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  1. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.43 32 #68 | 423 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 826 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish
    ×1.10 4 | 5 points by neilv 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle
    ×0.53 | 2 points by pranshuchittora 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.55 98 | 6 points by jopizio 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×1.07 42 | 28 points by zcalvin 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.30 108 | 293 points by mlaux 5 days ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup?
    ×0.51 | 2 points by conqrr 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out?
    ×1.02 84 | 10 points by jackgavigan 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.34 118 | 15 points by amina124 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion
    ×0.20 124 | 4 points by yash_salesup 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Google now ships "ads" with their Android system update?
    ×0.34 115 | 10 points by y42 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.43 145 | 34 points by shriy-singh 6 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.49 133 | 19 points by will10pa 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.33 160 | 14 points by sathomasga 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address
    ×0.28 157 | 7 points by luckman212 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Management is forcing us to use AI
    ×0.66 123 | 20 points by aksjfveoq 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?
    ×0.20 162 | 4 points by variety8675 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: A small side project for even colour scales (viesual.net)
    ×1.33 112 | 4 points by vie00001 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Rivian: LiDAR R2 reaches customers in 2027, employees get it this year (electrek.co)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by cisc 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. NASA observatory could be weeks away from falling to Earth after failed rescue (cnn.com)
    ×1.83 3 | 3 points by everybodyknows 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns (nytimes.com)
    ×4.96 101 | 62 points by jbegley 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: CLI and TUI control for dps150 power supply (github.com/hmldns)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by Homo__Ludens 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Google ending ChromeOS support two years early (theregister.com)
    ×2.19 50 | 213 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)
    ×1.15 80 | 129 points by henrychannel 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (github.com/Sparticle62ops)
    ×1.03 44 | 85 points by sparticle62 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: I built a calendar where each event has its own tasks (apple.com)
    ×1.15 90 | 3 points by waitinside 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards (aresluna.org)
    ×1.25 31 #20 | 21 points by leephillips 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Dear User, email is here to stay (github.com/tursomari)
    ×0.68 62 #47 | 5 points by cachrevolt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data (amazon.com)
    ×1.21 2 #69 | 8 points by daigoba66 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Aartool, Audit a Linux host and see which attack chains are complete (github.com/cyberaar)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by bantou96 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.70 20 | 295 points by dmux 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") (software3d.com)
    ×1.24 22 #16 | 20 points by cobbzilla 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin (cmu.edu)
    ×1.77 8 #52 | 32 points by Guyadou 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Jylus – give AI systems evidence from changing data. (jylus.ai)
    ×1.81 140 | 6 points by JoshJH 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
    ×0.92 33 #48 | 66 points by systemerror 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Jev predicts every plate appearance of the 2026 MLB postseason (bitgraph.ing)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by mikeargento 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. DepthFirst: Continuous Cyber Defense (depthfirst.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit (gizmodo.com)
    ×4.31 29 #51 | 13 points by PLenz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.40 86 #60 | 339 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.44 29 #72 | 1044 points by crorella 1 day ago | 927 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: CodeDiff – Fast (<100ms), robust (99.95%) syntax-aware code diff (github.com/ivankovic)
    ×1.85 121 | 6 points by FabCH 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Two-panel file manager where everything else is a plugin (xverb.pages.dev)
    ×2.54 132 | 5 points by xsm909 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI (github.com/EverMind-AI)
    ×0.81 91 | 54 points by cyfyifanchen 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
    ×0.53 32 #38 | 14 points by OlympicMarmoto 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess (squareorbits.com)
    ×4.84 5 | 472 points by SquareOrbits 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com/reladraw)
    ×2.13 96 | 407 points by jpwalsh234 4 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Web server that lets you build iOS & Android offline apps like BitChat (github.com/Qbix)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by EGreg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
    ×1.37 75 | 215 points by mrborgen 2 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
    ×1.80 86 | 314 points by safaelmali 3 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.11 2 #84 | 307 points by ilamont 23 hours ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. CM AI Docking Port: teaching AI agents to knock on the right door (apartmamatevz.si)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by Cmfree 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Purlin: Separating Orchestration from the Datapath of Collectives (arxiv.org)
    ×1.49 37 | 3 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Certify you wrote it and not AI (iwrote.co)
    ×1.68 14 | 3 points by arpanghoshal 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter (github.com/dsummersl)
    ×0.98 138 | 74 points by 91awebsi 1 week ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: PHNTM ONE: Self healing AI assistant running on a Raspberry Pi5 (phntmcore.com)
    ×0.87 159 | 3 points by phntmcore 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by sshah03 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability (electrek.co)
    ×5.90 4 | 147 points by ciconia 18 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world (garage44.eu)
    ×0.66 135 | 19 points by jvanveen 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ballmer Peak (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.14 46 | 85 points by thunderbong 20 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Free browser games designed for 80-year-old eyes and hands (freegamesforseniors.com)
    ×2.52 114 | 9 points by xmasdong 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.67 52 #65 | 200 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (anthropic.com)
    ×5.40 29 | 243 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games (schemescape.com)
    ×1.04 21 #39 | 8 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.84 20 #46 | 120 points by gvuksic 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.65 24 #59 | 872 points by bryan0 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Origin: Computer Science Not About Computers, Astronomy Not About Telescopes (quoteinvestigator.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by pcfwik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The $170B lesson data center developers keep learning the hard way (fastcompany.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by johnshades 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.81 56 #73 | 86 points by luu 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)
    ×2.17 5 #80 | 372 points by devonnull 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: DragomanD – local language translator for Linux (l10n-bg.dev)
    ×1.16 13 | 3 points by eniac111 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Claude partial outage (claude.com)
    ×2.04 56 | 171 points by sidcool 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux and macOS (github.com/pch)
    ×2.56 94 | 7 points by pchm 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A crypto trading demo using WebGPU and QuestDB (scitrader.io)
    ×0.88 111 | 3 points by abtgraphics 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Enterprise Postgres for AI and more, from prototype to production (pgedge.com)
    ×2.32 143 | 7 points by bonesmoses 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Selpflow – Personalized Workout and Nutrition Plans (selpflow.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by zilijonas 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Walking Men from Around the World (mossandfog.com)
    ×1.57 10 | 3 points by gaws 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Expanding My Music Pipeline (coryd.dev)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by nullpad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AI invite codes and referral codes, live (aiinvitecode.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by febeee 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)
    ×0.79 107 | 32 points by rhl314 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Ctxfw – AST context firewall that cuts agent prompt tokens by 67% (github.com/heuristicolab)
    ×1.43 125 | 5 points by mikemo88 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com/mogrinz)
    ×0.94 4 #44 | 63 points by mogrinz 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
    ×1.15 21 #50 | 111 points by signa11 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Turbo Haskell (reddit.com)
    ×2.59 29 #63 | 6 points by simonmic 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
    ×1.22 #4 | 109 points by iandinwoodie 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records (faav.net)
    ×2.19 6 #17 | 232 points by luispa 10 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.34 50 #22 | 3 points by measurablefunc 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Parasitic Computing (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by simonpure 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? (prospect.org)
    ×8.05 46 | 239 points by ragall 15 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer (github.com/bertaye)
    ×0.67 149 | 37 points by bertaye 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???