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  1. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×3.96 9 #26 | 442 points by IvanK_net 20 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is this the beginning of the end of open source?
    ×0.72 | 2 points by potamic 49 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GitHub Is Down (Again)
    ×1.94 36 #57 | 5 points by Andugal 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.50 46 | 33 points by onemiketwelve 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×2.10 38 | 28 points by mariocesar 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Google Chrome's AI API actively used for device fingerprinting and profiling
    ×0.97 31 | 6 points by AlexanderHanff 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×1.42 69 | 9 points by Crontab 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.67 65 | 13 points by saimiam 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×0.44 87 | 5 points by mtmosestn 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×2.87 82 | 15 points by nunorbatista 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.59 107 | 4 points by maxignol 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work
    ×0.64 105 | 5 points by microflash 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
    ×0.83 26 | 45 points by Gooblebrai 17 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure
    ×4.36 92 | 14 points by akg_67 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What would you like to see in a new AI technology release?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by ikishade 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Vibecoding Follies
    ×0.84 115 | 4 points by vegnus 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How come everyone is an LLM expert?
    ×0.92 118 | 4 points by delis-thumbs-7e 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Show me your agentic SDE semantics
    ×0.25 | 2 points by danielovichdk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is observability broken for you?
    ×0.63 130 | 3 points by tmach32 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Agent access to chat data should require participant consent?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by maxwellito 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos
    ×0.30 125 | 8 points by iliashad 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Alternatives to NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML
    ×0.75 137 | 3 points by john-titor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What brings you back to personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse?
    ×0.69 139 | 3 points by sdrth 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why does Astra compact context so frequently vs. Fable?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by yesitcan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What do you think about AI generated slides for conferences?
    ×1.01 135 | 4 points by Hixon10 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. ChatGPT self-distances when admitting fault
    ×0.69 110 | 3 points by chrisjj 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How are AI budgets changing in your company?
    ×1.47 133 | 5 points by bobby-cb 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
    ×1.56 79 | 101 points by goldenmember 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop, agent-adjusted
    ×0.78 146 | 3 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.
    ×0.18 147 | 4 points by LowLevelMahn 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week
    ×1.01 114 | 13 points by Steaglsz 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.45 148 | 11 points by esher 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Who is cleaning up all the garbage LLMs generate?
    ×1.65 142 | 6 points by kbrannigan 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.23 149 | 7 points by Dinuda 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.79 3 #8 | 1111 points by OfficialTurkey 17 hours ago | 1187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Wood Tape (2004) (gamesbyemail.com)
    ×2.17 7 #32 | 14 points by NaOH 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: QuorumFile, free HOTMA decision sheet from your HUD participant code (thecompound.tech)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by kyisaiah47 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (barrons.com)
    ×2.48 53 | 178 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS (bsky.app)
    ×8.14 87 | 27 points by jbredeche 37 minutes ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: A replacement motherboard for the iPod mini, 3G and 4G (certainthings.studio)
    ×1.23 123 | 4 points by seanpod 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI and the Speed of Idea Execution (norsewanderer.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by mheilemann 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.57 33 | 211 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
    ×4.89 19 | 76 points by soheilpro 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Arcadeia – A self-hosted media library with animated video previews (github.com/travelonium)
    ×0.30 48 #41 | 13 points by omidontop 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry" (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×8.21 67 | 117 points by Brajeshwar 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Our approach to EU text provenance rules (openai.com)
    ×1.39 83 | 70 points by tosh 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Chelis, a tensor language agents can write and prove (github.com/Chelis-Lang)
    ×1.26 9 | 3 points by jeffreysmith 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: DevPause – infinite worlds of living sculpture, rendered in raw WebGL2 (devpause.com)
    ×1.21 119 | 3 points by realraghavgupta 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Terraform Meets Proxmox: Lessons from a VMware Migration (goncharov.xyz)
