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  1. Ask HN: Why isn't the NSA categorized as an APT?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by TheOpenSourcer 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor
    ×1.73 5 | 87 points by yifanlu 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: what’s your favorite line in your Claude/agents.md files?
    ×0.30 34 | 3 points by khasan222 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is operational memory a missing layer in AI agent architecture?
    ×0.37 86 | 3 points by varunrrai 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
    ×1.61 76 | 145 points by IncandescentGas 2 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Structural Friction: A metric for human coordination cost
    ×0.12 100 | 5 points by davidvartanian 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
    ×1.08 60 | 13 points by chistev 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AI World
    ×0.25 | 2 points by Shashankms 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What features does a chip require to beat Nvidia in the AI race?
    ×0.30 105 | 3 points by caloricflow 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Anchor: Hardware-based authentication using SanDisk USB devices
    ×0.47 153 | 3 points by rewant 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?
    ×0.60 94 | 28 points by neilk17 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. European municipalities leak citizen data to US companies
    ×1.28 103 | 11 points by sam_lowry_ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are you using a Pivotal Tracker successor? Which one?
    ×0.06 | 2 points by antfarm 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are AI mandates a good idea?
    ×0.77 79 | 4 points by Solar_Flare 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
    ×2.91 66 | 149 points by basilikum 2 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: The new wave of AI agent sandboxes?
    ×0.44 106 | 10 points by ATechGuy 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to Find a Job in the UK
    ×0.51 108 | 9 points by 0x3444ac53 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?
    ×0.97 107 | 35 points by newswangerd 3 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. TTal – CLI that turns Claude Code into a multi-agent software factory
    ×0.40 140 | 5 points by neilbb 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Broken "Public Research Articles" Link: Any Support for Google Scholar?
    ×0.12 124 | 4 points by yann-gael 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I built a game where you argue consumer rights against AI bots
    ×0.42 120 | 7 points by dragonmann 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Can we make up/downvotes/flags visible on Hacker News Archives (delayed)
    ×0.41 112 | 6 points by gpt5 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How are Iranian drones getting their guidance?
    ×0.40 109 | 7 points by dottenad 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Have you cancelled any software subscriptions because AI replaced them?
    ×0.85 115 | 9 points by maxim_bg 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Who is still using Windsurf and why?
    ×0.89 118 | 9 points by mak8 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: If working with agents means this, robots, please take my job
    ×0.97 97 | 13 points by tiredagent 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are we ready for vulnerabilities to be words instead of code?
    ×0.42 121 | 5 points by lielcohen 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: When Will AI Disappear?
    ×1.51 69 | 4 points by roschdal 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Open AI is actively censoring information about voting today in the US
    ×0.58 138 | 13 points by resters 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is Claude down Again?
    ×0.34 131 | 11 points by rreyes1979 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Claude Code 500s
    ×1.19 127 | 18 points by bavarianbob 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why is everyone on HN obsessed with Rust?
    ×2.11 111 | 17 points by goldkey 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.38 11 #26 | 89 points by randycupertino 13 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Monkey C – Small familiar language for apps on Garmin watches (garmin.com)
    ×0.77 62 #90 | 13 points by embedding-shape 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Jürgen Habermas hoped rational discussion could save the world (economist.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by andsoitis 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why do we train AI on one-on-one dialogues instead of group dynamics?
    ×2.28 53 | 3 points by kubiknubika 53 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD (openttd.org)
    ×2.11 10 | 335 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier (undeadly.org)
    ×1.01 28 | 217 points by defrost 2 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.95 64 | 76 points by jt-hill 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Social Smolnet (ploum.net)
    ×0.94 48 #34 | 128 points by aebtebeten 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Gangs of Karachi (harpers.org)
    ×1.93 61 #39 | 16 points by ajax33 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Offline forecasting model to real-time sensor data?
