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  1. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.48 13 #70 | 8 points by devendra116 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.37 57 | 3 points by wasimsk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.30 | 2 points by oyaa52 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by whycombinetor 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
    ×1.97 58 | 478 points by e-topy 6 days ago | 726 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is the pitch deck culture making founders worse at building businesses?
    ×0.30 79 | 13 points by chinhqtran 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.81 83 | 16 points by ezzato 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.48 89 | 26 points by nitramm 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.58 78 | 144 points by meander_water 3 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System
    ×0.16 92 | 4 points by davidajackson 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tor Browser on Android leaks IP in desktop mode
    ×0.74 67 | 13 points by shchess 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Has anyone reconsidered Antivirus software after recent security news?
    ×1.55 80 | 5 points by pants2 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
    ×1.24 112 | 144 points by lazarkap 5 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.34 120 | 12 points by uticus 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.40 121 | 21 points by tree666 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Do founders' political views affect how you see a product?
    ×0.85 123 | 4 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. My AI workflow evolved from prompts to a near-autonomous workflow
    ×0.25 130 | 4 points by hoangnnguyen 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I collected startup ideas. It changed how I think about ideas completely
    ×1.15 99 | 9 points by vibecoder21 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Is VC the new PMF strategy?
    ×0.33 147 | 3 points by networkOne 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
    ×1.03 129 | 101 points by tinchox6 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.25 148 | 19 points by ed_elliott_asc 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET
    ×0.20 145 | 4 points by aleph_one 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Hybrid Attention
    ×0.37 142 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?
    ×0.57 160 | 7 points by dandaka 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?
    ×0.51 156 | 15 points by orbanlevi 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are you encountering AI-related questions in the hiring market?
    ×0.28 143 | 7 points by somthingwrong 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Figma for Coding Agents (getdesign.md)
    ×1.35 122 | 11 points by omeraplak 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Steadcast – Free Mac podcast player for learning, not background noise (steadcast.co)
    ×2.86 140 | 7 points by steadcast 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Building a Z-Machine in the worst possible language – Whitebeard's Realm (whitebeard.blog)
    ×0.84 26 #39 | 25 points by techbelly 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Cooperative Vectors Introduction (evolvebenchmark.com)
    ×0.37 54 #76 | 35 points by JasperBekkers 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip (raymii.org)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by type0 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Left-Wing Social Darwinism (rechristianize.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by Egret 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The difficulty of making sure your website is broken (letsencrypt.org)
    ×0.75 63 | 71 points by mcpherrinm 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: The Universe in One Chart (saminloes.com)
    ×2.06 127 | 7 points by atleastoptimal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.34 23 #56 | 8 points by mentalgear 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources (taintedcoders.com)
    ×1.08 56 #60 | 133 points by GenericCanadian 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Sash – tiny macOS utility to reliably cycle through app windows (github.com/tacomanator)
    ×0.75 151 | 3 points by dwg 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack (stevehanov.ca)
    ×4.52 6 #10 | 287 points by tradertef 5 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How Complex is my Code? (philodev.one)
    ×1.52 15 #12 | 133 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why "Travel Inspiration" is the biggest UX gap in TravelTech (lupath.ai)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by LUpath 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Bourbaki: A Unified Foundation for Mathematics [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by hnlyman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work (eve.new)
    ×0.87 62 | 69 points by zachdive 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Building Slogbox (alexrios.me)
    ×0.42 55 #63 | 13 points by zimpenfish 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Is Cybersecurity Over? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.23 68 | 3 points by 0xcrypto 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Physics of GPS (perthirtysix.com)
    ×3.48 74 | 5 points by maouida 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Kaggle x Duolingo x Codecrafters (capalent.com)
    ×0.94 161 | 3 points by gen_specialist 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Dark Castle (darkcastle.co.uk)
    ×1.64 12 #16 | 193 points by evo_9 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Happy Horse AI (happy-horse-ai.ai)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by erji2233 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Zeroclawed: Secure Agent Gateway (github.com/bglusman)
