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  1. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.23 74 | 6 points by _-x-_ 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Oh, What Places to Go (Seriously Tho)
    ×1.15 50 | 4 points by thx 56 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How did the industry settle on weekly limits?
    ×0.26 36 | 3 points by saratogacx 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×1.14 39 | 89 points by LatencyKills 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?
    ×0.92 50 | 7 points by dwa3592 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?
    ×0.41 76 | 7 points by visox 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Batteries Included CLI Framework
    ×0.25 79 | 4 points by maxalbarello 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by Haeuserschlucht 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS
    ×0.25 89 | 3 points by lifeisstillgood 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?
    ×1.86 60 | 6 points by hamiecod 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How to Attend the Altman vs. Musk Trial
    ×2.30 44 | 7 points by major4x 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?
    ×2.98 77 | 9 points by fandorin 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.72 109 | 27 points by langs 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?
    ×0.62 133 | 3 points by Erndob 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
    ×0.56 101 | 22 points by honungsburk 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?
    ×0.37 117 | 7 points by coreyp_1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.58 121 | 39 points by 019 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.67 128 | 19 points by AG25 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
    ×1.00 120 | 14 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?
    ×0.88 126 | 7 points by zkid18 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?
    ×1.10 119 | 8 points by namegulf 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking
    ×0.35 132 | 10 points by mfi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded
    ×1.49 122 | 9 points by vintagedave 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?
    ×0.59 115 | 13 points by thinkingtoilet 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?
    ×2.28 116 | 23 points by lyfeninja 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.61 136 | 25 points by burnt-resistor 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Can non-developer build commercial products with AI
    ×1.26 143 | 9 points by rkorlimarla 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.39 137 | 44 points by alpinisme 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Is possible a language easy as py, fast as C, more secure than Rust?
    ×0.95 135 | 10 points by jerryzhang66 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
    ×0.47 157 | 11 points by preston-kwei 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Any Developer from Wales?
    ×2.06 107 | 10 points by danver0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?
    ×0.68 140 | 14 points by smackeyacky 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Dear astronomers, what are the most interesting things in space lately?
    ×1.06 127 | 19 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
    ×0.83 146 | 39 points by sunny678 4 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (happyfellow.dev)
    ×1.78 9 #14 | 90 points by thehappyfellow 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cosmology with Geometry Nodes (blender.org)
    ×1.16 42 #60 | 103 points by shankysingh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Not Venus? (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×2.32 49 | 151 points by zdw 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Roids – Open Source Steroids for your Agents (github.com/Developing-Gamer)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by DevelopingGamer 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Open-source Next.js dashboard starter with auth, RBAC and Storybook (github.com/nellavio)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by matt765 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Thalidomide Scandal (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by jseip 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I reverse-engineered Claude Desktop's storage to give it memory (github.com/Foued-pro)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by foufouadi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ML supports existence of unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena (arxiv.org)
    ×0.86 64 | 72 points by solarist 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them (charlielabs.ai)
    ×0.90 130 | 70 points by rileyt 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (wordpress.com)
    ×0.91 35 #35 | 70 points by keepamovin 14 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How Opus Came To Be (2019) (dreamwidth.org)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by 1317 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: AgentSearch – Self-hosted search and MCP for AI agents, no API keys (github.com/brcrusoe72)
    ×0.89 159 | 5 points by bricrusoe 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Werner – A native Markdown editor for macOS with four view modes (apple.com)
    ×0.82 124 | 3 points by artem2471 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom (github.com/yuvadm)
    ×2.42 18 #32 | 340 points by pigeons 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Odozi – open-source iOS journaling app (odozi.app)
    ×2.03 72 | 5 points by jlarks32 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Duckville, a persistent-world life SIM where you're a duck (duckville.town)
    ×1.17 92 | 3 points by stfurkan 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Got Bugs? U of G Collecting Samples to Catalogue Canada's Biodiversity (uoguelph.ca)
    ×1.50 22 | 3 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Self-Defeating Condescension of an Anti-Racist Education (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.06 4 | 4 points by apparent 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API (openai.com)
    ×2.40 4 | 254 points by arabicalories 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers (recurse.com)
    ×1.08 56 | 75 points by nicholasjbs 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (acm.org)
    ×2.43 25 #12 | 8 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. California Coastal Community Must Reject CBP's AI-Powered Surveillance Tower (eff.org)
    ×2.71 14 #77 | 24 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. With A.I., Anyone Can Be an Influencer (newyorker.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by petethomas 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A privacy first companion AI (friendai.pro)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by krunkworx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Google investing up to $40B in Anthropic (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.69 68 | 50 points by chang1 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Composition shouldn't be this hard (cambra.dev)
    ×1.12 59 | 121 points by larelli 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Quay – Menu-bar Git sync (sailorslog.io)
    ×0.76 80 | 3 points by sailingcode 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: WhiskeySour – A 10x faster drop-in replacement for BeautifulSoup
    ×2.24 69 | 7 points by ayas_behera 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience (github.com/RivoLink)
    ×1.23 84 | 44 points by RivoLink 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp (github.com/nakagami)
    ×1.01 22 #29 | 109 points by mariuz 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Classic American Diner (loc.gov)
    ×1.69 22 #63 | 257 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Foundational aspects of spinor structures and exotic spinors(2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by rolph 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly (jeroen.github.io)
    ×0.89 47 | 126 points by datajeroen 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
    ×2.44 24 #50 | 339 points by jamie-simon 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by mji 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Claude Code Manager (ldlework.com)
    ×4.75 105 | 11 points by ldlework 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
    ×1.81 154 | 7 points by yak32 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: easl – Instant hosting for AI agents (github.com/AdirAmsalem)
    ×1.60 158 | 5 points by Adir 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be (craigmod.com)
    ×3.04 40 #74 | 308 points by jen729w 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Trump rushed out of dinner amid reports of shots fired (nytimes.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by koolba 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: SigmaLifting CLI – helping agents understand strength training (sigmalifting.app)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by jklioewr 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023) (allbrainsbelong.org)
    ×2.11 32 | 64 points by AndrewDucker 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Cartoon Studio – an open-source desktop app for making 2D cartoon shows (github.com/Jellypod-Inc)
    ×2.27 145 | 15 points by bilater 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology (nikomc.com)
    ×1.07 31 #62 | 84 points by mailyk 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base (atomicapp.ai)
    ×1.08 78 | 61 points by kenforthewin 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code (github.com/delta-hq)
    ×0.74 59 #90 | 66 points by tejpalv 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Tired of high costs, some Americans are importing homes straight from China (cnn.com)
    ×1.85 | 2 points by breve 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Multiple AI Models in One Platform (chatcomparison.ai)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by chatcomparison 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Action Potentials for April (neurobiology.substack.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Mise-En-Place (jdx.dev)
    ×1.53 9 | 3 points by dotmanish 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. PSA: If you're running iSponsorblockTV you'll need to pair your devices again (reddit.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by dmunozv04 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Run coding agents in microVM sandboxes instead of your host machine (github.com/superhq-ai)
    ×9.28 96 | 60 points by phoenixranger 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. DeepSeek v4 (deepseek.com)
    ×8.11 13 #47 | 2031 points by impact_sy 1 day ago | 1548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Hear your agent suffer through your code (github.com/AndrewVos)
    ×1.72 37 #81 | 210 points by AndrewVos 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Fast Fourier Transforms: for fun and profit (1966) (gmu.edu)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by smitty1e 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Once a Year, Seattle Center Becomes a Medical Clinic (thestranger.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???