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  1. Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
    ×3.39 16 #26 | 438 points by superasn 16 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Claude Code vs. Codex vs. GitHub Coding Agent?
    ×0.84 | 2 points by endorphine 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Will human code review still exist a year from now?
    ×1.06 6 | 5 points by changisaac 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?
    ×3.16 66 | 9 points by lagniappe 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?
    ×0.55 45 | 44 points by admissionsguy 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
    ×1.98 67 | 373 points by unsupp0rted 4 days ago | 643 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How would you build second brain in the AI era?
    ×0.57 73 | 7 points by divan 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ChatGPT-5 Can't Do Basic Math
    ×1.10 43 | 13 points by MarcellusDrum 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year
    ×1.80 68 | 270 points by maytc 4 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be
    ×1.07 102 | 119 points by paulwilsonn 1 week ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. GPT-5 streaming requires submission of biometric data
    ×0.73 47 | 18 points by binarymax 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
    ×1.61 64 | 266 points by paulwilsonn 1 week ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Should brain implants be available for everyone as a productivity boost?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by amichail 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are you running local LLMs? What are your key use cases?
    ×1.14 74 | 10 points by briansun 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?
    ×0.39 119 | 32 points by zyruh 2 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
    ×0.63 153 | 116 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Charles Irby has passed away
    ×0.88 77 | 30 points by steven123 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. White Paper: Contribution-Based Governance for Developer Communities
    ×0.29 116 | 4 points by ff12wq111 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What's Your Favorite LLM –and Why?
    ×1.18 65 | 5 points by zyruh 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
    ×1.14 138 | 238 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Recommendations for specification management software?
    ×0.34 141 | 7 points by gusmally 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Which processor to pick for learning assembly?
    ×0.73 107 | 7 points by shivajikobardan 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Thing I learned this year was keeping a work journal
    ×1.97 86 | 11 points by Muromec 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Flycrypto – Book Flights and Hotels with Bitcoin and Crypto
    ×0.40 155 | 3 points by flycrypto 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why Did Mercurial Die?:(
    ×0.77 149 | 29 points by sergiotapia 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Wywd with a 256gb/40c 300tb/month server?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by AgentMatrixAI 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects?
    ×0.91 148 | 49 points by pillefitz 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Using Stripe Atlas to start a LLC for a small side project?
    ×0.39 158 | 4 points by zffr 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. CuWise – AI-Powered CUDA Optimization Assistant
    ×0.09 | 2 points by raghu_dev 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How does GCP detect crypto mining within a VM?
    ×0.33 160 | 4 points by drydenwilliams 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor (pixieditor.net)
    ×2.54 100 | 402 points by ksymph 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation (github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson)
    ×4.01 2 #5 | 1001 points by wompapumpum 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Fine-tuning GPT-OSS-20B (google.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by tosh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome (colton.dev)
    ×4.42 19 | 925 points by coltonv 3 days ago | 641 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Telo MT1 (telotrucks.com)
    ×2.64 80 | 625 points by turtleyacht 6 days ago | 618 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December (open-web-advocacy.org)
    ×4.97 29 | 440 points by mtomweb 3 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. All About Transformer Inference (jax-ml.github.io)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Bluestein 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Doctors horrified after Google's healthcare AI makes up body part (futurism.com)
    ×1.97 49 | 3 points by lentoutcry 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Linux laptop PCI dss at ovhcloud (ovhcloud.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by based2 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AdBlock Tester: test your AdBlock extensions (adblock-tester.com)
    ×2.38 22 | 4 points by fanf2 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills (hadid.dev)
    ×4.39 103 | 523 points by mustaphah 1 week ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Bringing Tech News from HN to My Community (sh4jid.me)
    ×1.04 129 | 3 points by sh4jid 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace (instavm.io)
    ×3.46 2 #1 | 812 points by mkagenius 17 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs (github.com/steveyegge)
    ×1.13 17 #19 | 128 points by simonpure 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Installing Older Versions of Visual Studio 2022 (builttoroam.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by olvy0 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition (projecthyperion.org)
    ×2.00 23 | 359 points by codeulike 2 days ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: HMPL – Small Template Language for Rendering UI from Server to Client (github.com/hmpl-language)
