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  1. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.75 1 #35 | 38 points by oscgam1 5 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster
    ×2.69 39 | 6 points by notsure357 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.33 79 | 133 points by syntaxbush 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×1.03 30 | 95 points by spidy__ 3 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
    ×0.56 107 | 13 points by mellosty 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?
    ×0.27 89 | 5 points by netfortius 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How is GPU power draw measured at scale?
    ×0.36 104 | 4 points by anax32 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.50 121 | 33 points by JohnDSDev 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why does every AI demo sound perfect but real world deployment always
    ×0.85 101 | 7 points by VaderAi 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I feel like VSCode is falling apart
    ×1.44 118 | 10 points by othmanosx 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
    ×1.69 59 | 113 points by shantnutiwari 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs
    ×0.67 126 | 8 points by yiyingzhang 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
    ×1.36 72 | 80 points by jvilalta 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.49 168 | 18 points by niyazpk 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. My website gets more attacks than human visitors
    ×1.04 138 | 5 points by tommy2970 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Quickbooks Alternative?
    ×0.37 153 | 4 points by bix6 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
    ×0.47 154 | 4 points by something765478 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.08 155 | 153 points by amichail 6 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
    ×0.63 137 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. As; HN: I was curious why MTP affects PP TPS in llama.cpp. My PoC recovers it?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by i_am_rocoe 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.28 170 | 6 points by iaziz786 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 178 | 96 points by asim 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Got access to Gemini's actual thinking
    ×0.20 171 | 4 points by StizzurpXDD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.55 128 | 81 points by ayi 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.80 162 | 20 points by tossitawayplz 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.41 164 | 15 points by neya 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.40 180 | 25 points by agos 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.10 172 | 17 points by vasko 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections (bloodinthemachine.com)
    ×4.29 80 | 107 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US (arstechnica.com)
    ×22.08 79 | 53 points by LorenDB 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Closing the public-key authenticity gap in our E2EE social network (mosslet.com)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by mosspigletdev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: A Transformer Is All You Need (zenodo.org)
    ×1.11 119 | 3 points by KnoxProtocol 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology (ibm.com)
    ×1.69 42 #40 | 378 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. SQLite improving performance with pre-sort (andersmurphy.com)
    ×0.68 107 #72 | 3 points by tosh 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A systems neuroscience approach to building AGI – Demis Hassabis (2010) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by ddl 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN:Every Team Is Building the Same Cache (tierfs.com)
    ×1.58 139 | 4 points by saurabhpal97 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (cauenapier.com)
    ×1.65 124 | 272 points by cauenapier 6 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)
    ×5.88 7 #31 | 1608 points by verditelabs 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tachio – Free esports API covering 13 games (tachiosports.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by domktt 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. YayText (yaytext.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by visviva 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.36 #89 | 513 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser (github.com/NotASithLord)
    ×1.00 110 | 73 points by NotASithLord 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Jolla Phone (October 2026) (jolla.com)
    ×2.96 16 #21 | 250 points by mrbn100ful 6 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Scaling Laws, Carefully (lilianweng.github.io)
    ×0.56 97 #43 | 3 points by tehnub 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cairn – self-hosted health OS that connects labs, training and meals (github.com/zilet)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by miloszikic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: HoprLabs – a Python lab for prototyping AI math ideas (github.com/TangibleResearch)
    ×0.78 151 | 3 points by reboy 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Data centers trigger voter backlash (newsweek.com)
    ×2.89 5 #11 | 90 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. <LoginWithChatGPT /> – Unofficial login to personal ChatGPT subscription (twitter.com/saviomartin7)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by saviomartin 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 20 Year time-lapse video of stars orbiting a supermassive black hole (youtube.com)
