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  1. Claude Code getting "API Error: 529 Overloaded"
    ×0.61 37 | 3 points by croemer 57 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere?
    ×1.02 53 | 6 points by vanessa1211 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Opus Cost = Minimum Wage in South Africa
    ×1.08 11 | 4 points by bridgettegraham 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Where do those LLM-generated outreach emails come from?
    ×0.93 34 | 3 points by nicbou 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Any New Computer Ideas?
    ×0.54 49 | 4 points by robalni 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Does the tech industry require deterministic ML training?
    ×1.42 33 | 4 points by Swapnopam 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. CstWeave – On-device, privacy-first Chrome extension for tab region GIFs
    ×0.31 | 2 points by fujidevv 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?
    ×0.46 51 | 33 points by zecice 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are we having a substantial increase of "Show HN" since LLM aided coding
    ×0.91 14 | 7 points by mdp2021 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is Zig worth it over Rust in 2026?
    ×0.33 86 | 5 points by soywod 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?
    ×0.51 93 | 6 points by charliebwrites 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
    ×1.21 88 | 50 points by missmoss 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's the best hands-on path to learn ML inference infrastructure?
    ×0.61 89 | 7 points by censor5 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic?
    ×0.67 106 | 12 points by prologic 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. BSD seq(1) on Linux
    ×0.33 122 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you using Rust on embedded devices yet? If not, why?
    ×0.67 103 | 9 points by mempirate 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Robotic Adaptation Suffers from Data Collection Bottleneck
    ×0.16 | 2 points by aunmesh 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by akersten 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Do you delete your browsing history?
    ×0.70 116 | 4 points by tempestn 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×4.55 55 | 493 points by Thrashed 3 days ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474
    ×0.39 130 | 12 points by Bender 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is an in-page speed reader useful?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by jvbotelho 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Connection-Agnostic Presence Tracking for Stateless Distributed Back Ends
    ×0.53 136 | 5 points by duckydude20 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: I spent personal money on game dev. How to turn stalled project around?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by pixelbyindex 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf
    ×0.52 143 | 7 points by cristyg0101 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Graal VM Relevance
    ×0.89 118 | 5 points by sid_op 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?
    ×0.58 131 | 13 points by tbharath 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Something fishy is going on with Google feed on my Android
    ×1.03 108 | 7 points by motbus3 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?
    ×0.91 139 | 11 points by jonthepirate 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc)
    ×1.00 134 | 10 points by LozzKappa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Searchable, leveled learning map of AI/ML tools
    ×0.21 | 2 points by maneeshthakur 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. ASK HN: Why has technology become so unreliable?
    ×1.39 117 | 6 points by prmph 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I built a jav data API, need honest feedback
    ×0.25 | 2 points by javinfo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. YouTube Comments in .csv
    ×0.25 | 2 points by cristyg0101 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is Your Work Relaxing?
    ×1.33 137 | 5 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.44 144 | 31 points by amichail 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Is neuromorphic computing going to replace traditional AI?
    ×0.48 148 | 5 points by lennart-rth 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?
    ×1.58 141 | 8 points by mavsman 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?
    ×0.59 147 | 4 points by Hussain04 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Postgress in Rust
    ×0.31 149 | 4 points by poldex 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.83 146 | 30 points by sam_lowry_ 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What happens when we do compress the context in Claude Code?
    ×0.99 145 | 7 points by tbharath 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level (smoothbrains.net)
    ×1.20 5 #4 | 23 points by eatitraw 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Where B2B Buyers Ask on Reddit: 30 Days of Scan Data (cuescout.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by weeklyrunner 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.00 30 #57 | 27 points by robin_reala 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What do you use to monitor cron jobs and queue workers?
