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  1. Build an agent first Kanban board
    ×0.08 88 | 3 points by moose6912 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.22 106 | 159 points by syntaxbush 5 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Is aerc better than neomutt now?
    ×0.13 87 | 4 points by hardikxk 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?
    ×0.62 64 | 13 points by current_robot 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
    ×0.30 93 | 4 points by ovi_firstqa 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.84 90 | 104 points by gcanyon 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives?
    ×1.07 24 | 13 points by rpastuszak 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.70 108 | 66 points by oscgam1 3 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×0.48 97 | 14 points by andyjohnson0 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.38 115 | 7 points by petemc_ 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.53 134 | 39 points by JohnDSDev 5 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.42 113 | 37 points by mzubairtahir 3 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.45 74 | 111 points by PhilipDaineko 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.61 128 | 11 points by justanything 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.46 139 | 6 points by i_am_rocoe 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.36 133 | 8 points by thoughtpeddler 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
    ×1.21 73 | 53 points by trowa159 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.31 150 | 5 points by howToTestFE 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit
    ×1.01 124 | 7 points by akarshhegde18 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.53 142 | 16 points by mellosty 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.30 152 | 6 points by HoldOnAMinute 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×1.02 132 | 11 points by aurenvale 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.49 156 | 20 points by niyazpk 6 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Fast feedback loops is the way
    ×0.47 141 | 5 points by skyglider 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Recursive self improvement for human skills
    ×0.36 149 | 4 points by rando77 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. We need tech news sources which exclude AI
    ×3.72 20 | 135 points by botfriendsarent 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.60 154 | 6 points by throwaw12 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×1.62 125 | 23 points by notsure357 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Data Privacy while using API tools
    ×0.19 153 | 4 points by 11shyam11 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. AI Data Centers Have Been Great for the Steel Industry, Now a Power Crisis Looms (wsj.com)
    ×2.04 8 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Counterexamples in Type Systems (counterexamples.org)
    ×1.05 59 #74 | 27 points by bramadityaw 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Linux Network Performance Parameters (github.com/leandromoreira)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by grajmanu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js (github.com/nubjs)
    ×1.46 96 | 277 points by colinmcd 5 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. MarketNow (marketnow.site)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by eddyflores 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Can Facial Recognition tools track you online? (eyematch.ai)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by anetagro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AI Policy Update (freecad.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. SQLite improving performance with pre-sort (andersmurphy.com)
    ×1.33 3 #38 | 55 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations (gitstock.org)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by dares2573 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) (aresluna.org)
    ×1.53 21 | 253 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.21 18 #26 | 208 points by jnord 9 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. wolfSSL vs. MbedTLS (wolfssl.com)
    ×1.07 51 #76 | 15 points by aidangarske 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Can Architecture Ever Save Us from Sickness? (mit.edu)
    ×2.08 9 | 4 points by the-mitr 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com/inkeep)
    ×1.87 79 | 376 points by engomez 4 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960) (obsolescence.dev)
    ×0.79 14 #8 | 55 points by ozymandiax 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Gemma 4 on Cerebras - The Fastest Inference Is Now Multimodal (cerebras.ai)
    ×1.79 21 | 3 points by Tiberium 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Running a vision model on every screenshot on-device (github.com/ayushh0110)
    ×3.70 63 | 18 points by alexkarpathy 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Wind particles on Mapbox from a single EXIF JPEG (mapbox-exif-layer.com)
    ×0.70 158 | 3 points by zifanw9 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Force Is with Cristal Beer (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Michelangelo11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×4.05 14 | 156 points by b-man 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Privacy Friendly Age Verification System without ID (vednig.workers.dev)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by vednig 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Pieter Levels' Data Shows Negative Posts Get 2.5x More Views (x.com)
    ×0.73 58 | 3 points by vantareed 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com/DDecoene)
    ×0.70 102 | 95 points by ddecoene 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Sidequest is a better /btw for Pi (github.com/peterp)
    ×0.83 117 | 3 points by pistoriusp 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Aerial-autonomy-stack – open-source perception-based drone swarms (github.com/JacopoPan)
    ×1.11 148 | 5 points by SufficientFix42 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. As a dev how do I avoid exposing IP through coding assistants?
