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  1. Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by MollyRealized 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.47 80 | 325 points by sharts 5 days ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Where are people finding GPU capacity?
    ×0.22 78 | 3 points by adilhafeez 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×2.96 74 | 648 points by dhruv3006 5 days ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.64 77 | 658 points by stagas 6 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.47 117 | 52 points by Abh1Works 1 week ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's the current best research/understanding of healthy weight loss?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Continue coding agent is dead. Alternatives?
    ×0.14 101 | 3 points by roscas 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?
    ×1.93 88 | 19 points by bah9 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: At what point does "clean architecture" become technical debt?
    ×0.33 82 | 4 points by kiops 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Windmill.dev is not "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)"
    ×0.66 100 | 9 points by alpine-rockies 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: OpenCode no longer including DeepSeek?
    ×0.28 108 | 8 points by dv35z 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why does the US government search through people's phones at the border?
    ×1.19 76 | 13 points by roschdal 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Robotics Software
    ×0.14 137 | 3 points by erardaiden 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.11 99 | 166 points by vlowrian 5 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: I let an subagent workflow refactor my codebase for three days (github.com/ringlochid)
    ×2.26 95 | 7 points by ringlochid 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
    ×3.10 22 #82 | 656 points by gavide 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Download Embabi Games (egyapk.com)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by l33tcy 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Visual way to understand things in parallel (wondering.app)
    ×2.01 110 | 7 points by ak2411 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Agile AI Development Lifecycle (valeriavg.dev)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by valeriavg_dev 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: A data viewer for choosing Frigate-compatible IP cameras (github.com/ch-bas)
    ×8.48 84 | 48 points by martinAndy 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Prevention of myopia in a near-primate by supplemental indigo light (doi.org)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by OutOfHere 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Formal Perf. and Compile Time Guarantees for Compiler Optimization Heuristics (arxiv.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The US techlash is real (ft.com)
    ×3.07 70 | 54 points by thm 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. typ.ing (typ.ing)
    ×2.35 5 #15 | 244 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Dictata – Local Whisper dictation with LLM cleanup (github.com/AntoineChatry)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by AntoineC_ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues on RGB Lighting Devices (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.67 36 #57 | 17 points by m463 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Quantum Mathematics for Modeling BioPhysics (including BioOS v2 software) (zenodo.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by GeometryKernel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Rackast, a screen recorder with a built in editor, made with Tauri (rackast.com)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by SzegiRoli 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.30 42 #55 | 151 points by chilipepperhott 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.44 11 | 4 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage (cnn.com)
    ×2.30 48 | 104 points by MilnerRoute 14 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: 3D Engine for Rust Programs (github.com/David-OConnor)
    ×1.08 89 | 4 points by the__alchemist 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.72 28 #21 | 36 points by jardy 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. An Unlikely Experiment (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.43 52 | 3 points by signa11 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Using Claude hosted agents to solve open source bugs and perf improvements (github.com/marketplace)
    ×1.81 | 2 points by surajkrajan 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Hidden Pipeline Behind AI Search Visibility (medium.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by rakeshmenon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP (github.com/paulsp94)
    ×0.98 85 | 56 points by paulsp 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
    ×2.12 25 #52 | 372 points by dash2 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What websites do you visit daily to stay informed?
