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Ask HN: What E-Reader to Buy?

×0.65 42 | 4 points by conor_f 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply

×0.53 34 | 14 points by megamike 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you using for LLM inference in production?

×0.35 9 | 5 points by chrislim 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can Apple Ever Be Disrputed?

×0.27 67 | 4 points by Taikhoom2010 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated?

×0.15 94 | 3 points by lpjstack 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: After 8 Years of Failed Apps, Should I Give Up?

×0.76 61 | 6 points by asoomi07 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can LLMs have an "accent" like second language speakers?

×0.38 86 | 3 points by hmokiguess 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stripe's opt-out Radar price increase dressed up as a free trial

×0.34 69 | 9 points by rapind 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built an independent peptide testing lab that accepts mailed samples

×0.35 78 | 6 points by peptidelabs 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robotics development made dead simple (open source)

×0.28 116 | 22 points by Ekami 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?

×0.20 92 | 5 points by amichail 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects)

×0.44 101 | 5 points by thekey 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed

×1.57 89 | 18 points by codexon 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?

×0.79 96 | 43 points by Jgoauh 3 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should authors disclose if they are paid to write a blog post?

×0.33 124 | 4 points by wseqyrku 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Airbnb updated "necessary" cookies aren't

×0.37 102 | 8 points by janalsncm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app

×0.60 109 | 13 points by gaborme 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codeberg Degraded Service (anoxinon.de)

×0.54 | 1 points by pelasaco 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM-mock – open-source REST API to test LLM integrations for real (github.com/axium-lab)

×0.60 | 1 points by luisperis1011 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nanocoder: A local coding agent, now with a native VS Code sidebar (nanocollective.org)

×0.60 | 1 points by mrspence 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: stock-tui – an open-source terminal app inspired by StockTouch (github.com/chatcode-lab)

×1.58 106 | 4 points by borkasm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Review flashcards cards (Anki) while reading Hacker News (orangecrumbs.com)

×1.28 122 | 3 points by oyster143 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bypassing Claude's upload limits, 4x (500 MB → 2 GB) (zernote.com)

×2.60 56 | 3 points by fenix1851 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (projectpluto.com)

×1.75 27 #38 | 212 points by ryannevius 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sync reading progress between Audiobookshelf and KOReader (github.com/cporcellijr)

×0.57 | 1 points by itchingsphynx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI Aesthetic (jim-nielsen.com)

×2.30 19 #36 | 352 points by montroser 15 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ShowTrust – Testimonials Collection Tool and Widget Embed (showtrust.to)

×0.78 | 2 points by sev_tinker 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The fastest JSON parser for Go (github.com/buger)

×3.00 47 | 7 points by LeonidBugaev 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rails: Arbitrary file read and remote code execution in Active Storage (rubyonrails.org)

×0.89 | 1 points by lobo_tuerto 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The coolest use for the Vision Pro (christianselig.com)

×3.66 20 #76 | 823 points by robbiet480 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism (worksinprogress.news)

×0.99 | 1 points by bensouthwood 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Generate a TLSA Record and Fix the 3 1 1 Mismatch (dmarcguard.io)

×0.58 | 1 points by meysamazad 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based (paolino.me)

×0.60 | 1 points by earcar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code (github.com/schildep)

×0.91 71 | 114 points by permute 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Otzar – Local hybrid search over your own files (github.com/danielfleischer)

×0.94 | 2 points by yruthewaythatur 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) (hillelwayne.com)

×1.31 33 #56 | 124 points by Thom2503 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM (ccsim.fly.dev)

×0.95 23 #27 | 52 points by dilyevsky 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (science.org)

×0.79 41 #42 | 63 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% (stlouisfed.org)

×3.57 63 | 5 points by johnbarron 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold (engadget.com)

×3.25 51 | 96 points by NordStreamYacht 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Play SNES, gba, in your terminal, even in tmux (github.com/jhickner)

×2.66 66 | 6 points by jhickner 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library (usefeyn.com)

×0.90 82 | 120 points by snyy 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)

×2.56 11 #13 | 597 points by ai2027 23 hours ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Veterans' PTSD resolves with psychedelic therapy in small US study (reuters.com)

×1.45 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals (emergingtrajectories.com)

