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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.62 62 #31 | 232 points by david927 21 hours ago | 703 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why do HN admins kill whistleblowers like orangeberrytea
    ×3.32 71 | 7 points by WhyCensor 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A repo gained 3,278 stars while GitHub showed Andrej Karpathy as a contributor
    ×1.54 30 | 3 points by newshackee 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.82 33 #55 | 5 points by amichail 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Screenshots on macOS don't have to be date named files with spaces
    ×1.67 26 | 4 points by cs1996 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Portfolio in Pokedex(First Post)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by shivammahajanma 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Dynamics 365 Partner in UK
    ×0.49 | 2 points by tridentinfo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Chinese cargo ship makes inaugural journey, reshaping global trade
    ×1.57 5 | 7 points by thelastgallon 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.45 98 | 10 points by mondobe 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: You have unlimited resources, what software would you build?
    ×1.07 48 | 3 points by smalltorch 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Buy Intel, It's Cheap
    ×2.43 47 | 3 points by roschdal 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How much correlation should a privacy system preserve?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by Securelytixdev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. System 3 Thinking
    ×0.18 | 2 points by rexossbear 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are some privacy/security tools you wish exist, but don't yet?
    ×0.66 106 | 5 points by ToriTech 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.33 134 | 7 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI Boom / Bust – Boom Boom Pow
    ×0.78 110 | 5 points by wwolfson97 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.90 105 | 60 points by stikit 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How is AI actively a threat to humanity if it's only online?
    ×0.96 111 | 5 points by CM30 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Multi-agent workflows in production; Where people using 1000s of agents?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by ramstar3000 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?
    ×0.43 131 | 3 points by mehmetoguzderin 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. DietPi released a new version v10.7
    ×0.50 145 | 3 points by stephanstsdietp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
    ×0.89 99 | 28 points by _override 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What would it look like if AI agents "took over the internet"?
    ×0.16 130 | 4 points by scripper1 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why haven't people vibe coded popular 80s word processors as TUI apps?
    ×0.29 129 | 5 points by amichail 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do You Like Skiing?
    ×0.77 | 2 points by roschdal 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.56 135 | 26 points by waldrews 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.51 96 | 482 points by jacquesm 4 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.25 68 | 854 points by cromka 3 days ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
    ×1.08 125 | 25 points by chucksmash 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?
    ×0.44 159 | 8 points by funkaster 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH
    ×0.46 160 | 9 points by rawland 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF (ayles.github.io)
    ×0.77 140 | 53 points by ayles 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A Vacuum Diode for Make: Magazine (nickpoole.me)
    ×0.74 49 #36 | 28 points by luu 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Authorize MCP tool calls without giving agents the credentials (github.com/keydrisLabs)
    ×0.98 108 #46 | 3 points by b4timer 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Removing algorithmic feed slop from my life (bell.bz)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by speckx 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard (hachyderm.io)
    ×4.19 41 | 417 points by encyclopedism 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com/FeralFirmware)
    ×0.58 72 | 75 points by zdw 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: VibeWorld – a shared terminal world for developers and scientists (github.com/SorBalda)
    ×1.00 116 | 6 points by sorbalda 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I refuse to let SPICE die (github.com/nefarius)
    ×1.66 100 | 88 points by Nefarius 2 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Fixrs – Refactoring for long absolute paths and clippy:absolute_paths (github.com/webc-site)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by rmw-link 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: What If Donut.c but with Any ASCII Art (asdesai.com)
    ×1.12 128 | 17 points by areofyl 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I built a hand-modeled 3D Windows 98 portfolio with Three.js (wesselsdesktop.com)
    ×0.74 146 | 16 points by Abstract2D 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Astah Pro MCP – Enabling AI-Powered UML Modeling (github.com/takaakit)
    ×1.04 155 | 4 points by takaakit 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch (github.com/Atomburstofficial)
    ×0.58 151 | 49 points by atomburst 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band (github.com/callbacked)
    ×0.99 6 #14 | 79 points by callbacked 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A rough guide for going back to the Moon (ibm.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by gmays 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Nvidia is the central bank of AI (economist.com)
