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Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

×2.79 13 #36 | 366 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

×7.60 41 #50 | 1591 points by CliffStoll 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reflections on NetBSD 11

×0.45 80 | 7 points by morpheos137 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can NPM, pnpm etc. use frontier models to check packages for malware?

×0.29 84 | 4 points by VikRubenfeld 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Novel macro signals for AI-related job loss?

×0.40 86 | 4 points by sfmz 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?

×0.61 72 | 8 points by shantnutiwari 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?

×0.44 90 | 14 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?

×0.47 89 | 13 points by MetaWhirledPeas 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?

×0.20 112 | 3 points by softneon 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs

×0.31 101 | 9 points by omertt27 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Flags Hantavirus Vaccine Questions as Security Risk

×0.96 78 | 11 points by pell 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?

×0.31 100 | 17 points by lishunsheng 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you find good personal blogs on Google nowadays?

×0.73 76 | 4 points by xapet 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Surface" a Governed AI-Agentic Surface

×0.10 128 | 3 points by paulbernard 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?

×0.48 121 | 13 points by alexyan0431 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

×1.76 103 | 134 points by idontwantthis 6 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)

×0.32 110 | 18 points by Gooblebrai 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GpxFix – A tool to repair recordings of outdoor activities (gpxfix.eu)

×0.56 | 1 points by taccp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs are underutilized due to sub optimal management (alexzhang13.github.io)

×0.54 | 1 points by melonmars 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: UltraCompress – first mathematically lossless 5-bit LLM compression (github.com/sipsalabs)

×1.09 82 | 5 points by mounnar 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let Me Convince You to Be Prolific (3quarksdaily.com)

×1.24 61 | 51 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)

×3.18 16 #67 | 803 points by flipped 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)

×6.12 8 #75 | 1727 points by haunter 2 days ago | 588 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Capacity (dahl.dev)

×0.75 | 1 points by aleda145 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hum – ad-free terminal music player (Rust, no API keys) (github.com/Devendra116)

×0.46 | 1 points by devendra116 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)

×1.70 22 #47 | 269 points by Borkdude 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The World Inside Neural Networks (goodfire.ai)

×1.92 15 | 3 points by wsgeorge 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)

×2.96 16 | 293 points by speckx 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UFO Release 1: Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (war.gov)

×2.72 22 | 62 points by thinkingemote 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process (techdirt.com)

×5.25 10 | 86 points by hn_acker 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Your Computer Doesn't Belong to You Anymore (aquisthoughts.substack.com)

×2.74 38 #58 | 7 points by ethanplant 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (2012) (blu-ray.com)

×0.52 46 #76 | 6 points by susam 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bearblog.dev)

×2.50 14 #88 | 579 points by bsuh 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
20 years after the BBC mix-Up, Guy Goma's story becomes a book (youtube.com)

×0.89 | 1 points by heldrida 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SereneUI – A VSCode-inspired, open-source UI for Postgres (github.com/serenedb)

×5.52 94 | 15 points by gnusi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aptmatic – a TUI for managing apt across a bunch of Debian boxes (crates.io)

×1.28 | 2 points by growse 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage (theverge.com)

×1.85 8 | 3 points by elemar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply (kmph.com)

×3.36 52 | 99 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agentctl, a local control plane for coding agents (github.com/chocks)

×0.25 | 2 points by chocks 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare's slowing growth disappoints investors betting on AI boost (reuters.com)

×2.75 12 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Selvedge – an MCP server that captures why AI agents change code (selvedge.sh)

×0.98 113 | 4 points by masondelan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)

×2.32 8 #10 | 269 points by homebrewer 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)

×0.85 35 #38 | 140 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Memory Vault – local-first memory, hybrid search, knowledge graph (github.com/MihaiBuilds)

×0.54 | 1 points by mihaibuilds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to turn work into cinematic videos with NotebookLM (theaithinker.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by adamfaik 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate (arxiv.org)

×2.22 4 | 4 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" (arstechnica.com)

×3.65 41 | 125 points by epistasis 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)

