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  1. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.23 2 #82 | 642 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 726 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.46 5 | 732 points by petecooper 2 days ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Game trips modem/router breaker
    ×0.33 37 | 3 points by simpaticoder 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?
    ×0.41 52 | 4 points by jqpabc123 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Kimi Code hit its 5-hour limit after $1.37 of API usage
    ×0.24 | 2 points by waximabbax 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Flow-state induction via raw mouse input (a working biohacking protocol)
    ×0.24 | 2 points by rejabusafint 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering
    ×0.84 68 | 4 points by pauliusztin 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.55 62 | 83 points by stanislavb 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.30 69 | 303 points by petecooper 4 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do people self host email and maintain deliverability?
    ×0.87 71 | 6 points by smithbob 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.31 100 | 4 points by stdc105 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×0.42 79 | 5 points by nonfunctional 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×0.79 76 | 8 points by cromka 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.41 91 | 5 points by Mutinix 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.74 88 | 12 points by winkelmann 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.34 105 | 4 points by abakh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.24 126 | 5 points by BehanPrW 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.25 116 | 14 points by masterchief166 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×0.97 117 | 32 points by Stitch4223 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.36 119 | 13 points by aledevv 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.34 108 | 14 points by Mobius01 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.37 118 | 9 points by parthdesai 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Have the PHP vulnerabilities been exploited?
    ×0.40 113 | 6 points by crisnoble 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.22 131 | 4 points by vWijdaan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.17 99 | 16 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.47 124 | 9 points by ovudus 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.14 106 | 18 points by shakshukan 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.29 128 | 6 points by spicygum 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.52 141 | 12 points by thechairman12 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Whistle Translator (mahmoud.sh)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by msdocs 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. NHTSA Updates Vehicle Lighting Standards for AVs (nhtsa.gov)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by reaperducer 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Relation as a Service (medium.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Aldus551 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Apple Music 404 Not Found (apple.com)
    ×4.00 5 #25 | 896 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.92 49 #59 | 72 points by gmays 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ben Sliney (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by wmchen 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Who Pays for AI Data Centers? (youtube.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by Betelbuddy 46 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Prompt injection scanners should be positional, not phrasal (rta.lat)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by vnutrivas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: AI text detector that never sees your text (runs 100% in-browser) (kouh.me)
    ×1.46 58 | 5 points by mrkn1 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Dánwò – Open-source E2E testing with emulators and fault injection (github.com/carbonmeai)
    ×0.80 93 | 3 points by faithfulojebiyi 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: The cost of slop. Subscription-adjusted (slopsidy.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by maximedupre 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents (danielball.com)
    ×2.02 8 #31 | 227 points by westsmith 16 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Rouler – Steer Windows traffic per app or IP across multiple interfaces (rouler.io)
    ×0.49 107 | 28 points by brndnbuilds 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Great Vowel Shift (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.50 3 #56 | 7 points by bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Windows Signing for FOSS Projects
    ×1.02 | 2 points by johnj-hn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Defcon like browser game with slower pace and growth (tushynski.me)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by larry-the-agent 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI: EU Member States approve "digital expropriation" for AI companies (noyb.eu)
    ×1.49 22 | 3 points by h1x 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I Replaced 50 PHP Workers with One Go Process (rootstuff.io)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by rootstuff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Build a world on your phone, explore it in XR on Vision Pro and Quest (camilleworld.com)
    ×0.35 89 | 13 points by suejunghuh0 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher (github.com/AbdullahAlhariri)
    ×0.88 87 | 66 points by abdullahalharir 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Clerkenwell – A Handwritten Clojure Notebook (danieljanus.pl)
    ×0.85 111 | 28 points by nathell 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: RigCheck – can your GPU or Mac run this open model? Sourced, open data (localrigcheck.com)
    ×0.83 145 | 3 points by chenzige 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Parsing EDIFACT in Python with syntax trees (github.com/AmadeusITGroup)
    ×0.48 20 #32 | 19 points by alexprengere 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How is music possible (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×1.31 33 #58 | 156 points by rafaelc 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: A Platform to Find Essays, personally recommended to you (essaypod.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by Lithuanian 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale (anthropic.com)
    ×2.43 1 | 455 points by johnbender 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: BulkTextKit – 15 free text tools that run entirely in your browser (gt.tc)
    ×0.91 61 | 4 points by sujalkhatri 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Teleology of Male Desire (prettyhostile.substack.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by bushwart 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist (torrentfreak.com)
    ×1.50 18 #49 | 86 points by TangerineDream 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Is this the new cyber normal? (silcock.dev)
    ×1.32 40 #62 | 188 points by drewsberry 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. For the next two weeks, we're covering $1M in security scans and fixes (coderabbit.ai)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by smb06 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads (theverge.com)
    ×5.44 44 | 372 points by JustSkyfall 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. France needs to read my paper (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×4.44 59 | 63 points by Wilsoniumite 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz? (jevcards.com)
    ×1.18 83 | 72 points by totisjosema 4 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Light captured – An interractive workshop on photography (wasmer.app)
    ×1.81 134 | 4 points by baalimago 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. CVE Tracker (0xosprey.com)
    ×1.43 21 #43 | 207 points by Group_B 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Introduction to Program Synthesis (Fall 2025) (mit.edu)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by hedonhermdev 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: How do you effectively prevent full-site cloning and back end hacking?
    ×0.54 | 1 points by shaikhmubin 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix (theregister.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) (utexas.edu)
    ×1.97 6 | 377 points by xiaoyu2006 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Proton hosts map of 300k Flock devices amid legal threats (cyberinsider.com)
    ×4.02 15 | 78 points by DeepLogin 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Lights-on software factory boilerplate for Claude Code (github.com/gojko)
    ×0.79 129 | 21 points by gojkoa 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money (ayoships.com)
    ×1.51 21 #47 | 103 points by motionlessveloc 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: App Factory – 42 Claude Code skills to ship apps to App Store and Play (github.com/yybd)
    ×0.46 143 | 3 points by yybd 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AggPro – one order book merged from 25 crypto exchanges now with gold and S&P500 (aggpro.xyz)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by djsurik 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Style Is Father of the Man (harpers.org)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by lermontov 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Poldi – Local offline AI assistant/"companion" for the GPU poor (github.com/RhinoDevel)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by RhinoDevel 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Local inferencing in one JVM JAR, dependency free, faster than llama.cpp (qxotic.ai)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by mike_hearn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals (storagebits.workers.dev)
    ×0.80 65 | 121 points by storagebits 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz (missileer.watch)
    ×3.58 14 #12 | 4 points by liotier 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map (xiangpeng.systems)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by aoli-al 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: AI Trend Video – Put your photo into viral AI video templates (aitrendvideo.net)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by hashkitly 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Kimi K3.1 Pro (kimi.ai)
    ×4.52 45 | 60 points by nekofneko 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology (steveblank.com)
    ×9.90 70 #76 | 379 points by sblank 6 hours ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Systemd Merges Support for Rust Programs (phoronix.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans (modelcompare.ai)
    ×3.11 4 #85 | 645 points by rakannimer 2 days ago | 618 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop (jank-lang.org)
    ×1.34 52 #79 | 187 points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Zof API Contract Check (github.com/Zof-AI)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by kevinkissi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How to run a city builder on 16 MHz (larstofus.com)
    ×1.04 16 #35 | 86 points by rex64 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. DetectorScope: AI text detectors that show their work (github.com/google-deepmind)
    ×1.07 62 #57 | 4 points by wondersky 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Is your Medicare Advantage plan ending next year? Here's what to know (npr.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???