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  1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.72 4 #77 | 926 points by paveworld 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
    ×1.89 63 | 96 points by goldenmember 7 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×0.69 83 | 131 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.12 74 | 268 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.
    ×0.19 96 | 3 points by LowLevelMahn 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.45 127 | 19 points by jopizio 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1)
    ×0.47 101 | 5 points by anydigital 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.71 111 | 32 points by zcalvin 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.24 117 | 6 points by Dinuda 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.46 121 | 9 points by esher 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
    ×0.34 124 | 5 points by Steaglsz 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.28 134 | 9 points by bigfishhk 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Why Linux is picking up at a rapid pace for AI usage?
    ×0.57 90 | 5 points by keshwanianup 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GitHub mutuals on AI in life sciences or bioinformatics
    ×0.27 130 | 5 points by arli_ap 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. DigitalOcean Ends Open Source Credits Program (itsfoss.com)
    ×2.50 6 #41 | 17 points by JamesCoyne 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability (github.com/net4people)
    ×1.06 46 #72 | 85 points by timbill 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Incentives in Academic Research (msoos.org)
    ×0.84 55 #78 | 57 points by zero_k 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Was award winning novel written with AI? (yahoo.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by nephihaha 36 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace (offrun.dev)
    ×1.09 75 | 78 points by arunbhatia 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++ (github.com/TantrixAuto)
    ×0.51 107 | 33 points by renjipanicker 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anthropic removes support for Claude Cowork local sessions (claude.com)
    ×3.13 44 | 3 points by Xtrah 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (stelabouras.com)
    ×1.99 126 | 4 points by stelabouras 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: 80s Choplifter game ported to Vision Pro as an agent eval (WIP) (bounds.dev)
    ×1.25 133 | 4 points by boundsj 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Red-Dyed Diesel Made Available to Lower Fuel Prices (newsweek.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by geox 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Enki – Write GPU compute kernels in pure stable Rust (github.com/enkiruntime)
    ×1.19 110 | 10 points by enki_runtime 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: figma-server, the solution to Figma's hostility towards agents (github.com/ctxrs)
    ×1.19 139 | 3 points by ripped_britches 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Spectra-FFT – Cutting AdamW VRAM Usage by 50% for LLMs (spectralabs.si)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by KanishkIndia 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why don't more developers “use the platform”? (nolanlawson.com)
    ×1.64 11 | 321 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×2.49 34 #29 | 373 points by wiso 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (lenfestinstitute.org)
    ×1.00 49 #38 | 77 points by giuliomagnifico 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. uBlock Origin Lite is back on Firefox add-ons (mozilla.org)
    ×2.08 7 #43 | 25 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline (shannadige.com)
    ×0.96 71 #46 | 116 points by shannadige 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.85 48 #53 | 50 points by greghn 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI nonprofit will spend $10M on journalism (semafor.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by SLHamlet 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers (gadgetreview.com)
    ×3.73 62 | 80 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? (thoreaubasic.com)
    ×0.94 63 | 93 points by Gorsefound 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
    ×0.60 51 #28 | 34 points by andre15silva 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Are Babies Conscious? (nytimes.com)
    ×1.60 12 #63 | 10 points by tysone 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.97 58 | 74 points by latein 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×4.32 71 | 59 points by Topfi 2 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Tao of Backup (taobackup.com)
    ×1.95 30 #32 | 250 points by vntok 20 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Countries Have the Same Name (signoregalilei.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by speckx 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia (cambridge.org)
    ×0.84 17 #83 | 62 points by pseudolus 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Altman: The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI (politico.com)
    ×8.96 55 | 37 points by jamesgill 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)
    ×1.05 131 | 15 points by sshah03 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
    ×2.28 24 #36 | 323 points by dachworker 8 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A map of every lighthouse (mapped.earth)
    ×1.45 14 #80 | 192 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked (stolovitz.com)
    ×1.59 43 #82 | 245 points by citelao 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken' (theguardian.com)
    ×4.69 29 | 267 points by jethronethro 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)
