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  1. Ask HN: How do you grow OSS projects?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by tarasyarema 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AI is coming for accounting after coding
    ×0.46 | 2 points by shoman3003 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?
    ×0.66 14 | 27 points by olalonde 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.09 44 | 674 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 749 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.41 49 | 748 points by petecooper 4 days ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How fast is your CI these days?
    ×0.20 74 | 5 points by easterncalculus 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?
    ×0.73 64 | 22 points by sandruso 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Mined crypto on Azure when I was 13, after 12y still cannot open account
    ×0.24 82 | 5 points by realaccfromPL 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I'm creating my own OS, check it out, LimonOs no Unix no Linux
    ×0.24 89 | 4 points by Drfoxi 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.06 77 | 304 points by petecooper 5 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?
    ×0.68 93 | 16 points by jqpabc123 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.43 81 | 86 points by stanislavb 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are people aware OpenAI Dots intercept SSL?
    ×0.53 88 | 7 points by Benjamin_Dobell 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Kimi Code hit its 5-hour limit after $1.37 of API usage
    ×0.36 107 | 6 points by waximabbax 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Flow-state induction via raw mouse input (a working biohacking protocol)
    ×0.32 117 | 5 points by rejabusafint 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.35 129 | 6 points by stdc105 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Game trips modem/router breaker
    ×0.20 118 | 4 points by simpaticoder 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering
    ×0.59 112 | 6 points by pauliusztin 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do people self host email and maintain deliverability?
    ×0.63 114 | 7 points by smithbob 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.23 131 | 14 points by masterchief166 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.62 120 | 12 points by winkelmann 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×0.58 110 | 9 points by nonfunctional 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.40 130 | 15 points by aledevv 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.42 133 | 11 points by parthdesai 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×0.59 116 | 8 points by cromka 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.33 128 | 14 points by Mobius01 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.22 143 | 5 points by BehanPrW 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Metaphysical Foundations of Conservatism (2021) (philarchive.org)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by danielam 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals (storagebits.workers.dev)
    ×0.83 78 | 126 points by storagebits 5 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: xcalidraw -a local-first desktop app for managing Excalidraw drawings (github.com/xdagiz)
    ×0.99 95 | 3 points by xdagiz 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Lighting the Skies (computer.rip)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by dverlaeckt80 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz (missileer.watch)
    ×1.46 36 | 200 points by liotier 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: CATT 0.2.1: Test agents/services against a Muse/Instinct-alike, in CI (github.com/Coverage-Cat)
    ×0.39 127 | 9 points by botacode 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash-1017 Safety Evaluation (twitter.com/FangcunLeap)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by mayziem 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: TablePro – open-source native database client for macOS (github.com/TableProApp)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ngoquocdat 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map (xiangpeng.systems)
    ×1.72 41 | 161 points by aoli-al 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Drint – packaging dielines and 3D box mockups as an MCP server (drint.io)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by Dan96 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: MuscleMemory – procedural memory for coding agents, proven by tests (github.com/TheWariend)
    ×2.07 70 | 6 points by maaaz 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Computer use on the phone itself: a 2B model that operates Android apps (getopposable.com)
    ×1.68 126 | 18 points by erikkannike 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: AI text detector that never sees your text (runs 100% in-browser) (kouh.me)
    ×1.79 106 | 7 points by mrkn1 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Recycling ANSI art: Tracing the origins of Fire Escape's BBS logon screens (breakintochat.com)
    ×0.44 82 #60 | 9 points by Kirkman14 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer (raspberrypi.com)
    ×0.68 65 #55 | 56 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mini: The Minimal Language (minilanguage.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by surprisetalk 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Will Fiber-Optic Cables Get Made in Orbit? Maybe (ieee.org)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by dverlaeckt80 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Anthropic S-1 (sec.gov)
    ×2.88 80 | 16 points by ChrisbyMe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits (petercai.com)
    ×3.49 59 | 938 points by pcai 5 days ago | 425 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: HissingKitty – what teams pay for software and what replaced it (hissingkitty.com)
