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  1. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.88 55 #47 | 681 points by andrehacker 2 days ago | 1066 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?
    ×0.67 9 | 4 points by ed_balls 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.33 13 | 438 points by Ekami 1 day ago | 733 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.87 26 | 17 points by simianwords 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given
    ×1.53 9 | 10 points by cuz-reasons 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used
    ×1.01 47 | 4 points by prmph 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.74 90 | 105 points by juliusceasar 3 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.89 65 | 157 points by dv35z 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.00 110 | 37 points by f311a 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×1.08 92 | 9 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Where do you get the latest updates about AI?
    ×0.74 99 | 5 points by d0able 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.53 116 | 24 points by bix6 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.81 108 | 15 points by JohnnyZhang483 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members
    ×0.38 107 | 3 points by joshwprinceton 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×0.62 101 | 6 points by kingleopold 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.87 98 | 36 points by sunshine-o 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.54 121 | 11 points by saveitincork 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.58 114 | 8 points by themasterchief 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.52 157 | 7 points by iliaov 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.45 128 | 4 points by amichail 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×0.89 111 | 10 points by chistev 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×4.48 102 | 25 points by antihero 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.45 115 | 37 points by cpu_ 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×4.05 130 | 23 points by vadumo 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What would you name your own LLM?
    ×0.55 142 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?
    ×2.44 58 | 7 points by chistev 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×1.49 155 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.70 132 | 11 points by lanycrost 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?
    ×0.29 165 | 3 points by amichail 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.13 150 | 9 points by wqtz 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without information overload?
    ×0.63 151 | 5 points by bohdanstefaniuk 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Most impactful podcast episodes so far this year?
    ×0.87 | 2 points by chistev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.42 166 | 9 points by menomatter 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: On-device transcriber that's 97% accurate at identifying speakers (mimicscribe.app)
    ×1.35 96 | 29 points by marshalla 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker (randalolson.com)
    ×4.70 12 | 225 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: PWNC – A dependency-free web platform I've been building for 25 years (github.com/heydev-de)
    ×2.21 78 | 5 points by katzito 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers (cnbc.com)
    ×3.11 57 #71 | 290 points by toephu2 2 days ago | 886 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony (gavinray97.github.io)
    ×3.42 1 #2 | 283 points by gavinray 4 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git (ataraxy-labs.github.io)
    ×1.65 40 #58 | 168 points by rohanucla 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.52 23 #52 | 54 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime (timesofsandiego.com)
    ×5.35 63 #67 | 67 points by loteck 2 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. NY judge stays lawsuit seeking ownership of nearly 40k Bitcoin wallets (theblock.co)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by hippich 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Tiny community of English master thatchers: fight unfolding over dying tradition (nytimes.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight (acoup.blog)
    ×1.21 39 | 179 points by gostsamo 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (brixit.nl)
    ×0.95 13 #14 | 98 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
    ×1.40 33 #48 | 99 points by old_sound 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (openai.com)
    ×2.00 7 #51 | 280 points by pramodbiligiri 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I built a local motion-event scanner for long camera videos (hp60.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by givebest 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I rebuilt a tiny old volleyball game I loved (volleyhop.com)
    ×1.07 154 | 4 points by cebceb 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3 (gitlab.com)
    ×1.14 32 #31 | 38 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Yann LeCun Says LLMs Have 2 Years Left (youtube.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by root-parent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI Can't Care (mooreds.com)
    ×1.52 79 | 35 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries (github.com/ValveSoftware)
    ×1.66 3 #42 | 260 points by babuskov 20 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Amp Wave (ampwave.online)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Wilcorleone 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. MemGraphRAG: Memory-Based Multi-Agent System for Graph RAG (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Netlora diagnose bufferbloat and why fast internet feels slow (getnetlora.com)
    ×1.49 148 | 6 points by arashfratto 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Jorge Luis Borges Lecture April 9th, 1976 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.51 21 | 3 points by marysminefnuf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Criblate – Help your favorite creators speak every language (criblate.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by ravenical 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised (gotski.workers.dev)
    ×0.55 87 | 36 points by gotski 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Papernews – self-hosted daily newspaper PDF for your reMarkable (github.com/marcj)
    ×1.64 143 | 11 points by bourbonproof 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Intencion – Product analytics that improves your AI agents continuously (intencion.io)
    ×3.62 149 | 9 points by sakuraiben 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Microbe with tiny genome may be evolving into a virus (science.org)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by stared 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Got a job, dropped this for 3 months – MaskOps, Polars PII masking in Rust (github.com/fcarvajalbrown)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by fcarvajalbrown 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The future is controlled by companies who control the physical bottlenecks of AI (silicon-frontier.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by momentmaker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Will AI Replace Software Developers? (olegdubovoi.com)
    ×1.68 7 | 4 points by empiree 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I am giving up on VM Gaming (deployonfri.day)
    ×1.88 54 | 43 points by BoKKeR11 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 47 #46 | 46 points by yorwba 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Risk Has an Owner, and It's Not the AI (aaddrick.com)
    ×1.79 17 | 3 points by aaddrick 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Nemotron 3 Ultra is open weight and open data [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by TheJCDenton 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises (github.com/las7)
    ×0.59 62 | 21 points by sakuraiben 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone (github.com/shiihaa-app)
    ×0.78 119 | 67 points by shiihaa 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers (wsj.com)
    ×1.94 57 | 67 points by mekpro 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Documenting an Obscure Japanese Wii Game – and-Kensaku (github.com/TylerJaacks)
    ×2.17 129 | 7 points by TylerJaacks 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Digger Solo – Local AI File Explorer (digger.lol)
    ×1.31 164 | 5 points by sean_pedersen 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I Derived a Pancake (absurdlyoptimized.com)
    ×2.75 2 #3 | 61 points by bkazez 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
    ×1.71 2 #62 | 236 points by davidbarker 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The spelling error made 200B times a day (2025) (nbailey.ca)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time (hyperallergic.com)
    ×1.72 26 #39 | 165 points by zeech 21 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A canvas-like workspace where you design your own knowledge archive (strata.ws)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by sf_ws 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory (universalmemoryprotocol.io)
    ×0.97 56 | 40 points by edihasaj 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×1.70 5 #83 | 320 points by tosh 1 day ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Boomers are hoarding most of America's wealth and power (yahoo.com)
    ×3.17 55 | 12 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) (theamphour.com)
    ×0.74 32 #32 | 60 points by ChrisGammell 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Iran Severely Damaged US Air Ops Center in Qatar Soon After War Began (airandspaceforces.com)
    ×3.36 27 #73 | 41 points by ilamont 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Automated QA and Testing with AI (antirez.com)
    ×1.79 29 #82 | 30 points by Chrisszz 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The circus freaks of open source (drewdevault.com)
    ×4.86 20 | 114 points by keyle 18 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Claude, Teach Me Something (hugotunius.se)
    ×3.31 70 | 34 points by dannyboland 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Persist – an AI agent that follows up accrued channels till they reply (persist.chat)
    ×0.86 112 | 3 points by Robelk1 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Ccgs – Collaborative Claude Code sessions, stored in Git branches (github.com/ingram-technologies)
    ×1.52 103 | 6 points by scrollaway 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts (theguardian.com)
    ×2.81 21 #56 | 18 points by billybuckwheat 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???