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  1. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×2.78 2 #10 | 637 points by eries 17 hours ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×2.35 #36 | 175 points by vinhnx 14 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.55 9 #52 | 402 points by TomAnthony 23 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.61 15 #63 | 221 points by hnthrow10282910 18 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.90 | 2 points by vira28 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is anyone shorting the overspend in AI yet?
    ×3.59 42 | 6 points by ggm 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.40 63 | 258 points by mdni007 2 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.29 40 | 164 points by y1n0 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?
    ×1.15 61 | 3 points by linzhangrun 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.31 46 | 428 points by aryamaan 2 days ago | 740 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?
    ×2.29 10 | 5 points by Adam-Hincu 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?
    ×1.10 62 | 4 points by zionsati 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What internal tool did you build that became a product?
    ×1.89 1 | 4 points by nehpets 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs the are a joy to read
    ×1.05 85 | 38 points by joshmarinacci 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster?
    ×0.74 89 | 4 points by manimonji 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×2.15 69 | 8 points by BugsJustFindMe 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Stack Overflow seems down
    ×0.46 106 | 3 points by tom1337 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: The next evolutionary step in LLM usage?
    ×0.51 108 | 3 points by tomaytotomato 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.65 115 | 23 points by modzu 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AMA: I'm a Random HN User, ask me anything (and I might respond)
    ×3.61 64 | 15 points by SpyCoder77 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are we all walking into a trap?
    ×0.84 98 | 6 points by skor 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Codex once again automatically activates /fast on app update
    ×0.18 | 2 points by mfi 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Those who quit Software Eng. to do something else, what did you do?
    ×2.04 84 | 6 points by trwhite 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Will the next high value profession be people who can think independently?
    ×1.46 78 | 5 points by ciwolex 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Prediction for SpaceX IPO?
    ×0.59 117 | 7 points by bix6 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.19 87 | 460 points by Ekami 5 days ago | 760 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.52 122 | 14 points by jasonephraim 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
    ×0.39 155 | 5 points by j1000 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?
    ×0.15 152 | 5 points by randomor 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.80 134 | 26 points by simianwords 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Options for critical thinking and learning outside work?
    ×0.61 147 | 6 points by hnthrow10282910 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. LeetCode is the best way to learn a new language
    ×0.06 | 2 points by JasonHEIN 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How to get your child interested in math?
    ×0.75 153 | 3 points by gitowiec 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.47 159 | 6 points by amichail 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What is happening with the Meta Ads dashboard?
    ×0.33 158 | 4 points by ramon156 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Where do you like to consume content anymore?
    ×0.66 143 | 6 points by selectedambient 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Is there any data on whether users prefer voice/chatbot experiences?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by fnimick 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do PaaS hosting providers enforce user policy compliance?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by iishanto 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given
    ×0.94 145 | 13 points by cuz-reasons 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×0.81 156 | 10 points by kaycebasques 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.34 12 #9 | 146 points by grahambargeron 9 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know (jonready.com)
    ×6.15 30 #70 | 1012 points by mips_avatar 1 day ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Anthropic makes Fable 5's invisible safeguards visible after backlash (xcancel.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by frb 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. GitLab Is Down (gitlab.com)
    ×5.33 74 | 8 points by shrikrishna 53 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: OpenPayphone – open-source guts for a 1996 coin payphone (Pi and SIP) (github.com/eric-cgn)
    ×2.13 135 | 23 points by mcintyem 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Llmbuffer – Python library for cache-optimized LLM conversation history (github.com/scottpurdy)
    ×1.21 72 | 5 points by scottmp10 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (dronexl.co)
    ×3.35 #1 | 99 points by vrganj 1 hour ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenAI says Chinese accounts tried to turn Americans against data centres (engadget.com)
    ×1.82 27 | 3 points by NordStreamYacht 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (aarushgupta.io)
    ×1.32 15 | 278 points by ag2718 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Nodea, an open-source AI canvas for working through complex projects (nodea.ai)
