67 7 | 3 points by mattas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.89 68 | 206 points by moh_maya 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Calculator Music – play songs with number keys in the browser
    ×0.37 121 | 4 points by zice0503 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents (github.com/mupt-ai)
    ×0.44 125 | 23 points by byhong03 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Who Will Monetize Truth? [pdf] (readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by crcastle 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: YieldOS-Lite – A simulator for LLM inference control-plane governance (github.com/nikitph)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by loaderchips 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. High-efficiency multi-scale holographic volumetric 3Dprinting with a phase light (nature.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by anikoghosyan 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Google Wants to Own the Checkout Button (thingswithai.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by UtkarshPatel13 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act "evil" (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.00 57 | 32 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: CRED-1 – Open domain credibility dataset for on-device pre-bunking (github.com/aloth)
    ×1.09 73 | 3 points by xlth 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Glimpse, Markdown reader using Apple's on-device foundation model (apple.com)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by duman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years (alphapixeldev.com)
    ×1.10 1 #36 | 62 points by miffe 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs (uvic-aurora.github.io)
    ×0.63 50 #80 | 47 points by leomicv 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What Is a Galvayne's Groove? (cowboyway.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by thunderbong 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. NeuralNote (github.com/DamRsn)
    ×1.22 43 | 38 points by hyperific 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
    ×2.16 49 | 426 points by kageroumado 4 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility (sales-and-dungeons.app)
    ×1.10 47 #45 | 135 points by hyperific 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Vulnerability Spoiler Alert – Exposing Patches Before CVEs (vulnerabilityspoileralert.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by shaunpud 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. D. Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Running Felony Fraud Scheme Prosecutable in New York (cmarmitage.substack.com)
    ×9.03 81 | 45 points by JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A curated list of static analysis (SAST) tools (github.com/analysis-tools-dev)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: AgentLens – see if your AI features work, per customer (agentlens-demo-omega.vercel.app)
    ×0.53 120 | 3 points by MMEHTA22 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: BonzAI – self-sovereign, local LLM inference in the browser (bonzai.sh)
    ×1.33 132 | 5 points by wilhempujar 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Running BitNet b1.58 inside DRAM by breaking DDR4 timing rules
    ×1.82 98 | 6 points by pcdeni 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. My two-part desk setup (2025) (arslan.io)
    ×1.95 6 #66 | 351 points by James72689 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ego-Driven Development (ivan.codes)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by deeshee 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. FreeBSD Foundation's IRS filings, the numbers are concerning (reddit.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by sunshine-o 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. C array types are weird (anselmschueler.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by signa11 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.13 14 | 131 points by wicket 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Kanban CLI (A local-first, agent-first task manager for the terminal) (codeberg.org)
    ×1.55 62 | 10 points by hydra-f 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists (setpose.com)
    ×0.70 100 | 88 points by augustvdv 5 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.58 31 #23 | 282 points by spike021 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent (deepseek.com)
    ×4.55 33 #54 | 578 points by Tiberium 2 days ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Kevin O'Leary wants AI data centre in Utah. Some residents aren't happy (cbc.ca)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
    ×2.19 84 | 325 points by stephenlthorn 6 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???