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  1. Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics?
    ×1.28 30 | 3 points by p1esk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt?
    ×0.48 15 | 5 points by Poomba 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?
    ×0.50 30 | 6 points by tavro 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×0.71 69 | 140 points by mousepad12 2 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.16 45 | 677 points by miki123211 3 days ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.14 77 | 3 points by rohanmunshi08 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws
    ×2.09 79 | 6 points by MissMajordazure 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: My daily game won a Players Choice Award
    ×0.75 82 | 19 points by paulhebert 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
    ×0.62 76 | 11 points by txrx0000 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I built AI agents that do the grunt work solo founders hate
    ×0.30 99 | 5 points by Seleci 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Builder.ai ($1B Microsoft-backed AI company) who's lookin at the assets?
    ×0.31 105 | 6 points by gamelock 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Article to share with a technical manager about modern AI coding tools?
    ×0.66 100 | 7 points by killmill 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Degradation of Human Requirements in the LLM Era
    ×0.44 110 | 6 points by waylake 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
    ×0.49 124 | 21 points by niel_hu 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Super Editor – Atomic file editor with automatic backups (Python and Go)
    ×0.22 133 | 6 points by larryste 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Seeking Advice on Improving OCR for Watermarked PDFs in My RAG Pipeline
    ×0.08 | 2 points by hundredtrillion 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
    ×0.36 138 | 23 points by nunobrito 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
    ×0.51 128 | 12 points by Slaboli 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why are some websites locking or using the audio device on Windows?
    ×0.18 137 | 4 points by ezconnect 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you handle duplicate side effects when jobs, workflows retry?
    ×0.35 140 | 10 points by shineDaPoker 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: My competitor wants to buy us out, recommend a lawyer?
    ×0.44 146 | 8 points by VladVladikoff 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
    ×0.84 134 | 22 points by ex-aws-dude 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. LazyGravity – I made my phone control Antigravity so I never leave bed
    ×0.33 147 | 9 points by masaTokyo 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. If you drive clock wise along the beach on an island
    ×0.30 139 | 7 points by Cookingboy 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada
    ×0.46 148 | 10 points by NoNameHaveI 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What will happen with Anthropics ultimatum?
    ×0.51 149 | 7 points by maniacwhat 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What Happened to HTTPS://Www.keyvalues.com/?
    ×0.63 119 | 4 points by alexgotoi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I built a 151k-node GraphRAG swarm that autonomously invents SDG solutions
    ×0.05 | 2 points by wisdomagi 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Claude Code Bug triggers Rate limits without usage
    ×0.10 150 | 3 points by busssard 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.20 151 | 3 points by thesssaism 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Minecraft music player, with random intervals like in the game (paul-andre.github.io)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by bogdanoff_2 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Swarming, spinning microrobots can manipulate their surroundings (cornell.edu)
    ×1.68 5 | 3 points by geox 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What AI coding costs you (tomwojcik.com)
    ×4.04 4 | 321 points by tomwojcik 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: GitShow Repo Showroom – a landing page for any GitHub repo
    ×1.37 121 | 4 points by ofershap 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (nature.com)
    ×0.88 48 #62 | 95 points by zdw 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)
    ×2.77 6 #74 | 360 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024) (acm.org)
    ×0.77 45 #90 | 47 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Free Collaboration Tools for Non Profits?
