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  1. Apple Discontinues Mac Pro
    ×2.00 #26 | 9 points by alifeinbinary 49 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Running legacy IE/ActiveX clients without local admin rights?
    ×0.29 47 #50 | 13 points by Servant-of-Inos 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines, how real is the pipeline today?
    ×0.69 23 | 5 points by imnotlost 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?
    ×0.33 53 | 10 points by nickcageinacage 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Rses – cross-resume between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
    ×0.23 77 | 8 points by plawlost 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How did you figure out what you wanted to do with your life?
    ×0.47 89 | 12 points by icwtyjj 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work
    ×0.45 107 | 38 points by noemit 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: At what point you decided to pursue your startup fulltime?
    ×0.44 81 | 7 points by kathir05 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
    ×0.51 124 | 14 points by udl 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is Antigravity code search dropping results recently?
    ×0.10 113 | 6 points by sankalpnarula 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Lazy Tmux – Lazy-loading tmux sessions with a tree view
    ×0.10 143 | 3 points by Alchemmist 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?
    ×1.01 117 | 30 points by jawerty 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest?
    ×0.17 147 | 9 points by latand6 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you feel when your coding assistant loses context?
    ×0.10 132 | 4 points by noduerme 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Slow Down
    ×0.59 100 | 13 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does the World need more software?
    ×0.35 142 | 5 points by Vektorceraptor 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Russians may soon lose access to the global internet
    ×1.26 97 | 41 points by taminka 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Any recommended engineering/dev related Slack channels?
    ×0.15 140 | 4 points by Kuraptka 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you offload all coding to AI?
    ×0.53 110 | 13 points by makingstuffs 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you feel less happy when coding with agent?
    ×0.36 139 | 5 points by zane__chen 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Does nobody care about not being able to copy from Slack anymore?
    ×0.80 136 | 6 points by neal_caffrey 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Is Trusttunnel easy for people to use?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by AnonyMD 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Does it make sense to ask Blackberry to re-license ancient QNX sources?
    ×0.11 154 | 4 points by ymz5 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Analog Model of Transformers
    ×0.25 138 | 7 points by JPLeRouzic 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: $50 monthly budget, which coding models would you recommend now?
    ×0.48 123 | 13 points by klueinc 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Anonymize / de-identify LLM chat history export, post-processing
    ×0.15 | 2 points by msiraj1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Veevo Health – book a CT angiogram to see plaque buildup in your arteries
    ×0.31 161 | 5 points by arvindsr33 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: If there has been no prompt injection, is it safe?
    ×0.23 157 | 7 points by sayYayToLife 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are you using OpenClaw or similar agents? How?
    ×0.24 163 | 6 points by nclin_ 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. US Treasury plans to put Trump's signature on new paper currency (apnews.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by geox 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ball Pit (codepen.io)
    ×2.04 34 | 174 points by memalign 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Burn Room – End-to-End Encrypted Ephemeral SSH Chat (burnroom.chat)
    ×0.99 62 | 3 points by joematrix 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: NerdFlair, a Claude Code QoL Plugin (github.com/jcraigk)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by block_dagger 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Cognium – Tree-sitter+taint Tracking SAST for Java,Python,JS,Rust (cognium.dev)
    ×1.16 126 | 4 points by openmason 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Lexplain – AI-powered Linux kernel change explanations (lexplain.net)
    ×1.37 149 | 4 points by daisydevel 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Workers who fall for 'corporate bullshit' may be worse at their jobs (theguardian.com)
    ×2.90 11 #79 | 11 points by mykowebhn 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DataSwift – A client-side toolkit for mock data, JSON parsing, and CSV to SQL (data-swift-kappa.vercel.app)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by dearmmv 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Lessons from Pyre That Shaped Pyrefly – Pyrefly (pyrefly.org)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Automate your workflow in plain English (operator23.com)
    ×0.36 96 | 11 points by Mrakermo 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Dirsv – dir browser, battery packed Markdown previewers (github.com/letientai299)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by letientai299 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How much precision can you squeeze out of a table? (johndcook.com)
    ×0.62 18 #19 | 37 points by nomemory 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Light on Glass: Why do you start making a game engine? (analogdreamdev.substack.com)
    ×0.69 38 #46 | 45 points by atan2 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Orloj – agent infrastructure as code (YAML and GitOps) (github.com/OrlojHQ)
    ×0.47 38 #63 | 19 points by An0n_Jon 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music (nytimes.com)
    ×2.01 14 #89 | 389 points by oj2828 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Islamic Astronomy and Copernicus [pdf] (tuba.gov.tr)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by teleforce 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. FreeCAD v1.1 (freecad.org)
    ×2.77 4 | 322 points by sho_hn 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ditching GitHub (lonami.dev)
