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  1. Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?
    ×0.39 12 | 6 points by Hex08 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?
    ×0.54 26 | 5 points by mattm 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.42 34 | 11 points by phendrenad2 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill?
    ×1.05 9 | 3 points by skwasimin 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Which harness do you use with Qwen3.8 27B? And why?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by grigio 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.50 66 | 20 points by itsjeremiahs 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Declarative vs. Imperative
    ×0.14 | 2 points by KenPainter 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. LinkedIn is a terrible quality website
    ×2.18 20 | 14 points by skyfantom 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
    ×1.00 65 | 151 points by semidror 2 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.44 75 | 13 points by xnx 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do GitHub Copilot and Anthropic Claude compare in cost?
    ×0.16 81 | 3 points by erwindegroot 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?
    ×0.29 78 | 9 points by kooldeep7 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Porting a clearing-house money market to a smart contract
    ×0.50 82 | 3 points by citizensinan 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. When Claude CLI asks for feedback, responding authorizes conversation capture
    ×0.62 93 | 22 points by mmaunder 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Which is cheaper: ChatGPT tokens or a 2nd Pro 20x subscription?
    ×0.13 110 | 3 points by yesitcan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do your teams share and distribute agent skills?
    ×0.15 111 | 3 points by juanviera23 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD
    ×0.30 96 | 5 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
    ×0.89 98 | 122 points by keymasta 6 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why does it matter if no one reads your novel as long as the AIs do?
    ×0.51 105 | 10 points by amichail 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
    ×0.58 102 | 46 points by mdwelsh 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Dead Internet
    ×0.72 94 | 15 points by basilikum 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Is Claude 20x actually 20x?
    ×0.35 103 | 6 points by ko3us 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Remember N8n? Anyone?
    ×0.41 132 | 15 points by sankalpdomore 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
    ×2.46 83 | 319 points by jakemanger 6 days ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Neuromancer in 3 Axioms (2600hz.substack.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by josh2600 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Open Jev Playground – try all the open source alternatives to Jev (beam.cloud)
    ×0.97 50 | 3 points by Mernit 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Race – Terminal Multiplexer on Infinite Canvas (macOS and Linux Beta) (race-term.com)
    ×1.19 136 | 4 points by xlii 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Nanosamur.ai – Ollama for Voice Models (STT) (github.com/nanosamurai)
    ×1.72 131 | 4 points by newcrobuzon 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in boot sector (github.com/0xAX)
    ×0.60 19 #24 | 21 points by 0xAX 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts (commonedge.org)
    ×0.98 58 #75 | 114 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027 (grapheneos.social)
    ×2.50 3 #89 | 305 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. OSS repos to improve agent performance in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (paperinstruments.com)
    ×2.57 22 | 4 points by i_rush_carriers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why is Hacker News like that? (drewdevault.com)
    ×45.87 77 | 227 points by caution 7 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×1.10 36 #17 | 21 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS (github.com/geastack)
    ×1.04 49 #71 | 124 points by arbayi 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. My Wedding Invitations Became an Experiment in AI Memory (pureooze.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by pureooze 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Jev – A curation of Jev demos on X, tools, skills, and integrations (github.com/Amal-David)
    ×1.77 47 | 91 points by frostbyte7 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: QBasic 1.1 in the Browser (vahidyousefzadeh.com)
    ×2.10 12 | 5 points by vahidce 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Crest – Answer Claude Code approvals from your MacBook's notch (crestnotch.app)
    ×1.01 31 | 5 points by zack40x 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes (github.com/aru-labs)
    ×0.62 74 | 67 points by aru-labs 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: jevals – replacing LLM judges with typed Jev decisions (github.com/openlayer-ai)
    ×1.35 88 | 47 points by gbayomi 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia (pnas.org)
    ×0.39 47 #18 | 7 points by Thevet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.90 29 #56 | 5 points by wslh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Simple Git Management Tool (github.com/sascha10000)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by sascha10000 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. White House Says Access Is a 'Privilege' in Court Filing Defending Media Ban (nytimes.com)
    ×1.98 18 | 3 points by whack 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You (alexn.org)
    ×3.78 4 | 383 points by dimonomid 1 day ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Data Protection Commission fines Google €403M over processing of location data (dataprotection.ie)
