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  1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.68 9 | 929 points by paveworld 2 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos
    ×0.33 44 | 5 points by iliashad 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×0.70 85 | 133 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 550 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.13 77 | 269 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
    ×1.80 21 | 99 points by goldenmember 15 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week
    ×1.15 30 | 8 points by Steaglsz 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.43 130 | 19 points by jopizio 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.
    ×0.17 111 | 3 points by LowLevelMahn 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.69 117 | 32 points by zcalvin 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1)
    ×0.40 107 | 5 points by anydigital 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.43 127 | 9 points by esher 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.23 124 | 6 points by Dinuda 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
    ×0.32 132 | 5 points by Steaglsz 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.27 138 | 9 points by bigfishhk 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GitHub mutuals on AI in life sciences or bioinformatics
    ×0.26 135 | 5 points by arli_ap 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: EtherPK – an Obsidian and Logseq alternative with prose and blocks (github.com/appsoftwareltd)
    ×1.97 73 | 5 points by gb2d_hn 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (stelabouras.com)
    ×1.97 134 | 4 points by stelabouras 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Martian chaos terrain (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.10 44 #41 | 100 points by tiagod 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. VeloGB10 – A GB10-specific inference engine (github.com/sf-stav)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by colingauvin 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Questions for believers in AI consciousness (endsdontjustifythemeans.com)
    ×2.65 27 | 42 points by cobbzilla 8 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Flash-Agents – DSH as MCP for Claude (github.com/tomw1808)
    ×1.23 61 | 4 points by tomw1808 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor (github.com/kvoltmer)
    ×1.12 80 | 152 points by vltmrkls 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: A live chat on a 3D globe that you can join from any IRC client (bubblerumble.net)
    ×1.45 90 | 4 points by jaekwon 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Third conversation with Claude that Anthropic reported to police since August (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.66 18 | 3 points by felineflock 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Schema-guard, stop AI agents from inventing column names in SQL (github.com/idk-arsh)
    ×1.69 23 | 3 points by arsh9745774 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. DigitalOcean Ends Open Source Credits Program (itsfoss.com)
    ×2.70 13 | 43 points by JamesCoyne 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] (nivdayan.github.io)
    ×0.91 22 #30 | 24 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (1011now.com)
    ×3.66 1 #65 | 518 points by sensanaty 1 day ago | 680 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat (theverge.com)
    ×3.66 8 | 49 points by timpera 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: NetworkX and pyarrow = 6-7x memory savings (github.com/networkx)
    ×1.04 114 | 6 points by adsharma 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Agentlytics – cookieless analytics your AI agent can read and act on (measuremy.site)
    ×1.46 129 | 4 points by developeron29 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
    ×1.47 4 #5 | 126 points by E-Reverance 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. "Told Apart" (frogulis.net)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by frogulis 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I built an application to work with multiple coding agents (crowsnest.app)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by teivz 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
    ×1.53 66 #75 | 139 points by zdw 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have (deadparrotbbs.com)
    ×2.81 65 #79 | 180 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Return of the Cutting-Off Way (liberalcurrents.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Analemma_ 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. It's never been a better time to be an enterprise software buyer (jamespember.substack.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by jep888 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Drakey83's Steam Deals (github.com/Drakey83)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by drakey83 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Jenesis: A Java-native build ecosystem (jenesis.build)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Metal Gear Solid Running Natively on the ESP32-S3 (velxio.dev)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by andrewstuart 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Incident with Actions (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.55 22 #43 | 95 points by hising 7 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (lenfestinstitute.org)
    ×0.94 54 #58 | 82 points by giuliomagnifico 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Our approach to EU text provenance rules (openai.com)
    ×1.38 1 #71 | 63 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live? (herecomesthemoon.net)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by vinhnx 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: SuperLocalMemory 4.0 "Governed Memory Operating System for AI Agents" (arxiv.org)
