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  1. Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?
    ×0.48 19 | 32 points by zecice 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is Zig worth it over Rust in 2026?
    ×0.34 35 | 4 points by soywod 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?
    ×0.30 77 | 3 points by charliebwrites 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's the best hands-on path to learn ML inference infrastructure?
    ×0.61 50 | 6 points by censor5 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. BSD seq(1) on Linux
    ×0.39 87 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Robotic Adaptation Suffers from Data Collection Bottleneck
    ×0.18 | 2 points by aunmesh 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by akersten 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you using Rust on embedded devices yet? If not, why?
    ×0.71 78 | 9 points by mempirate 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do you delete your browsing history?
    ×0.85 86 | 4 points by tempestn 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
    ×1.23 71 | 49 points by missmoss 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is an in-page speed reader useful?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by jvbotelho 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic?
    ×0.58 96 | 10 points by prologic 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: I spent personal money on game dev. How to turn stalled project around?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by pixelbyindex 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Connection-Agnostic Presence Tracking for Stateless Distributed Back Ends
    ×0.55 110 | 5 points by duckydude20 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474
    ×0.39 109 | 12 points by Bender 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Graal VM Relevance
    ×0.96 93 | 5 points by sid_op 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Something fishy is going on with Google feed on my Android
    ×0.89 88 | 6 points by motbus3 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×4.56 40 | 493 points by Thrashed 3 days ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Searchable, leveled learning map of AI/ML tools
    ×0.23 | 2 points by maneeshthakur 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. ASK HN: Why has technology become so unreliable?
    ×1.55 95 | 6 points by prmph 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf
    ×0.53 130 | 7 points by cristyg0101 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?
    ×0.59 112 | 13 points by tbharath 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?
    ×0.85 123 | 10 points by jonthepirate 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I built a jav data API, need honest feedback
    ×0.27 | 2 points by javinfo 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc)
    ×1.03 113 | 10 points by LozzKappa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. YouTube Comments in .csv
    ×0.27 | 2 points by cristyg0101 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is Your Work Relaxing?
    ×1.06 120 | 4 points by julienreszka 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?
    ×1.68 124 | 8 points by mavsman 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?
    ×0.61 140 | 4 points by Hussain04 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is neuromorphic computing going to replace traditional AI?
    ×0.49 142 | 5 points by lennart-rth 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.44 137 | 31 points by amichail 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What happens when we do compress the context in Claude Code?
    ×1.02 131 | 7 points by tbharath 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Postgress in Rust
    ×0.32 146 | 4 points by poldex 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Anyone else experiencing extreme Codex limits token burn rate?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by throwaway2027 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.84 138 | 30 points by sam_lowry_ 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Books can't piss me off
    ×1.61 106 | 10 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Has anyone figured out how to guard LLMs on kernel level?
    ×0.19 147 | 3 points by isaacnsisong 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What do you watch during lunch or dinner, if you're by yourself?
    ×0.37 134 | 5 points by MinimalAction 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tell HN: It's a Lot
    ×1.33 133 | 9 points by mettamage 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Is AI used in school system and how are they implementing it
    ×0.38 141 | 3 points by rohankc_01 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What's expected from an engineering manager or director now?
    ×0.36 143 | 3 points by agentwrangler 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What's Up with Archive.today?
    ×0.29 144 | 6 points by nobody9999 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How would you harden AI changes to a 1M-line legacy SaaS before review?
