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  1. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.15 92 | 163 points by syntaxbush 5 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.81 80 | 104 points by gcanyon 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.69 99 | 66 points by oscgam1 3 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Is aerc better than neomutt now?
    ×0.12 94 | 4 points by hardikxk 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?
    ×0.56 64 | 13 points by current_robot 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
    ×0.26 97 | 4 points by ovi_firstqa 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Mullvad Alternatives?
    ×1.10 51 | 15 points by rpastuszak 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×0.47 91 | 14 points by andyjohnson0 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.41 110 | 8 points by petemc_ 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.55 127 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 5 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.37 107 | 37 points by mzubairtahir 3 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
    ×1.44 68 | 111 points by PhilipDaineko 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
    ×0.59 122 | 11 points by justanything 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR
    ×0.43 135 | 6 points by i_am_rocoe 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?
    ×0.35 129 | 8 points by thoughtpeddler 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?
    ×0.30 146 | 5 points by howToTestFE 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
    ×1.20 71 | 53 points by trowa159 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.53 136 | 16 points by mellosty 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit
    ×0.93 120 | 7 points by akarshhegde18 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.29 147 | 6 points by HoldOnAMinute 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?
    ×1.09 125 | 12 points by aurenvale 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.49 148 | 20 points by niyazpk 6 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Fast feedback loops is the way
    ×0.46 138 | 5 points by skyglider 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.58 149 | 6 points by throwaw12 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Recursive self improvement for human skills
    ×0.35 145 | 4 points by rando77 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×1.59 119 | 23 points by notsure357 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. We need tech news sources which exclude AI
    ×3.68 27 | 137 points by botfriendsarent 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active (longcat.chat)
    ×1.64 6 #14 | 196 points by benjiro29 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: I Made an SDK to work with Vapi and Retell without vendor lock in (voice-ai.dev)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by marchypolite 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (quesma.com)
    ×3.80 2 #8 | 1007 points by stared 20 hours ago | 652 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Xenoeye – analyze network without AI using netflow, PostgreSQL, Grafana (github.com/vmxdev)
    ×1.49 74 | 5 points by vmxdev 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths (starglyphs.com)
    ×0.73 101 | 27 points by telman17 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The cost YAGNI was never about (kentbeck.com)
    ×1.71 38 | 129 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Hardwood 1.0: A Fast, Lightweight Apache Parquet Reader for the JVM (hardwood.dev)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by gunnarmorling 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Language Design Impacts Security (adacore.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by ajdude 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Reasoning About Async Rust with State Machines (aibodh.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by febin 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast (engadget.com)
    ×4.22 6 | 390 points by SanjayMehta 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Walter S. Arnold–Sculptor/Stone Carver (stonecarver.com)
    ×0.28 56 #79 | 8 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. External Blogs with WordPress (micro.blog)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by speckx 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Much ado about zone 2 (nih.gov)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by iamacyborg 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Rendering ray tracing in a database (ClickHouse) (github.com/ClickHouse)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by sdairs 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×4.01 22 | 157 points by b-man 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It (pcmag.com)
    ×4.18 30 | 148 points by mwexler 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Rust / Red Alert inspired WASM game in the browser (open source) (punnerud.github.io)
    ×0.56 79 | 6 points by punnerud 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: HyperPaste – a free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS (hyperpaste.io)
    ×0.83 98 | 4 points by thequietmind 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.33 17 #51 | 398 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×1.13 14 #60 | 50 points by dalvrosa 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.52 49 #65 | 60 points by pepys 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. EYG: A Programming Language for Humans (crowdhailer.me)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by surprisetalk 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.88 16 #43 | 238 points by jnord 15 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing (sedaily.com)
    ×3.41 8 #53 | 410 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. After 12 years of being a customer, Uber is dumping PagerDuty (twitter.com/GergelyOrosz)
    ×1.48 7 #88 | 7 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Fits – compress PDF, pick the output size, fast, no upload, free (fits.tools)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by egntms 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown (elpais.com)
    ×3.77 14 | 543 points by geox 1 day ago | 713 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Full featured language that compiles to binary (github.com/code-by-sia)
    ×1.79 153 | 6 points by sia_xi 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Running a coding agent locally with MLX for when you hit your token cap (degoe.de)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by bartdegoede 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Techno History: Archive of 475 shows with over 9000 documented tracks (German) (stevemasonexperience.info)
    ×1.99 32 | 3 points by nor0x 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. WhatsApp to let people chat with usernames (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by edward 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why LLMs invent answers instead of saying they don't know (cristobalsantana.substack.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by csantana_ml 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Art Benefits Transaction (ABT): A Proposal for Economic Stimulus (reddit.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by taivare 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com/dbos-inc)
    ×0.97 82 | 91 points by KraftyOne 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Sonar, local cited codebase briefings tailored to your role (github.com/gautamdhameja)
    ×1.35 104 | 4 points by gautamdhameja 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025) (maturitas.org)
    ×1.54 #4 | 82 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960) (obsolescence.dev)
    ×0.80 29 #19 | 91 points by ozymandiax 12 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 (danunparsed.com)
    ×4.35 12 #50 | 982 points by sambellll 1 day ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com/neospe)
    ×0.36 116 | 28 points by leschak 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com/inkeep)
    ×1.87 70 | 376 points by engomez 4 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: PulseDB – Unified Redis and Pinecone Alternative in Python (github.com/gkavinrajanCodes)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by gkavinrajan 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian (danielcordova.me)
    ×2.01 40 | 63 points by nogajun 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Vibe zsh, turn natural language into shell commands (github.com/skymoore)
    ×0.45 84 | 3 points by iamsky 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. KIDS Act to let govt control online speech (fire.org)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by Volodzko 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Historical memory prices 1960-2026 (stanford.edu)
    ×2.03 6 | 399 points by vga1 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: AMA2, messenger built for AI agent (ama2.me)
    ×0.58 67 | 5 points by ejhooooon 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Dark Sky Lighting (savingourstars.org)
    ×1.46 39 #28 | 230 points by alexandrehtrb 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The AI Productivity Trap (i0exception.substack.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by i0exception 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Fata Morgana (Mirage) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by keiferski 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024) (cbc.ca)
    ×1.63 57 | 111 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online (eff.org)
    ×4.80 47 | 74 points by rmason 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (quickish.space)
    ×0.94 76 | 111 points by PaybackTony 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Who are the fire-tamers? (aeon.co)
    ×0.91 14 #12 | 11 points by Caiero 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections (theguardian.com)
    ×3.32 7 #25 | 558 points by cdrnsf 21 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base (github.com/mat-mgm)
    ×1.06 30 #34 | 90 points by triska 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Lorentzian CSS Duality in Causal Diamond Quantum Error-Correcting Codes (github.com/ynnk-research)
    ×1.11 106 | 4 points by ynnk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Amazon Is Awash with AI-Written Guideslop for Games That Aren't Even Out (kotaku.com)
    ×2.39 18 | 55 points by logickkk1 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format (metaspec.dev)
    ×0.61 109 | 16 points by dlowe-net 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Caliper – pass@k reliability testing for Claude Code and Codex skills (github.com/edonadei)
    ×0.85 137 | 3 points by edonadei 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Old Computer Challenge (sdf.org)
    ×0.92 25 #18 | 88 points by wrxd 11 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Popping the GPU Bubble (moondream.ai)
    ×3.12 29 #40 | 173 points by radq 8 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Japan's Invisible Electric Wall (arun.is)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by surprisetalk 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: CmdBox – A CLI tool for saving and running parameterized commands (github.com/PhantomLambSoft)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by MalloyDelacroix 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???