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  1. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.29 64 | 3 points by slake 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.32 61 | 12 points by sroussey 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×0.99 48 | 70 points by adithyassekhar 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?
    ×0.53 97 | 3 points by apatheticonion 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is AI resulting in net revenue gain for non-tech companies?
    ×0.71 81 | 9 points by jusonchan81 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished
    ×0.34 99 | 9 points by Aldipower 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.49 96 | 588 points by _-x-_ 5 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. What do you want to see in a next-generation GitHub in the age of AI?
    ×0.17 120 | 3 points by skeedle 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Anybody Using Codex?
    ×0.50 113 | 4 points by cl3misch 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?
    ×0.97 103 | 22 points by moomoo11 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Claude.ai down again?
    ×0.76 91 | 34 points by zh_code 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.78 94 | 80 points by altairprime 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is it still worth it to try to get a job in IT
    ×0.23 147 | 8 points by morpheos137 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. RNet: Users pay for their own AI usage instead of apps covering token costs
    ×0.18 153 | 3 points by rNetAi 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Recommended Gemini CLI extensions/skills for token consumption
    ×0.16 | 2 points by elC0mpa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What I changed in how I use Claude Code after Anthropic's postmortem
    ×0.48 138 | 6 points by cinooo 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.99 154 | 109 points by LatencyKills 6 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Increase in Claude Code speed bumps?
    ×0.11 170 | 3 points by jesse_dot_id 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Hosted Fossil for small teams – interesting, or wrong call?
    ×0.47 144 | 7 points by ragelink 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is it just me or is Claude Code getting worse?
    ×0.56 132 | 31 points by e-nouri 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare
    ×0.77 149 | 31 points by rincebrain 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook
    ×0.71 151 | 23 points by samarthv 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: If coding gets faster, where should architecture happen?
    ×0.37 158 | 7 points by karlosh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly have Brawls Stars on their iPhone?
    ×0.26 171 | 4 points by realberkeaslan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do you think AI will end up like dotcom?
    ×1.69 125 | 9 points by dicksent 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Unusual Wikipedia (nk412.com)
    ×5.53 146 | 40 points by grilledchickenw 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×1.15 5 #13 | 15 points by smaddrellmander 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve? (pomax.github.io)
    ×1.05 40 #37 | 137 points by mostlyk 21 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: In the age of AI do we need to learn how to code?
    ×1.14 | 2 points by JasonHEIN 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs (bbc.com)
    ×3.71 74 | 492 points by gorbachev 18 hours ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Apple reports second quarter results (apple.com)
    ×2.29 47 | 87 points by mfiguiere 10 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Agent that refuses to run commands without human approval (github.com/few-sh)
    ×0.57 121 | 10 points by hexer303 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) (amusingplanet.com)
    ×0.98 56 #61 | 119 points by CGMthrowaway 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.96 14 #74 | 17 points by brandonb 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Mike Stonebraker on Disagreeing with Google, Postgres, Future Problems [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by tosh 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.77 37 #36 | 61 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell (pu.dev)
    ×1.36 6 #56 | 75 points by nahimn 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Monopoly Concepts in Microeconomics: De Beers and Diamond Industry (studocu.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by cathrinea 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I built a dual crossword puzzle where two crosswords share one grid (forkle.co.uk)
    ×0.63 164 | 20 points by daveoshawrus 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.85 66 #81 | 132 points by sandslash 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Task-Specific LLM Evals That Do and Don't Work (eugeneyan.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by eigenBasis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Workforce Transparency Act [pdf] (senate.gov)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game (options-game-polymathrobotics.pythonanywhere.com)
    ×0.67 161 | 36 points by iliabara 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mit.edu)
    ×2.31 5 #1 | 547 points by the-mitr 14 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (rivian.com)
    ×3.15 7 #9 | 599 points by Cider9986 10 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions (404privacy.com)
    ×3.83 87 | 418 points by un-nf 11 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: An attempt to grow a mind – building software with an inner life (momentbymoment.app)
    ×0.40 124 | 12 points by shahabebrahimi 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
