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  1. Robotics development made dead simple (open source)
    ×0.23 50 #28 | 7 points by Ekami 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Point AI at a "Proven" Microkernel?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by RantyDave 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
    ×0.94 2 | 41 points by Jgoauh 8 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Semi lucrative careers after tech?
    ×1.69 3 | 9 points by hnthrow10282910 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Can't we think out of the box to kill the tumor?
    ×0.47 88 | 3 points by kinj28 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Repurpose Video Content in Text
    ×0.34 | 2 points by cristyg0101 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification?
    ×0.90 71 | 3 points by player_piano 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Competitors have more analysts. They should not know more than you
    ×0.40 | 2 points by Shmungus 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: I lost any interest in technology. What do I do?
    ×3.83 12 | 10 points by fnoef 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support
    ×1.32 55 | 43 points by KellyCriterion 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5
    ×0.81 67 | 20 points by novlrdotcom 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you use Copilot in the CLI, App, and IDE?
    ×0.32 109 | 4 points by EspressoGPT 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. SOTA on the hardest AI memory benchmark (BEAM, 10M tokens), with a smaller model
    ×0.18 | 2 points by johnnymakes 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you audit your app for compliance?
    ×0.38 113 | 3 points by Luxter 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman
    ×1.50 103 | 37 points by bigmattystyles 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to rewrite `Claude.md` and install the skill for Opus5 and Fable5
    ×0.28 129 | 5 points by hyhmrright 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: If you left tech, what would you do next?
    ×1.58 86 | 3 points by andrewstetsenko 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Can anti-fraud make large-scale attacks unprofitable?
    ×0.33 130 | 3 points by jezzwar 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Internet is no longer accessible?
    ×1.54 82 | 43 points by cute_boi 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Thoughts on AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 for Local AI?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by mempirate 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is there legal risk in AI memory?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by sarjann 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What do you use local models for?
    ×0.50 131 | 3 points by tjomk 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects?
    ×0.52 128 | 12 points by johng 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Goodbye POSIX, Hello Tea Room: Inside MinervaOS Architecture
    ×0.35 132 | 10 points by xentnex 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere?
    ×0.57 127 | 24 points by vanessa1211 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?
    ×0.44 133 | 34 points by zecice 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Claude's code comments – too much or just enough?
    ×1.02 126 | 8 points by lalaleslieeeee 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What apps are you building?
    ×1.36 112 | 14 points by totaldude87 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015) (aramcoworld.com)
    ×1.13 12 #12 | 56 points by jxub 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Recursion is lying to you (gaborkoos.com)
    ×0.99 12 #14 | 26 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (pcmag.com)
    ×3.67 38 #65 | 138 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Golden hour is almost never an hour (lkforge.com)
    ×1.07 59 #72 | 4 points by lucianBKR 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction (tale.fyi)
    ×0.84 7 #82 | 69 points by samuelcole 9 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Testing Models (testingmodels.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by handfuloflight 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×1.74 77 | 281 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.75 31 #40 | 278 points by AnhTho_FR 6 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ubuntu's TPM encryption switches to snap kernel that blocks deb kernel packages (bare.systems)
    ×1.48 33 #51 | 29 points by 6jQhWNYh 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Couple Stalked by eBay Settle for $56M (nytimes.com)
    ×3.12 32 #77 | 8 points by xnx 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change (propublica.org)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by gmays 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. DConf 2026 in London (dconf.org)
    ×0.85 50 | 117 points by teleforce 23 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. It was surprisingly hard to break CloudNativePG replication (coroot.com)
    ×1.01 58 #84 | 4 points by nikolay_sivko 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence Rumor Roiling AI Twitter (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.52 30 | 3 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Backstory: Comment on any piece of content on the internet (backstory.today)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by BusterBladeZX 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. OpenReviewer: A Specialized LLM for Generating Critical Scientific Paper Reviews (aclanthology.org)
    ×1.02 42 #45 | 6 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (techdirt.com)
    ×3.20 16 | 334 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines (github.com/libsm64)
    ×1.20 66 | 193 points by klaussilveira 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: DocSlicer – Structure-aware PDF/DOCX/PPTX parser, 31 pages/sec on CPU (github.com/DocSlicer)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by JelleDM 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Poolside Desktop Assistant – multi harness ACP app for macOS (poolside.ai)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by appleton 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Ctrlb-decompose: Strip the noise from logs before sending to LLMs (github.com/ctrlb-hq)
