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  1. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.80 66 #55 | 138 points by Ixander 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser
    ×0.60 51 | 18 points by mhloo 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. ChatGPT Plugin in Review for Weeks
    ×0.21 | 2 points by dthedavid 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.77 76 | 578 points by IvanK_net 6 days ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.41 58 | 775 points by lukehandcool 4 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.92 70 | 423 points by mariocesar 6 days ago | 664 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How does your organization make build vs. buy decisions now?
    ×0.48 67 | 6 points by bigblind 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. In-car display of surrounding environment in AVs
    ×0.15 | 2 points by ajahso4 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
    ×0.55 89 | 25 points by lgregg 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is voice becoming your main input? What happens to open-plan offices?
    ×0.37 83 | 4 points by ProblemExplorer 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
    ×0.69 84 | 11 points by le_curious 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?
    ×0.35 92 | 9 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: AIs Do Not Laugh
    ×0.72 79 | 5 points by AnimalMuppet 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×0.81 131 | 8 points by Kamabz 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is the most obscure book you own?
    ×0.79 93 | 8 points by Kovah 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A hub that controls all your coding agents in one place
    ×0.33 112 | 4 points by mubashir1osmani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.35 146 | 35 points by onemiketwelve 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I don't think image containers supporting both lossless and lossy is good
    ×0.52 104 | 5 points by functionmouse 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting
    ×0.51 125 | 7 points by tsydenzhap 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Vibecoded 3D Game Running on Veda OS
    ×0.13 139 | 3 points by vahmoh25 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×1.00 116 | 9 points by dfps 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×0.67 129 | 8 points by coherenttemple 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.63 123 | 9 points by sankde 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How would you go about domain change and getting a job in the domain?
    ×0.25 133 | 5 points by joddystreet 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.50 147 | 12 points by hanstyle 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.75 136 | 16 points by consumer451 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. All startups need is distribution
    ×0.71 111 | 9 points by relaxfolio 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Resources for best practices in software development with AI?
    ×0.64 127 | 7 points by sergio-gdr 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.74 152 | 13 points by thelastgallon 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.50 151 | 13 points by bigwheels 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.52 142 | 10 points by fragmede 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: MS Outlook login without an extra email address
    ×0.20 154 | 3 points by narevent 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How do Lightroom/DxO achieve such good AI denoising results?
    ×0.15 155 | 3 points by febed 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch (phreak.ing)
    ×1.24 9 #16 | 108 points by rickcarlino 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)
    ×2.03 56 | 429 points by simplyalec 3 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: ManimGX – Manim's API on a Rust/wgpu engine, for 3D videos in Python (github.com/academa-labs)
    ×1.31 113 | 10 points by sinaatalay 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: RcloneView 1.6 – A desktop GUI for rclone with 40 cloud storages (rcloneview.com)
    ×0.84 153 | 6 points by newclone 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser (brickbrag.com)
    ×0.77 27 #27 | 45 points by neuling 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com/shaongitbd)
    ×1.50 47 #53 | 214 points by acley 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×3.58 7 #58 | 684 points by albertzeyer 1 day ago | 1004 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)
    ×1.03 60 #74 | 136 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB (pivotlake.io)
    ×2.85 148 | 16 points by dkgs 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com/qgis)
    ×2.28 8 #39 | 372 points by bwnkl 18 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Hydropneumatic Suspension (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Svip 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Askdown – A plain-text format for forms (askdown.dev)
    ×1.88 25 | 5 points by treve 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Is AI the End of Math as We Know It? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by maxall4 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Available now: 0.5 MW of colo capacity for B300s (ardus.ai)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by nasim_nosiroff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Quaesito: a self-hosted app for quiz nights with friends (github.com/ggirelli)