    ×0.66 | 1 points by anonymoosestdnt 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Fedora Asahi Remix 43 is now available (fedoramagazine.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by birdculture 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A minimal SVG polygon shape creator in the web (koljasam.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by blackbrokkoli 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The first antimatter delivery service (newscientist.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: CameraClaw – Record what your OpenClaw does in a local sandbox (github.com/SharpAI)
    ×0.41 162 | 3 points by simbaz 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. VisiCalc Reconstructed (zserge.com)
    ×1.10 22 #27 | 214 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. RustSec bug reports result in claims of harassment, ban (theregister.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by weedhopper 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Agentic pre-commit hook with OpenCode Go SDK (youtube.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by der_gopher 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Korru, Web App Catalog (korru.app)
    ×0.27 | 2 points by anwar_nairi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why the Spec-to-Code Gap Cannot Be Closed? (causalitylimited.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by causalityltd 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Navtee – Golf course directory and navigation app (navtee.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by metafarer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm (bristol.ac.uk)
    ×2.04 19 | 178 points by hhs 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Open-source synthetic bank statements for testing parsers
    ×0.32 | 2 points by Maesh 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance (theguardian.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by n1b0m 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Clockwise acquired by Salesforce (getclockwise.com)
    ×1.07 33 | 142 points by nigelgutzmann 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields (theguardian.com)
    ×4.76 57 | 106 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A personal CRM for events, meetups, IRL (payo.tech)
    ×1.08 90 | 4 points by Raj7k 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving (slab.org)
    ×0.53 74 #59 | 41 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ozempic Is About to Go Generic for Billions of People (nytimes.com)
    ×3.52 8 #71 | 46 points by jmsflknr 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The biggest medieval march in English history never happened (popsci.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Design systems aren't for designers anymore, they're for agents (vibeflow.ai)
    ×1.38 38 | 3 points by alepeak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (deepdelver.substack.com)
    ×5.47 24 #31 | 729 points by freddykruger 22 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Too Much Color (keithcirkel.co.uk)
    ×0.97 70 #33 | 123 points by maguay 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Soul of a Pedicab Driver (sheldonbrown.com)
    ×1.11 47 #42 | 154 points by haritha-j 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie (theverge.com)
    ×4.76 40 | 119 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: PlanckClaw an AI agent in 6832 bytes of x86-64 assembly (github.com/frntn)
    ×1.09 156 | 4 points by frntn 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Attention Residuals (github.com/MoonshotAI)
    ×1.32 18 #18 | 198 points by GaggiX 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How Will AI Affect the US Labor Market? (goldmansachs.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by pseudolus 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice (northwestern.edu)
    ×1.35 2 | 111 points by gmays 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Delve (YC W24) – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part I (deepdelver.substack.com)
    ×8.51 41 | 106 points by sebmellen 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Jninty – Track seeds, plants, and harvests across seasons (open source) (github.com/HapiCreative)
    ×1.34 147 | 4 points by elmadah 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Fossilware – a community archive of retro hardware, software, and games (fossilware.tech)
    ×1.70 87 | 5 points by tzual 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: P2PCLAW – I built a decentralized research network where AI agents
    ×0.30 148 | 3 points by FranciscoAngulo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, "drastically" reduced the number of cars (cnn.com)
    ×5.00 1 #2 | 31 points by heresie-dabord 48 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps (wired.com)
    ×4.80 82 #84 | 44 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967) (chomsky.info)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by caaqil 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An Open Letter to Mr Zuckerberg (deadneurons.substack.com)
    ×2.08 32 | 3 points by nr378 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? (omar.yt)
    ×3.90 10 | 314 points by omarroth 1 day ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Agent-password – a local macOS password manager for agent workflows (github.com/tartavull)
    ×1.38 72 | 4 points by tartavull 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Padel Chess – tactical simulator for padel (padelchess.me)
    ×1.12 3 #22 | 51 points by AlexGerasim 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: ML accelerator on a RISC-V FPGA SoC – zero-cycle matmul, boots Linux (dstrbad.substack.com)
    ×2.16 98 | 4 points by dstrbad 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Play 90s classic X-Com – UFO Defense in the browser via WASM (playxcom.online)
    ×1.62 134 | 5 points by mrmrcoleman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT (petamem.com)
    ×0.98 34 #36 | 136 points by bmn__ 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Agent Use Interface (AUI) – let users bring their own AI agent (github.com/FRE-Studios)
    ×2.30 81 | 6 points by FernandoDev 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun (github.com/chenxin-yan)
    ×0.75 92 | 91 points by jellyotsiro 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Htmx Toolkit for VS Code with completions, validation and 20 support (github.com/andreahlert)
    ×0.69 114 | 3 points by andreahlert 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL (oseifert.ch)
    ×1.03 83 | 125 points by ImGajeed76 4 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Dear Aliens (Writing Contest) (dearaliens.net)
    ×0.68 146 | 3 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022) (nippon.com)
    ×2.52 6 #7 | 336 points by cainxinth 17 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???