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  1. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.25 | 2 points by bigfishhk 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What landmarks/lighthouses in the era of LLM/AI?
    ×0.60 12 | 3 points by throw_away_ai 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.38 7 | 446 points by dan-bailey 2 days ago | 851 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Capitalism Can't Handle AI
    ×0.55 18 | 5 points by sedan_baklazhan 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.65 83 | 13 points by jopizio 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
    ×2.70 35 | 14 points by k9294 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.30 89 | 295 points by mlaux 5 days ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.97 60 | 30 points by zcalvin 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
    ×0.73 72 | 5 points by type4 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish
    ×1.32 64 | 12 points by neilv 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle
    ×0.43 101 | 3 points by pranshuchittora 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Stanislaw Lem quote related to LLMs
    ×2.62 50 | 8 points by daly 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out?
    ×1.02 87 | 12 points by jackgavigan 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.33 114 | 15 points by amina124 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.42 134 | 34 points by shriy-singh 6 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by conqrr 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion
    ×0.18 130 | 4 points by yash_salesup 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.48 123 | 19 points by will10pa 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Google now ships "ads" with their Android system update?
    ×0.33 110 | 10 points by y42 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.32 148 | 14 points by sathomasga 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. China funding UK research and sending it to Beijing's spies, MI5 warns (bbc.com)
    ×3.34 64 | 4 points by snarky-comments 44 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience (56k.rip)
    ×2.30 5 #29 | 216 points by adunk 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.89 86 #48 | 100 points by primitivesuave 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. 'Currently impossible': North Korea defections in freefall (yahoo.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by NewCzech 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available (ubuntu.com)
    ×4.16 14 | 77 points by d99kris 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: NetWasm – Independent .NET Compiler/Runtime (82.5 KB Hello World in C#) (netwasm.com)
    ×1.33 129 | 5 points by zionsati 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)
    ×0.66 137 | 67 points by hsfzxjy 1 week ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.82 40 #50 | 127 points by gvuksic 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. EU's Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials (politico.eu)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by Scharkenberg 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ballmer Peak (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.14 46 | 87 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers (eff.org)
    ×4.91 19 | 565 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. What it takes to replace Sketchup
    ×0.71 | 1 points by Fh_ 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Did Amazon KDP change the number of books published per week?
    ×0.71 | 1 points by gsngsn 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.72 8 | 300 points by dmux 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The new Firefox design is here (mozilla.org)
    ×6.14 65 | 103 points by timpera 2 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf] (tomandmaria.com)
    ×1.32 83 #62 | 32 points by nill0 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Should I still study CS? I answered by building a company (rgbloom.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by jakegmaths 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: SIM95 – a browser based 90s PC with it's own internet (kippy.io)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by jermaustin1 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes (devz.cl)
    ×2.69 68 | 61 points by orphereus 7 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac (cnbc.com)
    ×2.68 70 | 60 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    ×1.39 79 | 139 points by sia_xi 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Token compression CLI to save Codex/Astra costs
    ×3.28 80 | 9 points by yolandac 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Web server that lets you build iOS & Android offline apps like BitChat (github.com/Qbix)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by EGreg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++ (github.com/TantrixAuto)
    ×0.45 38 #47 | 25 points by renjipanicker 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Local Meeting Transcription Was Always Possible. Nobody Shipped It for Its Setup (medium.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by smn1234 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Effective altruism is this century's biggest idea (economist.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by Anon84 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Chrome doesn't have a good JSON viewer, so I built a fast, private one (smolkapps.com)
    ×1.30 143 | 3 points by msmolkin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by tosh 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Datastory, Data storytelling with AI and an open knowledge graph (datastory.tech)
    ×3.05 88 | 6 points by DanielLapidus 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Jev, Checked (github.com/wilsonwu-ai)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by wilsonwu8 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Type a London street, see who owns property on it (corporate and oveaseas) (gaffon.com)
    ×2.64 48 | 3 points by thomasmeany 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: WhyObserve (whyobserve.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by FinnVoid 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com/ntfargo)
    ×2.02 4 | 346 points by therepanic 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.30 11 #15 | 150 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch (neuroai.science)
    ×0.68 53 #41 | 49 points by pminimax 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A Game Boy Color game written in a day by Opus 5.5 (tinybitadventures.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by austinginder 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Memory Snapshots for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026) (python.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by bucket2015 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: DragomanD – local language translator for Linux (l10n-bg.dev)
    ×1.54 81 | 6 points by eniac111 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×2.44 35 #28 | 247 points by BurnerBurner 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 38 #36 | 30 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: What makes a solo open-source project "production-grade"?
    ×0.61 | 1 points by chaos_vy 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Riffle – Switch between windows of the current Mac app with Option-Tab (github.com/voising)
    ×2.72 94 | 6 points by voising 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I built a calendar where each event has its own tasks (apple.com)
    ×1.08 108 | 3 points by waitinside 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News (github.com/ahmd-sh)
    ×1.06 82 | 111 points by ahmd-sh 3 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Fast Blur with Animated Radius (aras-p.info)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by ibobev 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We Built AI from Everything We Wrote. Now We Rent It Back [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by frag 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Let's Ditch Google (Verb) (farkas.pro)
    ×3.54 9 | 58 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose (lathoa.ai)
    ×0.98 5 | 51 points by thanouil1411 23 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
    ×0.95 91 | 120 points by hp6 3 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
    ×1.09 29 #39 | 162 points by ibobev 23 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com/mogrinz)
    ×0.95 32 #64 | 77 points by mogrinz 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess (squareorbits.com)
    ×4.87 9 | 482 points by SquareOrbits 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The most praised thing I ever built was a dropdown (vinoth.net)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by avinoth 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions (appleinsider.com)
    ×3.82 47 | 163 points by dkobia 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Classican, listen + watch Classical music in a fun way (classican.vercel.app)
    ×1.72 38 | 5 points by jaequery 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com/magnitudedev)
    ×0.95 29 #21 | 178 points by anerli 20 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Jevotron: Multiple Jev integrations from the command line (cmungall.github.io)
    ×0.49 53 #71 | 12 points by chrismungall 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report (prospect.org)
    ×5.29 20 #90 | 82 points by paimapi 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. SteamOS Ported to ARM Handhelds (notebookcheck.net)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by wicket 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks (osnews.com)
    ×4.87 4 #5 | 78 points by speckx 51 minutes ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.72 10 #51 | 903 points by bryan0 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.50 45 #72 | 161 points by thelastgallon 2 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
    ×1.14 36 #57 | 124 points by signa11 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.21 9 #70 | 763 points by plesiv 1 day ago | 715 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: tokentape.io – A Bloomberg-style market terminal for the token economy (tokentape.io)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by turingfeel 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.61 61 | 20 points by ajoski9 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Recalld – A memory layer for AI agents that returns only relevant facts (recalld.ai)
    ×1.38 147 | 4 points by costinu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A goal tracker that looks like a 1983 terminal, drawn in Swift (apple.com)
    ×2.14 124 | 7 points by NSergeevich 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics (agmai.org)
    ×0.96 59 #33 | 103 points by aureianimus 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.15 42 #73 | 128 points by Baljhin 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???