    ×0.87 143 | 3 points by ggirelli 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit LLM that outperforms Bonsai-1.7B (precisionnumerics.ai)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by d7chong 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Closed Form – OpenAI's 372 math results, explained in plain English (nishachay.github.io)
    ×0.77 91 | 3 points by Nishachay 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: A 3D sky city where my Claude Code agents work and take coffee breaks (github.com/ishraq21)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Ishraq21 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Open Health Sync – Self-hosted API for wearable and health data (github.com/soma-intelligence)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by quentincaron0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. J Spalletta Convicted for Defrauding Crypto Exchange of $50M in Hacks (justice.gov)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by Gaishan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones (shokunin.studio)
    ×4.72 13 | 129 points by riffraff 23 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo (github.com/hashicorp)
    ×1.27 47 | 84 points by vmatsiiako 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo (404media.co)
    ×3.24 1 #60 | 17 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. PhoneBot: A Low-Cost Open Humanoid Robot Platform Reusing Smartphones (arxiv.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: ClaudeGuard – fixes the MSIX bug that nukes your Claude Code history (gumroad.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by SifatAhmed 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux (lsantos.dev)
    ×0.92 77 | 122 points by khaosdoctor 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Rhci – A Small GHCi in Ruby (github.com/beleon)
    ×1.01 130 | 3 points by rowbin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Moodi – A tiny 3D character for your app's loading states (getmoodi.dev)
    ×1.03 132 | 3 points by itsk0rn3l 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers (jacobin.com)
    ×1.62 6 #45 | 117 points by PaulHoule 11 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Malleable video editor that adapts to your workflow (github.com/iterative-computer)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by judekim0507 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Leave your (Apple) watch at the door (jamespember.substack.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by jep888 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I used an AI QA agent to test Hacker News (hitest.ai)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by easilyjs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Free LED pixel-pitch and display-size calculators (open source) (boardsy.co.uk)
    ×1.06 141 | 5 points by Boardsy 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.40 33 #20 | 254 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20 (doi.org)
    ×1.40 16 #26 | 134 points by arunc 6 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion? (theonion.com)
    ×2.34 11 #77 | 373 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why agents lose the plot on large or legacy codebases (loopsfinity.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by shymaple 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cometlink: An old-school chat room you sign on to in the browser (cometlink.rip)
    ×1.63 16 | 3 points by AfterHrsBuild 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)
    ×6.27 65 | 315 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: SecuBuzz – Factual 60-word cybersecurity briefs and CISA zero-day radar (secubuzz.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by nisarg-soni 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP (github.com/andrewfader)
    ×0.78 19 #24 | 35 points by androsynth89 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.74 12 #47 | 16 points by johnnyApplePRNG 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Same Query, Different Answer: Run-to-Run Variance in Semantic Query Processing (arxiv.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by sbulaev 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Learn LEAN 4 Theorem Proving in an easy game (hhu.de)
    ×1.37 27 | 3 points by samagra14 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 PCIe Card – up to four NVMe M.2 SSD's at up to 512 Gbps (asus.com)
    ×4.29 30 | 9 points by peter_d_sherman 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME (disconnect3d.pl)
    ×1.45 32 | 249 points by arusekk 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI (github.com/edrisranjbar)
    ×0.69 109 | 40 points by edris0077 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)
    ×0.70 71 #38 | 68 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Fingerprints are the new cookies (royfish.dev)
    ×3.01 5 #50 | 707 points by royfish 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries (github.com/morluto)
    ×1.50 6 #70 | 88 points by taytus 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. No More Camera Glasses – Even Realities (evenrealities.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by tash_2s 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read (readrare.com)
    ×1.57 73 | 186 points by miletus 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Origin Story of Kid Pix (red-green-blue.com)
    ×1.61 43 #48 | 12 points by MBCook 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972) (ways-of-seeing.com)
    ×0.81 65 #65 | 146 points by rafael859 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby (julik.nl)
    ×1.50 26 #73 | 92 points by julik 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Vibe Coding, Audited: Productivity, Security, CVE Numbers Behind the Hype [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by frag 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???