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  1. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.94 161 #55 | 71 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.99 24 #63 | 94 points by joshmarinacci 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.70 69 #74 | 30 points by vira28 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.09 29 | 777 points by eries 1 day ago | 549 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×1.36 67 | 29 points by BugsJustFindMe 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×1.53 17 | 84 points by kilroy123 15 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Are jobs and the world going to be like this, moving forward?
    ×1.65 23 | 6 points by chand190 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×2.06 37 | 203 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.47 23 | 418 points by TomAnthony 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×1.13 81 | 16 points by thisislorenzov 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Sophia NLU Home Assistant – On Device, Low Compute, No Internet, Voice Assistant
    ×0.89 55 | 3 points by aquila416 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.39 86 | 260 points by mdni007 3 days ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.51 42 | 241 points by hnthrow10282910 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Agents get dumber before release of new model version?
    ×1.22 83 | 9 points by sporkland 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is anyone shorting the overspend in AI yet?
    ×2.54 89 | 16 points by ggm 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I vibe coded a world cup cheer guide for fans
    ×0.76 77 | 3 points by shark-salvo 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is there a metric for AI code quality?
    ×0.52 110 | 4 points by fractalf 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What internal tool did you build that became a product?
    ×1.25 112 | 6 points by nehpets 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.33 73 | 435 points by aryamaan 3 days ago | 757 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.28 79 | 166 points by y1n0 2 days ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is the long term purpose of Google releasing free offline models?
    ×0.69 | 2 points by filup 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Just me feeling that Mythos/Fabel just 1% there?
    ×0.26 122 | 4 points by punnerud 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is anyone else seeing a Slack auth bug?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by HoyaSaxa 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?
    ×1.58 109 | 8 points by linzhangrun 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I added a prompt to future ASI – TLBIC Policy Proposal v5 now available
    ×0.33 | 2 points by michikawa59 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Temporal Awareness in LLM?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by Pamar 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Discussion: Fable 5 is weak at flagging prompts correctly
    ×0.34 | 2 points by eckelhesten 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
    ×2.02 106 | 7 points by limondas 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Did Anthropic Just Win?
    ×1.23 136 | 5 points by lnenad 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.62 139 | 23 points by modzu 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: np.reddit.com now redirects to www.reddit.com
    ×1.55 94 | 5 points by kevinwang 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?
    ×0.85 124 | 5 points by zionsati 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Degree apprenticeships in engineering, do they exist?
    ×0.62 | 2 points by adamofeden 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?
    ×2.65 100 | 11 points by Adam-Hincu 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Stack Overflow seems down
    ×0.63 141 | 5 points by tom1337 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Summary of recent buggy Kindle updates since Nov 2025: dictionary, fonts, manga
    ×0.32 | 2 points by seam_carver 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: The next evolutionary step in LLM usage?
    ×0.41 162 | 3 points by tomaytotomato 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.51 151 | 14 points by jasonephraim 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Prediction for SpaceX IPO?
    ×0.54 156 | 7 points by bix6 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Are we all walking into a trap?
    ×0.86 137 | 7 points by skor 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: Codex once again automatically activates /fast on app update
    ×0.15 | 2 points by mfi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
    ×0.36 171 | 5 points by j1000 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Anyone building a local-first companion for Google Fitbit Air straps?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by joalavedra 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?
    ×0.15 170 | 5 points by randomor 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Deploy personal apps with your agent via Buildy (buildy.so)
    ×1.04 72 | 4 points by grouchy 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Social network where inviting someone makes you accountable for them (chirpper.com)
    ×2.31 117 | 10 points by Chirpper 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write (blockchainednovel.com)
    ×1.53 138 | 25 points by mck- 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Learn while you wait for your agents to code (github.com/get-foyer)
    ×1.62 132 | 6 points by dennis3124 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: How many $SPCX shares did you request and how many did you get?
