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Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants?

×0.23 46 | 3 points by megamike 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor

×1.61 37 | 126 points by yifanlu 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are AI Agents like von Hammerstein's industrious and stupid?

×0.43 63 | 13 points by multidude 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: what’s your favorite line in your Claude/agents.md files?

×0.55 81 | 10 points by khasan222 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

×1.55 82 | 147 points by IncandescentGas 3 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why isn't the NSA categorized as an APT?

×0.26 90 | 5 points by TheOpenSourcer 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anchor: Hardware-based authentication using SanDisk USB devices

×0.39 149 | 4 points by rewant 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Structural Friction: A metric for human coordination cost

×0.11 120 | 5 points by davidvartanian 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is operational memory a missing layer in AI agent architecture?

×0.32 111 | 4 points by varunrrai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?

×0.57 103 | 28 points by neilk17 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?

×2.88 78 | 152 points by basilikum 3 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
European municipalities leak citizen data to US companies

×1.01 116 | 11 points by sam_lowry_ 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What features does a chip require to beat Nvidia in the AI race?

×0.45 115 | 5 points by caloricflow 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?

×0.96 112 | 36 points by newswangerd 4 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?

×0.99 92 | 14 points by chistev 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Have you cancelled any software subscriptions because AI replaced them?

×0.84 125 | 10 points by maxim_bg 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: The new wave of AI agent sandboxes?

×0.50 113 | 12 points by ATechGuy 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to Find a Job in the UK

×0.48 121 | 9 points by 0x3444ac53 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TTal – CLI that turns Claude Code into a multi-agent software factory

×0.36 146 | 5 points by neilbb 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you using a Pivotal Tracker successor? Which one?

×0.06 | 2 points by antfarm 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a game where you argue consumer rights against AI bots

×0.40 133 | 7 points by dragonmann 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is still using Windsurf and why?

×0.91 126 | 10 points by mak8 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Broken "Public Research Articles" Link: Any Support for Google Scholar?

×0.12 142 | 4 points by yann-gael 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can we make up/downvotes/flags visible on Hacker News Archives (delayed)

×0.38 128 | 6 points by gpt5 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How are Iranian drones getting their guidance?

×0.39 123 | 7 points by dottenad 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: If working with agents means this, robots, please take my job

×0.92 108 | 13 points by tiredagent 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are we ready for vulnerabilities to be words instead of code?

×0.40 136 | 5 points by lielcohen 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Google disabling accounts for using gws CLI with OpenClaw?

×0.91 151 | 3 points by anandvc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open AI is actively censoring information about voting today in the US

×0.57 140 | 13 points by resters 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code 500s

×1.10 132 | 18 points by bavarianbob 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004) (ucsd.edu)

×0.80 47 #69 | 78 points by rvnx 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mac Wisper – AI voice-to-text for macOS (macwisper.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by alexissp 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Passport Globe (See where your passport takes you) (hariharan.uno)

×1.90 | 4 points by hariharan_uno 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: EchoLive – Read-it-later app that reads to you with 600 AI voices (echolive.co)

×1.14 72 | 9 points by stanlymt 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cross-Model Void Convergence: GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6 Deterministic Silence (zenodo.org)

×0.71 5 #3 | 13 points by rayanpal_ 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries (2023) (brandon.si)

×0.70 19 #8 | 8 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meditation, Language, and LLMs (craigmod.com)

×0.99 | 2 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I ran a language model on a PS2 (github.com/xaskasdf)

×1.43 74 | 5 points by xaskasdf 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent skill for Excalidraw diagrams with animation and image

×0.44 | 1 points by muthuishere 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A personal CRM for events, meetups, IRL (payo.tech)

×1.00 118 | 4 points by Raj7k 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ClawMUD – A persistent world where only AI agents play, humans spectate (clawmud.ai)

×0.46 141 | 3 points by allenhsutw 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What does the future of software engineering look like? (thoughtworks.com)

×2.48 14 #55 | 19 points by rcy 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CCGears – .claude folder manager, Venv's for Claude Code (github.com/LiorStrugach)

×0.57 | 1 points by LiorStr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Storing 2 bytes of data in your Logitech mouse (timwehrle.de)

×1.82 16 #89 | 25 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Synaphe – A type-safe language for hybrid AI and quantum computing (github.com/martus-spinther)

×0.93 | 2 points by martus-spinther 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035

×2.69 19 | 5 points by davidstarkjava 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Rant about Resolutions (brixit.nl)

×0.42 | 1 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control (dyne.org)

