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  1. Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
    ×1.49 12 | 37 points by missmoss 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474
    ×0.34 59 | 8 points by Bender 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc)
    ×0.99 74 | 5 points by LozzKappa 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What do you watch during lunch or dinner, if you're by yourself?
    ×0.35 49 | 4 points by MinimalAction 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf
    ×0.66 85 | 6 points by cristyg0101 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is AI used in school system and how are they implementing it
    ×0.51 70 | 3 points by rohankc_01 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?
    ×0.58 65 | 11 points by tbharath 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's expected from an engineering manager or director now?
    ×0.45 75 | 3 points by agentwrangler 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?
    ×0.98 81 | 9 points by jonthepirate 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?
    ×0.64 113 | 3 points by Hussain04 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are some popular AI detection software that you know/have used?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by dd-sharma 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What happens when we do compress the context in Claude Code?
    ×0.93 100 | 5 points by tbharath 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What is the status on continual learning for LLMs?
    ×1.47 73 | 5 points by fred123123 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?
    ×1.39 92 | 4 points by mavsman 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is neuromorphic computing going to replace traditional AI?
    ×0.58 125 | 5 points by lennart-rth 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: A.I Labs are headed by people without world manufacturing experience
    ×0.61 119 | 3 points by dzonga 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×4.50 28 | 482 points by Thrashed 2 days ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Postgress in Rust
    ×0.35 144 | 4 points by poldex 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Cost of Seamlessness
    ×0.83 121 | 3 points by taotuner 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Will it be possible to do LLM Pool Training?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by slicktux 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Has anyone figured out how to guard LLMs on kernel level?
    ×0.20 145 | 3 points by isaacnsisong 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: It's a Lot
    ×1.17 114 | 7 points by mettamage 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why are Meta products so bad?
    ×1.32 115 | 4 points by asxndu 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How would you harden AI changes to a 1M-line legacy SaaS before review?
    ×0.85 143 | 4 points by thegreatkahuna 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why My Open-Source Project Hasn't Done Better
    ×1.23 122 | 4 points by yohji1984 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Companies are optimizing models for specific benchmarks
    ×0.46 148 | 4 points by mzubairtahir 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The things that matter take a minute
    ×1.27 111 | 4 points by ishener 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Do types make a language more expressive, or less?
    ×0.89 142 | 3 points by greenlimetea 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What's Up with Archive.today?
    ×0.30 152 | 6 points by nobody9999 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to use agents via API cheaply?
    ×0.87 149 | 3 points by thih9 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What other professions are software programmers considering?
    ×1.24 104 | 3 points by i_idiot 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Good Data Classification Software?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by ChrisRun 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.43 146 | 30 points by amichail 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Claude used my pipeline to find a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture
    ×0.68 132 | 8 points by JGPTechCo 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate
    ×1.48 117 | 14 points by rellyattd 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How do I find startups that are looking for a dev? How to approach them?
    ×0.20 159 | 6 points by need_a_work23 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Which is the least sloppy and claudeism free model you have used?
    ×0.83 158 | 3 points by diwank 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.82 153 | 29 points by sam_lowry_ 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How to get in touch with Paddle (MoR)
    ×0.30 164 | 7 points by probst 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GPL Infection of LLMs?
