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  1. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×2.33 4 #11 | 68 points by srameshc 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×1.25 26 | 39 points by summonerOS 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative
    ×0.21 34 | 4 points by Pallavimdb 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.71 3 | 9 points by 0rganize 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.65 58 | 25 points by sergiotapia 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Artist with no technical experience stumbles upon the next generation of LLMs
    ×0.11 | 2 points by itakechops 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by kasnaka 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Sorry, what Was FiveThirtyEight?
    ×0.99 66 | 6 points by gagdiez 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to manage AI APIs for SaaS application?
    ×0.51 84 | 4 points by sbinnee 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
    ×0.80 100 | 172 points by sochix 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI?
    ×0.46 83 | 4 points by deku2099 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are Stainless users doing now that Anthropic has killed it?
    ×0.58 82 | 5 points by ubutler 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does root have to be uid 0? Does uid 0 have to be root?
    ×0.47 111 | 4 points by axismundi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Anthropic is killing stainless, so we built our own SDK/MCP generator
    ×0.29 91 | 5 points by iiviie 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Antigravity 2.0 installer breaks existing Antigravity IDEs
    ×0.25 113 | 3 points by jdw64 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is grpcurl home page compromised?
    ×0.22 106 | 4 points by jicea 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Did moving to new place have intended effect?
    ×0.43 88 | 11 points by Jeff2Serve 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do word docs, slides, excel, and PDFs generate value?
    ×0.82 101 | 6 points by FailMore 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Go all in on startup idea, or stay W2
    ×0.05 | 2 points by Mnexium 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
    ×1.43 103 | 74 points by klez 3 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How often do you code the expected way instead of a better one?
    ×0.16 119 | 4 points by recycling 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    ×2.07 99 | 300 points by pycassa 6 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Windows on Mobile Screen
    ×0.20 134 | 3 points by tukunjil 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to enforce engineers to understand the code they are shipping
    ×0.58 105 | 8 points by hchua 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do you know what data your AI coding agent sends to the cloud?
    ×0.10 142 | 5 points by lbrauer 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam
    ×0.83 124 | 27 points by stackghost 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How are agentic workflows meant to offset AI debt?
    ×0.42 112 | 3 points by l33tbro 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?
    ×0.44 144 | 11 points by rubyn00bie 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Viable open source Claude Design alternative?
    ×0.48 148 | 26 points by splatzone 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Company is rapidly cutting AI tool spend how to prep team?
    ×0.75 107 | 10 points by Snakes3727 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. SlothDB is an OLAP DB ahead of DuckDB on Clickbench SQL database in C++20
    ×0.16 153 | 6 points by souravroy78 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Could free/low cost LLMs be a momentary thing?
    ×0.38 145 | 5 points by senda 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Google Search as you know it is over (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.05 18 | 114 points by evo_9 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta) (silentshark.app)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by epaga 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images (github.com/wiltodelta)
    ×2.07 14 #34 | 367 points by janalsncm 19 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The materials that make fusion possible [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by mpweiher 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
    ×2.29 39 | 321 points by tekkertje 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. HP Now Sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd (phoronix.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by mikece 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model (github.com/bytedance)
    ×0.97 11 #16 | 25 points by cleardusk 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
    ×2.93 13 #29 | 627 points by zambelli 23 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Dumb ways for an open source project to die (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.68 3 #85 | 200 points by chmaynard 23 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The End of the Mind (6over3.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by andrew_rfc 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×4.84 49 | 86 points by vincent_s 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Got ghosted by tech companies so I built a tool to track ghost jobs (csvfirst.pythonanywhere.com)
    ×1.38 157 | 7 points by ktmartin 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90% (newatlas.com)
