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  1. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.35 7 #50 | 64 points by PhilipDaineko 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.92 44 | 98 points by gcanyon 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.33 88 | 145 points by syntaxbush 3 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.77 66 | 64 points by oscgam1 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.40 82 | 6 points by thoughtpeddler 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Fast feedback loops is the way
    ×0.49 87 | 3 points by skyglider 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.81 67 | 32 points by mzubairtahir 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Recursive self improvement for human skills
    ×0.40 100 | 3 points by rando77 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.62 96 | 4 points by i_am_rocoe 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.25 121 | 3 points by howToTestFE 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.52 120 | 36 points by JohnDSDev 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Data Privacy while using API tools
    ×0.22 107 | 4 points by 11shyam11 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.54 99 | 6 points by justanything 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Mojo is becoming open source
    ×1.07 95 | 7 points by theanonymousone 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?
    ×0.68 98 | 7 points by reinhardt 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.56 119 | 15 points by mellosty 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.14 145 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×1.11 101 | 8 points by aurenvale 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Running local LLMs? What's your model and hardware
    ×2.25 83 | 10 points by alfiedotwtf 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×1.98 97 | 23 points by notsure357 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.28 129 | 7 points by netfortius 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn?
    ×0.54 134 | 4 points by datsci_est_2015 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.33 148 | 3 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.60 126 | 15 points by othmanosx 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.49 153 | 19 points by niyazpk 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.56 146 | 8 points by yiyingzhang 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How is GPU power draw measured at scale?
    ×0.29 143 | 5 points by anax32 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×0.66 135 | 7 points by VaderAi 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why did you learn Chinese?
    ×1.73 84 | 5 points by alonsovm44 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.51 118 | 81 points by ayi 5 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.32 94 | 81 points by jvilalta 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.80 149 | 21 points by tossitawayplz 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.26 173 | 6 points by iaziz786 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.40 156 | 15 points by neya 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.15 159 | 19 points by vasko 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. My website gets more attacks than human visitors
    ×0.72 164 | 5 points by tommy2970 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Quickbooks Alternative?
    ×0.41 165 | 5 points by bix6 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
    ×0.40 172 | 4 points by something765478 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
    ×0.56 154 | 7 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. As; HN: I was curious why MTP affects PP TPS in llama.cpp. My PoC recovers it?
    ×0.74 177 | 4 points by i_am_rocoe 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Be the First to Test It
    ×0.56 | 1 points by carlostkd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Yes, Europe's heat waves are deadlier than American gun violence (fortune.com)
    ×6.87 64 | 12 points by m_mueller 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.62 13 | 317 points by rossant 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com/neospe)
    ×0.37 89 | 28 points by leschak 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design (ieee.org)
    ×1.63 8 #20 | 231 points by Brajeshwar 16 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs (msn.com)
    ×3.47 28 #46 | 165 points by littlexsparkee 11 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Vertical Slices in Practice (event-driven.io)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by theanonymousone 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. When will the decimals in A/B repeat? (johndcook.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Open Tag, the open source Claude Tag (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×1.31 111 | 4 points by nathan_tarbert 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I built a hardware quantum RNG and wired it into a Magic 8-Ball (dnhkng.github.io)
    ×2.34 113 | 11 points by dnhkng 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: HoprLabs – a Python lab for prototyping AI math ideas (github.com/TangibleResearch)
    ×0.77 178 | 3 points by reboy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide (fosslinux.com)
    ×1.61 10 #75 | 209 points by tapanjk 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Unfathomable bugs #10: The Broken Windows Build (algassert.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by giovannibajo1 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A Transformer Becomes an LLM (bharad.dev)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by bharadwajp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Turn any X account into an RSS feed (gurify.com)
    ×3.44 127 | 10 points by slavba 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Foveon – Bayer to Foveon X3, learned, Mac App using deep learning (intellios.ai)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by coolwulf 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on (github.com/Fran314)
    ×0.48 114 | 30 points by Fran314 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Ex-Amazon, got burned out, left my job, and now building Zenvesto (zenvesto.com)
    ×1.02 182 | 3 points by zenvesto 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Regular expressions that work "everywhere" (johndcook.com)
    ×0.91 31 #14 | 54 points by ColinWright 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections (bloodinthemachine.com)
    ×4.17 51 | 120 points by speckx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Beta test TeXmacs on Android (polytechnique.fr)
    ×4.35 72 | 60 points by amichail 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The eerie interface of man and machine (Life Magazine, October 1967) (jgc.org)
    ×0.56 60 #40 | 34 points by Brajeshwar 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM (github.com/itsthelore)
    ×0.93 4 #3 | 64 points by handfuloflight 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The case for physical media ownership (dervis.de)
    ×2.96 7 #18 | 435 points by cemdervis 22 hours ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work (github.com/kageroumado)
    ×1.21 5 #39 | 108 points by kageroumado 13 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Hardwood 1.0: A Fast, Lightweight Apache Parquet Reader for the JVM (hardwood.dev)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by gunnarmorling 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Jargo – a Golang port of Pipecat for conversational-AI apps (github.com/gojargo)
    ×1.35 139 | 5 points by fallais 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Collecting and Analysing Yandex Maps blurs (nrk.no)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by hgulldahl 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Why growth harder to find: good ideas aren't becoming rare, but hard to share (nber.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by oliculipolicula 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Finding It Challenging to Maintain Software Created with Coding Agents?
    ×3.43 33 | 6 points by nlpnerd 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN:I got tired of spending 3hrs daily on job applications,so I automated it (jobspire.co.in)
    ×0.66 102 | 4 points by cbyteai 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice (lingochunk.com)
    ×0.58 92 | 91 points by alder 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM (github.com/ilbertt)
    ×0.46 124 | 55 points by ilbert 4 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Om (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.33 25 #79 | 504 points by throw0101a 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Roundup of July 2026 Bootstrapper Events (bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by skmurphy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. GT America (gt-america.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by toilet 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Data centers trigger voter backlash (newsweek.com)
    ×2.73 20 | 199 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Hikaru Labs – Bulk image and file processing, 100% in-browser (hikarulabs.xyz)
    ×1.18 176 | 4 points by CFBL 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: iOS Apps on Linux (github.com/Lore-Hex)
    ×1.68 166 | 5 points by ljlolel 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: FSM – an advanced system monitor for Linux (github.com/mskrasnov)
    ×1.25 44 #48 | 12 points by mskrasnov 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme (eff.org)
    ×4.02 18 #77 | 500 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Jolla Phone (October 2026) (jolla.com)
    ×2.76 6 | 307 points by mrbn100ful 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence (fortune.com)
    ×7.13 75 | 187 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Prism: An Impure Functional Language with Typed Effects (stephendiehl.com)
    ×4.31 70 | 5 points by leontrolski 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me? (lefakkomies.github.io)
    ×1.06 36 | 144 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: Are there any developers prefer writing code manually?
    ×1.45 | 2 points by trowa159 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US (arstechnica.com)
    ×10.00 68 | 58 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: The Cascade Graph – An interactive map of AI and energy constraints (atomprophet.io)
    ×0.48 144 | 26 points by antisyzygy 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: Sdfs
    ×0.64 | 1 points by hari_vardhan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory (gossamer-lang.org)
    ×0.92 53 | 87 points by mwheeler 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???