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  1. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.31 | 2 points by vWijdaan 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
    ×1.77 30 #80 | 93 points by petecooper 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by BehanPrW 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
    ×2.81 51 | 610 points by rzk 3 days ago | 746 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.52 49 | 285 points by petecooper 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.25 75 | 4 points by spicygum 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.21 95 | 4 points by parthdesai 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.37 79 | 13 points by Mobius01 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.28 87 | 14 points by masterchief166 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.27 76 | 12 points by bigwheels 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.39 96 | 12 points by aledevv 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.52 90 | 8 points by ovudus 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.37 85 | 17 points by shakshukan 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Firefox Auto-Run on Windows
    ×0.34 116 | 3 points by BubbleRings 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old
    ×0.97 83 | 12 points by kaveh808 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Financial Audit of DuckDuckGo?
    ×0.60 98 | 9 points by giantg2 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×0.84 117 | 25 points by Stitch4223 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×1.09 101 | 16 points by lualover 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
    ×0.45 145 | 21 points by okr 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you know Bitbucket are chaning their SSH endpoints?
    ×0.26 154 | 5 points by mcrmonkey 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. TI C66X / Ad Sharc+ Decompilers
    ×0.60 143 | 5 points by kavinsky777 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day
    ×0.31 126 | 10 points by kinj28 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.43 133 | 9 points by thechairman12 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What should I use instead of Firefox on Android?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by trystrawberries 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's the biologic equivalent of allowing any two cells to communicate?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by datas 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is Wikipedia going to be obsolete soon?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share?
    ×0.65 137 | 9 points by erelong 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: I picked up knitting while waiting for my AI agent to complete
    ×1.13 151 | 11 points by amelius 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. GCP Europe-West2 Outage
    ×2.21 109 | 31 points by jack7e 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why HN dosen't have bot problem?
    ×0.88 144 | 9 points by solarpunk_enthu 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Time to read those programming books?
    ×0.22 132 | 6 points by blinkbat 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you cap what your coding agents can spend?
    ×0.39 155 | 4 points by Twirled 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What happened to open weights models?
    ×0.44 150 | 6 points by sparse-Matrix 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Can LeetCode (or similar) keep critical thinking sharp in the AI era?
    ×0.30 135 | 6 points by ML0037 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What do you hate the most about GitHub Actions?
    ×0.31 147 | 4 points by Bnjoroge 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Are there any programming positions that are safe from AI?
    ×0.48 141 | 5 points by marcAKAmarc 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Critical Qdrant vulnerability allows unauthenticated access to clusters (github.com/qdrant)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by ameypandey 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Private Key Was Four (unmitigatedrisk.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by GordonS 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Lisp Comes of Age (1980) (microship.com)
    ×2.99 45 | 4 points by so-cal-schemer 27 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP (wiz.io)
    ×3.04 | 446 points by danlark1 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake (legendofhyrule.com)
    ×1.63 88 | 226 points by jsomau 4 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.96 29 #27 | 104 points by wffurr 10 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case (cnbc.com)
    ×3.89 7 #47 | 655 points by cbg0 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents (github.com/omnara-ai)
    ×1.04 58 #59 | 107 points by kmansm27 21 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Worked on for Linux as Powerful Control Flow Protection (phoronix.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by rbanffy 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. GitHub – mamund/tram: test runner for assertion manifests (github.com/mamund)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by fagnerbrack 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.81 56 | 88 points by entryleveljobsc 7 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key (github.com/dsmurrell)
    ×1.39 63 | 3 points by dsmurrell 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN (ranet3.com)
    ×0.50 119 | 40 points by StepBroBD 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Wellbody [Body Health Tamagotchi] (wellbody.me)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by RAGcontent 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. France reports first human case of livestock virus Shamonda after patient dies (reuters.com)
    ×1.83 16 #56 | 10 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22 (os2museum.com)
    ×0.53 52 #75 | 39 points by userbinator 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Why governments pulled websites offline over the decades-old PHP language (cnbc.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by smurda 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Fire hazard zone, power line risk and fire history for any CA address (firezones.info)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by raffys 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: App Factory – 42 Claude Code skills to ship apps to App Store and Play (github.com/yybd)
    ×0.31 | 2 points by yybd 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I built a Markdown and raw HTML blog platform scoring 99 on PageSpeed (bloffy.co)
    ×1.12 61 | 25 points by textlanes33 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Nvidia OpenShell (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×2.45 #3 | 99 points by niemandhier 1 hour ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The compiler was supposed to end programming too (hrih.si)
    ×2.02 49 #69 | 145 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: RigCheck – can your GPU or Mac run this open model? Sourced, open data (localrigcheck.com)
    ×0.88 72 | 3 points by chenzige 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms (globus.software)
    ×1.14 9 #20 | 173 points by molind 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation (dri.es)
    ×0.95 41 #88 | 125 points by scottfalconer 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Cleanyourtv – Debloat Any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi (github.com/Gathin23)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by sebg 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Moderna Crashes 20% on Reportedly Leaked Cancer Vaccine Data (investors.com)
    ×2.98 48 | 4 points by messpoiun 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release (php.net)
    ×5.79 66 | 136 points by choult 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare (github.com/finereli)
    ×1.25 92 | 157 points by zoozla 3 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. EU desenvolvi um app desktop simples de geraçãO de senhas usando CSPRNG
    ×0.84 | 1 points by juliferOn 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean (theverge.com)
    ×2.07 9 | 3 points by cdrnsf 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Defcon like browser game with slower pace and growth (tushynski.me)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by larry-the-agent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Delivery robots have moved to the street (brandondonnelly.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID (nmattia.com)
    ×1.13 65 | 92 points by civilchaos 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Sony Pulls Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player from Japan (darkhorizons.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by jsbisviewtiful 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.79 57 | 142 points by unprovable 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping (sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app)
    ×1.40 89 | 252 points by critiquebrowser 4 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I built ESP32-S3 LED tubes for live coding (github.com/genbs)
    ×0.79 123 | 3 points by genbs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I created instruments for people who have no idea how to play one (boondoggle.studio)
    ×2.54 94 | 10 points by DJSnackySnack 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A Claude Code plugin that plays a song and shows a startup card (github.com/heyyviv)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by heyviv 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes (practical.engineering)
    ×1.25 31 | 193 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5 (tkgally.github.io)
    ×2.21 118 | 75 points by tkgally 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The consumer-voter is killing German politics (engelsbergideas.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by awsglkhj 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Is superintelligence a myth? Some alternate hypotheses (woborders.blog)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by carwil 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Patch the Planet Dashboard (trailofbits.com)
    ×2.18 8 | 3 points by jonbaer 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Good type against all odds (aresluna.org)
    ×1.22 43 | 208 points by firloop 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc (fedcourt.gov.au)
    ×3.41 7 | 176 points by Mayzie 17 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Judge Orders Meta to Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.41 74 | 73 points by franczesko 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons (arxiv.org)
    ×1.65 3 #11 | 22 points by jrepinc 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Important updates to AI use on Etsy (etsy.com)
    ×2.16 28 #72 | 27 points by bdcravens 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Dia Browser, by the Creators of Arc (diabrowser.com)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by nateb2022 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: QAmcp – Automated test runner for MCP servers in your terminal (github.com/QAmcp)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by Abhiramreddykal 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business (emudhra.com)
    ×4.21 #2 | 748 points by bo0tzz 6 hours ago | 540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???