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  1. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×4.59 51 #53 | 388 points by jacquesm 4 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Apple is no longer thinking different
    ×1.52 29 #60 | 27 points by othmanosx 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why isn't decompilation a solved problem in the AI era?
    ×0.71 28 | 3 points by ferfumarma 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why doesn't a Cursor for Word exist?
    ×1.27 10 | 5 points by FabianArevalo 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.90 38 | 11 points by AuthorizedCust 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is there a genuine space for the Desktop AI assistant, or its solved?
    ×0.86 56 | 3 points by Qhloi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Hacker News datetimes are falsely precise
    ×0.63 60 | 3 points by perilunar 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. What are your plans for when Software Engineering is no longer a viable career?
    ×0.69 | 2 points by hackersnooze1 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.54 96 | 297 points by jmpman 5 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.68 94 | 312 points by imadtaieber 3 days ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. DeepSeek launches v4.1 flash, postpones v4 Pro discontinuation
    ×0.04 | 2 points by Audiolite 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.90 108 | 113 points by maxim-fin 3 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why can I only downvote select comments?
    ×0.61 103 | 7 points by socalgal2 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?
    ×0.58 111 | 8 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.21 112 | 107 points by usernametaken29 4 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.32 116 | 7 points by mattm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.97 136 | 25 points by genekrapivin 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Next day thoughts on the millenium prize threads?
    ×0.36 131 | 3 points by seizethecheese 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Reddit saves your keystrokes in text boxes
    ×1.54 99 | 18 points by thomasjeff1 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is there any solution to the AI infestation?
    ×0.62 121 | 6 points by yathern 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How to know when Claude has changed model itself during processing?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by mfaisalghufran 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. FinOps for LLM Spend – why your bill has changed
    ×0.27 | 2 points by leanroute_ai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.29 138 | 15 points by pkos98 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.34 105 | 34 points by rietta 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by simonsarris 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Is Google planning for Gemini 4 rather than 3.5 pro?
    ×1.57 130 | 5 points by Qhloi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?
    ×0.79 134 | 7 points by locusofself 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.40 140 | 6 points by chipfixer 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×0.88 139 | 17 points by UnderABlueMoon 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.79 101 | 128 points by spwa4 3 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.48 137 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI researcher who warned of 'disaster' is now a target of the right (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by reaperducer 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I resigned from Anthropic today (twitter.com/hilbertspaess)
    ×10.89 11 | 717 points by yurivish 1 day ago | 998 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Factoring RSA 260 (cognition.com)
    ×1.29 37 #69 | 123 points by samyok 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Autism Is a Scary Word (ezducate1.substack.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by karima1980 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: MySamantha – a productivity app where the AI is optional
    ×1.55 42 | 3 points by thejasonsamuel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)
    ×0.79 11 #25 | 9 points by Skinney 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Michael Levin: Ingressing Minds (mdpi.com)
    ×1.98 | 2 points by md224 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Not just another mission control dashboard (npmjs.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by jproctor 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How to build a printer (nishantjosh.dev)
    ×2.38 40 | 437 points by cat-whisperer 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America (twitter.com/SouthPark)
    ×7.85 63 | 260 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy (science.org)
    ×2.18 39 | 220 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Real photos of young girls were in nudify-app ads on Facebook, Instagram (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.89 97 | 75 points by Bender 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Give Agents your design system to build artifacts you're proud of (valet.dev)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by miradu 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Robinhood CEO says companies can't control how their stock is tokenized (cnbc.com)
    ×2.01 | 2 points by ijidak 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Moonshot Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by sbulaev 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. My Journey as an Autism Mom (ezducate1.substack.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by karima1980 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Apple Watch Ultra 4 (apple.com)
    ×1.69 50 | 97 points by tech234a 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: An open-source SAS interpreter, written by agents (kirha.com)
    ×1.77 124 | 5 points by rektorship 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Tech Event Bingo – Track Events in Tech on a Bingo Card (techeventbingo.com)