    ×1.56 112 | 5 points by vpbhardwaj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: jpm – a JavaScript package manager in Rust, every line by Claude Code (getjpm.sh)
    ×1.67 105 | 6 points by jtwebman 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Television – an open source GUI for your agent harness (television.run)
    ×3.08 122 | 8 points by stlhood 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (niklasroy.com)
    ×1.33 52 #64 | 232 points by r0r0 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Headline Arena – public forecasting records for AI agents (headlinearena.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by kopei 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens (astrohelm.app)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by HeavenFox 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.74 123 | 24 points by ajoski9 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
    ×3.86 64 #76 | 262 points by brokensegue 9 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Alleged NATO spy case brings 'some serious lessons' for Canada, says minister (cbc.ca)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by snarky-comments 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Pseudo-Relevances with Jev (iwhalen.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by iwhalen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (github.com/omlahore)
    ×4.47 40 | 758 points by privacyisntdead 1 day ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia (theguardian.com)
    ×3.24 73 | 207 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Premortem – AI agents that red-team your startup idea (premortem.site)
    ×1.08 128 | 11 points by ahoskins 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly (rhun.app)
    ×1.38 95 | 63 points by vladcodes 4 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: S3-Accelerator (github.com/danthegoodman1)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by dangoodmanUT 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A single license fee of £100k.00 (dbushell.com)
    ×4.13 1 #1 | 13 points by corvad 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025) (danielchasehooper.com)
    ×1.32 39 #36 | 137 points by AlexeyBrin 18 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The End of Software Secrecy (twitter.com/esrtweet)
    ×1.95 4 #55 | 8 points by perilunar 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Iseberg – The PowerShell ISE Reimagined with Avalonia and PowerShell 7 (github.com/adamdriscoll)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by l33t_d0nut 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Don't Publish with Oxford University Press (buymeacoffee.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by barry-cotter 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Why does Astra compact context so frequently vs. Fable?
    ×0.58 | 1 points by yesitcan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget (wsj.com)
    ×4.53 3 | 58 points by swolpers 14 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle (gwern.net)
    ×0.90 22 #12 | 26 points by networked 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (twz.com)
    ×1.24 57 #90 | 122 points by rkagerer 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. California Prepares to Ban Quartz Countertop Production (nytimes.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by doener 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pages with the Most Revisions (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by imwally 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Opus 5.5 builds a working game engine in one prompt (TheCherno) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by TheRoque 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Free Analytics for People Using Cloudflare Web Analytics (freeanalytics.co)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by si_164 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Zebu - time tracking/invoicing for freelancers and small teams (zebu.work)
    ×0.86 141 | 3 points by waffl 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
    ×0.94 19 #26 | 138 points by Vosporos 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.35 16 #42 | 246 points by benbreen 13 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland (ess-news.com)
    ×1.41 35 #83 | 63 points by msalsas 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A hacker's guide to bending the universe (2016) (aresluna.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by colinprince 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (gnome.org)
    ×1.59 4 | 67 points by birdculture 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Sideloop – Re-sign sideloaded iOS apps over Wi-Fi before they expire (github.com/filippofinke)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by filippofinke 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
    ×0.71 39 #17 | 21 points by stratts 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)
    ×1.32 50 #88 | 148 points by knuckleheads 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws (scimigo.com)
    ×0.66 59 | 45 points by davidwshao 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I measured the MCP registry nightly for 37 days (github.com/yassinht)
    ×0.72 93 | 3 points by yassinht 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Open Grind – An unofficial open-source Grindr client (opengrind.org)
    ×0.97 106 | 3 points by hloth 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Teacher Planner – A digital planbook with AI tools for teachers (teacherplanner.ai)
    ×1.51 142 | 3 points by sunpy 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
    ×1.68 6 #14 | 144 points by vinhnx 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics (iop.org)
    ×0.41 78 #21 | 3 points by bryanrasmussen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients (ieee.org)
    ×0.99 63 #34 | 70 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. One person can now be a quorum at the SEC (ft.com)
    ×2.64 43 #70 | 100 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???