    ×0.73 145 | 4 points by thegreatkahuna 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What are some popular AI detection software that you know/have used?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by dd-sharma 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster (astgrep.com)
    ×1.77 37 #80 | 85 points by herrington_d 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.50 3 | 188 points by alphabetatango 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Neubook – An ePub reader with reading focus features (neubook.app)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by bibin765 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: OpenSlides – Open-source desktop app for animated code presentations (github.com/codewiththiha)
    ×10.39 65 | 21 points by codewiththiha 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Mousecrack – Bypass agent mouse detection with deep learning (github.com/puffinsoft)
    ×0.99 136 | 3 points by G3819 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Git rebase -i is not that scary (cachebag.sh)
    ×1.30 40 #66 | 110 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Keyboard Shortcuts are my Superpower (sightlessscribbles.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by robin_reala 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We have proof automation now (imperialviolet.org)
    ×1.62 3 #7 | 134 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Discrete6502 – one thing led to another (epatel.github.io)
    ×0.85 32 #64 | 11 points by epatel99 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. SIMD for Collision (box2d.org)
    ×1.10 39 #72 | 128 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI Workspace for Your PC (stuard.ai)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Ifesol 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Static MCP – publish MCP tools as static files, run them sandboxed (github.com/MauricioPerera)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by rckflr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Buzz: where humans and agents work together (block.xyz)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by foruhar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone (grego.site)
    ×2.66 60 | 120 points by marosgrego 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. History of John Backus's functional programming project (draft) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.57 29 #23 | 20 points by cwbuilds 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway (refp.se)
    ×2.22 13 #58 | 386 points by olexsmir 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Tiny React charts that fit in a line of text, zero deps (microcharts.dev)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by ganapativs 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How Dubai, New York, Paris and Shenzhen are building their flying-taxi networks (monocle.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Termic – desktop app for running CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) (termic.dev)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by SimionBaws 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Waymo Is Racking Up Thousands of Dollars of Parking Fines in Austin (wsj.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 3D Printed Nuclear Reactor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by flitzofolov 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Paywall-free News Aggregator (freepress.today)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by niraj-agarwal 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Rogg – I built a Rust BGP speaker and run a live AS on DN42 (github.com/roggnetwork)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by stockkid 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Harddrive Is Probably Full (marginalia.nu)
    ×1.76 72 | 57 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Aqua UI for the Web (github.com/willmeyers)
    ×1.01 39 | 3 points by willmeyers 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Max Studio Tools – C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live (github.com/apresta)
    ×0.62 108 | 32 points by apresta 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Using sed to make indexes for books (1997) (pement.org)
    ×0.73 29 #30 | 59 points by TMWNN 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters (huggingface.co)
    ×1.53 11 #87 | 203 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: ScreenFocus – keyboard focus follows the pointer across Mac displays (github.com/therohitdas)
    ×0.97 132 | 3 points by therohitdas 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A browser-based video editor that renders videos directly with FFmpeg (github.com/thiagoalbrecht)
    ×0.88 45 | 15 points by thiagoas 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Improving Terminal Ergonomics (aiex7.github.io)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by harr01 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. ARC-AGI Leaderboard (arcprize.org)
    ×1.31 36 | 170 points by rzk 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Amazon Music's Artist Conflation (jefftk.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by luu 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I got tired of deleting tracking parameters from URLs
    ×1.59 4 | 3 points by hexcode_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Universe Splitter (aerfish.com)
    ×1.92 5 | 4 points by e-dant 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Read what your remote agent wrote (Markdown/image) from Mac menu bar (lx2026.github.io)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by linxy97 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. JetZero (jetzero.aero)
    ×2.11 34 | 250 points by lisper 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site (brolly.sh)
    ×1.87 2 | 222 points by jsax 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works (nikolays.github.io)
    ×3.05 #1 | 356 points by jonbaer 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Searching for Robots Is Surprisingly Hard (rohboter.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by mrsamramirez10 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory (supakeen.com)
    ×1.18 34 | 152 points by 6581 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. "Zuzai" is to AI what vegan is to animal products (zuzai.org)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by flitzofolov 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs (pytorch.org)
    ×0.75 54 | 80 points by gmays 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: What 180k words look like as a temporal knowledge graph (Oz series) (synaptale.com)
    ×0.74 79 | 20 points by ald0r 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. It is empowering to hand off execution (charbzg.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by charbz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Renaissance Man: imago ex machina (github.com/willswire)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by willswire 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???