    ×0.92 3 | 48 points by ruhani_grover 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Nutaan – AI-powered voice calling assistant and live chat widget (nutaan.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by nutaan 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A Look Behind the Data: How Whoop Measures Heart Rate (whoop.com)
    ×1.48 35 | 3 points by brandonb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: A tool to privately timestamp a claim and reveal it on schedule (sebmellen.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by sebmellen 21 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Verifiable receipts for firmware CVE reproduction (github.com/prevotai)
    ×1.24 36 | 3 points by TheLuisBolivar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Perspective 5.0 (github.com/perspective-dev)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by texodus 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Cosmos47, a public chronological feed without algorithms (cosmos47.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by boredyeti 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' (slow-journalism.com)
    ×1.51 6 #10 | 207 points by speerer 6 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Beakdown – a game inspired by Joust/Skirmish (beakdown.fun)
    ×1.00 42 #58 | 7 points by novlrdotcom 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.04 89 | 81 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. FIFA plan for Kushner-backed $20B operation to run World Cup meets UEFA fury (apnews.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by petethomas 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a 'Witch Hunt' (404media.co)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by Jimmc414 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI the Singularity and where we are
    ×0.58 | 1 points by nathanyz 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 (apple.com)
    ×1.50 12 #41 | 190 points by andor 12 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Purple Hammer – construction takeoff and estimating in Tauri/Rust/WASM (purple-hammer.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by AriIs 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Workplaces look for cheaper AI as 'tokenmaxxing' fades as a corporate fad (apnews.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by petethomas 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: NoClick – Build always-on agents with your existing AI subscriptions (noclick.com)
    ×1.34 92 | 4 points by dhruvyads 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Every nuclear test from 1945 to 2017, on an interactive map (allthenukes.art)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by ewerx 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: PBTune – Evolutionary auto-tuning for PostgreSQL (no ML required) (github.com/alshawai)
    ×2.21 111 | 4 points by alshawai 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux (github.com/ghaziwali)
    ×0.77 15 #26 | 22 points by ghaziwali 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. "Uncensored" open LLMs are measurably more optimistic than their base models (arxiv.org)
    ×1.64 28 #67 | 25 points by oleczek 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Canceling "Hey" (chadnauseam.com)
    ×14.88 28 | 278 points by ChadNauseam 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Teaching Kids Forth (gracefulliberty.com)
    ×0.90 104 | 110 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Minute – Offline meeting notes on macOS with Whisper and llama.cpp (github.com/mraza007)
    ×4.23 7 | 8 points by mraza007 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Higgs, a local AI CLI for Proton Mail (no cloud, no telemetry) (github.com/higgscli)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by cyberflux 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Substack writers, you need a website (elizabethtai.com)
    ×2.45 3 #2 | 349 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification (europa.eu)
    ×6.98 25 #32 | 467 points by doener 7 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Cynative – Read-only CLI in Go that explains your live infrastructure (github.com/cynative)
    ×0.64 53 #80 | 11 points by szin 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Dice: Detailed Inter-Chiplet End-to-End PHY Modeling for Chiplet Simulation (arxiv.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Jimmc414 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AIssuer – calibrated on 500 hard issues from mature software (github.com/hi-mundo)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by hi-mundo 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tesla buys the output of a new 140 MW Texas solar farm (electrek.co)
    ×2.08 8 | 4 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study (lji.org)
    ×3.31 12 #22 | 510 points by codebyaditya 9 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.80 21 #27 | 84 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History (simpleflying.com)
    ×1.76 47 #50 | 45 points by cainxinth 9 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What's Wrong with American Studies? (radicallypragmatic.org)
    ×0.96 64 #61 | 5 points by barry-cotter 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the Incident (huggingface.co)
    ×7.75 47 #69 | 32 points by artninja1988 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SessionRadar – Monitor Claude Code and Codex sessions from your menu bar (sessionradar.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by mariohercules 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by Bender 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Repo Autopsy – Transparent heuristics for repository install friction (zdfb20650.workers.dev)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by echoscarrie 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype (theregister.com)
    ×2.08 23 #83 | 12 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life (wired.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by littlexsparkee 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Minions Army Harness – Small Version of Claude Tag (github.com/baristaGeek)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by baristaGeek 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???