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  1. Ask HN: What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose?
    ×1.42 66 | 3 points by bix6 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.47 5 #44 | 127 points by amichail 15 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Need advice on distributing and testing what I build
    ×0.28 | 2 points by darth-pixit 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. "Show HN" " alternative to dark matter, tested across galaxy to cosmic scales"
    ×0.47 67 | 3 points by SPruynIDR 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.75 75 | 91 points by asim 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Forked CozoDB to give agents cognitive primitives
    ×0.41 103 | 3 points by shanrizvi 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.46 113 | 21 points by agos 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's a simple app you'd build if you had a weekend?
    ×0.67 82 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.48 93 | 11 points by vantareed 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Using OPA/Rego to secure MCP tool execution. Does it make sense?
    ×0.81 65 | 5 points by wmolino 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.67 123 | 6 points by lordkrandel 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Open-Source Intelligence
    ×0.17 134 | 3 points by silent_butagrim 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is there a recognized standard for swarm intelligence benchmarking?
    ×0.47 116 | 5 points by stephanieriggs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.32 151 | 5 points by snowhy 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms
    ×0.27 138 | 3 points by rozumbrada 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.56 125 | 11 points by arnejenssen 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?
    ×0.88 115 | 8 points by YihaoZhang 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.07 130 | 8 points by hnthrow10282910 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.68 132 | 8 points by gondolin1683 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.41 127 | 10 points by uejfiweun 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Meetup.com login appears to be exceeding its reCAPTCHA Enterprise quota
    ×0.76 139 | 4 points by infl8ed 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.87 135 | 11 points by akashwadhwani35 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.14 120 | 82 points by arzh2 4 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.34 140 | 11 points by lyfeninja 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.28 142 | 14 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.18 145 | 36 points by fabianlindfors 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?
    ×1.00 147 | 5 points by ahmedfromtunis 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Opus and regression with patterns not included in trainng data
    ×0.16 | 2 points by dleech 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?
    ×0.90 154 | 5 points by lasky 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.23 161 | 4 points by raghuu 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Best resources for learning how to build a forum back end?
    ×0.44 178 | 3 points by jupr 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Whats the best and small open source model?
    ×0.46 179 | 3 points by hairymouse 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Please recommend sci-fi books similar to "children of time" or "anathem"
    ×1.94 121 | 6 points by rishabhpoddar 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Looking for a CI/CD project for my local lab
    ×0.22 156 | 5 points by q8zd3 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI Tokenmaxxing and Hypomania
    ×0.56 149 | 7 points by karthikeyankc 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How do you find out if the LLM API is giving degraded responses?
    ×1.04 189 | 3 points by imviky 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling?
    ×0.55 192 | 7 points by otekengineering 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nanogram – Private social media from your Raspberry Pi
    ×0.57 180 | 9 points by smalltorch 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How close to profitability did companies get before dot com burst?
    ×1.71 181 | 5 points by AbstractH24 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Successful entrepreneurs and indie hackers, enlighten me
    ×0.16 199 | 3 points by markosn 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What Are the Trade-Offs of Working Fully Remotely?
    ×0.74 162 | 8 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets (metiq.space)
    ×1.01 63 #38 | 136 points by rakeda 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow (lloydslist.com)
    ×5.36 44 | 121 points by decimalenough 15 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.17 2 #4 | 32 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Shutting Down Fornjot (fornjot.app)
    ×2.28 47 | 3 points by birdculture 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves (voicedraw.com)
    ×0.53 124 | 47 points by ajaypanthagani 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why Incogni Might Be YouTube's Worst Sponsor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by Udo_Schmitz 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A Perceptron in Age of Empires II (adewynter.github.io)
    ×1.17 40 #27 | 105 points by EvgeniyZh 17 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps (tester.army)
    ×0.68 86 #68 | 125 points by okwasniewski 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Is anyone still using Emacs? (jmmv.dev)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by jmmv 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Make every bug perfectly reproducible (workers.io)
    ×1.72 39 | 7 points by chaitanyya 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)
    ×2.50 33 #17 | 89 points by matt_d 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A (aiclambake.com)
    ×3.23 68 | 429 points by Kosturdistan 22 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel (theiet.org)
    ×2.23 20 | 147 points by geox 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DuckDB Internals Part 1 (greybeam.ai)
    ×2.11 15 #57 | 456 points by marklit 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS (ui.com)
    ×1.87 72 #43 | 410 points by ksec 2 days ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. NJ Suburb Finder (njtown.vercel.app)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by thisismytest 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Material Hack – Reboot of the Hacker News Client Materialistic (github.com/mxmilkiib)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by mxmilkiib 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars (independent.co.uk)
    ×3.71 19 | 414 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants (neutronbytes.com)
    ×1.19 70 | 114 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fable 5 pushed Gemma 4 to 255 tok/s on WebGPU (xcancel.com)
    ×2.18 100 | 47 points by kirubakaran 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.49 16 #10 | 14 points by farhadhf 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering (space.com)
    ×2.38 20 #31 | 147 points by y1n0 10 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023) (nochan.net)
    ×1.82 17 #55 | 208 points by Bender 18 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024) (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.75 84 #81 | 225 points by trymas 2 days ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Meta's Threads Reaches 500M Monthly Users, Rolls Out New Features (fb.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by karakoram 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28 (jvm-weekly.com)
    ×2.51 15 #25 | 622 points by philonoist 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How to move a beluga across the world (cbc.ca)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by curmudgeon22 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Embeddings as Encodings (hash.dev)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by tosh 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Tabia – The first free, open-source chess opening trainer (github.com/daxaur)
    ×1.39 191 | 4 points by daxaur 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks (kentbeck.com)
    ×2.62 35 #51 | 192 points by rrvsh 14 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly (windowslatest.com)
    ×5.10 19 #76 | 737 points by Adam-Hincu 2 days ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK (mroczek.dev)
    ×0.95 65 #88 | 116 points by lackoftactics 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (extremetech.com)
    ×3.27 72 | 4 points by tcp_handshaker 39 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. EU to soon classify AWS and Azure as gatekeepers under DSA (heise.de)
    ×3.35 50 | 64 points by snowpid 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: What is the job market like?
    ×2.80 90 | 56 points by gardnr 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Run Agent Skills with mistral.rs v0.8.10: /v1/skills support and more
    ×1.27 112 | 20 points by ericlbuehler 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Claude Code for Visual Studio (native diff with accept/reject) (github.com/firish)
    ×1.29 163 | 20 points by firish 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks (lwn.net)
    ×1.47 71 #29 | 113 points by jwilk 21 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Secretive Wall Street Powerhouse Jane Street Seizes the AI Spotlight (wsj.com)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I restarted a 10 year old Xeon 174 times to delete 12 flags and gain 4 tps (point.free)
    ×1.68 8 #2 | 14 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Court Records Should Be Free (eff.org)
    ×4.07 20 #35 | 437 points by hn_acker 21 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Should everyone be on GLP-1s? (cbc.ca)
    ×2.96 16 #49 | 6 points by colinprince 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder (mssv.net)
    ×0.76 56 #64 | 26 points by adrianhon 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. 16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes, 25x the drive's rating (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.68 87 | 52 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Pong in S Favicon (franzai.com)
    ×1.19 50 #19 | 5 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. In and Out of the Box (oup.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by jruohonen 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI-generated synthetic neurons speed up brain mapping (research.google)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by modinfo 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI (mnot.net)
    ×1.11 33 | 138 points by ingve 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Lift Challenge (darpa.mil)
    ×1.06 77 | 40 points by mhb 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???