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  1. Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
    ×2.94 19 #21 | 252 points by jakemanger 4 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.43 67 | 373 points by david927 3 days ago | 1183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset
    ×1.58 12 | 21 points by nandakishor_ml 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties?
    ×0.18 89 | 3 points by cpsk 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
    ×0.53 78 | 14 points by learner_yearner 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x
    ×0.55 74 | 7 points by Marciok 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27
    ×0.51 92 | 15 points by lucasoshiro 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.59 119 | 12 points by rylando 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker because of AI?
    ×0.95 77 | 14 points by rizsyed1 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock
    ×0.16 136 | 3 points by timedude 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.39 116 | 16 points by amichail 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×2.06 80 | 74 points by nunez 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. We struggled with DevOps, so built a open source agentic platform just for this
    ×0.10 | 2 points by abmuhammadhamza 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Started Learning Pentesting
    ×0.15 147 | 3 points by muzan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A mnemonic-free wallet where the private key never leaves the phone's TEE
    ×0.18 128 | 3 points by niumeta_TZ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why serialize documents to disk instead of memory-mapping runtime state?
    ×0.61 134 | 3 points by ShengATsao 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.84 109 | 61 points by stikit 4 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.17 149 | 4 points by Aditya_0315 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008) (vanityfair.com)
    ×2.19 10 #75 | 87 points by kamaraju 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How much oil-market buffer is left? (depletion.org)
    ×3.21 59 | 113 points by mcone 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: A chess analyzer that runs in the browser (github.com/huytd)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by huydotnet 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview (marc.info)
    ×0.92 60 | 123 points by sippingabonedry 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)
    ×1.60 35 #58 | 177 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster (linum.ai)
    ×0.78 52 #66 | 53 points by schopra909 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. US interest rates raised for first time in three years (bbc.com)
    ×3.22 5 #81 | 99 points by higginsniggins 15 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Crisis in Physics: A Theory Must Be Able to Die (medium.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by gridem 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Robert Kraft, once the NFLs good guy is another billionaire silencing Macklemore (theguardian.com)
    ×1.96 39 | 3 points by mo7061 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Elliptic Curve Rank Leaderboard (icarm.cloud)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by m0nhawk 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A single Bitcoin transaction carried an average water footprint of 16K litres (spacedaily.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by sharemywin 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents (eterdb.com)
    ×0.76 95 | 46 points by fdeth 6 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. OpenAI Model Misalignment Report (openai.com)
    ×2.57 48 #67 | 91 points by qprofyeh 7 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' (bbc.com)
    ×6.09 50 | 675 points by hackernj 1 day ago | 866 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Lucasart's Afterlife (wordpress.com)
    ×0.96 9 #18 | 64 points by Bondi_Blue 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: dnswer – browser-based DNS change approval and multi-provider sync
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Quibus99 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme (neobrutalism.dev)
    ×1.33 69 | 165 points by samke- 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: farseer.space – fly anywhere in the universe in your browser (farseer.space)
    ×3.77 99 | 10 points by headsupernova 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The jobs of the future may look more like legal jobs rather than engineering (hexmos.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by atomicnature 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Live AI model pricing and benchmark comparison tool with API (cost.dev)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by no6inbash 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub (strix.ai)
    ×1.71 25 | 322 points by bearsyankees 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Modern RSS reader with social capabilities based on AT Proto (sunred.app)
    ×1.65 96 | 5 points by fuegoio 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Visual HTML – a source-preserving WYSIWYG editor for AI-generated HTML (kong75.github.io)
    ×3.08 118 | 6 points by kong75 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.93 44 #70 | 57 points by spathak 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model (poltora.dev)
    ×1.54 66 | 180 points by poltora 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: DeadLock OS – A Linux terminal puzzle game (crazygames.com)
    ×1.10 137 | 3 points by devejesus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Voice AI that runs on CPUs (lokutor.com)
    ×1.83 133 | 4 points by lokutor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.org)
    ×0.41 47 #85 | 17 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. LP and 45 RPM Records (ethw.org)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by chistev 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (enclave.ai)
