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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.49 81 #55 | 362 points by david927 2 days ago | 1127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock
    ×0.27 | 2 points by timedude 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27
    ×0.66 43 | 12 points by lucasoshiro 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down
    ×0.34 77 | 4 points by alt_tab 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Which crossword generator do you use?
    ×0.33 94 | 3 points by irusik 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. SuperColoring – a simple crossword generator for learning and fun
    ×0.44 96 | 3 points by irusik 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Where is all of the AI coded software?
    ×1.16 72 | 6 points by wNjdbfm 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Started Learning Pentesting
    ×0.40 123 | 3 points by muzan 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Working on Plug and Play personal AI Memory that works across AI agents
    ×0.27 | 2 points by heysrb 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why 17?
    ×0.59 100 | 4 points by tonyvince7 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why is Pulley (cap table) shutting down?
    ×0.96 76 | 4 points by AnhTho_FR 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?
    ×0.45 125 | 16 points by amichail 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?
    ×0.68 129 | 9 points by rylando 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. What are you building,Lets explore each others
    ×0.86 91 | 4 points by Vineetyadav2 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
    ×2.29 64 | 70 points by nunez 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
    ×0.19 140 | 4 points by Aditya_0315 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.35 137 | 10 points by mondobe 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.87 128 | 61 points by stikit 3 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.32 142 | 8 points by emerongi 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What would make self-hosting easy enough for average consumers?
    ×0.38 136 | 5 points by dani4299 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Developers – Do you let agents write production code?
    ×0.54 134 | 6 points by smurf9852 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Has anyone made a legacy codebase more legible to AI coding agents?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by iacobandrei 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A repo gained 3,278 stars while GitHub showed Andrej Karpathy as a contributor
    ×0.47 138 | 5 points by newshackee 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Screenshots on macOS don't have to be date named files with spaces
    ×0.56 139 | 5 points by cs1996 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.49 108 | 485 points by jacquesm 5 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?
    ×0.48 143 | 5 points by mehmetoguzderin 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. YouTube has banned Dmitry "Savromat" Chernyshevsky
    ×0.61 117 | 5 points by eimrine 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.53 141 | 26 points by waldrews 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II (colino.net)
    ×1.27 19 #9 | 13 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it (thenextweb.com)
    ×4.54 47 #67 | 129 points by cwwc 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste (theregister.com)
    ×2.78 16 | 256 points by Alephinitesimal 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature (reuters.com)
    ×1.99 58 | 157 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview (marc.info)
    ×0.96 2 #24 | 106 points by sippingabonedry 7 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)
    ×1.53 9 #39 | 236 points by rmoff 16 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why don't machine learning research agents overfit? (amazon.science)
    ×0.85 49 | 133 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×3.89 74 | 103 points by deathcakes 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: AirmailAI, a BYOK LLM chat app with a browser extension backend (airmailai.net)
    ×1.26 93 | 3 points by blake__dev 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Authorize MCP tool calls without giving agents the credentials (github.com/keydrisLabs)
    ×0.79 135 | 7 points by b4timer 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Let's make quality the norm again (forbrukerradet.no)
    ×2.43 15 #16 | 297 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC (bbc.com)
    ×2.12 44 #47 | 43 points by Betelbuddy 11 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Is There Anything Google's Fruit Fly Brain Can't Do? (nytimes.com)
    ×3.06 44 | 5 points by xnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Apple's Dimensional Drawings (apple.com)
    ×2.46 40 | 405 points by herbertl 2 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace agent, built on Postgres
    ×0.92 | 2 points by prvnsmpth 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineer (Remote/US) (jiga.io)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. XCancel service is suspended until further notice (xcancel.com)
    ×4.14 7 #79 | 747 points by gaganyaan 1 day ago | 1010 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Divide, Consult, Conquer: Capability Laundering Through Aligned LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by sbulaev 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cohere CEO says calls for coordinated slowdown amounts to 'cartel' behaviour (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×4.47 39 | 8 points by neom 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (justia.com)
    ×1.79 10 | 216 points by neom 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Biom – A visual workspace where your AI agents' work lands (biom.dev)