    ×0.41 | 1 points by dd-sharma 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. PostgreSQL Management Platform (gilliomfrontlinedigital.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by Warfighter8714 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. An Explosion of AI Slop Is Pushing People Offline and Back into the Real World (inc.com)
    ×2.90 28 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020) (openculture.com)
    ×1.05 29 | 167 points by MaysonL 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Zenith: sota harness for normal models to beat Fable on FrontierSWE (ii.inc)
    ×0.46 72 | 4 points by emadm 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I built a free invoice generator for freelancers – no login, no subscription (quickinvoice-jade.vercel.app)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by Mini_dev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×6.03 46 #58 | 880 points by taubek 22 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The bats working the pollinator night shift (batcon.org)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by gscott 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Memory Safe Context Switching (fil-c.org)
    ×1.20 5 #6 | 99 points by modeless 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Decker Fantasy Camp 2026 (itch.io)
    ×0.69 34 #70 | 49 points by RodgerTheGreat 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools (github.com/open-energy-transition)
    ×1.38 38 | 164 points by lyoncy 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. EU countries move to revive temporary message-scanning regime (euronews.com)
    ×2.18 32 | 54 points by latexr 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: ForthWrite – Email AI that learns your voice from every edit you send (forthwrite.ai)
    ×0.51 83 | 3 points by curtisboortz 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice (lingochunk.com)
    ×0.58 111 | 91 points by alder 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: AgentBrush – Your coding agent's missing tool: image generation (agentbrush.dev)
    ×1.30 160 | 5 points by Yan4300 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting (onmy.cloud)
    ×2.35 4 #2 | 458 points by HumanCCF 11 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa (2005) (britishorigami.org)
    ×0.43 31 #17 | 30 points by dang 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Radiation Exposure Lie (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.80 2 #52 | 119 points by duffydotsvg 15 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI Specialists Ready to Transform Your Workflow (github.com/msitarzewski)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by grajmanu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN:I got tired of spending 3hrs daily on job applications,so I automated it (jobspire.co.in)
    ×0.81 146 | 5 points by cbyteai 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Britons ordered to remove air conditioning from homes in 40C heat under Net Zero (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×2.77 3 | 5 points by dmitrygr 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active (longcat.chat)
    ×1.53 5 #5 | 107 points by benjiro29 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A Living Neural Web in HTML5 Canvas (techoreon.github.io)
    ×1.69 136 | 7 points by guptalog 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Do LLMs pass the mirror test? (pascalschuster.de)
    ×2.04 56 | 80 points by thepasch 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base (github.com/mat-mgm)
    ×1.03 13 #25 | 66 points by triska 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What happens when you run a CUDA kernel? (fergusfinn.com)
    ×1.45 7 #27 | 249 points by mezark 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Reading the Internals of PostgreSQL: Database Cluster, Databases, and Tables (buraksen.dev)
    ×0.64 69 #87 | 17 points by buraksen 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A fast hex dumper, written in Rust (github.com/CallMeAlphabet)
    ×0.60 107 | 3 points by CallMeAlphabet 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A native graphical shell for SSH (probablymarcus.com)
    ×1.68 1 #21 | 288 points by mrcslws 15 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks (semgrep.dev)
    ×4.22 24 #60 | 1077 points by jms703 1 day ago | 499 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Letos: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases. Formerly known as SQLiteStudio (letos.org)
    ×1.35 3 #86 | 12 points by thunderbong 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Use-zerostack – delegate any task to a lightweight coding agent (github.com/gi-dellav)
    ×1.19 126 | 4 points by gidellav 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Hardwood 1.0: A Fast, Lightweight Apache Parquet Reader for the JVM (hardwood.dev)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by gunnarmorling 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (quesma.com)
    ×3.43 2 #1 | 850 points by stared 14 hours ago | 590 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Operation RYaN (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by valgaze 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Meshtryoshka: Differentiable Mesh Rendering for Unbounded Scenes (danielxu9393.github.io)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by E-Reverance 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???