×4.40 13 #15 | 663 points by smartmic 12 hours ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised (github.com/aquasecurity)

×1.15 1 #23 | 66 points by batch12 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-Source Knowledge Agents Template (vercel.com)

×1.02 101 | 3 points by flashbrew 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sandboxing: Foolproof Boundaries vs. Unbounded Foolishness (2025) (acm.org)

×0.66 32 #33 | 24 points by antlai 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Not Even Elon Musk Can Get Nvidia Stock Moving (barrons.com)

×1.02 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debunking the Gold Standard (2015) (greyenlightenment.com)

×0.94 | 1 points by chistev 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adapting to AI: Reflections on Productivity (colinbreck.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Time with Jürgen Habermas, Europe's 'Last Intellectual' (politico.com)

×1.06 | 2 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a pricing tool for home bakers that reads recipe photos (butterwell.io)

×0.73 70 | 3 points by shiyuzhu1994 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An event loop for asyncio written in Rust (github.com/RustedBytes)

×1.62 68 | 4 points by yehors 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base (github.com/kenforthewin)

×1.64 2 #32 | 100 points by kenforthewin 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists (nautil.us)

×1.01 73 #61 | 82 points by siquick 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Even Smart People Believe AI Is Thinking (wsj.com)

×1.05 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cybertt – Cybersecurity Tabletop (cybertt.xyz)

×0.54 | 2 points by pluppen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some things just take time (pocoo.org)

×3.20 1 #5 | 671 points by vaylian 18 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Place to launch and discover great products with DA: 48 (workerscando.com)

×1.36 | 2 points by mdanassaif 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US to deploy additional troops to the Middle East, officials say (reuters.com)

×6.96 61 | 55 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Two by Two Truth Diagram (kmrjohnson55.github.io)

×1.29 71 | 4 points by 8crazyideas 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RSS reader that scores articles 0–10 with LLM before you open them (github.com/Tutanka01)

×0.42 | 2 points by makhal01 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Linux Nvidia GPU V/F Curve Editor for Undervolting/OC (github.com/ekojsalim)

×0.95 124 | 4 points by ekojs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Word to the Wise: Don't Trust A.I. To File Your Taxes (nytimes.com)

×2.11 55 | 3 points by bookofjoe 47 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delve Accused of Fraud (techcrunch.com)

×2.60 4 | 5 points by zlu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster (openui.com)

×1.66 19 #65 | 285 points by zahlekhan 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why AI is Making Your RAM more expensive (adlrocha.substack.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by adlrocha 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rat King (wikipedia.org)

×2.66 59 | 7 points by fittingopposite 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser (define.app)

×0.79 52 | 64 points by johndamaia 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Termcraft – Terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust (github.com/pagel-s)

×1.04 9 #24 | 113 points by sebosch 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kagi: Small Web Just Got Bigger (kagi.com)

×2.77 37 #46 | 38 points by gxs 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons (512pixels.net)

×2.55 1 #18 | 194 points by soheilpro 15 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ghostling (github.com/ghostty-org)

×2.00 10 #81 | 324 points by bjornroberg 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Review: Why Evolution Is True (ncse.ngo)

×1.02 | 2 points by akbarnama 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Isometric exercise: The most efficient fitness regime? (bbc.com)

×0.94 | 2 points by akbarnama 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN:Entroly – Compress codebase context for LLMs by 78% using Rust (github.com/juyterman1000)

×0.45 | 1 points by savetokens 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support (embarcadero.com)

×1.35 66 | 59 points by nopakos 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turing Award Honors Bennett and Brassard for Quantum Information Science (acm.org)

×0.67 63 #72 | 64 points by throw0101d 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Departure Mono Font (departuremono.com)

×4.30 49 #76 | 64 points by iamwil 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Htmx Toolkit for VS Code with completions, validation and 20 support (github.com/andreahlert)

×0.68 139 | 3 points by andreahlert 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Singularity-Claude – Self-Evolving Skills for Claude Code (github.com/Shmayro)

×0.52 | 2 points by shmayro 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Download entire/partial Substack to ePub for offline reading (github.com/kevinlong206)

×0.78 144 | 3 points by locusofself 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System (sharpai.org)

×2.72 20 | 168 points by aegis_camera 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines (theverge.com)

×2.82 59 | 71 points by imartin2k 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I saw Norton Commander on X and nostalgia made me build it for the web (github.com/victorantos)

×0.82 96 | 3 points by victorbuilds 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boomloom: Think with your hands (theboomloom.com)

×1.35 3 #10 | 113 points by rasengan0 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???