    ×1.55 68 | 79 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: TypeBook.lol: Gamified reading by typing novels (typebook.lol)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by vegnus 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees (404media.co)
    ×3.88 6 #43 | 782 points by spenvo 1 day ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2013) (archive.org)
    ×1.67 4 #64 | 14 points by legitster 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The softness of metal (psyche.co)
    ×0.65 55 #81 | 49 points by NaOH 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. North Korea uses remote IT worker to clandestinely earn NZ currency (rnz.co.nz)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by keithnz 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. WebGPU-Bench: A WebGPU Microbenchmark (ben3d.ca)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Can gzip be a language model? (nathan.rs)
    ×1.88 18 | 397 points by networked 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals (smh.com.au)
    ×5.04 4 #8 | 76 points by jonnonz 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Making Tailscale Faster (tailscale.com)
    ×1.65 31 #28 | 21 points by yarapavan 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries (consumerreports.org)
    ×3.87 13 #29 | 262 points by ortusdux 8 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup (snapdrop.me)
    ×1.10 99 | 111 points by Capira 6 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster (claude.dev)
    ×2.33 20 #25 | 124 points by matthieu_bl 2 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How would you visualize a digital brain? (ozbrain.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by dariusmonsef 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why (ai-rete-rag.com)
    ×0.42 63 | 42 points by ZaharaHussain 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Vellum, the best diagram editor you'll ever use (blueprintr.io)
    ×3.68 91 | 24 points by JoshJamesAnthon 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. DHH Is Completely Crazy (reddit.com)
    ×4.87 58 | 7 points by megraf 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. BlackWire, A little hardware security project I've been building (github.com/Lovejoy-Zero)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by Mr_PMOSH 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.19 51 | 162 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Set, offline Markdown note-taking app with device-to-device sync (writewithset.com)
    ×2.72 130 | 11 points by aavshr 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity (obscura.com)
    ×1.64 49 #57 | 180 points by Flimm 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Euler's Eyes (medium.com)
    ×1.43 6 #63 | 10 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: The Mirror Act – a magic show that performs cognitive biases on you (avestura.dev)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by avestura 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update (androidauthority.com)
    ×3.85 69 | 227 points by Markoff 9 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees (cbc.ca)
    ×3.53 50 | 77 points by MC995 7 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Fusion-runtime – self-hosted voice agents, STT+LLM+TTS in one process (github.com/SamarthUrs18)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by samarthurs18 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: AI Changed How We Write Code. Why Hasn’t Code Review Changed? (github.com/otobongfp)
    ×0.90 141 | 3 points by otobong 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The mystery animal on an ancient god's head (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.88 23 #14 | 14 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The spy in your living room (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by ibobev 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. ALP: Adaptive Lossless Floating-Point Encoding in Apache Parquet (apache.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human (skillbay.sh)
    ×0.63 129 | 28 points by skeptrune 6 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: TetherPHP – a small PHP framework designed for agents and humans (tetherphp.com)
    ×0.90 143 | 3 points by dillonsmartdev 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Z80 REPL (2018) (abagames.github.io)
    ×0.91 25 #21 | 131 points by adunk 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by Retro_Dev 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I am done with this shit (reddit.com)
    ×10.28 49 | 230 points by meander_water 14 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Most Important Market in AI Is the Middle (tomtunguz.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy (apnews.com)
    ×4.91 4 #7 | 445 points by geox 5 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I don't want the details (michaelheap.com)
    ×2.60 2 #19 | 320 points by mooreds 9 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963 (github.com/pkimpel)
    ×0.42 46 #34 | 37 points by abrax3141 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (cryptocellar.org)
    ×2.72 13 #54 | 720 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls (pewresearch.org)
    ×0.66 67 #59 | 55 points by luu 19 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A browser word game about composing Chinese characters (chunqiuyiyu.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by chunqiuyiyu 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 8 in 10 people aged 16-34 say smartphone use harms their everyday life (nltimes.nl)
    ×2.32 10 | 8 points by TechTechTech 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (anthropic.com)
    ×2.61 1 #1 | 359 points by raahelb 4 hours ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???