    ×1.31 116 | 189 points by 2DcAf 4 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I Built GeoGuesser but for Guns (gunguesser.com)
    ×1.76 | 2 points by salad-vr 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Surviving Black Friday: 329B requests with Falcon (speakerdeck.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by ksec 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year (foxnews.com)
    ×2.52 68 | 89 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Stateless, system-wide Transparent Tor Proxy for Linux (v0.1.0) (github.com/onyks-os)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by onyks 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: GeoTraceroute – Traceroutes on a 3D globe and submarine cables (geotraceroute.com)
    ×4.79 134 | 21 points by Himred 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant (heise.de)
    ×0.90 64 #45 | 55 points by pantalaimon 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Openpi-flash: Real-time inference engine for openpi (github.com/Hebbian-Robotics)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by kstonekuan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. US telecom agency votes to expand tech crackdown on China (reuters.com)
    ×3.16 34 | 5 points by l2dy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Starlink hack that doomed Russian troops [video] (thetimes.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Mark Zuckerberg Says AI Costs Contributed to Layoffs of 8k Staffers (forbes.com)
    ×2.32 2 | 4 points by ZeidJ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ghostty is leaving GitHub (mitchellh.com)
    ×11.87 16 #51 | 3463 points by WadeGrimridge 2 days ago | 1033 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Are you richer than your neighbor? (brokeorrich.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by Mawenzi 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Sure: The personal finance app, community fork of Maybe Finance (github.com/we-promise)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by sebakubisz 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Phase Router – capacity-aware routing for MoE (github.com/TSltd)
    ×1.29 109 | 4 points by TSltd 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Agented, a Text Editor for LLMs (github.com/frane)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by frb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)
    ×1.80 15 #17 | 300 points by vok 18 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve (phys.org)
    ×1.47 44 #41 | 19 points by wglb 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Copy Fail (copy.fail)
    ×5.52 17 #48 | 1385 points by unsnap_biceps 1 day ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (github.com/FeSens)
    ×1.26 62 | 238 points by fesens 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.10 63 | 115 points by zdw 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Monad Tutorials Timeline (haskell.org)
    ×0.89 61 #66 | 97 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Where would an offline fail-closed supervisor be useful? (madadh.systems)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by MADADAHSYSTEMS 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Sniffing EU Smart Meters with a Flipper Zero (WM-Bus / 868MHz) (github.com/i12bp8)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by i12bp8 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Don't forget: The plural of anecdote is data (danwin.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by aesthesia 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: Bedrock,Vertex AI etc. Support Anthropic Models
    ×0.67 | 1 points by nethi 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI's Models to Train Its Own (wired.com)
    ×4.50 49 | 8 points by satai 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. All the Sad Young Chinese Professionals (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.29 7 | 5 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (theargumentmag.com)
    ×2.41 #5 | 302 points by ilamont 10 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home (gilesthomas.com)
    ×1.73 24 #25 | 188 points by gpjt 16 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8 (alphaxiv.org)
    ×0.61 46 #33 | 26 points by measurablefunc 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me (github.com/carlovalenti)
    ×0.61 36 #79 | 34 points by carlovalenti 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials (promptarmor.com)
    ×0.83 55 #86 | 140 points by takira 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Stream iOS Simulators to a Browser Window (github.com/EvanBacon)
    ×0.79 167 | 3 points by EvanBacon 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong (theconversation.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by zeristor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Japan intervened in its Curreny price (fxstreet.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by mark336 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns (cowboystatedaily.com)
    ×2.16 70 | 110 points by Bender 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How an oil refinery works (construction-physics.com)
    ×2.10 8 #14 | 395 points by chmaynard 17 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Hearts of the Super Nintendo (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.39 11 #35 | 24 points by droppedasbaby 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity (mit.edu)
    ×0.97 33 #38 | 90 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Lightweight OpenCode profile for routine dev work with focused agents (github.com/gc-victor)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by gcv 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???