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  1. Is aerc better than neomutt now?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by hardikxk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?
    ×0.80 26 | 9 points by current_robot 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
    ×0.47 28 | 3 points by ovi_firstqa 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.25 87 | 157 points by syntaxbush 4 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.86 76 | 104 points by gcanyon 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×0.53 71 | 14 points by andyjohnson0 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.72 86 | 66 points by oscgam1 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.43 80 | 7 points by petemc_ 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.46 63 | 109 points by PhilipDaineko 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.45 91 | 35 points by mzubairtahir 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.53 116 | 38 points by JohnDSDev 5 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
    ×1.22 56 | 52 points by trowa159 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.51 112 | 6 points by i_am_rocoe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.38 106 | 8 points by thoughtpeddler 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. We need tech news sources which exclude AI
    ×3.78 11 | 128 points by botfriendsarent 18 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit
    ×1.30 95 | 7 points by akarshhegde18 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.66 105 | 10 points by justanything 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.33 129 | 5 points by howToTestFE 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.51 123 | 15 points by mellosty 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.31 134 | 6 points by HoldOnAMinute 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×1.12 107 | 11 points by aurenvale 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Fast feedback loops is the way
    ×0.51 113 | 5 points by skyglider 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Recursive self improvement for human skills
    ×0.38 125 | 4 points by rando77 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.50 141 | 20 points by niyazpk 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.65 136 | 6 points by throwaw12 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Data Privacy while using API tools
    ×0.19 131 | 4 points by 11shyam11 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×1.70 102 | 23 points by notsure357 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Mojo is becoming open source
    ×0.92 109 | 8 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?
    ×0.57 117 | 7 points by reinhardt 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.30 133 | 8 points by netfortius 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.45 124 | 16 points by othmanosx 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×0.66 137 | 8 points by VaderAi 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.83 138 | 23 points by tossitawayplz 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn?
    ×0.44 148 | 4 points by datsci_est_2015 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification (acm.org)
    ×1.17 27 #17 | 26 points by eatonphil 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Taking an Up-Close Look at the Supermicro GB300 Super AI Station – ServeTheHome (servethehome.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: HyperPaste – a free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS (hyperpaste.io)
    ×1.54 15 | 4 points by thequietmind 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format (oak-invest.github.io)
    ×1.10 90 | 20 points by straumat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Caliper – pass@k reliability testing for Claude Code and Codex skills (github.com/edonadei)
    ×0.86 104 | 3 points by edonadei 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020) (openculture.com)
    ×1.05 39 #53 | 165 points by MaysonL 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer) (github.com/macshome)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech (theintercept.com)
    ×5.30 23 | 69 points by xrd 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Codeberg Is Down (anoxinon.de)
    ×2.71 72 | 56 points by sscaryterry 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. WASM on the JVM Ships Under the Bytecode Alliance (foojay.io)
    ×1.16 53 #46 | 12 points by dustingetz 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Crossbeam-CLI – Connect Claude to Crossbeam without the enterprise tier (fan-pier-labs.github.io)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ryanhughes 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models (cnbc.com)
    ×2.17 17 | 158 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike (lloydslist.com)
    ×1.71 73 | 59 points by everybodyknows 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on (github.com/Fran314)
    ×0.48 108 | 30 points by Fran314 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (microsoft.com)
    ×1.20 43 #82 | 144 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online (eff.org)
    ×4.42 22 #86 | 607 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)
    ×3.99 55 | 810 points by ytkimirti 4 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram (nsspot.herokuapp.com)
    ×0.35 118 | 9 points by jupr 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Context Warp Drive – deterministic folding for LLM agents (github.com/dogtorjonah)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by VoxxoAI 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Pocket Raises $11M as Demand Surges for Its Personal AI Assistant Device (yahoo.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by doppp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (quickish.space)
    ×0.93 75 | 110 points by PaybackTony 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com/inkeep)
    ×1.87 69 | 376 points by engomez 4 days ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.42 21 #35 | 147 points by Pop_- 14 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How to build fast hierarchies for game objects using data oriented design (medium.com)
    ×1.66 16 #57 | 3 points by ajmmertens 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. This will save you hours on your CCNA/CCNP (reddit.com)
    ×6.00 68 | 6 points by salad_vr 7 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The warped space of M C Escher (wordpress.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by behnamoh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025) (cbc.ca)
    ×0.94 39 | 105 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Motif Atlas – recurring patterns behind complex systems (nikitph.github.io)
    ×1.83 132 | 9 points by loaderchips 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Federating Clusters for Zero-Downtime Kubernetes (linkerd.io)
    ×0.57 37 #44 | 30 points by PagCatOli 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. KitForge–generate an AI agent manifest; scaffold with enforced approval gates (agent-kits.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by stoicstoic 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Solod v0.2: Networking, new targets, friendlier interop (antonz.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by jabits 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online (eff.org)
    ×5.37 3 | 74 points by rmason 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Working with AI (htmx.org)
    ×2.18 8 #41 | 31 points by comma_at 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Deep Dive: High Throughput Migration (medium.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by klaussy 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A map of every UK railway, including stations that no longer exist (trainmap.co.uk)
    ×0.28 | 2 points by optionalltd 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Change (kucoin.com)
    ×1.72 20 #43 | 35 points by lmartineng 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Historical memory prices 1960-2026 (stanford.edu)
    ×2.00 6 #65 | 385 points by vga1 23 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Zanagrams (zanagrams.com)
    ×2.04 15 #85 | 362 points by pompomsheep 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.17 #89 | 185 points by theahura 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs (msn.com)
    ×3.39 48 | 200 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (quesma.com)
    ×2.50 #1 | 164 points by stared 1 hour ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Choosing a Public DNS Resolver (evilbit.de)
    ×1.84 33 | 279 points by pawal 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Backtest a futures strategy described in plain English (askfutures.com)
    ×1.03 35 | 5 points by jmulla 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: FSM – an advanced system monitor for Linux (github.com/mskrasnov)
    ×1.40 78 | 27 points by mskrasnov 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 (danunparsed.com)
    ×4.22 9 #10 | 883 points by sambellll 16 hours ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them (edera.dev)
    ×0.95 26 #27 | 107 points by sys_call 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Shacam for macOS – Screen sharing you can touch (shacam.com)
    ×1.04 58 | 5 points by renatoworks 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I built a tool that matches Founders to VCs based on their pitch deck (investormatch.pro)
    ×0.58 157 | 3 points by MartinTobias 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by igortru 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Halgorithem – an open-source tool for detecting AI hallucinations (github.com/TangibleResearch)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by reboy 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.32 | 133 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.60 45 | 52 points by vforno 22 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: XSDR – Real-time event monitoring infrastructure for agents (xsdr.app)
    ×0.53 70 | 9 points by wcrann3 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. An interactive PyTorch debugger that looks deep inside your neural net (github.com/kongaskristjan)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by krussikas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: The CLI for browser agents (fuckui.com)
    ×1.39 83 | 4 points by keepamovin 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A Living Neural Web in HTML5 Canvas (techoreon.github.io)
    ×1.70 110 | 7 points by guptalog 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???