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  1. Peer validation platform for engineering skills (inspired by X community notes)
    ×0.28 | 2 points by ms_sv 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. My first experience with an "AI"-ed call centre?
    ×0.57 26 | 18 points by chrisjj 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.50 14 | 1136 points by chaseadam17 3 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?
    ×0.74 37 | 7 points by givemeethekeys 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How Real-Time Voice Agents Work: Media Infrastructure and Latency
    ×0.20 | 2 points by gokuljs 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×1.17 54 | 28 points by zekejohn 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Reddit Ads support is leaking PII and actively crossing user sessions
    ×0.81 41 | 14 points by arashvakil 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story
    ×0.77 30 | 14 points by matijash 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Google Cloud APIs (gcloud CLI) seems to be down or broken
    ×0.16 111 | 3 points by thej 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.39 103 | 10 points by kwar13 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?
    ×0.29 114 | 7 points by arboles 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?
    ×1.06 93 | 30 points by boredemployee 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.53 133 | 12 points by fdneng 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.12 120 | 21 points by TazeTSchnitzel 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Googling on Brazil about "Gemini said" shows unrevised content from Gemini
    ×0.09 134 | 3 points by yrds96 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.45 118 | 27 points by causal 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: (Your) Request for Startups?
    ×0.56 102 | 11 points by dontoni 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.85 113 | 48 points by ColinWright 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?
    ×0.15 137 | 4 points by azebazenestor 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News?
    ×0.33 131 | 8 points by ElectroNomad 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.37 136 | 17 points by rtrgrd 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.40 140 | 4 points by AGsist 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.28 138 | 12 points by jrs235 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh (zknill.io)
    ×1.29 34 #43 | 62 points by zknill 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Shellspec – DSL to Test CLIs (github.com/itsfarseen)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by itsfarseen-1 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Joseph Weizenbaum's Hackerkritik (sdf.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by pkal 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2 (stripe.dev)
    ×0.99 27 #56 | 124 points by ludovicianul 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton (kasava.dev)
    ×2.81 9 #59 | 501 points by benbeingbin 1 day ago | 550 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (berksoft.ca)
    ×1.45 67 | 246 points by cdegroot 3 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Hi.new – DMs for agents (open-source) (hi.new)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by elieskilled 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. SwiftForth IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS (forth.com)
    ×0.81 18 #31 | 32 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. OpenClaw and the Right Level of Automation (askmike.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by askmike 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: WatchTurm – an open-source release visibility layer I use in my work
    ×0.69 | 2 points by WatchTurm 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: LobsterHelper – Managed OpenClaw on Firecracker VMs (lobsterhelper.com)
    ×1.22 87 | 4 points by alex_trekkoa 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript (github.com/n-e)
    ×0.64 94 | 69 points by n_e 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels (github.com/Park07)
    ×0.77 85 | 62 points by anonymoosestdnt 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How were video transfers made? (2011) (film-tech.com)
    ×0.33 61 #61 | 15 points by exvi 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002) (joelonsoftware.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. No Skill. No Taste (kinglycrow.com)
    ×2.08 50 | 186 points by ianbutler 19 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: AI Council – multi-model deliberation that runs in the browser (github.com/prijak)
    ×1.77 57 | 5 points by prijak 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Agent Passport – OAuth-like identity verification for AI agents
    ×0.57 62 #57 | 11 points by samerismail 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution (theguardian.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by thunderbong 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apple.com)
    ×0.95 98 | 105 points by AnujNayyar 4 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What Happened to Software Is Happening to Finance and Accounting (doempke.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by robk 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Conference with AI -written paper submissions only (humanxaifinance.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by sherlock_h 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Diffusion of Responsibility (tante.cc)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by logicprog 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Velo – Open-source, keyboard-first email client in Tauri and Rust
    ×1.14 59 | 4 points by Espired 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: 17MB pronunciation scorer beats human experts at phoneme level
    ×1.13 115 | 3 points by fabiosuizu 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Gemini 3.1 Pro (blog.google)
    ×3.69 1 #46 | 939 points by MallocVoidstar 1 day ago | 893 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Go Implementation of Systemd Time (gitlab.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by allddd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Instant AI Response (chatjimmy.ai)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by hochmartinez 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Micropayments as a reality check for news sites (zgp.org)
    ×1.02 15 | 193 points by speckx 1 day ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection (theguardian.com)
    ×5.68 4 | 280 points by Geekette 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit (github.com/olvvier)
    ×0.96 49 #48 | 141 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Claude Code CLI burns ~1-3% of your quota on startup (even with NO prompts) (reddit.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by behnamoh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware in the browser (withdiode.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by tzury 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Analyze Tweets with Sparse Autoencoders (gutendemo.vercel.app)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by nicetomeetyu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.89 6 #9 | 458 points by nobody9999 16 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel (macleans.ca)
    ×0.94 19 #35 | 68 points by mhb 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Taalas Etches AI Models onto Transistors to Rocket Boost Inference (nextplatform.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by hochmartinez 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Perplexity Pro promo subscription suspended without explanation?
