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  1. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×3.63 5 #14 | 223 points by IvanK_net 14 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.48 40 #57 | 28 points by onemiketwelve 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×2.07 16 #80 | 20 points by mariocesar 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.90 40 | 11 points by saimiam 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×1.20 53 | 5 points by Crontab 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×0.51 54 | 5 points by mtmosestn 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×3.36 69 | 13 points by nunorbatista 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.49 96 | 3 points by maxignol 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work
    ×0.82 91 | 5 points by microflash 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
    ×0.82 21 | 44 points by Gooblebrai 11 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What would you like to see in a new AI technology release?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by ikishade 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: My Apple ID is locked for a week, Apple is a single point of failure
    ×5.03 83 | 12 points by akg_67 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Vibecoding Follies
    ×1.05 97 | 4 points by vegnus 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How come everyone is an LLM expert?
    ×1.14 102 | 4 points by delis-thumbs-7e 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Show me your agentic SDE semantics
    ×0.31 | 2 points by danielovichdk 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is observability broken for you?
    ×0.76 117 | 3 points by tmach32 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Agent access to chat data should require participant consent?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by maxwellito 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. ChatGPT self-distances when admitting fault
    ×0.76 86 | 3 points by chrisjj 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Alternatives to NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML
    ×0.90 124 | 3 points by john-titor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos
    ×0.30 115 | 8 points by iliashad 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What brings you back to personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse?
    ×0.80 128 | 3 points by sdrth 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why does Astra compact context so frequently vs. Fable?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by yesitcan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What do you think about AI generated slides for conferences?
    ×1.14 122 | 4 points by Hixon10 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How are AI budgets changing in your company?
    ×1.67 121 | 5 points by bobby-cb 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
    ×1.57 74 | 101 points by goldenmember 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop, agent-adjusted
    ×0.88 145 | 3 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week
    ×0.95 105 | 12 points by Steaglsz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.
    ×0.18 149 | 4 points by LowLevelMahn 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Who is cleaning up all the garbage LLMs generate?
    ×1.89 141 | 6 points by kbrannigan 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.45 151 | 11 points by esher 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.24 152 | 7 points by Dinuda 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Anyone accepted into OpenAI "Codex for open source"?
    ×1.56 133 | 4 points by awb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is Freelancing Dead After AI?
    ×1.79 147 | 5 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
    ×0.33 153 | 6 points by Steaglsz 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer (github.com/nano-muse)
    ×0.89 23 #21 | 20 points by ilreb 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Bitsql – light, mssql compatible server (mirekrusin.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by mirekrusin 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Connect-it, a browser node canvas with timers, logic gates, and music (connect-it-app.pages.dev)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by zubink 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Native Port of Super Smash Bros. Melee (github.com/nikhilunni)
    ×1.03 140 | 4 points by nikhilunni 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: DevBoard – a simpler ClickUp for small dev teams, native apps and MCP (getdevboard.app)
    ×1.00 130 | 5 points by darkobacic 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. We Asked Starbucks Why Their 'Sugar-Free' Drinks Have Sugar (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.08 15 #40 | 21 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
    ×2.12 4 #59 | 546 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand (autodidacts.io)
    ×5.21 49 | 186 points by Curiositry 18 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Browser-Based F1 Game (lift-and-coast.vercel.app)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by Hussain04 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? (thoreaubasic.com)
    ×0.97 99 | 96 points by Gorsefound 4 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: AI Circuit Breaker – Reverse proxy to stop agent infinite loops (circuit-breaker-sage.vercel.app)
    ×1.73 82 | 8 points by roandejager 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: SoldStack – sold prices API for secondhand clothes (soldstack.fly.dev)
    ×1.63 120 | 8 points by aarontian0 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Mathematics of Geothermal Energy (ebsco.com)
    ×0.51 66 #35 | 71 points by srameshc 20 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (dinculescu.dev)
    ×0.95 11 #78 | 129 points by faithraven 19 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The two halves of the AI software wave: how software is built and what it does (modernpath.ai)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by arauhala 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: CoIsland – A local Mac app that monitors your dev tools and alerts you (coisland.app)
    ×2.17 113 | 9 points by LeDonT 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Query Transformation Pipeline (readyset.io)
    ×0.28 78 #51 | 14 points by gvsg-rs 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
    ×1.47 12 #75 | 308 points by ishan0102 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)
    ×1.86 30 | 292 points by maguay 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Lask – A task runner with a type system and pinned Docker environments (github.com/lask-task-runner)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by torudev 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Longest traffic jam (number of vehicles): Berlin 1990 (guinnessworldrecords.com)
    ×1.74 10 | 3 points by rguiscard 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: EasyToSTL – Convert 2D images and text to watertight, print-ready STLs (easytostl.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by dawn3727 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    ×1.09 103 | 95 points by nor-and-or-not 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com/anteloc)
    ×1.40 98 | 166 points by antelocnova 4 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.39 #1 | 898 points by OfficialTurkey 11 hours ago | 811 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Decisions API is in public beta (openai.com)
    ×1.98 4 #3 | 283 points by chiefstorm 12 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Software developers are not okay (baldurbjarnason.com)
    ×2.97 36 | 5 points by equalsione 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
    ×2.26 13 | 337 points by farslan 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model (strandsagents.com)
    ×1.57 1 #2 | 170 points by gmays 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Web Search API (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.46 14 #69 | 586 points by tosh 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. EU's Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials (politico.eu)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by pjmlp 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism (theregister.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by jjgreen 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have (deadparrotbbs.com)
    ×3.02 24 | 207 points by speckx 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (techspot.com)
    ×5.39 18 #61 | 816 points by emptybits 2 days ago | 659 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Self-custody USDC billing for metered APIs – no Stripe, no bank, $0/mo (github.com/web4-watchbot)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by madansa7 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can't Develop for You (criteo.com)
    ×1.95 27 | 3 points by brugidou 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. DBX: Database Manager (dbxio.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught (erdosproblems.com)
    ×1.62 43 #42 | 101 points by pfdietz 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
    ×1.83 9 #56 | 307 points by ingve 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Is Cosmic DE Mogging KDE Plasma? (thelibre.news)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by signa11 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Fedora AI-Assisted Contributions Policy (fedoraproject.org)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by ankitg12 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Experimenting with Bindless Textures in WebGPU (toji.dev)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by AshleysBrain 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Treg (OpenRouter for Tools) (github.com/superdesigndev)
    ×0.70 38 #20 | 27 points by trollied 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Is Android Unicode Yet? (2024) (shkspr.mobi)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by edent 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I measured the MCP registry nightly for 37 days (github.com/yassinht)
    ×0.71 148 | 3 points by yassinht 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why Do Grains Defy Gravity? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by dataflow 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
    ×2.26 20 | 347 points by dachworker 1 day ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen (nobelprize.org)
    ×2.37 7 #31 | 554 points by solarist 23 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.70 41 #48 | 82 points by yashdotrv 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: An AI agent runs ten web errands a day, every transcript published (agentability.org)
    ×0.78 79 #55 | 12 points by khalidsaidi 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Reasons to Dislike AI Coding (sicpers.info)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by signa11 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Mvsep Security Incident (mvsep.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by IndySun 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.60 65 | 135 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Rgpu – a PyTorch device whose tensors live on a remote GPU (github.com/ymcrcat)
    ×1.34 22 | 4 points by boxstream 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.52 2 #67 | 157 points by hochmartinez 21 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities (haxx.se)
    ×2.45 34 | 4 points by mfrw 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???