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  1. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.69 69 #73 | 310 points by sharts 2 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.04 40 | 636 points by dhruv3006 2 days ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.52 76 | 50 points by Abh1Works 4 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.75 55 | 651 points by stagas 3 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?
    ×0.85 72 | 11 points by elar_verole 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Has anyone shipped a self-modifying application with LLMs?
    ×0.43 74 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you access archive.today?
    ×0.31 104 | 4 points by crazybonkersai 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Old.reddit.com is now login only
    ×3.78 60 | 9 points by denvrede 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AWS new AZ in eu-west-2 - beware of unexpected results
    ×0.47 85 | 6 points by eddie_catflap 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. ServiceNow are pushing customers off SaaS – are other industries doing similar?
    ×0.66 98 | 10 points by rorychatt 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. New OllamaMQ v0.3.0
    ×0.44 124 | 5 points by chleba 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why Don't We Version UIs?
    ×0.71 113 | 9 points by gruensk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are independent software contractors doing now?
    ×1.74 87 | 13 points by Madmallard 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.09 114 | 92 points by simonebrunozzi 5 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery
    ×0.16 142 | 5 points by mguerville 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How should I price an AI infrastructure platform?
    ×0.35 146 | 3 points by aqibkhan026 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?
    ×0.68 118 | 6 points by pudgywalsh 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Combinatorics-Framework released for QA testers/students
    ×0.12 | 2 points by yb-combi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Countries with greatest temperature increases have benefited from them?
    ×1.03 116 | 7 points by amichail 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker (sprocketfox.io)
    ×1.43 16 #9 | 199 points by 1e1a 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible? (signalbloom.ai)
    ×1.50 54 #82 | 33 points by GodelNumbering 17 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Gptel Emacs: Beyond Just a Chat Interface (YT) (youtube.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by signa11 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (andros.dev)
    ×1.88 9 | 325 points by andros 2 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption (loginwithone.com)
    ×1.92 70 | 13 points by mikeysight 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: LLM-Shield-Proxy Zero-Egress PII Streaming Proxy (55MB RAM) (github.com/ninadphalak)
    ×1.25 101 | 4 points by ninadphalak 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Roost – top for your Claude Code sessions (github.com/gmhoward9289-ops)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by gmhoward9289 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/DenisSergeevitch)
    ×1.73 9 #89 | 373 points by phoenix120 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000) (wired.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by naves 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: MandarinClips – Learn conversational Chinese from 130k+ TV drama clips (mandarinclips.com)
    ×0.53 105 | 3 points by mandarinclips 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. ADHD charity complains about Channel 4 documentary (bbc.com)
    ×1.17 68 #77 | 6 points by choult 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Old style audio visualiser for Raspberry Pi 3B (hackaday.io)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by daepp 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Succinct and Fast Tiny Pointer Hash Tables (arxiv.org)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (privacyguides.org)
    ×2.47 39 | 262 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Mathematics in the age of AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.27 31 #19 | 157 points by jonbaer 16 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. MicroGPT-C in pure C hits 10M TPS on Apple M5 (github.com/vixhal-baraiya)
    ×1.22 24 #43 | 128 points by dhorthy 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Understanding the Limitations of Pubsub Systems (acm.org)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by rapnie 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Basis – A free crypto terminal without paywalls (basischarts.com)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by Alrady 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Monity.ai – Get notified when any website changes (apple.com)
    ×1.17 129 | 4 points by kamilmm21 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5 (github.com/fellowgeek)
    ×0.63 145 | 70 points by pcbmaker20 6 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.11 77 | 165 points by vlowrian 3 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.63 11 #10 | 251 points by jonesy827 13 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. OpenLogi (openlogi.org)
    ×6.25 18 #34 | 1547 points by amatheus 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Where Human Sleep Went Wrong (nautil.us)
    ×1.53 49 #64 | 113 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Psychedelics align brain activity with context (nature.com)
    ×2.11 7 | 4 points by dr_dshiv 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
    ×2.50 33 | 292 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source (modular.com)
    ×2.37 16 | 216 points by flaburgan 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
