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  1. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.66 17 #14 | 183 points by mariocesar 14 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.74 20 #30 | 685 points by lukehandcool 15 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.96 36 | 564 points by IvanK_net 2 days ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.79 58 | 10 points by bigwheels 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×1.73 61 | 11 points by scoofy 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×1.38 99 | 7 points by thelastgallon 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.61 103 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.20 | 2 points by northlondoner 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×1.32 101 | 5 points by amichail 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence
    ×1.41 76 | 7 points by butlersean 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.38 115 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What happened with quantum computers anyway?
    ×0.84 97 | 4 points by pera 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Any Insight Here into French High School Unrest?
    ×1.20 85 | 4 points by giardini 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Learning practical system design
    ×1.16 117 | 4 points by rcdmrl 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.47 118 | 11 points by penskymaterial 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are we trading model capacity for compute?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by olirex99 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Google Search is down
    ×2.09 71 | 6 points by muazzam 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×1.09 147 | 4 points by bigmattystyles 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Got a Mac for running agents? what's your setup?
    ×0.62 | 2 points by velyan 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.72 144 | 11 points by Crontab 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×0.96 137 | 14 points by saimiam 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.81 105 | 37 points by trencedamp 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.63 155 | 7 points by maxignol 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI?
    ×0.62 112 | 11 points by Zeruxe 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.44 139 | 6 points by Bender 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×1.76 141 | 16 points by nunorbatista 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is the xcancel source code publicly available?
    ×0.28 157 | 3 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is anyone still working on dLLMs
    ×0.25 159 | 3 points by obonse 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×0.39 154 | 6 points by mtmosestn 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is this the beginning of the end of open source?
    ×0.46 150 | 5 points by potamic 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Claude Mythos 5.1 System Prompt?
    ×0.41 160 | 3 points by knifelemon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Has software development become less fun? (ankit-m.github.io)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by ankit_m 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Google Playground: Create and play custom games (blog.google)
    ×1.27 58 #90 | 158 points by acossta 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Spinal: A near-instant, predictive surface for any codebase (spinal.sh)
    ×0.82 44 #56 | 16 points by handfuloflight 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.70 96 | 87 points by yashdotrv 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: agentc: <1mb static/no-libc, minimal, embeddable agent with Rust/C API (github.com/abird-ai)
    ×0.85 149 | 3 points by logxroot 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (dexerto.com)
    ×4.11 9 #6 | 583 points by ck2 16 hours ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Veil – Zero-knowledge messenger with post-quantum encryption (tryveil.app)
    ×2.64 12 | 6 points by veil-im 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A virtual recording studio where you direct session players (daydream.live)
    ×1.02 133 | 7 points by hthillman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Musql, JIT-compiled SQL, up to 300x faster than SQLite, 1000x vs. Turso (github.com/samyfodil)
    ×2.39 136 | 11 points by dsamy 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: VoiceGremlin, a SaaS tool for automated tests against AI phone agents (voicegremlin.com)
    ×1.34 158 | 3 points by ineptech 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I built a fast spreadsheet engine for the web in Rust/WASM (github.com/podraven)
    ×0.58 81 #73 | 6 points by deathg0d 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 (github.com/anupray95)
    ×0.73 53 #63 | 27 points by anupray 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances (cointelegraph.com)
    ×1.82 8 #69 | 60 points by firstcomm 10 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens' Minds (nytimes.com)
    ×2.39 11 | 5 points by reaperducer 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Isoso CLI: Get WCAG/A11y Compliant (github.com/isoso-dev)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by marrykassa 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
    ×3.99 6 #8 | 523 points by soheilpro 15 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Physics-to-Math Research – an experimental Skill for scientific reasoning (github.com/ZWY-research)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by Panda_14569 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. DHS plans to charge international students $70k for work authorization (reuters.com)
