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  1. Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean
    ×0.58 2 | 7 points by novateg 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
    ×4.35 6 | 796 points by prodigycorp 3 days ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest
    ×2.61 10 | 285 points by alecco 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account
    ×0.80 68 | 36 points by casenmgreen 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?
    ×0.70 89 | 15 points by trio8453 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
    ×1.60 83 | 354 points by pugworthy 6 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Optimze It for My GPU
    ×0.17 | 2 points by rncode 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Practicality of harnessing geomagnetic fields for electrical generation?
    ×0.18 93 | 4 points by keepamovin 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you verify front-end code in agentic LLM coding loops?
    ×1.05 106 | 6 points by eugene-kim 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. TermoSlack – A Terminal Based Slack Client
    ×0.57 100 | 7 points by adhyys 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A 27M parameter model beating LLMs on reasoning tasks
    ×0.44 113 | 5 points by SteadySurfdom 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering?
    ×1.15 104 | 137 points by _1tan 6 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie
    ×0.27 138 | 24 points by leo_e 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?
    ×0.85 95 | 25 points by jayzalowitz 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Color.io Is Going Offline
    ×0.32 117 | 25 points by hilti 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users?
    ×0.62 114 | 18 points by kypro 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles?
    ×0.43 124 | 26 points by megraf 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Can Management Be Outsourced?
    ×0.46 130 | 10 points by ymanagers 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Do AIs reply with numerous em dashes to save money somehow?
    ×0.32 137 | 6 points by amichail 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Type 1 Hypervisor for use on a laptop?
    ×0.25 136 | 4 points by jaitaiwan 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Vibro-Braille for Deaf-Blind
    ×0.09 | 2 points by Billiamdan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments?
    ×2.20 53 | 79 points by GaryBluto 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What work problems would your company pay to solve?
    ×0.78 141 | 16 points by aryanchaurasia 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Enterprise security can be messy: Building a Security-Aware Culture
    ×0.11 | 2 points by rezliant 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Wanted to give dang appreciation
    ×3.41 116 | 67 points by razodactyl 6 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
    ×0.09 | 2 points by turkeyboi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Harvard Database Hacked in Latest Ivy League Cyberattacks (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming (bazzite.gg)
    ×2.43 1 #3 | 359 points by doener 9 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost (nbcnews.com)
    ×5.20 4 #11 | 223 points by jnord 9 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs (nber.org)
    ×1.20 15 #45 | 45 points by hhs 8 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Student perceptions of AI coding assistants in learning (arxiv.org)
    ×1.05 17 #31 | 81 points by victorbuilds 13 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: Hh.ht – the scripting language that can hot-patch itself in 3 ms
    ×1.02 | 2 points by chunpulee 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z (nealstephenson.substack.com)
    ×3.62 9 | 347 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11 (windowslatest.com)
    ×4.47 6 | 80 points by robtherobber 18 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland (lepetitprince.com)
    ×1.06 9 #14 | 47 points by gnabgib 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Druridge Bay Ruin [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.27 64 #54 | 5 points by DoreenMichele 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Aid Cuts Are Hitting the Largest Refugee Camps (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: White-Box-Coder – AI that self-reviews and fixes its own code" (github.com/EMMA019)
    ×0.59 156 | 3 points by tarocha1019 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: SyncKit – Offline-first sync engine (Rust/WASM and TypeScript) (github.com/Dancode-188)
    ×1.33 78 | 87 points by danbitengo 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Built a tool solve the nightmare of chunking tables in PDF vs. Markdown (github.com/2dogsandanerd)
    ×2.45 152 | 15 points by 2dogsanerd 6 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. CrowdStrike: Security Flaws DeepSeek-Generated Code Linked to Political Triggers (crowdstrike.com)
    ×1.58 16 | 3 points by fosco 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
    ×3.28 59 | 84 points by dennis-tra 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Choose your own adventure style Presentation (github.com/Skarlso)
    ×0.75 57 | 57 points by skarlso 1 week ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Made a thing to use AI with intervals.icu (intervals.pro)
    ×1.80 111 | 5 points by maxrev17 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Dynamic Skillset Reference Architecture (chatbotkit.com)
    ×0.61 38 #7 | 5 points by _pdp_ 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk (cnn.com)
    ×2.95 30 #47 | 342 points by donohoe 16 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. So you wanna build a local RAG? (yakkomajuri.com)
    ×1.99 1 #82 | 375 points by pedriquepacheco 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Simple xbox360 inspired CSS library: 360CSS (github.com/tarmo1)
