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  1. I Stumbled Upon Paul Graham's Essays – and Can't Stop Reading
    ×0.19 17 | 3 points by xnslx 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.77 4 | 25 points by 019 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?
    ×0.60 51 | 6 points by smackeyacky 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)
    ×0.34 83 | 38 points by DogRunner 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.65 66 | 19 points by burnt-resistor 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's your favorite Emacs package?
    ×0.57 46 | 3 points by blenderob 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    ×0.86 78 | 145 points by alegd 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×1.81 77 | 300 points by modelcroissant 4 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by preston-kwei 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
    ×0.73 97 | 31 points by sunny678 2 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition?
    ×0.35 93 | 6 points by gokuljs 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are cloud coding agents useful in real workflows yet?
    ×0.09 121 | 3 points by Rperry2174 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users
    ×0.68 101 | 14 points by darkhorse13 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.30 84 | 31 points by alpinisme 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. OpenClaw stats don't add up
    ×0.46 99 | 10 points by iliaov 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?
    ×0.60 104 | 10 points by nnurmanov 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are there any engineering orgs that use incentives?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by jppope 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session
    ×0.36 142 | 14 points by agentseal 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask Anthropic: Requesting clarity on Claude -p situation
    ×0.67 131 | 5 points by andai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. GPT 5.5 Released in Codex
    ×2.03 94 | 14 points by zuzululu 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. My file access workaround for cron in Tahoe
    ×0.18 145 | 4 points by noduerme 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Getting back into photography, ditching the phone camera in 2026?
    ×0.39 139 | 7 points by eigenhombre 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
    ×7.12 5 | 334 points by jonthepirate 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager
    ×0.41 148 | 11 points by chairhairair 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The NCSC's AI threat warning and the gap in AI agent security (agentshield.pro)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by eigenart 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    ×1.26 87 | 162 points by teamchong 4 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: ShellTalk brings deterministic text-to-bash (barrasso.me)
    ×2.24 91 | 7 points by podlp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: WeTransfer Alternative for Developers (dlvr.sh)
    ×1.09 102 | 24 points by mariusbolik 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Another Day Has Come (daringfireball.net)
    ×1.76 13 #70 | 246 points by ndr42 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Rip language. Compiles to ES2022. Built-in reactivity (github.com/shreeve)
    ×0.78 57 #79 | 27 points by perfunctory 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Shall We Play a Game? (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by jger15 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Proving sdocs.dev is running the public code (sdocs.dev)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by FailMore 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How does GPS work? (perthirtysix.com)
    ×1.47 1 | 234 points by alfanick 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. CDC blocks study showing Covid shots cut hospital visits after earlier delay (washingtonpost.com)
    ×5.62 52 | 59 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Open load forecasts that beat US grid operators on 6 of 7 RTOs (surgeforecast.com)
    ×1.05 161 | 4 points by tylergibbs1 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025) (ar-ms.me)
    ×1.05 8 #13 | 79 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Code garden deep-dive: my Forth C64 tetromino game (github.com/ekipan)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by ekipan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B (bloomberg.com)
    ×5.75 59 | 108 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) (github.com/Hackerest)
    ×0.79 159 | 4 points by mcisternino 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Real-Real-Time Chat (kraa.io)
    ×0.46 69 | 7 points by levmiseri 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex (github.com/dchu917)
    ×0.78 73 | 72 points by dchu17 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Pierre/trees is an open source file tree rendering library (trees.software)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by nickisnoble 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all (augmentcode.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by digitallogic 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Gluon&Linear Layouts Deep-Dive:Tile-Based GPU Programming with Low-Level Control [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by matt_d 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.06 37 | 115 points by latein 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: OpenDeck – DIY MIDI Platform Based on Zephyr RTOS (github.com/shanteacontrols)
    ×0.91 98 | 4 points by somemisopaste 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: GBrain, an AI tool for diagnosis and therapy for neurodivergents (neuroplusgbrain.net)
