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  1. Got access to Gemini's actual thinking
    ×0.34 | 2 points by StizzurpXDD 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.49 61 | 27 points by JohnDSDev 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?
    ×2.09 50 | 63 points by syntaxbush 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.27 86 | 4 points by iaziz786 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks?
    ×0.58 78 | 8 points by fur-tea-laser 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.43 104 | 14 points by neya 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions
    ×0.47 95 | 6 points by throwaw12 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×0.21 138 | 8 points by spidy__ 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.09 121 | 152 points by amichail 5 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.52 108 | 17 points by niyazpk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.87 106 | 19 points by tossitawayplz 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.18 126 | 15 points by vasko 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE?
    ×0.31 97 | 10 points by mariopt 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×0.99 119 | 51 points by xupybd 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
    ×1.69 44 | 6 points by chistev 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Anyone else feels many LLMs are heavily biased towards consumerism these days?
    ×0.35 114 | 8 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 139 | 96 points by asim 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.55 79 | 78 points by ayi 2 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Elastic Layoffs?
    ×1.35 74 | 9 points by nunocoracao 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.41 161 | 25 points by agos 6 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.96 128 | 22 points by julienreszka 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.37 141 | 42 points by JohnDSDev 4 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are people generally interested using LLMs for learning purposes?
    ×0.28 136 | 7 points by iknownthing 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Which book taught you the most about software architecture?
    ×0.97 69 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.38 158 | 10 points by hmokiguess 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
    ×0.31 159 | 7 points by AbstractH24 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.34 163 | 8 points by snowhy 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A Teardown of Claude Tag's Agent Identity Concept (promptql.io)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by manushikhanna 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The truth about being a manager (sofiakodar.github.io)
    ×2.36 65 | 111 points by adunk 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero (nvidia.com)
    ×3.04 24 #11 | 367 points by nitin_flanker 22 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers (rubyllm.com)
    ×1.75 9 #19 | 396 points by doener 21 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite (thinkgeoenergy.com)
    ×1.60 72 #70 | 216 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit (ps.tc)
    ×1.16 48 #81 | 189 points by givinguflac 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Mid-tier knives: worth the cost? (paragon-knives.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by bgzlsxaz 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Grove – fast source insights for coding agents – via Tree-sitter (github.com/Entelligentsia)
    ×0.43 153 | 4 points by bonigv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups (startupsbr.com)
    ×0.98 10 #13 | 24 points by leonagano 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM (github.com/ilbertt)
    ×0.46 80 | 55 points by ilbert 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format (metaspec.dev)
    ×1.38 116 | 4 points by dlowe-net 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site (puzzlelair.com)
    ×1.58 72 | 245 points by HaxleRose 2 days ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects (clevercrow.io)
    ×0.53 112 | 66 points by zhubert 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Keep all microservices consistent and make batch changes (infraas.ai)
    ×0.97 155 | 3 points by danielbedrood 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach (9to5mac.com)
    ×4.57 4 #7 | 46 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? (natkr.com)
    ×0.91 68 #35 | 93 points by logickkk1 21 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. John von Neumann's the Computer and the Brain (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by thedreammachine 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring (nega.tv)
    ×1.19 63 | 162 points by g0xA52A2A 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Your self, in every light - a local-first MCP self model for AI agents (github.com/almakit)
    ×1.02 156 | 4 points by 0set0set 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. What Is Claude Code's Automatic Mode (polimetro.com)
    ×1.37 47 | 3 points by Gedxx 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Visual Workspace for Agents Based on Unix (prototyper.co)
    ×2.01 55 | 4 points by thijsverreck 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Claude Tag (anthropic.com)
    ×2.77 37 | 266 points by adocomplete 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Optimal model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor (github.com/workweave)
    ×0.97 157 | 3 points by adchurch 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 15 sorting algorithms in 6 minutes (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.81 40 #36 | 35 points by akkartik 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives (monolisa.dev)
