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  1. Ask HN: Do you run A/B Tests?
    ×0.41 26 | 3 points by hackeryogi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AgentObs – a hook that blocks Claude Code before you hit your limit
    ×0.55 | 2 points by klars-ai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is .org now Trump-controlled?
    ×1.38 23 | 18 points by selfhoster1312 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×2.91 40 | 511 points by leumon 3 days ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?
    ×0.46 64 | 15 points by isomorph 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Best way to archive 25 years of emails
    ×0.35 112 | 4 points by astatine 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's a Good Physical Printer?
    ×0.32 127 | 8 points by xrd 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why do we need MCP?
    ×0.34 84 | 10 points by jwally 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Alternatives to Fail2ban?
    ×0.33 134 | 6 points by jech 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
    ×0.24 129 | 5 points by gmarkwa 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.69 118 | 22 points by FireUpTheTorren 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What BOYK AI client are you using?
    ×0.14 139 | 3 points by yeeyang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why are onionv3 services not more popular?
    ×0.16 133 | 6 points by smalltorch 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?
    ×0.67 115 | 12 points by dhruv3006 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Any blogs/personal notes from game devs who self-published a game?
    ×0.36 143 | 5 points by ssenssei 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.76 123 | 78 points by kaladan 6 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is observability over the dependencies in codebases still a problem?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by enismustafaj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
    ×1.65 81 | 85 points by tonymet 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Hacker News Client with Claude Code and Codex Integration (github.com/nilbuild)
    ×1.41 100 | 12 points by kamranahmedse 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore (github.com/ahmadpiran)
    ×0.51 90 | 49 points by ahmadpiran 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Supersaturated Sodium Acetate [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by skibz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Self-hosted mobile-friendly web UI for Herdr agents (github.com/luiscleto)
    ×1.73 18 | 4 points by lfcc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How Culture Shapes the Stories We Tell About Our Emotions (2024) (behavioralscientist.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by the-mitr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How Dactyl Works (dactyl.dev)
    ×0.89 69 | 72 points by anorak27 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Teamnaire – Discover Your Role in a Team (teamnaire.com)
    ×1.31 104 | 4 points by humphrey_liu 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders (ssx360.github.io)
    ×1.70 89 | 240 points by ssx360 6 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps (jupyter.org)
    ×1.73 7 #11 | 57 points by arjxn-py 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Pop-2000, a lingua-franca POP-2 dialect (neocities.org)
    ×0.60 49 #39 | 23 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes (gadgetreview.com)
    ×4.78 54 | 102 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: iOS app for learning any song on piano with AI music transcription (apple.com)
    ×1.52 142 | 4 points by katielb 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (tomshardware.com)
    ×6.42 11 #15 | 451 points by shscs911 10 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Creepy Crawlies (kernel.org)
    ×2.84 11 #60 | 18 points by jay_kyburz 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Idlen: Ads in the IDE, in AI chats, and a self-serve ads manager (idlen.io)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by paulidenfounder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday (npr.org)
    ×1.59 4 | 64 points by topspin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go (github.com/leodeim)
    ×0.68 119 | 62 points by ygagaga 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace (github.com/SWUFE-DB-Group)
    ×0.52 136 | 21 points by thisispi 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Open tool for testing your AI Agents (No LLM) (github.com/IdoGol24)
    ×1.27 137 | 5 points by CarryOn1212 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Physically Immutable Optical Archive Libraries (savartus.com)
    ×1.61 9 #75 | 5 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe (acko.net)
    ×1.08 52 #80 | 154 points by leephillips 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: A SLM Optimized for Tool Calling (neurometric.ai)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by robmay 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Internet Archive's Vintage AI Collection (archive.org)
    ×1.78 3 #81 | 22 points by OuterVale 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: DeepSeekGUI – A Windows desktop client for DeepSeek's coding agent (github.com/See-Sol-Lab)
    ×1.52 116 | 4 points by Goumang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI? (hnstats.com)
    ×1.09 94 | 73 points by beekthos 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: The Thousand – 1k founders, 1 question, one book (thethousand.co)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by jabed 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (louisabraham.github.io)
    ×4.18 35 | 688 points by Labo333 3 days ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. State of the Map 2026 (stateofthemap.org)
    ×1.22 43 | 182 points by lode 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Corporate profits hit highest share since WWII, as worker payouts wilt (ft.com)