    ×0.54 144 | 16 points by aanthonymax 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: QuickMaffs – Practice Fraction Addition (quickmaffs.com)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by ducksbunny 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Partially Matching Zig Enums (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.69 1 #2 | 52 points by ingve 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Technical issues of separation in function cells and value cells (1988) (dreamsongs.com)
    ×0.37 51 #49 | 11 points by Jtsummers 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025 (macrumors.com)
    ×2.69 36 #80 | 105 points by behnamoh 16 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Visualizing quaternions, an explorable video series (eater.net)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by uncircle 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds (science.org)
    ×2.25 51 | 417 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The untold impact of cancellation (pretty.direct)
    ×4.37 113 | 391 points by cbeach 1 week ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Creating a Binary Puzzle Game (taengo.vercel.app)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by alexandergekov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements (sirre.al)
    ×1.01 29 #33 | 40 points by dmsnell 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Lichess Mobile App Official Release (lichess.org)
    ×2.98 52 | 5 points by somethingp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. One shot terminal oneliner in Python (respiroc.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by etrertyyu 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. 3D Line Drawings (amritkwatra.com)
    ×2.51 69 | 317 points by tansh 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme (github.com/rolandoam)
    ×0.67 156 | 47 points by funkaster 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I developed the logging, notification back end for your app (notifylog.com)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by ata11ata 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 6 #7 | 60 points by pentestercrab 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Don't use Redis as a rate limiter (medium.com)
    ×1.52 4 #59 | 40 points by 5pl1n73r 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why have blue whales stopped singing? The mystery worrying scientists (aljazeera.com)
    ×1.68 19 | 3 points by YeGoblynQueenne 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models (anthropic.com)
    ×1.92 83 | 408 points by itchyjunk 5 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Unmasking the Sea Star Killer (biographic.com)
    ×1.02 17 #28 | 70 points by sohkamyung 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Foundry (YC F24) is hiring staff-level product engineers (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Midnight: An ORM that is only for SQLite (github.com/andrewitsover)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by andrewitsover 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (pcgamer.com)
    ×4.51 58 | 590 points by croes 5 days ago | 580 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Windows XP Professional (win32.run)
    ×2.41 12 | 404 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Genie 3: A new frontier for world models (deepmind.google)
    ×5.52 3 | 1490 points by bradleyg223 3 days ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Scar – A programming language for easy concurrency and parallelism (scarlang.pages.dev)
    ×0.60 174 | 7 points by death_eternal 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude (github.com/synthetic-lab)
    ×0.82 40 | 97 points by reissbaker 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a tool that lets you summon AI in any app or website (useinset.com)
    ×1.16 135 | 3 points by blaumaus 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser – demo site with AI chat (andreinwald.github.io)
    ×0.98 145 | 144 points by andreinwald 6 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Chilli – A lightweight microframework for CLIs in Zig
    ×0.79 163 | 7 points by habedi0 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773) (archives.gov)
    ×1.81 43 #78 | 277 points by freediver 2 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Star leaky app of the week: StarDict (theregister.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by based2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Claude Opus 4.1 (anthropic.com)
    ×4.38 21 | 831 points by meetpateltech 3 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Window Activation (broulik.de)
    ×1.33 25 #27 | 208 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself (skeptrune.com)
    ×1.89 118 | 328 points by skeptrune 1 week ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Wordle" with the first 1000 Digits of Pi (subjectle.com)
    ×1.72 115 | 4 points by bezo226 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Tambo – build generative UX web apps (github.com/tambo-ai)
    ×0.28 169 | 9 points by milst 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Did California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Reduce Employment? (nber.org)
    ×2.24 1 #3 | 24 points by lxm 1 hour ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge (matthewnewton.com)
    ×1.34 12 #20 | 96 points by mattnewton 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Trayce – Burp Suite for developers (trayce.dev)
    ×0.61 49 #47 | 73 points by ev_dev3 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Mastering Margin Collapsing (mozilla.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by aanthonymax 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Arch-Router: Aligning LLM Routing with Human Preferences (arxiv.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief (notebookcheck.net)
    ×3.77 41 | 452 points by voxadam 3 days ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I built an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) for some friends (rishabhegde.substack.com)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by vertoc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???