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  1. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.81 16 #15 | 267 points by mariocesar 20 hours ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.71 21 #35 | 711 points by lukehandcool 21 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.96 21 | 567 points by IvanK_net 2 days ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.81 8 | 8 points by hanstyle 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.82 53 | 12 points by bigwheels 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×1.20 82 | 8 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×1.51 57 | 12 points by scoofy 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.38 94 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.49 92 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×1.01 89 | 5 points by amichail 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.17 | 2 points by northlondoner 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence
    ×1.24 67 | 8 points by butlersean 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What happened with quantum computers anyway?
    ×0.71 91 | 4 points by pera 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.51 100 | 12 points by penskymaterial 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Learning practical system design
    ×0.96 102 | 4 points by rcdmrl 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Any Insight Here into French High School Unrest?
    ×1.03 77 | 4 points by giardini 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.95 130 | 4 points by bigmattystyles 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are we trading model capacity for compute?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by olirex99 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.70 129 | 11 points by Crontab 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×0.94 119 | 14 points by saimiam 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.50 118 | 7 points by Bender 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.91 78 | 39 points by trencedamp 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Google Search is down
    ×1.87 68 | 6 points by muazzam 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.61 135 | 7 points by maxignol 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Got a Mac for running agents? what's your setup?
    ×0.56 | 2 points by velyan 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI?
    ×0.61 95 | 11 points by Zeruxe 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×1.71 122 | 16 points by nunorbatista 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×0.39 134 | 6 points by mtmosestn 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is the xcancel source code publicly available?
    ×0.27 137 | 3 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is anyone still working on dLLMs
    ×0.24 138 | 3 points by obonse 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI leaders game out public revolt scenarios after catastrophic events (axios.com)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by soltanov 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Margaret Hamilton has died (mit.edu)
    ×10.15 69 | 2093 points by muglug 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos (wordminos.com)
    ×0.72 42 | 19 points by dyarosla 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Arcadeia – A self-hosted media library with animated video previews (github.com/travelonium)
    ×0.33 101 | 17 points by omidontop 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Coding Agent with Cost Saving Built-In (wiyomi.com)
    ×1.08 107 | 4 points by fhakimihsan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.46 12 #47 | 598 points by ent101 1 day ago | 636 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. An Open Letter to Scott Alexander (quillette.substack.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by GTP 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Photograph 49 is the key to understanding Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 (springer.com)
    ×2.07 46 | 87 points by gumby 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The art of defusing a second world war bomb (theguardian.com)
    ×1.15 57 #81 | 146 points by sandebert 2 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. SynthID Detector (synthid.com)
    ×1.07 44 | 126 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Botscent – Library to Detect Agents on your site (nibnalin.me)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by nibnalin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Yes, and (htmx.org)
    ×3.66 1 #11 | 507 points by Michelangelo11 17 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.95 48 #57 | 53 points by danny00 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Rhyven – A marketplace for agents (rhyvenai.com)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by calebrhyven 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Hildegard of Bingen The 12th-century mystic who saw the Earth as a living whole (blue-continuum.com)
    ×2.28 49 | 3 points by dnetesn 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Dirty Secret Behind the Farmed Fish You Eat (nytimes.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by thelastgallon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom)
    ×0.85 45 | 118 points by bluepeter 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. MXC - a sandboxed code execution system (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.17 12 #7 | 64 points by nreece 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Rgpu – a PyTorch device whose tensors live on a remote GPU (github.com/ymcrcat)
    ×0.61 46 #50 | 50 points by boxstream 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities (quesma.com)
    ×2.33 29 #59 | 393 points by stared 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×7.39 11 #74 | 2033 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 1210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tiny(43mb) voice-first decision model for robotics (huggingface.co)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by neuphonic_s 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Letterkin – Make every letter count (letterkin.io)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by onion92 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Convkit – A command line tool for converting images/video/docs offline (github.com/shdwfruit)
    ×2.05 128 | 6 points by shdwfruit 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Karotte, a framework for building robust RL envs (github.com/preferencemodel)
    ×3.23 112 | 8 points by 256 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
    ×0.99 105 | 121 points by edverma2 6 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
    ×4.32 5 #10 | 707 points by soheilpro 21 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits (100r.ca)
    ×1.97 13 #86 | 359 points by Muhammad523 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Trump administration Is Suspending Microsoft from a Green Card Program (nbcnews.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by karakoram 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Faster Python startup with lazy imports (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by tosh 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.17 84 | 180 points by allenleee 5 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. DuckDB Ducklake (github.com/duckdb)
    ×1.45 40 #21 | 194 points by saikatsg 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: 10M synthetic corporate emails and calendar files in 29 languages (huggingface.co)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by sinabis_1 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (niklasroy.com)
    ×1.34 76 | 235 points by r0r0 1 week ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools (svg-spark.vercel.app)
    ×1.31 108 | 4 points by Zeus808 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams (thequietus.com)
    ×2.00 3 #40 | 180 points by cdrnsf 17 hours ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Spinal: A near-instant, predictive surface for any codebase (spinal.sh)
    ×0.80 39 #79 | 19 points by handfuloflight 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Vitalik Buterin on AIxMath and Crypto (twitter.com/VitalikButerin)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by porridgeraisin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers (github.com/openai)
    ×4.27 40 | 341 points by theemathas 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Superwhisper S1 mini – Text and tone normalizer for speech-to-text (huggingface.co)
    ×1.82 71 | 6 points by nchudleigh 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Clojure in the age of language models (yogthos.net)
    ×0.94 32 #82 | 38 points by silcoon 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 2nd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Attacked (twitter.com/yandex)
    ×1.27 44 | 3 points by defly 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Accountability.md – a skill that holds agents accountable for actions (github.com/kenm47)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by hank2000 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust (github.com/project-minigraf)
    ×0.71 115 | 41 points by adityamukho 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.90 43 #28 | 138 points by Hooke 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Spark: An incremental game about building AGI (geoffstearns.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by tensafefrogs 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Defining epidemic modeling as a public service (nature.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program (reuters.com)
    ×4.12 14 | 118 points by geox 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Once: Cache CLI Commands (github.com/alex0ptr)
    ×1.30 14 #6 | 17 points by baquero 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Bevy 0.20 (bevy.org)
    ×2.71 4 #30 | 196 points by Philpax 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: MarbleMD – Free collaborative alternative to Typora (marble.md)
    ×1.50 99 | 3 points by danieldeng2 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Rinkata, shared project context for teams using coding agents (rinkata.dev)
    ×1.59 86 | 4 points by bschwab 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Smart Blur – Auto-Blur PII in the Browser, with a OpenAI Local Model (smartbuildlabs.com)
    ×2.52 117 | 7 points by vickyonlinecont 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ending the Casuarina Linux Experiment (casuarina.org)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages (ascii.rest)
    ×2.31 2 | 455 points by turrini 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Porch – a Mac menu bar work log for Claude Code and Codex sessions (github.com/amone-labs)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by bearjb 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (readingchronicle.co.uk)
    ×1.55 56 #66 | 231 points by librasteve 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: What is needed to burn MiMo2.6Pro onto a chip
    ×0.76 | 1 points by busssard 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Case for Small Specialized Models (julesbelveze.github.io)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by julesbelveze 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A Piet interpreter compiled to a Piet image, running a Piet program (bobbby.online)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by rhgraysonii 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???