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  1. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.42 12 #48 | 40 points by PhilipDaineko 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Fast feedback loops is the way
    ×0.61 | 2 points by skyglider 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.49 64 | 6 points by thoughtpeddler 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.95 42 | 98 points by gcanyon 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.33 102 | 143 points by syntaxbush 3 days ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.78 75 | 64 points by oscgam1 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Recursive self improvement for human skills
    ×0.47 89 | 3 points by rando77 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.71 80 | 4 points by i_am_rocoe 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.85 70 | 31 points by mzubairtahir 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.26 119 | 3 points by howToTestFE 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Data Privacy while using API tools
    ×0.23 107 | 4 points by 11shyam11 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.57 99 | 6 points by justanything 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Mojo is becoming open source
    ×1.15 94 | 7 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?
    ×0.71 98 | 7 points by reinhardt 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.52 126 | 36 points by JohnDSDev 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Running local LLMs? What's your model and hardware
    ×2.43 77 | 10 points by alfiedotwtf 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×0.78 112 | 6 points by aurenvale 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.14 146 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.56 124 | 15 points by mellosty 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×2.03 104 | 23 points by notsure357 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.28 133 | 7 points by netfortius 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn?
    ×0.56 136 | 4 points by datsci_est_2015 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.34 148 | 3 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why did you learn Chinese?
    ×1.86 62 | 5 points by alonsovm44 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.64 129 | 15 points by othmanosx 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.49 161 | 19 points by niyazpk 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How is GPU power draw measured at scale?
    ×0.29 147 | 5 points by anax32 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.57 152 | 8 points by yiyingzhang 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×0.67 137 | 7 points by VaderAi 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.32 106 | 81 points by jvilalta 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.52 125 | 81 points by ayi 4 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.80 158 | 21 points by tossitawayplz 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.27 184 | 6 points by iaziz786 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. My website gets more attacks than human visitors
    ×0.73 171 | 5 points by tommy2970 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.40 166 | 15 points by neya 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Quickbooks Alternative?
    ×0.41 172 | 5 points by bix6 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
    ×0.41 181 | 4 points by something765478 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.15 169 | 19 points by vasko 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
    ×0.56 159 | 7 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. As; HN: I was curious why MTP affects PP TPS in llama.cpp. My PoC recovers it?
    ×0.75 186 | 4 points by i_am_rocoe 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.95 168 | 24 points by julienreszka 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Kops: Extending the eBPF JIT with native ops you don't have to trust (arxiv.org)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by Jimmc414 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Neural Particle Automata (selforg-npa.github.io)
    ×0.84 122 | 88 points by esychology 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators (appaca.ai)
    ×1.54 156 | 5 points by susros 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Regulations don't go far enough to protect privacy from smart glasses; experts (northeastern.edu)
    ×2.96 13 | 6 points by gnabgib 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (johnsalvatier.org)
    ×3.12 5 | 6 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering (github.com/schlae)
    ×0.70 43 | 53 points by userbinator 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C (decomp-academy.dev)
    ×1.12 #3 | 42 points by jackpriceburns 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Proton's crypto is not Transparent and not OPAQUE (schaerli.org)
    ×1.72 50 | 3 points by backlit4034 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Running a software jam in a world of slop (foxmoss.com)
    ×1.10 12 #35 | 51 points by foxmoss 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: ZeroGate – API gateway to scale cloud GPUs to zero when idle (github.com/noah-garner)
    ×1.31 138 | 5 points by ngarner 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.74 33 #22 | 11 points by saisrirampur 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (theregister.com)
    ×3.24 88 | 82 points by fauigerzigerk 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Play puzzle games in a feed like TikTok (puzzle.express)
    ×1.42 108 | 6 points by trancence 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design (ieee.org)
    ×1.67 13 #8 | 201 points by Brajeshwar 10 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Never before have so many been trapped in place (kindofvoiceless.substack.com)
    ×2.60 17 | 5 points by OgsyedIE 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Navatala GPU – multi-back end GPU kernels and Python bindings (github.com/navatala-systems)
    ×1.94 167 | 6 points by bvenkat 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I Build a 10 Inch Mini Rack from Aluminium Extrusions (louwrentius.com)
    ×1.49 39 #44 | 6 points by louwrentius 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Software Is Becoming Marketing (terezatizkova.com)
    ×1.89 53 #86 | 62 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Ex-Amazon, got burned out, left my job, and now building Zenvesto (zenvesto.com)
    ×1.03 191 | 3 points by zenvesto 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Why American data centers can't plug in (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.66 15 | 5 points by Gaishan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser (github.com/NotASithLord)
    ×1.01 116 | 74 points by NotASithLord 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Caplets - Give your agent capabilities, not giant tool walls (caplets.dev)
    ×0.63 196 | 5 points by ianpascoe 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Fintech Engineering Handbook (pitula.me)
    ×2.77 8 #12 | 496 points by signa11 16 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Task Failed Successfully: Saturating NIC and Disk Bandwidth (mrcroxx.com)
    ×0.49 61 #50 | 39 points by MrCroxx 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (semafor.com)
    ×3.57 46 | 542 points by bobrenjc93 1 day ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Beta test TeXmacs on Android (polytechnique.fr)
    ×4.75 79 | 60 points by amichail 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets (reason.com)
    ×3.95 100 | 51 points by mrtesthah 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What is a Lithium-ion capacitor? (jtekt.co.jp)
    ×0.71 84 | 53 points by ksec 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX (tikz.dev)
    ×1.87 95 | 449 points by DominikPeters 4 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Beer CSS – Build material design in record time (beercss.com)
    ×1.17 24 #46 | 125 points by Seb-C 18 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Remembering the life and artwork of Ron Spears (wizards.com)
    ×0.35 49 #51 | 8 points by WalterGR 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. What If a Man Practised Shooting a Million Times? Shot 90172, Football Progress [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.68 29 #90 | 23 points by mmarian 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Grantham Warns U.S. Stocks Could Plunge 70% / Most Expensive Market in History (247wallst.com)
    ×3.67 59 | 7 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Lost Discipline of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.56 21 | 3 points by jumpocelot 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.61 11 | 316 points by rossant 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A privacy-first tool to email your MP about Canada's surveillance bill (stopc22.ca)
    ×1.01 175 | 4 points by braunshizzle 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: DPI Bypass – directory of tools and clients to evade DPI (github.com/ubub111)
    ×0.78 193 | 3 points by ububus 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack (grack.com)
    ×1.43 40 #52 | 137 points by signa11 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. An argument with Om about Wired spawned this newsletter. RIP brother (crazystupidtech.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by rmason 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed 'Erdős Method' an Upgrade (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I Adapted the CME FedWatch Methodology to ECB, BoE and BoJ (centralbank.watch)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by madams0815 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Single Point of Failure Apps (chrpaul.de)
    ×1.66 52 | 3 points by aendruk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.24 19 #47 | 255 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Agent Kits – Compliance Scanner (agent-kits.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by stoicstoic 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)
    ×3.96 20 | 577 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Shumai – open-source Frame.io alternative for creative work (github.com/shumaiOne)
    ×0.81 130 | 63 points by Yiling-J 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Bikepacking Planner (theinstant.cc)
    ×1.71 151 | 6 points by Gshaheen 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: FileVeil · Hide Any File Inside Another File (fileveil.com)
    ×1.07 192 | 3 points by fileveil 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly (the-independent.com)
    ×1.42 4 #38 | 3 points by speckx 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???