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Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

×2.69 26 #48 | 402 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

×7.55 49 #72 | 1613 points by CliffStoll 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How are folks affordably self-training in AI?

×0.84 2 | 6 points by macartain 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM generated parsers and compliance checkers for Sparrow DSL

×0.53 31 | 3 points by melezhik 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is the underlying stack behind multi-agent platforms?

×0.49 59 | 3 points by throwaw12 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reflections on NetBSD 11

×0.38 86 | 7 points by morpheos137 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can NPM, pnpm etc. use frontier models to check packages for malware?

×0.25 96 | 4 points by VikRubenfeld 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?

×0.46 93 | 15 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Novel macro signals for AI-related job loss?

×0.42 87 | 5 points by sfmz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?

×0.62 78 | 9 points by shantnutiwari 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?

×0.49 89 | 14 points by MetaWhirledPeas 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?

×0.26 110 | 4 points by softneon 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs

×0.30 107 | 9 points by omertt27 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?

×0.32 103 | 18 points by lishunsheng 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

×1.75 104 | 134 points by idontwantthis 1 week ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?

×0.47 121 | 13 points by alexyan0431 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Flags Hantavirus Vaccine Questions as Security Risk

×0.99 80 | 12 points by pell 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Surface" a Governed AI-Agentic Surface

×0.09 138 | 3 points by paulbernard 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)

×0.31 113 | 18 points by Gooblebrai 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you find good personal blogs on Google nowadays?

×0.84 83 | 5 points by xapet 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions (tack.pics)

×0.55 38 #35 | 17 points by magikMaker 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)

×3.20 1 #78 | 810 points by flipped 2 days ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot (pages.casa)

×3.16 62 | 130 points by edent 12 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ovlt – Lightweight Auth Server That Runs in ~20MB RAM (ovlt.tech)

×1.24 71 | 5 points by Shrpp 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kanban-CLI – a web UI for local Markdown todo lists (github.com/Vochsel)

×3.60 146 | 14 points by vochsel 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Chuchu, an Android SSH client built on libghostty (github.com/jossephus)

×1.26 63 #56 | 4 points by jossephus01 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to survive the information crisis: 'Now reality itself feels fake' (theguardian.com)

×1.32 | 2 points by mitchbob 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off (theverge.com)

×4.28 1 | 211 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HeatSpectra: Realtime 3D Surface Heat Simulation (github.com/tsun3doku)

×1.35 109 | 5 points by tsun3doku 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Parrot – a fun, skeuomorphic audio recorder to hear yourself (zkhrv.com)

×2.91 150 | 21 points by zkhrv 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)

×1.84 24 #30 | 397 points by willmeyers 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NYC Mesh (wikipedia.org)

×0.77 | 1 points by thunderbong 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)

×4.65 42 | 584 points by mwheelz 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)

×1.98 48 | 303 points by bstrama 3 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: You can edit the game by chatting with it (aion.quest)

×0.57 | 1 points by xkoda 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)

×3.52 55 | 687 points by ribtoks 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (cnbc.com)

×1.66 31 #31 | 254 points by christhecaribou 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring (mux.com)

22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022) (stroustrup.com)

×0.84 44 #70 | 88 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI Revolution in Cancer (color.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by rafaelc 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turkey unveils new missile, AI touts as able to hit US mainland (ft.com)

×1.86 34 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The UAP report so far (marginalrevolution.com)

×1.91 27 | 3 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Just Use Go (blainsmith.com)

×10.12 2 | 199 points by xngbuilds 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Admit It, That Protein Shake Is Basically Soylent (theatlantic.com)

×2.72 46 | 4 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A $15 RISC-V Device Built Its Own Wallet and Learned to Pay the Internet (eddieoz.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by eddieoz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agentctl, a local control plane for coding agents (github.com/chocks)

×0.24 | 2 points by chocks 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Better Design – 28 Shadcn design systems (OSS, MCP: Cursor/Claude Code) (github.com/marvkr)