    ×1.54 51 #82 | 38 points by ultral 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. US: Trump administration Rejects External Election Observers (hrw.org)
    ×4.20 71 | 6 points by mikhael 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Privacy Guard: You Don't Need to Scan My Drivers License (sk500.online)
    ×2.31 39 | 3 points by airhangerf15 31 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Planlock – Approve an AI agent's plan once, code enforces every call (github.com/JosephCurwin)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Edop3 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
    ×4.05 27 | 299 points by brokensegue 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens? (cedana.com)
    ×0.96 21 #18 | 8 points by kmavm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model (blog.google)
    ×2.38 25 #22 | 397 points by ilreb 23 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI (github.com/FeSens)
    ×2.02 20 #35 | 329 points by fsbonetto 23 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. An open foundation for modern grid planning (opengrid.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by ly0n 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Device detection and occupancy monitoring for Airbnb hosts (minut.com)
    ×0.76 8 #9 | 13 points by mikeodds 1 hour ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The art of defusing a second world war bomb (theguardian.com)
    ×1.37 23 #76 | 89 points by sandebert 11 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill (citizenlab.ca)
    ×2.49 3 #80 | 153 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Policy Thresholds as Growth Barriers: Theory and Evidence (nber.org)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by wslh 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Vokalu – Windows/Mac dictation, free on-device or 2¢/min in the cloud (vokalu.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by whatisofdsk 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: SPrav Job AI Client-side career tool with WebGPU and direct ATS queries (sprav-jobai.vercel.app)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by SVSPraveen 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Session-continuity, cryptographic proof of session chains (github.com/mohammeddevsec-sys)
    ×0.84 127 | 3 points by devsec_moh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. They solved chemistry's asymmetric mystery [pdf] (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.23 76 #43 | 5 points by Anon84 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Flux – Compile an LLM to your hardware, then serve it (github.com/cyqlelabs)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by qalfy 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" (mistral.ai)
    ×4.32 47 | 520 points by j-bu 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. LLMs may have helped my RSI (vaughanhilts.me)
    ×1.32 10 #74 | 100 points by vaughands 17 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Mecum, open source Mac app that lets agents use ANY desktop software (github.com/ForteAI-Org)
    ×3.10 57 | 4 points by loriscomba 28 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A Simple Recipe for Fact-Storing Transformers (stanford.edu)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by porridgeraisin 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. HDTP: Trust layer for Personal AI assistants talking over the internet (hdtp.io)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by sumit-agrawal 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (debugbear.com)
    ×1.88 16 | 354 points by jgx0 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese (fiveminutesforward.com)
    ×0.94 3 #11 | 49 points by Theory42 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Berthd (berthd.app)
    ×0.97 29 #84 | 63 points by handfuloflight 20 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia (theguardian.com)
    ×3.29 47 | 225 points by tosh 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. We are going to kill "unalive" (anildash.com)
    ×8.64 36 | 120 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped) (github.com/boykopovar)
    ×3.31 25 #54 | 320 points by Fe2O3 16 hours ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization (swarmia.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by armanckeser 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: ARSA AI Box – on-prem video analytics for existing IP cameras (arsa.technology)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by hilmy0602 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire (techdirt.com)
    ×3.54 26 | 383 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Google Docs and Drive now support Markdown files natively (9to5google.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by freedomben 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
    ×1.88 20 | 318 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
    ×1.83 3 | 311 points by ingve 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: 800M AI harness to beat 7B [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by ruoku 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com/rsutcliffe)
    ×0.76 78 | 86 points by delphidolphin 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project (github.com/eolix)
    ×2.97 37 #88 | 178 points by montag 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. JengaBot: Pez for Robots (thisismypersonalblog.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by systemerror 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: An MCP server that finds text your agent reads and you can't see (hiddencontent.ai)
    ×1.08 109 | 4 points by davenaff 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Headline Arena – public forecasting records for AI agents (headlinearena.com)
    ×0.76 140 | 3 points by kopei 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.82 #1 | 45 points by gagan2020 14 minutes ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???