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  1. Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?
    ×0.86 3 | 3 points by MollyRealized 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?
    ×0.49 42 | 4 points by creatorcoder 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Using games/cards to learn new skills
    ×0.41 73 | 4 points by dominikz 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Does anyone what a "RiotCache.dat" file was doing in my EFI partition?
    ×0.14 94 | 4 points by kromerless 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is $300/HR too low these days for custom full stack?
    ×0.51 88 | 15 points by noduerme 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you have a colophon for your personal website?
    ×0.44 77 | 8 points by susam 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit
    ×0.47 100 | 4 points by Stanlyya 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?
    ×0.43 102 | 8 points by Cheesebh 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.40 98 | 176 points by srameshc 3 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.45 117 | 18 points by mjb8086 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak?
    ×0.31 116 | 7 points by virgildotcodes 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?
    ×0.30 110 | 6 points by s3arch 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.87 115 | 57 points by summonerOS 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.93 122 | 35 points by 0rganize 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?
    ×0.12 129 | 5 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services
    ×0.05 | 2 points by m3047 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: I went to Alaska's northernmost town and this was the GeoIP location
    ×0.26 168 | 3 points by ironmagma 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.58 143 | 32 points by sergiotapia 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.24 148 | 10 points by paulf38 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
    ×0.23 130 | 6 points by js98 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. "Subligence" – proposed coinage for LLM "intelligence"
    ×0.25 151 | 4 points by akiarie 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What I learned from tinkering with programming languages in the last 34 days
    ×0.11 166 | 3 points by alonsovm44 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?
    ×0.17 163 | 4 points by bridgettegraham 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Gemini 3.5 Flash breaks in stupid ways
    ×0.54 145 | 8 points by XCSme 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is HN Blocking Mullvad VPN?
    ×0.13 174 | 3 points by burger_moon 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Anyone else struggling with AI and work?
    ×0.42 154 | 7 points by carlgreene 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Microcodegen.py – PRD → FastAPI app, one file, no LLM calls (github.com/Anioko)
    ×0.76 146 | 3 points by anioko1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. SF Bay Area Webcams (sfcam.live)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by striking 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Characterizing Real-World Bugs in Tile Programs for Automated Bug Detection (arxiv.org)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by matt_d 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Experimental Drug Retatrutide Yields Dramatic Weight Loss (nytimes.com)
    ×1.52 37 | 3 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent (deepseek.com)
    ×4.27 18 | 433 points by Tiberium 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election (psypost.org)
    ×4.96 19 | 132 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
    ×2.34 90 | 526 points by danybittel 4 days ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. My I3-Emacs Integration (khz.ac)
    ×0.78 8 #6 | 33 points by nosolace 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Meshtastic em Portugal: a rede construída pelas pessoas (neural-rage.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by portugalbinario 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Thinking in an array language (2022) (github.com/razetime)
    ×1.24 56 | 98 points by tosh 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Darnix – Darwin Built with Nix (github.com/jonhermansen)
    ×3.14 107 | 12 points by jonhermansen 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/MinishLab)
    ×2.56 104 | 444 points by Bibabomas 6 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week (phoronix.com)
    ×1.56 34 | 3 points by breve 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map (openculture.com)
    ×2.34 57 | 119 points by leopoldj 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. US Towns Paid for Teachers and Cops to Use Weight-Loss Drugs. It Broke the Bank (wsj.com)
    ×1.52 15 | 3 points by atestu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Transoceanic Jet at 35,000 Feet Is In Airspace That Doesn't Legally Exist (simpleflying.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by Stratoscope 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees (fortune.com)
    ×4.95 28 | 220 points by nreece 22 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost (cato.org)
    ×5.76 43 | 141 points by malshe 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.57 72 | 62 points by Vaslo 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Applying metaphors from other fields into software development (codeutopia.net)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by nreece 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Shannon Got AI This Far. Kolmogorov Shows Where It Stops (medium.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by dnw 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