×2.94 136 | 13 points by marvinkr 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)

×2.33 13 #26 | 342 points by homebrewer 22 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI (lesswrong.com)

×1.30 4 #62 | 5 points by momentmaker 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Getting LLMs Drunk to Find Remote Linux Kernel OOB Writes (and More) (heyitsas.im)

×0.55 | 1 points by hnpufflib 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rig – a Ghostty sidecar for managing agents (github.com/backnotprop)

×1.93 115 | 6 points by ramoz 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (sigops.org)

×1.07 41 #41 | 114 points by mad 20 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefox vs. Chromium security in 2022, how true is it still today? (madaidans-insecurities.github.io)

×0.52 | 1 points by wyoh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenClaw had a rough week (openclaw.ai)

×2.11 68 | 42 points by kevincortes 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Peter Naur – Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] (wisc.edu)

×1.97 23 | 3 points by s4i 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Marginal likelihood is exhaustive leave-p-out cross-validation (belko.xyz)

×0.56 | 1 points by samuel2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions (0xkrt26.github.io)

×0.67 53 #54 | 59 points by denismenace 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)

×0.84 35 #66 | 142 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Strategic advice from LLM's is "trendslop", say researchers (hbr.org)

×1.91 30 | 3 points by marojejian 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional (apnews.com)

×6.33 19 | 63 points by 1659447091 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)

×0.45 141 | 44 points by 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)

×0.52 79 | 23 points by andres 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers (copahost.com)

×1.16 3 #3 | 47 points by ggallas 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How LEDs are made (2014) (sparkfun.com)

×1.30 7 #13 | 104 points by smig0 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)

×3.68 36 #40 | 173 points by ColinWright 5 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Redstone – a faster PortfoliosLab with a one-click portfolio optimizer (redstonemarkets.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by mihaitrincav 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's time to talk about agentic "remote control" (arpadvoros.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by arpadav 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Real-workload SQLite benchmarks on Hetzner's cheapest VPS (s13k.dev)

×0.50 25 | 4 points by s13k 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)

×1.22 34 #36 | 205 points by MrBruh 23 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Removing fsync from our local storage engine (fractalbits.com)

×1.24 21 #49 | 54 points by zzsheng 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Money is renewable, time isn't (get168.app)

×0.52 | 1 points by dudcks97 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests (nhtsa.gov)

×2.60 1 | 90 points by amanaplanacanal 19 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number (reclaimthenet.org)

×4.73 78 | 69 points by delichon 5 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif (codeberg.org)

×1.08 134 | 16 points by thatxliner 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: NanoCorp – Create autonomous companies run by AI (nanocorp.so)

×1.94 76 | 12 points by AdrienBA 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (pcmag.com)

×3.58 24 #65 | 308 points by tcp_handshaker 21 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)

×3.40 3 #68 | 911 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 621 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shoehorn – Backstage without the maintenance overhead (shoehorn.dev)

×0.58 | 1 points by shoehorn-dev 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is there evidence that LLMs can extrapolate to new ideas?

×1.19 | 2 points by mikpanko 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I learned something about GPUs today (foon.uk)

×0.56 | 1 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DoodleMate: Animate Your Child's Hand Drawings Without Generative AI (doodlemate.com)

×4.09 119 | 12 points by hjessmith 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (colorado.edu)

×0.96 45 #43 | 96 points by geox 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's kill off half the builtins in C3 0.8.0 (c3-lang.org)

×0.60 | 1 points by DASD 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Becoming competitive when joining a new company (ludwigabap.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by bkjlblh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)

×0.60 12 #22 | 38 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)

×2.02 36 #42 | 323 points by david-gpu 1 day ago | 492 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Will Never Use AI to Code (antman-does-software.com)

×4.54 15 | 58 points by ishanz 13 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs (crit.md)

×1.40 77 | 11 points by tomasz-tomczyk 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)

×2.27 7 #11 | 369 points by pretext 14 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB (getadb.com)

×0.45 47 #89 | 38 points by nezaj 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???