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  1. Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
    ×0.91 24 #86 | 17 points by sunny678 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    ×0.94 9 #88 | 136 points by alegd 21 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×1.86 34 | 289 points by modelcroissant 2 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Getting back into photography, ditching the phone camera in 2026?
    ×0.45 73 | 4 points by eigenhombre 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×0.78 94 | 68 points by fnoef 4 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is GitHub's #1 repo fake? build-your-own-x 491K stars
    ×0.19 89 | 4 points by throwawaysoso 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Warning: If you search "Claude Desktop" on Google, the 2nd ad result is a scam
    ×0.27 85 | 5 points by diogenescynic 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session
    ×0.25 103 | 8 points by agentseal 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)
    ×0.16 | 2 points by DogRunner 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager
    ×0.42 104 | 8 points by chairhairair 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: May be a basic question, but how can I use AI well?
    ×0.43 109 | 8 points by jdw64 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.76 98 | 78 points by absurdwebsite 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?
    ×0.51 120 | 12 points by canterburry 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?
    ×0.20 129 | 6 points by tuvix 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
    ×0.93 130 | 16 points by arikusi 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
    ×1.02 112 | 25 points by throwaw12 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I built a real-time AR plane spotter, here's the math that makes it work
    ×0.27 117 | 6 points by ananddhruv29 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
    ×0.56 115 | 31 points by fny 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Does magic link authentication use HTML canvassing?
    ×0.31 133 | 5 points by trinsic2 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error
    ×0.86 132 | 14 points by ascarola 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: ChatAi web-based session notation?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by xtiansimon 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×1.99 123 | 31 points by thewillmoss 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.65 135 | 14 points by Anon84 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.52 141 | 11 points by comrade1234 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.59 136 | 14 points by wasimsk 5 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: I built Panda to get up to 99% token savings (github.com/AssafWoo)
    ×1.24 142 | 4 points by AssafPetronio 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Zero-Copy Pages in Rust: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lifetimes (redixhumayun.github.io)
    ×1.04 25 #46 | 73 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Work Runs on Different Maps (yusufaytas.com)
    ×0.85 21 #90 | 36 points by yusufaytas 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Technological Republic (twitter.com/PalantirTech)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by MrBuddyCasino 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Palmier – bridge your AI agents and your phone (github.com/caihongxu)
    ×1.05 65 | 4 points by caihongxu 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Brygga – A modern, fast, feature-rich IRC client for macOS
    ×1.85 102 | 6 points by EldrRoot 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Air is full of DNA (nature.com)
    ×1.59 21 #20 | 106 points by howrude 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
    ×2.78 10 #74 | 414 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore (nytimes.com)
    ×2.79 55 | 77 points by eigenhombre 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Notes from the SF peptide scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.77 46 | 136 points by theahura 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Clone, a small Rust VMM, forks VMs in under 20ms via CoW (github.com/unixshells)
    ×2.26 90 | 11 points by rasengan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform (webmatrices.com)
    ×1.95 4 #8 | 183 points by bishwasbh 7 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. My file access workaround for cron in Tahoe
    ×0.77 | 1 points by noduerme 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (lbc.co.uk)
    ×3.59 22 | 283 points by aa_is_op 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency (bbc.com)
    ×9.15 8 | 297 points by blondie9x 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex (github.com/dchu917)
    ×1.21 86 | 4 points by dchu17 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Modular – drop AI features into your app with two function calls (modular.run)
    ×1.47 99 | 6 points by modular_dev 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing (stephvee.ca)
    ×3.64 54 #69 | 362 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Datahugging shields proprietary AI models from research that could disprove them (nature.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by apwheele 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Making RAM at Home (youtube.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by seitzp 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Bitter Lesson versus the Garbage Can (oneusefulthing.org)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by theorchid 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. New post: The Markdown Link No. 23 (md-handbook.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by wordius 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Open load forecasts that beat US grid operators on 6 of 7 RTOs (surgeforecast.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by tylergibbs1 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Types and Neural Networks (brunogavranovic.com)
