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  1. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.44 47 #84 | 272 points by mlaux 2 days ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.57 16 | 7 points by will10pa 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be
    ×0.74 54 | 8 points by effisfor 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?
    ×0.13 80 | 3 points by beerglass 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address
    ×0.17 | 2 points by luckman212 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by variety8675 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.41 86 | 28 points by shriy-singh 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
    ×0.39 93 | 21 points by tkdb 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.33 110 | 11 points by sathomasga 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.49 97 | 27 points by GustavHartz 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.81 103 | 14 points by consumer451 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?
    ×0.48 83 | 8 points by SMAAART 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How to Freelance Now?
    ×0.99 82 | 17 points by Alexadar 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.35 125 | 6 points by cehgmaster 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×0.71 118 | 7 points by george_max 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.35 120 | 7 points by jviotti 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.44 134 | 18 points by xnx 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.42 128 | 22 points by itsjeremiahs 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.11 | 2 points by iambateman 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription?
    ×0.79 139 | 5 points by preommr 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma
    ×0.86 124 | 6 points by vdfs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: LM Studio Bionic with Python?
    ×0.28 141 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.43 123 | 23 points by phendrenad2 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?
    ×0.33 144 | 3 points by har-ki 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?
    ×1.28 136 | 6 points by sarangk90 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.22 137 | 6 points by esher 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by par 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to secure your code and services?
    ×0.61 135 | 4 points by cpa 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What do you do now as a software engineer?
    ×0.95 98 | 5 points by fawazali 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Migrating personal email domain from Gmail to iCloud?
    ×0.64 140 | 4 points by osener 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Jevdit – a social network moderated by Jev (jevdit.com)
    ×2.63 31 | 8 points by TN1ck 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Drilling starts on a seafloor geothermal well off Oregon (ieee.org)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by geox 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Stop Asking "Saga or 2PC." Start Asking What Each Operation Needs (medium.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by feeblefakie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. New Domain:) (base31.org)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by notam 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own (stanford.edu)
    ×0.90 60 | 38 points by famouswaffles 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter (github.com/dsummersl)
    ×0.97 84 | 73 points by 91awebsi 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Jevgpt – reinventing the wheel with another wheel
    ×1.05 91 | 25 points by kunggaochicken 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 (github.com/dashersw)
    ×0.95 13 #14 | 40 points by arbayi 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Hitachi to double US production of small and medium-sized power transformers (utilitydive.com)
    ×2.48 17 #64 | 27 points by JumpCrisscross 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Musk, the Movie (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
    ×5.87 62 #65 | 127 points by yablak 3 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Cocytus – an esolang where freezes after N accesses (github.com/fireside25a-beep)
    ×1.00 119 | 3 points by natgrish 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer (pandax1.com)
    ×0.95 22 | 8 points by moezee1 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de)
    ×3.40 24 | 694 points by ezst 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Vanish moves heavy computation off your laptop (vanishcompute.com)
    ×1.00 63 | 3 points by fcesco 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (lexontech.org)
    ×2.09 2 | 433 points by ksec 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American (2017) (shkspr.mobi)
    ×4.46 58 | 90 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance (koi.rest)
    ×2.11 67 | 226 points by hxii 3 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes (forensicdbg.com)
    ×0.53 111 | 37 points by Loren_SL 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US Government sites (apnews.com)
    ×2.38 12 #56 | 16 points by daniel_iversen 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. World United Blastoff
    ×0.45 | 1 points by James_Random_Ha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The #2 x402 seller on Base funded its own buyers (chainward.ai)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by saltxd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Sixb, a TypeScript ontology framework for modeling your domain (sixb.ai)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by ademattos 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Xtriever – offline RAG retrieval on a phone (github.com/mirth)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by hessdalenlight 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Deterministic Concurrency [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.81 32 #8 | 9 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Australia Senate Requests OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Face AI Inquiry (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.98 23 | 4 points by oxag3n 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization
    ×13.69 37 | 80 points by lorenzomassaro 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields (swarmcha.se)
    ×2.71 21 | 84 points by intunderflow 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior (lasso.security)
    ×1.16 64 | 57 points by nisosguy 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)
    ×0.66 104 | 67 points by hsfzxjy 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Luarocks.org remote code execution exploit (neorg.org)
    ×2.34 45 #54 | 15 points by cupcakerob 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (openai.com)
    ×1.65 37 #59 | 172 points by apsec112 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (privatemode.ai)
    ×1.38 18 #87 | 128 points by flxflx 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview (doom-or-bloom.com)
    ×1.16 77 | 56 points by transitivebs 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021) (trekhleb.dev)
    ×0.93 35 #45 | 52 points by trekhleb 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case (reuters.com)
    ×2.98 48 | 76 points by onemoresoop 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Do you think AI agents can escape human control?
    ×1.43 9 | 3 points by automaticallyfl 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
    ×1.20 14 #7 | 97 points by utiiiD 9 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
    ×1.08 39 #32 | 125 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Flowlight – open-source network visibility for AI agents on macOS (xinbetween.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by blessdyb 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Debian 11 bullseye-security repos have gone missing after botched EOL process (debian.org)
    ×3.15 36 | 7 points by superkuh 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Jev predicting your life choices (seek.ws)
    ×2.43 106 | 6 points by sdrth 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Was Silent Reading Unusual During Augustine's Time? (historyofinformation.com)
    ×2.51 17 #17 | 19 points by ryanscio 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Turning Failure Postmortems into SRE-Benchmark Problems (sregym.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by matt_d 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Looking for Things to Do in Bangalore? (tumblr.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by breakoutescaper 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I couldn't deal with another Claude Code tab (aidash.dev)
    ×1.36 133 | 4 points by grollat 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Hard Stop: Kernel-level preemption for autonomous AI agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by joseluispino 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
    ×1.53 19 #69 | 120 points by matt_d 23 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (floci.io)
    ×1.64 27 | 207 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled (lemonde.fr)
    ×6.02 46 | 97 points by thibaut_barrere 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How to Build a Bain-Style Consulting Slides with 10 Decision-Making Frameworks (medium.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by chenxi030826 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 99.26% storage reduction with exact reconstruction on 100-version repo (github.com/openzfs)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by bamboozledlabs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How Is Inventing the Renaissance an SFF-Related Work? (exurbe.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Sousveillance (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.98 51 | 43 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20% (earnanhonestdollar.com)
    ×2.45 24 #62 | 32 points by FKJ 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. There are no "rogue" AI agents (eoinhiggins.substack.com)
    ×5.84 60 #72 | 351 points by zzzeek 13 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Guess which repository has more GitHub stars (focuslab.pk)
    ×1.46 19 | 3 points by alexander2002 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr) (soapbox.pub)
    ×14.04 82 | 30 points by long____cat 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How to build a Jev-style classifier with DiffusionGemma and vLLM (medium.com)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by teleforce 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.70 7 | 317 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web (markdown.beauty)
    ×1.64 10 | 64 points by thiagoperes 15 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???