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  1. Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with <name> as an XML Tag to <n>
    ×0.48 18 | 5 points by exabrial 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised?
    ×0.41 48 | 3 points by marvin_nora 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I made my favorite AI tool
    ×0.22 | 2 points by sebringj 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by YuukiJyoudai 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Should I add this acknowledgement/shoutout by xAI/Grok to my resume?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by aehsan4004 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. We Built UltrafastSecp256k1 Up to 51% Faster ECC Across x86,ARM64,and RISC-V
    ×0.26 76 | 3 points by shrecshrec 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do US presidents have less fiduciary liability than CEOs?
    ×1.81 4 | 3 points by stopbulying 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Open-Source Bionic Reading Chrome Extension (MIT)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by sdgnbs 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Orvia – Spin up a real-time room, share files, leave – everything disappears
    ×0.38 | 2 points by yc_surajkr 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.27 80 | 7 points by sujayk_33 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.49 56 | 1143 points by chaseadam17 5 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?
    ×1.20 62 | 13 points by arm32 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.30 91 | 10 points by dakiol 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
    ×0.83 87 | 11 points by moomoo11 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects
    ×0.62 96 | 7 points by amin2011 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Claude crashed? Am I playing for the tokens for it to fix itself?
    ×1.16 92 | 6 points by jrs235 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?
    ×1.52 124 | 5 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do You Love My "Assess Idea" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by burnerToBetOut 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Peer validation platform for engineering skills (inspired by X community notes)
    ×0.13 138 | 4 points by ms_sv 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×1.10 106 | 32 points by zekejohn 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?
    ×0.68 119 | 11 points by givemeethekeys 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What (other) jobs do you think of doing?
    ×0.47 94 | 12 points by penguin_booze 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How Real-Time Voice Agents Work: Media Infrastructure and Latency
    ×0.20 146 | 3 points by gokuljs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.38 142 | 11 points by kwar13 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.10 144 | 23 points by TazeTSchnitzel 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.48 147 | 12 points by fdneng 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Who Should I Talk To?
    ×1.82 140 | 7 points by 3pt14159 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Reddit Ads support is leaking PII and actively crossing user sessions
    ×0.85 111 | 18 points by arashvakil 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?
    ×0.30 145 | 8 points by arboles 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.49 143 | 30 points by causal 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall (rename.world)
    ×3.53 53 | 54 points by kafked 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations (github.com/dronnix)
    ×0.83 69 #29 | 3 points by platzhirsch 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. 'A Big Fuck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center (commondreams.org)
    ×2.85 85 | 56 points by abdelhousni 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Pq – Simple, durable background tasks in Python using Postgres (github.com/ricwo)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by ricwo 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: AI writes code – humans fix it (humansfix.ai)
    ×0.67 104 | 5 points by stasman 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.19 41 #44 | 88 points by ingve 17 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Finding forall-exists Hyperbugs using Symbolic Execution (acm.org)
    ×0.61 56 #81 | 45 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Sam Altman Says Companies Are 'AI Washing' Layoffs (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.28 36 | 3 points by herbertl 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Despite $50B Losses, Battery Progress Points to Europe EV Gains (forbes.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by breve 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Acme Weather (acmeweather.com)
    ×1.91 23 | 239 points by cryptoz 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. From 'buy America' to 'bye America', Wall Street exodus gathers pace (reuters.com)
    ×3.51 86 | 51 points by Bondi_Blue 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. When etcd crashes, check your disks first (nubificus.co.uk)
    ×0.74 77 | 45 points by _ananos_ 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99 (github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon)
    ×0.67 98 | 56 points by lowsun 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not (hypha.pub)
    ×3.47 31 | 47 points by MYEUHD 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI (github.com/IronsideXXVI)
    ×1.41 50 | 252 points by IronsideXXVI 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: How to Verify USDC Payments on Base Without a Payment Processor (paywatcher.dev)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by Sem_pre 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Nexus – A social platform where your GitHub profile is your identity (nexus-fqt4.onrender.com)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by tita-n 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Script Snap – Extract code from videos (script-snap.com)
