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  1. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.31 17 #25 | 62 points by mariocesar 6 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.74 27 #31 | 640 points by lukehandcool 7 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.95 2 | 8 points by bigwheels 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.97 36 | 561 points by IvanK_net 2 days ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Arc AGI 1 400/400 No LLM running on my MacBook
    ×0.50 | 2 points by 5CEOs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×2.67 8 | 9 points by scoofy 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.39 | 2 points by northlondoner 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.67 81 | 3 points by Miguel_FierroM 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence
    ×1.34 37 | 5 points by butlersean 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any Insight Here into French High School Unrest?
    ×1.72 3 | 4 points by giardini 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×1.93 88 | 6 points by thelastgallon 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×1.62 84 | 4 points by amichail 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What happened with quantum computers anyway?
    ×0.75 77 | 3 points by pera 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google Search is down
    ×2.87 10 | 6 points by muazzam 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Got a Mac for running agents? what's your setup?
    ×0.79 | 2 points by velyan 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.38 108 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Learning practical system design
    ×1.63 96 | 4 points by rcdmrl 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are we trading model capacity for compute?
    ×0.49 | 2 points by olirex99 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.48 106 | 11 points by penskymaterial 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.87 142 | 3 points by bigmattystyles 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: If AI doing decades of math now doesn't get our attention, what will?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by silexia 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.74 131 | 11 points by Crontab 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×0.99 125 | 14 points by saimiam 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.76 99 | 35 points by trencedamp 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What is the actual percentage of people for and against AI?
    ×0.64 101 | 11 points by Zeruxe 22 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.65 155 | 7 points by maxignol 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.45 120 | 6 points by Bender 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is the xcancel source code publicly available?
    ×0.29 151 | 3 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is anyone still working on dLLMs
    ×0.26 154 | 3 points by obonse 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×1.82 127 | 16 points by nunorbatista 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is this the beginning of the end of open source?
    ×0.49 140 | 5 points by potamic 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
    ×0.40 152 | 6 points by mtmosestn 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Claude Mythos 5.1 System Prompt?
    ×0.45 157 | 3 points by knifelemon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Google Chrome's AI API actively used for device fingerprinting and profiling
    ×0.69 137 | 7 points by AlexanderHanff 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are we losing control of AI?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by KinetiNode 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work
    ×0.39 158 | 5 points by microflash 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Serverless Horrors $10,811.41 (serverlesshorrors.com)
    ×3.34 40 #65 | 52 points by 7777777phil 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Atomic Machines – The Matter Compiler (atomicmachines.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by axialflqx 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Claude Code Colorizer (github.com/cjodo)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by cjododev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. We traced the install scripts of NPM's 5k most-downloaded packages (kenwea.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by genshro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI Makes Your DRM Irrelevant (fantaize.net)
    ×1.19 58 #73 | 4 points by cpu0 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cybersecurity Imperatives Will Demand AI Math (wordfence.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by mmaunder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.56 73 | 139 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Calling a function in C without naming it (wiro.world)
    ×1.29 9 #44 | 26 points by birdculture 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Telnet BBS Guide (telnetbbsguide.com)
    ×0.82 2 #50 | 95 points by kmstout 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. GitHub.meme (github.meme)
    ×2.12 35 #89 | 6 points by breisa 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Filtering Science Papers with Jev (sina.bio)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by sinab 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Karotte, a framework for building robust RL envs (github.com/preferencemodel)
    ×3.24 114 | 8 points by 256 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: A faithful recreation of the Plex UI for Jellyfin (github.com/iridium)
    ×1.46 144 | 4 points by microcode 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams (thequietus.com)
    ×2.02 2 #18 | 68 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Orkut.com (orkut.com)
    ×1.85 7 #26 | 125 points by andreynering 8 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI Crawler Index (mojodojo.io)
    ×1.49 13 #49 | 16 points by zenincognito 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: An AI agent runs ten web errands a day, every transcript published (agentability.org)
    ×0.72 126 | 14 points by khalidsaidi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. ZapExpense – Track expenses in seconds with natural language, voice and Siri (apple.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by jimmy_lee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tool Has a New Reader (thephp.foundation)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by philo23 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace (pushsquare.com)
    ×3.32 66 | 123 points by password54321 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SpaceX acquires 800 MHz spectrum to power nationwide cell service (spacex.com)
    ×2.10 22 | 3 points by modeless 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov (hex.ooo)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by AndrewDucker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Career advice, or something like it (brooker.co.za)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by porridgeraisin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens (astrohelm.app)
    ×0.92 76 | 96 points by HeavenFox 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay) (nanochess.org)
    ×0.72 89 | 71 points by nanochess 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: A modern remake of the classic BBS game TW2002 (stardewar.com)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by zoidb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor (github.com/kvoltmer)
    ×1.14 133 | 155 points by vltmrkls 6 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. WikiWeaver: What if you had access to another universe's Wikipedia? (gaby.dev)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by _squared_ 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How the CIA Smuggled Liberal Arts Behind the Iron Curtain (mit.edu)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by rdmuser 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment (biohub.org)
    ×1.16 6 #5 | 33 points by ray__ 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude Haiku 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×3.82 28 #71 | 1030 points by sfkgtbor 1 day ago | 480 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. An interactive web tribute to Margaret Hamilton (margarethamilton.dev)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by wildkyo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.70 97 | 87 points by yashdotrv 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The operating system for AI harnesses (github.com/affaan-m)
    ×2.10 14 | 3 points by hochmartinez 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Microsoft 365 subscriptions now use shared cloud storage (microsoft.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by itchingsphynx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped) (github.com/boykopovar)
    ×3.50 41 | 365 points by Fe2O3 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.89 28 | 226 points by gagan2020 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom)
    ×0.84 53 | 117 points by bluepeter 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled (cnbc.com)
    ×5.07 27 #33 | 341 points by mfiguiere 5 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.64 26 #59 | 376 points by 6bitquant 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Anvil, offline LLM chat and SDXL image generation on iPhone (apple.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by nathancheng 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
    ×3.30 36 | 740 points by joshuawright11 1 day ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps (github.com/szabadkai)
    ×1.95 20 | 398 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Superwhisper S1 mini – Text and tone normalizer for speech-to-text (huggingface.co)
    ×1.89 34 | 6 points by nchudleigh 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.95 21 #62 | 1320 points by OfficialTurkey 2 days ago | 1495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Can AI replace mathematicians? Vienna researchers weigh in (univie.ac.at)
    ×0.64 70 #68 | 3 points by Anon84 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Build and Train a 25M Parameter LLM from Scratch on Your CPU (freecodecamp.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by theali 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Old King's Crown, play online (oldkingscrown.fly.dev)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by kamphey 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Jujutsu (Jj) 0.46.0 (github.com/jj-vcs)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by birdculture 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Plan trips across the U.S. using only local public transit (ahhhtrak.com)
    ×1.76 50 | 4 points by willmeyers 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I indexed 166,000 AI agent setups on GitHub (favz.co)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by thirdreplicator 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
    ×3.14 26 | 683 points by SpeakingOfBrad 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: MarbleMD – Free collaborative alternative to Typora (marble.md)
    ×1.67 64 | 3 points by danieldeng2 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Nearline, a proximity based social media (sxm.li)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by saksham1341 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???