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  1. Build an agent first Kanban board
    ×0.31 71 | 3 points by moose6912 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives?
    ×1.46 31 | 12 points by rpastuszak 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Is aerc better than neomutt now?
    ×0.16 75 | 4 points by hardikxk 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?
    ×0.60 46 | 11 points by current_robot 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
    ×0.36 82 | 4 points by ovi_firstqa 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.24 108 | 158 points by syntaxbush 4 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.85 99 | 104 points by gcanyon 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.71 110 | 66 points by oscgam1 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×0.50 98 | 14 points by andyjohnson0 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.39 111 | 7 points by petemc_ 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.42 114 | 36 points by mzubairtahir 2 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.43 81 | 109 points by PhilipDaineko 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.53 135 | 39 points by JohnDSDev 5 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.48 139 | 6 points by i_am_rocoe 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.37 131 | 8 points by thoughtpeddler 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
    ×1.23 76 | 53 points by trowa159 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.63 130 | 10 points by justanything 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit
    ×1.11 121 | 7 points by akarshhegde18 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.32 154 | 5 points by howToTestFE 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. We need tech news sources which exclude AI
    ×3.72 12 | 131 points by botfriendsarent 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.50 147 | 15 points by mellosty 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.30 158 | 6 points by HoldOnAMinute 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×1.06 132 | 11 points by aurenvale 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Fast feedback loops is the way
    ×0.49 141 | 5 points by skyglider 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Recursive self improvement for human skills
    ×0.37 153 | 4 points by rando77 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.49 161 | 20 points by niyazpk 6 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.62 159 | 6 points by throwaw12 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×1.65 127 | 23 points by notsure357 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Data Privacy while using API tools
    ×0.19 157 | 4 points by 11shyam11 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Mojo is becoming open source
    ×0.88 136 | 8 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?
    ×0.56 142 | 7 points by reinhardt 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.39 148 | 16 points by othmanosx 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.30 156 | 8 points by netfortius 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. You really shouldn't copy-paste errors into Claude Code (robusta.dev)
    ×2.19 9 #22 | 22 points by nyellin 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Forgotten Castles of the Garamantes (wildmanlife.com)
    ×0.48 66 #90 | 40 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Embeddable Cumulative Crates Download History (undivisible.dev)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by undivisible 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: PDF Insight – local-first AI that sorts your PDFs on-device (pdf-insight.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by jacoblav 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I Derived a Steak (absurdlyoptimized.com)
    ×2.28 151 | 8 points by bkazez 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses (twitter.com/i)
    ×3.03 22 #34 | 322 points by notRobot 11 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Uncapping the U.S. House is achievable and impactful (cmarmitage.substack.com)
    ×2.29 19 #62 | 5 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tidal Says It Won't Pay Royalties for AI-Generated Music (404media.co)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by cdrnsf 18 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Bare-metal RTOS(TamgaOs) for Cortex-M4, written in C and ARM assembly (github.com/hrasityilmaz)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by hrasity 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Import the HN Home to a reading queue with clean reader view and TL;DR (readplace.com)
    ×0.74 128 | 4 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Magicbookshelf.org – a spoiler-aware companion for public domain classics (magicbookshelf.org)
    ×0.95 52 #47 | 7 points by philipfweiss 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Mel Brooks is 100 today (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.13 67 #71 | 88 points by shellback3 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Caution: Content Warnings Do Not Reduce Distress, Study Shows (2023) (psychologicalscience.org)
    ×1.47 5 | 3 points by Teever 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online (eff.org)
    ×5.13 34 | 74 points by rmason 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ACL 1.0: A source-available commercial license for the AI era (auditablelicense.org)
    ×0.62 29 #50 | 17 points by ilreb 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GrapheneOS cites Hyundai, Kia as it pressures Volkswagen over app block (cyberinsider.com)
    ×1.20 2 #73 | 4 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Foray – AI that generates a complete business blueprint and stress-tests ur idea (getforay.ai)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by foray-ai 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Shacam for macOS – Screen sharing you can touch (shacam.com)