    ×1.95 2 | 105 points by shellpipe 18 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
    ×1.57 108 | 39 points by turantekin 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.93 50 #61 | 96 points by simonjgreen 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.81 27 #86 | 79 points by signa11 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Mineral Water Atlas of the World (uu.nl)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by coinfused 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I conceived a clever musical instrument which runs in the browser (souffle.live)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ycosynot 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. PostHog MCP Analytics: an 8bit tale (lucasheriques.github.io)
    ×6.15 70 | 9 points by lucasheriques 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Astral GPU Indexes (astral.sh)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: French Revolutionary Calendar (libcg.so)
    ×0.96 98 | 3 points by libcg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx (bernat.ch)
    ×1.95 15 #65 | 182 points by renehsz 21 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Live carbon intensity and power prices for 15 European grids (scienceshot.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by major_stef 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours (propublica.org)
    ×3.41 62 | 9 points by WhyNotHugo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Hacker News addiction and taking simple mundane breaks in life (mataroa.blog)
    ×3.13 7 | 43 points by Imustaskforhelp 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance
    ×1.06 84 | 122 points by adchurch 5 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Beating the Compiler (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.93 25 #23 | 47 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. What Happened to Shareware? (deadparrotbbs.com)
    ×1.96 26 | 3 points by Tomte 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Technical Analysis of an NSO Group WhatsApp Exploit (courtlistener.com)
    ×2.01 9 | 3 points by l0kihardt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Jev-pages – Building landing pages real time with Jev (github.com/sagapranav)
    ×1.46 91 | 4 points by pranavsanga 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have (deadparrotbbs.com)
    ×2.21 3 #3 | 28 points by speckx 58 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Golang tool to check SPF, DKIM, TLSA, and TLS settings for mailservers (sig-io.nl)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by sigio 1 minute ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. "Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet (404media.co)
    ×3.66 64 | 46 points by airhangerf15 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: DynamicTune – Closed-form trajectory weight surgery from 4B into 0.8B (github.com/dsadawq3)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by fermlon30000 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A Series of Unfortunate Events for OpenAI Users (insufferable.dev)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by garo-pro 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    ×1.06 65 | 92 points by nor-and-or-not 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Rank every HN "Who is hiring?" post against your resume, locally (github.com/MaxwellVolz)
    ×1.66 105 | 13 points by intervolz 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
    ×4.39 3 #4 | 165 points by brokensegue 1 hour ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Picard 3.0 (metabrainz.org)
    ×2.48 10 #30 | 102 points by Tomte 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente (senate.gov)
    ×3.34 70 | 60 points by TeaVMFan 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: An eBPF kernel guard for vTPM access (github.com/bschaatsbergen)
    ×1.89 86 | 5 points by bschaatsbergen 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Control other Windows computers with an MCP (phaze.app)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by boxerbk 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Vibivibi – End-to-end encrypted sharing of Coding Agent sessions (vibivibi.com)
    ×1.06 53 | 3 points by hyluo 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: A live chat on a 3D globe that you can join from any IRC client (bubblerumble.net)
    ×1.52 73 | 4 points by jaekwon 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Another stock screener without AI, news, or analyst ratings (holderdashboard.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by caiocmpaes 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
    ×1.09 8 #7 | 106 points by Vosporos 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Iran Says There Is No Military Solution as Middle East Conflict Drags On (coinmarketcap.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by joeymabia1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: KubeZap – Declarative workflow automation for Kubernetes (github.com/kubezap)
    ×1.03 128 | 3 points by borfswitch 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (danielchasehooper.com)
    ×1.42 14 #35 | 121 points by AlexeyBrin 10 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 'Neanderthals Among Us' review (historytoday.com)
    ×0.80 48 #71 | 84 points by pepys 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cloud and Local, One System (forjal.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by Lucasllfs 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. In Utah, AI Can Help You Zap Your Zits (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by brandonb 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Dutch government to ban smartphones from schools (nltimes.nl)
    ×2.02 7 | 3 points by Betelbuddy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???