    ×0.60 | 1 points by aanno 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras (bloodinthemachine.com)
    ×4.55 17 #30 | 350 points by latexr 12 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)
    ×3.29 5 #81 | 817 points by zdw 2 days ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Building a language that people want (merigoux.fr)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by art-w 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: How to Plan a n8n Workflow (theowllogic.com)
    ×0.95 116 | 3 points by wayofthekatana 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021) (japan-forward.com)
    ×0.51 57 #51 | 65 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (micasa.dev)
    ×2.55 6 #72 | 629 points by cpcloud 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A managed disk adapter storage and routing layer for LoRA adapters on vLLM (github.com/shayonj)
    ×1.96 | 2 points by shayonj 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Beadhub.ai – Real time coord for coding agents across different minders (beadhub.ai)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by juanre 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Large Language Model Reasoning Failures (arxiv.org)
    ×1.19 12 #21 | 10 points by T-A 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it (ahmedkaddoura.com)
    ×2.80 18 #24 | 54 points by daem 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science (theguardian.com)
    ×5.44 28 | 510 points by mitchbob 1 day ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini (mnemom.ai)
    ×0.74 95 | 39 points by alexgarden 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Resilient OpenClaw Browser Relay – Survives WS Drops and MV3 Restarts (github.com/Unayung)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by unayung 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Reproducible and traceable configuration for Conan C and C++ package manager (conan.io)
    ×0.42 48 #42 | 18 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Louisa May Alcott and H.C. Andersen: a dream (medium.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI makes you boring (marginalia.nu)
    ×5.90 34 | 687 points by speckx 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Popper Principle (theamericanscholar.org)
    ×0.57 50 #52 | 64 points by lermontov 21 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Indian food delivery giant leak location metadata,food preferences to strangers (medium.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by jatin-dot-py 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: Best file format for AI reports output?
    ×0.50 | 1 points by azkalam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial (wsj.com)
    ×2.19 20 | 210 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I made a Linux driver for WCH BLE Analyzer PRO (github.com/xecaz)
    ×1.61 88 | 4 points by xecaz 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up
    ×0.20 105 | 9 points by acarminati 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression (economist.com)
    ×1.54 39 | 86 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory (github.com/sstraust)
    ×0.74 58 | 78 points by sammy0910 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station (kpbj.fm)
    ×1.18 70 | 111 points by solomonb 3 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI (twitter.com/peterjliu)
    ×1.22 21 #76 | 94 points by somerandomness 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice (anthropic.com)
    ×0.79 49 #86 | 114 points by jbredeche 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Deprecate. Fix. Enforce. Repeat (emanueleminotto.github.io)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by EmanueleMinotto 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment (ft.com)
    ×3.17 52 | 292 points by zerosizedweasle 23 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???