    ×1.09 128 | 4 points by FDX2018 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012) (theguardian.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by downbad_ 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Google's opt-out cookies still ignored, 15 years later (jackyan.com)
    ×2.03 43 | 4 points by speckx 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I built an AI that assigns YOU tasks (pause.build)
    ×0.90 152 | 4 points by chaidhat 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Plexus P/20 Emulator (spritetm.github.io)
    ×0.51 53 #45 | 29 points by hggh 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Work with the garage door up (andymatuschak.org)
    ×1.28 47 #73 | 49 points by jxmorris12 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Big Mistake' as CEO (macrumors.com)
    ×0.60 14 #83 | 4 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.97 18 | 137 points by PotatoNinja 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Meta to start capturing employee mouse movement, keystrokes for AI training data (yahoo.com)
    ×3.01 76 | 58 points by louiereederson 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Website streamed live directly from a model (flipbook.page)
    ×2.33 17 #27 | 377 points by sethbannon 21 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.71 37 #64 | 47 points by benbreen 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serving employees (theverge.com)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by saikatsg 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Math Is Hard (online.fr)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for JRR Tolkien (zig.art)
    ×3.76 14 | 61 points by IdahoSpring 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud (github.com/besimple-oss)
    ×0.64 58 #68 | 70 points by yzhong94 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Garbage collection without unsafe code (fitzgen.com)
    ×0.82 58 #80 | 112 points by foota 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google Workspace Intelligence (google.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by oscarfr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks (github.com/zeroecco)
    ×0.80 90 | 55 points by zeroecco 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Auto-generated titles and colors for parallel Claude Code sessions (github.com/jbarbier)
    ×0.62 162 | 3 points by julien421 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (maurycyz.com)
    ×3.50 6 #18 | 743 points by zdw 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Forgotten History of Hershey's Electric Railway (1916) in Cuba (ieee.org)
    ×0.55 60 #42 | 16 points by defrost 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by hn_acker 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Why Onboarding Flow Is the New Signup Form (uxmovement.substack.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by antux 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad? (derekthompson.org)
    ×4.14 #3 | 59 points by momentmaker 32 minutes ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities (fingerprint.com)
    ×3.98 3 #16 | 840 points by danpinto 23 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Atlassian to begin using customer metadata and and in-app data to train AI (atlassian.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by AaronM 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Ohita – a tool to simplify API key management for AI agents (ohita.tech)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by jusasiiv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Your hex editor should color-code bytes (simonomi.dev)
    ×2.88 4 #6 | 361 points by tobr 10 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ChatGPT Images 2.0 (openai.com)
    ×3.96 6 #58 | 1023 points by wahnfrieden 1 day ago | 951 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Where the Sweetest Margins Live in Jensen's 5-Layer Cake (thegeneralpartnership.substack.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by zpj5005 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Maryland to become first state to ban 'dynamic pricing' in grocery stores (yahoo.com)
    ×3.47 31 | 62 points by jonbaer 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tasteful Tokenmaxxing (latent.space)
    ×0.71 61 #90 | 11 points by omer_k 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Atlassian Expands Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Agentic AI (googlecloudpresscorner.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by marcosscriven 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer (Part 2) (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×0.48 60 #84 | 34 points by kkl 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Open security key on nrf52480 with NFC (github.com/solokeys)
    ×1.14 156 | 5 points by ecesena 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Polymarket weather bet manipulated with a hairdryer (twitter.com/aaronjmars)
    ×4.09 16 | 56 points by dnw 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents (zindex.ai)
    ×0.59 74 | 56 points by _ben_ 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage (juanpabloaj.com)
    ×0.93 105 | 57 points by juanpabloaj 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Finra Adopts New Standards to Replace the Day Trading Margin Requirements (finra.org)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by hentrep 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How to Grep Video (cloudglue.dev)
    ×7.28 77 | 10 points by mrmarket 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI Model and 'MAGA' Influencer Emily Hart Unmasked as Indian Man (mandatory.com)
    ×2.37 45 | 4 points by CharlesW 56 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables (trendmicro.com)
    ×1.45 19 | 366 points by queenelvis 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Microsoft launches 'vibe working' in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (theverge.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Price of AI Is the Internet (vanilla.sh)
    ×2.57 41 | 4 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???