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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.52 61 #17 | 312 points by david927 1 day ago | 971 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×3.81 52 | 55 points by nunez 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.56 60 | 14 points by amichail 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.22 91 | 3 points by Aditya_0315 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.56 79 | 4 points by rylando 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What would make self-hosting easy enough for average consumers?
    ×0.55 71 | 5 points by dani4299 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Developers – Do you let agents write production code?
    ×0.69 75 | 5 points by smurf9852 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Has anyone made a legacy codebase more legible to AI coding agents?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by iacobandrei 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A repo gained 3,278 stars while GitHub showed Andrej Karpathy as a contributor
    ×0.50 85 | 4 points by newshackee 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.40 98 | 10 points by mondobe 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Screenshots on macOS don't have to be date named files with spaces
    ×0.61 87 | 4 points by cs1996 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.89 86 | 61 points by stikit 2 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.35 127 | 8 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?
    ×0.46 128 | 4 points by mehmetoguzderin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are some privacy/security tools you wish exist, but don't yet?
    ×0.54 117 | 5 points by ToriTech 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI Boom / Bust – Boom Boom Pow
    ×0.63 118 | 5 points by wwolfson97 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. DietPi released a new version v10.7
    ×0.38 136 | 3 points by stephanstsdietp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How is AI actively a threat to humanity if it's only online?
    ×0.76 120 | 5 points by CM30 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.50 67 | 483 points by jacquesm 4 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.55 123 | 26 points by waldrews 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Multi-agent workflows in production; Where people using 1000s of agents?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by ramstar3000 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
    ×0.90 82 | 29 points by _override 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.24 40 | 857 points by cromka 3 days ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What would it look like if AI agents "took over the internet"?
    ×0.16 130 | 4 points by scripper1 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why haven't people vibe coded popular 80s word processors as TUI apps?
    ×0.28 129 | 5 points by amichail 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: You have unlimited resources, what software would you build?
    ×0.81 97 | 4 points by smalltorch 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
    ×1.05 111 | 25 points by chucksmash 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How much correlation should a privacy system preserve?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by Securelytixdev 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off
    ×0.61 134 | 8 points by ctxc 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?
    ×0.42 135 | 8 points by funkaster 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils (omgubuntu.co.uk)
    ×3.05 37 #23 | 120 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Swobu – Local LLM Switchboard You Can Share over HTTPS (github.com/swobuforge)
    ×0.79 132 | 3 points by metrofun 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. XCancel service is suspended until further notice (xcancel.com)
    ×4.28 11 #8 | 542 points by gaganyaan 19 hours ago | 821 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Mastering Layout Engines in Graphviz: Dot vs. Neato vs. Twopi vs. Circo (visual-paradigm.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by vismit2000 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)
    ×4.22 14 | 452 points by robinpie 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation (temporal.io)
    ×2.88 4 | 77 points by gk1 15 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Salmon – tray and desktop alerts for systemd services and custom checks (github.com/dimonomid)
    ×2.08 89 | 4 points by dimonomid 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I was frustrated with AI giving confident answer,Even when it was wrong (aqqai.in)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by Vineetyadav2 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Local catalog of 3k agent skills with a static risk scan (github.com/xm1k3)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by xm1k3 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)
    ×4.67 11 #39 | 1182 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem (threebodyorbits.com)
    ×2.22 8 #48 | 354 points by danielmorozoff 21 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Fitting Neural Textures and PBR Material Maps with ES (No Backprop) (richg42.blogspot.com)
    ×0.43 69 #71 | 13 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Discrete Beckmann Transport Models for One-Step Language Modeling and Reasoning (arxiv.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by E-Reverance 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons (bbc.com)
    ×2.06 10 | 3 points by harporoeder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 (a6mzero.com)
    ×1.56 61 #62 | 34 points by jasonpeacock 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Rebuno - An open-source runtime for production agents (github.com/rebuno)
    ×1.25 88 | 3 points by nnww 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: msgspec-serde, Fast serialization for msgspec, flatbuffers, & arrays (github.com/ebrevdo)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by yablak 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding (sakana.ai)
