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  1. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.46 7 #37 | 391 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 769 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.92 24 #47 | 14 points by zcalvin 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.30 78 | 292 points by mlaux 4 days ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.70 43 | 5 points by jopizio 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out?
    ×0.97 34 | 7 points by jackgavigan 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion
    ×0.14 97 | 3 points by yash_salesup 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.33 88 | 14 points by amina124 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Google now ships "ads" with their Android system update?
    ×0.32 82 | 9 points by y42 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.42 121 | 33 points by shriy-singh 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.48 104 | 18 points by will10pa 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.31 147 | 13 points by sathomasga 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address
    ×0.24 142 | 6 points by luckman212 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Management is forcing us to use AI
    ×0.68 96 | 20 points by aksjfveoq 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?
    ×0.21 148 | 4 points by variety8675 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node?
    ×0.14 129 | 5 points by rearview 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: JEV for K1 Tax Forms
    ×0.13 137 | 4 points by GoRudy 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.49 135 | 30 points by GustavHartz 5 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.80 140 | 19 points by consumer451 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be
    ×0.56 116 | 13 points by effisfor 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?
    ×0.19 145 | 6 points by beerglass 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Is there a lanscaping tool which can take photos of my garden and make 3D model?
    ×0.17 100 | 3 points by Fh_ 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.96 39 #56 | 78 points by primitivesuave 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Sedum – Playwright tests in English, cheap enough to run on every PR (github.com/sedum-dev)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by jgnatch 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (stateofutopia.com)
    ×1.36 24 | 278 points by logicallee 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)
    ×1.16 42 | 129 points by henrychannel 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Mingbird – an agent harness that makes a 2B model finish real tasks (github.com/Mingbird)
    ×1.40 1 | 3 points by Gustor 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: NetWasm – Independent .NET Compiler/Runtime (82.5 KB Hello World in C#) (netwasm.com)
    ×1.34 94 | 5 points by zionsati 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records (faav.net)
    ×2.77 2 #5 | 100 points by luispa 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.36 73 #25 | 324 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging (prospect.org)
    ×3.04 12 | 93 points by paimapi 22 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: A small side project for even colour scales (viesual.net)
    ×1.40 73 | 4 points by vie00001 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.65 124 | 51 points by miguelrios 6 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008) (withouthotair.com)
    ×0.90 41 #60 | 147 points by 0sake_rs 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. US home electricity prices by state since 2019 (kadoa.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by hubraumhugo 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model (github.com/Low-Zi-Hong)
    ×1.09 40 | 150 points by nkko 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription (twitter.com/thsottiaux)
    ×4.89 48 | 76 points by tosh 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)
    ×0.79 76 | 32 points by rhl314 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Phyics-Based Dice Roller (jswidler.com)
    ×1.53 86 | 4 points by swid 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support (droprun.sh)
    ×1.19 101 | 193 points by mixedbit 1 week ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
    ×1.05 107 | 153 points by florianstandhar 1 week ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How to use Jev for financial decisions (medium.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by revexos 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Stem splitting and audio conversion running in-browser with Rust/WASM (audiodrop.app)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by louisjoejordan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI (github.com/EverMind-AI)
    ×0.81 53 | 54 points by cyfyifanchen 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cold War espionage added $4.6B to East Germany's economy (popsci.com)
    ×0.99 20 #57 | 8 points by snarky-comments 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.15 73 #84 | 24 points by CharlesW 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built an MCP with my friend to share our knowledge with X Ads (diingdiing.com)
    ×2.13 51 | 3 points by cryptography 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AEmulator: Run classic Android firmware on a modern phone (gt.tc)
    ×2.01 27 | 3 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Ctxfw – AST context firewall that cuts agent prompt tokens by 67% (github.com/heuristicolab)
    ×1.44 91 | 5 points by mikemo88 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about (hackeratlas.com)
    ×1.02 93 | 88 points by andrearitossa 5 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I created a BGP-based blackhole system that you can set up in minutes (setecastronomyinc.com)
    ×0.96 74 #19 | 3 points by jkalbfeld 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
    ×1.09 45 #42 | 162 points by rossant 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Singapore Govt Dating App Uses Gale-Shapley Stable Marriage Algorithm (twitter.com/tuakdotsol)
    ×2.40 7 #65 | 31 points by rzk 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt (avherald.com)
    ×2.38 26 #69 | 35 points by haunter 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tokenization: A Survey for Modern NLP (alphaxiv.org)
    ×2.90 58 | 4 points by mcyc 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers (eff.org)
    ×4.90 64 | 551 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
    ×0.85 8 #14 | 31 points by systemerror 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Kuala Lumpur is the world's most polluted city due to haze, Singapore third (scmp.com)
    ×0.80 31 #52 | 3 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.49 34 #38 | 141 points by thelastgallon 18 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: WattzGOAT – an intentionally vulnerable web app for security training (github.com/wattzgoat)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by wattzgoat 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Textsnap – CPU OCR in <1 seconds/page, with VLM fallback (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by mrkn1 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Personal Manga / Story Recaps (terragohan.github.io)
    ×1.49 123 | 5 points by helpprotactiniu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal (ieee.org)
    ×1.86 1 #3 | 52 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.52 2 #11 | 811 points by bryan0 18 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes (lecaro.me)
    ×3.35 31 | 261 points by speckx 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    ×1.13 55 | 149 points by seamus_c 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Fusor – Like Vue, but the logic is Rust (fusor.build)
    ×1.95 125 | 10 points by andreespirela 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") (software3d.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by cobbzilla 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) (computerworld.com)
    ×1.29 32 #76 | 190 points by doener 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Interview with Tristan Buckmaster about Navier Stokes situation [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by avs733 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden (arctictoday.com)
    ×3.27 51 | 117 points by davidja 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: OpenAPPA – open-source deterministic guardrails that don't break agents (openappa.com)
    ×7.23 87 | 23 points by motakuk 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.17 18 #29 | 111 points by Baljhin 14 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com/lostmsu)
    ×0.75 51 #70 | 53 points by lostmsu 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Krieg zwischen Russland und der Ukraine
    ×0.59 | 1 points by Illoko 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux and macOS (github.com/pch)
    ×2.04 45 | 5 points by pchm 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
    ×2.04 11 #9 | 15 points by kmstout 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Stop Enter-ing, YOLO it (rakshazi.me)
    ×1.96 40 | 3 points by aine 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Using any C++ library in Godot (conan.io)
    ×0.92 17 #89 | 167 points by czoido 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. We Rebuilt Our API Back End Without Breaking Customer Integrations (ayrshare.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by speter 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page (apeleg.com)
    ×0.96 102 | 90 points by emurlin 6 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.90 5 #10 | 99 points by gvuksic 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization (pocoo.org)
    ×1.21 40 #62 | 66 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (github.com/devdotfast)
    ×1.82 80 | 422 points by sidharthkmenon 5 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners (nh2.me)
    ×1.79 138 | 27 points by nh2 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.11 12 #23 | 342 points by wanick 21 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ice Age Spear Points Tell a Story of Human Progress (nautil.us)
    ×0.63 31 #53 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. When we talk about traffic violence (maxmautner.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by oftenwrong 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI Stance Is Not Binary (carette.xyz)
    ×2.07 57 | 4 points by LucidLynx 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
    ×5.05 5 | 617 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    ×1.40 60 | 139 points by sia_xi 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???