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  1. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.69 8 #45 | 13 points by sergiotapia 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Anthropic is killing stainless, so we built our own SDK/MCP generator
    ×0.30 47 | 4 points by iiviie 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Antigravity 2.0 installer breaks existing Antigravity IDEs
    ×0.34 73 | 3 points by jdw64 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is grpcurl home page compromised?
    ×0.26 66 | 4 points by jicea 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
    ×0.80 93 | 171 points by sochix 4 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do word docs, slides, excel, and PDFs generate value?
    ×0.46 84 | 3 points by FailMore 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Does root have to be uid 0? Does uid 0 have to be root?
    ×0.59 85 | 3 points by axismundi 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Did moving to new place have intended effect?
    ×0.29 79 | 7 points by Jeff2Serve 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Go all in on startup idea, or stay W2
    ×0.06 | 2 points by Mnexium 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How often do you code the expected way instead of a better one?
    ×0.17 89 | 4 points by recycling 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How are agentic workflows meant to offset AI debt?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by l33tbro 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Windows on Mobile Screen
    ×0.15 | 2 points by tukunjil 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to enforce engineers to understand the code they are shipping
    ×0.39 90 | 5 points by hchua 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
    ×1.43 92 | 72 points by klez 3 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you know what data your AI coding agent sends to the cloud?
    ×0.10 119 | 5 points by lbrauer 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    ×2.07 95 | 298 points by pycassa 6 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Company is rapidly cutting AI tool spend how to prep team?
    ×0.56 91 | 7 points by Snakes3727 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam
    ×0.82 109 | 26 points by stackghost 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Could free/low cost LLMs be a momentary thing?
    ×0.41 123 | 5 points by senda 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. SlothDB is an OLAP DB ahead of DuckDB on Clickbench SQL database in C++20
    ×0.17 133 | 6 points by souravroy78 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Viable open source Claude Design alternative?
    ×0.48 131 | 26 points by splatzone 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?
    ×0.41 126 | 10 points by rubyn00bie 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?
    ×0.40 129 | 30 points by nothrowaways 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?
    ×0.91 130 | 46 points by BrunoBernardino 6 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. We used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso (turso.tech)
    ×1.82 65 #66 | 27 points by 0xedb 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Poor grip strength linked to greater odds of developing depression (medicalxpress.com)
    ×0.33 | 1 points by Gaishan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
    ×2.00 12 | 356 points by lukaspetersson 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
    ×2.20 18 | 323 points by stephenlthorn 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
    ×0.97 23 | 186 points by veqq 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era (spacedaily.com)
    ×1.44 69 | 100 points by redbell 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Codex-maxxing (jxnl.co)
    ×1.50 20 | 96 points by dnw 22 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001) (turbifycdn.com)
    ×0.71 25 #16 | 45 points by bschne 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Eazip – Password-protected ZIPs (AES-256) in the browser, no upload (eazip.ch)
    ×1.16 115 | 5 points by Zmaon 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Colonization of Venus (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.46 23 #82 | 109 points by simonebrunozzi 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Energy Efficiency (ai-gpu-brain-v3.onrender.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by mikebains 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Thioacetone (Wiki) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by sans_souse 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ubuntu Core 26 targets IoT, offers up to 15 years of security maintenance (cnx-software.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by 0in 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Handoff – preserve coding context when agents run out of tokens (github.com/TStansel)
    ×0.68 120 | 3 points by tstansel 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Openvid – open-source cinematic screen recorder and mockup editor (github.com/CristianOlivera1)
    ×1.24 145 | 6 points by cristianolivera 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists (setpose.com)
    ×0.64 28 #42 | 70 points by augustvdv 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Towards Identifying the Economics and Efficiency of Fuzzers vs. Agents (dangerouserrors.com)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Generative art collection based on human interpretation (mixedmessages.fyi)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by knownquantity_ 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint (modal.com)
    ×0.77 62 | 87 points by charles_irl 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Anthropic hires OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy (cnbc.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by doppp 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Richest Cat in the World (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by gmays 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
