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  1. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.65 54 #58 | 3 points by fragmede 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.54 28 #85 | 739 points by lukehandcool 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.86 4 | 389 points by mariocesar 3 days ago | 622 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.90 64 | 568 points by IvanK_net 3 days ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.77 71 | 10 points by consumer451 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.59 92 | 10 points by hanstyle 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired
    ×1.66 43 | 6 points by karimelgazar 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.60 101 | 12 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.36 124 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×1.07 116 | 12 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×1.01 121 | 8 points by amichail 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×1.08 105 | 12 points by scoofy 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.34 142 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.11 | 2 points by northlondoner 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.83 153 | 5 points by bigmattystyles 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence
    ×0.90 115 | 8 points by butlersean 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What happened with quantum computers anyway?
    ×0.49 141 | 4 points by pera 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.47 132 | 12 points by penskymaterial 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.76 150 | 13 points by Crontab 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.59 112 | 40 points by trencedamp 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.00 146 | 16 points by saimiam 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Learning practical system design
    ×0.88 143 | 5 points by rcdmrl 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.47 151 | 7 points by Bender 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are we trading model capacity for compute?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by olirex99 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.55 154 | 7 points by maxignol 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)
    ×4.02 9 #10 | 387 points by gumby 3 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? (dgt.is)
    ×4.34 7 #44 | 1080 points by jonotime 1 day ago | 951 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. An experiment to glimpse the future Amazon rainforest (nature.com)
    ×1.21 2 #65 | 6 points by sohkamyung 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Python 3.15 (python.org)
    ×3.80 73 #89 | 286 points by ngoldbaum 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Scottish artist marks 100 years of Schrödinger equation with new installation (physicsworld.com)
    ×1.52 16 | 3 points by sohkamyung 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize (reuters.com)
    ×7.20 84 | 458 points by poly2it 10 hours ago | 448 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I built a fast spreadsheet engine for the web in Rust/WASM (github.com/podraven)
    ×0.66 110 | 8 points by deathg0d 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
    ×0.99 130 | 121 points by edverma2 1 week ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice (lwn.net)
    ×0.94 24 #19 | 7 points by peter_d_sherman 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. No Man Is an Island (borretti.me)
    ×2.75 29 #31 | 260 points by zetalyrae 4 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Apogee: Rebuilding Mozilla's Orbit, fully local and private (github.com/darshi1337)
    ×4.25 24 #90 | 62 points by zxdc7896 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. MEPO 4. International Police Telegraph code (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
    ×1.61 45 | 3 points by Bluestein 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Pocketty – iPhone SSH terminal that pings you when an agent is blocked (pocketty.app)
    ×0.56 83 | 31 points by lukeed 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A Piet interpreter compiled to a Piet image, running a Piet program (bobbby.online)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by rhgraysonii 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (dexerto.com)
    ×4.17 4 #49 | 919 points by ck2 1 day ago | 559 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment (biohub.org)
    ×0.90 59 #69 | 142 points by ray__ 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Chinese Auto Giant Geely Announces Canada Entry in 2027 as U.S. Seeks Ban (wsj.com)
    ×2.13 2 | 4 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Where're All the AI Chips? (wheresyoured.at)
    ×1.55 32 | 3 points by jllyhill 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work (nature.com)
    ×5.58 13 | 76 points by bluenose69 13 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Convkit – A command line tool for converting images/video/docs offline (github.com/shdwfruit)
    ×2.38 152 | 7 points by shdwfruit 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Accountability.md – a skill that holds agents accountable for actions (github.com/kenm47)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by hank2000 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. 11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People (linuxstans.com)
    ×1.39 2 #15 | 13 points by dxs 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How to Fix autoconf-style Configuration Probing (build2.org)
    ×0.40 46 #27 | 9 points by boris 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GhostAction attack using GitHub and GitLab lookalike domains (opensourcemalware.com)
    ×1.93 5 #51 | 4 points by 6mile 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM (github.com/pingdotgg)
    ×1.38 81 | 112 points by jcbhmr 2 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Veil – Zero-knowledge messenger with post-quantum encryption (tryveil.app)
    ×2.30 109 | 6 points by veil-im 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Long term Memory and 50M token window for LLM (huggingface.co)
    ×2.48 95 | 6 points by Corbenic 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor (github.com/kvoltmer)
    ×1.14 137 | 155 points by vltmrkls 1 week ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
    ×2.09 9 #2 | 11 points by modinfo 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Atari Falcon (atarimuseum.nl)
    ×1.23 22 #22 | 9 points by debo_ 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Anthropic's AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide (theverge.com)
    ×3.57 27 #42 | 12 points by sbulaev 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I made a TV game console inside an antenna plug (raytriangle.com)
    ×1.44 38 | 3 points by pst723 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder (nbcphiladelphia.com)
    ×3.03 19 #13 | 19 points by Zambyte 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.86 79 #67 | 149 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Palantir Growth Machine: Visualized [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by affalytics 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Slipstream – explore F1 results and compare lap times (github.com/saccofrancesco)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by sh4dow05 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program (reuters.com)
    ×3.90 58 | 119 points by geox 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Trigora – durable execution without history replay (github.com/trigora-dev)
    ×0.43 145 | 10 points by hypervs 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI system submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia police (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.10 23 #73 | 6 points by reaperducer 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Argument from Ignorance (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.41 3 #74 | 4 points by suopspaces 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to the police (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.84 13 #88 | 16 points by mikelgan 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Texas Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving Zines (newrepublic.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by convict 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. VLC 3.0.24 Is Out (jbkempf.com)
    ×2.26 18 | 4 points by fuzzfactor 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. New gTLD Application for .lan (icann.org)
    ×1.42 54 | 142 points by mzajc 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I let Claude refactor my old game (github.com/victorqribeiro)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by atum47 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more (jessewaites.com)
    ×1.11 15 #11 | 100 points by piratebroadcast 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.75 8 #14 | 374 points by franze 13 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Helix Users Watch Maintainer Hover over Merge Button for Third Consecutive Month (reddit.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by DASD 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: We Beat TypeSafe Jev and Released Open-Source Decision Model (twitter.com/reversedoofz)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by lebagetdefrance 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers (github.com/openai)
    ×4.17 28 | 342 points by theemathas 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.73 72 | 61 points by HotGarbage 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use (anthropic.com)
    ×3.04 61 | 5 points by oxag3n 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens (astrohelm.app)
    ×0.94 96 | 99 points by HeavenFox 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer (github.com/nano-muse)
    ×0.83 103 | 65 points by ilreb 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Pinrail – A desktop inbox where coding agents wait for your review (github.com/forgeplane)
    ×0.93 113 | 27 points by pnezis 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com/rsutcliffe)
    ×0.78 118 | 89 points by delphidolphin 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Pacer – will your AI coding subscription last until the reset? (github.com/dkremsa)
    ×0.77 126 | 10 points by dkremsa 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information" (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.55 7 #36 | 312 points by trakkstar 15 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What's New in Python 3.15 (python.org)
    ×1.23 2 #68 | 10 points by kylebarron 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I built a self-contained ship tracker for my girlfriend [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by mkaic 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Serverless Horrors $10,811.41 (serverlesshorrors.com)
    ×3.33 70 | 65 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.71 107 | 88 points by yashdotrv 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Excali-mode (github.com/yibie)
    ×0.92 117 | 4 points by oliverchan2024 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Terse, a Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler (github.com/lowenbjer)
    ×0.99 102 | 24 points by lowenbjer 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled (cnbc.com)
    ×4.38 10 | 421 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???