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  1. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.59 73 | 320 points by sharts 3 days ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.01 62 | 640 points by dhruv3006 3 days ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How did you write code on restricted hardware?
    ×0.18 80 | 3 points by diselody 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Qwen3.8 Fetches Weird URLs
    ×0.36 66 | 6 points by Luker88 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.51 121 | 52 points by Abh1Works 5 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. InstantDB Is Shutting Down
    ×0.61 55 | 8 points by redindian75 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.71 76 | 653 points by stagas 4 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you review and validate LLM generated code?
    ×0.50 88 | 4 points by darkLord19 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Are you good at AI, or just using it?
    ×0.84 57 | 9 points by ppezaris 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Idea to reduce AI token use at large orgs
    ×0.53 120 | 4 points by mgav 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: One SSH key or many SSH keys?
    ×0.33 110 | 3 points by htunnicliff 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Google Cloud us-west1 down
    ×1.10 53 | 13 points by anurag 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: No Path from Techie to Management?
    ×0.37 97 | 5 points by seeking_gruntle 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is AI the New Spreadsheet?
    ×0.85 85 | 7 points by Gshaheen 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you automate your prospection or doing hand made?
    ×0.46 122 | 3 points by mathieu_aithos 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Is this AWS RI/SP simulation engine interesting / valuable?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by Exstratus 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Algorithm Interview: a conversation between two parrots
    ×0.39 131 | 3 points by dersoverflow 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. There are 67 items to manually delete in Google My-Activity
    ×0.31 | 2 points by whyagaindavid 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?
    ×0.82 130 | 14 points by elar_verole 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What I learned building an AI applic
    ×0.69 | 2 points by simondukr 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has anyone shipped a self-modifying application with LLMs?
    ×0.57 132 | 10 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: trailers.fm – live channel of movie trailers (trailers.fm)
    ×2.52 77 | 5 points by dogancan 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: JavaScript library that makes any list a smooth picker of any shape
    ×1.81 96 | 4 points by tahazsh 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Open Terminal – global chat built with WebSockets (openterminal-sigma.vercel.app)
    ×2.56 109 | 5 points by hito20 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
    ×0.76 36 #30 | 84 points by vga805 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What Is Reasoning (pocoo.org)
    ×1.07 39 #78 | 20 points by sebg 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Introducing AI Futures (openai.com)
    ×3.48 9 #89 | 20 points by logickkk1 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (mikekasberg.com)
    ×0.76 22 #31 | 90 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Kafka Flow – An interactive visualization of Kafka (kafka-flow.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by bytegogogo 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Epho – run Claude Code with a curl (epho.io)
    ×2.31 95 | 5 points by karakanb 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: FillBook – A trade journal for Kalshi with fee-adjusted P&L (fillbook.io)
    ×1.23 135 | 3 points by fillbookio 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption (loginwithone.com)
    ×2.07 128 | 15 points by mikeysight 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
    ×1.69 30 #51 | 249 points by gavide 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: XListman – one-binary, self-hosted mailing list manager (github.com/barats)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by baratsemet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. SpacetimeDB and BitCraft (2023) (bitcraftonline.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by peter_d_sherman 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Ullis – Local Ternary Moe-Kan Training and Inference Engine in Rust (github.com/Vladislav-Kalinkin)
    ×1.32 126 | 3 points by vlad_kalinkin 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. U.S. government debt passes $40T, more than doubling in a decade (cnbc.com)
    ×5.15 61 | 73 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Markdown Buddy – Native macOS Markdown Editor with Quick Look and Xcode (inawa.app)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by JanParis 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP" (parqdb.io)
    ×0.78 50 #34 | 8 points by petrizhang 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Excalidraw but ATProto (lexidraw.app)
    ×1.77 3 | 3 points by jcbhmr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Become the Top Newsletter (topnewsletters.lol)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by mattmerrick 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How Kubernetes Probes Work (ngrok.com)
    ×1.26 51 | 133 points by cyndunlop 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Risk Engineering (risk-engineering.org)
    ×1.00 36 #71 | 71 points by throwaw12 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.04 35 #83 | 791 points by Animux 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. ElemRV (github.com/aesc-silicon)
