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  1. Ask HN: Why do tools like customer.io abandon self-serve after their Series A?
    ×0.44 51 | 12 points by alessandroetc 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Taalas API Anyone?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by revanthmatha 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Encoding Myself into the System
    ×0.27 70 | 3 points by nharziro 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Where else do you spend time on the internet other than HN?
    ×0.27 78 | 8 points by Gecko4072 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I keep getting flagged for AI, but I suck at writing. How can I solve this?
    ×0.49 71 | 5 points by quesobob 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How about delayed MIT/GPL?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by afiori 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Even HN is getting heavy traffic by AI crawlers
    ×0.33 69 | 8 points by ksec 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you use artifacts, and how do they help in your projects?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by AmirMakirr 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?
    ×0.44 135 | 5 points by JacobWolf 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Phished Microsoft account, recovery useless
    ×0.46 120 | 3 points by tgmatt 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Requests for Startups: Energy
    ×0.10 | 2 points by NarcisMirandes 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you using to access x.com at the moment?
    ×0.44 123 | 5 points by throwaw12 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.45 118 | 30 points by foota 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are you still using AI code autocomplete?
    ×0.25 111 | 4 points by jawuilp 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Looking for people to follow designing systems to ship code with AI agents
    ×0.54 113 | 7 points by mutahn 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.85 103 | 73 points by kaladan 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Google Search to begin using opaque redirect URLs on search results
    ×0.59 97 | 6 points by exploraz 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. One MCP directory for all docs.domain.tld (No auth needed)
    ×0.26 137 | 3 points by respectattentio 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Open source in-browser log sanitizer, feedback required
    ×0.12 | 2 points by andriimb 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is what Open Commonplace legal?
    ×0.27 142 | 3 points by VishnuShayeq01 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Opus 5 is unusable for writing, even internal use. Alternatives/fix?
    ×1.55 95 | 8 points by m3h 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why do you use Ubuntu?
    ×0.83 138 | 4 points by flanked-evergl 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Will RAM / NVMe / Platter Drives ever come back down in price?
    ×0.36 117 | 4 points by krautburglar 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you code review?
    ×1.29 140 | 4 points by idose 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Xiaomi's Xring Series suggests more OEM's switching to in-house SoCs
    ×0.36 | 2 points by StizzurpXDD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month (wallyjones.com)
    ×1.20 37 | 201 points by speckx 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Timber (iOS) and Timber Tabs (Mac) – best offline read-aloud LLMs (timberreader.com)
    ×0.81 62 | 11 points by Fe2_O3 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (codecanary.org)
    ×1.09 81 | 128 points by tke248 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Radian UI a copy-paste React components with a synced Figma kit (radianui.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by Ashmit72 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Wireshark in a TUI (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×1.53 127 | 11 points by ok_major_9889 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Multiplayer Laser Simulator (prismaduel.com)
    ×1.23 132 | 5 points by maxberggren 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI Lessons from Driving 200M Autonomous Miles (waymo.com)
    ×0.81 66 #90 | 11 points by thecybernerd 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI (github.com/ThinkOffApp)
    ×1.10 48 | 144 points by petruspennanen 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Prompt Builder – Free Templates (promptbuilder.space)
    ×0.83 63 | 17 points by LandoLorinse 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: BumbleTap – Bind a key to any element, or automate the whole sequence (bumbletap.com)
    ×0.88 121 | 3 points by umershahzeb 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A scooter is cheating, a cargo bike is rude, the car is fine (maxmautner.com)
    ×1.67 15 #86 | 4 points by mslate 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Sift – a cross-platform Snaffler replacement (github.com/Stratus-Security)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by coj337 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Free economic nexus checker for online sellers (all 50 states) (nexussnapshot.com)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by davyth 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela (hotosm.org)
    ×1.88 6 #17 | 239 points by gedankenstuecke 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the End (alyssarosenzweig.ca)
    ×1.34 35 | 3 points by amemi 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 48 Node B300 cluster live in 3-5 weeks
    ×0.32 | 1 points by anwar19 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.72 28 | 183 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Highball – Run Windows games on Apple Silicon, with an open game db (github.com/gauthierpiarrette)
    ×1.64 101 | 4 points by gauthierpiarret 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Neoswarm – Neovim for controlling AI agents (neoswarm.dev)
    ×1.46 106 | 4 points by meszmate 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada (thetariffcost.com)
    ×2.18 7 #32 | 190 points by mikestorrent 12 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Wallps: set different live wallpapers for macOS desktop and lock screen (deepanshumishraa.github.io)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by dipxsy 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS (fdeploy.com)
    ×0.52 79 | 34 points by dt3ft 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Ten_cubed – Artificially restricted social graph (tencubed.dev)
    ×1.27 90 | 3 points by darkpicnic 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications (wsj.com)
    ×4.76 1 #11 | 419 points by sss111 12 hours ago | 635 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math (ben3d.ca)
    ×1.00 69 #77 | 12 points by bhouston 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: How do you protect self-hosted websites from LLM scrapers?