    ×0.39 | 1 points by GMoromisato 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Port React Compiler to Rust (github.com/react)
    ×1.50 71 | 123 points by boudra 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: OpenPayphone – open-source guts for a 1996 coin payphone (Pi and SIP) (github.com/eric-cgn)
    ×2.12 157 | 23 points by mcintyem 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Deconstructing Datalog (rntz.net)
    ×1.10 24 #65 | 14 points by rntz 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Why your asthma inhaler is so expensive (in the US) (educatedguesswork.org)
    ×1.45 47 #77 | 27 points by duckduckgo 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. US Consumer Price Index up 4.2% (bls.gov)
    ×5.46 32 | 272 points by ortusdux 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light (npr.org)
    ×5.45 66 | 148 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
    ×1.55 6 #14 | 60 points by dougcalobrisi 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Gram Newton-Schulz: A Fast, Hardware-Aware Newton-Schulz Algorithm for Muon (tridao.me)
    ×0.61 48 #51 | 24 points by jxmorris12 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users (cnbc.com)
    ×2.25 45 #57 | 120 points by agentifysh 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: TunnelMind – reputation API for IPs, ASNs, and ad-tech supply chains (tunnelmind.ai)
    ×0.79 65 | 9 points by o2k 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada (electrek.co)
    ×3.82 12 | 127 points by breve 19 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here (heise.de)
    ×2.27 3 | 78 points by doener 17 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Engineers aren't afraid of AI – they're afraid of becoming junior again (andykelk.net)
    ×1.76 38 | 4 points by mopoke 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Codex for Open Source (openai.com)
    ×2.04 33 #44 | 30 points by EvgeniyZh 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.24 81 #50 | 125 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Global population movements from 1990 to 2023 (nature.com)
    ×1.27 32 #59 | 97 points by tzury 20 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.57 41 | 308 points by epaga 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser (github.com/sauravrao637)
    ×0.93 130 | 69 points by sauravrao637 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. MiMo Code is now released and open-source (xiaomi.com)
    ×1.96 2 #10 | 475 points by apeters 17 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Software is made between commits (zed.dev)
    ×1.58 6 #16 | 248 points by jeremy_k 15 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users With Anthropic (wsj.com)
    ×2.23 15 | 5 points by jbk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low (ecfr.eu)
    ×5.42 76 | 111 points by marcyb5st 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: CambiOS – a new Rust-based, sovereign identity, zero-trust OS (github.com/coherentforge)
    ×1.78 90 | 7 points by jasonricca 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 (github.com/huggingface)
    ×1.42 7 #30 | 226 points by yogthos 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AUR Report Thread (archlinux.org)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by xiaoyu2006 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Zepto's published search architecture only applies to logged-in users (medium.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by abhij89 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tesla gets go-ahead to sell self-driving technology in Belgium (reuters.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Authentication issues related to API requests (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.10 59 | 163 points by Multicomp 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes (vorpus.github.io)
    ×4.47 46 | 1169 points by lizhang 3 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++ (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
    ×0.74 21 #33 | 26 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML (2021) (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.09 41 #75 | 70 points by luispa 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Stimulants Are the Killer of Generalists
    ×0.84 | 2 points by anonymous-bear 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.81 68 | 103 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: CSV Graph – create charts from CSV files in the browser (qingyanglabs.com)
    ×2.23 164 | 8 points by lfdev 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar (computerhistory.org)
    ×1.07 31 #36 | 109 points by andrewstuart 16 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (dronexl.co)
    ×3.15 22 #43 | 692 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Over 400 Malicious packages found in Arch AUR (archlinux.org)
    ×1.59 30 | 3 points by Hydrocarb0n 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Resonate – Low-latency, high-resolution spectral analysis (alexandrefrancois.org)
    ×0.49 104 | 45 points by arjf 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota (github.com/grzegorz-raczek-unit8)
    ×0.72 87 | 64 points by grzracz 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: SpadeBox – Sandboxed tools and JavaScript runtime for AI agents (github.com/CharlyCst)
    ×1.10 127 | 3 points by charlycst 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: OpenYabby, voice-controlled multi-agent orchestrator for Claude Code (github.com/OpenYabby)
    ×1.05 148 | 8 points by idovmamane 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???