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  1. Anyone else feels many LLMs are heavily biased towards consumerism these days?
    ×0.46 19 | 6 points by pyeri 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.47 39 | 8 points by neya 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.50 73 | 13 points by niyazpk 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.88 71 | 14 points by tossitawayplz 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×0.84 99 | 7 points by vasko 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×0.24 96 | 8 points by spidy__ 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.62 56 | 75 points by ayi 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are people generally interested using LLMs for learning purposes?
    ×0.31 86 | 7 points by iknownthing 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×0.95 97 | 46 points by xupybd 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.11 106 | 152 points by amichail 4 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 133 | 94 points by asim 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.92 93 | 19 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.42 162 | 25 points by agos 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Open source, global vs. proprietary but for US in US, which is fundable in SaaS?
    ×0.21 137 | 4 points by avijeetsingh16 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.45 127 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 3 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?
    ×0.84 82 | 19 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
    ×0.34 142 | 7 points by AbstractH24 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.37 146 | 9 points by hmokiguess 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
    ×0.44 138 | 9 points by po1nt 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×0.22 140 | 6 points by blahaj 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by jmount 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.37 167 | 8 points by snowhy 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What would justify writting an OS kernel in 2026?
    ×0.49 161 | 5 points by alonsovm44 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code
    ×0.19 166 | 4 points by gagewoodard 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.40 158 | 11 points by gaggle_dk 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?
    ×0.33 165 | 5 points by julienreszka 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. GitHub Banned All CI for Our (OSS) Org Because of Bad Drive-By Contributors
    ×0.74 145 | 9 points by BlueMatt 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Adopting AV1 for Real-Time Communication (RTC) at Scale (fb.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by ledoge 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Covid vaccines cut risk of hospital care, heart complications, new data reveal (umn.edu)
    ×1.84 | 2 points by throw0101d 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ship an Agent Skill That Installs Itself with Your Library (stenbrinke.nl)
    ×2.22 21 | 3 points by sander1095 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships (wsj.com)
    ×1.79 70 | 133 points by julienchastang 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Snowscroll – I removed addictive feeds from social media (snowscroll.com)
    ×2.36 108 | 5 points by junnam586 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript? (brainfrog.lol)
    ×0.90 136 | 15 points by AlexanderZ 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Vector Graphics in Lil (beyondloom.com)
    ×0.97 15 #19 | 25 points by RodgerTheGreat 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (glyphcss.com)
    ×1.69 11 #20 | 167 points by apresmoi 8 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 2004 Huygens probe to Saturn's Titan: Still our only outer solar system lander (spacedaily.com)
    ×0.72 66 #88 | 16 points by Gaishan 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How is the personal assistant you're building different?
    ×0.74 | 1 points by velyan 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The tech industry wants to take away your screen (bbc.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by bookofjoe 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Elevated error rate across multiple models (claude.com)
    ×1.81 14 | 210 points by rob 22 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: FuckUI - AI hates your UI. Feed it the web text first (fuckui.com)
    ×1.70 119 | 4 points by keepamovin 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Your self, in every light - a local-first MCP self model for AI agents (github.com/almakit)
    ×1.04 111 | 4 points by 0set0set 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture (qsoe-dev.blogspot.com)
    ×0.53 71 #47 | 41 points by ymz5 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times (cowboystatedaily.com)
    ×2.11 47 #69 | 215 points by speckx 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: The Cascade Graph – An interactive map of AI and energy constraints (atomprophet.io)
    ×0.42 77 #81 | 22 points by antisyzygy 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Prevail – a model-agnostic AI harness for everyday life (prevail.sh)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by mrlou 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How are you building confidence in large AI-generated codebases?
