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  1. Ask HN: Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic?
    ×0.56 17 | 5 points by prologic 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
    ×1.23 15 | 43 points by missmoss 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474
    ×0.32 80 | 9 points by Bender 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc)
    ×0.91 86 | 7 points by LozzKappa 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf
    ×0.55 105 | 6 points by cristyg0101 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?
    ×0.54 84 | 11 points by tbharath 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?
    ×0.98 92 | 10 points by jonthepirate 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Books can't piss me off
    ×1.62 54 | 8 points by emerongi 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?
    ×1.78 100 | 6 points by mavsman 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?
    ×0.56 128 | 3 points by Hussain04 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What do you watch during lunch or dinner, if you're by yourself?
    ×0.40 82 | 5 points by MinimalAction 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Is AI used in school system and how are they implementing it
    ×0.44 108 | 3 points by rohankc_01 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's expected from an engineering manager or director now?
    ×0.40 109 | 3 points by agentwrangler 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What happens when we do compress the context in Claude Code?
    ×0.83 111 | 5 points by tbharath 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×4.51 35 | 484 points by Thrashed 2 days ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are some popular AI detection software that you know/have used?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by dd-sharma 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is neuromorphic computing going to replace traditional AI?
    ×0.56 131 | 5 points by lennart-rth 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What is the status on continual learning for LLMs?
    ×1.25 104 | 5 points by fred123123 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Postgress in Rust
    ×0.34 151 | 4 points by poldex 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Has anyone figured out how to guard LLMs on kernel level?
    ×0.20 155 | 3 points by isaacnsisong 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: It's a Lot
    ×1.12 116 | 7 points by mettamage 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: A.I Labs are headed by people without world manufacturing experience
    ×0.57 134 | 3 points by dzonga 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Cost of Seamlessness
    ×0.76 135 | 3 points by taotuner 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Will it be possible to do LLM Pool Training?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by slicktux 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How would you harden AI changes to a 1M-line legacy SaaS before review?
    ×0.81 150 | 4 points by thegreatkahuna 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why are Meta products so bad?
    ×1.22 124 | 4 points by asxndu 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Companies are optimizing models for specific benchmarks
    ×0.45 154 | 4 points by mzubairtahir 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.45 137 | 31 points by amichail 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What's Up with Archive.today?
    ×0.29 153 | 6 points by nobody9999 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why My Open-Source Project Hasn't Done Better
    ×1.13 133 | 4 points by yohji1984 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Do types make a language more expressive, or less?
    ×1.23 139 | 4 points by greenlimetea 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.82 145 | 29 points by sam_lowry_ 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How do I find startups that are looking for a dev? How to approach them?
    ×0.20 159 | 6 points by need_a_work23 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate
    ×1.46 115 | 14 points by rellyattd 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How to use agents via API cheaply?
    ×0.79 158 | 3 points by thih9 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How to get in touch with Paddle (MoR)
    ×0.30 163 | 7 points by probst 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The things that matter take a minute
    ×1.19 121 | 4 points by ishener 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Good Data Classification Software?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by ChrisRun 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GPL Infection of LLMs?
    ×0.34 164 | 4 points by sl_convertible 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Which is the least sloppy and claudeism free model you have used?
