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  1. Ask HN: Difficulties with going back to school
    ×0.83 41 | 52 points by hndecision1234 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. New ChatGPT GPT-4o Model
    ×0.25 86 | 4 points by byyoung3 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Recommendation for non-DOS/Unix open source OS outside x86/X64
    ×0.81 125 | 9 points by anta40 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?
    ×1.91 108 | 343 points by gremlinsinc 6 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Exploring a Conversational AI Solution for Loneliness
    ×0.20 144 | 3 points by omars_ 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Advice on increasing engagement for consumer/P2P app?
    ×0.29 138 | 4 points by ziruiyyy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Taking care when responding to job postings in "who is hiring"
    ×2.95 3 | 14 points by yubblegum 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you've worked with?
    ×0.74 128 | 47 points by chordol 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How I Stay Motivated Working on My Solo SaaS (When It Feels Like Nobody Cares)
    ×1.08 141 | 119 points by Sayyidalijufri 6 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are the best use cases for custom GPTs
    ×1.20 85 | 6 points by miletus 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Urldn – A Free URL Shortener with Tracking and QR Codes
    ×0.24 155 | 5 points by lahcenassm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How to teach agentic AI? Please share your experience
    ×0.16 179 | 9 points by morisil 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Would you make an argument for the peak of human progress?
    ×0.37 158 | 5 points by techpineapple 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How should junior programmers use and/or not use AI for programming?
    ×0.73 113 | 45 points by taatparya 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. UK IT job searching broken
    ×0.92 150 | 21 points by c7THEC2DDFVV2V 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Would You Unionize for WFH?
    ×2.67 21 | 7 points by CaffeineLD50 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I released an open-source album of Game Boy music [link in body]
    ×0.60 173 | 16 points by soundworlds 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Have you ever been hired because of open-source contributions?
    ×1.23 161 | 27 points by mothhabit 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What new tools are there for facilitating virtual conferences?
    ×0.40 182 | 8 points by retzkek 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: I feel I can no longer trust my gut
    ×2.32 93 | 14 points by mertleee 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Nvidia pretended their robot was not remote controlled – why?
    ×0.65 151 | 18 points by ionwake 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Alternatives to Vector DB?
    ×0.34 178 | 21 points by tmaly 6 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. It is practically impossible to find a freelance project these days
    ×2.72 107 | 19 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Is Product Search Broken? Why Are We Still Stuck with Ads and Fake Reviews?
    ×0.79 176 | 26 points by nicola_alessi 6 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why is Hacker News still keep this hard-to-use UI and has such poor readability?
    ×2.83 81 | 8 points by rydensun 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's the quickest way to build a landing page?
    ×0.83 119 | 4 points by speakfreely 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Favourite resources for learning programming type theory?
    ×0.65 194 | 6 points by stephantul 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Anyone else ready to ditch app stores and Facebook's ecosystem?
    ×0.69 191 | 9 points by hedayet 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why don't hiring managers provide feedback?
    ×0.84 175 | 18 points by scrapcode 5 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Lost Art of Research as Leisure (kasurian.com)
    ×2.24 83 | 497 points by altilunium 5 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. ‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×2.38 45 | 346 points by adrian_mrd 5 days ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Bonsai – A Competitive Ternary Weight LLM (github.com/deepgrove-ai)
    ×3.51 157 | 11 points by deepgrove 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian (reuters.com)
    ×8.34 66 #87 | 40 points by GeoAtreides 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans (theatlantic.com)
    ×109.06 89 | 316 points by _tk_ 4 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Prefix any URL with `pure.md/` to get unblocked Markdown (pure.md)
    ×1.81 4 | 4 points by andrethegiant 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Torch Lens Maker – Differentiable Geometric Optics in PyTorch (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×1.08 79 | 177 points by fouronnes3 3 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I've created the fastest open-source DNS bruteforcer using XF_ADP (github.com/c3l3si4n)
    ×1.24 166 | 14 points by celesian 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I made a free IndiePa.ge Alternative to track and show your startups (innovativ.es)
    ×0.67 195 | 11 points by Indiemarkus 1 week ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by marojejian 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Designing Electronics That Work (hscott.net)
    ×1.59 118 | 285 points by teleforce 6 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction (turing.ac.uk)
    ×1.46 26 #20 | 275 points by bentobean 20 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Search and chat with millions of court cases using AI. (courtsearch.ai)
    ×1.32 101 #67 | 17 points by ashr_ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Top US officials shared Yemen strike plans in group chat with journalist (bbc.com)
    ×6.04 78 | 8 points by boto3 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. New York's longest-running play offers AI-powered live translations (semafor.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by rmason 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Curiosity rover finds long-chain alkanes on Mars (theguardian.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by yzydserd 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: GoCard – A file-based spaced repetition system built in Go (github.com/DavidMiserak)
