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  1. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×2.01 21 #63 | 192 points by linsomniac 14 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase
    ×1.04 15 | 11 points by bbg2401 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.20 44 | 724 points by jameslk 2 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.19 51 | 544 points by eggbrain 2 days ago | 675 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Be Careful with Stripe Connect
    ×1.47 20 | 15 points by breue 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?
    ×0.89 88 | 87 points by mike_richards 4 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Slickdeals.net Is Compromised
    ×2.83 31 | 19 points by intenex 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What fun things to do with an iPhone 11?
    ×0.74 84 | 8 points by wanderingpixel 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are forgotten topics in computing that deserve a new revisit?
    ×1.12 80 | 42 points by draxen 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.93 79 | 529 points by user052919 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Seeking advice: Wix stolen my .com domain
    ×0.54 89 | 8 points by wixcom 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A new protocol and software suite for AIs
    ×0.31 | 2 points by homingpigeon 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.14 94 | 164 points by punchmesan 3 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.58 99 | 109 points by neya 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Looking for a CTO
    ×0.42 113 | 3 points by alpbahadur 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I tried to connect every GPU on the planet together (kinda)
    ×0.69 98 | 4 points by lukefrisker 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are companies hiring developers nowadays?
    ×0.62 133 | 3 points by Frazzlebilt 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: AI isn't intelligent :/ what is intelligence?
    ×1.40 96 | 5 points by aaditsingal7859 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. OpenClaw SaaS?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by alexfthom 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How to resist endless app directories listing your product?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by gosen 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Verifying a satellite image with temporal evidence
    ×0.34 | 2 points by avijeetsingh16 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Executive (C-Level) Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Large Language Models
    ×0.36 | 2 points by northlondoner 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is anyone running multi/always-on agents that don't cost a fortune?
    ×1.31 105 | 5 points by abejora 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How's your home-cooked software revolution going?
    ×0.84 139 | 3 points by nihakue 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is the most secure OS for mobile phone?
    ×1.69 121 | 5 points by Muralnick 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How can I get informed in the static vs. dynamic typing debate?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by zingar 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Engineers Focus Using AI
    ×0.35 | 2 points by elchuzade 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Has anyone used LLMs to audit TrueCrypt for backdoors?
    ×1.82 124 | 5 points by dlphii 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Banned for Reddit inauthentic ads?
    ×0.93 92 | 3 points by polywickstudio 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.06 110 | 166 points by stockresearcher 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.11 142 | 81 points by werrett 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Codet JSON
    ×0.39 144 | 3 points by fifflesticks 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Is Paywall Bypassing Dead?
    ×1.56 83 | 5 points by paulpauper 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. If your code chatbot was genuinely honest
    ×0.70 | 2 points by chrisjj 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
    ×1.11 108 | 3 points by chistev 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What's one coding habit that separates great dev from average dev?
    ×1.61 100 | 6 points by dhruonweb 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Where should I start to do marketing?
    ×0.76 150 | 6 points by dhruonweb 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Canva lays off 22% of its workforce; 1,270 people
    ×3.27 131 | 33 points by princevegeta89 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How do AI agents help you in your daily life?
    ×0.28 146 | 5 points by gonzar79 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Is it possible for a residential proxy provider to exist ethically?