    ×0.99 135 | 3 points by aviflombaum 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Discrete Dipole Approximation Code Ddscat 7.2 (2012) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.24 56 #47 | 13 points by doener 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.47 37 | 482 points by _alternator_ 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. European Railway Station Index 2026 (consumerchoicecenter.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by tosh 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A 50-year-old computer-assisted proof (johndcook.com)
    ×1.86 2 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in (twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en)
    ×2.33 44 | 81 points by HatchedLake721 7 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Manage flexible access profiles for your personal context (lanes.sh)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by s-xyz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch (github.com/Atomburstofficial)
    ×0.56 82 | 47 points by atomburst 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards (copperhead.sh)
    ×1.22 71 | 244 points by animeshchouhan 2 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Liesegang Rings (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.35 57 #39 | 24 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Calmscroll – a reader that shows the current paragraph in the library (calmscroll.com)
    ×0.71 82 #78 | 3 points by amadeuspagel 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Chinese AI Giants Accused of Sending User Queries to U.S. Models (wsj.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by doener 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OpenAI's research is too important to be turned into propaganda (modelrepublic.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by cdrnsf 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished (grapheneos.social)
    ×5.18 35 | 306 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: DriveSync – fast Git-styled Google Drive sync CLI (github.com/scaleninja)
    ×0.63 119 | 24 points by rohityadavcloud 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A guestbook for humans and AI agents, built on 144 pixels (a90.com)
    ×1.17 129 | 4 points by genesishash 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Dbmask – Discover, mask, and verify sensitive data in SQL databases (github.com/sealandseacat)
    ×0.91 73 #59 | 4 points by SiyuanFeng 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. X-HBM – 16X more bandwidth or 10x higher density than traditional HBM (2025) [pdf] (neosemic.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by peter_d_sherman 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Runnable – CI That Speaks Actions (Entire and GitHub) (runnable.cloud)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by melkor7 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post (gettogether.dev)
    ×0.87 110 | 107 points by nchudleigh 3 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (cognition.com)
    ×1.91 4 #2 | 154 points by seelos 3 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple's new A20 Pro smartphone chip around 25% faster than its predecessor (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by fork-bomber 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: Would you pay to have your favorite AI agents in one app?
    ×0.52 | 1 points by balgeman 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent (meta.com)
    ×2.48 25 | 648 points by yks 1 day ago | 731 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Sirius – A type system for array programming (sirius-lang.org)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by jlorentz1 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Story map of the 2026 Nepal flood: damage on the ground, lakes above (notebook.link)
    ×1.63 123 | 5 points by arjxn-py 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Rivian's gambit for full autonomy (ieee.org)
    ×0.97 60 #75 | 91 points by 1970-01-01 22 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch (torproject.org)
    ×1.74 46 #88 | 59 points by woofcat 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A remote island, these GPS hackers are preparing for an invisible war (bbc.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by PotatoNinja 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I built a directory for discovering startups shared on X (startupsonx.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by techbyhez 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Oz – a Vim-style terminal editor written in Zig (github.com/niT-Tin)
    ×0.90 115 | 3 points by niT-Tin 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree (devz.cl)
    ×0.83 20 #24 | 62 points by DanielVZ 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.37 39 #28 | 10 points by snyy 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Syq – copy files between machines fast (better than rsync) (greaber.github.io)
    ×0.85 22 #30 | 21 points by greaber 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.84 67 #56 | 76 points by Gaishan 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 (hugovergnes.github.io)
    ×1.20 33 #65 | 108 points by Anon84 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. U.S. Code § 597 – Expenditures to influence voting (cornell.edu)
    ×2.29 26 | 3 points by colinprince 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. iPhone Duo (apple.com)
    ×4.62 10 | 322 points by an0malous 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming (slimemoldtimemold.com)
    ×1.93 16 | 90 points by cpeterso 16 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Symphony – a live map of your AI coding agents (github.com/itsloganmann)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by loganmann0324 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Claude Code hooks that log every tool call, 124ms per call (github.com/fuckbigtech-ai)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by frumza 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???