    ×1.40 39 #22 | 63 points by guld 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent (theregister.com)
    ×5.37 21 #24 | 103 points by throwworhtthrow 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Nike's End of Men (2021) (houseofstrauss.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by vismit2000 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Sidero Labs Joins Yardi (siderolabs.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by robinhoodexe 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Adapt or Perish: What Mathematicians Must Learn from Software Engineers (medium.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by b1nj0y 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature (reuters.com)
    ×2.08 14 #67 | 152 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 16 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Butlerian Secession (the-human-alliance.org)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by tcorcos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: My-IP-Info – Ad-free IP intelligence, WebRTC, and DNS leak tester (github.com/ii2d)
    ×1.65 106 | 3 points by donilan 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band (github.com/callbacked)
    ×0.89 25 #50 | 111 points by callbacked 17 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Does Scaling Web-Video Pre-Training Help Real Robots Do Real Work? (rhoda.ai)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others (calif.io)
    ×2.26 26 | 102 points by negura 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. He Accused His Brother of Sexual Abuse. Then He Took on His Family (nytimes.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. See how well you know the sizes of things (playdaily.org)
    ×1.20 40 | 4 points by Hemmaamlin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Taxes while living abroad as a US citizen
    ×3.19 2 | 5 points by wnolens 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Dep-radius, know which dependency updates touch your code (npmjs.com)
    ×0.49 113 | 6 points by imadjourney 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Spikeforge (spikeforge.net)
    ×1.00 131 | 3 points by a0174 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Determinstic LLM inference for lowest price Gemma 4, with Windows XP (tokendelivery.ai)
    ×0.67 133 | 9 points by carsonpoole 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports (screensize.net)
    ×0.70 44 | 41 points by zenpe 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: What Just Pinged Me? (whatjustpingedme.com)
    ×2.46 74 | 22 points by furyofantares 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (justia.com)
    ×1.89 21 #26 | 194 points by neom 8 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Microsoft removes the COPILOT function from Excel (microsoft.com)
    ×2.57 9 #80 | 10 points by fourfire 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Linux from Scratch (linuxfromscratch.org)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by sippingabonedry 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Archkeel – coding agents declare architecture changes before they submit (github.com/rapiddweller)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by ake2l 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (aresluna.org)
    ×1.61 54 | 109 points by leephillips 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Hedge Funds Are the Wild Card in the Turbulent Bond Market (wsj.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by kaycebasques 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com/TechEmails)
    ×3.04 5 | 310 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Cognition-Claude-proxy – Use Devin model catalog with Claude Code (github.com/coderexpert123)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by hrishi1990 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls (arkeonews.net)
    ×1.28 9 #2 | 68 points by arunbahl 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. US coal 'biggest contributor by far' to rise in global emissions (thechemicalengineer.com)
    ×3.98 23 #81 | 36 points by softwaredoug 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Three Lives of Clausewitz: How Anglo-American Strategists Remade "On War" (smallwarsjournal.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The harms of short-form video on the brain are starting to show (theguardian.com)
    ×2.17 9 | 4 points by pizzaiolo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com/DavidSacks)
    ×3.79 10 | 323 points by kolanos 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas (attalambda.com)
    ×12.21 22 | 25 points by kserrec 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. KiCad Routing Tools (github.com/drandyhaas)
    ×1.92 17 | 3 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Europe must build own AI, says ECB's Lagarde (theguardian.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by FearNotDaniel 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more) (github.com/godot-pty)
    ×0.63 93 | 97 points by 1nv1n 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. US military reveals it has weapons in space (ft.com)
    ×5.45 30 #51 | 31 points by JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Tudor Kings (analog-antiquarian.net)
    ×0.46 52 #63 | 26 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: The web is dead. Keep this app alive (longlivethis.site)
    ×3.16 59 | 4 points by armstrongb 30 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Daemon OS – An intelligence layer for infrastructure (lebarionellison.workers.dev)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by lellison1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Internet Guestbooks: The Rise, Decline, and Afterlife (curiouxify.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by mastazi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
    ×5.46 68 | 13 points by rkotcher 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Zuiderzee Project (leidenuniv.nl)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by nill0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???