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  1. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×1.24 13 #26 | 71 points by gcanyon 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.77 15 #59 | 51 points by oscgam1 12 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×2.69 11 #90 | 19 points by notsure357 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell Zillow: Fee-Simple vs. Leasehold Filter
    ×0.22 67 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.33 74 | 136 points by syntaxbush 2 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn?
    ×0.73 79 | 3 points by datsci_est_2015 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by throwaw12 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.26 95 | 6 points by netfortius 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.58 103 | 14 points by mellosty 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.50 122 | 33 points by JohnDSDev 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How is GPU power draw measured at scale?
    ×0.33 107 | 5 points by anax32 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.46 119 | 11 points by othmanosx 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×0.79 108 | 7 points by VaderAi 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
    ×1.67 61 | 113 points by shantnutiwari 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.64 131 | 8 points by yiyingzhang 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.34 72 | 80 points by jvilalta 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.48 159 | 18 points by niyazpk 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.08 143 | 153 points by amichail 1 week ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. My website gets more attacks than human visitors
    ×0.94 146 | 5 points by tommy2970 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Quickbooks Alternative?
    ×0.45 147 | 5 points by bix6 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
    ×0.45 155 | 4 points by something765478 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
    ×0.61 135 | 7 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 169 | 96 points by asim 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.28 168 | 6 points by iaziz786 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. As; HN: I was curious why MTP affects PP TPS in llama.cpp. My PoC recovers it?
    ×0.67 173 | 3 points by i_am_rocoe 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.54 124 | 81 points by ayi 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.41 175 | 26 points by agos 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.79 153 | 20 points by tossitawayplz 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Got access to Gemini's actual thinking
    ×0.20 170 | 4 points by StizzurpXDD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.41 158 | 15 points by neya 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.14 166 | 18 points by vasko 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It (acoup.blog)
    ×1.49 14 #24 | 65 points by jfoucher 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)
    ×1.43 3 #56 | 276 points by luu 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.17 35 #78 | 108 points by jonbaer 13 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Cartels of Mediocrity (taylorwood.io)
    ×1.54 42 | 3 points by 1659447091 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021) (js13kgames.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by mortenjorck 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: A privacy-first tool to email your MP about Canada's surveillance bill (stopc22.ca)
    ×1.03 148 | 4 points by braunshizzle 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Holos: Device Is Your Fediverse Server (holos.social)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by severine 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
    ×12.06 42 | 78 points by vrganj 12 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Codex-maxxing for long-running work (openai.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How China Is Gutting Western Automakers (2025) (dunneinsights.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Impacts of Unauthorized Immigration on U.S. Labor and Housing Markets (dallasfed.org)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by nradov 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Supreme Court's Era of Meaningless Rights (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The State of the AI Economy (exponentialview.co)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Hatchr – Share Claude Designs with a public link (hatchr.link)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by othmanosx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators (appaca.ai)
    ×1.58 123 | 5 points by susros 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts (gerrymandle.cc)
    ×1.60 138 | 243 points by realmofthemad 1 week ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Graphical SQL Builder and Debugger (github.com/webofmarius)
    ×0.52 144 | 21 points by matei88 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.38 3 #11 | 137 points by kkm 6 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.52 10 #15 | 250 points by rossant 15 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. What's the value of the Biblical half shekel? (chabad.org)
    ×1.48 25 | 3 points by teleforce 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. An oral history of Bank Python (2021) (calpaterson.com)
    ×1.11 26 | 168 points by tosh 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. GuixPkgs: Every Guix package, as a Nix flake (fzakaria.com)
    ×12.01 23 | 66 points by ingve 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) (github.com/overflowy)
    ×1.44 134 | 155 points by overflowy 6 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Modern GPU Programming for MLSys (mlc.ai)
    ×0.78 17 #27 | 66 points by crowwork 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.54 51 #33 | 28 points by benbreen 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Webradio server – broadcasts audio source to clients (github.com/tau-org)
    ×0.62 82 #61 | 10 points by modinfo 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding (deep-reinforce.com)
    ×2.02 36 | 3 points by modinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Routing for serverless servers with Pingora, Envoy, and Spanner (modal.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.67 1 #57 | 313 points by Alupis 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Daytona is going closed source. Here's why (daytona.io)
    ×2.16 31 | 4 points by david_shi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT 5.6 at Request of U.S. Government (velo.xyz)
    ×8.27 62 | 74 points by 217 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible (nytimes.com)
    ×2.68 13 | 5 points by droidjj 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Computation Is Bound by Physical Laws: A Fact-Based Church-Turing Thesis (cryptpad.fr)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by wij 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why current LLM costs are not sustainable (patadia.org)
    ×3.03 1 | 109 points by adityapatadia 19 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch (github.com/paytonjjones)
    ×1.67 114 | 216 points by paytonjjones 5 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I built a hardware quantum RNG and wired it into a Magic 8-Ball (dnhkng.github.io)
    ×2.36 51 | 10 points by dnhkng 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: iOS Apps on Linux (github.com/Lore-Hex)
    ×1.70 151 | 5 points by ljlolel 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: JSON Viewer Extension for Chrome (google.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by chernikovalexey 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers (swiftlatex.com)
    ×1.03 32 #30 | 92 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AgentKits – 60 production-ready AI agent blueprints with guardrails (agent-kits.com)
    ×1.81 53 #42 | 13 points by stoicstoic 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition (utaw.tech)
    ×1.62 53 | 199 points by chobeat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators (unconv.ai)
    ×1.02 16 | 189 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Git-lazy-mount mount a repo without cloning it. Works with ordinary Git (github.com/mohsen1)
    ×2.41 86 | 9 points by mohsen1 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (semafor.com)
    ×4.21 1 #1 | 266 points by bobrenjc93 4 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Fusion Programming Language (fusion-lang.org)
    ×0.29 80 #22 | 3 points by efrecon 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The last Romans are still around (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.08 64 #65 | 128 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Find the right AI agents to build (agentideahub.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by mattmerrick 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Boot a tiny app-making OS inside an AI chat (hollingsworthd.github.io)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by logn 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser (github.com/NotASithLord)
    ×1.00 102 | 73 points by NotASithLord 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The unbearable cheapness of open weight models (jamesoclaire.com)
    ×1.59 92 #62 | 187 points by ddxv 2 days ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Economists have pushed for prediction markets. They're not what they'd hoped for (cnn.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by JumpinJack_Cash 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt (lookaway.com)
    ×0.82 94 | 72 points by _kush 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A Transformer Is All You Need (zenodo.org)
    ×1.10 132 | 3 points by KnoxProtocol 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Europe to exclude military-age Ukrainian men from temporary protection scheme (euronews.com)
    ×18.78 40 | 58 points by xchip 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Doing a masters while working in Spain (jan-herlyn.com)
    ×0.96 83 #41 | 91 points by MHard 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)
    ×2.43 22 #48 | 438 points by dhruv3006 21 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mixing Visual and Textual Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.59 89 #85 | 83 points by doppioandante 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Boeing 777 makes dangerous ~25ft low pass over Horseshoe Bay Resort Jet Center (twitter.com/EBaviation)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by leetrout 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: No chair fixed my back, so we built one that won't let you sit still (movably.com)
    ×1.73 152 | 4 points by chaibiker 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???