    ×2.23 134 | 8 points by bglusman 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The AI Layoff Trap (arxiv.org)
    ×2.78 30 #61 | 7 points by the-mitr 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Universal Standard Book Number (openusbn.org)
    ×1.40 40 #73 | 9 points by novalis78 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Universal Knowledge Store and Grounding Layer for AI Reasoning Engines (github.com/alash3al)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by alash3al 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 120k USD compute credits from various providers
    ×0.42 | 1 points by chrisvee 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: 500k+ events/sec transformations for ClickHouse ingestion (github.com/glassflow)
    ×0.75 158 | 13 points by super_ar 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice (github.com/Keychron)
    ×2.11 #86 | 449 points by stingraycharles 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Dollar's Special Status: Sources and Threats (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×2.63 59 | 3 points by rbanffy 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I built a tool to answer "why does this user have access to X?" in AD (github.com/alparn)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by Alpn13 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident (samaltman.com)
    ×4.34 12 | 349 points by jack_hanford 1 day ago | 932 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Linear RNN/Reservoir hybrid generative model, one C file (no deps.) (raw.githubusercontent.com)
    ×0.75 152 | 7 points by adinhitlore 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair (aalonso.dev)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by cyclopeanutopia 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public (theintercept.com)
    ×6.02 13 | 254 points by tlhunter 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran (bbc.com)
    ×3.93 65 | 78 points by breve 9 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Docker-whisper: Self-hosted Whisper speech-to-text server (OpenAI API) (github.com/hwdsl2)
    ×1.82 85 | 6 points by hwdsl2 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting (github.com/4RH1T3CT0R7)
    ×0.73 135 | 68 points by 4RH1T3CT0R 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next (berkeley.edu)
    ×2.49 7 #9 | 399 points by Anon84 16 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS (v68k.org)
    ×1.47 17 #21 | 247 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How much linear memory access is enough? (solidean.com)
    ×0.81 52 #57 | 76 points by PhilipTrettner 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate (kerkour.com)
    ×1.93 50 | 121 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men? (npr.org)
    ×3.96 76 | 56 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Dynamic Map of YouTube Channels (ytmap.xyz)
    ×1.73 139 | 6 points by Bachal 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Android AI agent-assistant operating your apps (no adb,PC,root,etc.)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by sshnaidm1 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I made a puzzle game using photos of my dog (snapmatch.com)
    ×2.34 54 | 3 points by pompomsheep 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Lawsuit over who owns top ranked coding bootcamp Codesmith (michaelnovati.substack.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by michaelnovati 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it (ericwbailey.website)
    ×2.25 14 | 285 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy (planetscale.com)
    ×0.87 35 #37 | 99 points by tanelpoder 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS (phoronix.com)
    ×1.96 | 2 points by Bender 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How Poor Am I? – See Where You Stand in Global Wealth (howpoorami.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by thunderbong 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Strong Model First or Weak Model First? A Cost Study for Multi-Step LLM Agents (llm-spec.pages.dev)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by vsekar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API (github.com/skrun-dev)
    ×0.67 110 | 61 points by frizull 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: GNU Grep as a PHP Extension (github.com/hparadiz)
    ×1.53 157 | 5 points by hparadiz 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)
    ×3.77 1 #51 | 966 points by burnt-resistor 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Codebases – Million Lines of Code (informationisbeautiful.net)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by IndySun 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Weird Clocks (specr.net)
    ×1.47 144 | 53 points by vunderba 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Voxcode: local speech to text and ripgrep = transcript and code context (github.com/jensneuse)
    ×3.79 162 | 10 points by jensneuse 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Software Preservation Group: C++ History Collection (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.70 46 #32 | 28 points by quuxplusone 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It (thealgorithmicbridge.com)
    ×2.56 86 | 70 points by gHeadphone 2 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Age-PHP: a PHP implementation of age encryption (post-quantum) (github.com/soatok)
    ×2.52 87 | 6 points by some_furry 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A living Vancouver. Connor is walking dogs at the SPCA this morning (brasilia-phi.vercel.app)
    ×0.78 108 | 3 points by auran 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Minnow – minimal now pages via chat (minnow.social)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by freshman_dev 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Brocards for Vulnerability Triage (yossarian.net)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ramimac 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???