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  1. Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?
    ×0.66 36 | 8 points by isomorph 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×3.07 23 | 509 points by leumon 2 days ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why do we need MCP?
    ×0.34 51 | 8 points by jwally 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What BOYK AI client are you using?
    ×0.16 105 | 3 points by yeeyang 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
    ×0.28 108 | 5 points by gmarkwa 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's a Good Physical Printer?
    ×0.39 113 | 8 points by xrd 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Alternatives to Fail2ban?
    ×0.33 126 | 5 points by jech 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why are onionv3 services not more popular?
    ×0.14 122 | 5 points by smalltorch 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why still no unified standard file to describe all skills/mcps for repo?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by opwizardx 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?
    ×0.67 101 | 11 points by dhruv3006 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Any blogs/personal notes from game devs who self-published a game?
    ×0.42 129 | 5 points by ssenssei 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.70 112 | 21 points by FireUpTheTorren 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is observability over the dependencies in codebases still a problem?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by enismustafaj 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: AI writes better code than me. How to keep my identity?
    ×0.69 80 | 13 points by jdw64 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you use multiple sessions for software engineering?
    ×0.28 135 | 4 points by top_rooster 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Zed: Edit predictions are leaving the free Personal plan on October 7
    ×0.64 96 | 8 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
    ×1.66 76 | 84 points by tonymet 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.81 134 | 78 points by kaladan 5 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read?
    ×0.79 145 | 8 points by AmirMakirr 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.44 151 | 31 points by foota 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why do tools like customer.io abandon self-serve after their Series A?
    ×0.34 144 | 14 points by alessandroetc 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?
    ×0.70 154 | 11 points by JacobWolf 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Should I leave web development to study medicine in my mid-30s?
    ×0.75 149 | 7 points by lovepuzzles 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer?
    ×0.65 150 | 7 points by metrofun 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker (pantsforbirds.com)
    ×0.71 114 | 37 points by CoolNamesAllTkn 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales)
    ×1.01 5 #5 | 46 points by tuckerwales 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. New Social Network "Twitter.now" Launches Under Twitter Name, Trademark Battle (biggo.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by bickfordb 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes (gadgetreview.com)
    ×4.95 14 | 99 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Sony Music and Warner Chappell Are Suing Anthropic (theverge.com)
    ×4.07 60 | 9 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules (reuters.com)
    ×4.00 16 | 325 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality (optimizedbyotto.com)
    ×3.04 77 | 54 points by jruohonen 4 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight (azmirror.com)
    ×1.52 3 #65 | 163 points by hungryhobbit 21 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: AI images and videos from text, free, no signup (seiseiai.io)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by wowinter15 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Should the press "run toward" AI? (cjr.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by thm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Adding and Extending Integer Support for MATLAB Code in RunMat (runmat.com)
    ×1.48 130 | 4 points by nallana 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.36 14 #84 | 901 points by TangerineDream 2 days ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages) (github.com/issacnitin)
    ×0.48 92 | 40 points by issacnitin 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Kvist – a Lisp for systems programming that compiles to Odin (github.com/kvist-lang)
    ×1.06 131 | 3 points by andreasflakstad 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS (fdeploy.com)
    ×0.54 138 | 35 points by dt3ft 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Free Domain Intelligence Engine (dnsniffer.com)
    ×1.03 147 | 3 points by itrinity 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Glacier Mice (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.31 10 #12 | 210 points by ostacke 13 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Winnow: Timeline on X, minus the bot sludge (chatgpt.site)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by SadiquaBinteKam 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Is anyone else's GitHub search broken?
