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  1. Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    ×1.06 8 #48 | 123 points by alegd 7 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×1.88 27 | 280 points by modelcroissant 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is GitHub's #1 repo fake? build-your-own-x 491K stars
    ×0.10 | 2 points by throwawaysoso 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Warning: If you search "Claude Desktop" on Google, the 2nd ad result is a scam
    ×0.21 77 | 3 points by diogenescynic 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×1.88 81 | 337 points by misterchocolat 5 days ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session
    ×0.27 88 | 8 points by agentseal 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×0.75 90 | 63 points by fnoef 3 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by DogRunner 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: May be a basic question, but how can I use AI well?
    ×0.50 97 | 8 points by jdw64 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager
    ×0.40 92 | 7 points by chairhairair 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.77 95 | 78 points by absurdwebsite 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I built a real-time AR plane spotter, here's the math that makes it work
    ×0.29 101 | 6 points by ananddhruv29 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?
    ×0.21 117 | 6 points by tuvix 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?
    ×0.55 106 | 12 points by canterburry 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
    ×1.00 120 | 16 points by arikusi 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
    ×0.98 105 | 23 points by throwaw12 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does magic link authentication use HTML canvassing?
    ×0.33 121 | 5 points by trinsic2 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
    ×0.57 107 | 31 points by fny 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: ChatAi web-based session notation?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by xtiansimon 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error
    ×0.91 125 | 14 points by ascarola 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.10 118 | 31 points by thewillmoss 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.68 131 | 14 points by Anon84 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.54 141 | 11 points by comrade1234 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.61 135 | 14 points by wasimsk 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?
    ×0.42 134 | 6 points by s_u_d_o 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)
    ×0.60 124 | 8 points by leetrout 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?
    ×0.66 137 | 6 points by coreyp_1 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by mmarian 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard (github.com/devmegablaster)
    ×2.48 129 | 8 points by devmegablaster 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: OCI MicroVMs for Proxmox VE (github.com/rcarmo)
    ×3.36 103 | 10 points by rcarmo 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Mind-OS – First free online AI dependency self‑assessment (iamalex-afk.github.io)
    ×1.07 149 | 3 points by bitkin_dev 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. MariaDB's Snapshot Isolation: A Fix That Breaks More Than It Fixes (percona.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by 0xKelsey 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How Finland's "Math Miracle" Deceived the World (medium.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by ibobev 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tim Cook steps down. Ternus to CEO (twitter.com/i)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by bundie 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerOSINT)
    ×2.99 3 | 389 points by Tiberium 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: XitDB – an immutable single-file database (github.com/xit-vcs)
    ×2.42 133 | 8 points by xeubie 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Visibility, approvals, and auditability for multi-agent coding workflows (actower.io)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by gokhanozer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving (rts.ch)
    ×6.40 66 | 307 points by doener 9 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children (404media.co)
    ×1.51 14 #67 | 23 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
    ×1.33 3 #86 | 228 points by vinhnx 23 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working on Power PPC64LE Back End, Support for SteamRT3 (phoronix.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by samtheDamned 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Apple Hardware Executive John Ternus to Become CEO (wsj.com)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by dcgudeman 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.56 68 | 75 points by naves 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in (theregister.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by Logans_Run 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Johny Srouji Named Apple's Chief Hardware Officer (apple.com)
    ×1.34 37 | 4 points by johnbehnke 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. What will be scarce? – by Alex Imas – Ghosts of Electricity (aleximas.substack.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Goempy – Ship a CPython interpreter inside your Go binary (github.com/tamnd)
    ×0.76 79 | 3 points by tamnd 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Kefir C17/C23 Compiler (sr.ht)
    ×1.01 21 #8 | 81 points by conductor 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. 2 Big Bottlenecks to Scaling Agentic State (georgianailab.substack.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by dudzik 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Git 2.54.0 Released (lwn.net)
    ×1.53 8 | 3 points by kazu11max17 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Self-hosted Raspberry Pi wall display (no cloud, no subscription) (github.com/silentg33k)
    ×0.97 70 | 4 points by g_33_k 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Sauna effect on heart rate (tryterra.co)
    ×2.02 7 #27 | 319 points by kyriakosel 7 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on "prompt relevance" (adweek.com)
    ×3.47 2 #33 | 6 points by jlark77777 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Waves and Particles (taylor.town)
    ×2.08 13 | 4 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Palantir's Stasi Protocols (professorsigmund.com)
    ×3.74 70 | 79 points by Prof_Sigmund 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
    ×0.68 53 | 77 points by pizza_man 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Pyra – a Python toolchain experiment inspired by uv and Bun (github.com/treyorr)
    ×1.08 115 | 12 points by trey-orr 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Coelanox – auditable inference runtime in Rust (BERT runs today) (coelanox.com)
    ×0.65 136 | 3 points by Shark1n4Suit 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. What we learned using AI agents to refactor a monolith (1password.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by ingve 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Experts warn climate change will make parts of Israel uninhabitable in decades (ynetnews.com)
    ×2.53 36 | 5 points by littlexsparkee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.26 72 | 117 points by agambrahma 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Banned by Anthropic? (bannedbyanthropic.com)
    ×4.94 29 | 100 points by gck1 22 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time (2023) (bmj.com)
    ×2.97 8 | 96 points by mikhael 14 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: My Hyperliquid Terminal (aulico.com)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by kiosktryer 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. GitHub's fake star economy (awesomeagents.ai)
    ×3.02 17 #6 | 665 points by Liriel 13 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI Resistance Is Growing (stephvee.ca)
    ×3.53 #2 | 178 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war (warontherocks.com)
    ×1.87 7 #12 | 90 points by anjel 1 hour ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Tim Cook to step down from Apple (nytimes.com)
    ×2.09 11 #45 | 8 points by frenchman_in_ny 27 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.06 15 #88 | 297 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Stack Overflow Adds AI Assist Chat (stackoverflow.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by written-beyond 31 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1 (lwn.net)
    ×0.65 30 #39 | 52 points by signa11 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ninety Percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine (2009) (cnn.com)
    ×1.41 9 | 3 points by downbad_ 56 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Link Shortener – Itlinks.me (itlinks.me)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by IgorStojanov 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Golf club that always hits in the correct direction [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by pajtai 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: GeoFastMapAPI – open-source Fast vector and raster server for mapmakers (geofastmap.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by rupestre-campos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Use Faker to improve the quality of your tests (howtotestfrontend.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by howToTestFE 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)
    ×1.07 67 | 88 points by tosh 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore (nytimes.com)
    ×2.83 41 | 75 points by eigenhombre 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What is Canton Network (and why should you care)? (mann.blog)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by eamann 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    ×2.16 23 | 340 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)
    ×3.86 64 | 171 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of iLearningEngines charged with fraud (reuters.com)
    ×3.37 14 | 157 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tracking when Trump chickens out (thetacotracker.com)
    ×8.19 11 | 62 points by JMiao 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 (theolivepress.es)
    ×6.12 31 #37 | 780 points by ramonga 7 hours ago | 681 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
    ×2.07 4 #81 | 225 points by doener 22 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (philosopher.eu)
    ×1.29 44 | 91 points by isomorphy 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Gave Claude a casino bankroll – it gambles till it's too broke to think (letaigamble.com)
    ×2.00 112 | 40 points by mackbrowne 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
    ×1.64 34 #24 | 108 points by lelanthran 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Figma's woes compound with Claude Design (martinalderson.com)
    ×1.76 45 #26 | 80 points by martinald 11 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???