    ×1.59 17 | 3 points by beisner 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A modern remake of the classic BBS game TW2002 (stardewar.com)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by zoidb 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization (github.com/SamsungLabs)
    ×0.97 39 #46 | 81 points by brainless 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed (bbc.com)
    ×4.59 33 #60 | 60 points by mo7061 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy (pewresearch.org)
    ×2.92 53 | 167 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware (github.com/AL-255)
    ×0.90 78 | 69 points by 0bytes 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors (github.com/kitao)
    ×1.23 146 | 106 points by kitao 1 week ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.59 34 #47 | 385 points by 6bitquant 1 day ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams (thequietus.com)
    ×2.06 10 #29 | 160 points by cdrnsf 11 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.95 29 #44 | 1324 points by OfficialTurkey 2 days ago | 1507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.03 43 #49 | 50 points by danny00 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I gave four coding agents $100 budget to build a PDF editor (nielstron.de)
    ×1.18 49 #66 | 10 points by nielstron 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Zerobrew: A faster alternative to Homebrew (github.com/zerobrewhq)
    ×1.77 39 #87 | 106 points by cachebag 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Hallowed Concepts – Risk of Rain 2 guides and browser-local run tools (hallowedconcepts.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by richardharmer 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia (artfrompixels.com)
    ×1.35 56 | 168 points by jasontr 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment (biohub.org)
    ×1.06 12 #12 | 105 points by ray__ 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com/ahmetomerv)
    ×0.82 116 | 63 points by ahmetomer 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How machines learned precision (glinscott.github.io)
    ×1.65 43 #79 | 226 points by glinscott 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits (100r.ca)
    ×1.98 20 #86 | 359 points by Muhammad523 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. API Fault Lab (github.com/jamal2drive)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by jamal2art 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Metal Driver for Nvidia GeForce RTX Cards on macOS 15 Sequoia on Intel Macs (github.com/nullmoth)
    ×1.57 10 | 3 points by rvz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mastodon-compatible ActivityPub server in Python/Django (github.com/avaraline)
    ×2.08 | 4 points by henrid 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A Family Video Game as a Hands-On Lesson in Creating with AI (chatgpt.site)
    ×1.40 48 | 3 points by chefpaolofontan 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
    ×3.33 37 | 747 points by joshuawright11 1 day ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy (janestreet.com)
    ×0.96 18 #24 | 36 points by eatonphil 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Is this AI training on my prompts? A dated record of the fine print (trainedon.me)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by tux404 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OuroWorld: Animated 3D worlds that loop forever, explorable in the browser (userwei.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Upfling.host – Free static site hosting for HTML, CSS and JavaScript (upfling.host)
    ×1.74 89 | 4 points by guylr 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com/rsutcliffe)
    ×0.78 114 | 88 points by delphidolphin 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: AI Circuit Breaker – Reverse proxy to stop agent infinite loops (circuit-breaker-sage.vercel.app)
    ×1.89 153 | 9 points by roandejager 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (readingchronicle.co.uk)
    ×1.57 61 #74 | 231 points by librasteve 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Manifestack – open-source stack audit inside your coding agent (github.com/manifestack)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by dminglv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Twitee: A Nitter Alternative (twitee.co)
    ×1.45 32 | 3 points by nohuman-labs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives (l3x.in)
    ×3.31 33 #83 | 13 points by alexfortin 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: HCSM – An Open Framework for the Hodge Complex Standard Model (github.com/007STAN)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by 007STAN 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Negotiator II – A 5-48V power supply in your wallet (anasmalas.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by AnasMalas 31 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. "A Node.js project template that will not install Node with curl – sh (github.com/fulldecent)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by fulldecent2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you (criteo.com)
    ×1.95 84 | 79 points by brugidou 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Rinkata, shared project context for teams using coding agents (rinkata.dev)
    ×1.61 95 | 4 points by bschwab 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe (solarpowerworldonline.com)
    ×2.78 30 #51 | 236 points by 01-_- 14 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: Matter: Doesn't Matter?
    ×2.49 58 | 3 points by macro-b 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Shortfuse – Make macOS permissions expire automatically
    ×2.18 148 | 5 points by wxce 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???