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  1. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.75 65 #72 | 305 points by sharts 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.53 76 | 49 points by Abh1Works 4 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.07 39 | 635 points by dhruv3006 2 days ago | 425 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Has anyone shipped a self-modifying application with LLMs?
    ×0.34 52 | 4 points by ex-aws-dude 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.77 55 | 650 points by stagas 3 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AWS new AZ in eu-west-2 - beware of unexpected results
    ×0.43 72 | 5 points by eddie_catflap 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?
    ×0.64 69 | 7 points by elar_verole 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you access archive.today?
    ×0.26 102 | 3 points by crazybonkersai 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. ServiceNow are pushing customers off SaaS – are other industries doing similar?
    ×0.64 98 | 9 points by rorychatt 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. New OllamaMQ v0.3.0
    ×0.48 113 | 5 points by chleba 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why Don't We Version UIs?
    ×0.76 110 | 9 points by gruensk 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are independent software contractors doing now?
    ×1.63 86 | 11 points by Madmallard 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How should I price an AI infrastructure platform?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by aqibkhan026 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery
    ×0.16 137 | 5 points by mguerville 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?
    ×0.60 117 | 5 points by pudgywalsh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.10 118 | 92 points by simonebrunozzi 4 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Combinatorics-Framework released for QA testers/students
    ×0.14 | 2 points by yb-combi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Countries with greatest temperature increases have benefited from them?
    ×0.92 114 | 6 points by amichail 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Do you feel comfortable admitting that you use AI?
    ×0.91 107 | 12 points by var0xyz 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Another GitHub Outage?
    ×0.32 151 | 3 points by tom1337 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I made a secure way for agents to request secrets from you using HyperDHT
    ×0.24 | 2 points by smashah 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Science Fiction. Some AI as world leader. Would you vote it?
    ×0.43 152 | 3 points by ewjloop 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Can I realistically make an app as a junior dev?
    ×0.39 147 | 4 points by brooke1 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How China Saved the Global Oil Market (commoditycontext.com)
    ×4.05 39 #63 | 23 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I built a free FIRE simulator (early retirement tool) (modelfire.online)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by symuz 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: A new way to read books, magnifying in and out (curiora.space)
    ×1.39 16 | 4 points by pentagram 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: LongTerMemory, an AI EdTech Platform (wired.business)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by aledevv 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Robot or Meatbag? (atomic14.com)
    ×1.75 134 | 5 points by iamflimflam1 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement (ornith.ai)
    ×1.25 8 #21 | 165 points by CommonGuy 9 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma (twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan)
    ×4.07 26 #36 | 518 points by heydenberk 11 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)
    ×0.90 80 | 45 points by rhgraysonii 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Pressed Penny Machine Map (pennypresses.net)
    ×0.78 12 #22 | 38 points by willmeyers 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized (marginalutility.dev)
    ×0.68 82 | 67 points by mcclowes 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I still hand write my commit messages (jvt.me)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Two Memory Management Optimizations Going into Linux 7.3 (phoronix.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: LLM-Shield-Proxy Zero-Egress PII Streaming Proxy (55MB RAM) (github.com/ninadphalak)
    ×1.30 95 | 4 points by ninadphalak 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Loft Day – a wedding invitation turned point-and-click game (behdad.org)
    ×0.35 100 | 9 points by behdad 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Termaxa – my agent gate passed its security rig, failed a two-user test (github.com/termaxa)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by devdoc83 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Digital Immortality (dogdogfish.com)
    ×1.34 6 #45 | 26 points by matthewsharpe3 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Klo – Native Mac video editor you talk to (40 releases in 30 days) (getklo.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by elvniv 30 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Singular – local orchestration for autonomous coding agents (github.com/alex-reysa)
    ×2.37 115 | 8 points by alexreysa 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (privacyguides.org)
    ×2.45 32 | 259 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Voidleap Code – agentic IDE, own harness, swap models mid-conversation (voidleap.com)
    ×1.31 148 | 3 points by nileback 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Draw.city – geography game where you circle the target population [US] (draw.city)
    ×1.59 130 | 4 points by NameError 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. U.S. government debt passes $40T, more than doubling in a decade (cnbc.com)
