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  1. Ask HN: Is paying for a BIMI certificate useful?
    ×0.62 24 | 3 points by gojkoa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Im 14 and I want to create AI for students
    ×1.08 23 | 3 points by grgnend 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Robotics development made dead simple (open source)
    ×0.27 65 | 18 points by Ekami 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
    ×0.87 57 | 43 points by Jgoauh 21 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Protecting My Server and Knowing What It Does with Tailscale and Beszel
    ×0.53 80 | 4 points by SyedFazil 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support
    ×1.28 78 | 44 points by KellyCriterion 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What agentic AI ad optimization tool do you use?
    ×0.40 107 | 3 points by smb06 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How many AI agents do you actively use?
    ×0.70 100 | 4 points by rjpruitt16 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5
    ×0.85 95 | 22 points by novlrdotcom 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Semi lucrative careers after tech?
    ×1.62 82 | 13 points by hnthrow10282910 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification?
    ×0.69 121 | 4 points by player_piano 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is there a "mouse" for parallel work?
    ×0.46 116 | 3 points by ckmar 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Can't we think out of the box to kill the tumor?
    ×0.87 111 | 6 points by kinj28 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Apple please cache my music
    ×0.31 | 2 points by zirkuswurstikus 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman
    ×1.49 108 | 38 points by bigmattystyles 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI the Singularity and where we are
    ×0.25 | 2 points by nathanyz 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Point AI at a "Proven" Microkernel?
    ×0.46 114 | 4 points by RantyDave 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you use Copilot in the CLI, App, and IDE?
    ×0.30 133 | 4 points by EspressoGPT 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Repurpose Video Content in Text
    ×0.21 | 2 points by cristyg0101 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Competitors have more analysts. They should not know more than you
    ×0.25 | 2 points by Shmungus 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: I lost any interest in technology. What do I do?
    ×2.58 98 | 10 points by fnoef 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How to rewrite `Claude.md` and install the skill for Opus5 and Fable5
    ×0.27 140 | 5 points by hyhmrright 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Internet is no longer accessible?
    ×1.55 93 | 44 points by cute_boi 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. SOTA on the hardest AI memory benchmark (BEAM, 10M tokens), with a smaller model
    ×0.17 | 2 points by johnnymakes 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you audit your app for compliance?
    ×0.33 139 | 3 points by Luxter 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?
    ×0.45 134 | 35 points by zecice 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Goodbye POSIX, Hello Tea Room: Inside MinervaOS Architecture
    ×0.34 141 | 10 points by xentnex 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects?
    ×0.50 131 | 12 points by johng 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Interview with Boris Cherny [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.75 70 #30 | 64 points by knighthacker 15 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. AI companies buy, scan, shred rare and out-of-print books (news.com.au)
    ×2.14 35 | 3 points by throw0101a 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (pcmag.com)
    ×3.98 23 | 166 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction (tale.fyi)
    ×0.85 37 | 71 points by samuelcole 22 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A World That Answers Back (ilands.ai)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by dloss 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.85 8 | 389 points by quantified 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan (lrb.co.uk)
    ×2.86 48 | 136 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 (sbcl.org)
    ×1.34 18 #18 | 245 points by tmtvl 18 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Learning Rust by writing a Markdown to HTML compiler (andreadimatteo.com)
    ×1.01 44 #68 | 23 points by deotman 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. LLMs and Shaders (amitp.blogspot.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by yurivish 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Webflow: Code as the Source of Truth (webflow.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database (flashpaper.app)
    ×0.59 75 | 25 points by minpym 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Good CLI Design Is Mostly Silence (yarlson.dev)
    ×1.95 50 #53 | 18 points by ankitg12 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Small Instant Website Launcher (nanomo.app)
    ×1.98 | 3 points by mountain-hawk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans enjoy being busy (techspot.com)
    ×1.52 20 | 3 points by robtherobber 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers (micrologics.org)
    ×2.32 1 #6 | 93 points by ankitg12 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Halcyon Dawn (madgoatlabs.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by hvs 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying (ft.com)
    ×3.38 45 | 276 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (plav.in)
    ×2.31 49 | 472 points by aplavin 5 days ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Codex Security (github.com/openai)
    ×2.40 1 #8 | 518 points by bakigul 14 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Shape of Data (2022) (scattered-thoughts.net)
