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  1. Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
    ×0.70 17 #19 | 62 points by reacharavindh 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Can I tell my managers to skip the corporate bs and get to the point?
    ×0.60 3 | 5 points by nhgiang 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.74 80 | 157 points by Ixander 4 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
    ×0.30 51 | 13 points by ex-aws-dude 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Demonstrating Skills When Everything Is a Prompt
    ×0.25 68 | 3 points by Brisk4t 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Don't mass spam employers with LLM generated emails
    ×0.36 65 | 5 points by karamazov 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
    ×0.61 73 | 7 points by nikanj 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Any secrets for reaching a human at large companies?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by elebant 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Are there any more startups with real technical challenges?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by artifix 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Only one link appearing on HN?
    ×0.96 40 | 4 points by datas 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Any way to remove ads in Apple apps?
    ×0.26 83 | 5 points by mark_l_watson 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?
    ×0.92 69 | 30 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Domain Health
    ×0.28 95 | 8 points by anjalibery 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training
    ×0.82 63 | 19 points by jrowilliams 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser
    ×0.45 102 | 22 points by mhloo 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: ChatGPT on macOS grants local computer access to cloud account
    ×0.42 97 | 8 points by lxgr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What do you think will be hot in 2027 with on-device AI
    ×0.36 101 | 5 points by mrburton 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How long before someone reverse-engineers Windows?
    ×1.84 92 | 10 points by cromka 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you review code nowadays?
    ×0.59 93 | 12 points by waylandsmithers 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. JNISleuth-MCP – Recover Stripped JNI Bindings and Ollvm Branches for Ghidra/Ida
    ×0.08 | 2 points by akdapunk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone using Jev / other decision models? What for?
    ×0.22 112 | 5 points by simonw 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
    ×0.87 114 | 18 points by le_curious 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. ChatGPT Plugin in Review for Weeks
    ×0.23 127 | 4 points by dthedavid 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW (github.com/timescale)
    ×0.99 20 #33 | 200 points by jascha_eng 19 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians (pessimistsarchive.org)
    ×0.77 71 #58 | 85 points by list 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Kitten space agency engine, BRUTAL open sourced (github.com/ahwootech)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by yehoshuapw 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Programmes.net – browser-only dev tools and curl programmes.net (programmes.net)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by realraghavgupta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A fifty-year broadcaster wired his home for artificial intelligence (laporte.cloud)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by jacinda 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. FLAT: Flash Linear Attention on TPUs (trainstation-project.github.io)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts (csoonline.com)
    ×4.71 14 #16 | 875 points by latexr 13 hours ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Submarine cable resilience (apnic.net)
    ×0.81 23 #26 | 147 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. An Apology (elevationlab.com)
    ×1.54 46 #51 | 51 points by cdrnsf 2 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Sound (2022) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×1.40 3 #83 | 263 points by dverlaeckt80 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Read your writes: WAIT FOR in PostgreSQL 19 (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.79 17 | 3 points by saisrirampur 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Susqr.com check QR code before you visit (susqr.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by 592AC55EC794 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors (admin.ch)
    ×3.97 52 | 239 points by wuemeli 17 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Sonia. Local AI Assistant Linux. 13Gb RAM, No GPU, Skills Supported (github.com/grigio)
    ×0.93 90 | 3 points by grigio 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript (humanexperiences.io)
    ×0.98 43 | 32 points by baraa_ 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)
    ×1.59 76 | 218 points by kartik017 3 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Model Atlas – An LLM leaderboard you can reweight (philippdubach.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by 7777777phil 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Webster’s Dictionary: The pleasure of finding things out (2014) (jsomers.net)
    ×0.57 51 #40 | 26 points by hangsi 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Investigation: EU citizens' private messages are run through Palantir's software (arvidgrange.substack.com)
    ×4.67 57 #81 | 6 points by rzk 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Knitting – A shared-memory concurrency runtime for Node.js,Bun,and Deno (knitting.run)
    ×0.83 99 | 10 points by mimiMonads 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive (morewrong.lol)
    ×8.47 79 | 101 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Railspike, a coding agent prompting system I've been using for 2 years (railspike.dev)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by forgotmypw17 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Eutelsat shares jump as Ukraine flags curbs on Starlink military-grade service (reuters.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by vrganj 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I'll Call You Later, an interactive 3D browser short film (jashtechno.com)
