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  1. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×2.80 15 #18 | 147 points by zkldi 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.49 50 #65 | 14 points by rjzzleep 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
    ×0.23 50 | 3 points by akarshhegde18 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is Codex with GPT 5.5 Extra High being dumbed down?
    ×0.26 47 | 5 points by setnone 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.12 116 | 165 points by syntaxbush 5 days ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.79 107 | 105 points by gcanyon 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Is aerc better than neomutt now?
    ×0.13 123 | 5 points by hardikxk 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.66 122 | 66 points by oscgam1 4 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives?
    ×1.13 88 | 18 points by rpastuszak 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.42 138 | 9 points by petemc_ 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?
    ×0.53 99 | 14 points by current_robot 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
    ×0.22 133 | 4 points by ovi_firstqa 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.54 153 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 6 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.30 132 | 37 points by mzubairtahir 3 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×0.44 121 | 14 points by andyjohnson0 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.43 96 | 112 points by PhilipDaineko 3 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.61 151 | 12 points by justanything 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.34 163 | 6 points by howToTestFE 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.40 161 | 6 points by i_am_rocoe 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.34 157 | 8 points by thoughtpeddler 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.61 158 | 19 points by mellosty 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
    ×1.20 98 | 54 points by trowa159 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.28 165 | 6 points by HoldOnAMinute 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit
    ×0.80 148 | 7 points by akarshhegde18 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tickler sues FBI to get to bottom of feet (taonexus.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by logicallee 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. It's Time to Reserve Your WhatsApp Username (fb.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by Markoff 18 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. We need tech news sources which exclude AI
    ×3.60 66 | 139 points by botfriendsarent 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023) (xcancel.com)
    ×3.35 76 | 56 points by therein 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Vaghenu, a meter aware sloka-to-chant, TTS for Sanskrit
    ×2.04 82 | 10 points by init0 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I ported Kubernetes to the browser (ngrok.com)
    ×2.52 7 #5 | 14 points by peterdemin 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Claude Sonnet 5 – benchmark results (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.01 13 #7 | 15 points by lucamark 53 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Grok's Traffic Is Mostly Driven by Adult Content (forbes.com)
    ×4.04 25 #43 | 14 points by sorenjan 40 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice (lingochunk.com)
    ×0.59 125 | 92 points by alder 5 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com/neospe)
    ×0.36 146 | 28 points by leschak 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Caliper – pass@k reliability testing for Claude Code and Codex skills (github.com/edonadei)
    ×0.84 162 | 3 points by edonadei 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Working With AI: A concrete example (htmx.org)
    ×1.69 39 #79 | 184 points by comma_at 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DHH: Basecamp 5, Vibe Coding, and the Future of Rails (rubyonrails.org)
    ×2.43 32 | 3 points by robbyrussell 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. wrtK8s [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by JustinGarrison 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. There's panic buying of fuel in Russia now (youtube.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by t23414321 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards (ranpara.net)
    ×2.59 55 | 87 points by DevarshRanpara 6 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals (lyra.horse)
    ×1.91 17 #20 | 52 points by OuterVale 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Waveloop: What Fable left me (neynt.ca)
    ×1.85 23 #21 | 19 points by personjerry 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections (theguardian.com)
    ×3.21 7 #57 | 596 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: DRM-Free Books (frequal.com)
    ×0.99 79 | 118 points by TeaVMFan 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Vibe zsh, turn natural language into shell commands (github.com/skymoore)
    ×0.44 127 | 3 points by iamsky 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: role-model, a router for hybrid local/cloud AI (github.com/try-works)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by try-working 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Reading the internals of Postgres: Database cluster, databases, and tables (buraksen.dev)
    ×0.74 38 #17 | 24 points by buraksen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. No Systemd (nosystemd.org)
    ×1.63 17 #89 | 20 points by standeven 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by ameypandey 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. NixOS 26.05 (nixos.org)