    ×0.80 161 | 3 points by diwank 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
    ×1.11 160 | 13 points by nothrowaways 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Two Gov Websites Compromised
    ×0.81 157 | 7 points by relunsec 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Argus – VSCode Worktree Agent Session Manager (visualstudio.com)
    ×1.21 88 | 3 points by pdcd 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Task-centered iproute2 user guide (baturin.org)
    ×0.88 59 #66 | 43 points by greengreengrass 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate? (xn--vk5b17r.online)
    ×2.48 62 #76 | 41 points by theoneone 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Claude Opus 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.52 56 #77 | 1750 points by alvis 1 day ago | 1288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Skateboarding Forum on Wood Quality (slapmagazine.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by marysminefnuf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I mapped every US golf course (golfcoursebrowser.com)
    ×1.39 2 #8 | 127 points by rickmf 7 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events (trifle.io)
    ×0.59 117 | 49 points by iluzone 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Free mentor for learning programming languages, fast and efficient (github.com/KubiKDB)
    ×0.61 132 | 3 points by superquizonline 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival (technicshistory.com)
    ×0.73 85 | 67 points by cfmcdonald 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks (gameoftrees.org)
    ×0.79 90 | 62 points by gregnavis 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Axtary – Content Authorization for AI Agents (axtary.com)
    ×0.40 87 | 3 points by Axtary 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Fitter – declarative web-data extraction,running in the browser also (pxyup.github.io)
    ×2.18 57 | 5 points by pyxru 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How My Images Are Dithered (dead.garden)
    ×1.58 15 #34 | 233 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network (apalrd.net)
    ×0.76 28 #38 | 52 points by mrngm 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. California Historical Radio Society (californiahistoricalradio.com)
    ×1.05 83 #73 | 14 points by edoceo 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ARC-AGI Leaderboard (arcprize.org)
    ×1.32 2 | 169 points by rzk 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.69 30 | 3 points by ksec 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59 (astral.sh)
    ×2.68 10 #7 | 5 points by vismit2000 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. W4ME Station – a WASM-4 runtime for Java ME phones (github.com/mulfyx)
    ×0.67 20 #25 | 18 points by sqshi 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Turn And Face The Strange (fly.io)
    ×2.59 15 #31 | 202 points by subarctic 12 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A protocol for AI agent workspace state and effect management (github.com/eouzoe)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by eouzoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? (ptrchm.com)
    ×5.47 12 #75 | 856 points by pchm 2 days ago | 639 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) (sive.rs)
    ×3.04 50 | 207 points by downbad_ 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A CLI that spends a whole stage arguing your startup idea is wrong (github.com/jintukumardas)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by jintukumardas 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How to be useful as a software architect (swizec.com)
    ×1.77 | 2 points by meetpateltech 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Choose Boring Technology (boringtechnology.club)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ustad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Algorithmic Atelier (doc.cc)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by kaizenb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds (ziggit.dev)
    ×2.00 32 | 298 points by kristoff_it 2 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Let Local LLMs Search the Web Without Burning 100k+ Tokens (medium.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by MarcBuilds01 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center (houseofsaud.com)
    ×2.33 22 | 336 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI (wsj.com)
    ×5.27 13 | 63 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 20 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits (coindesk.com)
    ×1.80 6 | 59 points by paulpauper 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality (stanford.edu)
    ×2.65 10 #21 | 87 points by pod_krad 10 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kimi K3 after a week of real project use: what works, what doesn't (chenchen.guru)
    ×2.36 30 #40 | 12 points by eongchen 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. My web version of Mars MIPS, now has built-in C compiler (nfiles.top)
    ×0.63 73 #61 | 40 points by nenepbl 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Digital Intelligence: Why Humanity Created What It Does Not Understand (singularityforge.space)
    ×0.95 52 #68 | 18 points by Voice_of_Void 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Less-pager-mini: What a cross-platform pager would be like (github.com/dawsonhuang0)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by dawson0 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Shediy (shediy.app)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by gr3ggg 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene (science.org)
    ×0.80 77 | 66 points by delichon 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Git rebase -I is not that scary (cachebag.sh)
    ×1.64 11 #18 | 64 points by vinhnx 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Memory safety absolutists (itsallaboutthebit.com)
    ×1.54 21 #30 | 100 points by drogus 15 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Claude Code has a hardcoded instruction telling Opus 5 not to use subagents (reddit.com)
    ×2.51 19 #51 | 4 points by bredren 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. High Volume Transaction Processing Without Concurrency Control (1997) (researchgate.net)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by tosh 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. DuckPGQ – A DuckDB community extension for graph workloads (duckpgq.org)
    ×0.90 79 | 61 points by rzk 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. ESP32-C6 Power Consumption: Arduino vs. Zephyr vs. ESP-IDF Comparison (qoitech.com)
    ×1.25 65 #90 | 13 points by hasheddan 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Best Window Air Conditioners of 2026: Midea, Zafro, GE (wired.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by joozio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: LaunchRanks – Get actionable SEO steps for growing site authority (launchranks.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by NataliNy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Integrate any CLI agent into any terminal (terminai.app)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by emosenkis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???