    ×0.99 29 | 174 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: LightningTrack – Issue tracker built for AI-assisted development (lightningtrack.io)
    ×0.26 | 2 points by garyeterry 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
    ×1.74 7 #6 | 211 points by smooke 7 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
    ×1.15 48 #84 | 155 points by pizlonator 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Chairman and Commssioners – CFTC (cftc.gov)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by seliopou 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. US Justice Department 'forever' bars IRS from auditing Trump's past tax returns (theguardian.com)
    ×4.36 64 | 11 points by embedding-shape 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I solved my study problems by talking to a goose (professorgoose.com)
    ×2.18 132 | 22 points by polaritymaking 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery (research.google)
    ×0.42 33 #34 | 26 points by praccu 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
    ×2.59 9 #55 | 363 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×4.80 22 | 77 points by vincent_s 13 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents (github.com/InsForge)
    ×0.50 72 | 55 points by mrcoldbrew 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Vecdb – local-first hybrid vector database in Rust (HNSW and BM25) (github.com/zaydmulani09)
    ×0.60 108 | 4 points by zaydmulani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (emmi.ai)
    ×1.52 6 #9 | 175 points by doener 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
    ×2.10 13 #90 | 489 points by ildari 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol (tangled.org)
    ×0.89 87 | 117 points by tsiry 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Resilient, A composable async resilience toolkit for rust (github.com/resilient-rs)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by yofabr 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: JDS – a Copilot skill suite for structuring AI coding behavior (github.com/josipmusa)
    ×0.77 143 | 8 points by anaq42 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.88 14 #17 | 408 points by LelouBil 18 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: SharpSkill – A LeetCode Alternative with real interview outcomes (sharpskill.dev)
    ×1.71 53 | 4 points by GiornoJojo 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Clark-Browser – Stealth Chromium (github.com/clark-labs-inc)
    ×0.96 80 | 14 points by stan_kirdey 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Cubic Doggo, a Open-Source 12-DOF 4-Legged Robot Based on ROS2 (github.com/SphericalCowww)
    ×1.98 107 | 6 points by SphericalCowww 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
    ×2.99 11 | 323 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. My Arduino spins faster when Claude burns more tokens (terminalbytes.com)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by mtlynch 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation (nbcnews.com)
    ×9.01 13 | 366 points by nothrowaways 1 day ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Got ghosted by tech companies so I built a tool to track ghost jobs (csvfirst.pythonanywhere.com)
    ×1.38 137 | 7 points by ktmartin 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Google Cloud has blocked our account, making some Railway services unavailable (twitter.com/i)
    ×1.75 15 #48 | 11 points by bundie 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Repugnant Economics (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by paulpauper 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches (nbcnews.com)
    ×5.38 57 | 162 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Don't Sign in with Google (twitter.com/the_smart_ape)
    ×5.35 55 | 72 points by DeusExMachina 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Barstool, a Prettier macOS Menubar (lotl.dev)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by thecommieaxo 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
    ×0.77 20 #23 | 112 points by akhuettel 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. On Guard! The Story of SAGE [IBM, 1956] (youtube.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by doctaj 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Google Search as you know it is over (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.21 66 | 109 points by evo_9 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI (404media.co)
    ×1.80 65 | 94 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
    ×0.66 89 #26 | 121 points by rurban 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: SafeRun – Replay debugging and inline prevention for AI agents
    ×0.75 | 1 points by Tidianez 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 20 Year old pgcrypto CVE reported (thebuild.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by sameers 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
    ×0.87 22 #30 | 126 points by NaOH 14 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Alint, a fast linter for repository structure and hygiene (github.com/asamarts)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by aleqs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Language Registries Are Unstable by Default (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by teddyh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell (abgeo.dev)
    ×1.25 38 #72 | 119 points by jrdres 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Coding is solved? Software is not (arcplane.ai)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by splash123 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map (obayashi.co.jp)
    ×0.62 47 #56 | 18 points by 1970-01-01 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.92 | 1 points by summonerOS 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by ranit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???