    ×5.15 36 #57 | 50 points by mfiguiere 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. User Awareness in Frontier Models (alignmentforum.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck (koh-antique.com)
    ×0.48 60 #78 | 54 points by teleforce 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
    ×1.39 58 | 175 points by cyndunlop 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (flagquizzes.com)
    ×0.62 99 | 57 points by artiomyak 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things (homosabiens.substack.com)
    ×1.44 16 #52 | 161 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/RyanCodrai)
    ×1.34 37 #65 | 289 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: HashNotch – Premium AI Integrated Dynamic Island for the Mac OS
    ×0.82 | 2 points by SeifHashish 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.77 33 #46 | 26 points by albertpedersen 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
    ×0.55 60 | 80 points by bwm 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Two hours from idea to a live URL (profullstack.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by buffer_overlord 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal (github.com/lajosdeme)
    ×0.86 123 | 100 points by lajosdeme 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension (julius383.github.io)
    ×1.31 150 | 17 points by kajm 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Threshold Schnorr signs in 3ms, threshold ECDSA in 5s (808bits.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by meehow 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: FerrumPix Photo/RAW-Editor, Viewer, Gallery, Immich & Nextcloud Client (github.com/Bitpainter75)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by Bitpainter 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (cell.com)
    ×1.10 73 | 108 points by newsomix9xl 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare (sprocketfox.io)
    ×3.73 1 #8 | 736 points by kareiva 13 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Extensible Software in the age of LLMs (jeremymorrell.dev)
    ×0.97 9 #26 | 102 points by coloneltcb 8 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. "Half-Day": 0-Day in the Age of AI (margin.re)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by aaronsdevera 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: We have company runway but not founder time. When do you go full-time?
    ×1.11 40 | 3 points by throwaway604yvr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.77 11 #42 | 59 points by florianherrengt 8 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The epic blockbuster that could be India's answer to The Odyssey (bbc.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by BiraIgnacio 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation (uchicago.edu)
    ×2.77 31 | 384 points by jplusequalt 23 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: 4bit bridge between AI and humans (github.com/YOalphabet)
    ×0.74 121 | 3 points by YOalphabet 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
    ×2.13 62 #55 | 310 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
    ×4.50 18 #59 | 902 points by nichochar 1 day ago | 702 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Winning a contentious soft fork in 2026 (getcofund.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by setzeus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Everyone's Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder with a Hammer (nytimes.com)
    ×0.99 33 | 3 points by appleappleapple 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption (loginwithone.com)
    ×1.58 61 | 10 points by mikeysight 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Invoicing and Tax for UK Tradespeople (tradetally.co.uk)
    ×0.76 70 | 3 points by wowinter15 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A sample dataset of computer-use tasks on professional software (graderlabs.com)
    ×5.69 93 | 16 points by parthmah 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mathematics in the age of AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.23 24 #15 | 116 points by jonbaer 9 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.36 45 #30 | 125 points by j4mie 15 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Technical leaders should have the largest AI exhaust (schipper.ai)
    ×1.39 46 | 8 points by schipperai 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Is Cloudflare Pro Worth It? (fernvenue.com)
    ×1.65 27 | 3 points by fernvenue 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. DIY Beta+Gamma Scintillation Detector (madexp.it)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by joebig 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Norway should buy OpenAI (onethousandmeans.com)
    ×2.42 12 | 254 points by alexeigannon 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver (mkornreich.me)
    ×0.47 96 | 71 points by enjoyyourlife 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Extctl, a super simple systemd-sysext wrapper (github.com/OperatorProject)
    ×1.98 119 | 5 points by fluorocaster 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by ocamoss 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Jugwalking: Exercise Your Mind, Your Body, and the Neural Network That Connects (davidsmaynard.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Tesana – An AI game engine that builds quality games end-to-end (tesana.ai)
    ×1.06 128 | 16 points by solomonyardley 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A community library for Claude Code status lines (statuslin.es)
    ×0.69 139 | 13 points by nastynate 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: nanoAlphaZero – Train a grandmaster-level chess model in 24h with TPUs (github.com/wtedw)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by tdoubleu 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Imgoci – format for publishing OS images to an OCI registry (github.com/imgoci)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by aliasxneo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Dear researchers: Is AI all you've got? (austinhenley.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by jermaustin1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???