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  1. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×3.02 29 #67 | 552 points by IvanK_net 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.40 89 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.39 87 | 36 points by mariocesar 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.55 86 | 11 points by penskymaterial 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI?
    ×0.72 77 | 11 points by Zeruxe 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.86 118 | 11 points by Crontab 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.12 110 | 14 points by saimiam 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×4.38 82 | 34 points by trencedamp 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.50 100 | 6 points by Bender 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is the xcancel source code publicly available?
    ×0.32 137 | 3 points by bigwheels 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is anyone still working on dLLMs
    ×0.30 139 | 3 points by obonse 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.75 148 | 7 points by maxignol 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are we losing control of AI?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by KinetiNode 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is this the beginning of the end of open source?
    ×0.53 120 | 5 points by potamic 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude Mythos 5.1 System Prompt?
    ×0.54 149 | 3 points by knifelemon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×2.01 117 | 16 points by nunorbatista 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×0.42 143 | 6 points by mtmosestn 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Google Chrome's AI API actively used for device fingerprinting and profiling
    ×0.62 126 | 6 points by AlexanderHanff 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work
    ×0.42 153 | 5 points by microflash 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure
    ×2.66 132 | 15 points by akg_67 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Claude Agents SDK will no longer use subscription; API credits included in plans
    ×1.16 104 | 5 points by nullishdomain 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What would you like to see in a new AI technology release?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by ikishade 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Vibecoding Follies
    ×0.75 154 | 5 points by vegnus 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How come everyone is an LLM expert?
    ×1.03 152 | 6 points by delis-thumbs-7e 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos
    ×0.28 156 | 8 points by iliashad 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Show me your agentic SDE semantics
    ×0.17 | 2 points by danielovichdk 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is observability broken for you?
    ×0.65 157 | 4 points by tmach32 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Strands Box: another open source sandbox (github.com/strands-agents)
    ×2.08 | 2 points by shenli3514 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage (404media.co)
    ×3.39 70 | 102 points by awoodbeck 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. When random is not actually random enough (ersc.io)
    ×0.88 76 | 80 points by steveklabnik 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Detangle, Dependency rules for JavaScript, checked in under a second (debugdiary.dev)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by debug-diary 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Orkut.com (orkut.com)
    ×1.64 12 #19 | 11 points by andreynering 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function (microsoft.com)
    ×0.76 46 #60 | 65 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Analyzing Rust Programs with Charon (lwn.net)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by mkesper 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Arcadeia – A self-hosted media library with animated video previews (github.com/travelonium)
    ×0.33 90 | 17 points by omidontop 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
    ×3.32 7 #17 | 720 points by joshuawright11 22 hours ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why people don't want to have children any more (ft.com)
    ×0.97 9 #54 | 5 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools (svg-spark.vercel.app)
    ×1.48 56 | 4 points by Zeus808 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Srl – Angular-style web components with no build step (github.com/BernardoGiordano)
    ×1.51 142 | 3 points by berngiordano 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Cellula Humana – 3D interactive exploration of a human cell (cellulahumana.com)
    ×3.62 106 | 8 points by djordjejanjic 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 1M+ monthly code reviews in open-source repos delivered by CodeRabbit (coderabbit.ai)
    ×2.02 24 | 3 points by smb06 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens (astrohelm.app)
    ×0.90 45 | 93 points by HeavenFox 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools (agent.reviews)
    ×0.78 54 #68 | 64 points by screm 22 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The people holding up the internet (sheets.works)
    ×5.29 71 | 151 points by simjue 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols (dat-ecosystem.org)
    ×0.72 43 #28 | 49 points by janandonly 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick (nytimes.com)
    ×1.23 43 #29 | 145 points by gumby 17 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A gamma-ray burst's engine stayed active for nearly a month, more than record (phys.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by wglb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model (zohaib.cc)
    ×2.08 39 | 266 points by zed_labs_dev 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: A virtual recording studio where you direct session players (daydream.live)
    ×1.04 98 | 7 points by hthillman 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The art of defusing a second world war bomb (theguardian.com)
    ×1.17 66 #52 | 137 points by sandebert 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. They just merged my PR for the bound on the integer multiplication problem (github.com/CrocSwap)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by GPUboy 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Will AI kill us all (virev.ai)
    ×1.09 51 #53 | 20 points by krenerd 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines (mit.edu)
    ×0.82 54 #69 | 73 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Secret protection must scale with software: <2ms classifier in the push path (github.blog)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by havens 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AMD's EPYC Verano AI CPU reportedly uses SB1 socket with 24-channel LPDDR5X (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by peter_d_sherman 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Faster Fourier Transform (johndcook.com)
    ×1.94 17 | 3 points by ColinWright 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview (hetzner.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by eatonphil 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Cleo (Mathematician) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.74 20 #22 | 225 points by djoldman 16 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 (theguardian.com)
    ×2.29 17 #26 | 103 points by sonabinu 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy (pewresearch.org)
    ×2.95 2 | 163 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. US says big tech barred from sponsoring H-1B workers for green cards (politico.com)
    ×2.59 57 | 4 points by kadhirvelm 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Thoughts on OSC 7501?
