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  1. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.22 84 | 3 points by slake 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.31 75 | 12 points by sroussey 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×0.99 55 | 70 points by adithyassekhar 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?
    ×0.48 103 | 3 points by apatheticonion 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.49 98 | 588 points by _-x-_ 5 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is AI resulting in net revenue gain for non-tech companies?
    ×0.69 86 | 9 points by jusonchan81 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished
    ×0.33 102 | 9 points by Aldipower 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. What do you want to see in a next-generation GitHub in the age of AI?
    ×0.17 125 | 3 points by skeedle 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Anybody Using Codex?
    ×0.48 119 | 4 points by cl3misch 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?
    ×0.96 105 | 22 points by moomoo11 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Claude.ai down again?
    ×0.76 94 | 34 points by zh_code 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.78 96 | 80 points by altairprime 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is it still worth it to try to get a job in IT
    ×0.23 149 | 8 points by morpheos137 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. RNet: Users pay for their own AI usage instead of apps covering token costs
    ×0.18 157 | 3 points by rNetAi 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Recommended Gemini CLI extensions/skills for token consumption
    ×0.16 | 2 points by elC0mpa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What I changed in how I use Claude Code after Anthropic's postmortem
    ×0.47 142 | 6 points by cinooo 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.99 155 | 109 points by LatencyKills 6 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Increase in Claude Code speed bumps?
    ×0.11 172 | 3 points by jesse_dot_id 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Hosted Fossil for small teams – interesting, or wrong call?
    ×0.47 146 | 7 points by ragelink 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is it just me or is Claude Code getting worse?
    ×0.56 135 | 31 points by e-nouri 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare
    ×0.77 151 | 31 points by rincebrain 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook
    ×0.71 153 | 23 points by samarthv 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: If coding gets faster, where should architecture happen?
    ×0.37 160 | 7 points by karlosh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly have Brawls Stars on their iPhone?
    ×0.26 173 | 4 points by realberkeaslan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Parse your chat exports to find restaurants, trips, and activity ideas (github.com/DocSpring)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by nathan_f77 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Hexlock – Replace PII in text with fake data that has the same format (github.com/ttarvis)
    ×1.17 109 | 5 points by lemaudit 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) (github.com/drio)
    ×1.52 141 | 74 points by drio 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (bidprowl.com)
    ×1.48 17 #27 | 278 points by scarsam 20 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.77 44 #41 | 62 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GCC 16 has been released (gnu.org)
    ×2.82 29 #75 | 292 points by HeliumHydride 20 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me (github.com/carlovalenti)
    ×0.61 41 #87 | 34 points by carlovalenti 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: See where your computer connects (TapMap) (github.com/olalie)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by olalie 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: A private-ish bookmark app that uses GitHub Gist as its back end (github.com/chrisdiana)
    ×1.08 175 | 3 points by inflam52 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It (theverge.com)
    ×4.99 19 | 118 points by karakoram 17 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs (interfaze.ai)
    ×0.46 95 | 58 points by khurdula 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome (tcd.ie)
    ×1.21 15 #2 | 47 points by giuliomagnifico 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) (amusingplanet.com)
    ×0.97 60 #67 | 119 points by CGMthrowaway 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Manual Until It Hurts (indieweb.org)
    ×2.68 61 #77 | 17 points by susam 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Craig Venter has died (jcvi.org)
    ×1.59 7 #82 | 331 points by rdl 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. LLM Summaries Are Ruining Your Learning (arpitbhayani.me)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by menonNN 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file (honker.dev)
    ×1.47 21 #24 | 212 points by ferriswil 17 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Reunderstanding the Power of AI Through Reverse Engineering (huli.tw)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by swq115 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong (theconversation.com)
    ×1.80 23 | 3 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Starlink hack that doomed Russian troops [video] (thetimes.com)
    ×1.71 35 | 3 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: TiGrIS, a tiling compiler that fits ML models onto embedded devices (github.com/raws-labs)
    ×3.70 129 | 20 points by asteinh 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
    ×1.48 17 #35 | 289 points by steveharing1 21 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Bedrock,Vertex AI etc. Support Anthropic Models