    ×2.54 10 | 170 points by talhof8 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.12 8 | 94 points by qt31415926 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser (bensunter.com)
    ×0.21 100 | 6 points by bsunter2 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.81 126 | 57 points by snyy 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Back to the future: modules for Guix packages (2022) (guix.info)
    ×2.48 29 #54 | 61 points by bmacho 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background (github.com/pizza-bot-app)
    ×0.77 68 | 58 points by jd_ 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design (formas.ai)
    ×0.78 64 | 115 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. This Code Is CRAP (2011) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.06 26 | 76 points by luispa 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app (flat.social)
    ×0.91 5 #2 | 54 points by pawelwentpawel 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.22 6 #14 | 112 points by rramadass 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (amazon.science)
    ×1.23 29 #26 | 137 points by Betelbuddy 14 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Reverse Engineering ChatGPT Web: How OpenAI Built for a Billion Users (performance.dev)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by theanonymousone 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Claude Desktop Silently Associates with Common Files
    ×0.72 | 1 points by 3371 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality (dallincrump.com)
    ×3.86 45 | 185 points by speckx 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Kaflow Search – A desktop tool for locally indexed Kafka message search (whsoul-tools.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by whsoul 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: HonestSky, a free iOS weather app without ads or subscriptions (apple.com)
    ×1.54 124 | 4 points by sph130 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (microsoft.com)
    ×2.32 1 #35 | 326 points by soheilpro 19 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Court Upholds Belgian Pirate DNS Blocking Order, OpenDNS Exit Looms (torrentfreak.com)
    ×1.20 19 #73 | 3 points by iamnothere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. In-Region Routing: Keep Your Data in the US or EU (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by doener 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Trust, but benchmark: How we let an AI agent optimize Elasticsearch (elastic.co)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by eatonphil 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Open-source passive NFC tag that signs with ECDSA, verified on-chain (github.com/mwbpNFTechnology)
    ×1.11 110 | 9 points by boust16 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Thurbox – A tmux-based TUI and CLI for local AI agent orchestration (github.com/Thurbeen)
    ×1.73 117 | 4 points by magicleturcrttm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.23 6 #83 | 170 points by mococa 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (jock.pl)
    ×0.77 37 #88 | 78 points by joozio 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Goldman Sachs Global Institute: remaking our world for machine intelligence (fortune.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by vismit2000 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Taco Bell Programming (2010) (widgetsandshit.com)
    ×1.86 16 #40 | 9 points by olexsmir 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Saving Jet Fuel (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.15 47 #90 | 136 points by marklit 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Wisconsin GOP Candidate Is Exploiting Data Center Backlash to Attack Solar, Wind (capitalandmain.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by paimapi 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Unimodal – Our AI Manifest (unimodal.ai)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by 0x0000F8 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Product Developer A.D. 2026: Jack of All Trades (pawelbrodzinski.substack.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by flail 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Jev for Home Assistant (github.com/AboveColin)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by AboveColin 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: How to start a sales and marketing engine?
    ×0.61 | 1 points by boredumb 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Interest in programming languages hit a decade low after Claude Code launch (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by oyster143 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (autism.org.uk)
    ×2.59 18 | 93 points by AndrewDucker 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GitHub is having trouble counting things (chuckgreenman.com)
    ×2.85 19 | 77 points by chuckgreenman 21 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Kosmic Kart – Mario Kart-style racing with friends in the browser (kosmi.io)
    ×1.27 85 | 4 points by hauxir 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Do Web Frameworks Matter Anymore? (brookslybrand.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by twsted 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Marc Lou sold 15 sponsor spots on his body for $112,062 before his first HYROX (sponsormybody.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by croatan 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GraphQL-backed MCP tools are more token-efficient (github.com/apollographql)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by jdauriemma 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100 (st-andrews.ac.uk)
    ×1.09 48 | 150 points by jzox 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Agenttik – work on multiple projects in parallel with AI agents (github.com/pausan)
    ×0.90 120 | 4 points by psanchez 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS (github.com/JamesRyanATX)
    ×0.64 76 | 84 points by fretlessjazz 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Why Arab armies don't win wars (worksinprogress.co)
    ×3.75 28 #43 | 9 points by Tomte 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???