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  1. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.41 55 #74 | 275 points by mlaux 2 days ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Management is forcing us to use AI
    ×0.73 10 | 8 points by aksjfveoq 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.72 33 | 12 points by will10pa 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address
    ×0.25 89 | 3 points by luckman212 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be
    ×0.82 59 | 11 points by effisfor 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?
    ×0.12 96 | 3 points by beerglass 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.42 87 | 29 points by shriy-singh 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
    ×0.38 97 | 21 points by tkdb 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by variety8675 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.32 117 | 11 points by sathomasga 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.50 99 | 28 points by GustavHartz 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.90 103 | 16 points by consumer451 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?
    ×0.52 86 | 9 points by SMAAART 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.38 138 | 4 points by iambateman 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.33 130 | 6 points by cehgmaster 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How to Freelance Now?
    ×1.02 84 | 18 points by Alexadar 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×0.79 123 | 8 points by george_max 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.34 126 | 7 points by jviotti 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.47 137 | 19 points by xnx 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What do you do now as a software engineer?
    ×1.76 92 | 8 points by fawazali 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.41 134 | 22 points by itsjeremiahs 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription?
    ×0.74 142 | 5 points by preommr 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.44 124 | 24 points by phendrenad2 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma
    ×0.82 129 | 6 points by vdfs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: LM Studio Bionic with Python?
    ×0.27 145 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?
    ×1.19 140 | 6 points by sarangk90 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.22 141 | 6 points by esher 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?
    ×0.50 139 | 4 points by har-ki 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by par 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Google Built the Search API It Should Have Built 25 Years Ago (boastindex.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by feech 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots (markmanson.substack.com)
    ×8.26 87 | 54 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr) (soapbox.pub)
    ×9.99 18 #36 | 106 points by long____cat 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com)
    ×1.23 47 #48 | 97 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue (francisbach.com)
    ×0.71 53 #78 | 64 points by matt_d 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Chatbots give a narrow slice of knowledge:Researchers warn of knowledge collapse (ku.dk)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by DeepLogin 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cohesix – find out what happened to a local AI job (github.com/lukeb-aidev)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by Cohesix 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”? (quora.com)
    ×0.98 28 #17 | 149 points by midnightfish 16 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers (castle-engine.io)
    ×1.23 51 #69 | 196 points by birdculture 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world (garage44.eu)
    ×0.60 43 #82 | 16 points by jvanveen 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Intro to Clojure Workshop [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by doubleg 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I benchmarked a TDD-enforcing Claude Code plugin. It didn't write better code (maxtaylor.me)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by max-t-dev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
    ×1.27 11 #31 | 146 points by utiiiD 16 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The smart home graveyard is getting crowded (theverge.com)
    ×1.38 13 #35 | 3 points by CrypticShift 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021) (trekhleb.dev)
    ×0.89 5 #54 | 59 points by trekhleb 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs (github.com/eval-exec)
    ×0.79 65 | 42 points by tagfowufe 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Gutcheck, grep for meaning with a local CPU model (github.com/sfmqrb)
    ×1.43 125 | 5 points by sfmqrb 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
    ×1.03 88 | 150 points by florianstandhar 5 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (mills.io)
    ×1.56 #1 | 83 points by davidcollantes 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Packing Binary Is Fun (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×0.84 53 #32 | 25 points by BurnerBurner 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (swarmtraces.org)
    ×3.04 5 #87 | 744 points by specked-citrus 2 days ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners (aljazeera.com)
    ×4.18 18 | 203 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts (github.com/maximilianfeix)
    ×1.83 100 | 10 points by taventix 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)
    ×1.06 27 #28 | 109 points by bingden 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Test-driving Jev on a security task: identity resolution (vincenzoiozzo.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by snagg 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Apps, Agents, and Aggregation (stratechery.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by swolpers 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.70 1 | 320 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (codinghorror.com)
    ×5.08 4 | 205 points by signa11 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Does Georgism work? Five years later (astralcodexten.com)
    ×2.70 30 #89 | 499 points by silveraxe93 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    ×1.88 18 | 5 points by sia_xi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: An interactive debugger for the Mornington Crescent esolang (codeberg.org)
    ×0.95 113 | 3 points by Two9A 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Cambrian Explosion of AI (debarshibasak.github.io)
    ×0.88 65 #53 | 12 points by debarshri 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The operating system for your service business (syniqsolutions.co.za)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by mikhaila 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by yarapavan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Penn State's Campuswide Cocaine Ring Was Fueled by Fraternity Hazing (wsj.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by diogenes_atx 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior (lasso.security)
    ×1.15 62 | 57 points by nisosguy 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books (rare-books.vercel.app)
    ×1.83 54 | 10 points by miletus 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (righto.com)
    ×1.16 42 #77 | 118 points by pwg 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
    ×3.01 11 | 254 points by kspacewalk2 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Squint – Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it (heysquint.com)
    ×1.46 73 | 4 points by splurf 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Most Hated Tools (mosthatedtools.app)
    ×1.29 108 | 32 points by leonagano 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Spivak's Calculus formalized in Lean 4 – every theorem, every problem (github.com/stormj-UH)
    ×1.99 76 | 21 points by jsLavaGoat 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance (koi.rest)
    ×2.11 61 | 226 points by hxii 3 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'" (bookofrevenue.com)
    ×1.16 9 #4 | 61 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Replaceme – a native Mac agent that texts you what needs your attention (replaceme.app)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by eliswed 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. China Broadens Travel Curbs to Encompass Family of Top AI Talent (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by sbulaev 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Applying Deming's Continuous Improvement to Multi-Agent AI Systems (medium.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by taivare 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: RoadRash revival race against Jev (riderashonline.vercel.app)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by testingsaket 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband (themomoftheyear.substack.com)
    ×10.18 28 | 589 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Fusor – Like Vue, but the logic is Rust (fusor.build)
    ×1.40 58 | 6 points by andreespirela 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS (carbon.ms)
    ×0.79 101 | 54 points by barbinbrad 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today (space.com)
    ×4.06 3 #6 | 107 points by geox 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 7 #7 | 123 points by teleforce 8 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Deterministic Concurrency [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.95 17 #24 | 51 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Robots Have No Voice (randsinrepose.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Towards an Integrative Neuroscience of Metacognition (nature.com)
    ×1.90 22 | 3 points by KasianFranks 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Glass of Water Theory (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by embedding-shape 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Controversial Sydney data centre project pulled amid community anger (abc.net.au)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by Alien1Being 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account (threads.com)
    ×2.82 81 | 48 points by embedding-shape 4 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: AstraBox – an open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents (github.com/Colton-z)
    ×1.02 80 | 3 points by coltonz 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (privatemode.ai)
    ×1.38 31 #83 | 132 points by flxflx 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???