    ×0.93 163 | 4 points by DavidMiserak 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I built a tool to browse X Community Notes (community-notes.org)
    ×2.19 172 | 7 points by mynameyeff 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Japanese scientists use stem cell treatment to restore movement in spinal injury (medicalxpress.com)
    ×2.35 2 #25 | 183 points by pseudolus 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Move on to ESM-Only (antfu.me)
    ×1.70 34 #43 | 100 points by bpierre 19 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Relationship Ends, Not Fails (sive.rs)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by andrewstetsenko 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter (qwenlm.github.io)
    ×2.34 #1 | 143 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code (microsoft.com)
    ×1.21 58 #52 | 125 points by luu 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A chatbot that tells other people what you said (connectionsbot.app)
    ×0.70 192 | 3 points by eliblock 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Arc AGI 2025 (arcprize.org)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by artninja1988 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. What Customers Want from Self-Service Support (cba-gbl.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by athousandsteps 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Crabtime: Zig’s Comptime in Rust (crates.io)
    ×2.41 17 | 460 points by klaussilveira 5 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: K8sel – interactive (fzf) filter for K8s YAML (github.com/jonesalk)
    ×1.26 193 | 4 points by jalk 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Technicalities of Homeworld 2 Backgrounds (simonschreibt.de)
    ×1.72 41 #42 | 201 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. JEP Draft: JFR Method Timing and Tracing (openjdk.org)
    ×1.11 19 #86 | 4 points by mfiguiere 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I made a little tool called "Break Me" to help you cool off at work (breakme.now)
    ×2.20 44 | 7 points by egretfx 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Kreuzberg v3.0 – Modern Python Document Extraction
    ×2.49 56 | 5 points by nhirschfeld 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: GizmoSQL – Run DuckDB as a Server with Arrow Flight SQL (github.com/gizmodata)
    ×0.78 164 | 15 points by philbe77 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Usque – Open-Source Cloudflare Warp Masque Client (github.com/Diniboy1123)
    ×1.50 174 | 16 points by MaryJohanna 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why I've now quit my Google contract job (kith.org)
    ×3.64 29 #58 | 18 points by bundie 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 600M years of shared environmental stress response found in algae and plants (phys.org)
    ×1.00 32 #12 | 21 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Thinking Different, Thinking Slowly: LLMs on a PowerPC Mac (theresistornetwork.com)
    ×2.06 9 #50 | 12 points by tambourine_man 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Satshot Founder Lanny Faleide Takes Global Imagery to New Heights (croplife.com)
    ×0.48 83 #69 | 29 points by rmason 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. China's Energy Transition at Odds with Solar Glut, Cheap Power (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Default bias: How analytics made me rethink my UI design approach (souravinsights.com)
    ×1.91 19 | 3 points by SouravInsights 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' (github.com/sharkdp)
    ×3.46 64 | 701 points by tosh 5 days ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. George Foreman has died (variety.com)
    ×2.60 33 | 315 points by wallflower 2 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How to create value objects in Ruby – the idiomatic way (ghinda.com)
    ×1.10 26 #9 | 45 points by thinkingemote 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president (reuters.com)
    ×5.96 84 | 603 points by perihelions 5 days ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS (windows.com)
    ×1.36 91 | 285 points by SigmundurM 4 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why (reason.com)
    ×4.71 67 | 247 points by pseudolus 3 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. If a business can be open source, it'll be open source (thedevsdividend.substack.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by pepibumur 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.86 24 #14 | 175 points by benbreen 13 hours ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Mruby/C and picoruby: high level langs in low-level devices? (github.com/picoruby)
    ×0.67 38 #16 | 29 points by rahil627 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Supply Chain Attacks on Linux Distributions – Fedora Pagure (fenrisk.com)
    ×1.35 42 #34 | 188 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields (esa.int)
    ×1.02 67 #46 | 106 points by layer8 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Andromeda XXXV: The Faintest Dwarf Satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (iop.org)
    ×0.54 71 #54 | 39 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: FastOpenAPI – automated docs for many Python frameworks (github.com/mr-fatalyst)
    ×0.90 50 | 151 points by mr_Fatalyst 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Bookmarklet to Summarize Any Page Using ChatGPT
    ×2.13 137 | 6 points by shafkathullah 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Building an idempotent email API with River unique jobs (riverqueue.com)
    ×1.03 13 #7 | 15 points by izend 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Grasp Code Functionality by Seeing Its AI-Discovered Feature Hierarchy (product-map.ai)
    ×1.73 189 | 5 points by axelr340 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Compressed Book Edition (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.92 67 #66 | 40 points by skowalak 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Prospero Challenge (mattkeeter.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by tekknolagi 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. (Technology Connections) The correcting feature of typewriters [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.94 30 | 3 points by xeonmc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Understanding Solar Energy (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.54 94 | 259 points by chmaynard 4 days ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Emulating Tamagotchi P1 in the Browser (github.com/tonypan2)
    ×1.52 117 | 3 points by tonypan 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???