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  1. DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
    ×2.94 3 #6 | 227 points by nickweb 3 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. YC created Flock 10 years ago
    ×2.82 63 | 6 points by YCmadeFlock 37 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Reddit saves your keystrokes in text boxes
    ×3.55 41 #60 | 8 points by thomasjeff1 30 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.39 52 #68 | 33 points by rietta 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Slideforge
    ×0.52 | 2 points by vreddhi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I'm going back to coding by hand
    ×3.35 23 #71 | 49 points by trencedamp 7 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.54 3 #86 | 253 points by Animats 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?
    ×4.04 83 | 51 points by sph 1 hour ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.57 52 | 295 points by jmpman 4 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.70 51 | 309 points by imadtaieber 2 days ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.92 71 | 112 points by maxim-fin 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.04 105 | 198 points by sukit 6 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?
    ×0.65 96 | 4 points by locusofself 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.24 81 | 106 points by usernametaken29 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×1.98 92 | 404 points by halcdev 5 days ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem in 2026?
    ×0.47 90 | 4 points by leonagano 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?
    ×0.63 85 | 5 points by websap 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×1.01 120 | 23 points by genekrapivin 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The universal programming language of LLMs
    ×0.55 94 | 5 points by senorqa 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps stealing my money
    ×0.54 86 | 10 points by dingdong2026 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.26 145 | 12 points by pkos98 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.84 61 | 128 points by spwa4 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?
    ×0.20 134 | 3 points by TomEleff 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.48 152 | 6 points by chipfixer 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.49 121 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.55 153 | 20 points by fastest963 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.37 154 | 5 points by rogerrogerr 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×0.89 149 | 16 points by UnderABlueMoon 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now available for internal beta testing
    ×1.70 83 | 21 points by dares2573 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Best Platforms to Orchestrate Agents
    ×0.59 146 | 3 points by venkat971 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
    ×0.28 157 | 3 points by muddi900 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage
    ×0.65 144 | 5 points by Zsfe510asG 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.41 155 | 18 points by asim 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Is OpenAI silently routing GPT‑6 requests to GPT‑4o?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by skaiuijing 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.55 156 | 11 points by softwarewright 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×1.14 147 | 9 points by meerita 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.71 158 | 8 points by Gecko4072 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Do People Care About Image Optimisation Anymore?
    ×0.47 151 | 4 points by CM30 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How do you keep AI coding agents in sync with a changing Figma file?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by rjvidentia 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Why can I use macOS passkeys without biometrics
    ×0.78 148 | 5 points by 0xnico 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.65 159 | 7 points by bix6 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author
    ×0.70 150 | 5 points by xeonax 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. We have a year to fix security everywhere (jyn.dev)
    ×2.46 4 | 302 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200 (bottlenecklabs.com)
    ×3.01 65 | 100 points by Areibman 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Y Combinator Early Access Network (ycombinator.com)
    ×0.84 23 | 80 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Type.com: Multiplayer Codex/Claude in the cloud for non-tech use cases
    ×5.90 60 | 10 points by krashidov 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: DriveSync – fast Git-styled Google Drive sync CLI (github.com/scaleninja)
    ×0.58 75 | 22 points by rohityadavcloud 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (opentrailpaper.com)
    ×1.99 80 | 419 points by stingrae 4 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device (desertant.com)
    ×1.83 3 #3 | 170 points by willwhitedc 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. My LLM eval cried wolf. Here's what I measured (digline.dev)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by alexpran 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds (usatoday.com)
    ×4.55 56 | 135 points by measurablefunc 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one (electrek.co)
    ×4.33 70 | 98 points by jijojv 2 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch (buttondown.com)
    ×1.21 #13 | 104 points by maguay 4 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Latest Wealth Flex: Big Trees (nytimes.com)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by rafaelc 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Estimate your AI CO2 footprint (llmfootprint.fyi)
    ×1.68 64 | 6 points by wyre 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Connecting the machines (herdr.dev)
    ×0.71 44 #62 | 89 points by collinmanderson 22 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I found a weird old startup's LaserDisc (youtube.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by markchristian 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents (moadim.io)
    ×0.76 142 | 37 points by tupe12334 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Forget Rigid Stock Screeners – A Universal Query API for Financial Data (financialdata.net)
    ×1.08 141 | 10 points by _FDN_ 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. On Really Trying (2009) (gwern.net)
    ×1.01 1 #36 | 88 points by whoami_nr 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Would you support an anti-AI organization financially?
    ×1.17 | 2 points by roschdal 46 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How well do agents use test/verification techniques? (danluu.com)
    ×1.23 50 #72 | 184 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: 243 – a 3×3 puzzle where the grid loops and three in a line fuses (play243.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Dogs2478 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I rewrote my back end in Go in 72 hours – the 30 day follow-up (bajura.online)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by odilelof 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Dragon Microkernel in Spark Ada (github.com/tigerlang)
    ×1.13 112 | 4 points by tigerlang 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Stateful AI agent on Cloudflare Workers free tier, with evals (github.com/DomWane)
    ×1.81 124 | 4 points by DomWane 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Coyote v. Acme (1990) (newyorker.com)
    ×1.35 7 #9 | 89 points by ChrisArchitect 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards (copperhead.sh)
    ×1.21 32 #46 | 235 points by animeshchouhan 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Medicine Needs to Get Serious About AI (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by hdvr 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Palestine – JavaScript-like DOM manipulation in Python (github.com/u84u)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by u84u 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Clip Art Studio (clipart.studio)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by bookofjoe 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: SimpleW – Lightweight C# Web Server with optional addons (simplew.net)
    ×1.83 91 | 6 points by prodbro 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Jackalope.dev (jackalope.dev)
    ×1.73 137 | 5 points by ghosts_ 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor (ycombinator.com)
    2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
    ×1.00 30 #52 | 159 points by ifz 21 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Japan's book scene is quietly moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
    ×3.27 49 | 5 points by speckx 47 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Linubot – like Grok bot and Hermes had a kid (github.com/agent-sh)
    ×1.10 109 | 4 points by anotherCodder 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I resigned from Anthropic today (Jacob Coxon) (xcancel.com)
    ×3.42 27 #57 | 38 points by wrongful1520 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A Git Config Key Ran Code in Seven Coding Agents. The 2022 Fix Does Not Stop It (grith.ai)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by edf13 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Mnemiq – Open-source text-to-SQL tuned to your own database (github.com/agenticfabriq)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by paulinazhxu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Rokz: a browser port of a 1990 ASCII dungeon crawler (taler.pl)
    ×1.15 102 | 4 points by htaler 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Archprint, infer architecture lint rules from your repo's import graph (github.com/Tommkruix)
    ×1.40 143 | 4 points by Tommkruix123 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.65 41 #22 | 70 points by cisc 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The origins of Partner’s computer case (racunalniski-muzej.si)
    ×0.56 47 #47 | 37 points by markostamcar 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on (electrek.co)
    ×5.87 44 | 167 points by FabHK 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. One decision put Ruby into a downward spiral. It's not too late to fix it (beehiiv.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by zxspectrumk48 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits (404media.co)
    ×3.43 29 | 345 points by abraham 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.55 21 | 165 points by jonbaer 19 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.65 1 #33 | 433 points by _alternator_ 17 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. An Accidental Blackboard (martinfowler.com)
    ×0.82 39 #38 | 74 points by saikatsg 13 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???