    ×0.59 | 1 points by atmosx 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: A Layer for robotics dataset quality (calibrarobotics.com)
    ×2.16 100 | 5 points by omertt27 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI? (hnstats.com)
    ×1.04 3 | 69 points by beekthos 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane (github.com/tailscale)
    ×2.42 1 #7 | 527 points by nderjung 12 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) (actinideinc.com)
    ×1.11 6 #18 | 151 points by dsalzman 10 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Harness Is the Thing (scott-fryxell.github.io)
    ×1.54 2 #24 | 84 points by sfryxell 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)
    ×1.00 20 #55 | 177 points by altilunium 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding (psu.edu)
    ×1.90 13 | 135 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: fake-bpy-module – Blender/UPBGE Python autocompletion for external IDEs (github.com/nutti)
    ×1.05 131 | 3 points by nutti 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.50 14 #44 | 133 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. CDs vs. NIMBY (betonit.ai)
    ×0.75 56 #50 | 35 points by pr337h4m 12 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Claudeforce (salesforce.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by makeramen 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go (github.com/leodeim)
    ×0.67 72 | 61 points by ygagaga 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Music Puzzle Game on Steroids (bollywoodle.app)
    ×1.25 134 | 3 points by galaboii 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walk through (flostep.dev)
    ×0.98 129 | 26 points by pandurang90 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
    ×3.67 #5 | 958 points by Philpax 16 hours ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence (var0.xyz)
    ×0.84 39 #64 | 95 points by tuxie_ 20 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A Thread-Register Decoupled GPU Execution Model for Efficient Tensor Computation (arxiv.org)
    ×0.50 64 #68 | 17 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Llwdc – Direct-to-fan storefront for tracks, stems, and sound packs (llwdc.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by sectapod 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Otter: experimental multi-threaded JavaScript runtime written in Rust (github.com/gi-dellav)
    ×0.94 126 | 3 points by gidellav 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Collete-01 - Person in a Model (genexperiences.com)
    ×0.90 94 | 3 points by quicheshore2003 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? (isgithubcooked.com)
    ×1.91 10 #26 | 218 points by toomanyrichies 10 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical (gatesnotes.com)
    ×0.87 54 #80 | 15 points by herbertl 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Metaⁿ: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Emergent Depth (arxiv.org)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by sbulaev 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Dolly Parton has died (theguardian.com)
    ×10.91 60 | 1564 points by helsinkiandrew 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Six government passport CAs that Python rejects and OpenSSL accepts (github.com/Eginn-33)
    ×0.81 65 #73 | 14 points by Eginn-33 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Use GLM-5.3 in Cursor today via tokengo API (tokengo.com)
    ×0.91 92 | 3 points by bingus-bongo 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: ModelMRI – see inside a local LLM, VLM or robot policy while it runs (github.com/muhammadmahadazher)
    ×1.22 119 | 4 points by mma_88 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Edit PDFs Online for Free (editpdfsonlinefree.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by bobby2shorts 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Other People – Neil Gaiman (xpressenglish.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by barry-cotter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Don't Let LLMs Play Telephone with Your Ideas (yfzhou.fyi)
    ×1.67 2 | 3 points by crazylogger 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Apple Maps Launches Ads on iPhone (9to5mac.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by Garbage 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Min – Personal AI Quant (withmin.ai)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by zizhouwang 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: SSH Session Monitor – read-only Windows OpenSSH monitoring (github.com/issacnitin)
    ×0.79 112 | 3 points by issacnitin 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: A local tool that logs every time you swear at your AI coding assistant (github.com/fireinbelly)
    ×1.27 93 | 7 points by lokinkl 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tim Curry has died (theguardian.com)
    ×4.76 22 #31 | 616 points by mykowebhn 14 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A Citation to Asimov (bookandsword.com)
    ×0.77 36 #74 | 54 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Absolute Pleasure of Tim Curry (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.49 6 | 3 points by fortran77 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: Do you think tariffs are about anything other than creating inflation?
    ×0.88 | 2 points by dfps 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Meta Just Paid Nearly $17B to Write the Kid Safety Rules for Every Platform (techdirt.com)
    ×2.40 27 | 8 points by wrxd 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???