    ×1.67 7 | 3 points by revicon 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Jailbreaking Isn't Theft (pluralistic.net)
    ×3.03 64 | 51 points by hn_acker 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Murmur: Shared communication bus for your coding agents (github.com/instavm)
    ×1.74 30 #38 | 7 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (reuters.com)
    ×3.46 19 #81 | 784 points by htrp 1 day ago | 1281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Csound Score in Emacs (github.com/luqtas)
    ×18.92 75 | 51 points by luqtas 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ukraine's Point System (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by bear_with_me 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. GuixPkgs: Every Guix package, as a Nix flake (fzakaria.com)
    ×14.54 5 | 66 points by ingve 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean (github.com/cajal-technologies)
    ×0.87 173 | 106 points by mfornet 1 week ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Lumli – Privacy-first image tools that run entirely in your browser (lumli.de)
    ×3.11 166 | 9 points by lumli 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Chronic Pain: The Science of Unlearning Pain (zeit.de)
    ×2.07 14 #56 | 4 points by Tomte 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The last Romans are still around (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.09 68 #61 | 127 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Many Minds The sparkling deep [audio] (libsyn.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by zeristor 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Open AI SDR – An Open Source Version of the Artisans Ava BDR (opencomputer.dev)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by iacguy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets (reason.com)
    ×4.06 35 | 43 points by mrtesthah 13 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Navatala GPU – multi-back end GPU kernels and Python bindings (github.com/navatala-systems)
    ×1.95 140 | 6 points by bvenkat 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works (github.com/naver)
    ×1.33 13 #45 | 98 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI (arxiv.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by andyjohnson0 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Richard Scolyer, Cancer Expert Who 'Became His Own Subject,' Dies at 59 (nytimes.com)
    ×1.89 6 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The disappearance of Japan's animators (economist.com)
    ×1.30 70 #64 | 189 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Illusion of Ownership – It's yours until it isn't (yashgarg.dev)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by speckx 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required (statusdude.com)
    ×1.50 99 | 86 points by canto 2 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass (borretti.me)
    ×4.95 26 | 85 points by hamish-b 17 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Nimic – Pure Python as a systems language with AOT compilation (github.com/dima-quant)
    ×0.61 108 | 41 points by dima-quant 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)
    ×4.47 1 #1 | 577 points by minimaxir 3 hours ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike (princechazz.com)
    ×2.25 32 #44 | 417 points by cowboy_henk 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com/inkeep)
    ×1.82 28 #47 | 355 points by engomez 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Deno 2.9 (deno.com)
    ×2.49 44 | 142 points by enz 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Graphical SQL Builder and Debugger (github.com/webofmarius)
    ×0.52 149 | 21 points by matei88 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.99 #70 | 8 points by skibz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: What's a pirate's favorite programming language?
    ×1.62 12 | 3 points by dieselgate 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ending respiratory infections (interceptfund.com)
    ×2.64 65 | 202 points by EthanFantl 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News (youtube.com)
    ×4.05 53 | 56 points by RicoElectrico 8 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status (theregister.com)
    ×1.53 82 | 54 points by Bender 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: FastUbu – An Ultrafast Video Archive (fastubu.com)
    ×0.88 129 | 47 points by lukeigel 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Endive 1.0: WebAssembly on the JVM, Now a Bytecode Alliance Project (endive.run)
    ×2.05 90 #59 | 5 points by dustingetz 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Baguette: Headless iOS Simulator control via private SimulatorKit APIs (github.com/tddworks)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by loa_observer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. New split layout framework for nearly all Apple platforms (macOS, iOS, etc.) (twitter.com/mitchellh)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI children's books, body horror edition (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×3.98 24 | 203 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Motif Atlas – recurring patterns behind complex systems (nikitph.github.io)
    ×1.79 97 | 7 points by loaderchips 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators (appaca.ai)
    ×1.59 116 | 5 points by susros 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not (github.com/mondaycom)
    ×1.51 55 | 72 points by backlit4034 8 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Tree, truth, druid and tar share one Proto-Indo-European root (migdal.pl)
    ×2.18 163 | 5 points by stared 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???