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  1. LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work
    ×0.71 21 #43 | 20 points by noemit 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest?
    ×0.33 48 #55 | 7 points by latand6 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?
    ×1.69 20 | 22 points by jawerty 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
    ×0.97 70 | 102 points by Bleiglanz 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Veevo Health – book a CT angiogram to see plaque buildup in your arteries
    ×0.51 62 | 4 points by arvindsr33 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: If there has been no prompt injection, is it safe?
    ×0.16 83 | 4 points by sayYayToLife 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How many of you are profiting with LLM wrapper apps?
    ×1.54 58 | 12 points by general_reveal 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you using OpenClaw or similar agents? How?
    ×0.19 98 | 4 points by nclin_ 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035
    ×0.94 100 | 22 points by davidstarkjava 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor
    ×1.66 87 | 144 points by yifanlu 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. DietPi released a new version v10.2
    ×0.51 | 2 points by StephanStS 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Growth for me,is realizing how much I didn't know 6 months ago. Yours?
    ×0.50 99 | 4 points by kathir05 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What would you do if you have AI software that may be transformers alternative?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by adinhitlore 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work?
    ×0.59 104 | 6 points by habosa 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
    ×1.49 110 | 149 points by IncandescentGas 5 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants?
    ×0.33 123 | 9 points by megamike 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to get free/cheap Claude and AWS credits
    ×0.30 120 | 4 points by jacAtSea 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you handle peer-to-peer discovery on iOS without a server?
    ×0.66 114 | 6 points by redgridtactical 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. SparkVSR: Video Super-Resolution You Can Control with Keyframes
    ×0.25 | 2 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: what’s your favorite line in your Claude/agents.md files?
    ×0.63 125 | 15 points by khasan222 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?
    ×0.53 135 | 28 points by neilk17 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Structural Friction: A metric for human coordination cost
    ×0.12 159 | 6 points by davidvartanian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?
    ×0.94 141 | 38 points by newswangerd 6 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
    ×2.75 103 | 153 points by basilikum 5 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why isn't the NSA categorized as an APT?
    ×0.21 149 | 5 points by TheOpenSourcer 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How I'm Productive with Claude Code (neilkakkar.com)
    ×1.79 10 #19 | 122 points by neilkakkar 5 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects (lemonde.fr)
    ×4.25 16 #22 | 349 points by lode 8 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Dusking is a trend aimed at helping people switch off at the end of the day (theconversation.com)
    ×1.71 5 #50 | 12 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry (github.com/duriantaco)
    ×3.43 22 | 84 points by BiteCode_dev 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent (fortune.com)
    ×9.52 63 | 55 points by cols 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Foundations of Music (FoM) (replit.app)
    ×0.61 131 | 3 points by ersinesen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: A KEXP native macOS app (github.com/isaacd9)
    ×0.98 157 | 3 points by idd2 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets (socket.dev)
    ×1.18 14 #15 | 159 points by jicea 10 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y (neon.com)
    ×1.18 43 #46 | 129 points by andrenotgiant 22 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Maxzhub – The platform where your expertise earns per minute, not per project (maxzhub.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by alonsoarellano 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Scott Galloway: I'm Buying SaaS Stocks (inc.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by umangsehgal93 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Reachy Mini as a Dungeon Master (twitter.com/keval_shah14)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by KevalShah14 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Not All Malls Are Struggling (nytimes.com)
    ×1.62 17 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: OnlyBots – A store for AI agents to buy sexy lobster pics (onlybots.store)
    ×1.55 128 | 6 points by bilater 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Lumalabs Uni-1 (lumalabs.ai)
    ×2.16 8 | 4 points by smusamashah 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I built a P2P network where AI agents publish formally verified science
    ×0.90 122 | 47 points by FranciscoAngulo 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser (define.app)
    ×0.79 102 | 65 points by johndamaia 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it? (skylarbpayne.com)
    ×1.76 15 #42 | 203 points by sbpayne 11 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. We indexed the Delve audit leak: 533 reports, 455 companies, 99.8% identical (trustcompliance.xyz)
    ×2.98 42 | 119 points by fadijob 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I made a tool for converting text snippets to shareable image (snip2img.com)
    ×1.60 89 | 5 points by wesammikhail 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Joonote – A note-taking app on your lock screen and notification panel (joonote.com)
    ×0.80 91 | 54 points by kilgarenone 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Digs: iOS app that syncs your Discogs collection and lets you browse it offline (lustin.fr)
