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  1. Internet is no longer accessible?
    ×1.53 21 #37 | 15 points by cute_boi 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What apps are you building?
    ×1.44 60 | 6 points by totaldude87 42 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman
    ×1.34 11 | 23 points by bigmattystyles 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects?
    ×0.53 35 | 10 points by johng 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Messaging platform I can self-host for my agents to communicate
    ×0.42 | 2 points by giribisthebest 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Goodbye POSIX, Hello Tea Room: Inside MinervaOS Architecture
    ×0.39 87 | 10 points by xentnex 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere?
    ×0.58 84 | 23 points by vanessa1211 16 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Claude Code getting "API Error: 529 Overloaded"
    ×0.18 126 | 4 points by croemer 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?
    ×0.45 114 | 34 points by zecice 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any New Computer Ideas?
    ×0.45 123 | 7 points by robalni 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Opus Cost = Minimum Wage in South Africa
    ×0.36 135 | 4 points by bridgettegraham 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Where do those LLM-generated outreach emails come from?
    ×0.33 148 | 3 points by nicbou 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does the tech industry require deterministic ML training?
    ×0.55 138 | 4 points by Swapnopam 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. CstWeave – On-device, privacy-first Chrome extension for tab region GIFs
    ×0.13 | 2 points by fujidevv 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
    ×1.22 122 | 53 points by missmoss 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?
    ×0.58 140 | 8 points by charliebwrites 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×4.52 104 | 495 points by Thrashed 4 days ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Robotic Adaptation Suffers from Data Collection Bottleneck
    ×0.22 161 | 3 points by aunmesh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic?
    ×0.60 153 | 12 points by prologic 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Which Jabber clients support SCRAM+ and XEP-0474
    ×0.37 156 | 12 points by Bender 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is Zig worth it over Rust in 2026?
    ×0.35 144 | 6 points by soywod 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are you using Rust on embedded devices yet? If not, why?
    ×0.60 152 | 9 points by mempirate 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc)
    ×1.19 155 | 13 points by LozzKappa 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's the best hands-on path to learn ML inference infrastructure?
    ×0.53 146 | 7 points by censor5 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf
    ×0.48 163 | 7 points by cristyg0101 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What happens behind the scenes when we change effort for same LLM models?
    ×0.56 157 | 13 points by tbharath 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Connection-Agnostic Presence Tracking for Stateless Distributed Back Ends
    ×0.48 160 | 5 points by duckydude20 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?
    ×0.85 159 | 11 points by jonthepirate 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation?
    ×0.34 162 | 3 points by akersten 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do you delete your browsing history?
    ×0.56 158 | 4 points by tempestn 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Are we having a substantial increase of "Show HN" since LLM aided coding
    ×0.72 121 | 7 points by mdp2021 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: 'Write' – A Markdown Editor in the Browser (codeberg.org)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by joexo 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: WordEq (wordeq.app)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by Minhir 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched (navy.mil)
    ×0.85 29 #63 | 79 points by GlenTheMachine 14 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. CharaLab (aicharalab.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by zzkk 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Pilot Protocol – a network where AI agents find tools and each other
    ×2.00 110 | 6 points by teocalin37 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tlbic: A Local Basic Income Proposal Built to Protect Human Dignity (v9.0) (google.com)
    ×1.63 1 #73 | 4 points by michikawa59 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I made some transistor animations (brandonli.net)
    ×1.50 94 | 208 points by stunningllama 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Horus-runtime – High Performance Computing workflow manager (github.com/temple-compute)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by chdominguez 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: What 180k words look like as a temporal knowledge graph (Oz series) (synaptale.com)
    ×0.81 137 | 22 points by ald0r 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals (rise-reforming.com)
    ×0.56 27 #15 | 61 points by george_rose25 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time (france24.com)
    ×2.65 1 #88 | 447 points by saaaaaam 1 day ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Elevated Errors for Opus 5 (claude.com)
    ×1.12 100 | 94 points by TimCTRL 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)
    ×1.33 20 #28 | 140 points by EatonZ 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH (microsoft.ai)
    ×1.66 13 #34 | 221 points by migmartri 10 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Polynomial-Time Low-Degree Conjecture Is False (arxiv.org)
    ×0.92 108 #74 | 3 points by MarcoDewey 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf] (github.com/MoonshotAI)
