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  1. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×3.77 #2 | 142 points by chaseadam17 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.49 6 | 19 points by causal 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key)
    ×0.13 | 2 points by Picknar 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.92 64 | 42 points by ColinWright 21 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.94 88 | 77 points by moomoo11 4 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.34 105 | 12 points by jrs235 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.44 104 | 7 points by Poomba 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.42 114 | 16 points by rtrgrd 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.24 142 | 17 points by catapart 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
    ×0.95 102 | 14 points by mr-pink 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
    ×0.29 126 | 4 points by endorphine 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×0.90 138 | 40 points by gusmally 5 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.45 125 | 12 points by incognito124 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.57 147 | 22 points by tefloon69 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?
    ×0.40 128 | 15 points by surume 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Microsoft Edge self-destroys updating it in Debian based distros
    ×0.26 122 | 7 points by usr1106 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.18 149 | 6 points by jmount 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.53 150 | 13 points by syx 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How's Business These Days for Fiverr Freelancers?
    ×2.38 90 | 12 points by burnerToBetOut 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?
    ×1.11 85 | 38 points by 101008 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project
    ×0.39 146 | 5 points by firefoxd 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health
    ×0.65 148 | 10 points by kinj28 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: LLMs helping you read papers and books
    ×0.61 141 | 8 points by amelius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.38 153 | 6 points by AlePra00 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×0.83 140 | 12 points by absoluteunit1 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.30 154 | 5 points by kart23 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities?
    ×1.06 139 | 12 points by orange_puff 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What's the best realtime, local, TTS solution? Live call interpretation
    ×0.38 143 | 6 points by Wright007 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.52 151 | 5 points by b3rkus 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.32 152 | 7 points by jerlendds 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tadpole the Language for Scraping 0.2.0 – Complex Control Flow, Stealth and More
    ×0.67 120 | 6 points by zachperkitny 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Fast sorting networks, branchless by design (00f.net)
    ×1.11 3 #51 | 8 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School (404media.co)
    ×1.83 19 #56 | 77 points by trinsic2 6 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: OpenEntropy – 47 hardware entropy sources from your computer's physics (github.com/amenti-labs)
    ×1.67 117 | 4 points by amentiflow 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Infrastructure-as-Code is the wrong abstraction (defang.io)
    ×2.03 16 | 3 points by lionello 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe (wero-wallet.eu)
    ×3.13 45 | 130 points by tilt 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×0.82 68 #65 | 90 points by TMWNN 23 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Relay – I built a modern web-based IRC/Discord replacement (moltic.dev)
    ×2.02 70 #80 | 9 points by redmageinc 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
    ×2.25 3 #88 | 385 points by 0bytematt 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Listen to sounds around the world and guess the location (vikborges.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by bit_nomad 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI (github.com/gpasquero)
    ×0.74 84 | 95 points by gpasquero 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. After 800 episodes, 'The Simpsons' creators look back and ahead (apnews.com)
    ×1.19 6 #22 | 25 points by 1659447091 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Write Transactions Are a Footgun with Rust's SQLx and SQLite (emschwartz.me)
    ×0.87 70 #47 | 9 points by emschwartz 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Four Column ASCII (2017) (garbagecollected.org)
    ×1.63 1 #54 | 325 points by tempodox 19 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)
    ×1.04 52 #76 | 99 points by lorisdev 23 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Writing a C++20M:N Scheduler from Scratch (EBR, Work-Stealing) (github.com/lixiasky-back)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by lixiasky 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AI optimism is a class privilege (joshcollinsworth.com)
    ×5.98 48 | 130 points by ragall 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: JeffTube (jmail.world)
    ×4.41 95 | 46 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks (github.com/dataspren-analytics)
    ×2.08 93 | 4 points by alx-net 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Interactive Chord Finder, Free Piano Scale and Chord Explorer (interactivechordfinder.com)
    ×2.39 115 | 7 points by magikMaker 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Write native binary web apps with TypeScript and Express (github.com/tsoniclang)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by jeswin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. I swear the UFO is coming any minute (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.18 7 #6 | 29 points by Ariarule 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Gentoo on Codeberg (gentoo.org)
    ×1.67 3 #7 | 221 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Epstein Document Searcher (epsteinalysis.com)
    ×1.96 20 | 3 points by paulpauper 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Accord – Serverless Discord Clone Running on Cloudflare Workers (github.com/Rkm1999)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by rkm1999 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+ (twitter.com/MeshnetCapital)
    ×12.66 70 | 116 points by doener 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
    ×0.86 47 | 113 points by icwtyjj 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.67 24 #70 | 187 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Sarvam Edge (sarvam.ai)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by stareatgoats 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. API Error: Claude's response exceeded the 32000 output token maximum (github.com/anthropics)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by gku 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Air – Open-source black box for AI agents (tamper-evident audit trails) (github.com/nostalgicskinco)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by shotwellj 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (bbc.com)
    ×3.26 46 | 547 points by colinprince 22 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why I don't think AGI is imminent (dlants.me)
    ×2.97 76 | 136 points by anonymid 2 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)
    ×1.65 4 #8 | 252 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. LayerV – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – $125k–150k equity and benefits (layerv.ai)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by joeollis 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How not to answer the salary question (adatosystems.com)
    ×2.44 56 | 96 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A reputation index from mitchellh's Vouch trust files (vouchbook.dev)
    ×0.52 135 | 18 points by rosslazer 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. This behavior can be a turning point for families caring for a dementia patient (npr.org)
    ×1.91 17 #60 | 13 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. EU also investigating as Grok generated 23,000 CSAM images in 11 days (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.73 5 #87 | 37 points by MBCook 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
    ×0.98 68 | 125 points by tosh 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: GitShow: Replace github.com with gitshow.dev for a visual portfolio (github.com/ofershap)
    ×1.72 91 | 4 points by ofershap 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Myopia is driven by how we use our eyes indoors, new research suggests (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.51 16 #82 | 17 points by bikenaga 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Space Station returns to a full crew complement after a month (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
    ×4.71 18 | 368 points by dClauzel 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life (macrumors.com)
    ×2.51 61 | 111 points by tosh 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality (pennmedicine.org)
    ×1.38 80 | 109 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. History of AT&T Long Lines (telephoneworld.org)
    ×0.88 66 | 81 points by p_ing 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Cancer's safety net: A hidden mechanism lets dangerous mutations thrive (medicalxpress.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by PaulHoule 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM (bashtorio.xyz)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by elijahcham 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What Neptune.ai Got Right (and How to Keep It) (trainy.ai)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by roanakb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door (knock-knock.net)
    ×1.68 71 | 220 points by djkurlander 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Don't pass on small block ciphers (00f.net)
    ×0.71 20 #29 | 48 points by jstrieb 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts (sonarly.com)
    ×0.28 58 #30 | 23 points by Dimittri 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Nederland threatens Polymarket with €420K/week fines for unlicensed gambling (nltimes.nl)
    ×2.42 12 #64 | 36 points by giuliomagnifico 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Scene It SF – Hollywood thinks San Francisco is 3 blocks wide
    ×1.36 130 | 3 points by distribution14 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Claude-engram – Brain-inspired persistent memory, runs inside Claude.ai (github.com/mlapeter)
    ×2.50 121 | 6 points by mlapeter 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.54 1 #48 | 892 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
    ×1.02 70 | 148 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass (geo-racers.com)
    ×0.98 116 | 151 points by pattle 5 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser (boratto.ca)
    ×1.72 63 | 276 points by b44 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???