    ×0.89 | 1 points by bjourne 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. There are many ways to read Hacker News (readhacker.news)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by TigerUniversity 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A U.S. scholarship thrills a teacher in India. Then came soul-crushing questions (npr.org)
    ×2.57 4 | 4 points by aanet 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why does C have the best file API (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.47 10 #40 | 80 points by maurycyz 8 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Lil' Fun Langs' Guts (taylor.town)
    ×0.49 48 #41 | 37 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Working with memories can reduce fear of failure (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.08 8 #73 | 17 points by 1659447091 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak (theguardian.com)
    ×6.30 | 43 points by zabzonk 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: "Vote-MCP" -- a bit like Google Forms, but for AIs (dapp32.com)
    ×0.94 96 | 3 points by _codah_ 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (obsidian.md)
    ×2.24 10 #69 | 569 points by adilmoujahid 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How I used Cursor to Migrate Frameworks (kentcdodds.com)
    ×1.96 | 2 points by abraham 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Why Rational Choice Theory Should Not Be the Standard for Good Decisions (behavioralscientist.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by jyunwai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation (github.com/nocodemf)
    ×0.67 68 | 49 points by urav 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Updater – one command for macOS app updates (github.com/lu-zhengda)
    ×0.86 62 | 3 points by zhengda-lu 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. "All Lawful Use": More Than You Wanted to Know (astralcodexten.com)
    ×3.82 10 #63 | 30 points by pchristensen 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store (apple.com)
    ×7.77 8 #70 | 229 points by byincugnito 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. GPL as the Best Licence – Governance and Philosophy (hansenpartnership.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by pabs3 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Evil in the West Bank (nybooks.com)
    ×6.66 28 #47 | 40 points by abdelhousni 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How Dada enables internal references (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×0.36 47 #56 | 22 points by vrnvu 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×0.68 51 #61 | 51 points by herbertl 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (popsci.com)
    ×0.74 53 #84 | 82 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible (wired.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by CHB0403085482 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (ghostty.org)
    ×3.02 1 #6 | 652 points by oli5679 15 hours ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (ejholmes.github.io)
    ×2.51 #8 | 304 points by ejholmes 11 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last (acs.org)
    ×0.83 31 #36 | 76 points by keepamovin 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash (github.com/junevm)
    ×0.47 64 | 59 points by unsorted2270 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I built a tool that turns any API into a CLI for agents (instantcli.com)
    ×1.53 55 | 6 points by stugreen13 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Personal token: share equity in your lifetime upside (github.com/homan9)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by koopuluri 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: YourFinanceWORKS – Open-source financial management with AI (yourfinanceworks.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by snowsky 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. HN is drowning in AI comments
    ×9.74 29 | 88 points by waygtdai 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow (windowscentral.com)
    ×9.89 20 | 156 points by AndrewKemendo 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government (anthropic-timeline.vercel.app)
    ×2.29 48 | 92 points by vldszn 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: MCP-firewall: I created a policy engine for CLI Agents (github.com/dzervas)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by ttouch 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)
    ×1.44 65 | 321 points by smalltorch 3 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: GitPop – open-source AI Git context menu for Windows (OS X coming soon) (github.com/vinzify)
    ×0.87 118 | 3 points by vinzify 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: HN Bot Detector - Detects LLM-Generated Comments on Hacker News (github.com/umairnadeem)
    ×2.03 | 2 points by umairnadeem123 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: AluminatiAi – Per-job GPU energy cost tracking (open source)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by AluminatiAi 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a fast mood, energy, and activity tracker (trilog.app) (trilog.app)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by saltroad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Anthropic's Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.77 54 | 40 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents (github.com/MeisnerDan)
    ×0.81 107 | 43 points by meisnerd 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window (github.com/qwibitai)
    ×0.71 80 | 85 points by jimminyx 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Memctl v0.1.0 Open source shared persistent memory for AI coding agents (memctl.com)
    ×2.87 90 | 7 points by meszmate 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I built GeoQuests where people can request photos of a place (geoquests.io)
    ×1.05 132 | 5 points by Swain123 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Claude dethrones ChatGPT as top U.S. app after Pentagon saga (axios.com)
    ×5.73 5 #50 | 59 points by doener 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports (theregister.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Bender 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Life Cycle of Money (bohyen.space)
    ×0.77 51 | 82 points by nanacnote 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. We Made the Isospectral Drums and It Went Fine (prismika.github.io)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by nill0 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. An Assistant with advanced memory and evolution functions (meet-edward.com)
    ×1.89 28 | 3 points by ben4mn 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: LightJJ – Web-Based UI for Jujutsu VCS (github.com/chronologos)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by Chronologos 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: MCP Playground – free MCP test servers, inspector, and 10K+ server list (mcpplaygroundonline.com)
    ×2.02 66 | 7 points by rupatiwari25 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Optimal: Cost effective infra with agentic inbox (github.com/agg111)
    ×1.48 94 | 4 points by aishwaryagune 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.31 38 #54 | 78 points by wjb3 6 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. TPM-Sniffing LUKS Keys on an Embedded Linux Device [CVE-2026-0714] (cyloq.se)
    ×1.80 5 #85 | 18 points by Tiberium 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. He lived on the street. Now turns raw dryland into frugal homestead [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.91 | 2 points by fallinditch 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???