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  1. Ask HN: Why do we need MCP?
    ×0.38 2 | 4 points by jwally 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×3.13 3 | 507 points by leumon 2 days ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why still no unified standard file to describe all skills/mcps for repo?
    ×0.52 | 2 points by opwizardx 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What BOYK AI client are you using?
    ×0.21 67 | 3 points by yeeyang 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
    ×0.26 89 | 4 points by gmarkwa 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Alternatives to Fail2ban?
    ×0.39 108 | 5 points by jech 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's a Good Physical Printer?
    ×0.31 100 | 6 points by xrd 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is observability over the dependencies in codebases still a problem?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by enismustafaj 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why are onionv3 services not more popular?
    ×0.14 102 | 5 points by smalltorch 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?
    ×0.73 76 | 11 points by dhruv3006 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Any blogs/personal notes from game devs who self-published a game?
    ×0.46 109 | 5 points by ssenssei 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.72 94 | 21 points by FireUpTheTorren 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: AI writes better code than me. How to keep my identity?
    ×0.71 60 | 13 points by jdw64 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Zed: Edit predictions are leaving the free Personal plan on October 7
    ×0.67 68 | 8 points by lumpa 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you use multiple sessions for software engineering?
    ×0.29 112 | 4 points by top_rooster 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
    ×1.68 55 | 84 points by tonymet 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read?
    ×0.84 129 | 8 points by AmirMakirr 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. TwitterWebViewer has been permanently discontinued
    ×1.79 64 | 11 points by avidruntime 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.82 120 | 78 points by kaladan 5 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Should I leave web development to study medicine in my mid-30s?
    ×0.78 132 | 7 points by lovepuzzles 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer?
    ×0.68 133 | 7 points by metrofun 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why is AI civil tech and not military first?
    ×0.54 134 | 7 points by esher 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new 5H usage limit in Codex?
    ×0.61 143 | 4 points by embedding-shape 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why do tools like customer.io abandon self-serve after their Series A?
    ×0.34 131 | 14 points by alessandroetc 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.44 137 | 31 points by foota 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?
    ×0.71 142 | 11 points by JacobWolf 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?
    ×0.87 130 | 8 points by stefanos82 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is the FTC National Do Not Call Registry a False Contingency or Placebo?
    ×0.65 121 | 3 points by eth0up 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Small Models Have Arrived (calv.info)
    ×3.13 9 #63 | 782 points by tosh 1 day ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Gemini Notebook now lets you incorporate insights from books you own (blog.google)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by the-mitr 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Global Trade and the United States Navy (acoup.blog)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by Pwntheon 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days (chrislewis.au)
    ×1.63 17 | 268 points by knackers 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: CleanMySheet – Privacy-first CSV/Excel cleaner that runs in the browser (cleanmysheet.in)
    ×1.28 110 | 4 points by nvn333 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store (github.com/kingroryg)
    ×1.41 2 #16 | 136 points by rgbimbochamp 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules (reuters.com)
    ×4.06 50 | 325 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.35 15 #62 | 896 points by TangerineDream 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits (hanselman.com)
    ×1.20 48 #46 | 83 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Stopping the smart TV from being used against you (s-config.com)
    ×2.61 38 #68 | 187 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over 62 unpermitted gas turbines (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by sbulaev 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV (neilalexander.dev)
    ×5.05 6 | 212 points by signa11 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Beckon, distinct sounds for what your AI coding agent needs (github.com/Isa1asN)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by esayas_beshah 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.40 2 #2 | 166 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Gemini-3.5-Transcribe (blog.google)
    ×2.22 1 #86 | 358 points by k9294 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Alt text passes automated checks. That doesn't mean it's any good (github.blog)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by torutofu 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Awe Radio, free 24/7 internet radio stations for anyone (aweradio.app)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by vbst 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Wolfpack – private browser control for coding-agent terminals (get-wolfpack.netlify.app)
    ×1.19 128 | 3 points by wolfmaster 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System (vanillaos.org)
    ×0.57 141 | 33 points by NN708 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ALMA Reveals Long-Lived Hotspots on Betelgeuse's Bubbling Surface (almaobservatory.org)