    ×2.43 36 | 573 points by tolugenius 1 day ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100 (invezz.com)
    ×2.65 55 | 134 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019) (openai.com)
    ×3.75 29 | 72 points by Jimmc414 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: SF Title Alert (sftitlealert.com)
    ×1.06 118 | 5 points by arkadiyt 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: The iPhone Duo fold effect on any Windows laptop (baselashraf.com)
    ×1.00 152 | 4 points by BaselAshraf81 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Where has Construction Automation been successful? (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.84 68 #13 | 3 points by ltononro 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. XCancel service is suspended (again) (xcancel.com)
    ×1.84 23 #77 | 14 points by shelfchair 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Who gets to define the rules for AI? (cohere.com)
    ×1.40 12 #90 | 46 points by throwworhtthrow 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
    ×2.30 28 | 3 points by saisrirampur 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A fresh take on Code Intelligence for AI agents – publically benchmarked (github.com/oooscoos)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by tweedler290 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (righto.com)
    ×0.89 83 | 130 points by pwg 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Nearby places ranked by quality score, not ads (realnear.app)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by stdcall83 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go (github.com/galaxy-io)
    ×0.53 150 | 31 points by ikswolzok 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. With dead oysters and debt, PEI farmers fear they'll lose everything (cbc.ca)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The four-colour theorem was only the start (lemire.me)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by ibobev 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research (agentsdock.net)
    ×0.95 89 | 81 points by ZihuiGeorgia 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.81 139 | 57 points by snyy 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
    ×1.06 133 | 175 points by ifz 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Sunday Tool Scrutiny (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by mooreds 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Russian Navy paints ships to resemble homes to deceive AI drones (twitter.com/JayinKyiv)
    ×2.30 23 | 3 points by ilamont 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down (2021) (wired.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by _tk_ 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
    ×0.62 69 | 67 points by lumpa 23 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I was frustrated with AI giving confident answer,Even when it was wrong (aqqai.in)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by Vineetyadav2 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE (github.com/paradise-runner)
    ×1.06 114 | 82 points by dividedcomet 2 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I made an automated day-by-day itinerary organizer for my trip to Spain (petrelvoyage.com)
    ×1.19 91 | 14 points by desktopentree 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures (github.com/anuj0456)
    ×1.46 9 #15 | 98 points by anuj0456 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Agents building research-ready datasets in mins (mostlyright.md)
    ×2.42 32 | 3 points by Bobono 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. GPT-6 Astra built VEED's own launch video, in an open-source editor (github.com/veedstudio)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by anton-zazerski 35 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×2.28 64 | 258 points by dsubburam 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com/Speedstu)
    ×1.07 31 | 172 points by chiassedu80 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments (github.com/OtoDock)
    ×0.56 147 | 50 points by dimitrismrtzs 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic (clashreport.com)
    ×3.78 54 | 100 points by delichon 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: AI-Native dependency upgrades through codemods (apiweiser-cli-fe.vercel.app)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by enismustafaj 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A web based 4-channel Music Tracker (johnoestmannmusic.com)
    ×2.35 76 | 5 points by soundworlds 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Kibble – a reader for AI news, tutorials, code and models (kibblebites.com)
    ×1.24 117 | 6 points by syedmubarak088 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
    ×3.02 56 | 7 points by rkotcher 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others (calif.io)
    ×2.23 6 #88 | 96 points by negura 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Most people prefer traditional architecture (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by alihm 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Path of Exile's Abandoned Design Ideas [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by skibz 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (withspecific.com)
    ×1.74 65 | 271 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. P(doom) (pocoo.org)
    ×2.06 75 | 158 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Federal Disclosure) (thepricer.org)
    ×8.54 76 | 69 points by cinderelacinder 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant (medium.com)
    ×1.34 41 #84 | 196 points by ichacas 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. SubRunGear (subrungear.com)
    ×0.75 11 | 3 points by kadesda 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???