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  1. The "just build it with Claude" paradox
    ×0.71 5 #37 | 5 points by ethantheswe 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.72 11 | 558 points by _-x-_ 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What does your agentic software dark factory look like?
    ×0.40 22 | 4 points by ElFitz 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is there a good CV review service for tech roles in Switzerland?
    ×0.25 46 | 3 points by swissdom 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Can you tell the difference between Claude Sonnet and Opus?
    ×0.85 36 | 4 points by muddi900 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: RedHat for Personal Use
    ×0.55 48 | 4 points by bozdemir 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×1.00 76 | 95 points by LatencyKills 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you concerned by TLS-terminating proxies like Cloudflare Tunnels?
    ×1.22 54 | 4 points by thom-gtdp 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Consider GNU/Linux?
    ×0.61 61 | 3 points by xlmnxp 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone want to collaborate on a local-first AI-based research assistant
    ×0.22 92 | 4 points by venkatram-s 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?
    ×0.95 97 | 18 points by dwa3592 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How I find a job where what is needed is solid code, not firefighting?
    ×1.05 66 | 19 points by speeder 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript
    ×0.71 91 | 14 points by g48ywsJk6w48 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS
    ×0.53 132 | 7 points by lifeisstillgood 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How did the industry settle on weekly limits?
    ×0.66 108 | 11 points by saratogacx 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Batteries Included CLI Framework
    ×0.41 117 | 9 points by maxalbarello 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Which is Better–Android or iOS?
    ×0.94 75 | 10 points by wasimsk 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.82 116 | 33 points by langs 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?
    ×0.61 110 | 13 points by visox 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?
    ×0.65 107 | 9 points by samarthv 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?
    ×3.16 96 | 22 points by fandorin 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Oh, What Places to Go (Seriously Tho)
    ×0.91 101 | 11 points by thx 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?
    ×1.43 134 | 10 points by Erndob 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded
    ×2.09 127 | 17 points by vintagedave 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.69 118 | 48 points by 019 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
    ×0.65 114 | 27 points by honungsburk 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?
    ×0.89 121 | 8 points by Haeuserschlucht 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.82 133 | 25 points by AG25 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.28 144 | 46 points by alpinisme 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?
    ×1.71 115 | 10 points by hamiecod 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.70 145 | 30 points by burnt-resistor 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
    ×1.39 123 | 22 points by wasimsk 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking
    ×0.74 126 | 22 points by mfi 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What to Expect in 2030s?
    ×1.95 80 | 14 points by alexander2002 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?
    ×2.52 119 | 29 points by lyfeninja 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?
    ×0.64 130 | 13 points by coreyp_1 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Can non-developer build commercial products with AI
    ×1.17 159 | 10 points by rkorlimarla 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?
    ×1.76 124 | 16 points by zkid18 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?
    ×1.78 129 | 15 points by namegulf 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How to Attend the Altman vs. Musk Trial
    ×3.40 98 | 17 points by major4x 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?
