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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.51 93 #52 | 353 points by david927 1 day ago | 1096 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Which crossword generator do you use?
    ×1.43 26 | 3 points by irusik 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. SuperColoring – a simple crossword generator for learning and fun
    ×1.04 | 2 points by irusik 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27
    ×0.91 14 #63 | 7 points by lucasoshiro 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Where is all of the AI coded software?
    ×1.98 13 | 3 points by wNjdbfm 34 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Working on Plug and Play personal AI Memory that works across AI agents
    ×0.43 | 2 points by heysrb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why 17?
    ×1.01 40 | 4 points by tonyvince7 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Started Learning Pentesting
    ×0.86 91 | 3 points by muzan 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What are you building,Lets explore each others
    ×1.01 37 | 3 points by Vineetyadav2 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×2.32 60 | 68 points by nunez 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.46 109 | 16 points by amichail 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.66 114 | 8 points by rylando 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.20 126 | 4 points by Aditya_0315 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.36 125 | 10 points by mondobe 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. YouTube has banned Dmitry "Savromat" Chernyshevsky
    ×0.67 102 | 5 points by eimrine 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.87 116 | 61 points by stikit 3 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What would make self-hosting easy enough for average consumers?
    ×0.40 121 | 5 points by dani4299 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Developers – Do you let agents write production code?
    ×0.59 118 | 6 points by smurf9852 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Has anyone made a legacy codebase more legible to AI coding agents?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by iacobandrei 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.33 130 | 8 points by emerongi 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A repo gained 3,278 stars while GitHub showed Andrej Karpathy as a contributor
    ×0.50 123 | 5 points by newshackee 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Screenshots on macOS don't have to be date named files with spaces
    ×0.60 124 | 5 points by cs1996 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?
    ×0.51 129 | 5 points by mehmetoguzderin 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.49 107 | 484 points by jacquesm 5 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.54 127 | 26 points by waldrews 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.20 90 | 858 points by cromka 4 days ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Warp – Run DeepSeek v4.1 Flash with 5 GB of RAM at 3.77 tok/s (github.com/sqliteai)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by marcobambini 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: ResolveHQ – A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues (github.com/mirza-rizvi)
    ×0.59 119 | 72 points by mirza_rizvi 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Archiving pirate radio station Kool FM (londonist.com)
    ×0.87 16 #10 | 44 points by rdmuser 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm (github.com/enactic)
    ×1.34 19 #32 | 193 points by Lwrless 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. XCancel service is suspended until further notice (xcancel.com)
    ×4.18 5 #72 | 739 points by gaganyaan 1 day ago | 991 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (nytimes.com)
    ×1.73 100 | 123 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022) (honisoit.com)
    ×1.57 101 | 84 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 'Nick Sharpening' my UniFi setup (alec.is)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by arm32 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Sub-Agents Are Just Wrong (polylane.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by momojo 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. China spy chief points at US AI models in cyber threat warning (therecord.media)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by speckx 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: An open source safety layer for AI agent actions (github.com/CTRLRun)
    ×2.18 2 | 4 points by arpanghoshal 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped (josprague.com)
    ×1.41 14 #6 | 42 points by yosito 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Qector-mega 2.2.1 – Sub-ms QEC decoding on a 2-core CPU with zero GPU needs (zenodo.org)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by QECTOR 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Metastatic Cancer Disappeared After Two Doses of Experimental Therapy (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by speckx 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive on Intel processors (lemire.me)
    ×2.16 18 | 3 points by zdw 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Internet's Index (launchindex.app)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by rebeccajov 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera Reduced (404media.co)
    ×1.57 6 #48 | 6 points by pavel_lishin 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste (theregister.com)
    ×2.79 6 | 254 points by Alephinitesimal 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others (calif.io)
    ×2.22 93 | 103 points by negura 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance (reddit.com)
    ×2.90 75 | 94 points by vrganj 4 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview (marc.info)
    ×1.46 30 #9 | 4 points by sippingabonedry 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×3.11 9 #24 | 31 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability (tenderlovemaking.com)
    ×2.48 9 | 499 points by gregnavis 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Hazzel — a tiny, transparent coding agent for your terminal (github.com/mukundzha)
    ×2.05 25 | 4 points by mukundzha6 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption (bbc.com)
    ×3.00 26 #37 | 353 points by choult 7 hours ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Harness for Learning – Thoughts?
