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  1. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.86 70 #50 | 697 points by andrehacker 2 days ago | 1078 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.27 34 | 447 points by Ekami 2 days ago | 739 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.91 68 | 22 points by simianwords 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.74 108 | 106 points by juliusceasar 3 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?
    ×0.36 94 | 4 points by ed_balls 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.89 75 | 159 points by dv35z 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: I made an image watermarking tool. What are the issues open-sourcing it?
    ×0.43 101 | 3 points by minimaxir 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given
    ×1.34 71 | 11 points by cuz-reasons 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used
    ×1.13 91 | 6 points by prmph 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×0.97 129 | 37 points by f311a 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are the best examples of good technical writing you know of?
    ×1.79 45 | 6 points by CSMastermind 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.52 139 | 24 points by bix6 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×0.97 117 | 9 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.78 131 | 15 points by JohnnyZhang483 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Where do you get the latest updates about AI?
    ×0.66 125 | 5 points by d0able 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.86 121 | 36 points by sunshine-o 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.53 142 | 11 points by saveitincork 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×0.59 132 | 6 points by kingleopold 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.65 171 | 9 points by iliaov 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members
    ×0.35 144 | 3 points by joshwprinceton 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.56 141 | 8 points by themasterchief 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×4.34 124 | 26 points by antihero 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.43 157 | 4 points by amichail 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×0.86 138 | 10 points by chistev 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.45 136 | 37 points by cpu_ 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.82 146 | 23 points by vadumo 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×1.40 178 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What would you name your own LLM?
    ×0.50 169 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.68 153 | 11 points by lanycrost 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.08 173 | 9 points by wqtz 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?
    ×0.27 184 | 3 points by amichail 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without information overload?
    ×0.61 177 | 5 points by bohdanstefaniuk 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: OWASP VulnerableApp Modern Extensible and Scalable vulnerable app (github.com/SasanLabs)
    ×1.45 168 | 6 points by newaccount12344 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I paid someone to hack my Meta glasses (thenewthings.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by dmitrygr 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job (thenewstack.io)
    ×2.35 37 | 41 points by Brajeshwar 17 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: PWNC – A dependency-free web platform I've been building for 25 years (github.com/heydev-de)
    ×2.08 111 | 5 points by katzito 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Dap-mux – Connect your editor and REPL to the same debug session
    ×2.33 122 | 7 points by YesJustWolf 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Digger Solo – Local AI File Explorer (digger.lol)
    ×1.31 183 | 5 points by sean_pedersen 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Atlantic 'cold blob' likely caused by weakening AMOC near a tipping point (phys.org)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by btilly 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.84 50 | 325 points by BerislavLopac 21 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I used to pin street parking by hand in Google Maps. Now it's an app (apple.com)
    ×1.52 151 | 5 points by ayranlahmacun 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
    ×1.74 12 #76 | 246 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The OnlyFans Economy of American AI (leoveanu.com)
    ×2.64 32 | 141 points by futurisold 17 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: One API Key for 45 AI Models – Pay per Token, OpenAI Compatible (modelhub-api.com)
    ×1.61 7 | 3 points by Eolab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker (randalolson.com)
    ×4.67 18 | 228 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing (bairui.dev)
    ×1.11 160 | 21 points by subairui 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Splash Is a Colour Format (todepond.com)
    ×0.63 141 #32 | 58 points by tobr 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible? (kdab.com)
    ×0.47 73 #73 | 34 points by jandeboevrie 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer? (natesilver.net)
    ×2.06 12 #65 | 82 points by 7777777phil 12 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Google Maps Scraper (gmapscraper.io)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by qwikhost 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA (semidoped.com)
    ×3.30 64 | 52 points by johncole 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Playing with Vision Embeddings (prestonbjensen.com)
    ×1.40 14 #8 | 26 points by prestoj 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.65 11 #23 | 185 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The circus freaks of open source (drewdevault.com)
    ×4.86 25 | 118 points by keyle 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed (github.com/schildep)
    ×1.12 99 | 91 points by permute 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: DropLock – E2EE secret sharing web app with no backend (apitman.com)
    ×1.35 175 | 24 points by apitman 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. My automated doubt development process (alexself.dev)
    ×0.89 27 #36 | 80 points by aself101 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 99.9999% of you should in fact not being "looping" your agent (xcancel.com)
    ×1.55 20 | 3 points by tempaccount420 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.81 65 #75 | 51 points by yorwba 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Altshiftx_vested_100 (altshiftx.tech)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by Magna_Dev 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN I scraped 743 large employers' careers pages to find their ATS (github.com/Kayvan-Zahiri)
    ×1.01 110 | 3 points by kzahiri 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them (rna.nl)
    ×4.75 16 | 64 points by gctwnl 19 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)
    ×0.78 35 #69 | 76 points by le_chuck 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Box Drawing (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by tosh 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Condition Number (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.76 26 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: How do I whitelist commands in Antigravity?
    ×2.49 36 | 4 points by madprops 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Denmark midfielder Eriksen collapses on pitch during international friendly (theguardian.com)
    ×2.27 1 | 4 points by teleforce 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone (github.com/shiihaa-app)
    ×0.78 135 | 67 points by shiihaa 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025) (podman.io)
    ×1.26 32 #41 | 112 points by daesorin 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Nightwatch, The open-source, read-only AI SRE (github.com/ninoxAI)
    ×0.85 76 #58 | 16 points by egorferber 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Open-source X Bookmark Manager
    ×1.27 164 | 4 points by ssarisen 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: One resume for one job description (nailtherole.com)
    ×1.16 61 | 3 points by tigerkid 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring (algorithmichiring.github.io)
    ×1.36 5 #11 | 75 points by drchiu 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: OpenPayphone – open-source guts for a 1996 coin payphone (Pi and SIP) (github.com/eric-cgn)
    ×1.77 82 #78 | 14 points by mcintyem 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: An mkv player that uses WASM to render you videos (kinosoft.moe)
    ×1.17 83 | 3 points by kafkaesqueKino 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Resonate – Low-latency, high-resolution spectral analysis (alexandrefrancois.org)
    ×0.76 150 | 4 points by arjf 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas (github.com/yukiyokotani)
    ×1.33 4 #44 | 129 points by maxloh 14 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The best relationships are all-encompassing. (andys.blog)
    ×1.45 40 | 49 points by andytratt 20 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Fact check, summarize, explain any article or webpage on local CPU (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×2.04 112 | 5 points by mrkn1 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud (boxes.dev)
    ×2.10 106 | 103 points by nab 3 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. "The Law Doesn't Apply to Me": Why Sovereign Citizen Arguments Always Fail (kylaleelawyer.substack.com)
    ×1.49 18 #55 | 7 points by kylaleelawyer 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules (reuters.com)
    ×2.56 60 | 129 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Training an LLM in Swift, Part 2: macOS built-in frameworks (cocoawithlove.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by cl3m 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How to fix a laptop that reboots randomly (j11g.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by jandeboevrie 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries (github.com/ValveSoftware)
    ×1.65 15 #60 | 268 points by babuskov 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Pingtrace (github.com/skhell)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by skhell 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Bug Fixes for Larkos
    ×1.03 | 2 points by Okerew 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: NullRead – A simple HN Android client (0x96f.dev)
    ×0.89 162 | 4 points by 0x96f 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python (ranpara.net)
    ×1.66 4 #6 | 173 points by DevarshRanpara 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sycophantic LLMs Mislead Novices in Problem-Solving Tasks [pdf] (acm.org)
    ×1.45 17 | 3 points by azhenley 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???