    ×1.14 52 #34 | 5 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Can rent controls ever work? (ft.com)
    ×2.04 10 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Force Engine: Modern "Jedi Engine" Replacement Supporting Dark Forces, Mods (github.com/TheForceEngine)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by klaussilveira 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Behavioral Interventions for Infant Sleep Problems (nih.gov)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)
    ×1.05 58 | 162 points by jcbhmr 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted (github.com/letsseal)
    ×2.04 85 | 93 points by nsokin 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Encryption for YouTube Videos++ (github.com/Kjos)
    ×1.34 135 | 3 points by ktwee 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)
    ×1.75 #2 | 236 points by Error6571 6 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Designing Balanced Dice (colonist.io)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by kamphey 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. From Ukraine and Sudan to Gaza: why have hospitals become a target of war? (theguardian.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by hebelehubele 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions (spacedaily.com)
    ×2.22 42 | 182 points by zdw 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study (lji.org)
    ×3.56 66 #82 | 630 points by codebyaditya 22 hours ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tree Style Tab (mozilla.org)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by Velocifyer 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Easy MQTT Handler 2: multi platform desktop tray to Home Assistant glue (github.com/AtmanActive)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by atmanactive 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. OpenAl, Anthropic ask U.S. government to consider slowing down Al (washingtonpost.com)
    ×4.41 43 | 6 points by fhub 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×1.11 16 #60 | 61 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hierarchical File Systems are Dead (2009) (harvard.edu)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by Tomte 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: AiTextToHandwriting] – Text to Handwriting Converter (aitexttohandwriting.com)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by zhou594660747 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Cloudflarebase – open-source Firebase alternative on Cloudflare (github.com/cloudflarebase)
    ×2.41 101 | 5 points by alex_equimake 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification (europa.eu)
    ×7.13 38 #50 | 614 points by doener 20 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I used D3/React to transform raw GitHub data into an interactive map (github.com/ThierryRakotomanana)
    ×2.09 38 | 3 points by ThierryRakt 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Robust Blockchain Infrastructure (onfinality.io)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by cyrbuzz 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels (vimgolf.ai)
    ×1.07 7 #13 | 11 points by nickandbro 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by joozio 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Donate to GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)
    ×4.58 63 | 246 points by charliebwrites 16 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score (justinflick.com)
    ×1.99 71 | 89 points by pamplemeese 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Salience Labs Wants to Scale Up AI with Silicon Photonics Optical Switch (nextplatform.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How Do I Profile eBPF Code? (naveensrinivasan.com)
    ×0.84 43 #46 | 115 points by snaveen 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 (apple.com)
    ×1.48 35 #52 | 205 points by andor 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. So, you want to make a game engine (2023) (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×0.93 49 #69 | 73 points by kugurerdem 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Allies shrug as US pushes for Strait of Hormuz patrol (politico.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by vrganj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. An introduction to formal proof verification and the Curry-Howard Correspondence (max-amb.github.io)
    ×0.81 49 #83 | 26 points by max-amb 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Canceling "Hey" (chadnauseam.com)
    ×14.13 34 | 287 points by ChadNauseam 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Artist Who Colored Ghibli (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×2.59 69 | 130 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: PR review time decreased by N3MO:impact analyzer (15 days free trial) (n3mo.vercel.app)
    ×1.14 90 | 3 points by RajX_dev 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Topical – A C# event handling library with strong async/await support (github.com/MonoSolid)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by nathan-hello 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. RazTint: Semantic terminal output for Python CLIs (github.com/razbuild)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by realrazdev 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tracked Capabilities for Safer Agents (martinodersky.substack.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by odersky 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts (macrumors.com)
    ×5.89 50 | 251 points by thm 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Advancing Science by Designing for Surprise (science.org)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by paraschopra 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Orchestrator's Tax (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.98 5 | 3 points by javaeeeee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Substack writers, you need a website (elizabethtai.com)
    ×2.74 1 #10 | 567 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???