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  1. 1Password Raising Prices ~33%
    ×2.36 66 | 5 points by iamben 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×10.36 84 | 22 points by otterley 32 minutes ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.45 22 | 6 points by Kapura 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.28 31 | 6 points by personality0 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
    ×0.42 76 | 45 points by techteach00 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?
    ×0.52 57 | 27 points by dmpyatyi 22 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.17 | 2 points by thesssaism 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.22 27 | 39 points by codexon 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by thesvp 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×2.35 46 | 14 points by JB_5000 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×1.31 73 | 10 points by Cyberis 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
    ×1.23 72 | 15 points by a_protsyuk 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one?
    ×0.24 95 | 5 points by parvardegr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore?
    ×0.75 74 | 7 points by rakan1 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is up with all the glitchy and off-topic comments?
    ×0.93 79 | 7 points by marginalia_nu 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.28 128 | 11 points by dakiol 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Explanation of JEPA – Yann LeCun's proposed solution to self-supervised learning
    ×0.58 | 2 points by helloplanets 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects
    ×1.02 71 | 21 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.27 127 | 9 points by sujayk_33 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised?
    ×0.38 102 | 11 points by marvin_nora 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI
    ×0.77 101 | 12 points by daringrain32781 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?
    ×0.32 120 | 7 points by YuukiJyoudai 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How are early-stage AI startups thinking about IP protection?
    ×0.17 124 | 4 points by shaheeniquebal 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?
    ×1.18 96 | 25 points by arm32 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects
    ×0.79 126 | 12 points by amin2011 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
    ×0.83 116 | 14 points by moomoo11 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Back end where you just define schema, access policy, and functions
    ×0.20 138 | 3 points by emilss 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?
    ×1.12 140 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to tell if an image is AI generated?
    ×0.35 110 | 8 points by leandrobon 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Are developers who build libs and dev tools safer from AI replacement?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by danver0 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with <name> as an XML Tag to <n>
    ×0.45 107 | 9 points by exabrial 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I made my favorite AI tool
    ×0.28 135 | 4 points by sebringj 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Should I add this acknowledgement/shoutout by xAI/Grok to my resume?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by aehsan4004 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×1.11 118 | 35 points by zekejohn 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Open-Source Bionic Reading Chrome Extension (MIT)
    ×0.18 | 2 points by sdgnbs 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Orvia – Spin up a real-time room, share files, leave – everything disappears
    ×0.22 | 2 points by yc_surajkr 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do new blogs break the backlink–indexing loop?
    ×0.99 141 | 4 points by lilcodingthings 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Peer validation platform for engineering skills (inspired by X community notes)
    ×0.12 142 | 4 points by ms_sv 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?
    ×0.66 136 | 12 points by givemeethekeys 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: If Discord, Reddit, X, IRC and 4chan had a baby
    ×1.34 | 2 points by ignasheahy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Unthumb – Replace YT thumbnails with frames from the video (google.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by philcunliffe 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives (github.com/redruM0381)
    ×0.70 41 #32 | 54 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Finding Hidden Cloud Savings (masterpoint.io)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by mooreds 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Formal determination of deidentification under California law (johndcook.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by ibobev 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI Lost Out to Traditional Models in Forecasting NYC's Blizzard (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: What I've learned from shipping 25 mobile apps (masilotti.com)
    ×0.75 109 | 3 points by joemasilotti 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme (aresluna.org)
    ×2.32 17 #24 | 225 points by onli 15 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The rise of eyes began with just one (nytimes.com)
    ×0.65 28 #79 | 45 points by marojejian 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Apache NetBeans 29 Released (apache.org)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by birdculture 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
    ×3.09 9 | 264 points by con 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)
    ×1.65 45 | 168 points by simplesort 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Catherine of Braganza, the Queen Who Brought Tea to England (thecollector.com)
    ×0.97 24 #20 | 14 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight (thenevadaindependent.com)
    ×3.58 36 | 254 points by rurp 20 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Dicta.to – Local voice dictation for Mac with on-device AI (dicta.to)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by alamparelli 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (micasa.dev)
    ×2.63 68 | 653 points by cpcloud 5 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Cryphos – no-code crypto signal bot with Telegram alerts (cryphos.com)
    ×0.46 139 | 4 points by duckducker 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Einstein AI Education Companion (companion.ai)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by colinprince 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Takeaways of building an MCP Server for my app (tagstack.io)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by greatNespresso 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Performance Managing to the Room or "How to Stop Sucking at This" (jamesjboyer.substack.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by mooreds 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Negative social ties as emerging risk factors for accelerated aging (pnas.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by bikenaga 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. First 12 Minutes of MTV [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by surprisetalk 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL (zerohedge.com)
    ×4.69 4 | 108 points by gradus_ad 20 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.20 66 | 72 points by aestetix 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Monolith e-commerce platform for serverless (hoikka.dev)
    ×1.16 125 | 3 points by zernobilly 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. STARC framework for Bank-Fintech risk management (independentbanker.org)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by petethomas 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Open-source LLM and dataset for sports forecasting (Pro Golf) (huggingface.co)
    ×4.63 58 | 7 points by bturtel 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: CLI to estimate Cloudflare bill before it surprises you (github.com/michaloo)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by michaloo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: MasqueradeORM – Memory Efficient Node ORM: Just Write Classes (github.com/MasqueradeORM)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by masqueradeorm 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer (twitter.com/BenjaminBadejo)
    ×3.38 15 #74 | 217 points by bundie 19 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
    ×1.95 4 #75 | 411 points by mhb 1 day ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Emissaries – Constitutional principles for personal agents (commontask.org)
    ×1.88 | 2 points by durakot 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15 (feld.me)
    ×0.82 54 | 112 points by vermaden 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Scientists crack the case of "screeching" Scotch tape (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.67 11 #31 | 7 points by colinprince 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (Rags) (406.fail)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by signa11 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Toolrelay.io – Connect Your SaaS to AI (toolrelay.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by sahair 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AgentGate – Open-source security firewall for AI agents (ALLOW/DENY/APPROVE) (agent-gate-rho.vercel.app)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by PEGHIN 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: BVisor – An Embedded Bash Sandbox, 2ms Boot, Written in Zig (github.com/butter-dot-dev)
    ×7.20 70 | 20 points by edunteman 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI (github.com/IronsideXXVI)
    ×1.46 77 | 261 points by IronsideXXVI 4 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
    ×3.07 7 #64 | 356 points by pieterr 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. “Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
    ×2.55 17 #30 | 347 points by felix089 21 hours ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r (github.com/FirebirdSQL)
    ×0.61 35 #35 | 34 points by mariuz 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Teen social media ban group funded and co-staffed by firm making gambling ads (2025) (crikey.com.au)
    ×2.39 16 #44 | 22 points by consumer451 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (varank.in)
    ×2.37 15 #53 | 410 points by varankinv 20 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: GhostVM – native macOS VMs for secure dev and isolated agent workflows (github.com/groundwater)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by JacobDivbyzero 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: PaperBanana – Paste methodology text, get publication-ready diagrams
    ×0.66 | 2 points by mylsz 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 (wordglyph.xyz)
    ×1.86 3 #1 | 255 points by wordglyph 4 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic (polytechnique.fr)
    ×0.94 13 #14 | 112 points by ux266478 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Tiny QR code achieved using electron microscope technology (newatlas.com)
    ×0.48 26 #19 | 27 points by jonbaer 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements (serverhost.com)
    ×2.95 23 #37 | 430 points by shaunpud 12 hours ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
    ×1.84 39 #77 | 190 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???