    ×2.12 48 #71 | 280 points by newusertoday 1 day ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by rapnie 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
    ×2.92 20 | 389 points by Vinnl 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: RoamIQ – Travel and workation platform for digital nomads (nomads-travel-indol.vercel.app)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by pranav_tech26 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1 (x.org)
    ×1.27 8 #50 | 68 points by ErenayDev 12 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: ResumeSkip – automatically tailor your resume to jobs (resumeskip.com)
    ×0.70 147 | 3 points by ghosts_ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Simulacra and Simulation (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.39 11 #21 | 64 points by soupspaces 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 (grapheneos.social)
    ×2.95 27 #47 | 600 points by exceptione 20 hours ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone (bbc.com)
    ×2.49 36 #35 | 393 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 32 #36 | 28 points by E-Reverance 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Physical Implant Attack on the Boeing 737 [pdf] (usenix.org)
    ×1.91 | 2 points by rbanffy 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×1.01 51 #56 | 178 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)
    ×2.13 5 #90 | 450 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Rove – parallel coding agents that can fan out subtasks and report back (github.com/Sma1lboy)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by zhallen_work 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
    ×2.00 13 | 421 points by jp_sc 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rewriting in Rust (jetbrains.com)
    ×2.02 #29 | 49 points by worik 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Supersonic Trebuchet [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.43 41 #45 | 244 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny (kmbc.com)
    ×3.64 73 | 121 points by cocacola1 8 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Carno.js – a Nest-style application framework for Bun (github.com/carnojs)
    ×1.87 91 | 6 points by l-crispr 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
    ×1.85 2 #6 | 123 points by gavide 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: OpenIndex – Organising domain knowledge into structured data for agents (github.com/DrDroidLab)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by TheBengaluruGuy 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. China's humanoid robot boom is fueled by government-backed training centres (ft.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Doubletake – a daily spot-the-difference in ink and wash (doubletake.day)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by jokojogi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Particle – Extract and save articles in a clean, self-hosted reader (crnst8.com)
    ×1.48 132 | 4 points by flowerpil 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies (reuters.com)
    ×6.60 51 #61 | 62 points by thm 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (flagquizzes.com)
    ×0.62 97 | 57 points by artiomyak 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Agarwood (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Idea Miner – find what to build next, backed by real paid demand (idea-miner.com)
    ×1.23 148 | 4 points by alexstarks 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. SQLite for Everything (joecode.com)
    ×3.99 65 | 5 points by mpweiher 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. "Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.80 27 | 108 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints (github.com/ytkoka)
    ×0.66 92 | 28 points by ytkoka 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel (inco.ai)
    ×1.05 12 #32 | 87 points by mike-the-brain 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Talecut – Turn a movie or TV episode into vertical micro-episodes (talecut.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by oscarallombert 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Companies promote incompetent employees to management to limit damage they do (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)
    ×1.62 59 | 77 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: CopyLasso, a free local screen OCR app for macOS (copylasso.com)
    ×2.56 75 | 6 points by bennetthilberg 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string (wolfoo2931.github.io)
    ×1.13 155 | 6 points by WolfOliver 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Zombie Cards Back Online: Reviving Expired Credit Cards for Contactless Payments (usenix.org)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by nixass 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
    ×5.44 21 #59 | 1362 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 684 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, its our minds (theguardian.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by novaRom 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Do-over, undo for AI agent shell commands (github.com/CaydenChik)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by Cayden27 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Phone-harness – let your agent control your phone (github.com/ShawnPana)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by shawnpana 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cerebras CS-4 (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.16 7 #69 | 457 points by sunils34 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.59 41 #79 | 26 points by Luc 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Samuel: A Silly Speech Model (vvolhejn.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by QuantumNomad_ 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???