    ×2.76 1 #36 | 4 points by geox 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. SpaceX picks Goldman Sachs for lead left position on record-breaking IPO (cnbc.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by cwwc 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. ElevenLabs Speech Engine (elevenlabs.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by mfiguiere 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI is too expensive (wheresyoured.at)
    ×5.92 13 | 141 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I built a native macOS Markdown viewer 100% with AI coding agents (github.com/rajatarya)
    ×1.81 87 | 6 points by rajatarya 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (lesnumeriques.com)
    ×5.57 25 #28 | 756 points by healsdata 5 hours ago | 609 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (emmi.ai)
    ×1.67 30 #38 | 321 points by doener 23 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (kv4p.com)
    ×1.06 49 #88 | 176 points by krupan 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I made a tool for learning scales, chords, and how to combine them (alesh.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by aleshh 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI (ljtn.github.io)
    ×0.89 109 | 90 points by jolaflow 4 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.87 36 | 345 points by srameshc 2 days ago | 661 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
    ×1.95 7 #7 | 307 points by robin_reala 7 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement (fire.org)
    ×6.67 8 #10 | 461 points by ceejayoz 3 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. We're seeing distinct runtime lineages emerge inside the same cloud plan/region (webbynode.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by gsgreen 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A sparse, compressed bitmap index in C. Better than Roaring Bitmaps? (codeberg.org)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by gregburd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Day Google Stopped Selling Software (newtonschooloftech.substack.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by ash1794 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: IResearch – C++ search that beat Lucene and Tantivy on their benchmark (github.com/serenedb)
    ×3.36 35 | 10 points by gnusi 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Polypad (amplify.com)
    ×1.41 39 #79 | 219 points by ivank 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)
    ×1.83 17 | 310 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS (advanced-research.net)
    ×1.27 79 | 71 points by surganov 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol (tangled.org)
    ×0.88 90 | 117 points by tsiry 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
    ×3.27 16 #17 | 925 points by spectraldrift 1 day ago | 628 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.99 36 #51 | 196 points by iamnothere 5 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nostalgic Kits Central (2024) (nostalgickitscentral.com)
    ×0.41 46 #69 | 30 points by cf100clunk 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him 'Psycho' Caught Using AI (404media.co)
    ×1.99 10 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An introduction to focusing: Six steps (focusing.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
    ×0.81 74 | 81 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Quarto: An open-source scientific and technical publishing system (quarto.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by Tomte 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Google I/O (io.google)
    ×2.97 6 | 183 points by thanhhaimai 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5) (vas-blog.pages.dev)
    ×4.46 72 | 81 points by s314 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero (electrek.co)
    ×4.83 78 | 72 points by dogscatstrees 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Sentilis – a folder of Markdown files becomes your bio, blog, store (github.com/sentilis)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by josehbez 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Built a verifiable, open-source SoC 2 readiness scanner (loxeai.com)
    ×0.26 | 2 points by arjavmehta 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Autoregressive next token prediction and KV Cache in transformers (medium.com)
    ×0.52 20 #25 | 33 points by coarchitect 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Trainy, an AI team that fires you (trainy.me)
    ×1.86 13 | 3 points by patrickmds 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.98 53 | 75 points by JeanKage 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Northlight (northlight.ai)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by austinkennedy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements (apnews.com)
    ×6.12 15 | 119 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
    ×1.82 42 | 251 points by babel16 1 week ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×6.54 21 #49 | 1389 points by dmarcos 1 day ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. You can access Gemini chat history without unlocking your phone with Android 16 (reddit.com)
    ×1.25 2 #78 | 22 points by embedding-shape 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Claude Code, now powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, GPT-5.5, Grok 4.3, and more (dechained.ai)
    ×1.46 6 | 3 points by sryDarioXOXO 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Openvid – open-source cinematic screen recorder and mockup editor (github.com/CristianOlivera1)
    ×1.24 163 | 6 points by cristianolivera 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Growing Neural Cellular Automata (distill.pub)
    ×0.99 47 #55 | 129 points by pulkitsh1234 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
    ×3.26 63 #73 | 59 points by louiereederson 2 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill (restofworld.org)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by taubek 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???