    ×1.69 26 | 3 points by HarunRRayhan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Blind-box commerce made easy (chancey.run)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by 13001r 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Max Studio Tools – C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live (github.com/apresta)
    ×0.62 124 | 32 points by apresta 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. History of John Backus's functional programming project (draft) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.56 56 #38 | 32 points by cwbuilds 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (knaup.me)
    ×2.47 4 | 406 points by tknaup 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Temporal Context Map (neudice.eu)
    ×0.62 119 | 5 points by zebike 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Hubo – two agents that implement and review code until they agree (github.com/h0ngcha0)
    ×2.05 125 | 11 points by hongchao 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: ModelFuzz – Open-source runtime guardrails for AI agents (modelfuzz.com)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by higagan 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake (wsj.com)
    ×3.09 45 | 329 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 23 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site (brolly.sh)
    ×1.87 26 | 224 points by jsax 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Skill-language-server – A language server for agent skills (github.com/CyrusNuevoDia)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by knrz 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Anduril, Apple, Antropic. Recap the biggest tech news from last week (choclatenews.substack.com)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by dariusogenyiebu 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Reproducibility Benchmark a Risk Quantitative Model (github.com/Fluxara-GOD)
    ×3.85 104 | 11 points by mingshi_tz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: SQLiteWatch – profile SQLite on Linux without code changes (github.com/Alurith)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by imalessandro 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: A udev implementation in Guile Scheme (codeberg.org)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by mbakke 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: How to Resolve Software Deployment Issues with SeaTicket in 4 Steps
    ×0.91 50 | 3 points by Daniel-Pan 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (plav.in)
    ×2.31 4 #8 | 368 points by aplavin 12 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. It's not empowering to hand off the details (davidnicholaswilliams.com)
    ×2.66 27 #68 | 204 points by davnicwil 18 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team (go.dev)
    ×1.23 2 #70 | 212 points by AbuAssar 23 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway (refp.se)
    ×2.21 17 #89 | 391 points by olexsmir 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Open-plan-annotator – local annotation UI for working with agent plans (github.com/ndom91)
    ×1.05 127 | 3 points by ndom91 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network (apalrd.net)
    ×0.80 65 | 64 points by mrngm 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: ASL V6 – Open-source AST red-teaming engine for Python AI agents (github.com/sivaadityacoder)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by sivaaditya 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: How many other kids need to be in the room before they match names (vaguespac.es)
    ×1.81 113 | 4 points by thebigship 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth (ieee.org)
    ×0.68 38 #48 | 62 points by marc__1 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Turn And Face The Strange (fly.io)
    ×2.41 20 | 225 points by subarctic 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Paper – A Journaling CLI for Developers (rewrlution.com)
    ×1.05 59 | 9 points by dmsehuang 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Beyond Lambda-Calculus: Intensional Computation (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by sargstuff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits (coindesk.com)
    ×1.73 84 | 60 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. We have proof automation now (imperialviolet.org)
    ×1.46 16 #20 | 187 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. What's Under Your Feet in New York City? (practical.engineering)
    ×1.70 48 #32 | 191 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. WMT Just Printed a Death Cross for the first time in over 4 years (tradeintelligent.substack.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by alizasl 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Dozenal – A Game of Spatial Arithmetic (dozenal.game)
    ×3.02 59 | 7 points by sarreph 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A preferred way to design tools for AI agents (bolshchikov.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by bolshchikov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Wmux – A workspace multiplexer for AI agents (github.com/openwong2kim)
    ×1.15 97 | 12 points by wong2kim 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (misago-project.org)
    ×1.61 9 #12 | 14 points by Ralfp 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ukraine's Kill Zone (reuters.com)
    ×2.06 40 | 4 points by stared 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Relay – turn Claude Code into a visual Kanban build loop (github.com/YoniRaviv)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by YonathanRaviv 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Codex Plays NetHack (asciinema.org)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by emosenkis 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Rucksack alpha CLI that pins a Mac to a hotspot and holds a sleep lease (github.com/noahnawara)
    ×1.00 126 | 3 points by thirdface 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Simple HIIT timer for efficient workouts (hiitmeup.fit)
    ×0.64 83 | 5 points by takee 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A 60-line PreToolUse hook that stops Claude Code from editing your .env (github.com/avenna01-ceo)
    ×1.47 79 | 5 points by gaiinmaster 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How to Block Some of the Bots (nochan.net)
    ×1.04 42 #33 | 105 points by Bender 17 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why the Cleanup Sprint Always Loses (lamis73.substack.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by Lamis-A 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage (ieee.org)
    ×1.40 22 | 202 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???