    ×1.39 85 | 5 points by drewlem 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A phone lock I can't undo on impulse because I never learn the code (tryscreenfasting.com)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by shafayeat 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The State of Context Engineering (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.67 26 #26 | 220 points by pchristensen 17 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: How religions evolved? Charts, Maps, Citations (howitevolved.com)
    ×0.84 134 | 3 points by silly073 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: BulkTextKit – 15 free text tools that run entirely in your browser (gt.tc)
    ×0.80 124 | 4 points by sujalkhatri 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Anthropic S-1: Inside the 335-page IPO plan (ft.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by Betelbuddy 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. It's time to come back to Firefox [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.21 66 | 6 points by wofo 44 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Rastafarians in Jamaica want more rights (economist.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office (computerworld.dk)
    ×4.51 32 | 231 points by lowkeyokay 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer (corgi.computer)
    ×1.13 61 | 139 points by eiopa 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Cascache – A Go cache where slow reads can't undo invalidation (github.com/unkn0wn-root)
    ×0.74 140 | 3 points by unkn0wn_root 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category (bloffy.blog)
    ×2.10 #37 | 174 points by textlanes33 13 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Duls – A bit of du, a bit of ls. Best of both (github.com/baalimago)
    ×0.98 113 | 4 points by baalimago 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Open-Source Cybersecurity Platform Uses AI Agents to Protect Businesses (medium.com)
    ×7.27 66 | 15 points by modern_cmo 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Farol – A risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it (github.com/winnin)
    ×0.79 38 | 60 points by ericholiveira 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Anthropic rushing IPO before AI bubble bursts (nypost.com)
    ×4.75 75 | 10 points by nothrowaways 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms (blast-info.fr)
    ×5.11 3 | 152 points by noplay 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Attention Is Not What You Need (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.25 31 #20 | 152 points by westurner 14 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained (shattered.io)
    ×1.28 30 #89 | 69 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Product (anthropic.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by surprisetalk 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: MindThread CLI and MCP server for Threads, with per-permission approval (github.com/ppcvote)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by ppcvote 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Beam – Play Local MKV/MP4 Files from a Mac on a Chromecast (github.com/prasad-kumkar)
    ×0.79 141 | 3 points by PrasadKumkar 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Focused Company Operating Principles (focused.io)
    ×0.47 63 #74 | 23 points by mooreds 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Is it true the Claude Code is better than Codex for coding?
    ×0.56 | 1 points by abalgir 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Identity Verification and Account Recovery (ciamweekly.substack.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by mooreds 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Vegemite is not a human right (cnn.com)
    ×1.82 | 2 points by sumnole 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. More and more iOS apps are stuck In Review since weeks (apple.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by SunboX 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Emulate Apple II on Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin (stealmybitcoin.com)
    ×4.00 18 | 610 points by cloudlandsdev 1 day ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us (techbronerd.substack.com)
    ×4.75 7 | 90 points by tom2026hn 22 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Open Accountant – AI-customizable budgeting app for freelancers (github.com/finereli)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by zoozla 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low (stlouisfed.org)
    ×3.40 47 #76 | 137 points by omgwtfbyobbq 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 58 #54 | 68 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Markdown Is the New Executable: Attackers Drop Agent Instructions into Downloads (forever.security)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by torutofu 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. LTX-2.5-22B-IC-LoRA AI video studio with codex application protocol (github.com/andrewarrow)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by andrewfromx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Replacing CAPTCHAs with adaptive proof-of-work in WordPress (wordpress.org)
    ×0.37 115 | 15 points by MatthiasNordwig 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I made a professional audio time-stretcher in Go (github.com/neputevshina)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by w3nnady 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset (dreamhoststatus.com)
    ×1.33 45 #36 | 164 points by greenchair 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: AgentTrust – Zero-trust security and human approvals for AI agents (github.com/SRN0129)
    ×0.84 70 #79 | 12 points by SRN0129 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. LearnHarness – An Agent Harness for Learning (github.com/amosblomqvist)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by abhaynayar 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Brazil elections: Lula secures fourth term after dramatic comeback (bbc.com)
    ×4.17 36 | 74 points by gverrilla 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport (humantransit.org)
    ×1.24 10 #7 | 49 points by skadamat 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. FreeDNS (afraid.org)
    ×1.90 10 | 359 points by esher 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report (aljazeera.com)
    ×6.40 23 | 181 points by nidnogg 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???