    ×2.20 15 | 4 points by NooneAtAll3 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio (terminalbytes.com)
    ×1.69 50 #59 | 128 points by speckx 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: HexRaid – Real-time competitive multiplayer territory canvas (hexraid.lol)
    ×1.63 55 | 4 points by its_ajseven 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Htmx 4.0 (htmx.org)
    ×3.53 10 #22 | 787 points by rmsaksida 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop (kumander.org)
    ×1.20 13 #77 | 72 points by linuxkernal 18 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. $900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor (independent.co.uk)
    ×5.71 64 | 133 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK) (rupertlinacre.com)
    ×0.82 102 | 81 points by RobinL 3 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Satroot – a semantic ledger rooted in a single Satoshi (satroot.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by parthod0x 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: SudoReport – best tech aggregator edited by AI (sudoreport.com)
    ×1.12 152 | 3 points by ataturkle 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux (zackbartel.com)
    ×2.43 4 #4 | 200 points by zackb 6 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. SQLite as a Document Database (2020) (dgl.cx)
    ×1.25 5 #7 | 129 points by lioeters 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Slop.speak – translate human speak to AI slop (slop-speak.pages.dev)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by daavidhauser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Apple takes first immersive baseball swings from the on-deck circle (sixcolors.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by MBCook 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A retirement planner in one HTML file, works offline, nothing uploaded (torsalis.com)
    ×0.81 140 | 3 points by rachelb1331 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. “It works better in the app” (shkspr.mobi)
    ×3.59 46 #85 | 684 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest (science.org)
    ×2.59 44 | 120 points by shymaple 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Devx – Autonomous AI coding agent built for Android Termux and desktop (github.com/apvcode)
    ×0.73 148 | 13 points by apvcode 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Blast – Open-source sandbox-as-a-service (github.com/stanford-mast)
    ×1.12 89 | 10 points by calebhwin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Visual Analysis of Binary Files (binvis.io)
    ×0.91 51 #56 | 107 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. All-in-one AI job search platform, resume to offer (rezoom.io)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by mynameisgoodi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska (19thnews.org)
    ×3.56 56 | 48 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Teamnaire – Discover Your Role in a Team (teamnaire.com)
    ×1.52 53 | 4 points by humphrey_liu 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I read 648 banks' exchange boards daily to show what they charge (myratefx.com)
    ×1.35 119 | 5 points by pedroalbaladejo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How I made Rustdoc 33% faster in one week (noahlev.org)
    ×2.08 47 | 4 points by camelid 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. NodeJAX (github.com/EelcoHoogendoorn)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by sva_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Polyend Keys – A Mechanical QWERTY Keyboard for Musicians (synthtopia.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by oidar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times (cnn.com)
    ×5.17 19 | 99 points by cocacola1 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Text editor and light-weight publishing platform (kraa.io)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by levmiseri 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A better SQL in 11 lines of code (prela-lang.org)
    ×1.35 5 #16 | 25 points by remywang 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (acm.org)
    ×1.22 51 #26 | 3 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Experiments with Plotter Art (sometimes.digital)
    ×1.03 41 #47 | 89 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Stopping the smart TV from being used against you (s-config.com)
    ×2.59 23 | 192 points by speckx 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (codecanary.org)
    ×1.12 110 | 132 points by tke248 5 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: AI Harness that lets a graph of Codex and Claude intercommunicate (github.com/rysh-ai)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by halilagin 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Texttile, a multiplayer blog engine for people who write together (texttile.blog)
    ×0.64 97 | 13 points by klausbreyer 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Get your Windows license refund (refund4freedom.org)
    ×3.40 35 #69 | 712 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Don't enthusiastically agree to rewrite the system at work (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.71 59 #70 | 5 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Moe-Direct – MoE Models far larger than your RAM, on a consumer desktop (github.com/tmxkzm1925-max)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by tmxkzm1925-max 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models(2023) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by turingbook 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters (microsoft.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Procedural Droid Sounds for Microduck (hf.space)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by hosolmaz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows (terminal-bench-science.ai)
    ×0.87 63 | 115 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Forth MCP – give any remote AI client access to your local MCP servers (forthmcp.com)
    ×2.32 125 | 5 points by eladhefetz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store (github.com/kingroryg)
    ×1.38 13 #37 | 167 points by rgbimbochamp 18 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality (osnews.com)
    ×1.79 32 #53 | 196 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Appetite for insect protein is early evidence of an El Niño shock wave (wsj.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by cwwc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: ContextSwitch – Make your LLM chats provider agnostic (contextswitch-blue.vercel.app)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by rajtilakjee 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Marktwin – collaborative workspaces on Markdown files you own (marktwin.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by nathwolf 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???