    ×0.91 93 | 5 points by renatoworks 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Mathematical finance, formally verified in Lean 4 (github.com/raphaelrrcoelho)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by raphaelrrcoelho 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js (github.com/nubjs)
    ×1.46 103 | 277 points by colinmcd 5 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Puzzle with Strangers. A free multiplayer jigsaw (endtime-instruments.org)
    ×0.74 169 | 4 points by janoelze 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API (vllm.ai)
    ×0.92 14 #21 | 49 points by matt_d 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. One Man's Delusion Is Another Man's Dream (guerrillademocracy.blogspot.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by GDNews503AD 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI (adiamond.me)
    ×1.93 52 | 103 points by diamondap 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Kew, A distraction-free terminal music player, now on Windows (github.com/ravachol)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by ravachol 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (microsoft.com)
    ×1.19 54 | 145 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: DRM-Free Books (frequal.com)
    ×0.96 48 | 112 points by TeaVMFan 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Image2JXL – a native macOS JPEG XL converter (reddit.com)
    ×0.94 125 | 3 points by givebest 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019) (outsideonline.com)
    ×2.23 28 #28 | 84 points by markgavalda 11 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. TPG boss to enter guilty plea and seek leniency (afr.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by Alien1Being 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Impossibility of Mitigating AI Jailbreaks (reliable-ai.review)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by NickySlicks 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Gino Bartali – Some medals are made to hang on the soul, not the jacket (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by lifeisstillgood 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We Caught a North Korean Operative in a Hiring Pipeline (alex.com)
    ×1.60 16 | 3 points by jenthoven 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. It's dead, Jim – the old Microsoft UEFI CA from 2011 expired yesterday (einval.com)
    ×1.87 89 | 57 points by zdw 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: The TypeScript Semantic Layer for ClickHouse (github.com/hypequery)
    ×1.27 146 | 7 points by lureilly1 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Self hosting the modern AI stack could be the way forward (github.com/raiyanyahya)
    ×2.69 42 | 4 points by sleepynoodle 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I Built a Voice API So My Mother Could Book a Taxi in Lomé(Togo) (compeel.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by catdieng 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex (github.com/openai)
    ×1.23 25 | 224 points by pikseladam 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Microsoft Needs Windows Lite (philipbohun.com)
    ×2.37 55 | 82 points by pbohun 9 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Parseflow – Extract data from any document. Entirely on your Mac (parseflow.io)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by devtanna 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water (phys.org)
    ×1.36 3 #4 | 46 points by wglb 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base (github.com/mat-mgm)
    ×0.84 19 #11 | 19 points by triska 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.84 29 #63 | 23 points by Cider9986 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Predict churn before customers leave (github.com/team-telnyx)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by sona-coffee11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C (decomp-academy.dev)
    ×1.21 61 | 194 points by jackpriceburns 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What happens when you run a CUDA kernel? (fergusfinn.com)
    ×1.29 7 #18 | 199 points by mezark 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal (github.com/ogulcancelik)
    ×1.19 24 #56 | 145 points by mzehrer 20 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GemCities – Free Gemini:// capsule hosting (gemcities.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by rickcarlino 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Decker Fantasy Camp 2026 (itch.io)
    ×0.63 28 #46 | 42 points by RodgerTheGreat 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Open-source AI agent workflow for auditing Solidity smart contracts (github.com/chain-shield)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by chainshieldai 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams (jayacunzo.com)
    ×5.08 23 | 399 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: macOS Native Markdown Reader with Vim Keybinding Using Swift (intellios.ai)
    ×0.51 83 | 4 points by coolwulf 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Xenoeye – analyze network without AI using netflow, PostgreSQL, Grafana (github.com/vmxdev)
    ×0.95 51 | 3 points by vmxdev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Certificate Transparency search that groups related certificates (certobserver.com)
    ×0.43 102 | 3 points by rellem 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. One million passports leaked online (cambridgeanalytica.org)
    ×2.92 40 #17 | 121 points by jruohonen 13 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship (thomasdullien.github.io)
    ×1.64 14 #32 | 202 points by nekitamo 16 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor (righto.com)
    ×0.91 53 #83 | 126 points by pwg 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???