    ×0.34 165 | 4 points by sl_convertible 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: How's your experience with the Siri AI beta?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by Austin_Conlon 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Two Gov Websites Compromised
    ×0.81 157 | 7 points by relunsec 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Tell HN: ChatGPT exports do not contain all conversation messages
    ×0.51 161 | 6 points by afpx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
    ×1.12 163 | 13 points by nothrowaways 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Midjourney Releasing v8.2
    ×0.37 | 2 points by endmund 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Pastport – Your iPhone Left an Airbnb (github.com/anupamchugh)
    ×1.18 101 | 3 points by anupamchugh 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad (augmental.tech)
    ×1.91 22 #39 | 168 points by ZaninAndrea 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Apple seeks U.S. approval to buy memory chips from blacklisted CXMT (fortune.com)
    ×3.03 21 #68 | 33 points by walterbell 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Give your AI ears – live meeting transcripts over MCP on macOS (ethanflow.com)
    ×1.16 139 | 3 points by sproutlab 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: AI Toolbox supports Claude Opus 5 (ai-toolbox.co)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by superduper5551 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Stolen Buttons (anatolyzenkov.com)
    ×2.99 5 #1 | 613 points by Gecko4072 13 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. SIMD for Collision (box2d.org)
    ×1.15 14 #8 | 68 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Rudoc – a 4.5MB Rust document converter (github.com/asong56)
    ×1.56 45 #43 | 9 points by sideras56 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL (deepsql.ai)
    ×0.62 151 | 52 points by venkat971 5 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate? (xn--vk5b17r.online)
    ×2.28 58 #64 | 32 points by theoneone 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Claude Cookbook (claude.com)
    ×2.29 39 #81 | 330 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Less-pager-mini: What a cross-platform pager would be like (github.com/dawsonhuang0)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by dawson0 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home (seti.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by spzx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Pangrandomonium: Rhizome Function Anagram Random Generator (zenodo.org)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by OCTADE 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
    ×4.11 38 | 1018 points by starfallg 3 days ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras (theguardian.com)
    ×4.10 26 #35 | 203 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Lessons from Building My Own Products as a Freelance Engineer (mazin.sd)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by maz225 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The hidden cost of AI: Why your town is negotiating with Amazon and Microsoft (fortune.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Sync Claude Code and Codex configs, with a board that shows the drift (github.com/slash9494)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by slash9494 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Silurian Hypothesis (2020) (theparisreview.org)
    ×1.04 32 #46 | 62 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Police removed prominent scientists from American Diabetes Association meeting (the-scientist.com)
    ×2.96 102 | 77 points by fosco 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. For coding agents, real-time collaboration beats the "wisdom of the crowd" (ykdojo.github.io)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by ykev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds (ziggit.dev)
    ×2.00 25 | 298 points by kristoff_it 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I got into YC Startup School by hacking it (obaid.wtf)
    ×1.31 52 | 106 points by speckx 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.22 86 | 87 points by ingve 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (knaup.me)
    ×2.44 1 #15 | 324 points by tknaup 12 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Dark Night of Mathematics (kirwinhampshire.substack.com)
    ×2.42 6 #33 | 175 points by rmdmphilosopher 11 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Journal42: Journaling for Tech Workers (journal42.cloud)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by rtpro 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: AI codebase analyser and auto-fixer (getdebug.dev)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by nutifafa 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: CodeAlmanac – Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations (github.com/AlmanacCode)
    ×0.74 160 | 60 points by divitsheth 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters (huggingface.co)
    ×2.19 7 #9 | 22 points by nateb2022 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Claude Opus 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.50 48 #74 | 1741 points by alvis 1 day ago | 1270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Where Your Mind Goes When You Stop (lanternhours.substack.com)
    ×0.32 | 1 points by cuongvtran 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Audio Player with "Binaural Beats" tuned to the same key as your music (github.com/henrygabriels)
    ×0.83 131 | 20 points by gabriel666smith 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Books can't piss me off
    ×1.92 17 | 4 points by emerongi 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Unitree As2-W (unitree.com)
    ×1.20 42 | 137 points by MehrdadKhnzd 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf] (nvidia.com)
    ×2.96 62 | 111 points by lairv 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser (kimi.site)
    ×1.90 71 | 55 points by boveyking 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I mapped every US golf course – 16k+ courses, free, no signup (golfcoursebrowser.com)
    ×2.94 49 | 4 points by rickmf 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Collective Intelligence: The Next Frontier of AI (github.com/ailinone)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by alissonidalo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story (theguardian.com)
    ×4.27 27 | 523 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 1209X Agentic Engineering (twitter.com/psdimov)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by pdcd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Axtary – Content Authorization for AI Agents (axtary.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by Axtary 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The South Carolina town in turmoil over a $545,000 email phishing scam (msn.com)
    ×2.19 9 | 4 points by MilnerRoute 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Google Maps Platform adds Isochrones API for travel-time reachability polygons (google.com)
    ×1.48 12 | 3 points by 882542F3884314B 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???