    ×1.39 53 | 3 points by Jashwanth_13 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. True Food – The future of food is true (truefood.net)
    ×2.65 56 | 3 points by osivertsson 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. WIF-01 Challenge for ACME (RFC 8555) (zaita.io)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by zaitanz 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: My live 3D satellite tracker, now with asteroids and a UAP archive (yantraai.app)
    ×0.54 110 | 5 points by skylensspace 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Scientists are teaching birds to sing lost songs (yale.edu)
    ×0.60 55 #56 | 49 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. KDE Plasma 6.8 released to celebrate 30 years of project (omgubuntu.co.uk)
    ×1.71 6 #62 | 3 points by tapanjk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542% of cases (futhark-lang.org)
    ×0.78 76 #73 | 3 points by marvinborner 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Meta AI creates campaign material for Flávio Bolsonaro and blocks Lula content (uol.com.br)
    ×2.66 24 #75 | 10 points by latinodev 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Trope-a-Dope (escapistmagazine.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by barry-cotter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. New Apple TV 4K (apple.com)
    ×2.19 14 | 345 points by corvad 1 day ago | 641 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices (twitter.com/OpenAINewsroom)
    ×6.72 47 | 85 points by jaredwiener 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Are interstellar visitors alien probes? (lucent.tools)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by Lucent 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Open-source Mac menu bar app for Claude, Codex and Cursor (agentmuster.app)
    ×1.27 120 | 3 points by josefchen 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: FandomMap – a map of 700 fan conventions, with their guest lists (fandommap.com)
    ×1.38 124 | 3 points by marcandremongeo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Steering AI Beyond Automation (normaltech.ai)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by philbo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Recreational Programming (cphiri.dev)
    ×2.19 8 | 311 points by jslakro 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. RIP Eric Binnion (ma.tt)
    ×1.22 3 | 87 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com/snuri00)
    ×1.66 57 | 310 points by deadxwarrior 3 days ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years (dataforprogress.org)
    ×2.93 16 #7 | 351 points by hubraumhugo 14 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How to engineer an AI harness for game development (kylekukshtel.com)
    ×1.49 37 | 171 points by kkukshtel 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary (bearblog.dev)
    ×6.13 21 | 101 points by popcar2 16 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: OraStage – turn two photos into a Hotel Lobby rap video (orastage.com)
    ×0.92 100 | 3 points by sylwair 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Keep your eyes in one place while typing (claude.ai)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by willthefirst 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Ask a technical question, get an animated explainer you can interrupt (openlume.com)
    ×0.70 71 #52 | 9 points by shadaba 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Farmfence – Bot/Scraper Detection (npmjs.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by zlu 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI-powered law firms draw lawyers from big firms (reuters.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by filippofinke 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: MLX Direct Decider, Mac local decider without fine-tuning (github.com/ItsOdeLeo)
    ×0.92 94 | 3 points by LeoisNotAI 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: The LAST DOOR – a tiny game about deciding when to leave (surge.sh)
    ×1.72 105 | 5 points by sydro9 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: PanamaKVM – direct-booting Linux from Java 25 via FFM/KVM (github.com/rusanoph)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by rusanoph 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Fancy Curl Sites (nytpu.com)
    ×0.98 14 #23 | 114 points by adunk 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. LittleJS is 2D and 3D now (frankforce.com)
    ×0.83 33 #38 | 99 points by dmit 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent (github.com/bealesh)
    ×0.63 11 #61 | 66 points by bealesh 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×3.48 3 #63 | 784 points by thm 1 day ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Barista: Synthesizing Typestate Specifications with LLM Agents (catarinagamboa.github.io)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Give (low vRAM) local sLLMs codebase-wide context with SQLite (attempt) (github.com/govindgcoder)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by iamgovindg 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Graft – open-source source control for agent-scale monorepos (github.com/VishiATChoudhary)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by vc14 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Origami Design Secrets (langorigami.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series (lwn.net)
    ×2.86 41 | 115 points by janvdberg 14 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Yagi DSP Modulation SIM (brian-armstrong.github.io)
    ×0.36 108 | 5 points by brian-armstrong 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tiny Little Office (tinylittleoffice.com)
    ×2.48 1 #3 | 335 points by donohoe 8 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Passkeys are not a trap (scotthelme.co.uk)
    ×3.86 13 #28 | 575 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 725 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.81 56 #46 | 73 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I had ChatGPT one-shot a novel for me and it was pretty good (chatgpt.com)
    ×1.57 5 | 3 points by djha-skin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) (github.com/bherbruck)
    ×1.28 62 | 140 points by bherbruck 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???