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  1. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
    ×1.04 43 #90 | 162 points by nikanj 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Massive amount of spam from "Who Wants to be hired"
    ×0.63 10 | 7 points by 0xmattf 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
    ×0.77 81 | 12 points by okr 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: System One models for autonomous agents
    ×0.32 66 | 3 points by manlymuppet 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How can we stop UX people from changing UIs to get promotions?
    ×0.29 89 | 5 points by ex-aws-dude 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better
    ×0.34 105 | 6 points by asen 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why do computers/phones have a restart option along with the power off option?
    ×0.31 97 | 7 points by saonnet 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is anyone still running Token Ring or FDDI networks?
    ×0.33 104 | 12 points by robotnikman 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What Got You into Rust?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by cloaky233 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't
    ×0.81 108 | 5 points by gumby 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do I stop Gemini Live from asking."Would like to know more about..?"
    ×0.10 | 2 points by orsenthil 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026?
    ×0.59 118 | 12 points by abhishekbasu 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Google Meet Enshittification
    ×1.63 56 | 8 points by chrisjj 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Flying Car Practical Tech
    ×0.31 132 | 6 points by NarcisMirandes 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work)
    ×0.76 123 | 9 points by pieratt 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
    ×0.33 135 | 19 points by ex-aws-dude 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless
    ×0.61 127 | 11 points by bb88 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Emu Concept – Make AI Follows Your Rules. (Feedback Wanted)
    ×0.26 131 | 5 points by JariwalaH 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why is there no AlphaZero for theorem proving?
    ×0.23 141 | 4 points by hyperpallium2 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI Revolution vs. Computing Revolution
    ×0.23 144 | 4 points by nitinagg 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. VectorCraft vs. Figma vs. Penpot vs. Adobe Illustrator vs. Wunjo Design?
    ×0.57 130 | 6 points by wladradchenko 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: macOS 27.x upgrade without Siri eating disk space?
    ×0.45 145 | 4 points by prologic 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?
    ×0.69 126 | 9 points by chessnode 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?
    ×0.94 124 | 38 points by piratesAndSons 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Has anyone decompiled Claude Code yet?
    ×0.17 153 | 3 points by matt3210 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages (getlazarus.org)
    ×1.50 4 #2 | 67 points by sysrpl 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Investing in the public benefit (anthropic.com)
    ×2.49 75 | 41 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in Color (flickr.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by Lammy 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Philadelphia confrontation (abc13.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by timpera 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Project Notes Pro moved to GitLab; desktop users need to install 6.4.3 (projectnotespro.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by kestermckinney 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Gecit, share a Windows PC's keyboard and mouse with a Mac over QUIC (kasparovabi.github.io)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by kasparovabi 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. PalmOS Lemmings (github.com/ardiri)
    ×1.27 6 #5 | 59 points by memalign 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×2.62 30 #81 | 22 points by toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: LLM Usage Desktop Widget (github.com/aleph-void)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by bootbloopers 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Wix.com blocked account after I transfered .com domain
    ×2.02 9 | 3 points by wixcom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. MCP events: who writes the first prompt now? (differentiated.io)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by marcelmarais 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers (cmu.edu)
    ×1.04 45 | 69 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play (simonwillison.net)
    ×0.66 39 #46 | 26 points by havaloc 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Source code of the Estonian online voting system (github.com/valimised)
    ×1.89 1 | 229 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: PrimerKit, financial market work at agent speed (primerkit.ai)
    ×0.90 114 | 3 points by KalskiTheDan 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I electrified my push scooter with a power drill (eddieabbondanz.io)
    ×2.34 6 #18 | 85 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ever wondered how Noma-styled chefs build flavor pairings? (aroma-taste-matrix.vercel.app)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by DrDizzle 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion (yahoo.com)
    ×9.14 15 | 200 points by ck2 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: MirrorMD – An AI second opinion from a facial cosmetic surgeon (mymirrormd.com)
    ×0.60 88 | 10 points by AIcosmeticsurge 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Twain, a diff viewer like Meld, but for the age of AI (github.com/andunieee)
    ×1.14 143 | 3 points by andunie 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Toolbit – 43 local-first developer utilities in one place (toolbit.app)
    ×0.82 149 | 3 points by alwinaugustin 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests (deepseek.com)
    ×2.65 12 #7 | 501 points by fagnerbrack 14 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo (nltimes.nl)