    ×4.23 47 | 136 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps (blog.google)
    ×13.01 46 | 43 points by lr0 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tinkering is Up: browser-based local reader for Hacker feeds (future-secured.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by adrianwaj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Get your Windows license refund (refund4freedom.org)
    ×3.41 14 | 723 points by smartmic 2 days ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Twelve-Factor App (2025) (12factor.net)
    ×1.73 50 #66 | 310 points by jxmorris12 2 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven (ckardaris.com)
    ×4.07 14 #70 | 1031 points by ckardaris 1 day ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Get(key) in libmdbx by up to x1000 using a lock‑free cache on top of a B‑tree (github.com/orgs)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by erthink 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Secret ratio property of cubic functions (youtube.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by vismit2000 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms (latimes.com)
    ×4.12 57 | 160 points by measurablefunc 14 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality (optimizedbyotto.com)
    ×3.36 19 | 63 points by jruohonen 21 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
    ×1.95 5 #19 | 317 points by davidmckenna 13 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Bolnee-Chat – Self Hosted Chatbot Integration in Your Business Website (github.com/AniketWathore)
    ×1.07 16 #36 | 28 points by AniketWathore 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Practice where countries are in the world
    ×0.58 | 2 points by blackbrokkoli 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Awe Radio, free 24/7 internet radio stations for anyone (aweradio.app)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by vbst 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice (abc.net.au)
    ×1.69 13 #26 | 37 points by martyvis 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection” (thehealthy.com)
    ×2.76 33 | 198 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits (hanselman.com)
    ×1.22 60 | 98 points by speckx 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: 3D Embodiment of your Git repo (github.com/michaelaz774)
    ×1.23 108 | 3 points by michael774 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter (github.com/gbin)
    ×1.32 1 #62 | 73 points by gbin 13 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Software project folder structure for isolating agent scope (graphthinking.blogspot.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by physicsgraph 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Hy4 Preview (simonwillison.net)
    ×0.98 5 | 3 points by kyisaiah47 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Games for Scholarships (itch.io)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: My startup-idea scanner scored 500 ideas; the best got 6.3/10 (1mil.app)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by fayerman 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Some Scientists Have 'Magic Hands' in the Lab. This A.I. Is Learning Why. (nytimes.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by mitchbob 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. “Weird” is a weird word (deadlanguagesociety.com)
    ×1.13 65 | 87 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.71 68 | 76 points by speckx 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Recovering Corrupt Zip Files (construct.net)
    ×0.98 52 #44 | 68 points by AshleysBrain 19 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal (nytimes.com)
    ×4.14 33 #72 | 624 points by jbegley 2 days ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Yet another minimal and lightweight terminal multiplexer written in Go. (github.com/patriceckhart)
    ×1.12 97 | 34 points by patriceckhart 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)
    ×1.78 40 | 5 points by am-gm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Uruky reached 300 monthly active accounts! (uruky.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by BrunoBernardino 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws (epa.gov)
    ×3.71 34 | 257 points by Levitating 2 days ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Don't use musl if you care about performance (brokk.ai)
    ×1.57 59 | 107 points by jbellis 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: OpenLayer – local Photoshop plugin for ComfyUI (inpaint/outpaint demo) (github.com/MehranMarxian)
    ×1.54 125 | 7 points by HMUSER 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS (fdeploy.com)
    ×0.54 131 | 35 points by dt3ft 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language (r136a1.dev)
    ×0.75 56 #50 | 75 points by defrost 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Visual Analysis of Binary Files (binvis.io)
    ×0.91 57 #86 | 113 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walk through (flostep.dev)
    ×0.98 150 | 27 points by pandurang90 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Senior Software Engineer
    ×2.03 37 | 4 points by sshahu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Blast – Open-source sandbox-as-a-service (github.com/stanford-mast)
    ×1.20 111 | 11 points by calebhwin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: IndexFlow – Open-source indexing infrastructure built with Rust (github.com/IndexFlowing)
    ×0.49 105 | 22 points by mandarinclips 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.83 13 #14 | 70 points by sparsesignal 1 hour ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B (businessinsider.com)
    ×7.15 14 #76 | 1970 points by mfiguiere 3 days ago | 908 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.35 49 #33 | 270 points by ingve 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???