    ×3.02 92 | 720 points by zakirullin 5 days ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: We're building an open-source battery [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.64 128 | 7 points by kirksmith 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Ifmhy – An Internationalization Version of Fmhy (ifmhy.org)
    ×0.31 | 2 points by valorantPanda 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Reconstructing a Mixbook movie from its data API with FFmpeg (segar.me)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by msegar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
    ×2.32 69 | 264 points by bojta-lepenye 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Quit All, an iOS app with an SOS mode for cravings
    ×0.75 149 | 3 points by apoorvdarshan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Physics AI – Visualizing physics problems with step-by-step derivations (physicsai.chat)
    ×0.82 176 | 3 points by vansbree 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers (reuters.com)
    ×1.61 44 #26 | 121 points by cf100clunk 18 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Evaluating Spec CPU2026 (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.44 57 #50 | 22 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Bypassing Apple MIE (ironpeak.be)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by cylo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Don't just paste the AI at me (dontquotetheai.com)
    ×5.28 8 | 177 points by khaosdoctor 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
    ×3.04 80 | 676 points by zambelli 4 days ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: ChangeSpec is an open specification for software change communication (github.com/changespec)
    ×1.70 167 | 5 points by cdnsteve 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.06 15 #14 | 47 points by sohkamyung 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. $COOKED – cooked or cooking? Fresh Solana memecoin, just launched on pump.fun (pump.fun)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by advaithketha 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs (arxiv.org)
    ×0.67 82 | 105 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Logatory – local-first log analysis and threat detection, no SIEM (github.com/T0nd3)
    ×1.33 124 | 4 points by T0nd3 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Score by Collisions, Patch by Panic (himanshuanand.com)
    ×0.36 44 #27 | 4 points by unknownhad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Propuesta TLBIC: Cuarta versión en español
    ×1.49 | 2 points by michikawa59 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)
    ×1.99 48 | 371 points by sanity 2 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AI didn't kill your junior pipeline. You did (andrewmurphy.io)
    ×2.51 59 | 7 points by MBCook 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack (pcmag.com)
    ×2.42 4 | 186 points by bilalq 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The unlikely Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping AI ethics debate (religionnews.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why We've Filed a Referendum (stopstratos.org)
    ×1.67 61 | 60 points by mrwaffle 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com/helvesec)
    ×1.03 85 | 186 points by shideneyu 2 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I Made a Claude Skill for Spec-Driven Development (SDD) (github.com/FredAntB)
    ×1.25 106 | 34 points by NTRIXLM 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Datapoint AI – Make Something People Want, but Ask Them First (trydatapoint.com)
    ×1.22 131 | 4 points by yoloakki 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.51 14 #67 | 22 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Play nbsdgames to increase your brain (exclamation mark) (github.com/abakh)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by abakh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. NeuralNote (github.com/DamRsn)
    ×1.04 6 #31 | 9 points by hyperific 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Valve import 50 tons of "game consoles" in the US, possibly Steam Machines (theverge.com)
    ×1.55 17 | 3 points by TheJCDenton 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.03 14 | 254 points by rippeltippel 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Calculator Music – play songs with number keys in the browser
    ×0.38 101 | 4 points by zice0503 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: BonzAI – self-sovereign, local LLM inference in the browser (bonzai.sh)
    ×1.17 123 | 4 points by wilhempujar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A botless meeting recorder and summarizer that runs in the browser (wocal.app)
    ×1.71 134 | 5 points by dsingh1990 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types (andrewlock.net)
    ×1.72 4 #15 | 144 points by ingve 6 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library (spader.zone)
    ×1.96 37 #30 | 194 points by dboon 22 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Remote Job Board (remotejobs.place)
    ×2.14 164 | 8 points by beefive 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: PocketWebTools – Private AI tools that run in the browser (pocketweb.tools)
    ×1.24 171 | 4 points by shafkathullah 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Bun support is now limited and deprecated (github.com/yt-dlp)
    ×4.13 20 #75 | 558 points by tamnd 1 day ago | 577 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Guinea worm disease nears worldwide elimination, with only 10 cases in 2025 (umn.edu)
    ×2.18 18 | 5 points by randycupertino 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't (libertas.software)
    ×3.41 36 | 202 points by soft-research 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda (notesbylex.com)
    ×2.82 16 #56 | 666 points by lexandstuff 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???