    ×2.59 46 | 118 points by lostmsu 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Shot-scraper video tool for recording YAML-defined webapp feature demos (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.02 38 | 4 points by simonw 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why AI Hasn't Cured Anything yet [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by gurjeet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Skill.md AI Crawler Visibility (github.com/MerqryLabs)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by novaesystems 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Maestral open-source Dropbox client no longer actively supported (maestral.app)
    ×1.80 12 | 4 points by rja65 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Popping the GPU Bubble (moondream.ai)
    ×2.79 30 | 188 points by radq 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management (github.com/jumpserver)
    ×0.78 48 | 75 points by neitsab 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine (xonaly.com)
    ×1.03 86 | 74 points by backlit4034 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What you need to know about new customs charges when buying from outside the EU (rte.ie)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by austinallegro 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Bill C-34 Answers Child Safety with Identity Infrastructure (ethanplant.ca)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by ethanplant 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Tidal AI Policy (tidal.com)
    ×2.13 16 | 303 points by hn8726 1 day ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Rails App Just Got Acquired. Now What? (planetargon.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by robbyrussell 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. CachyOS June 2026 Release (cachyos.org)
    ×1.45 37 | 140 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What can you confidently guarantee about your software? (acm.org)
    ×1.08 45 #85 | 126 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding (deep-reinforce.com)
    ×0.73 58 #87 | 80 points by kordlessagain 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I Snuck This Boat Through a Military Blockade [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by Varelion 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory (morethanmoore.substack.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Set up your own DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service (nochan.net)
    ×1.25 9 #15 | 33 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter (humphri.es)
    ×1.13 40 #72 | 225 points by energeticbark 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting (europeancorrespondent.com)
    ×4.95 63 #74 | 654 points by robtherobber 10 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Zenith: sota harness for normal models to beat Fable on FrontierSWE (ii.inc)
    ×1.26 101 | 8 points by emadm 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. New Claude app strings, Fable 5 coming back only with verification (twitter.com/kimmonismus)
    ×1.06 16 #86 | 11 points by garo-pro 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. WordPress Vulnerability Scan Came Back Clean. Are You Still Exposed? (wpsec.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by jonasl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online (eff.org)
    ×4.48 84 | 74 points by rmason 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators (appaca.ai)
    ×0.62 111 | 21 points by susros 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Jargo – a Golang port of Pipecat for conversational-AI apps (github.com/gojargo)
    ×1.84 166 | 7 points by fallais 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Something Is Wrong with Modern Longevity Science (newyorker.com)
    ×1.36 18 #8 | 9 points by nabbed 45 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Makes local LLMs faster and more reliable by optimizing for your device (autotunellm.com)
    ×0.90 11 | 5 points by tanavc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Classic Minesweeper (guokai.dev)
    ×0.64 71 | 9 points by hanguokai 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)
    ×4.00 80 | 812 points by ytkimirti 5 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. CVE-2026-55200: libssh2 memory corruption with possible RCE (github.com/advisories)
    ×1.57 15 | 3 points by wildylion 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: TraceAIO – open-source LLM visibility tracker (traceaio.org)
    ×0.94 59 | 6 points by owenthejumper 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Sony erases digital content from libraries (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.39 56 | 180 points by pseudolus 10 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Parseflow – Extract data from any document. Entirely on your Mac (parseflow.io)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by devtanna 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Openleetcode – LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com/therepanic)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by therepanic 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Volkswagen's Crisis in Five Charts (reuters.com)
    ×1.32 9 | 3 points by leonidasrup 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Scientists Unlock Hidden DNA from 1,300-Year-Old Manuscripts (scitechdaily.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45% of lending to climate change projects (reuters.com)
    ×2.09 28 | 4 points by littlexsparkee 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Rock Balloons. (4k:c64/v20/c16/zx/pc) (itch.io)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by orac81 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: ForthWrite – Email AI that learns your voice from every edit you send (forthwrite.ai)
    ×0.71 119 | 4 points by curtisboortz 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Sidequest is a better /btw for Pi (github.com/peterp)
    ×0.82 150 | 3 points by pistoriusp 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???