    ×0.91 126 | 4 points by Tarmo362 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? (uu.nl)
    ×2.05 2 | 314 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Swedish publishers file police report against Meta's Zuckerberg for fraud (sverigesradio.se)
    ×2.21 46 | 124 points by Frieren 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I built 19 AI agents because one wasn't enough to coach my workouts (arvo.guru)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by danielepelleri 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I built a website for games that catch my eye (alistof.games)
    ×1.36 131 | 5 points by RaycatRakittra 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted) (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.12 15 #30 | 71 points by emschwartz 6 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Nobara Project: Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it (nobaraproject.org)
    ×0.96 66 #58 | 9 points by doener 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Postage.to – Send real letters from the browser (postage.to)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by giankar 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Listen to music like it's 2005 (lukecyca.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by ireflect 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I built an interactive map of jobs at top AI companies (stapply.ai)
    ×0.67 146 | 16 points by kalil0321 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you (neberej.github.io)
    ×1.94 20 #43 | 232 points by coffeecoders 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)
    ×2.57 19 #68 | 7 points by mitchbob 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A rebuttal to Michael Burry: Why Nvidia isn't the Cisco of the dot-com era (x.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by salkahfi 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Oblit – A zero-dependency, binary-first protocol for Node.js (Show HN
    ×0.71 119 | 4 points by _melikeymen_ 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Algebraic Dynamical Systems in Machine Learning (2024) (springer.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by measurablefunc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS (oshub.org)
    ×0.75 52 | 100 points by joexbayer 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Research Papers as Memes (near.tl)
    ×1.00 97 | 10 points by QueensGambit 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation (wsj.com)
    ×1.44 35 | 201 points by thm 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero (johndcook.com)
    ×0.92 18 | 132 points by tzury 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: We cut RAG latency ~2× by switching embedding model (myclone.is)
    ×1.55 128 | 26 points by vira28 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Ghostty-Web – Ghostty in the Browser (github.com/coder)
    ×5.84 127 | 14 points by jonayers_ 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Aurora: The Linux-based ultimate workstation (getaurora.dev)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by doener 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I built a Web 1.0 budgeting tool, Budget Pro 3000 (budgetpro3000.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by adrianvxyz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: iOS Old App Downloader 2 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by txthinking 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Why Jailbreaking Calculators Is (Unfortunately) a Thing Now [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by josephcsible 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes (netlist.io)
    ×0.56 67 | 49 points by wafflesfreak 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Deft-Intruder – Real-time malware detection daemon for Linux (github.com/539hex)
    ×1.89 155 | 6 points by 539hex 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
    ×1.62 5 #4 | 117 points by debo_ 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work (justoffbyone.com)
    ×2.43 60 #76 | 175 points by 0x79de 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016) (plover.com)
    ×0.90 49 #80 | 141 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Lissa Saver macOS Screen Saver (github.com/johnrpenner)
    ×0.31 | 2 points by johnrpenner 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Be Like Clippy (be-clippy.com)
    ×2.00 6 #18 | 268 points by Aloha 12 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight (airbus.com)
    ×2.61 3 #62 | 483 points by pyrophoenix 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Molly: An Improved Signal App (molly.im)
    ×2.30 14 | 403 points by dtj1123 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Era – Open-source local sandbox for AI agents (github.com/BinSquare)
    ×0.67 88 | 61 points by gregTurri 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I built a wizard to turn ideas into AI coding agent-ready specs (vibescaffold.dev)
    ×1.00 123 | 70 points by straydusk 1 week ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale (acm.org)
    ×1.39 11 #24 | 143 points by ndesaulniers 15 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. What kind of grownup I want to be (sashachapin.substack.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by eatitraw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. ChatGPT Turns 3 (restofworld.org)
    ×4.01 20 | 8 points by billybuckwheat 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×4.23 50 | 126 points by flail 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I've built a Cursor alternative in browser. AI Coding Agent. (playcode.io)
    ×1.36 107 | 5 points by ianberdin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 (macos9lives.com)
    ×1.57 #61 | 319 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas (iankduncan.com)
    ×0.78 60 #89 | 87 points by navigate8310 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???