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  1. Ask HN: Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone?
    ×0.61 16 | 16 points by underlipton 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood?
    ×0.52 10 | 7 points by pratchett 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital?
    ×0.38 68 | 3 points by FWKevents 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work?
    ×0.91 43 | 28 points by marttilaine 15 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
    ×0.96 83 | 32 points by bmadduma 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?
    ×1.18 72 | 36 points by JamesSwift 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is writing without AI worse than sharing your medical records online?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by amichail 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    ×6.38 41 | 962 points by embedding-shape 3 days ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful)
    ×1.62 39 | 19 points by Boulderchaim 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Revolutionizing Lighting: How Smart LEDs Are Transforming Homes and Businesses
    ×0.26 103 | 3 points by emmasuntech 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How can I delete a Substack account in Australia?
    ×0.48 99 | 4 points by freefrog334433 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?
    ×0.17 127 | 3 points by solsane 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Practical Tips for Gemini 3
    ×0.23 113 | 6 points by xiaoru 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire?
    ×0.82 128 | 4 points by jemiluv8 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    ×0.73 114 | 20 points by ftonato 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations
    ×2.93 105 | 17 points by marai2 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
    ×0.58 107 | 13 points by brihati 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month?
    ×0.26 108 | 8 points by chrisaycock 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes
    ×0.31 121 | 6 points by Noel04 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
    ×0.81 126 | 18 points by drdec 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is it still worth learning a new programming language?
    ×0.97 122 | 13 points by xparadigm 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?
    ×0.39 145 | 7 points by not_that_d 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?
    ×0.39 150 | 12 points by gooob 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do small businesses handle phone calls?
    ×0.19 147 | 5 points by duckkg5 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car?
    ×0.17 160 | 3 points by xrd 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How can I learn smartphone repair online?
    ×0.23 154 | 4 points by rishikeshs 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. In letter to tech, 42 AG's target "sycophantic and delusional" AI outputs [pdf] (iowaattorneygeneral.gov)
    ×2.07 59 #90 | 6 points by CGMthrowaway 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Long Live Systems of Record (cloudedjudgement.substack.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A Webapp to Search Emails as an Unikernel (robur.coop)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by TheWiggles 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: MCPShark – Traffic Inspector for Model Context Protocol
    ×1.28 100 | 34 points by mywork-dev 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Rats Play DOOM (ratsplaydoom.com)
    ×2.40 #4 | 185 points by ano-ther 6 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022) (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.55 6 #34 | 64 points by bertwagner 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Mizu – Zero-dependency web framework (github.com/go-mizu)
    ×0.78 156 | 3 points by tamnd 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense (github.com/fr33-sh)
    ×0.71 40 #47 | 73 points by DoctorFreeman 14 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect (nhk.or.jp)
    ×2.68 26 #52 | 136 points by shlip 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions (arxiv.org)
    ×0.54 64 | 89 points by rapnie 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Euporie-lite, Jupyter notebooks in terminal in the browser (euporie.readthedocs.io)
    ×0.89 91 | 3 points by joouha 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Vibe code and generate full WordPress plugins (steem.dev)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by fasthightimess 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Live Nation, Ticketmaster must face sprawling class action over prices (reuters.com)
    ×4.37 3 #35 | 11 points by defrost 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. In 1844, chess was already online (ieee.org)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Interlaced origami: compact storage and high-strength robotic deployment (techxplore.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How We Rebuilt Settings in Zed (zed.dev)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by erhuve 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity (worksinprogress.co)
    ×3.49 80 | 64 points by barry-cotter 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books? (newyorker.com)
    ×2.12 88 | 45 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
    ×11.42 11 | 3317 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 957 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: The Box – Run multiple Claude CLI agents in parallel in the cloud (the-box.dev)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by firdavs9512 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. We unpack the journey from pivot hell to product-market fit [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by rchachra 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Nex gaming console – year's hottest toy? (wsj.com)
    ×1.94 | 2 points by gsanghera 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Is this a sane way to expose distributed state in Rust?
