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  1. Ask HN: MS Outlook login without an extra email address
    ×0.45 | 2 points by narevent 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.48 6 | 761 points by lukehandcool 2 days ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How do Lightroom/DxO achieve such good AI denoising results?
    ×0.21 47 | 3 points by febed 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.88 29 | 403 points by mariocesar 3 days ago | 642 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job?
    ×1.14 23 | 3 points by bumicodes 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.85 70 | 568 points by IvanK_net 4 days ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Does YC use AI agents to review your pitch?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by AravPhi 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.51 91 | 8 points by fragmede 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.74 94 | 13 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?
    ×0.54 93 | 5 points by dfps 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.54 106 | 11 points by hanstyle 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.35 123 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.53 114 | 12 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.85 122 | 12 points by thelastgallon 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×0.77 129 | 8 points by amichail 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival
    ×0.63 44 | 24 points by hanstyle 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×1.00 112 | 13 points by scoofy 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.28 145 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.79 148 | 6 points by bigmattystyles 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.71 141 | 13 points by Crontab 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.45 133 | 12 points by penskymaterial 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.00 137 | 17 points by saimiam 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.24 111 | 40 points by trencedamp 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired
    ×2.10 89 | 12 points by karimelgazar 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.09 | 2 points by northlondoner 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence
    ×0.79 126 | 8 points by butlersean 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.60 153 | 8 points by maxignol 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What happened with quantum computers anyway?
    ×0.41 144 | 4 points by pera 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.44 146 | 7 points by Bender 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Learning practical system design
    ×0.93 138 | 6 points by rcdmrl 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Try On-Device AI with FM (eclecticlight.co)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by frizlab 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Chrome Relay – background tabs in your real Chrome for coding agents (github.com/aindeev)
    ×2.09 77 | 6 points by alexeyindeev 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Fabrika, Opinionated Software Factory (tatiyants.com)
    ×0.74 118 | 4 points by atatiyan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay (nobelprize.org)
    ×2.33 8 #75 | 480 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates (nejm.org)
    ×1.34 55 | 77 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Rutter – shared decision memory across AI tools (ruttermemory.com)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by shinytoyrobots 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: UserAlertX – let your AI agent text you (only you) (useralertx.com)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by jclmn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
    ×1.51 6 #2 | 55 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial (popvax.com)
    ×2.15 10 #25 | 96 points by jajoosam 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more (jessewaites.com)
    ×1.10 53 #43 | 179 points by piratebroadcast 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Woodpecker – a browser agent built with Pi and user scripts
    ×2.10 119 | 7 points by tyr034 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com/rociiu)
    ×1.35 14 #6 | 209 points by rociiu 10 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Yet another open source tool to display air quality in Europe and Middle East (azukibeans.dev)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by marcopavanelli 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I made Leisure Suit Larry 1 multiplayer co-op (davor.se)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by davorb 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology (newyorker.com)
    ×5.45 26 | 74 points by samizdis 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties (pressaudit.org)
    ×4.26 64 | 50 points by SLHamlet 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: The safe-choice tax – what the vendor nobody gets fired for costs (svpremium.dev)
    ×1.53 86 | 5 points by PaywallBuster 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia (artfrompixels.com)
    ×1.37 82 | 172 points by jasontr 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.80 7 #65 | 410 points by franze 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. OpenAI's Astra model is shockingly good at robotics (understandingrobots.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by gmays 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: 'I'm Not an AI-Friendly Actor' (variety.com)
    ×4.99 82 | 23 points by CharlesW 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Excali-mode (github.com/yibie)
    ×0.90 134 | 4 points by oliverchan2024 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Create beautiful screenshots/ recordings to share your work (google.com)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by sss007r 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Git extension for controlling Git worktree mess (getzit.org)
    ×0.88 152 | 7 points by ironfootnz 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes (nature.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Flopper is a hardware explorer for AI infrastructure and beyond (flopper.io)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by triwats 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: RcloneView 1.6 – A desktop GUI for rclone with 40 cloud storages (rcloneview.com)
    ×0.86 108 | 6 points by newclone 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
    ×2.51 #1 | 171 points by Michelangelo11 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Takeshi's Castle (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.35 22 #29 | 39 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. KubeNPU Per-Pod NPU/GPU Usage on Kubernetes via eBPF (github.com/jrzayev)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by rzcavid 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Python 3.15 (python.org)
    ×3.88 15 | 303 points by ngoldbaum 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Lobbying (geohot.github.io)
    ×5.98 46 | 179 points by smilelamp 16 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz surge to wartime high, Iran tries choking oil (cnbc.com)
    ×2.73 39 | 60 points by MilnerRoute 23 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ario – a bounded agent runtime where a local PASS cannot become global truth (zenodo.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by SepehrGhanbari 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Rolling Release Distros Superior to LTS in the Patch-Heavy GenAI Era? (phoronix.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by dxs 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal (github.com/clainstone)
    ×1.84 67 | 14 points by epestr 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A Piet interpreter compiled to a Piet image, running a Piet program (bobbby.online)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by rhgraysonii 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How strong is the strong interaction? (cerncourier.com)
    ×0.82 20 #12 | 30 points by EA-3167 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice (lwn.net)
    ×1.04 46 #39 | 129 points by peter_d_sherman 21 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The state of AI-assisted reverse-engineering of Apple Macs (github.com/aurora-silicon)
    ×1.58 29 | 3 points by cromka 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Aura – a self-hosted, multi-user AI agent with per-person graph memory (github.com/chetto1983)
    ×1.13 128 | 7 points by chettto983 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tools for Thought (brown.edu)
    ×2.24 43 | 4 points by smartmic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Integrated Circuits, AI, and Wallabies (walkingtheworld.substack.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by dxs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
    ×3.27 40 | 718 points by SpeakingOfBrad 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Is AI Killing the Value of Human Writing? (transitions.substack.com)
    ×0.95 23 #56 | 3 points by fsndz 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Google AI Edge Foresight – meeting notetaker on-device (google.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by dotmanish 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Tutor, a self-hosted LLM tutor that teaches you your books or docs (github.com/demetrius-edelin)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by edelind 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Can Artificial Intelligence Learn the Art of Surgery? (nytimes.com)
    ×1.51 | 3 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Ponzi Potato – an incremental game about a potato pyramid scheme (ponzipotato.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by stophecom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. You might want to try being less creative (bawolf.com)
    ×1.19 35 | 75 points by bryantwolf 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment (themirror.com)
    ×4.69 75 | 72 points by bcaulfield 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
    ×2.90 12 #13 | 646 points by modinfo 20 hours ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Triple-A Minesweeper (mikelacher.com)
    ×5.81 11 #16 | 1315 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach (cphpost.dk)
    ×2.26 16 #28 | 357 points by baal80spam 11 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Rgpu – a PyTorch device whose tensors live on a remote GPU (github.com/ymcrcat)
    ×0.61 83 | 57 points by boxstream 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) (github.com/p10node)
    ×0.72 81 | 69 points by pierreneter 2 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tesla Rebrands Full Self-Driving as Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe (qz.com)
    ×2.49 61 | 52 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 (github.com/anupray95)
    ×0.88 95 | 33 points by anupray 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
    ×1.88 19 #18 | 40 points by ghuntley 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. C for Rust programmers (bd103.dev)
    ×1.48 17 #64 | 86 points by xyproto 11 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???