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  1. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×2.06 66 | 4 points by personality0 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×1.26 | 2 points by thesssaism 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by thesvp 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?
    ×0.52 32 | 25 points by dmpyatyi 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×2.86 8 | 11 points by JB_5000 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.28 16 | 38 points by codexon 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
    ×0.42 67 | 44 points by techteach00 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×1.33 57 | 8 points by Cyberis 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore?
    ×0.89 46 | 7 points by rakan1 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Explanation of JEPA – Yann LeCun's proposed solution to self-supervised learning
    ×0.87 | 2 points by helloplanets 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
    ×0.85 62 | 10 points by a_protsyuk 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one?
    ×0.25 83 | 5 points by parvardegr 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is up with all the glitchy and off-topic comments?
    ×1.07 61 | 7 points by marginalia_nu 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.29 121 | 11 points by dakiol 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects
    ×1.01 56 | 20 points by 7777777phil 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.27 116 | 9 points by sujayk_33 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised?
    ×0.38 97 | 11 points by marvin_nora 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI
    ×0.81 91 | 12 points by daringrain32781 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are early-stage AI startups thinking about IP protection?
    ×0.17 110 | 4 points by shaheeniquebal 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?
    ×0.33 112 | 7 points by YuukiJyoudai 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?
    ×1.21 89 | 25 points by arm32 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects
    ×0.81 117 | 12 points by amin2011 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are developers who build libs and dev tools safer from AI replacement?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by danver0 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
    ×0.85 113 | 14 points by moomoo11 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Back end where you just define schema, access policy, and functions
    ×0.21 133 | 3 points by emilss 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to tell if an image is AI generated?
    ×0.35 100 | 8 points by leandrobon 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with <name> as an XML Tag to <n>
    ×0.46 98 | 9 points by exabrial 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?
    ×1.19 141 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I made my favorite AI tool
    ×0.28 129 | 4 points by sebringj 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Should I add this acknowledgement/shoutout by xAI/Grok to my resume?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by aehsan4004 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Open-Source Bionic Reading Chrome Extension (MIT)
    ×0.19 | 2 points by sdgnbs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Orvia – Spin up a real-time room, share files, leave – everything disappears
    ×0.23 | 2 points by yc_surajkr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×1.13 115 | 35 points by zekejohn 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How do new blogs break the backlink–indexing loop?
    ×1.05 140 | 4 points by lilcodingthings 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Peer validation platform for engineering skills (inspired by X community notes)
    ×0.12 144 | 4 points by ms_sv 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?
    ×0.67 134 | 12 points by givemeethekeys 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Do You Love My "Assess Idea" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea?
    ×0.21 145 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Do US presidents have less fiduciary liability than CEOs?
    ×1.22 114 | 6 points by stopbulying 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.43 142 | 13 points by kwar13 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Is there a workaround in OpenClaw for tab not found
    ×0.30 | 2 points by jinen83 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What (other) jobs do you think of doing?