    ×0.57 | 1 points by asdfghjqwertyu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Cargo-rail: graph-aware monorepo tooling for Rust; 11 deps (github.com/loadingalias)
    ×0.77 157 | 3 points by LoadingALIAS 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 'Mamdani Effect' Is Seeing More People Moving to New York, Not Leaving It (newsweek.com)
    ×4.58 15 #53 | 25 points by saubeidl 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit (nytimes.com)
    ×2.68 27 | 3 points by pseudolus 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles (arstechnica.com)
    ×7.17 41 | 14 points by voxadam 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump (reuters.com)
    ×10.12 20 | 46 points by jeroenhd 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Cdecl-dump - represent C declarations visually (github.com/bbu)
    ×0.51 130 | 35 points by bluetomcat 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Pfff – Turn daily frustrations into XP with witty AI responses (pfff.me)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by killersheep 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (larr.net)
    ×2.71 2 #84 | 405 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 510 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What folk can do (folk.computer)
    ×0.76 33 #88 | 42 points by luu 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust (github.com/stoolap)
    ×1.19 56 #67 | 102 points by murat3ok 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A “frozen” dictionary for Python (lwn.net)
    ×1.09 46 | 191 points by jwilk 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing (sql-flow.com)
    ×0.84 109 | 77 points by dm03514 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Spotify Wrapped but for LeetCode (github.com/collinboler)
    ×0.53 142 | 27 points by collinboler2 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.80 14 #14 | 115 points by fleahunter 8 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Checkerboard (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×2.27 16 #18 | 10 points by thread_id 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Wine 11.0 RC2 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS (winehq.org)
    ×2.75 21 #46 | 38 points by neustradamus 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.88 20 #59 | 143 points by robtherobber 11 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CISA orders federal agencies to patch GeoServer flaw (scworld.com)
    ×1.83 | 2 points by Bender 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan was investor and adviser to firm sanctioned for China deals (oregonlive.com)
    ×3.73 47 | 4 points by osnium123 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer (propublica.org)
    ×2.92 43 | 80 points by duxup 9 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin's Data (nautil.us)
    ×2.16 75 | 58 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Senior Staff Front End Engineers (ashbyhq.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work (paradedb.com)
    ×0.79 39 #30 | 110 points by philippemnoel 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon (openship.org)
    ×2.20 62 | 6 points by theturtletalks 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Dbxlite – Query 100M+ rows in a browser tab, no install (dbxlite.com)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by hfmsio 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: We added iOS real device support to Maestro
    ×1.07 134 | 3 points by omnarayan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. 315lbs Bench –| 225lbs Squat cofounder needed (multisync.io)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by ahmedhussam1053 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Where CC Stands on Pay-to-Crawl (creativecommons.org)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by xngbuilds 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Data Marketing Machine (storagemath.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by maxicohen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Turning my reading list into podcasts (coryd.dev)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content (theguardian.com)
    ×7.38 13 | 364 points by ta988 1 day ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (whitehouse.gov)
    ×1.52 7 #6 | 75 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Open sourcing the Remix Store (remix.run)
    ×0.66 45 #33 | 29 points by doppp 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Can LLMs give us AGI if they are bad at arithmetic? (wesmckinney.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by Terretta 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why is manufacturing productivity growth so low? (nber.org)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by hhs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Atmospheric CO₂ Monitoring Dashboard (portaljs.com)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by CharlesW 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I made a web piano with recording and playback (jcurcioconsulting.com)
    ×0.86 162 | 3 points by Jeremy1026 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. India Is a Rising Power, but Breathing in Its Capital Is Hazardous (nytimes.com)
    ×2.80 37 | 4 points by bookofjoe 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The next version of the web will be built for machines, not humans (economist.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Fate, a new data framework for React and tRPC, inspired by Relay (github.com/nkzw-tech)
    ×0.86 111 | 29 points by cpojer 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops (phoronix.com)
    ×2.79 21 #41 | 198 points by mikece 10 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???