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  1. Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.39 5 | 3 points by shriy-singh 42 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.22 59 | 3 points by esher 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I just talked to an AI-obsessed client, and I need a shower afterwards
    ×0.66 66 | 23 points by platevoltage 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Understanding Runtime Governance for Enterprise AI Deployment
    ×0.12 95 | 4 points by thespotlessmind 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. ask HN:Are we locking ourselves in the Google ecosystem?
    ×0.25 61 | 5 points by KinetiNode 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.41 92 | 19 points by phendrenad2 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
    ×0.98 91 | 152 points by semidror 3 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.46 101 | 21 points by itsjeremiahs 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?
    ×0.21 106 | 4 points by d675 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.45 114 | 15 points by xnx 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I Built a Wine Atlas
    ×0.48 112 | 4 points by keremiis 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?
    ×0.49 94 | 13 points by Hex08 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?
    ×0.62 98 | 10 points by mattm 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Which harness do you use with Qwen3.8 27B? And why?
    ×0.13 135 | 3 points by grigio 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Declarative vs. Imperative
    ×0.11 | 2 points by KenPainter 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. LinkedIn is a terrible quality website
    ×1.96 90 | 20 points by skyfantom 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. When Claude CLI asks for feedback, responding authorizes conversation capture
    ×0.64 125 | 24 points by mmaunder 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?
    ×0.27 123 | 9 points by kooldeep7 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do GitHub Copilot and Anthropic Claude compare in cost?
    ×0.14 138 | 3 points by erwindegroot 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Which is cheaper: ChatGPT tokens or a 2nd Pro 20x subscription?
    ×0.12 150 | 3 points by yesitcan 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do your teams share and distribute agent skills?
    ×0.14 152 | 3 points by juanviera23 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Dead Internet
    ×0.72 128 | 16 points by basilikum 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why does it matter if no one reads your novel as long as the AIs do?
    ×0.47 136 | 10 points by amichail 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD
    ×0.24 141 | 5 points by xeonmc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill?
    ×0.64 113 | 4 points by skwasimin 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Porting a clearing-house money market to a smart contract
    ×0.39 139 | 3 points by citizensinan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering (madhukaraphatak.in)
    ×1.11 46 #68 | 105 points by phatak-dev 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days (unlisted.careers)
    ×2.84 15 | 293 points by rubatrejo 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Layered writing – a novel way to write and read digital text (github.com/aartoghrul)
    ×0.82 142 | 4 points by artoghrul 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Inkdom – Draw loops on the real world map to claim territory (inkdom.io)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Nuze 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. After multiple deaths and injuries, NHTSA is investigating comma.ai (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by betacollector64 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The darker side of being a doctor (drericlevi.pages.dev)
    ×4.20 37 | 272 points by Danhale93 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Radix – Visual UI for agentic programming (radix-os.com)
    ×0.92 7 #32 | 15 points by 0x1062 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.16 57 #60 | 144 points by Retro_Dev 22 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (microsoft.com)
    ×1.05 58 #69 | 167 points by tybulewicz 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GPT-6 Sol and Luna (openai.com)
    ×6.32 5 #74 | 1762 points by OfficialTurkey 2 days ago | 837 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Astronomers capture an unprecedented view of gas giant formation in action (phys.org)
    ×2.33 23 | 3 points by PeterCorless 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
    ×1.00 80 | 145 points by florianstandhar 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Race – Terminal Multiplexer on Infinite Canvas (macOS and Linux Beta) (race-term.com)
    ×1.17 158 | 4 points by xlii 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Easytris – Tetris that wants you to win (medv.io)
    ×1.69 151 | 4 points by medv 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Solving for faster SHA-1 collision detection (sam.dev)
    ×0.81 56 #85 | 54 points by srijs 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Swarm Scaling (tobyord.com)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by louiereederson 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. China Holds Sensitive F-35 Parts Diverted to Hong Kong from Australia (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.25 20 | 3 points by rbanffy 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: QBasic 1.1 in the Browser (vahidyousefzadeh.com)
    ×2.29 99 | 8 points by vahidce 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Offline recorder and transcriber on your MacBook's notch (memorynotch.app)