    ×0.60 | 1 points by maniksrr 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost (lwilko.com)
    ×2.77 46 | 86 points by kensai 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs (minipcs.zip)
    ×0.97 101 | 45 points by yathern 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Chainstack Self-Hosted, hosting your own blockchain nodes made simple (chainstack.com)
    ×3.85 155 | 9 points by loshaaaa 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem (apnews.com)
    ×1.97 27 #72 | 168 points by sva_ 15 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Autoops: Multi-region data and service mesh operated by a Makefile (github.com/neospe)
    ×2.43 30 | 3 points by leschak 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kamod Hooks – a Preact hooks library ported from ahooks (kamod-ch.github.io)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by zahir777 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output (patrickmccanna.net)
    ×1.95 33 | 323 points by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site (puzzlelair.com)
    ×1.55 52 | 240 points by HaxleRose 2 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Becoming a dad changes men's brains (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.56 77 | 111 points by momentmaker 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors (github.com/Intuned)
    ×0.63 89 | 37 points by ahmadilaiwi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Quikdown – 17 KB bidirectional Markdown parser and rich-fence editor (github.com/deftio)
    ×3.02 163 | 7 points by deftio 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Alan Greenspan has died (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.35 54 | 236 points by helsinkiandrew 2 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Keep all microservices consistent and make batch changes (infraas.ai)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by danielbedrood 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch (github.com/paytonjjones)
    ×1.61 78 | 208 points by paytonjjones 2 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: DebugBrief – turn debugging sessions into reports, no AI (github.com/harihkk)
    ×0.80 149 | 9 points by itshkrishna 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Vulnerability reports are not special anymore (filippo.io)
    ×1.52 5 #5 | 318 points by goranmoomin 12 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit (ps.tc)
    ×1.18 13 #25 | 157 points by givinguflac 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM (github.com/ilbertt)
    ×0.47 45 #87 | 55 points by ilbert 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Talk of a bubble is 'blasphemy against AI' says SoftBank's Son (reuters.com)
    ×2.58 71 | 5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 21 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say (science.org)
    ×2.01 64 | 157 points by strangeloops85 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Wordit – Change One Letter, Keep the Chain Going (victorribeiro.com)
    ×1.67 103 | 4 points by atum47 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: React Native Boost – swaps RN's Text/View wrappers for native ones (github.com/kuatsu)
    ×1.97 129 | 9 points by mfkrause 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Jerry's Map (jerrysmap.com)
    ×2.05 11 #8 | 508 points by turtleyacht 17 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine (dirtylittlezine.com)
    ×1.46 39 #29 | 133 points by cianmm 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI's Affordability Crisis (dshr.org)
    ×3.25 2 #55 | 298 points by ilreb 21 hours ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A Speaker with a World Inside (murmur.living)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by andrewn 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Prompt Injection as Role Confusion (role-confusion.github.io)
    ×1.70 49 | 223 points by x312 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020) (righto.com)
    ×0.61 80 | 89 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I built a flat-rate DeepSeek API for Claude Code (with vision support) (cloudcode.one)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by tatuhelander 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I was tired of stock research in messy tabs, so I built my own terminal (finqos.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by marmmaz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition (404media.co)
    ×2.44 15 #74 | 308 points by cdrnsf 22 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity (anthropic.com)
    ×3.35 39 | 189 points by arunc 16 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I built an online patch backup tool for vintage 80s synths (knob.monster)
    ×1.52 120 | 4 points by halfradaition 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (intheweights.com)
    ×3.52 88 | 469 points by turtlesoup 5 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Socket to Me, a static file server that runs in the browser (socket2.me)
    ×3.12 121 | 14 points by markjivko 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: TLA+ Process Studio (tlaplus-process-studio.com)
    ×2.41 153 | 14 points by uptodatenews 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents (oak.space)
    ×1.10 50 | 212 points by zdgeier 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak (businessinsider.com)
    ×5.06 62 | 121 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The truth about being a manager (sofiakodar.github.io)
    ×2.35 3 | 106 points by adunk 18 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring (nega.tv)
    ×1.15 66 #34 | 154 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Will It Mythos? (swelljoe.com)
    ×1.64 5 | 311 points by mindingnever 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I created agent skill based on Peter Lynch's books (github.com/DjNero11)
    ×1.84 95 | 5 points by DjNero 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs (spur.us)
    ×4.19 30 | 264 points by microcode 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: OpenTerm – A tiny, fast SSH client (no login, no cloud, free) (github.com/zhangshuo1991)
    ×1.37 126 | 4 points by zhangshuo1991 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???