    ×0.60 42 #84 | 39 points by layer8 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tech backlash reaches fever pitch as AI angst collides with social media fears (cnbc.com)
    ×1.96 33 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. When Fruit Is Scarce, These Monkeys Hunt Animals (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by cisc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Data Exfiltration from Amazon Kiro via Prompt Injection (mindgard.ai)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by coder-pm 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: AMC Stocks Hub – asset-manager profiles, 13F holdings, and co-holdings (assetmanagementcompany.net)
    ×0.87 77 #77 | 3 points by lzyuan1006 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A retirement planner in one HTML file, works offline, nothing uploaded (torsalis.com)
    ×0.82 116 | 3 points by rachelb1331 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Ramanujan-computing: use idle computation to run scientific computing (github.com/Ramanujan-Computing)
    ×1.41 122 | 3 points by ps_ramanujan 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Service Discontinued (twitterwebviewer.com)
    ×1.39 60 #65 | 26 points by dredmorbius 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal (nytimes.com)
    ×4.32 8 #36 | 583 points by jbegley 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. LoRA Primer (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. State of the Map 2026 (stateofthemap.org)
    ×1.23 27 #35 | 170 points by lode 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection” (thehealthy.com)
    ×2.79 56 | 194 points by randycupertino 18 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Watermarks Remover: Clean LLM watermarks from text and files (github.com/guillaumemeyer)
    ×1.29 99 | 4 points by gmeyer 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Get agents to do what I want with code documentation (github.com/treadiehq)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by dantelex 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.73 53 #49 | 72 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. “It works better in the app” (shkspr.mobi)
    ×3.56 38 #54 | 668 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cross-model peer review for coding agents (github.com/makedirectory)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by cromka 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention (boyter.org)
    ×0.68 56 #51 | 42 points by boyter 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: NodeAkt – Zero-dependency distributed actor framework for TypeScript (tochemey.github.io)
    ×1.15 81 | 4 points by Tochemey 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Kosh – Bash shell runtime with 100x faster Shellcheck and LSP built-in (github.com/toiletbril)
    ×2.73 69 | 7 points by toiletbril 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cancer is a Quantum System (columbia.edu)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by alephnerd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Yap: A Particular Kind of Slop (mckayla.blog)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by eric_h 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem (comaps.app)
    ×1.13 37 | 141 points by janandonly 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I built a tool showing how AI providers (should) throttle their models (staffinganalytics.io)
    ×2.39 96 | 6 points by eliotho 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How Dactyl Works (dactyl.dev)
    ×0.91 29 #67 | 71 points by anorak27 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Qwiksi a CLI tool for adding your signature to a PDFs (github.com/krisraven)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by krisraven 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Boop – tiny, self-hosted push notifications for your apps built in Go (github.com/chrisgreg)
    ×1.13 82 | 6 points by bustylasercanon 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace (github.com/SWUFE-DB-Group)
    ×0.52 124 | 21 points by thisispi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Who was Nancy Grace Roman? NASA's space telescope named after 'Mother of Hubble' (space.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by pseudolus 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A downloader for public social posts, no sign-up and no ads (socialdownloader.space)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by mgado 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why (github.com/kelviq)
    ×1.52 53 | 87 points by sachinneravath 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Visits.Report – analytics you can publish and prove (visits.report)
    ×0.96 61 | 3 points by nadermx 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS (github.com/AlgorithmicResearchGroup)
    ×1.01 71 | 20 points by modagent 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: URML – safety-eval harness for AI agents on lab and factory hardware (github.com/URML-MARS)
    ×1.00 118 | 3 points by Yahalomi 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015) (wired.com)
    ×0.75 55 #40 | 70 points by EndXA 22 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes (gadgetreview.com)
    ×4.54 21 | 88 points by randycupertino 19 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Blast – Open-source sandbox-as-a-service (github.com/stanford-mast)
    ×1.15 65 | 10 points by calebhwin 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: An annotated archive of S-1 filings, with hindsight (s-1.space)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by eigen-vector 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (louisabraham.github.io)
    ×4.10 4 #76 | 666 points by Labo333 2 days ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types (python.org)
    ×1.37 4 #18 | 34 points by theanonymousone 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B (businessinsider.com)
    ×7.13 9 #48 | 1958 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 902 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)
    ×2.61 62 | 6 points by con 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Trade (and Tariffs) (xkcd.com)
    ×4.60 12 | 546 points by throw0101d 2 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???