    ×0.81 56 #53 | 62 points by jacquesm 17 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Keel – One event-sourced context graph for all your agents (github.com/angelkurten)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by angelkurten 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Things to Do API (thingstodoapi.com)
    ×0.81 62 | 53 points by invalidmonk 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Club Pigeon – A multiplayer pigeon park with SNES-style minigames (clubpigeon.lol)
    ×1.61 119 | 5 points by nilsio 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. RepRapMicron (github.com/VikOlliver)
    ×1.72 5 #3 | 292 points by RobotToaster 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana (antfu.me)
    ×1.97 #78 | 392 points by plaguna 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A protocol for LLM intent search (zenodo.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by kummap 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Pattern matching beats narrative reasoning (scottstevenson.net)
    ×0.89 59 | 52 points by tosh 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: CLI for your financial data (and Costco and Amazon) (kilianc.github.io)
    ×1.06 53 | 3 points by kilianciuffolo 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Anima, interactive biology models from plain English (open source) (arcumet.com)
    ×0.52 138 | 5 points by zeshama 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you even know whats going on? (jrdsgl.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by amrrs 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Vizen – Open-source overlays for Windows, crop any window over your game (github.com/kalinvisuals)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by kalinvisuals 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Leviathan LLM Inference (github.com/CuppaTea1983)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by michaelrickynea 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Why harnesses matter for energy (and token) efficiency (neuralwatt.com)
    ×1.32 80 | 56 points by ccgibson 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching (neilmadden.blog)
    ×1.40 13 #8 | 113 points by hnisjafx40 6 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Aircraft gyroscopic instruments modeled from M series MacBook IMU (github.com/photon-cat)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by photoncat 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The math that OpenAI keeps for itself (danielpaleka.com)
    ×1.78 57 | 52 points by dpaleka 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist (fakeipedia.org)
    ×1.35 79 | 45 points by darajava 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Wordchute – a word game where every word changes the board (wordchute.com)
    ×1.52 49 | 4 points by codercolin 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: JSynth – Visual Programming Editor for Julia (github.com/ozanbora)
    ×1.08 93 | 3 points by ozanbora 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: XY Music Notation (xy.dev)
    ×0.76 106 | 86 points by jmole 5 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Brian2 Atlas, a Rust engine for distributed neural simulation (next-brain.ai)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by rocklee 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions (niemanlab.org)
    ×1.67 3 #31 | 211 points by DeepLogin 11 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why do I update so easily? (cx-shipd.netlify.app)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by CX-Designs 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (pluralistic.net)
    ×3.11 63 | 56 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add (lasu.dev)
    ×0.88 110 | 77 points by lasu 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Photos to Gaussian Splat inside your browser using DA3 Small (antoinemopa.github.io)
    ×0.81 107 | 4 points by antoineMoPa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Calcy – unit-aware, uncertainty-propagating math (habitathq.github.io)
    ×1.19 136 | 3 points by themantri 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Mosh-rs, Mosh rewritten in Rust with scrollback and Windows support (github.com/Arunjay4213)
    ×1.06 142 | 20 points by Arunjay__ 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer (celphase.github.io)
    ×1.18 43 #64 | 165 points by celphase 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Bullet Script (bs) – a Lisp(y) VM for shmup bullet patterns (ell.dev)
    ×1.88 20 | 4 points by ellg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Flying rocket car x Flappy Bird (bs.fyi)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by drchiu 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. CKKS – Addition and Multiplication (jeremykun.com)
    ×0.38 35 #42 | 10 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The plight of the public potty (thebaffler.com)
    ×2.19 78 #45 | 29 points by prismatic 13 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Rubi – A knowledge graph that cuts how much Claude Code re-reads (github.com/YURIBEDRAN)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by yuribedran 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Best way to get SMS verification codes without using your own number?
    ×0.67 | 1 points by guler26 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Are ponds still relevant today? (google.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by erbdex 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. France is on the brink, days away from make-or-break moment in debt crisis (fortune.com)
    ×1.78 26 | 3 points by donsupreme 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.58 18 #36 | 113 points by smilelamp 6 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf] (pku.edu.cn)
    ×0.56 47 #49 | 29 points by mbustamanter 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A 'Ludicrously Ugly' Bridge Is Exhibit a That Britain Has Lost Its Mojo (wsj.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by nextos 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood (engadget.com)
    ×3.71 3 | 321 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Biblio Times, your RSS feeds, typeset as a morning newspaper (Mac/iOS) (biblio.ink)
    ×1.64 121 | 5 points by perthz 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???