×1.00 48 | 86 points by cl42 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The first watch featuring computer functions (seiko-design.com)

×1.00 31 #87 | 86 points by stefanv 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: nBases – off-market monthly rentals for nomads, direct with the host (nbases.com)

×1.15 112 | 4 points by antoinechstr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Yet Another Markup Language Engineering Toolkit (github.com/RicardoMonteiroSimoes)

×0.58 | 1 points by RicDan 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moonshot built on 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba (bloomberg.com)

×2.15 6 #14 | 22 points by gk1 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others (cam.ac.uk)

×1.26 40 #48 | 111 points by gmays 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Glass Famine (edconway.substack.com)

×1.18 44 #61 | 121 points by baud147258 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)

×0.83 28 #66 | 123 points by benn_88 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money (usetokenless.com)

×0.50 60 | 70 points by rohaga 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Winding Down Artichoke Ruby (hyperbo.la)

×1.11 28 #5 | 15 points by ksec 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How old is Ann? (quuxplusone.github.io)

×0.79 42 #73 | 65 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant (bbc.com)

×2.61 61 #86 | 59 points by vrganj 7 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN :Tandem – one session across Claude Code and Codex, no double spend (github.com/Bhavya6187)

×0.54 | 1 points by bhavya6187 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compact GPS-enabled LoRa mesh communicator (specfive.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by DanielSusca 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved (claude.com)

×5.55 7 | 268 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again (github.com/hamzarehmandeveloper)

×0.80 25 | 52 points by hamza_rehman 23 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Eloqra - Live Chat with Telegram integration (eloqra.app)

×1.70 63 | 4 points by sev_tinker 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy (arko.net)

×2.05 16 #23 | 50 points by 4d66ba06 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)

×3.20 4 #20 | 769 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the AI Bubble? (nytimes.com)

×3.28 32 #62 | 28 points by CaptainZapp 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner is selling all stocks (cnbc.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by speckx 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Premier league bans gambling sponsors (footyheadlines.com)

×3.74 29 #17 | 147 points by paoliniluis 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels (phulin.me)

×0.76 32 #69 | 50 points by patrickhulin 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle (chipsandcheese.com)

×1.14 59 #74 | 7 points by aba_cz 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cookie Chaos: How to bypass __Host and __Secure cookie prefixes (portswigger.net)

×0.55 | 1 points by one33seven 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Cold Email (zachholman.com)

×2.32 1 | 290 points by holman 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python (github.com/sawfwair)

×0.65 54 | 13 points by sawfwair 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making Postgres queues scale (dbos.dev)

×1.15 14 #57 | 121 points by KraftyOne 20 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek-AI/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (huggingface.co)

×1.97 28 #60 | 12 points by Philpax 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
End of Oncall Era of Pagerduty (github.com/FluidifyAI)

×0.62 | 1 points by furyman 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NY sues prediction market Kalshi alleging it's an illegal gambling operation (cnn.com)

×2.07 49 | 3 points by pavel_lishin 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in (federalistreader.org)

×1.86 70 | 50 points by vhwalke 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)

×3.48 9 #9 | 732 points by tomzorz 22 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Make the Worst Htmx (zserge.com)

×1.32 33 #58 | 17 points by RebelPotato 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI (openjdk.org)

×1.31 32 #78 | 72 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BitBang – turn any machine into a URL (github.com/richlegrand)

×0.69 | 1 points by narragansett 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft is about to kill my favorite Edge feature – and Copilot is to blame (windowscentral.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by realsarm 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem (futilitycloset.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by surprisetalk 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Get-md now preserves Mermaid diagrams through document-to-Markdown conversion (nanocollective.org)

×0.59 | 1 points by mrspence 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Detect Dark Matter's Mark from Your Backyard (ieee.org)

×1.32 7 #19 | 8 points by Brajeshwar 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library (github.com/reflex-dev)

×1.01 64 | 135 points by apetuskey 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine (bsid.io)

×0.84 39 #80 | 57 points by jackedEngineer 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it (greyswansignals.com)

×2.29 71 | 137 points by haipothetical 10 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU now fears US interference in European elections (eunews.it)

×6.04 32 | 85 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)

×2.28 30 #25 | 327 points by arto 1 day ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results (cryptographyengineering.com)

×1.49 30 | 187 points by supermatou 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???