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  1. Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
    ×1.43 59 #74 | 44 points by trowa159 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.62 13 #76 | 101 points by PhilipDaineko 20 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.34 79 | 150 points by syntaxbush 3 days ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.90 53 | 100 points by gcanyon 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.75 68 | 64 points by oscgam1 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.35 87 | 6 points by thoughtpeddler 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.72 75 | 33 points by mzubairtahir 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.64 93 | 5 points by i_am_rocoe 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.66 89 | 8 points by justanything 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Fast feedback loops is the way
    ×0.69 80 | 5 points by skyglider 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.32 118 | 4 points by howToTestFE 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.52 117 | 36 points by JohnDSDev 4 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Recursive self improvement for human skills
    ×0.48 98 | 4 points by rando77 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan?
    ×2.31 18 | 8 points by vantareed 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×1.17 96 | 9 points by aurenvale 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.21 134 | 4 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Data Privacy while using API tools
    ×0.21 108 | 4 points by 11shyam11 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Mojo is becoming open source
    ×1.13 90 | 8 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.55 120 | 15 points by mellosty 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?
    ×0.65 97 | 7 points by reinhardt 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.48 139 | 4 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×1.91 88 | 23 points by notsure357 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Running local LLMs? What's your model and hardware
    ×2.29 82 | 11 points by alfiedotwtf 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.27 129 | 7 points by netfortius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.49 148 | 19 points by niyazpk 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×0.74 130 | 8 points by VaderAi 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.54 124 | 15 points by othmanosx 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn?
    ×0.52 137 | 4 points by datsci_est_2015 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.55 146 | 8 points by yiyingzhang 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How is GPU power draw measured at scale?
    ×0.28 143 | 5 points by anax32 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.86 142 | 23 points by tossitawayplz 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.50 114 | 81 points by ayi 5 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.31 85 | 81 points by jvilalta 3 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.26 164 | 6 points by iaziz786 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.14 153 | 19 points by vasko 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.40 151 | 15 points by neya 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Examples of AI taste?
    ×0.56 | 1 points by SuboptimalEng 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Open-source app for UniNow QR code check in (bixilon.de)
    ×0.37 170 | 3 points by bixilon 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.14 5 #10 | 87 points by cebert 2 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Choosing a Public DNS Resolver (evilbit.de)
    ×1.85 14 #24 | 244 points by pawal 18 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. We tracked 1M LLM API calls – 62% were using the wrong model (tokonomics.ca)
    ×1.95 44 | 3 points by aitoukhrib 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 (washingtonpost.com)
    ×6.02 36 | 1167 points by alain94040 1 day ago | 1221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: `uvx ptn` and expose any system to agents (dangerously) (pypi.org)
    ×0.84 156 | 3 points by yxl448 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on (cephalosec.com)
    ×1.14 46 #47 | 167 points by Versipelle 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep (marfapublicradio.org)
    ×1.83 6 #13 | 352 points by reaperducer 14 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V (theregister.com)
    ×0.87 51 #59 | 93 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Software Is Becoming Marketing (terezatizkova.com)
    ×1.90 59 | 66 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Engye – transfer files between any two devices by scanning a QR code (fuzzyworld.net)
    ×1.21 58 | 12 points by psafronov 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (jim.sh)
    ×1.65 86 | 4 points by foodevl 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A Living Neural Web in HTML5 Canvas (techoreon.github.io)
    ×1.49 92 | 6 points by guptalog 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Motif Atlas – recurring patterns behind complex systems (nikitph.github.io)
    ×1.87 126 | 9 points by loaderchips 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How Corporations Convinced America That Litter Is Our Fault (currentaffairs.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by cainxinth 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Was Ozempic discovered thanks to "silly" research? (oscillator.blog)
    ×1.49 7 | 3 points by salonium_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The vibration of the pager has a sound all its own (notyouremergency.com)
    ×1.51 6 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US (arstechnica.com)
    ×8.88 70 | 58 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Hardwood 1.0: A Fast, Lightweight Apache Parquet Reader for the JVM (hardwood.dev)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by gunnarmorling 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Collaboration Layer for AI Intelligence (gitix.ai)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by azolf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He had worms (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.10 28 | 72 points by Bender 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs (github.com/kamaludu)
    ×1.41 100 | 3 points by kamaludu 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike (lloydslist.com)
    ×1.83 24 | 59 points by everybodyknows 21 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Running a software jam in a world of slop (foxmoss.com)
    ×0.99 54 #64 | 61 points by foxmoss 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Monlite – documents, vectors, cache, and job queue in one SQLite file (github.com/qataruts)
    ×1.37 57 #83 | 12 points by emadjumaah 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Clarity, Accountability, and Care – The Three Conditions That Make Teams Work (nmcqueen.substack.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by backlit4034 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Om (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.31 12 | 511 points by throw0101a 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly (the-independent.com)
    ×4.49 65 | 217 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Ponder – the best articles and essays on the internet (readponder.com)
    ×0.89 159 | 3 points by wingdiction 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A stray "j" ruined my evening (mtmn.name)
    ×1.12 16 #28 | 60 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Stonehenge Experiment: 60 people move a 3.5-Tonne standing stone [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by skibz 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Import the HN Home to a reading queue with clean reader view and TL;DR (readplace.com)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by fagnerbrack 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cachebox, a small cache server with TTLs, dogpile locks, tags and bounded memory (github.com/smarzola)
    ×1.55 3 | 3 points by smarzola 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI in mathematics is forcing big questions (ieee.org)
    ×1.61 31 | 204 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com/DDecoene)
    ×0.71 64 | 95 points by ddecoene 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: TBD, a Mac-native CLI-forward coding agent multiplexer (github.com/cheapsteak)
    ×0.81 144 | 4 points by cheapsteak 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Full featured language that compiles to binary (github.com/code-by-sia)
    ×1.45 157 | 5 points by sia_xi 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN:Every Team Is Building the Same Cache (tierfs.com)
    ×1.54 161 | 4 points by saurabhpal97 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Brace Expansion Tree (johndcook.com)
    ×0.91 47 #67 | 8 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. One Million Passports Leaked Online (schneier.com)
    ×2.45 12 #86 | 12 points by jruohonen 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Screen time can damage under-twos' development, landmark study suggests (theguardian.com)
    ×2.16 13 | 90 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Regular expressions that work “everywhere” (johndcook.com)
    ×0.95 42 #33 | 89 points by ColinWright 17 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Concierge is the best way for now to involve human in the agent loop imo (github.com/yusukeshib)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by yusukeshibata 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts (kotaku.com)
    ×3.94 16 | 323 points by ortusdux 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. It's Our Language Now (plover.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The shift from browsing to commanding: Autonomous web agents in action (fognitix.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by fognitix 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Play puzzle games in a feed like TikTok (puzzle.express)
    ×1.39 103 | 6 points by trancence 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
    ×6.67 38 #65 | 731 points by HotGarbage 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ziscus: Zero JavaScript comments for static sites (ziscus.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by hdz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car (wsj.com)
    ×2.38 74 | 45 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: HoprLabs – a Python lab for prototyping AI math ideas (github.com/TangibleResearch)
    ×0.77 168 | 3 points by reboy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024) (cbc.ca)
    ×1.72 4 #20 | 72 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AI Use Cases companies are implementing and the results they get (okanode.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by brudevel 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???