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  1. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.98 17 #60 | 80 points by joshmarinacci 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×1.12 151 #66 | 61 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.69 53 #67 | 24 points by vira28 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×1.48 30 #78 | 76 points by kilroy123 8 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×1.39 54 #87 | 26 points by BugsJustFindMe 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.07 17 | 770 points by eries 1 day ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×1.08 65 | 14 points by thisislorenzov 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×2.07 42 | 201 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.47 33 | 415 points by TomAnthony 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Agents get dumber before release of new model version?
    ×0.91 69 | 6 points by sporkland 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.51 45 | 237 points by hnthrow10282910 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.39 87 | 259 points by mdni007 3 days ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is there a metric for AI code quality?
    ×0.27 101 | 3 points by fractalf 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone shorting the overspend in AI yet?
    ×2.31 85 | 13 points by ggm 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What internal tool did you build that became a product?
    ×1.19 104 | 5 points by nehpets 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.32 77 | 433 points by aryamaan 3 days ago | 757 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.28 79 | 166 points by y1n0 2 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Claude Code keeps getting worse
    ×0.46 95 | 4 points by prmph 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is anyone else seeing a Slack auth bug?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by HoyaSaxa 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Just me feeling that Mythos/Fabel just 1% there?
    ×0.30 111 | 4 points by punnerud 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?
    ×1.71 98 | 8 points by linzhangrun 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I added a prompt to future ASI – TLBIC Policy Proposal v5 now available
    ×0.40 | 2 points by michikawa59 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: np.reddit.com now redirects to www.reddit.com
    ×1.73 72 | 5 points by kevinwang 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Temporal Awareness in LLM?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by Pamar 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Discussion: Fable 5 is weak at flagging prompts correctly
    ×0.40 | 2 points by eckelhesten 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
    ×1.85 96 | 6 points by limondas 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Degree apprenticeships in engineering, do they exist?
    ×0.69 | 2 points by adamofeden 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Did Anthropic Just Win?
    ×0.90 133 | 4 points by lnenad 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?
    ×0.91 115 | 5 points by zionsati 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?
    ×2.05 94 | 8 points by Adam-Hincu 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.62 135 | 23 points by modzu 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Anyone building a local-first companion for Google Fitbit Air straps?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by joalavedra 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Stack Overflow seems down
    ×0.65 131 | 5 points by tom1337 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Summary of recent buggy Kindle updates since Nov 2025: dictionary, fonts, manga
    ×0.34 | 2 points by seam_carver 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: The next evolutionary step in LLM usage?
    ×0.42 152 | 3 points by tomaytotomato 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Prediction for SpaceX IPO?
    ×0.55 150 | 7 points by bix6 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Are we all walking into a trap?
    ×0.87 128 | 7 points by skor 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tell HN: Codex once again automatically activates /fast on app update
    ×0.15 | 2 points by mfi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.51 147 | 14 points by jasonephraim 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
    ×0.36 167 | 5 points by j1000 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?
    ×0.15 166 | 5 points by randomor 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Those who quit Software Eng. to do something else, what did you do?
