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  1. Is a One Person Company (OPC) just another type of Uber driver?
    ×1.00 | 2 points by Bobby_Liu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Do you run A/B Tests?
    ×0.14 67 | 4 points by hackeryogi 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AgentObs – a hook that blocks Claude Code before you hit your limit
    ×0.14 | 2 points by klars-ai 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×2.89 61 | 512 points by leumon 3 days ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is .org now Trump-controlled?
    ×1.31 25 | 22 points by selfhoster1312 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?
    ×0.46 85 | 16 points by isomorph 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's a Good Physical Printer?
    ×0.33 140 | 9 points by xrd 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Best way to archive 25 years of emails
    ×0.39 121 | 5 points by astatine 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Alternatives to Fail2ban?
    ×0.31 150 | 6 points by jech 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why do we need MCP?
    ×0.33 102 | 10 points by jwally 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.70 134 | 23 points by FireUpTheTorren 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
    ×0.22 147 | 5 points by gmarkwa 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.76 138 | 79 points by kaladan 6 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why are onionv3 services not more popular?
    ×0.16 149 | 6 points by smalltorch 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What BOYK AI client are you using?
    ×0.13 156 | 3 points by yeeyang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?
    ×0.64 129 | 12 points by dhruv3006 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Any blogs/personal notes from game devs who self-published a game?
    ×0.43 152 | 6 points by ssenssei 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Mechanical Panda's Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) (github.com/MechRedPanda)
    ×1.22 53 #46 | 6 points by rickcarlino 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. No AI Fridays (noaifridays.com)
    ×4.20 64 #70 | 253 points by xendo 7 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (macrumors.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mgh2 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Norway Shrugged (paragraph.com)
    ×3.73 41 | 6 points by vinnyglennon 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Drop a SQL schema, get an interactive ER diagram (mcdview.dev)
    ×1.28 42 | 9 points by PatuDev 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Cheap GPS Jammers Are Filling the World with Navigation Dead Zones (wsj.com)
    ×1.40 5 #65 | 8 points by vinnyglennon 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: A Big Five personality test with no "Types" and free scores (fiveprint.app)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by fusionPT 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. We Just Wanted to Deploy a PHP Website (sarah-robin.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by sarah-robiin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Skills MCP
    ×1.80 5 | 3 points by gengirish 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals (kabaragoya.com)
    ×0.63 18 #14 | 14 points by peteforde 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal (nytimes.com)
    ×4.11 34 #85 | 627 points by jbegley 2 days ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe (elis.cc)
    ×1.09 56 #87 | 49 points by el1s7 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's AI (mcsweeneys.net)
    ×6.78 86 | 39 points by 9woc 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Live cloud GPU rental prices (gputable.dev)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by davedx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Going Founder Mode on Cancer – By Elliot Hershberg (centuryofbio.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by vinnyglennon 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Open-Source Local Whisper Flow Alternative (cloudless.so)
    ×1.15 119 | 4 points by vednig 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Devx – Autonomous AI coding agent built for Android Termux and desktop (github.com/apvcode)
    ×0.73 157 | 13 points by apvcode 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.69 19 #23 | 43 points by cisc 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: The impact that made the Moon, 262k particles in a browser tab (gaploid.github.io)
    ×3.92 98 | 10 points by gaploid 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LLMs are making me lose my savviness (pgaleone.eu)
    ×3.45 41 | 60 points by me2too 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
    ×2.04 2 #25 | 375 points by davidmckenna 19 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (acm.org)
    ×1.08 54 #53 | 114 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common (nytimes.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by whack 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Microduck (pollen-robotics.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by unsnap_biceps 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. "The Fate of the Riemann Hypothesis" by Richard Evan Schwartz [pdf] (brown.edu)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by bananaflag 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022) (strangeloopcanon.com)
    ×2.58 21 | 78 points by bilsbie 23 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. EVE Online moves to Python 3 (eveonline.com)
    ×2.64 22 #72 | 392 points by TylerJaacks 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. 46ers, 55ers, 81ers, and Today (auren.substack.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by vinnyglennon 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Got a bunch of things to do, hate procrastination, any advice is welcome (textlog.cc)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by stagas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A SLM Optimized for Tool Calling (neurometric.ai)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by robmay 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS (fdeploy.com)
