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  1. Ask HN: Influence of Legend of Zelda in Backrooms Movie?
    ×0.37 43 #67 | 4 points by dieselgate 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.69 160 #77 | 79 points by simianwords 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ad on the HN front page? Gauntlet AI?
    ×0.82 8 | 5 points by tizio13 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: I Need Help for a Product
    ×0.75 25 | 7 points by memoryleakgame 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.93 81 | 101 points by joshmarinacci 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.68 98 | 36 points by vira28 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.10 36 | 784 points by eries 2 days ago | 565 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Meta is down
    ×8.94 64 | 117 points by reportinglurker 5 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×1.19 106 | 31 points by BugsJustFindMe 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.45 80 | 419 points by TomAnthony 2 days ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×2.00 89 | 203 points by vinhnx 2 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×1.50 78 | 89 points by kilroy123 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.39 109 | 260 points by mdni007 4 days ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why is the term forward deployed engineer (FDE) popular all of a sudden?
    ×1.22 27 | 3 points by palidanx 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×1.16 113 | 19 points by thisislorenzov 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.48 90 | 243 points by hnthrow10282910 2 days ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Facebook login is down for many
    ×1.51 38 | 8 points by nikanj 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is anyone shorting the overspend in AI yet?
    ×2.00 121 | 16 points by ggm 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.34 101 | 437 points by aryamaan 4 days ago | 760 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is there a metric for AI code quality?
    ×0.58 145 | 5 points by fractalf 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Agents get dumber before release of new model version?
    ×1.01 120 | 9 points by sporkland 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.28 107 | 167 points by y1n0 3 days ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What internal tool did you build that became a product?
    ×1.19 144 | 7 points by nehpets 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Sophia NLU Home Assistant – On Device, Low Compute, No Internet, Voice Assistant
    ×0.63 125 | 3 points by aquila416 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I vibe coded a world cup cheer guide for fans
    ×0.59 134 | 3 points by shark-salvo 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Just me feeling that Mythos/Fabel just 1% there?
    ×0.20 161 | 4 points by punnerud 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is anyone else seeing a Slack auth bug?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by HoyaSaxa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?
    ×1.36 143 | 8 points by linzhangrun 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.61 164 | 23 points by modzu 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I added a prompt to future ASI – TLBIC Policy Proposal v5 now available
    ×0.25 | 2 points by michikawa59 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Temporal Awareness in LLM?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by Pamar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Discussion: Fable 5 is weak at flagging prompts correctly
    ×0.25 | 2 points by eckelhesten 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Did Anthropic Just Win?
    ×0.91 172 | 5 points by lnenad 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
    ×1.57 139 | 7 points by limondas 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What is the long term purpose of Google releasing free offline models?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by filup 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?
    ×0.75 160 | 5 points by zionsati 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.50 177 | 14 points by jasonephraim 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Fail loudly: a plea to stop hiding bugs (alejo.ch)
    ×1.56 23 | 3 points by afc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Ttar 2.4 KB freestanding TAR archiver written in C, no Libc (github.com/Ferki-git-creator)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by DenisDolya 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. You can power on a Mac remotely (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.84 71 #34 | 10 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
    ×0.90 49 #35 | 136 points by sneela 15 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. SpaceX increases almost 30% after biggest IPO (cnbc.com)
    ×3.72 2 #56 | 13 points by somenameforme 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How to deal with agents constantly messing up padding/alignment in UIs?
