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  1. Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?
    ×0.59 | 2 points by charliebwrites 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?
    ×0.56 9 | 31 points by zecice 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's the best hands-on path to learn ML inference infrastructure?
    ×0.79 18 | 5 points by censor5 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. BSD seq(1) on Linux
    ×0.61 30 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Robotic Adaptation Suffers from Data Collection Bottleneck
    ×0.22 | 2 points by aunmesh 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by akersten 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you delete your browsing history?
    ×1.42 39 | 4 points by tempestn 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is an in-page speed reader useful?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by jvbotelho 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are you using Rust on embedded devices yet? If not, why?
    ×0.78 56 | 9 points by mempirate 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: I spent personal money on game dev. How to turn stalled project around?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by pixelbyindex 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Graal VM Relevance
    ×1.11 78 | 5 points by sid_op 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
    ×1.23 69 | 48 points by missmoss 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic?
    ×0.60 89 | 10 points by prologic 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Something fishy is going on with Google feed on my Android
    ×0.74 82 | 5 points by motbus3 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Connection-Agnostic Presence Tracking for Stateless Distributed Back Ends
    ×0.59 99 | 5 points by duckydude20 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Searchable, leveled learning map of AI/ML tools
    ×0.27 | 2 points by maneeshthakur 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. ASK HN: Why has technology become so unreliable?
    ×1.80 83 | 6 points by prmph 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474
    ×0.40 105 | 12 points by Bender 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anyone else experiencing extreme Codex limits token burn rate?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by throwaway2027 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I built a jav data API, need honest feedback
    ×0.31 | 2 points by javinfo 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. YouTube Comments in .csv
    ×0.31 | 2 points by cristyg0101 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf
    ×0.55 130 | 7 points by cristyg0101 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Your Work Relaxing?
    ×0.75 120 | 3 points by julienreszka 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×4.56 47 | 492 points by Thrashed 3 days ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?
    ×0.60 108 | 13 points by tbharath 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc)
    ×1.07 112 | 10 points by LozzKappa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?
    ×0.87 117 | 10 points by jonthepirate 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Telemetry.sh – Telemetry Built for Agents
    ×0.40 | 2 points by flurly 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?
    ×1.79 116 | 8 points by mavsman 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?
    ×0.63 140 | 4 points by Hussain04 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is neuromorphic computing going to replace traditional AI?
    ×0.51 144 | 5 points by lennart-rth 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What happens when we do compress the context in Claude Code?
    ×0.89 134 | 6 points by tbharath 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Books can't piss me off
    ×1.65 97 | 10 points by emerongi 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Postgress in Rust
    ×0.32 149 | 4 points by poldex 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What do you watch during lunch or dinner, if you're by yourself?
    ×0.38 128 | 5 points by MinimalAction 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Is AI used in school system and how are they implementing it
    ×0.39 142 | 3 points by rohankc_01 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.44 139 | 31 points by amichail 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What's expected from an engineering manager or director now?
    ×0.37 143 | 3 points by agentwrangler 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Has anyone figured out how to guard LLMs on kernel level?
    ×0.19 152 | 3 points by isaacnsisong 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tell HN: It's a Lot
    ×1.19 136 | 8 points by mettamage 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What are some popular AI detection software that you know/have used?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by dd-sharma 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.81 141 | 29 points by sam_lowry_ 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What is the status on continual learning for LLMs?
    ×1.07 135 | 5 points by fred123123 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How would you harden AI changes to a 1M-line legacy SaaS before review?
    ×0.74 148 | 4 points by thegreatkahuna 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: What's Up with Archive.today?