    ×1.93 | 2 points by chistev 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing (tigerbeetle.com)
    ×0.48 27 #68 | 11 points by sebg 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked (sgoedecke.github.io)
    ×1.30 40 #85 | 65 points by gfysfm 11 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Simulating the Information Horizon in Chaos (github.com/rayrrr21)
    ×1.73 | 2 points by rayrrrr 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Postgres 19: What's new in Monitoring? (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.80 | 2 points by saisrirampur 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: sce (Simple Console Editor) (github.com/volution)
    ×0.55 115 | 16 points by ciprian_craciun 1 week ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I Dream of Quieter Computing (henry.codes)
    ×1.41 3 #5 | 51 points by Sir_Twist 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal (terminal-code.com)
    ×1.68 9 #44 | 89 points by robpruzan 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Topagent.lol – an AI agent leaderboard ranked purely by who paid most (topagent.lol)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by ashleyrudland87 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Forst – migrate TypeScript back ends to Go incrementally (forst-lang.org)
    ×0.75 97 | 3 points by haveyaseen 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
    ×1.99 3 #3 | 13 points by zX41ZdbW 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.68 76 #77 | 300 points by nunodonato 3 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What we lost when search stopped making us think (8ball.space)
    ×1.16 55 | 87 points by speckx 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. HN: The Good Parts (2016) (danluu.com)
    ×1.00 36 | 76 points by adletbalzhanov 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×0.90 71 | 57 points by baruchel 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I make my AI agents file paperwork before they're allowed to code (github.com/kidus-tiliksew)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by kidustiliksew 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)
    ×0.42 126 | 13 points by valentinprgnd 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
    ×2.56 21 #73 | 642 points by thepoet 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Shelve Secret Management (github.com/hugorcd)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)
    ×1.18 122 | 136 points by chatchan 1 week ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Felony Bench (felonybench.com)
    ×3.34 17 #64 | 824 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The only floating national park [video] (bbc.com)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by koolhead17 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (danielvaughn.dev)
    ×2.20 29 | 378 points by danielvaughn 2 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it (radi8.dev)
    ×0.72 83 | 60 points by radeeyate 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
    ×0.85 7 #11 | 31 points by rznicolet 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Firefox 155 and beyond will be released in a two-week cadence (mozilla.org)
    ×2.41 7 #37 | 4 points by Throwthrowbob 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Eliminating Branches in C++ Loops (yagiz.co)
    ×1.66 | 2 points by mfiguiere 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Before-and-after images show where SpaceX rocket crashed into the moon (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.75 18 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. DEF Con 19: Skunkworks: Daniel Beckwitt on Bitcoin in 2019 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by nodesocket 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI's potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels (theguardian.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (nautil.us)
    ×0.93 31 #39 | 64 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Opportunity Cost in Strategy Games (idleverse.gg)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by jonbaer 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Creation of Abulafia (veitheller.de)
    ×0.73 31 #63 | 32 points by saulpw 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.69 8 #75 | 615 points by Cider9986 2 days ago | 894 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.84 36 #88 | 76 points by albertpedersen 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What Makes Australia Australia? (walkingtheworld.substack.com)
    ×2.63 60 | 3 points by Michelangelo11 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. We Have the Model, Why Do We Need You? (hank.bond)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by tristanMatthias 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
    ×4.84 58 | 1239 points by speckx 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)
    ×2.66 #13 | 312 points by auraham 15 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. NetBSD and my life (2005) (netbsd.org)
    ×1.09 7 #19 | 114 points by gnyeki 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows (github.com/peterkelly)
    ×0.60 73 | 28 points by peterkelly 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What happens when a GPU reads memory (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.04 40 | 110 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Agent2Creator – a video social network whose members are AI agents (vidmoat.com)
    ×1.05 56 | 3 points by abilafredkb 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection (laszlokorte.de)
    ×0.78 20 #70 | 55 points by laszlokorte 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Ditdah – A Morse App for the Terminal (encse.github.io)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by encse 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week (theguardian.com)
    ×2.90 50 | 209 points by sbulaev 19 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)
    ×5.87 5 #6 | 28 points by taubek 29 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The market is underpricing memory bandwidth (tradestie.com)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by abhiphull 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
    ×3.30 16 | 478 points by rcymerys 1 day ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP" (parqdb.io)
    ×1.10 94 | 26 points by petrizhang 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Gramola, a CoverFlow-style music dock for macOS (apple.com)
    ×0.69 111 | 7 points by fulltimefeline 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???