    ×0.60 105 | 14 points by liumw1203 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: 3mins.news – AI daily news briefing in 17 languages, designed to end (3mins.news)
    ×1.66 134 | 4 points by ethan_zhao 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Robots, Grannies and Meaning-Adjusted Work Days (twitter.com/notevenwrongg)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by georgestrakhov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS (voxjong.com)
    ×0.93 11 #8 | 76 points by rofko 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Living in the Inflection Point (brittanyellich.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by mooreds 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Discovered a malicious Chrome extension targeting Apple App Store developers (toborrm.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by toborrm9 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. New algorithm is designed to obey the laws of physics (epfl.ch)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI
    ×1.10 | 2 points by daringrain32781 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Spain has blocked access to freedom.gov (twitter.com/Pirat_Nation)
    ×5.03 5 #7 | 57 points by akyuu 1 hour ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents (github.com/olserra)
    ×0.51 19 #16 | 9 points by olserra 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Building a (Bad) Local AI Coding Agent Harness from Scratch (appsoftware.com)
    ×1.44 52 #30 | 4 points by appsoftware 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Bit-Fields (mocelik.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Minimalist Glitch Art Maker (100% client-side) (yuyz0112.github.io)
    ×0.67 34 | 24 points by yz-yu 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard (hawksley.org)
    ×3.69 #1 | 187 points by saeedesmaili 2 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Unicode's confusables.txt and NFKC normalization disagree on 31 characters (paultendo.github.io)
    ×2.66 8 #77 | 12 points by birdculture 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Training AI Without the Data You Don't Have (eventsourcingdb.io)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by goloroden 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Tears of Donald Knuth (acm.org)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Drowse – Nix dynamic derivations made easy (github.com/figsoda)
    ×1.86 51 | 4 points by figsoda 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums (popsci.com)
    ×2.57 19 #31 | 155 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Looking Back on Phabricator for Code Review (davidgomes.com)
    ×1.05 70 #50 | 7 points by davidgomes 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Japanese Woodblock Print Search (ukiyo-e.org)
    ×1.17 22 #35 | 187 points by curmudgeon22 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Music Discovery (secondtrack.co)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by eriatarka 16 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Cc-md – Zero-cost Obsidian sync across iPhone, Mac, and GitHub (github.com/yuukiLike)
    ×2.86 97 | 7 points by YuukiJyoudai 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Dq – pipe-based CLI for querying CSV, JSON, Avro, and Parquet files (github.com/razeghi71)
    ×0.88 126 | 3 points by razeghi71 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California (latimes.com)
    ×1.57 9 #20 | 27 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust (harudagondi.space)
    ×1.37 27 #43 | 246 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenScan (openscan.eu)
    ×1.49 40 | 226 points by joebig 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Trump raises tariffs to 15% day after Supreme Court ruling (bbc.co.uk)
    ×7.80 63 | 42 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: MuJoCo React (github.com/noah-wardlow)
    ×1.62 25 | 3 points by noahwardlow 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over (thelocalstack.eu)
    ×6.03 8 #45 | 1395 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects (loonlang.com)
    ×1.60 31 | 85 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia (makie.org)
    ×1.11 82 | 196 points by simondanisch 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fix your tools (ochagavia.nl)
    ×1.43 2 #4 | 147 points by vinhnx 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Keep Android Open (f-droid.org)
    ×7.63 #46 | 2153 points by LorenDB 2 days ago | 717 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Novel bond coat material enables thermal barrier coatings to operate at 1,200°C (techxplore.com)
    ×1.96 2 #54 | 4 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)
    ×0.98 113 | 93 points by simquat 6 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: DevBind – I made a Rust tool for zero-config local HTTPS and DNS (github.com/Its-Satyajit)
    ×1.34 132 | 3 points by its-satyajit 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon (phys.org)
    ×0.89 43 #67 | 70 points by bookmtn 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Alva Energy (alvaenergy.io)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by chickenbig 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Global Intelligence Crisis (citriniresearch.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by tin7in 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Personal Side Project: Open-Sourcing My VPS Security Toolkit (github.com/jaymunshi)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by jaymunshi 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Aeterna – Self-hosted dead man's switch (github.com/alpyxn)
    ×1.32 11 | 3 points by alpyxn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Turn Dependabot off (filippo.io)
    ×2.66 1 | 631 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???