    ×1.29 34 #44 | 174 points by bebraw 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io (infosec.exchange)
    ×3.15 22 #61 | 186 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Thoughts on Asimovian AI Beyond LLMs and Creative Machines
    ×0.60 | 1 points by pyeri 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app (nytimes.com)
    ×4.28 68 | 103 points by dgellow 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression' (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.21 71 | 4 points by robtherobber 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets (freedom.press)
    ×8.24 25 | 89 points by kevinwang 22 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Lumli – Privacy-first image tools that run entirely in your browser (lumli.de)
    ×2.26 90 | 6 points by lumli 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: RealTube – Watch YouTube with filters for AI-generated content (realtube.io)
    ×1.54 91 | 4 points by danielpop 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I created agent skill based on Peter Lynch's books (github.com/DjNero11)
    ×1.71 144 | 5 points by DjNero 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Slate EV truck starts at $24,950 (slate.auto)
    ×5.63 15 #64 | 274 points by cobri 22 hours ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself (werd.io)
    ×1.21 56 #83 | 45 points by benwerd 20 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing (argusred.com)
    ×1.00 130 | 93 points by dk189 4 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I taught a bucket to speak Git (tigrisdata.com)
    ×0.86 29 #71 | 86 points by xena 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Regular expressions that work "everywhere" (johndcook.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by ColinWright 1 minute ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An Interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field About Design and AI (stratechery.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by swolpers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing (github.com/baidu)
    ×2.18 14 | 490 points by ingve 2 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions (rworks.dev)
    ×0.80 69 #53 | 95 points by ionychal 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Cory's Cookies and The 92% Tax Rate (2018) (wrestlinggnon.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by surprisetalk 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. F3 (github.com/future-file-format)
    ×3.69 18 | 648 points by tosh 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: ReflowPDF – browser PDF editor where tables reflow (reflowpdf.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by exsol 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Words, Words, Words (aeon.co)
    ×1.05 7 #12 | 16 points by benbreen 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Benchmark unlimited Claude.md files against eachother (github.com/emiliolugo)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by emiliolugo 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Joy and Power of Understanding (binaryigor.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by BinaryIgor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Adding BASIC09 front end tool to LLVM (llvm.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by lproven 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Is Blogging Still Worth It in 2026? (minid.net)
    ×1.96 11 | 3 points by meerita 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Graphical SQL Builder and Debugger (github.com/webofmarius)
    ×0.52 83 | 21 points by matei88 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (reuters.com)
    ×3.31 3 #3 | 496 points by htrp 12 hours ago | 852 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Aisle Discovers 6 New CVEs in Curl, Including the Oldest Issue Ever Reported (aisle.com)
    ×1.40 8 #32 | 23 points by ragebol 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI (twitter.com/JPoehnelt)
    ×5.83 22 #88 | 703 points by justinwp 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The protocol is not the thing to get good at, the AX discipline is (oreilly.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by developsean 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Making Your eBPF Agents Unkillable (youtube.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by snaveen 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: L0/L1/L2 agents, leases, gates, audits, Git-worktree isolation (github.com/alex-reysa)
    ×2.36 107 | 6 points by alexreysa 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Boom That Sprays One Weed at a Time – Mobility and Field Robotics (atomsfrontier.substack.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by jpatel3 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Cut Wire (qbc.network)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by BlockArtica 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding (iximiuz.com)
    ×2.23 24 #29 | 348 points by signa11 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Minimus container images are now free (minimus.io)
    ×1.15 43 #58 | 125 points by dimastopel 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Vulnerability reports are not special anymore (filippo.io)
    ×1.62 6 #89 | 376 points by goranmoomin 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How I use Anki to learn anything (jdlms.site)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by tietjens 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: GTM Jobs – a weekly job board for GTM engineers (27 roles this week) (beehiiv.com)
    ×2.41 57 | 3 points by meetvolley 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???