    ×0.53 | 1 points by paaloeye 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Introducing Spotify Technology (spotify.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by leohonexus 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Strands Box: Open-Source Agent Sandbox from AWS (strandsagents.com)
    ×2.80 36 | 4 points by aspittel 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.61 42 | 139 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure (andreklein.net)
    ×1.61 80 | 64 points by samtheDamned 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Every number in a tiny GPT, from one forward pass to one step of RLHF (manogya.dev)
    ×3.79 107 | 8 points by xtcntr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe (solarpowerworldonline.com)
    ×2.10 6 #33 | 3 points by 01-_- 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser (pavel-krivanek.github.io)
    ×0.60 45 #46 | 37 points by adamnemecek 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. War without limits: Pentagon puts Musk at the center of its war planning (mronline.org)
    ×2.07 13 | 3 points by paimapi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.16 95 | 178 points by allenleee 4 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: 3D-printed bipedal robot with 8-servo limit to teach robotics (nixrobot.pages.dev)
    ×0.52 145 | 3 points by nixrobot 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom)
    ×0.85 47 #64 | 116 points by bluepeter 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Firefox Promotion in Berlin (mozilla.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by summm 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Project 2025 Tracker (project2025.observer)
    ×1.22 25 | 3 points by embedding-shape 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com/ahmetomerv)
    ×0.82 93 | 63 points by ahmetomer 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Broke Prod
    ×2.08 | 2 points by cloaky233 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tigrisdata/objgit: Git backed by object storage (github.com/tigrisdata)
    ×1.95 | 2 points by corvad 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Apps that run on your Claude or ChatGPT plan (bringyourownsub.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by saimunshahee 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI Agents Are Missing a Real Data and Memory Layer – We Built One (claix.dev)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by gael_dev 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Reasons to Dislike AI Coding (sicpers.info)
    ×1.90 51 | 76 points by signa11 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Kahawai – An open source, modular media system (kahawai.net)
    ×1.81 7 | 5 points by berm_ 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: CrowDB – an iceberg table storage single Docker container (buzzcrow.github.io)
    ×1.67 127 | 4 points by crowdb 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth (404media.co)
    ×1.55 29 #21 | 224 points by gumby 17 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 (letsencrypt.org)
    ×2.16 53 #44 | 26 points by allddd 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
    ×5.13 61 | 92 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results (twitter.com/danintheory)
    ×4.99 55 | 91 points by sashank_1509 9 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: CloudGrip – Open-source AI proxy to cap LLM API budgets (github.com/Aliyunazeer)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by aliyunazeer07 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The OLED Burn-In Test: 30-Month Update (techspot.com)
    ×1.93 3 #72 | 21 points by baal80spam 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. ESP32-C3 Adblock (github.com/M-Abozaid)
    ×1.43 44 #84 | 189 points by jayhoon 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???