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  1. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.14 2 | 645 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 732 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.43 7 | 733 points by petecooper 2 days ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?
    ×0.71 70 | 10 points by jqpabc123 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Game trips modem/router breaker
    ×0.20 82 | 3 points by simpaticoder 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Kimi Code hit its 5-hour limit after $1.37 of API usage
    ×0.18 | 2 points by waximabbax 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Flow-state induction via raw mouse input (a working biohacking protocol)
    ×0.30 93 | 3 points by rejabusafint 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.52 75 | 84 points by stanislavb 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.27 80 | 304 points by petecooper 4 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering
    ×0.63 89 | 4 points by pauliusztin 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.29 119 | 4 points by stdc105 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do people self host email and maintain deliverability?
    ×0.75 90 | 6 points by smithbob 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×0.39 97 | 5 points by nonfunctional 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×0.74 92 | 8 points by cromka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.71 102 | 12 points by winkelmann 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.39 107 | 5 points by Mutinix 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.32 122 | 4 points by abakh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.24 141 | 5 points by BehanPrW 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.24 125 | 14 points by masterchief166 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.42 124 | 15 points by aledevv 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.34 118 | 14 points by Mobius01 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.36 133 | 9 points by parthdesai 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Have the PHP vulnerabilities been exploited?
    ×0.39 128 | 6 points by crisnoble 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.14 109 | 16 points by bigwheels 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.46 137 | 9 points by ovudus 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.22 145 | 4 points by vWijdaan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.12 112 | 18 points by shakshukan 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.29 143 | 6 points by spicygum 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×0.98 129 | 17 points by lualover 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. "Sovereign Citizen" Movement (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.76 | 2 points by gverrilla 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Securing our frontier model training environment (openai.com)
    ×1.62 19 | 119 points by pretext 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: BYOSM, Turn one sentence into a small specialist model (github.com/bsye)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by a0dalbianco 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise (numista.com)
    ×0.85 14 #16 | 99 points by schleck8 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Progressive disclosure in agents to make them 2.3x faster (skyvern.com)
    ×0.76 62 #58 | 12 points by suchintan 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Agentsh – A Decentralized, Scalable Multiagent Harness (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.84 94 #62 | 5 points by brunoborges 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.21 44 #85 | 213 points by gmays 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: CodeAIHQ – High-performance technical analysis of cinema VFX pipelines (codeaihq.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by CodeAIHQ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. My mother donated her body to science. I wasn't prepared for what came next (theguardian.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by ColinWright 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center (nypost.com)
    ×6.18 72 | 248 points by rustybolt 12 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (kimi.ai)
    ×3.89 3 #37 | 1060 points by Jowsey 1 day ago | 654 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: WhatsApp Bridge for those with their own VPS (github.com/vid-t)
    ×0.92 56 | 3 points by vid_t 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities (alexsci.com)
    ×1.17 40 #65 | 173 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. DNS: A Replacement for Finger (altchan.org)
    ×0.76 68 #87 | 59 points by Bender 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Spacedrive – Take back your data (github.com/spacedriveapp)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by macote 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. France needs to read my paper (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×4.27 74 | 63 points by Wilsoniumite 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart (github.com/anubhavmalhotra)
    ×0.88 68 | 107 points by animalhot 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone (calif.io)
    ×4.35 6 #41 | 1077 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 679 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin (stealmybitcoin.com)
    ×3.79 9 #11 | 418 points by cloudlandsdev 6 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026 (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.76 64 #78 | 49 points by civicpivot 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. An animated explainer of the PHP2SHell vulnerability [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.33 | 1 points by Darmani 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.66 54 | 66 points by njx 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501 (rune.build)
    ×0.73 59 | 61 points by ernestrc 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. SpeedCrunch 1.1 (speedcrunch.org)
    ×1.52 15 #8 | 85 points by LordNibbler 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Big Speed-Up: ~268s to ~50ms (phoronix.com)
    ×1.53 1 #86 | 18 points by Bender 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Orgiggly – Claude Code plugin that hosts the apps it builds (github.com/orgiggly)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by davew1977 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web (swurf.org)
    ×0.71 61 | 73 points by webtjb096 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.87 62 #73 | 72 points by gmays 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Hyper-Cathedral and the Hyper-Bazaar (cascade.family)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by mmzdnp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by classichasclass 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Slurptop (slurpburgers.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by tjwds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Tributary – Discover who influenced your favorite musicians (tributary.music)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by ASpring 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Duls – A bit of du, a bit of ls. Best of both (github.com/baalimago)
    ×0.83 71 | 3 points by baalimago 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: App Factory – 42 Claude Code skills to ship apps to App Store and Play (github.com/yybd)
    ×0.46 155 | 3 points by yybd 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I Rebuilt Del.icio.us (webmark.ing)
    ×1.03 156 | 3 points by mban23 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog (lukaswerner.com)
    ×0.88 9 #23 | 52 points by derHackerman 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching) (github.com/ClickHouse)
    ×1.70 34 | 192 points by f311a 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Shitter – A Nitter Fork (codeberg.org)
    ×1.93 30 | 155 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Php2ShellCheck – Python script that checks for vuln indicators (github.com/jgatka)
    ×1.58 149 | 4 points by ShredOnArrival 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Is this the new cyber normal? (silcock.dev)
    ×1.34 41 #70 | 194 points by drewsberry 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window (github.com/rbartoli)
    ×0.37 94 | 27 points by zzyyxx332211 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706 (gitlab.com)
    ×0.69 29 #59 | 52 points by t20n 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Animations for System Builders (brooker.co.za)
    ×0.64 70 #84 | 67 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: Why a Great Product Won't Succeed Without a Community
    ×1.67 37 | 5 points by gonzar79 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Kimi K3.1 Pro (kimi.ai)
    ×4.38 67 | 60 points by nekofneko 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more (computerworld.com)
    ×3.07 55 | 55 points by mikelgan 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map (xiangpeng.systems)
    ×2.14 19 #21 | 60 points by aoli-al 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Docker is weird (codeandcake.dev)
    ×3.47 6 #80 | 863 points by psxuaw 2 days ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: RigCheck – can your GPU or Mac run this open model? Sourced, open data (localrigcheck.com)
    ×0.83 157 | 3 points by chenzige 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.80 47 #75 | 58 points by Teever 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Break It on Purpose: an AI pipeline that triages and fixes its own bugs (zontakllc.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by dzontak 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The State of Context Engineering (dbreunig.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by dbreunig 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. PHP2Shell exploitation observed: packet-to-process RCE evidence (github.com/0x4D31)
    ×1.32 17 | 3 points by choult 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I vibe coded an alternative to splitwise free (sharebucks.app)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by ish-xyz 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: DeepSearch – Search engine built on DeepSeek API (deepsearch.ing)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by try-working 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. OpenJDK randomly(?) removes all eMudhra root CAs (github.com/openjdk)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by ktkaufman 1 minute ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Clerkenwell – A Handwritten Clojure Notebook (danieljanus.pl)
    ×0.85 117 | 28 points by nathell 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The first broken iPhone Duos are here (theverge.com)
    ×2.76 26 #89 | 35 points by thm 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A 1k-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature (wired.cz)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by ViktorRay 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited (thisandthat.chat)
    ×1.11 72 | 65 points by jreynar 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I made new search engine with DeepSeek's search API (seekpeek.pages.dev)
    ×1.34 154 | 3 points by bayramn 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I created instruments for people who have no idea how to play one (boondoggle.studio)
    ×2.78 132 | 12 points by DJSnackySnack 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???