    ×2.19 35 | 4 points by choyiny 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. "It Was Tragic": Exploring the Impact of a Robot's Shutdown (arxiv.org)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by StatsAreFun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries (consumerreports.org)
    ×3.79 12 | 378 points by ortusdux 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.89 55 | 68 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: RUUN – Tor Browser with a second, non-Tor mode in the same app (gitlab.com)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by opentestudox07 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Steppy Fox – Free Game (steppyfox.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by fadilbeg 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS (carbon.ms)
    ×0.75 57 | 51 points by barbinbrad 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. GLiNER2.5-Decide (huggingface.co)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by trollied 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I'm crawling 11k homepages every week to track which fonts they use (fontsovertime.com)
    ×0.74 70 | 4 points by fcjr 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: jevals – replacing LLM judges with typed Jev decisions (github.com/openlayer-ai)
    ×1.34 117 | 47 points by gbayomi 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.02 #2 | 200 points by MitPitt 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016) (robot-daycare.com)
    ×0.46 33 #31 | 16 points by loughnane 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.35 11 #39 | 197 points by adunk 9 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Programming Tutorials Are Dead (robrace.dev)
    ×2.94 51 #65 | 32 points by polysaturate 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Strands Harness (strandsagents.com)
    ×1.07 61 #79 | 143 points by zuckerborg0101 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking (nature.com)
    ×2.04 16 | 3 points by digital55 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Privacy: The Sequel (2015) (theawl.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by bookofjoe 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html) (arusekk.pl)
    ×1.39 32 #12 | 6 points by arusekk 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast? (jgeekstudies.org)
    ×1.55 13 #34 | 125 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 (techworkersinquiry.org)
    ×1.06 78 #47 | 4 points by utiiiD 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.09 45 #57 | 251 points by nonfamous 7 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.60 1 #82 | 1791 points by km144 2 days ago | 1112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: CubeLV – AI that designs your automation before building it (cubelv.com)
    ×1.45 93 | 4 points by qqrun 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. B5-BJ2 – Ice Cream Barges – Concrete Ship Constructors (2023) (thecretefleet.com)
    ×0.34 52 #33 | 17 points by nixass 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Enjoy Every Sandwich (bradmontague.substack.com)
    ×1.86 31 #56 | 175 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes (github.com/aru-labs)
    ×0.62 102 | 67 points by aru-labs 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: LARP Capital – Prestige as a Service (larpcapital.us)
    ×0.84 146 | 3 points by vknar 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time (gallup.com)
    ×4.69 71 | 68 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. African elephants putatively self-medicate with medicinal plants (nature.com)
    ×1.91 6 #41 | 10 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. ZeroDrift – A small model that finds and fixes compliance violations (zerodrift.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by chobberoni 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Embracing Dark Mode: A User's Perspective on Accessibility (master.dev)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ibobev 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Government contractor exposed path to immigration records (theregister.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by DemiGuru 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting (404media.co)
    ×11.63 33 | 215 points by latexr 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Lightspeed, build real time apps the Laravel way (+asteroids demo)
    ×1.59 137 | 17 points by jv22222 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. File notification side channel leakage on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS (inoti.fyi)
    ×3.05 26 | 5 points by iamnothere 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tokens too cheap to meter (jyn.dev)
    ×2.06 30 | 342 points by teoruiz 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world' (businessinsider.com)
    ×5.55 42 | 215 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games (tinybrains.dev)
    ×0.94 100 | 115 points by codetiger 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use (github.com/trycua)
    ×0.85 115 | 94 points by frabonacci 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data (therecord.media)
    ×1.93 43 #76 | 48 points by ilamont 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages (huggingface.co)
    ×0.75 57 #87 | 85 points by victormustar 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GizmoSQL changes the unit economics for AI analyst companies (emms21.github.io)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by emms21 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A Little Spark in the Sky (thinkingground.net)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by zc4242 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car (drivingbench.com)
    ×2.99 18 | 307 points by plurby 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations (github.com/christianrowlands)
    ×0.99 23 #18 | 69 points by 882542F3884314B 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Year of Internal Tools (geocod.io)
    ×0.86 65 #49 | 57 points by thecodemonkey 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???