    ×0.52 123 | 14 points by penguin_booze 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck (mikeayles.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by mikeayles 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.89 1 | 76 points by delduca 19 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: AgentBudget – Real-time dollar budgets for AI agents (github.com/sahiljagtap08)
    ×2.58 21 | 6 points by sahiljagtapyc 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Aeterna – Self-hosted dead man's switch (github.com/alpyxn)
    ×0.96 137 | 3 points by alpyxn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Righteous EV Owners Who Won't Let Their Broken Cars Die (wired.com)
    ×2.93 8 #29 | 6 points by quapster 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics (jamesoswald.dev)
    ×0.47 22 #72 | 39 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Real-Time AI Design Benchmark (shuffle.dev)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by kemyd 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL (zerohedge.com)
    ×4.31 39 | 97 points by gradus_ad 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Rust blockchain with sharded propagation and post-quantum signatures (alphanumeric.blue)
    ×0.89 143 | 3 points by invar1ant 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
    ×1.96 6 #57 | 408 points by mhb 1 day ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Can frontier LLMs solve CAD tasks? (kerrickstaley.com)
    ×1.74 67 #63 | 6 points by KerrickStaley 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Evaluating Prediction Markets (sceneswithsimon.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by paraschopra 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. My lobster lost $450k this weekend (pashpashpash.substack.com)
    ×2.22 22 | 3 points by ssiddharth 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS (shuru.run)
    ×1.33 20 | 207 points by harshdoesdev 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Git's Magic Files (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.42 40 | 179 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
    ×1.10 12 #31 | 125 points by eigen-vector 15 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Three New Importers in KiCad 10: Allegro, PADS, and gEDA (kicad.org)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by georgefrowny 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN:Agentic Browser Automation – Lightweight Selenium and Claude Code Bridge (github.com/GregoryLi360)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by gregoryli360 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Gridl – A daily block puzzle game (gridlgame.com)
    ×1.99 106 | 5 points by pj3677 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Rendering 18,000 videos in real-time with Python (madebymohammed.com)
    ×1.94 72 | 41 points by mbmproductions 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Playwright CI/CD in GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and GitLab CI (testdino.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by tanmay001 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says (gizmodo.com)
    ×5.88 78 | 254 points by cdrnsf 13 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human
    ×6.36 43 | 115 points by gadjonesq 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Falcon – Chat-first communities built on Bluesky AT Protocol
    ×2.25 59 | 5 points by JohannaWeb 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Typed Assembly Language (2000) (cornell.edu)
    ×0.85 31 #26 | 42 points by luu 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
    ×2.10 2 #51 | 384 points by microflash 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Warm Oceans Turned a 3-Inch Forecast into a Record NYC Blizzard (umbrellatoday.app)
    ×1.09 61 #54 | 20 points by s-xyz 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Tokio-prompt-orchestrator – LLM pipeline orchestration in Rust (github.com/Mattbusel)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by Shmungus 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Let's understand and implement consistent hashing (sushantdhiman.dev)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Reproducible Builds in Language Package Managers (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by yla92 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: An RPG in the Windows file explorer (steampowered.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by juhrjuhr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: A deadly simple tmux windows like start UI (github.com/liyu1981)
    ×1.11 75 | 3 points by liyu1981au 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Use this to optimise your CV (cvcomp.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by prashasthajain1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
    ×1.15 46 #42 | 160 points by ai_bot 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. It might be time to say goodbye to HTML inputs (medium.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by PretzelFisch 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Claw Cash – Money agents can trust, and verify. Stablecoins in. BTC out (clw.cash)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by tierotiero 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall (rename.world)
    ×3.20 66 | 78 points by kafked 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Reversing Games With LLMs (Give Claude Access to Memory Dump tools) (github.com/dougwithseismic)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by dougwithseismic 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenClaw: Running a Secure, Capable, Low Cost Claw – Hetzner/Tailscale/ZapierMCP (appsoftware.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by appsoftware 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cloud Hosting vs. Shared Hosting: Which Web Hosting Should You Choose (manipathaktech.substack.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by manipathakblog 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: SkillScan – Free API to detect malicious AI agent skill files (chitacloud.dev)
    ×0.96 103 | 3 points by AutoPilotAI 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: WorldCanvas – R/place, but with a real world map as the canvas (worldcanvas.art)
    ×1.10 82 | 3 points by recuerdame 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone (0x19.co)
    ×1.84 55 #47 | 33 points by 25hex 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: L88 – A Local RAG System on 8GB VRAM (Need Architecture Feedback)
    ×2.46 50 #70 | 6 points by adithyadrdo 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator (storozhenko98.github.io)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by mst98 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Is it possible to manipulate your social-media algorithms?
    ×2.29 15 | 3 points by JonnyDamnedFox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
    ×3.11 9 | 263 points by con 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Enseal – Stop pasting secrets into Slack .env sharing from the terminal (github.com/FlerAlex)
    ×1.27 71 | 3 points by ops_mechanic 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
    ×0.65 38 #66 | 88 points by tosh 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???