    ×1.76 7 | 3 points by stek29 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I made an app to create 360 camera backgrounds from prompt (lana-ai.app)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by zilvinassebeika 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Oil at $150 will trigger global recession, says boss of financial BlackRock (bbc.com)
    ×4.16 84 | 85 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Stella Foster – iMessage on Any Phone (stellafoster.com)
    ×1.00 116 | 4 points by jacobgc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures (andros.dev)
    ×1.59 19 #28 | 274 points by andros 14 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Military Failures of Fascism (acoup.blog)
    ×2.32 61 | 55 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search (github.com/ssrajadh)
    ×2.20 46 | 427 points by sohamrj 2 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: E is for ENSHITTIFICATION – An illustrated children's book on big tech (evanshunt.com)
    ×2.17 88 | 25 points by ar_turnbull 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I coded Podhoc – Podcast generator to learn on the go (podhoc.com)
    ×0.83 115 | 4 points by davidpelayo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Taming LLMs: Using Executable Oracles to Prevent Bad Code (regehr.org)
    ×0.65 36 #31 | 31 points by mad44 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Little Book of C (little-book-of.github.io)
    ×1.97 20 #36 | 56 points by ghostrss 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×4.28 27 #38 | 552 points by amarcheschi 11 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Swift 6.3 (swift.org)
    ×1.73 1 #48 | 289 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. UK total wind generation record beaten today (robinhawkes.com)
    ×1.55 70 | 55 points by martinald 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build (github.com/AmElmo)
    ×1.05 82 | 154 points by jberthom 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: TopMail – LaunchFest Winner, $20/Mo Unlimited Email, Coding Agents API (topmail.so)
    ×3.77 122 | 12 points by njarecki 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Dionne Quintuplets (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by supermdguy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Paseo – Open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI) (github.com/getpaseo)
    ×3.57 59 | 10 points by boudra 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK (theguardian.com)
    ×4.52 3 #5 | 243 points by chrisjj 3 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms (cnn.com)
    ×2.81 72 #58 | 449 points by billfor 2 days ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Illustrative – AI pipeline that turns books into graphic novels (arv.in)
    ×2.19 32 | 5 points by adangit 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: clickity – mechanical keyboard click sounds when you type on macOS (github.com/9cel)
    ×1.25 120 | 4 points by marchelzo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: JSON-to-PDF e-book generator for CJK content, built with Claude Code (github.com/dongsheng123132)
    ×1.04 134 | 4 points by 17vibe 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people (unterwaditzer.net)
    ×2.49 3 #6 | 500 points by jslakro 10 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AMD Announces the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (phoronix.com)
    ×2.53 #78 | 43 points by coobird 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A Postgres Extension to Write PostgreSQL Functions in TypeScript (github.com/isaacd9)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by idd2 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: ReactNative.run – Browser Metro bundler that runs React Native (reactnative.run)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by sanketsahu 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a selfhosted Wanderlog alternative with real-time collaboration (github.com/mauriceboe)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by mauriceboe 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars (xdavidhu.me)
    ×3.24 21 #27 | 846 points by driesdep 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. "Disregard That" Attacks (calpaterson.com)
    ×1.34 43 #84 | 116 points by leontrolski 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Postmortem of March 2026 Archive of Our Own Downtime (archiveofourown.org)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by teddyh 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I built a tiny CLI that writes my commit messages from Git diff (github.com/saccofrancesco)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by s4ccofr4ncesco 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Interactive streamer map with purchasable cells (streamergrid.net)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by D-Nis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library (b-list.org)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Personal Encyclopedias (whoami.wiki)
    ×3.50 26 #44 | 795 points by jrmyphlmn 17 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk (npr.org)
    ×2.83 4 #65 | 251 points by nuke-web3 17 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. RunKoda – Real-time collaborative IDE where AI agents don't conflict (runkoda.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by SNAFI 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Wit – Stops merge conflicts when multiple AI agents edit the same repo (github.com/amaar-mc)
    ×1.24 67 | 6 points by amaarc 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Deploytarot.com – tarot card reading for deployments (deploytarot.com)
    ×1.67 3 #2 | 124 points by rembish 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Apple Charging Situation (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.64 3 | 3 points by colinprince 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. OpenAI's latest repo has Claude as the third top contributor (twitter.com/CodeByNZ)
    ×3.54 74 | 59 points by mirzap 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Airport wait times are longest in TSA history, agency says (usatoday.com)
    ×2.76 64 | 58 points by geox 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Minimalist library to generate SVG views of scientific data (github.com/alefore)
    ×1.66 162 | 5 points by afc 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Zero Days: Electric Motorcycles Are a Security Nightmare (persephonekarnstein.github.io)
    ×1.67 39 #42 | 24 points by Ivoah 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???