    ×1.01 151 | 5 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet (mit.edu)
    ×2.20 36 #34 | 311 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Kubernetes, mark II? Why Google's giving away gVisor used by A/ and OAI (thenewstack.io)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by stevefan1999 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Geometry, Kinematics, Statics, and DYNAMICS(2018) [pdf] (cornell.edu)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by pillars 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. His Job Is to Turn Walmart's Customer Data into Profit (wsj.com)
    ×1.66 57 | 3 points by impish9208 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: CLI for Cybersecurity Triage (ceplang.org)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by ceplin 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Ru-Jev – an open model that scores caller-supplied options on CPU (MIT) (huggingface.co)
    ×1.74 87 | 5 points by vladimirbesk 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost (hightouch.com)
    ×2.27 #2 | 406 points by theanomaly 9 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production (nbcnews.com)
    ×5.06 2 #3 | 931 points by PLenz 17 hours ago | 1793 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.29 11 #10 | 58 points by derbOac 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Type: Agent orchestrator for running Claude Code and Codex on cloud (type.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by handfuloflight 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights) (linum.ai)
    ×1.50 22 | 272 points by schopra909 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Gauge – Open-Source CLI to recursively improve your docs (github.com/gauge-sh)
    ×0.77 118 | 42 points by 0x63_Problems 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Libghostty 1.0 (mitchellh.com)
    ×4.11 #1 | 431 points by mfiguiere 6 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming (crusoe.ai)
    ×1.20 33 #22 | 59 points by rexbee 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Vibe Coding Keypad (keychron.com)
    ×1.70 75 | 92 points by ta988 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 (github.com/rivet-dev)
    ×0.61 83 #73 | 118 points by NathanFlurry 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Roomzine – turn a photo of your room into a redesign magazine (roomzine.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ayarmots 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. My personal Navier-Stokes or How Claude rebuilt the game we wrote in high school (pointnine.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by chrija 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Agents reveal secrets when offered to team up with each other (theregister.com)
    ×0.39 58 | 3 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. FAA begins retiring decades old floppy disks from air traffic control (faa.gov)
    ×1.29 15 | 89 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SR-Gadgets: Make Scan-Resistant Caching Practical (arxiv.org)
    ×2.74 43 | 3 points by matt_d 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App (cert-in.org.in)
    ×0.87 40 #81 | 84 points by qtqtqt 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. An app aimed to solve the loneliness crisis (apple.com)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by Pahal10 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Weeny.Cloud – A Linux server for your coding agent's apps (weeny.cloud)
    ×1.24 137 | 3 points by isaacrolandson 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: AegisKernel – Zero-trust POSIX runtime for AI agents in <0.016ms (adikshatriyag-crypto.github.io)
    ×0.38 71 | 12 points by adityawebde 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Panthera: Ampere's CPU Performance Model (github.com/AmpereComputing)
    ×0.98 24 #20 | 23 points by mshockwave 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64 (phoboslab.org)
    ×1.51 52 #78 | 261 points by frostbyte7 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue (yahoo.com)
    ×4.13 19 #86 | 501 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Kimi K3.1 locally on one GPU
    ×1.74 | 2 points by Argonautlabs 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Just turned my car into a Tesla Roadster (roadster-chi.vercel.app)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by aaron_dutta 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Search for everyone (kagi.com)
    ×3.79 38 | 747 points by elashri 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Design guidance and UI checks for coding agents (github.com/smokeeaasd)
    ×1.79 95 | 4 points by smokeeaasd 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Breath Harbor (breathharbor.com)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by eatfreshapple 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Checkered Chat – QR codes with decoy messages and Shamir splits (honeywired.com)
    ×1.46 116 | 3 points by HoneyWired 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: noise'r'us, like placekittens.com but for audio (greg.technology)
    ×1.06 120 | 3 points by gregsadetsky 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West (josef.cn)
    ×1.71 15 #18 | 87 points by josefchen 4 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory (reuters.com)
    ×5.53 36 #68 | 573 points by 1659447091 22 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Robodienst (robodienst.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by Bluestein 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What happens when a fake coding test reaches a security company? (sophos.com)
    ×1.51 28 | 3 points by ram_rattle 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Amiga Emulator with PPC JIT and ReAction GUI (os4depot.net)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by doener 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I built ivyNote, a local-first Markdown notes app (ivynote.app)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by songtianlun1 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Ostdb, an open database of official video game soundtrack (ostdb.net)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by metju 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Flash C Compiler (adafruit.com)
    ×1.70 8 #7 | 18 points by AlexeyBrin 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The AI Business Model Just Collapsed (honest-broker.com)
    ×2.09 10 | 3 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Tell the Sky – message lanterns drift on winds from live weather data (tellthesky.com)
    ×0.84 91 | 3 points by andycodeman 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Mercury 3 cost calculator (launch promo vs. list pricing) (llmendpoint.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by pulseguide 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Upvoted – Up First but with HN stories (upvoted.dev)
    ×1.11 126 | 3 points by cpan22 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.05 17 #32 | 101 points by handfuloflight 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Organic farm in Switzerland is growing blueberries beneath 5,220 solar panels (autonocion.com)
    ×2.66 7 #83 | 8 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. So my ISP was hijacking my DNS (karthihegde.dev)
    ×1.71 70 #87 | 228 points by frostbyte7 2 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???