    ×0.49 | 1 points by nethi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Anthropic Model inference runs fastest on AWS (twitter.com/theo)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by albert_e 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: "Be horse." – a diffusion language model on an M2 Air (boesch.dev)
    ×2.00 100 | 9 points by encrux 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.95 14 #84 | 19 points by brandonb 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why Law Is Law-Shaped (lawvm.org)
    ×1.76 92 | 84 points by ekns 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (github.com/FeSens)
    ×1.26 67 | 238 points by fesens 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Create screen recordings with annotations in Chrome, no uploads (framepin.com)
    ×0.59 110 | 3 points by ipselon 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Stream iOS Simulators to a Browser Window (github.com/EvanBacon)
    ×0.79 170 | 3 points by EvanBacon 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: AI Skills Leaderboard. What's your score? (aisa.to)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by Ozzie-D 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025) (dailynk.com)
    ×2.05 | 2 points by spzb 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all (markready.io)
    ×1.78 18 | 129 points by chambertime 18 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OpenWarp (zerx.dev)
    ×1.30 14 #25 | 82 points by zero-lab 6 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AliothPress – self-hosted, cloud-native CMS with a wizard-based installation (aliothpress.com)
    ×1.56 48 | 3 points by Strodt 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Phase Router – capacity-aware routing for MoE (github.com/TSltd)
    ×1.29 116 | 4 points by TSltd 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Agented, a Text Editor for LLMs (github.com/frane)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by frb 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mit.edu)
    ×2.38 6 #1 | 577 points by the-mitr 15 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Forget Ambition: A Case for Hopeless Creativity (youtube.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by stuaxo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ubuntu / Canonical Launchpad Down (canonical.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by tankenmate 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock (coverclock.blogspot.com)
    ×0.76 53 #59 | 79 points by g0xA52A2A 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com/anthropics)
    ×5.31 56 | 1232 points by homebrewer 1 day ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Exploding Hamsters (explodinghamsters.com)
    ×3.26 78 | 12 points by pompomsheep 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Send your first Peppol e-invoice in 5 minutes (EU mandate live) (getpeppr.dev)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by zerolooplabs 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Portabase: Database Backup and Restore Tool (github.com/Portabase)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by thunderbong 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: ChatToMap – Scans your chats to find all your activity and trip ideas (chattomap.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by nathan_f77 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today (tradingeconomics.com)
    ×3.51 81 | 85 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years (jivx.com)
    ×2.81 1 | 371 points by momentmaker 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot (lina.sh)
    ×1.89 46 | 150 points by fishgoesblub 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)
    ×1.30 27 #23 | 127 points by ethagnawl 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What Happened with Mars Sample Return? (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by calcifer 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenClaw Got Safer in Public (openclaw.ai)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by jacobtomlinson 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI's Models to Train Its Own (wired.com)
    ×5.34 34 | 10 points by satai 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions (404privacy.com)
    ×3.85 86 | 420 points by un-nf 12 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home (gilesthomas.com)
    ×1.76 21 #28 | 198 points by gpjt 17 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.46 23 #66 | 652 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Monad Tutorials Timeline (haskell.org)
    ×0.88 61 #71 | 97 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Utah's New Law Targeting VPNs Goes into Effect Next Week (eff.org)
    ×4.13 32 #88 | 42 points by iamnothere 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Soft launch of open-source code platform for government (nldigitalgovernment.nl)
    ×2.34 10 | 550 points by e12e 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Does Big Government Kill Growth? The Armey Curve Tested (151 Countries) (julienreszka.github.io)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by julienreszka 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Maladaptive Frugality (herbertlui.net)
    ×1.55 9 #13 | 92 points by herbertl 8 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (noctua.at)
    ×2.46 2 #61 | 486 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Insights into software job openings – may2026 (corvi.careers)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by sp1982 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Modeleon – Python DSL that compiles to live Excel formulas (github.com/modeleonai)
    ×1.28 117 | 5 points by adilkhanovkz 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained (thecoder.cafe)
    ×1.37 63 | 136 points by 0xKelsey 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???