    ×1.85 8 | 3 points by kristianpaul 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.80 10 #18 | 924 points by emctech 18 hours ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Artificial Intelligence Policy (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.70 14 #28 | 28 points by hackerBanana 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Fsel –. a Rust TUI launcher, fuzzy picker and clipboard browser (github.com/Mjoyufull)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by Rikona_Kurasaki 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (computerenhance.com)
    ×1.92 20 #40 | 336 points by mayoff 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
    ×0.51 49 #64 | 34 points by yousefh409 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. People prefer A.I. art because people prefer bad art (2024) (maxread.substack.com)
    ×2.06 | 2 points by gavinsyancey 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Telexpage – Turn secrets into AES-256 encrypted PDFs, locally (telexpage.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by cucho 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
    ×1.66 8 #15 | 212 points by mariuz 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.10 #72 | 358 points by fg137 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons (bbc.com)
    ×4.21 37 | 109 points by jonathanlydall 13 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games (github.com/katiahayati)
    ×1.29 70 | 157 points by wkfauna 2 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 18 #29 | 140 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. NYC sanitation workers fed up with being pricked by weight-loss drug needles (gothamist.com)
    ×1.71 2 | 3 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ameliorate (ameliorate.app)
    ×1.37 18 #56 | 22 points by hakkikonu 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×0.56 34 #66 | 20 points by jonemi 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Advertising Is Hard – a pay-to-rank leaderboard that resets every 90 days (advertisingishard.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by dylan_builds 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Anolisa – Agentic OS with runtime, security, observability and token compression (github.com/alibaba)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by forrestly 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review (strn.cat)
    ×0.80 14 #21 | 64 points by hurrrr 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.27 41 | 75 points by tybulewicz 23 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A light-weight CLI that keeps your skills and rules in sync (github.com/nicolasakf)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by nicolasakf 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns (tidalcycles.org)
    ×0.96 10 #32 | 61 points by gjvc 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Fair Witness (gtraviswhite.substack.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by jmward01 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a (os8088.com)
    ×0.97 45 | 120 points by jggonz 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams (github.com/onecli)
    ×0.56 68 | 85 points by guyb3 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Netherlands lists Israel as a threat to its national security for the first time (trtworld.com)
    ×10.14 9 | 79 points by robtherobber 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Paint-by-numbers pixel art that 24 strangers fill in together (fillgood.io)
    ×2.44 72 | 5 points by einkaufspilot 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. There's no such thing as a small software team anymore (jacob.gold)
    ×1.00 9 #7 | 44 points by mooreslaw 3 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com/zachahn)
    ×1.87 12 #13 | 205 points by Bluestein 12 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. ATProto Documents-of-Record (requested.fyi)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by jcbhmr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Don't paste the AI, please (dontpastetheai.com)
    ×5.61 80 | 998 points by pjerem 19 hours ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Grimshaw vs. Ford Motor Co (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by vismit2000 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 (grapheneos.social)
    ×3.03 15 | 630 points by exceptione 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1 (x.org)
    ×1.27 59 | 79 points by ErenayDev 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
    ×1.38 13 #6 | 212 points by tyre 10 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How to compromise your system with a job interview (codedge.de)
    ×1.08 11 #22 | 130 points by codedge 12 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. In Which I Lose My Mind over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (maayanroth.com)
    ×0.56 30 #82 | 9 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 'The Data Center Has Taken Everything: Our Lands, Future, Happiness' (behanbox.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by akbarnama 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Darth Vader speaks out on Flock cameras at City Council meeting [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.32 34 #63 | 18 points by consumer451 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Bun 1.4 (bun.com)
    ×3.88 53 #79 | 235 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Donald Trump turns on Washington's museums in new culture war offensive (ft.com)
    ×1.69 30 | 3 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Histoire: Storybook but Vite (histoire.dev)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by jcbhmr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Horse and Sparrow Economic Theory (the13thtribe.blogspot.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by thunderbong 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Building Table Canon, an AI Campaign Memory Engine for TTRPGs (tablecanon.app)
    ×0.99 113 | 3 points by schillingderek 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Mathematics in the age of AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.36 37 | 205 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Browser De-Slop (sacredheartsc.com)
    ×1.48 13 | 58 points by cullumsmith 15 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???