×0.68 124 | 72 points by pplonski86 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a game where AI agents compete to ship code (aion.quest)

×2.74 122 | 10 points by xkoda 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)

×1.13 26 #21 | 227 points by xngbuilds 20 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)

×0.97 46 #78 | 125 points by foltik 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: nocal is a calendar that turns your week into a workspace (nocal.app)

×0.77 | 1 points by bcmuse 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Anycrap – REST API for 35k absurdist AI-generated products (anycrap.shop)

×0.61 | 2 points by astrokaf 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Monocurl – Interactive STEM animation language and IDE (monocurl.com)

×0.51 150 | 3 points by enigmurl 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Better Design – 28 Shadcn design systems (OSS, MCP: Cursor/Claude Code) (github.com/marvkr)

×2.94 134 | 13 points by marvinkr 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: NanoCorp – Create autonomous companies run by AI (nanocorp.so)

×1.49 74 | 9 points by AdrienBA 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)

×1.98 45 | 302 points by bstrama 2 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rejected by YC (rejectedbyyc-ten.vercel.app)

×0.99 88 | 4 points by leonagano 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bilig – a headless spreadsheet engine for Node services and agents (github.com/proompteng)

×0.62 144 | 3 points by GregKonush 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)

×1.95 44 #87 | 287 points by SpyCoder77 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads (neowin.net)

×1.41 | 113 points by bundie 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests (nhtsa.gov)

×2.59 49 | 88 points by amanaplanacanal 12 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Naval Strike – simultaneous turn-based fleet combat in the browser (navalstrike.app)

×0.32 153 | 4 points by pinchydev 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)

×1.23 37 | 183 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DiffCAD, a FreeCAD workbench to review model changes like code (github.com/eblanshey)

×1.39 104 | 6 points by eblanshey 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)

×1.82 3 #3 | 191 points by pretext 7 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evaluating Geekbench 6 – By Chester Lam (chipsandcheese.com)

×0.86 | 1 points by rbanffy 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Plan9: The Squeal to Unix [video] (youtube.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notes on Tanya M. Luhrmann's Book 'How God Becomes Real' (michaelnotebook.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by jger15 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TubeLens – Critical analysis of YouTube (4 dimensions, 28 signals) (tubelens.app)

×0.32 | 2 points by mamflux 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive (lwn.net)

×1.92 34 #19 | 7 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hondurasgate: US, Israeli Plot to Destabilize Mexico, Latin America (elpais.com)

×5.23 55 #69 | 34 points by vrganj 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inventing Cyrillic (2024) (historytoday.com)

×0.53 68 #70 | 46 points by lermontov 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kanvly – notes and boards with AI, now on iOS (kanvly.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by trotskomain 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Practice reviewing risky AI-generated engineering output (proreview.dev)

×0.54 | 1 points by shaad1337 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Goodbye Slack (ano.chat)

×0.52 | 1 points by bill-cupid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)

×1.72 17 | 197 points by hhs 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence (2023) (bmj.com)

×1.17 | 2 points by janandonly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux (techrights.org)

×4.44 83 | 145 points by esaym 8 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You (yourbrainonmoney.substack.com)

×3.79 29 | 54 points by ot 12 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)

×0.96 92 | 183 points by bring-shrubbery 6 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built open-source auth for AI agents (Go, single binary) (github.com/shark-auth)

×0.78 123 | 4 points by raulgooo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bookstoread.ai – Discover non-fiction books using AI (bookstoread.ai)

×2.60 102 | 8 points by yotc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs (flox.dev)

×0.59 32 #57 | 45 points by mathewpregasen 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)

×1.99 39 #62 | 206 points by gmays 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare Drops on Sales Forecast Miss, Job Cuts (bloomberg.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook (johnozbay.com)

×1.66 44 | 131 points by speckx 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif (codeberg.org)

×1.08 132 | 16 points by thatxliner 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement (ohio.news)

×3.75 58 | 85 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HeatSpectra: Realtime 3D Surface Heat Simulation (github.com/tsun3doku)

×1.08 108 | 4 points by tsun3doku 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???