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  1. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×1.36 | 2 points by will10pa 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.47 61 #69 | 268 points by mlaux 2 days ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?
    ×0.16 65 | 3 points by beerglass 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address
    ×0.41 | 2 points by luckman212 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be
    ×0.62 37 | 5 points by effisfor 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by variety8675 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.42 86 | 28 points by shriy-singh 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
    ×0.40 95 | 21 points by tkdb 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.35 108 | 11 points by sathomasga 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.50 97 | 27 points by GustavHartz 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?
    ×0.50 80 | 8 points by SMAAART 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.85 99 | 14 points by consumer451 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How to Freelance Now?
    ×1.03 82 | 17 points by Alexadar 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.37 121 | 6 points by cehgmaster 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×0.76 116 | 7 points by george_max 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.36 118 | 7 points by jviotti 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.45 134 | 18 points by xnx 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.12 | 2 points by iambateman 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma
    ×0.91 120 | 6 points by vdfs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: LM Studio Bionic with Python?
    ×0.30 139 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription?
    ×0.85 140 | 5 points by preommr 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What do you do now as a software engineer?
    ×1.05 93 | 5 points by fawazali 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.42 128 | 22 points by itsjeremiahs 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?
    ×0.35 143 | 3 points by har-ki 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.43 123 | 23 points by phendrenad2 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?
    ×1.38 137 | 6 points by sarangk90 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by par 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.22 138 | 6 points by esher 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to secure your code and services?
    ×0.64 135 | 4 points by cpa 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Migrating personal email domain from Gmail to iCloud?
    ×0.67 142 | 4 points by osener 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Where to look for jobs?
    ×1.25 133 | 6 points by 0x737368 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Does a startup need both founder and company X accounts?
    ×0.50 155 | 3 points by OnionLayers 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?
    ×0.81 150 | 4 points by ak39 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Encryption as a Service (rypt.dev)
    ×0.97 144 | 3 points by levidurfee 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (sciencenews.org)
    ×1.03 19 #40 | 90 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Plan mode is dead (aymannadeem.com)
    ×3.23 1 #88 | 572 points by jmvldz 2 days ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Squint – Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it (heysquint.com)
    ×1.31 30 | 3 points by splurf 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer (github.com/bertaye)
    ×0.67 89 | 37 points by bertaye 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why (ai-rete-rag.com)
    ×0.44 115 | 44 points by ZaharaHussain 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Sousveillance (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.02 44 | 43 points by xeonmc 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI (authorsguild.org)
    ×4.50 31 #48 | 594 points by papergirl 16 hours ago | 570 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas (tangled.org)
    ×1.11 51 #49 | 174 points by parasitid 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Evolving programming languages in the AI era (dashbit.co)
    ×1.36 14 #74 | 135 points by pjm331 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Diagnosing and Mitigating Tool-Call Repetition in MiMo-v2.6 (xiaomi.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by bashtoni 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. T3rnel Browser – DevTools you can talk to, and a browser your AI can drive (t3ratech.github.io)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by tkaviya 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism (ucla.edu)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by Phithagoras 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: TiddlyInstall – Single HTML file that makes cross-platform installers (robertsdotpm.github.io)
    ×1.27 152 | 3 points by Uptrenda 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers (castle-engine.io)
    ×1.24 55 #57 | 192 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments (thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
    ×2.42 26 #78 | 280 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Oliver Beats ClickHouse (oliverdb.ai)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by pnr-consulting 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A year of hourly weather drawn as the iris of an eye (experiai.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by diegotogni 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenAI (2015) (openai.com)
    ×5.16 43 | 43 points by andsoitis 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
    ×2.30 #2 | 286 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.80 51 #55 | 29 points by AbuAssar 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Fundamentals still worth learning when AI writes the code (flaviocopes.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Ppgrid – Rasterising points in minutes, not hours (mrzk.io)
    ×0.96 91 | 3 points by marzukia 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi (jazzwise.com)
    ×0.98 16 #18 | 41 points by gregsadetsky 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade (tuckerosman.com)
    ×1.53 46 #83 | 160 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Choreoglyphs – our new, invisible writing system (choreoglyphs.com)
    ×1.70 127 | 5 points by spython 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (shnatsel.github.io)
    ×1.18 9 #6 | 62 points by verdagon 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifact (casita.rs)
    ×0.84 73 #86 | 14 points by domenkozar 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs (haskell.org)
    ×2.80 #87 | 322 points by signa11 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. OpenAI’s Systems Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (nytimes.com)
    ×4.25 74 | 62 points by jbegley 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes (forensicdbg.com)
    ×0.53 110 | 37 points by Loren_SL 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura (nura.eco)
    ×2.67 23 #36 | 149 points by HotGarbage 7 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.58 7 | 414 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books (rare-books.vercel.app)
    ×1.75 14 | 4 points by miletus 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about (hackeratlas.com)
    ×1.00 67 | 86 points by andrearitossa 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
    ×2.93 21 #68 | 237 points by kspacewalk2 20 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Tells of a Slop UI (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×7.87 65 #72 | 322 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. My Ansible Plugin Had a Jail Escape: CVE-2026-55074 (hofstede.it)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Minecraft PvP against DiffusionGemma-as-Jev, 24 ms per decision (alexzms.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by alexzms 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
    ×1.45 11 #7 | 29 points by utiiiD 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (floci.io)
    ×1.64 41 #73 | 204 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Five Million Robots Now Operate in Factories Globally (ifr.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Anthropic CEO Amodei set to meet with Trump (cnbc.com)
    ×3.40 35 | 6 points by Betelbuddy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs (github.com/eval-exec)
    ×0.97 61 | 42 points by tagfowufe 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page (apeleg.com)
    ×0.97 81 | 90 points by emurlin 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)
    ×0.66 104 | 67 points by hsfzxjy 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. When did Google get so weird? (bearblog.dev)
    ×6.23 #1 | 478 points by sancho-panza 2 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.28 9 #70 | 388 points by MC995 1 day ago | 841 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Predictable Swarm Scaling (wenhaochai.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by arkwor 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Procedurally animated koi pond that runs in the browser (m4yank.com)
    ×1.61 2 | 3 points by kewonit 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. BLBX-lang alpha (black box) (github.com/ikodane842)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by ikodane 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
    ×1.50 19 #44 | 110 points by matt_d 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Save Your Time with These Agentic RAG Patterns (medium.com)
    ×1.76 27 | 3 points by Natashiiy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.63 27 | 857 points by MitPitt 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Evolution of Vending Machines (saturdayeveningpost.com)
    ×0.68 66 #77 | 42 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Jupyter Ipywidget for Editable Tables (pypi.org)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by jeffrey_t_b 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Cloudflare's 2026 Annual Founders' Letter (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by gpi 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???