    ×0.54 145 | 35 points by dt3ft 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999) (muppetlabs.com)
    ×0.86 42 #50 | 77 points by Bluestein 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. No agents after 8 pm (sparsethought.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by galsapir 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Blink (github.com/megootronic)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by megootronic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps (jupyter.org)
    ×1.20 14 #35 | 89 points by arjxn-py 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Médicos por Venezuela – Non-profit medical help (medicosporvenezuela.org)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by softronic 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. GPT 5.6 has broken the record on large gaps between primes (erdosproblems.com)
    ×1.76 18 | 3 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: 500,000+ AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icons All at Once (buddyiconarchive.com)
    ×2.48 131 | 8 points by shedletsky 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.36 14 | 275 points by ingve 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview (steampowered.com)
    ×2.84 68 | 41 points by EspadaV9 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Running SQLite Apps on Docker and Kubernetes with Litestream (openrun.dev)
    ×0.77 3 #11 | 22 points by ajayvk 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Automating Immersive Reading (smoores.dev)
    ×1.15 #26 | 72 points by smoores 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Debian: Retiring from the Project (Vv221) (debian.org)
    ×3.43 23 #42 | 23 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: MyTops – A database of films, books, games that builds itself on demand (mytops.io)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by Zartof 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I filtered August Who is Hiring to 19 $100k+ remote jobs, salary listed (commitasync.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by lucianh 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Kith – AI clinical notes for therapists from ambient session audio (kith.space)
    ×1.28 139 | 4 points by kithmedai 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hy4 preview (tencent.com)
    ×1.73 18 #29 | 368 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. One Nix flake to rule them all (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.81 7 #37 | 72 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU (crossborderrail.eu)
    ×2.34 22 | 4 points by SiempreViernes 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Kosh – Bash shell runtime with 100x faster Shellcheck and LSP built-in (github.com/toiletbril)
    ×2.68 137 | 7 points by toiletbril 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists (ziglang.org)
    ×1.22 13 #7 | 53 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Electric rain can eat through metal (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.19 6 #10 | 62 points by sohkamyung 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Startup Anti-Patterns (itamarnovick.com)
    ×1.68 40 #30 | 10 points by rzk 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Chrome Web Store extensions caught stealing crypto, browser data (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by sbulaev 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: AnVendor – see your competitor's customers (anvendor.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by ia_soul 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: An annotated archive of S-1 filings, with hindsight (s-1.space)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by eigen-vector 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack (wordpress.com)
    ×2.95 3 #5 | 132 points by catbird 6 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.71 35 #43 | 52 points by klelatti 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Andrew Tate offered secret 'espionage' classes to exploit the dirty secrets of t (san.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by pir8life4me 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul (sfstandard.com)
    ×5.46 16 | 156 points by lisper 20 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage (picomq.com)
    ×1.10 110 | 159 points by adesh_nalpet 6 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)
    ×3.39 99 | 10 points by con 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.24 33 #52 | 96 points by cisc 19 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux (zackbartel.com)
    ×2.68 7 #59 | 520 points by zackb 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Quantifying Colour (ekunazanu.foo)
    ×1.06 54 #64 | 104 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Tokensift, an open-sourced token-efficiency linter for LLM prompts (github.com/ritenv)
    ×1.63 124 | 6 points by ritenv 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales)
    ×1.23 31 #58 | 174 points by tuckerwales 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions (theguardian.com)
    ×4.12 21 #66 | 431 points by firefax 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: AMC Stocks Hub – asset-manager profiles, 13F holdings, and co-holdings (assetmanagementcompany.net)
    ×0.90 142 | 4 points by lzyuan1006 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.00 10 #13 | 242 points by nickslaughter02 4 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler? (iafisher.com)
    ×0.76 53 #62 | 59 points by hellerve 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Build a Bigram Model in 10 Minutes (sithankanna.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by hdit 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why (github.com/kelviq)
    ×1.52 95 | 88 points by sachinneravath 3 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???