    ×1.17 | 2 points by ex-aws-dude 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Amusing Numerology: How Base-5 Domain Numbers Reveal a Single Hidden Campaign (infoblox.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Quick games disguised as boring spreadsheets (boredspreadsheet.com)
    ×3.82 173 | 19 points by kevinclelland 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. /e/OS 4.0 is here (murena.com)
    ×1.46 83 #58 | 22 points by raffael_de 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. You cannot control the mind, and that is not the problem (pilgrima.ge)
    ×3.81 49 | 6 points by momentmaker 30 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix (mrbruh.com)
    ×1.54 15 | 304 points by MrBruh 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams
    ×0.49 118 | 31 points by andreygrehov 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (miguelgrinberg.com)
    ×2.09 #2 | 112 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Service Bindings for Postgres: Per-App Roles and Grants (openrun.dev)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by ajayvk 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: CambiOS – a new Rust-based, sovereign identity, zero-trust OS (github.com/coherentforge)
    ×1.71 129 | 7 points by jasonricca 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A dumpster arrived behind my university's library (yalereview.org)
    ×1.39 11 #10 | 124 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Maillune – Embeddable drag-and-drop email editor as a single component (maillune.com)
    ×0.55 181 | 7 points by gustavssondev 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Drift – an embedding-model upgrade should be a rotation, not a reindex (github.com/aayush4vedi)
    ×1.11 174 | 6 points by aayush4vedi 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Impress your boss with interactive Decision Tree Visualization (github.com/mljar)
    ×1.23 180 | 5 points by pplonski86 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: ZeroFS – Make S3 your primary storage (zerofs.net)
    ×2.12 112 | 10 points by Eikon 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I counted every "incredible" in 11 years of Apple WWDC keynotes (buzznote.io)
    ×2.51 31 | 4 points by radekmika 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Octopuses use mirrors to find food they cannot see (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by bookofjoe 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. πFS (github.com/philipl)
    ×4.05 18 | 946 points by helterskelter 2 days ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
    ×2.69 #1 | 400 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A PDF that changes based on how its read (sgaud.com)
    ×1.08 10 #6 | 74 points by SarthakGaud 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cosmodial Sky Atlas (killedbyapixel.github.io)
    ×0.68 19 #21 | 11 points by memalign 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×3.08 4 #33 | 696 points by sam_bristow 19 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. My Struggles Talking to an Old Piece of Junk (Fanuc 0M) (3nt3.de)
    ×0.37 58 #72 | 8 points by rmoriz 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Recreate Thinking Machines 276B voice demo with duct tape and 8B model (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by mrkn1 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted (github.com/chipmates)
    ×0.65 131 | 46 points by micstradev 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A command-line story machine inspired by Roald Dahl's 1953 short story (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.82 175 | 3 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. US insurance rulemaker probes credit risks tied to data centres (ft.com)
    ×0.98 10 #61 | 10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: What are your best ideas you will probably never build?
    ×1.74 5 | 3 points by hsuduebc2 58 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. SealedKeys – Zero-knowledge team password manager with post-quantum crypto (sealedkeys.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by michaelgartlan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Deploy personal apps with your agent via Buildy (buildy.so)
    ×0.91 126 | 4 points by grouchy 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Making FlashAttention-4 faster for inference (modal.com)
    ×1.69 8 | 3 points by birdculture 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't (normaltech.ai)
    ×4.02 42 | 304 points by trueduke 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video (politiken.dk)
    ×6.32 88 | 102 points by Veserv 1 hour ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)
    ×0.82 142 | 87 points by le_chuck 5 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher (osull.com)
    ×2.52 16 #41 | 226 points by danosull 8 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A new era for software testing (antirez.com)
    ×1.32 81 #80 | 138 points by Chrisszz 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Knowledge Collapse (bostonreview.net)
    ×2.19 25 | 4 points by pseudolus 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Vilvona AI – Self-Hosted AI Assistant with Tamil and Hindi UI (github.com/vignesh2027)
    ×1.23 16 | 3 points by deepscalelabs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Travel locally, where you are (ssp.sh)
    ×1.36 49 | 109 points by zazuke 23 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write (blockchainednovel.com)
    ×1.53 162 | 25 points by mck- 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life (fabianhemmert.com)
    ×1.42 67 #53 | 122 points by hemmert 20 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ear Training Practice (tonedear.com)
    ×1.88 7 #88 | 307 points by mattbit 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: A Claude Code statusline that shows live World Cup scores (github.com/arturogarrido)
    ×1.40 114 | 6 points by arturogarrido 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time (theguardian.com)
    ×3.99 12 #90 | 486 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Prompting Claude Fable 5 (claude.com)
    ×2.75 16 | 5 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (ifin.network)
    ×2.19 12 #36 | 243 points by keyle 13 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. WikiLambda the Ultimate (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.73 79 #64 | 58 points by Antibabelic 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???