    ×0.97 | 1 points by arvindm1991 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Administrative Subpoena Powers and an Outdated Fourth Amendment Doctrine (brennancenter.org)
    ×2.10 | 2 points by hn_acker 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme (neobrutalism.dev)
    ×1.29 33 | 158 points by samke- 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×3.98 80 | 102 points by deathcakes 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Eulix - Code navigation for large codebases
    ×1.32 26 | 3 points by Nurysso 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Bough, the agent I built to replace Claude Code at work (github.com/andreylukin)
    ×5.48 11 | 10 points by alukin 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? (tintotint.eu)
    ×1.87 5 #31 | 84 points by _ZeD_ 7 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination (dailyneuron.com)
    ×1.68 64 #58 | 200 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Broken Windows, Abstractions and the Cost of Always Keeping Things Simple (pgilmartin.substack.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by birdculture 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Corded vs. Cordless: I Did the Math, and It Broke My Brain a Little (themakerdad.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by speckx 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Pulse: Proof-Oriented Programming in Concurrent Separation Logic (Output C/Rust) (fstar-lang.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by hackingonempty 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. EthosLM – natural language to walkable Minecraft cities (github.com/chaitbuilds)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by chaitbuildz 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design (formas.ai)
    ×0.77 9 #5 | 44 points by eustoria 2 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Loss. a tiny satire about AI progress (workatloss.com)
    ×1.57 14 #55 | 12 points by pbobak 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Apple's Dimensional Drawings (apple.com)
    ×2.46 43 #86 | 400 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama (patrickmccanna.net)
    ×0.81 59 #90 | 139 points by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Jinfer – AI inference engine for the JVM. AI in a jar (qxotic.ai)
    ×1.00 110 | 3 points by mukel 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Why I'm Not Worried About AI Killing Us All (hackyexperiments.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by bilater 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. DaiDocs: AI memory as a plain-text file format, not a service (github.com/Kerneta)
    ×1.70 | 2 points by Amin_Rigi 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Is AI Solving Math Too Fast? (quantabooks.org)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by digital55 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A 24/7 video channel where $5 puts your ad on air in about a minute (letmeshowyou.live)
    ×0.56 81 | 4 points by spotlayn 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released (gnu.org)
    ×1.48 29 | 3 points by thunderbong 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows (macrumors.com)
    ×2.36 30 | 224 points by tosh 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO' (techtimes.co.uk)
    ×5.21 83 | 103 points by Tiwariparth6165 2 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Building your first LLM API call in Python (step by step) (heymeraki.substack.com)
    ×0.98 17 | 8 points by heyy-meraki 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Closing the IPv6 first-packet gap with GRAND (ripe.net)
    ×0.48 35 #8 | 15 points by m_montazeri 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils (omgubuntu.co.uk)
    ×2.63 60 #49 | 255 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Pythoncall.jl – Python and Julia in Harmony (github.com/JuliaPy)
    ×0.65 86 #70 | 14 points by TheWiggles 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI is now leading driver of new cybersecurity spending (cybersecuritydive.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by speckx 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How to write an effective software design document (refactoringenglish.com)
    ×2.80 5 | 339 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The case against JPEG XL (giannirosato.com)
    ×1.82 62 | 274 points by contact9879 1 day ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cops Search Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' and 'Asdfg' (404media.co)
    ×5.24 46 | 131 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing? (youtube.com)
    ×4.91 97 | 127 points by chadgpt3 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (effort.news)
    ×5.51 60 #23 | 119 points by yusufozkan 14 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: The bottom 50% of U.S. households are short after essentials (BLS data) (whats-left-over.pages.dev)
    ×1.11 64 #43 | 4 points by pwmglenn 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ottawa to help finance nationwide sovereign internet network (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×0.87 14 #80 | 7 points by geox 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A study of sequence weighting at scale (janestreet.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by hubraumhugo 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone (DIY <€1k) (hforsten.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by jcims 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device (bkovac.github.io)
    ×1.01 9 #4 | 113 points by bobili1234 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???