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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.46 63 #69 | 369 points by david927 2 days ago | 1161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
    ×0.26 45 | 3 points by learner_yearner 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker because of AI?
    ×1.16 | 7 points by rizsyed1 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. We struggled with DevOps, so built a open source agentic platform just for this
    ×0.17 | 2 points by abmuhammadhamza 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A mnemonic-free wallet where the private key never leaves the phone's TEE
    ×0.27 81 | 3 points by niumeta_TZ 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27
    ×0.55 67 | 13 points by lucasoshiro 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock
    ×0.13 | 2 points by timedude 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Started Learning Pentesting
    ×0.22 124 | 3 points by muzan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.68 112 | 10 points by rylando 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down
    ×0.25 90 | 4 points by alt_tab 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.43 99 | 16 points by amichail 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×2.24 63 | 72 points by nunez 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Which crossword generator do you use?
    ×0.24 108 | 3 points by irusik 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SuperColoring – a simple crossword generator for learning and fun
    ×0.31 110 | 3 points by irusik 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Where is all of the AI coded software?
    ×0.80 80 | 6 points by wNjdbfm 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Working on Plug and Play personal AI Memory that works across AI agents
    ×0.33 117 | 3 points by heysrb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why 17?
    ×0.76 85 | 6 points by tonyvince7 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.18 126 | 4 points by Aditya_0315 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.86 101 | 61 points by stikit 4 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.37 125 | 11 points by mondobe 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why is Pulley (cap table) shutting down?
    ×0.92 83 | 5 points by AnhTho_FR 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.34 127 | 9 points by emerongi 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.49 72 | 486 points by jacquesm 6 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What are you building,Lets explore each others
    ×0.70 102 | 4 points by Vineetyadav2 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Plutus – click a release, see what moved on your cloud bill (plutus-cloud.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by thechenderson 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band (github.com/callbacked)
    ×0.91 62 | 121 points by callbacked 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: SCIP MIP solver bindings for Go, ported from russcip (github.com/egoisutolabs)
    ×0.52 69 | 11 points by generalist_dev 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand" (frvr.com)
    ×4.00 #1 | 175 points by alexjplant 1 hour ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (jock.pl)
    ×0.79 12 #12 | 23 points by joozio 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser (bensunter.com)
    ×0.22 55 | 6 points by bsunter2 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: LoongForge-Train LLMs, VLMs, diffusion and embodied models, faster (github.com/baidu-baige)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by nullnonenilNULL 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Trains.fyi – Global Train Tracker (trains.fyi)
    ×1.08 119 | 3 points by ryderdamen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Giving up on smart rings (notesbylex.com)
    ×1.03 33 #70 | 114 points by lexandstuff 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Things That Annoy Me About Cars (decryption.net.au)
    ×2.49 65 | 72 points by eustoria 2 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model (poltora.dev)
    ×1.51 26 | 176 points by poltora 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: TabPFN-3.5, a Tabular Foundation Model for messy real-world tables (priorlabs.ai)
    ×4.55 73 | 9 points by onasta 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Talk to Claude – voice agent designs, plans, builds across all projects (github.com/ethanplusai)
    ×1.44 115 | 3 points by ethanplusai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.15 68 | 628 points by dmitrybrant 6 days ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
    ×1.61 13 #22 | 159 points by luu 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Principles for Fast Tokio Applications (dial9-rs.github.io)
    ×1.34 35 | 246 points by carllerche 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Estimating the Cost of Combat Operations Against Iran [pdf] (cbo.gov)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by amarcheschi 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Backing up Hetzner snapshots locally (enjoys.it)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by rzk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers (reuters.com)
    ×3.01 1 | 164 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: AirmailAI, a BYOK LLM chat app with a browser extension backend (airmailai.net)
    ×1.61 95 | 4 points by blake__dev 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You (wired.com)
    ×1.72 5 #78 | 5 points by the-mitr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Docx-to-Markdown – layout-aware Word to Markdown converter (docx-editor.dev)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by thisisjedr 16 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. CSS-Tricks in Limbo (vale.rocks)
    ×1.66 30 #63 | 257 points by edent 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent (theregister.com)
    ×4.40 20 | 226 points by throwworhtthrow 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: TurboBench, the Compression Lie Detector, 100 Codecs, Daily Update (github.com/powturbo)