    ×1.87 25 | 3 points by jduhking 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Introduction Video Gen in Img Play (apple.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by hack88171 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How my e-reader lost its stripes (serpentine.com)
    ×1.56 25 | 220 points by simonmic 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others (calif.io)
    ×2.18 84 | 103 points by negura 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Trendradar for Horizon Scanning and Foresight (tryresearchly.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by leo_researchly 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes (strix.ai)
    ×1.65 1 #8 | 203 points by bearsyankees 6 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Panel – A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes (github.com/greentfrapp)
    ×0.48 28 #53 | 48 points by greentfrapp 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Nobody Needs a Human Router (theengineeringmanager.substack.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by gpi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: What attackers type – credential lists from our honeypots (github.com/lurescope)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by lurescope 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A beginning for mathematics (daniellitt.com)
    ×1.52 17 | 265 points by robinhouston 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Chopping up books when they're physically too big (mattkirkland.com)
    ×1.42 8 #10 | 112 points by matt_kirkland 6 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Most people prefer traditional architecture (worksinprogress.news)
    ×2.10 35 #26 | 255 points by alihm 20 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Over 12% of links posted to Hacker News are Show HN projects now (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×2.09 35 #41 | 58 points by oyster143 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit (reddit.com)
    ×5.08 45 #70 | 104 points by jacquesm 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Ex-Cop Who Stole Millions to Become a Real-Life Robin Hood (atavist.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tokens Are a Cost, Not a KPI (jmackown.substack.com)
    ×1.66 21 | 3 points by __jcmc__ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I built a tiny camera that knows where it is (mightycamera.com)
    ×0.85 102 | 4 points by asadm 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Pushie – Get notified with a simple webhook (pushie.net)
    ×0.84 115 | 21 points by vasanthv 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously (andonlabs.com)
    ×2.07 7 #78 | 481 points by lukaspetersson 1 day ago | 585 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How the U.S. economy can look pretty good but feel pretty bad (reuters.com)
    ×3.94 32 #88 | 16 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I ported COLMAP (photogrammetry) to the browser in WASM and WebGPU (offlinetools.io)
    ×1.48 99 | 3 points by rsp1984 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Questions File (orchidfiles.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by theorchid 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout (fortune.com)
    ×3.91 44 | 312 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (effort.news)
    ×4.69 23 #20 | 438 points by yusufozkan 21 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Java 27 (openjdk.org)
    ×2.18 12 #33 | 316 points by mkurz 11 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Callum Williams on Cybersecurity Prices (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×1.50 11 | 3 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Has anyone made any money/successes making SaaS's with AI?
    ×0.41 | 1 points by kraig911 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Adios MCP – let coding agents build, preview, debug and deploy apps (github.com/adiosdotdev)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by clovis818 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Australian government paper proposes opt-out for AI training (abc.net.au)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by lukeh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Swift 6.4 Released (swift.org)
    ×2.31 62 | 121 points by timsneath 9 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7% (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.91 59 | 118 points by iamsyr 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: farseer.space – fly anywhere in the universe in your browser (farseer.space)
    ×2.34 35 | 6 points by headsupernova 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×3.60 23 #34 | 257 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OrangePi Zero 3W Review: Tiny yet Powerful (boilingsteam.com)
    ×0.96 42 #52 | 32 points by ekianjo 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Texas police dept ordered closed for failing to provide any community benefit (theguardian.com)
    ×3.67 45 #80 | 12 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Leo – a Markdown engineering process for AI coding agents (github.com/alex-zaporozhan)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by alex-zaporozhan 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. More Tree-sitter, more neocaml, more elisp (lambdafoo.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by RohanAdwankar 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent (theregister.com)
    ×4.44 5 | 220 points by throwworhtthrow 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model (poltora.dev)
    ×1.49 32 #65 | 163 points by poltora 23 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Facilities Struck by Iran (wsj.com)
    ×3.81 29 #66 | 18 points by berkeleyjunk 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Agenttik – work on multiple projects in parallel with AI agents (github.com/pausan)
    ×0.83 1 | 3 points by psanchez 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Introducing System One Models and Jev (typesafe.ai)
    ×4.16 #1 | 696 points by albelfio 5 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???