    ×2.92 64 #78 | 370 points by vinhnx 11 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59 (astral.sh)
    ×1.98 45 | 348 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: FileForge Finder: Local file search with AI-optimized export
    ×0.91 | 2 points by FileForge 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Watch random code typed out on an MS-DOS IDE (specr.net)
    ×0.91 112 | 15 points by vunderba 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A browser-based vector animation engine rendering animated objects (thorvg-janitor.vercel.app)
    ×3.29 118 | 8 points by hermet 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)
    ×1.08 11 #14 | 122 points by jcbhmr 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. WorldFrame – Local-first worldbuilding in Markdown (tryworldframe.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by SturdyRobot 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Claude no longer shows full thinking (reddit.com)
    ×2.34 22 | 4 points by rzk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search (techspot.com)
    ×8.08 61 | 1264 points by eecc 1 day ago | 1014 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions (spacedaily.com)
    ×2.25 1 #5 | 101 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API (telnyx.com)
    ×1.96 15 #31 | 26 points by fionaattelnyx 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Norway Salmon (abc.net.au)
    ×1.92 9 #47 | 6 points by CHB0403085482 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data (staffinganalytics.io)
    ×1.73 108 | 244 points by eliotho 4 days ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. What does GitHub's security team even do? (orchidfiles.com)
    ×3.38 70 | 113 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster (astgrep.com)
    ×1.74 86 | 91 points by herrington_d 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Gitwig – Mouse-drivable Git TUI and multi-repo dashboard in Rust (gitwig.dev)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by tareqmy 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Securing Services with Rootless Containers (coderspirit.xyz)
    ×0.99 22 #16 | 74 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Paged Out #9 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
    ×1.98 17 #24 | 188 points by laurensr 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The gap is not glorious (loveofallwisdom.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Open-sourcing my personal market research (oguzbilgic.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by obilgic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Choreo – an animation DSL that verifies its own rendered output (github.com/JieGouAI)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by smperng 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Taetype-WASM – Pure Rust, browser-only font engine in WebAssembly (github.com/silly-tae)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by silly-tae 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review (fermisense.com)
    ×1.82 5 #3 | 16 points by ilreb 58 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. From GPT2 to Kimi3 (twitter.com/waterloo_intern)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by haritha1313 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine? (bigthink.com)
    ×5.63 48 | 85 points by LouisLazaris 8 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Heddle- ATC for Your Subagents (github.com/zyads)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by aether-zyads 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing
    ×0.85 120 | 53 points by _boffin_ 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.60 15 #20 | 178 points by quantified 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works (nikolays.github.io)
    ×3.84 19 #56 | 891 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Design is compromise (stephango.com)
    ×1.47 30 | 278 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Canceling "Hey" (chadnauseam.com)
    ×15.79 74 | 239 points by ChadNauseam 9 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Relay – turn Claude Code into a visual Kanban build loop (github.com/YoniRaviv)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by YonathanRaviv 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Forth (xkcd.com)
    ×3.77 19 #32 | 146 points by beardyw 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar (2013) (harpguitars.net)
    ×0.56 27 #81 | 67 points by bilegeek 16 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg (github.com/AARomanov1985)
    ×1.26 49 | 169 points by xterminal 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: AlgoDeploy – Python algo trading you run yourself (Alpaca and IBKR) (algo-deploy.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by Qnt_Algo_Trader 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: X Enhancement Suite (Chrome Extension) (github.com/tomchapin)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by remmargorp64 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Rudoc – a 4.5MB Rust document converter (github.com/asong56)
    ×1.68 150 | 17 points by sideras56 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Vehicle Motion Cues (apple.com)
    ×1.95 10 #25 | 13 points by Austin_Conlon 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Apple fixes 75 security issues with your iPhone and 155 for Mac, update now (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.76 22 #62 | 21 points by spenvo 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist (nytimes.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by acdanger 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's (boringsql.com)
    ×1.95 38 | 7 points by soheilpro 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Hope and Defeat: John Berger (newleftreview.org)
    ×2.19 21 | 4 points by apollinaire 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: FileForge Finder: Local file search with AI-optimized export (momentumce.com)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by FileForge 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???