    ×1.62 121 | 6 points by trwhite 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota (github.com/grzegorz-raczek-unit8)
    ×0.72 83 | 64 points by grzracz 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality (cc.dev)
    ×1.89 107 | 66 points by Darmani 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Quick games disguised as boring spreadsheets (boredspreadsheet.com)
    ×3.84 142 | 19 points by kevinclelland 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: SNItch – fuzz the TLS SNI field to discover hidden virtual hosts (github.com/cirosec)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by flixf 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Mixture-of-Experts (Moe), Explained: Why "Active Parameters" Decide What Runs (vettedconsumer.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by ermantrout 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Scott Pelley Shows How Legacy Media Got It Wrong – and Bari Weiss Made It Worse (theintercept.com)
    ×4.00 30 | 7 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Policy on the AI Exponential (darioamodei.com)
    ×2.22 47 | 163 points by yjp20 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised (gotski.workers.dev)
    ×0.56 161 | 37 points by gotski 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Tail Panic – a multiplayer game designed for AI agents (tailpanic.com)
    ×0.78 109 | 3 points by ZivenChang 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Construct SQL from table records by breaking down decision tree (github.com/rentruewang)
    ×0.79 156 | 3 points by rentruewang 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.22 70 #59 | 115 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation (blog.google)
    ×3.40 27 | 320 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Who's the smartest corvid? (thetyee.ca)
    ×1.13 55 #90 | 147 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Yes to California's Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing (eff.org)
    ×1.65 12 | 3 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Drift – an embedding-model upgrade should be a rotation, not a reindex (github.com/aayush4vedi)
    ×1.13 132 | 6 points by aayush4vedi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A minimal linear algebra library in pure Go (github.com/igomez10)
    ×1.61 160 | 5 points by igomeza 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. MiMo Code is now released and open-source (xiaomi.com)
    ×1.84 5 #4 | 409 points by apeters 9 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Trying to fix complicated problems (griffens.net)
    ×0.54 39 #32 | 4 points by ngriffiths 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Ustps (UDP Speedy Transmission Protocol Secure) and USSH (github.com/x1colegal)
    ×0.45 105 | 12 points by x1colegal 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)
    ×0.82 120 | 87 points by le_chuck 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix (mrbruh.com)
    ×1.44 4 #10 | 215 points by MrBruh 8 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Authentication issues related to API requests (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.09 49 | 162 points by Multicomp 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)
    ×0.99 53 | 144 points by GeorgeCurtis 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I applied Lyapunov stability theory to detect when LLM agents spiral (github.com/vishal-dehurdle)
    ×0.50 86 | 7 points by visha1v 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Claumon – forecasting Claude Code usage limits with a Gamma process (github.com/fabioconcina)
    ×0.88 93 | 5 points by fabioconcina 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Jailbreak this model to get 3B tokens (opir.ai)
    ×2.37 112 | 6 points by copypirate 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: SoulOS open-source replacing system prompts with stable state machines (github.com/mziqudhd92)
    ×1.25 158 | 3 points by ls1911 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A Commons of Software Productive Infrastructure, by and for Capital (marewolf.me)
    ×0.32 14 #27 | 4 points by simonmic 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good (protonprivacy.substack.com)
    ×4.13 50 #80 | 65 points by doener 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger (github.com/vanyapr)
    ×1.14 36 | 72 points by snowflaxxx 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Tapflow – self-hosted iOS/Android simulator streaming for mobile QA (github.com/jo-duchan)
    ×1.22 151 | 4 points by duchanjo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Jenny Haniver (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by thatoneengineer 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Stretchy, soft, and sticky: The next gen of wearable and implantable sensors (caltech.edu)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by hhs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I built a microlearning app to learn personal finance (usescroll.app)
    ×2.07 117 | 8 points by maclinz 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely (matteast.io)
    ×1.99 44 | 183 points by meast 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. OpenAI Prepping for On-Prem Product? (somantix.ai)
    ×1.30 21 #42 | 19 points by bdroopy 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (dronexl.co)
    ×3.15 28 #48 | 680 points by vrganj 17 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Mirage of the Gifted Child (nymag.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by apparent 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Deploy personal apps with your agent via Buildy (buildy.so)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by grouchy 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Emergenv: Compose+compute env files from SSH-encrypted fragments in Git (github.com/anoyomoose)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by anoyomoose 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What we learned shipping VS Code weekly [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by azhenley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Precision Matters in Block Scales (constantinides.net)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi (theatlantic.com)
    ×4.77 73 | 84 points by SanjayMehta 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ear Training Practice (tonedear.com)
    ×1.74 4 #9 | 136 points by mattbit 6 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux (phoronix.com)
    ×2.03 13 #12 | 216 points by josephcsible 10 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Tailwind and slop apps (briandouglas.ie)
    ×1.71 32 #36 | 7 points by coneonthefloor 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Bosun – a small model that keeps an agent's memory graph clean (huggingface.co)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by trashhalo 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Kctx – A read-only Kubernetes context engine for SREs and AI Agents (github.com/lucasepe)
    ×1.35 123 | 5 points by lucasepe 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???