    ×0.29 146 | 6 points by nobody9999 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Companies are optimizing models for specific benchmarks
    ×0.43 150 | 4 points by mzubairtahir 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tell HN: A.I Labs are headed by people without world manufacturing experience
    ×0.53 145 | 3 points by dzonga 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Cost of Seamlessness
    ×0.70 147 | 3 points by taotuner 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Will it be possible to do LLM Pool Training?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by slicktux 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: How to get in touch with Paddle (MoR)
    ×0.29 151 | 7 points by probst 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Maginary.ai gets seedance2 and GPT-images2 support (twitter.com/xucian_)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by xucian 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. League of Legends designer shares game design field manual (areadenial.games)
    ×1.41 81 | 46 points by jmanjmanjman 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Rudoc – a 4.5MB Rust document converter (github.com/asong56)
    ×1.59 92 | 16 points by sideras56 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network (github.com/lucid-fabrics)
    ×0.88 84 | 27 points by wmehanna 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs (github.com/gmrandazzo)
    ×0.85 13 #8 | 92 points by zeldone 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Multiway Turing Machines (2021 pre-ai) (wolframphysics.org)
    ×0.88 12 #12 | 14 points by marysminefnuf 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Axtary – Content Authorization for AI Agents (axtary.com)
    ×0.39 137 | 3 points by Axtary 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Integrate any CLI agent into any terminal (terminai.app)
    ×1.08 124 | 3 points by emosenkis 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: How well do you use Claude Code?
    ×1.71 122 | 20 points by Paarthmj 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Anthropic versus the entire tech industry (twitter.com/DavidSacks)
    ×2.07 23 #87 | 5 points by delichon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Symphony of Sirens (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by Eridanus2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. You don't hire juniors to do menial chores (frederickvanbrabant.com)
    ×0.46 70 #85 | 8 points by TheEdonian 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Carbon footprint of metal production could be >10 times higher than estimated (phys.org)
    ×2.15 23 | 3 points by littlexsparkee 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras (cltampa.com)
    ×4.03 4 | 152 points by UmYeahNo 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Registrly – cross-referenced UK company and Global LEI lookup (registrly.com)
    ×1.26 100 | 3 points by solodynamo 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means (popsci.com)
    ×1.15 9 #18 | 92 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Building the Grace Cathedral experience (playcanvas.com)
    ×0.62 15 #23 | 25 points by ovenchips 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Gary Stevenson to quit YouTube channel, citing health concerns (theguardian.com)
    ×1.33 18 | 3 points by jimnotgym 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I wrote this slowly, a needlessly patient text editor (i-wrote-this-slowly.fly.dev)
    ×1.75 90 | 4 points by pkoird 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A platformer video game using visual representations of functions (function-platformer.vercel.app)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by dbagr 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Design is compromise (stephango.com)
    ×1.25 4 #4 | 160 points by ankitg12 7 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper (sunflowersgame.com)
    ×1.85 4 #26 | 119 points by pompomsheep 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. More on an Internal OpenAI Model Hacking into HuggingFace (thezvi.substack.com)
    ×2.69 31 | 5 points by theptip 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The AI Productivity Illusion (hardresetmedia.com)
    ×2.17 68 | 62 points by quick_brown_fox 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Temporal Context Map (neudice.eu)
    ×0.62 80 | 5 points by zebike 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I built an app for learning and playing Bridge (brannon.online)
    ×0.96 87 | 3 points by braxxox 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data (staffinganalytics.io)
    ×1.71 38 | 241 points by eliotho 3 days ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener (mit.edu)
    ×1.76 60 #75 | 287 points by crescit_eundo 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs to Be Launched Across the Country (eff.org)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by Jimmc414 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I created a way to turn your GitHub contribution graph into a game (ykdojo.github.io)
    ×1.59 138 | 4 points by ykev 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: VoiceScroll – a teleprompter that scrolls as you speak (voice-scroll.com)
    ×1.01 119 | 3 points by sangkwun 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I built an AI that roasts GitHub profiles (gitroast-kappa.vercel.app)
    ×1.57 111 | 4 points by hito20 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Venus's rift valleys may still be actively growing (ethz.ch)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by MarcoDewey 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Amplified Futures – no-wave VCV Rack 2 modules (github.com/dboles99)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by dboles99 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Elevated Errors for Opus 5 (claude.com)
    ×1.19 8 #51 | 90 points by TimCTRL 13 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Stories Told About Data Centres – Pixel Envy (pxlnv.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by rbanffy 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Zig by Example (neocities.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Half We Don't Measure (rishigoomar.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by rgoomar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Managing on-premise servers without Kubernetes (github.com/ricardoborges)
    ×1.07 19 | 16 points by r2ob 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf] (gamedevs.org)
    ×1.27 7 #3 | 79 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???