    ×1.11 10 #14 | 38 points by bgavran 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GitHub's fake star economy (awesomeagents.ai)
    ×3.28 20 #45 | 781 points by Liriel 1 day ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs (allaboutcircuits.com)
    ×0.88 57 #75 | 86 points by ChuckMcM 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding (kimi.com)
    ×4.62 34 #47 | 661 points by meetpateltech 19 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.76 80 | 44 points by arjunchint 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Fuelgauge – a Claude Code status line that doesn't need Node (github.com/adityaarakeri)
    ×0.96 137 | 3 points by humblejedi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Pvm – A TUI to browse and run commands across multiple Python venvs (github.com/Higangssh)
    ×3.25 113 | 13 points by swq115 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Using Ramanujan's Pi Series for Bitcoin Security on Nvidia B200 (zenodo.org)
    ×1.56 127 | 4 points by Prakash_1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks (github.com/zeroecco)
    ×0.76 25 #64 | 47 points by zeroecco 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Polymarket in talks to raise money at about $15B valuation (reuters.com)
    ×2.17 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding (github.com/GRVYDEV)
    ×0.87 97 | 75 points by GRVYDEV 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 'Earthset' Is Captured on Video for First Time (nytimes.com)
    ×2.55 24 | 3 points by nyc111 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.49 19 | 361 points by pretext 2 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity (fortune.com)
    ×6.65 51 | 89 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: German Abitur: More good grades, fewer bad grades (camminady.dev)
    ×1.46 144 | 8 points by k1next 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Would you use a tool that enforces consistency with real consequences? (migliorarecorp.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by talhaahsan 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Locki v2 – Zero-knowledge text encryption inside any web app (lockisecurity.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by dtlnv 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Paris Blockchain Week 2026: Four Things the Main Stage Didn't Tell You (irishtechnews.ie)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by ybelkin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. California tries to fix its housing mess (economist.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by andsoitis 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Original Task Manager creator explains why it lies to you about CPU usage (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by maxloh 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. GPT Image 2 – native multimodal image generator (gptimg.co)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by xbaicai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Waiting for PostgreSQL 19 – Add pg_plan_advice contrib module (depesz.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by tux3 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Einlang, a math-intuitive language with lots of good stuff (github.com/einlang)
    ×0.83 95 | 3 points by amazing42 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness (mediator.ai)
    ×1.05 8 #13 | 80 points by sanity 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Figma's woes compound with Claude Design (martinalderson.com)
    ×1.48 52 #49 | 110 points by martinald 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1 (lwn.net)
    ×0.61 52 #70 | 57 points by signa11 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)
    ×0.79 88 | 120 points by _fizz_buzz_ 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A tiny macOS app that clears app caches and NPM/Docker/Xcode junk (apple.com)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by chernikovalexey 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection (aadamjacobscollection.org)
    ×0.52 32 #32 | 15 points by wise_blood 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (usgs.gov)
    ×1.40 27 #36 | 280 points by Someone 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) (github.com/Hackerest)
    ×0.60 92 | 3 points by mcisternino 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. French prosecutors issue summons to Musk after raid on X offices in Paris (courthousenews.com)
    ×5.86 82 | 6 points by vrganj 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Rapunzel, a tree-style tab browser for agents (github.com/salmanjavaid)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by WasimBhai 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Haiku-ARM64-Build (rcarmo.github.io)
    ×2.54 33 | 3 points by rcarmo 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Dewobble – Filter out phantom clicks and mouse jitter (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×1.23 107 | 5 points by modinfo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany (stanleylieber.com)
    ×2.10 3 #4 | 63 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter (zef-lang.dev)
    ×1.39 5 #11 | 181 points by pizlonator 10 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: DOMPrompter – click a DOM element, get a structured AI coding prompt
    ×1.05 138 | 4 points by witnote 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: PodWarden – A catalog of 9k+ self-hosted apps with one-click deploy (podwarden.com)
    ×1.42 145 | 4 points by rayneclarke 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.55 43 #77 | 66 points by vrganj 23 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Want to Speak to the Manager? At a New San Francisco Store, That's A.I (nytimes.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by reaperducer 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Your hex editor should color-code bytes (simonomi.dev)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by tobr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???