    ×2.08 7 | 5 points by powturbo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.20 7 #21 | 20 points by pluc 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Let's make quality the norm again (forbrukerradet.no)
    ×2.59 20 #37 | 443 points by ingve 1 day ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. NHTSA orders Tesla to prove its Cybercab is legal to sell, under oath (electrek.co)
    ×1.86 42 | 3 points by Tomte 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Self-evolving agents need pain, reflection, and sleep (medium.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by aaronrobert 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Insights on AI from the Reformation (amytis.io)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by JohnHammersley 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: An open source safety layer for AI agent actions (github.com/CTRLRun)
    ×1.75 98 | 4 points by arpanghoshal 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (autism.org.uk)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by AndrewDucker 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Fenchel Duality Theory and a Primal-Dual Algorithm on Riemannian Manifolds (21) (springer.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by gone35 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Delta – A Multiplayer Environment for Coding with Agents (delta.dev)
    ×2.51 41 | 4 points by tortilla 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information (explorator.dev)
    ×3.90 48 | 103 points by jyhrow 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Over 12% of links posted to Hacker News are Show HN projects now (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×1.86 40 #76 | 90 points by oyster143 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Archiving pirate radio station Kool FM (londonist.com)
    ×0.82 34 #79 | 95 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Parallel Constrained Decoding (twitter.com/harshagundal)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by rochansinha 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Orthant, an open-source macOS window manager where you draw the region (orthant.app)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by jingweno 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Misconceptions (arcgis.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Distributed Systems Classics (2017) (nvartolomei.com)
    ×1.58 21 | 346 points by grep_it 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: TrailVid – Cinematic Travel Animations (trailvid.com)
    ×1.23 109 | 3 points by ShellfishMeme 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents (openai.com)
    ×2.92 46 #51 | 96 points by vertigoruntime 1 hour ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AWS can't restore service to Bahrain, UAE facilities 6 months after Iran strikes (cnbc.com)
    ×2.09 21 #67 | 7 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: RelateAnything – Real-time open-vocabulary relation prediction (github.com/Maelic)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by maelicn 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 25 years of mass surveillance is enough (schneier.com)
    ×5.37 25 #58 | 889 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Acronis warns of actively exploited flaw in its cPanel backup plugin (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by paimapi 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)
    ×1.09 29 #47 | 109 points by natolambert 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com/GraafHenk)
    ×1.39 16 #50 | 169 points by Liogra123 20 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Tincan – terminal voice chat with no server in the middle (github.com/bilalyazicioglu)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by bilaly 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Talk to any self-hosted AI from your iPhone, Watch, Mac and car (open source)" (github.com/GigaDuckAI)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by pkrueck 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How my e-reader lost its stripes (serpentine.com)
    ×1.58 38 | 224 points by simonmic 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier] (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×2.18 9 | 156 points by mdp2021 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
    ×1.94 13 #8 | 21 points by whisper2020 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. An update on Wayback Machine access (archive.org)
    ×2.83 10 #20 | 627 points by ChrisArchitect 21 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils (omgubuntu.co.uk)
    ×2.42 44 #77 | 290 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 (apple.com)
    ×2.97 12 #90 | 706 points by throw0101d 1 day ago | 843 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GLM 5.3 is live on Mistral (mistral.ai)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by biehl 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I ported COLMAP (photogrammetry) to the browser in WASM and WebGPU (offlinetools.io)
    ×1.40 111 | 3 points by rsp1984 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: MergeMe – 1 Slack card per PR/MR. Supports GitHub/GitLab(+ self hosted) (mergeme.dev)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by maruan21 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Free WhatsApp MCP (+UI) – Give Your AI Agents Access to WhatsApp
    ×0.69 16 #6 | 8 points by fabian_shipamax 34 minutes ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go (cloudx.ai)
    ×1.23 #17 | 38 points by peterldowns 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: ctx – Git blame that returns the original agent transcript (ctx.rs)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by luca-ctx 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. SnagFlat – Rent-stabilization badges on every NYC StreetEasy listing (snagflat.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by jakdemir 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Dario, Please (rdi.sh)
    ×5.82 1 | 638 points by 0x5FC3 2 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts (techtimes.co.uk)
    ×4.47 36 | 199 points by akis33 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???