    ×1.12 137 | 4 points by ElliottCrosby 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: ChromiumFish – Open-source fingerprint-hardened Browser for Scraping (github.com/arman-bd)
    ×2.28 123 | 7 points by armanified 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: AI Mime - Use a screen recording for context instead of prompting (github.com/prakhar1114)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by prakharjain 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: CSV Graph – create charts from CSV files in the browser (qingyanglabs.com)
    ×2.25 130 | 8 points by lfdev 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science (ieee.org)
    ×1.24 15 #14 | 218 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension (neowin.net)
    ×4.73 8 #60 | 394 points by d3Xt3r 1 day ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Dutch mass claim states that Steam makes customers pay too much for games (consumercompetitionclaims.com)
    ×1.77 | 2 points by HelloUsername 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs (404media.co)
    ×3.79 10 | 572 points by berlianta 1 day ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day (cleantechnica.com)
    ×2.75 47 | 170 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys (danq.me)
    ×1.84 34 | 177 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Tapflow – self-hosted iOS/Android simulator streaming for mobile QA (github.com/jo-duchan)
    ×1.25 110 | 4 points by duchanjo 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A minimal linear algebra library in pure Go (github.com/igomez10)
    ×1.62 124 | 5 points by igomeza 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Hires Chess Trainer – drill the mistakes from your own chess games (github.com/gaelazzo)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by gaelazzo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Streaming HTML (olliewilliams.xyz)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by thunderbong 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A Bluesky client for PICO-8 (vinnymac.dev)
    ×1.51 103 | 4 points by vinnymac 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent (blue41.com)
    ×1.63 18 #38 | 179 points by tvissers 18 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The DIY trap: I see founders spending $6k to save $240/year. Can we talk? (indiehackers.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by DharmendraJago 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
    ×2.68 52 | 5 points by limondas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Abundance Illusion (carlyle.com)
    ×1.82 33 | 78 points by cwal37 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Humans ask, computers propose, humans decide (jakemccrary.com)
    ×2.19 6 | 4 points by signa11 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking (nytimes.com)
    ×2.54 14 | 6 points by bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers (codingwithjesse.com)
    ×3.60 13 | 488 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. What it feels like to work with Mythos (oneusefulthing.org)
    ×2.08 9 | 359 points by swolpers 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I built 10 ML algos from scratch because fit() predict() are not enough (github.com/ml-from-scratch-book)
    ×2.10 129 | 6 points by akmoleksandr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026) (jivx.com)
    ×1.39 20 #30 | 235 points by momentmaker 19 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Speed Is a Signal: When Faster Replies Increase Hiring Likelihood (informs.org)
    ×0.84 63 #77 | 18 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Nucleus – A security-hardened, Nix-native container runtime (github.com/sig-id)
    ×0.72 79 | 37 points by 0kenx 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings (theguardian.com)
    ×0.70 55 #50 | 71 points by NaOH 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A civilization inside a GitHub repo. Issues are laws, ticks every 4h (github.com/ordinary9843)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by gitizens 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released (alpinelinux.org)
    ×2.24 41 | 133 points by fossdd 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Camel Mono – a monospace font that makes camelCase easier to read (github.com/TJHdev)
    ×2.79 92 | 7 points by tjhdev 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: LANCommander v2.1.0 – New Avalonia-based launcher (lancommander.app)
    ×0.68 121 | 6 points by pathartl 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: HTTP/3 and raw QUIC client/server APIs for Node.js (github.com/currentspace)
    ×0.66 125 | 14 points by brian_meek 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: AI Pair Programmer for Emacs (github.com/jaketothepast)
    ×9.35 105 | 35 points by jakewindle47 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
    ×0.86 21 #26 | 86 points by shadow28 11 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Xfce Ported to Rust-Written Redox OS for Better X11 Experience (phoronix.com)
    ×2.73 3 #87 | 12 points by Bender 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.87 58 | 118 points by galsapir 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: RiskKernel, kill -9 an AI agent and resume it without paying twice (riskkernel.com)
    ×1.46 97 | 5 points by prashar32 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A terminal writing environment with Git, E2EE sync and temporal search
    ×1.16 140 | 4 points by sys-ronin 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: RainBreak App – The AI doesn't need a break. But you do (franzai.com)
    ×1.13 150 | 3 points by franze 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)
    ×0.97 28 #27 | 119 points by GeorgeCurtis 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???