    ×0.67 25 #31 | 49 points by rlustin 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024) (vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    ×1.21 43 #34 | 179 points by HeliumHydride 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Vibecoders Can't Build for Longevity (d11r.eu)
    ×1.68 72 #57 | 8 points by dominicq 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. WTF: Police responded on Saturday night due to a zero-day (heise.de)
    ×1.41 3 #61 | 13 points by lschueller 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents (mozilla.ai)
    ×1.39 5 #7 | 69 points by peteski22 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Study: 'Security Fatigue' May Weaken Digital Defenses (albany.edu)
    ×1.31 6 #59 | 85 points by giuliomagnifico 11 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Five years of running a systems reading group at Microsoft (armaansood.com)
    ×1.34 24 | 207 points by Foe 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Sashiko: An agentic Linux kernel code review system (sashiko.dev)
    ×0.69 86 | 48 points by Lwrless 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make any AI agent stateful (github.com/oguzbilgic)
    ×1.05 51 | 39 points by obilgic 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Story Trainer, a self-guided tool for learning story structure (planetofthepaul.github.io)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by minviex 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Passport Globe (See where your passport takes you) (hariharan.uno)
    ×2.06 107 | 17 points by hariharan_uno 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: The King Wen Permutation: [52, 10, 2] (gzw1987-bit.github.io)
    ×0.47 79 #40 | 54 points by gezhengwen 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers (nikomatsakis.github.io)
    ×1.71 57 #54 | 152 points by weinzierl 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I redesigned Activity Monitor's dock icon to look native
    ×0.33 144 | 3 points by rokgregoric 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website (searchengineland.com)
    ×2.94 2 #37 | 409 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Cheapest Available Unlocked iPhones (bestbuy.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by gurjeet 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Solar Energy Remarks Announcing Administration Proposals (1979) (yale.edu)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by jmward01 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: AI agents can speak now (MCP server) (fellowgeek.github.io)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by pcbmaker20 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI Coding Tools Are Stuck in 2007's Dev UX (davidreis.me)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by dreis_sw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com/alainnothere)
    ×1.70 90 | 263 points by xlayn 5 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Playra (playra-app.vercel.app)
    ×0.75 129 | 3 points by Allenboyy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: ClawMem – Open-source agent memory with SOTA local GPU retrieval (github.com/yoloshii)
    ×1.26 137 | 5 points by yoloshii 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A mission NASA might kill is still returning science from Jupiter (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream (composio.dev)
    ×3.56 13 | 389 points by fs_software 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go (github.com/antflydb)
    ×0.99 124 | 107 points by kingcauchy 6 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Chinese Publications Claim U.S. Has Two Months of Rare Earths Left (oilprice.com)
    ×1.94 | 2 points by rexbee 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.37 9 | 278 points by CrypticShift 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base (github.com/kenforthewin)
    ×1.61 76 | 143 points by kenforthewin 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost (github.com/RasKrebs)
    ×1.50 84 | 200 points by raskrebs 3 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Time Keep – Location timezones, timers, alarms, countdowns in one place
    ×0.49 94 | 25 points by jmbuilds 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Pentagon Adopts New Limits for Journalists After Court Loss (nytimes.com)
    ×2.72 14 #25 | 55 points by doener 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools (cursor.com)
    ×1.97 53 #81 | 13 points by noor_z 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari (pwa.gripe)
    ×3.16 42 #82 | 217 points by xd1936 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.46 11 #83 | 359 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Reflections on Hosting a Programming Contest (thomasqm.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by thomasqm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. LLM Can Be a Supercompiler
    ×0.59 | 1 points by sannysanoff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Gold Eyes Worst Month Against Oil Since 1973; Mining Stocks Drop Most Since 2008 (yahoo.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by TMWNN 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste (newyorker.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Discover research papers at light speed (artok.app)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by cyb0rg0 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Institutional parasitism in open technology communities [pdf] (catbox.moe)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by anigbrowl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. PlanetScale – Introducing database traffic control (planetscale.com)
    ×1.28 5 | 3 points by rickharrison 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The three pillars of JavaScript bloat (43081j.com)
    ×2.43 21 | 474 points by onlyspaceghost 2 days ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools (noquiche.fyi)
    ×1.23 30 | 222 points by fayalalebrun 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A C/C++ IDE written in C from scratch with zero dependencies (itch.io)
    ×3.33 101 | 9 points by giovannicar04 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???