    ×0.56 142 | 13 points by thinkingtoilet 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. China blocks Meta from acquiring AI startup Manus (npr.org)
    ×1.91 36 | 3 points by oopsiremembered 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)
    ×2.96 45 | 135 points by terminalbraid 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Matrirc – run irssi in 2026, talk to people on Matrix (github.com/pawelb0)
    ×2.05 62 | 11 points by pawelb0 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: DSS, a lightweight TUI spreadsheet editor and dashboard in Go (github.com/VincenzoManto)
    ×1.83 99 | 7 points by databasa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Who Asked for This? (calnewport.com)
    ×3.01 40 #84 | 23 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Next El Niño could be tipping point for a hotter climate (insideclimatenews.org)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by helterskelter 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Explain Like I'm Five for ArXiv Papers (voxos.ai)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by Falimonda 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Help me to find cure for my brother (thalassemia) (github.com/nakafaai)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by nabilfatih 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Buy vs. Build, Train vs. Use (incrementalforgetting.tech)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Understanding the short circuit in solid-state batteries (mpie.de)
    ×0.53 21 #13 | 14 points by hhs 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock (cjleo.com)
    ×2.60 68 | 65 points by lentil_soup 5 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Browse GitHub repos in Emacs without cloning (github.com/agzam)
    ×0.85 81 | 22 points by iLemming 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. "Why not just use Lean?" (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×2.02 8 #3 | 13 points by ibobev 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss (fda.gov)
    ×2.06 6 #9 | 72 points by JeanKage 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Can birds catch diseases from birdbaths? (coloradosun.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by mooreds 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: AgentSwarms – free hands-on playground to learn agentic AI, no setup (agentswarms.fyi)
    ×1.14 56 | 19 points by rohan044 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Microsoft to Stop Sharing Revenue with Main AI Partner OpenAI (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.50 10 #12 | 81 points by helsinkiandrew 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings (github.com/garritfra)
    ×0.94 3 #16 | 34 points by garritfra 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI gives more praise, less criticism to Black students (hechingerreport.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by jcdelaney 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024 (aschmelyun.com)
    ×1.42 7 #18 | 44 points by xupybd 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Draw Together Online (vidzert.com)
    ×1.72 103 | 9 points by vidzert 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Xtrace – Unix-Style macOS Profiling for Instruments (CPU/GPU/Memory) (github.com/Kr1sso)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Running Local LLMs Offline on a Ten-Hour Flight (deploy.live)
    ×2.05 8 #8 | 21 points by darccio 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment (passo.uno)
    ×0.94 69 | 23 points by theletterf 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: LocalLLM – Recipes for Running the Local LLM (Need Contributors) (locallllm.fly.dev)
    ×0.73 152 | 14 points by Igor_Wiwi 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Out Loud – open-source desktop TTS app for macOS/Windows/Linux (github.com/light-cloud-com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by julia-kafarska 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Nimbus – Browser with Claude Code UX (usenimbus.app)
    ×1.76 113 | 22 points by pycassa 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers (quarkdown.com)
    ×2.18 4 #14 | 88 points by amai 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Self-updating screenshots (interblah.net)
    ×2.46 2 #19 | 391 points by bjhess 15 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design (hawaii.edu)
    ×0.77 30 #27 | 62 points by o4c 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (bbc.com)
    ×3.09 3 #30 | 457 points by berkeleyjunk 18 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Agentic ML engineer. works with Colab. Zero infra needed. 3x faster TurboQuant (github.com/altaidevorg)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by monatis 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools (github.com/serverless-dna)
    ×0.91 15 #7 | 12 points by walmsles 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI Cannot Self Improve and Math Behind Proves IT (smsk.dev)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by ColinWright 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Strings Reviewer: review your app's strings faster and with confidence (stringsreviewer.app)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by efenande 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL (bensimms.moe)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by nitros 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Collaborative sentence builder with real-time voting (sentensus.com)
    ×4.21 120 | 13 points by cd-4 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
    ×1.94 2 | 419 points by chiefalchemist 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Nitrum – Rust Toolkit and CLI for AWS Nitro Enclaves (github.com/matzapata)
    ×1.41 82 | 5 points by matzapata 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Bunny Agent – Build Coding Agent SaaS via Native AI SDK UI (github.com/buda-ai)
    ×3.01 140 | 9 points by chepy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Managing the Unmanaged Switch (watchmysys.com)
    ×0.53 44 #22 | 5 points by luu 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game (playtiao.com)
    ×1.13 40 #68 | 54 points by trebeljahr 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port (notepad-plus-plus-mac.org)
    ×2.17 18 #82 | 82 points by jonbaer 12 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A chemistry lab that runs itself to find the perfect reaction (nature.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Is GraphQL dead? (GraphQL Conf 2025 talk, YouTube) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.85 23 | 3 points by rbalicki 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Lessons from building multiplayer browsers (alejandro.pe)
    ×0.50 51 #61 | 32 points by alejandrohacks 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design (arpitbhayani.me)
    ×1.64 41 #66 | 105 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Tarsier (Tarsiidae) – the littlest suicidal primates (beehiiv.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by speckx 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Neanderthals may have shared key DNA for complex language (phys.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by gmays 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???