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Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

×1.49 67 | 323 points by sharts 5 days ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: At what point does "clean architecture" become technical debt?

×0.48 | 2 points by kiops 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Continue coding agent is dead. Alternatives?

×0.18 53 | 3 points by roscas 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

×2.98 55 | 648 points by dhruv3006 5 days ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

×3.66 61 | 657 points by stagas 6 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why does the US government search through people's phones at the border?

×1.31 23 | 12 points by roschdal 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?

×0.48 106 | 52 points by Abh1Works 6 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windmill.dev is not "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)"

×0.75 73 | 9 points by alpine-rockies 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?

×1.80 68 | 15 points by bah9 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: OpenCode no longer including DeepSeek?

×0.29 86 | 8 points by dv35z 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is the evidence for a stock market bubble in AI?

×1.03 45 | 9 points by roschdal 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robotics Software

×0.15 111 | 3 points by erardaiden 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is HN missing a "go to top" link on long posts?

×0.49 99 | 4 points by KellyCriterion 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to Relicense an Old Project

×0.20 115 | 3 points by gradschool 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

×3.22 30 | 74 points by walrus01 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SearXNG running on OpenBSD on a ThinkPad t420

×0.12 | 2 points by open-search 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Authenticated Git-fetch-over-HTTPS against gitlab.com is failing

×0.19 | 2 points by basilgohar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is GitHub Down Again?

×0.86 78 | 11 points by delduca 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you keep notes organized across long-running side projects?

×0.34 107 | 5 points by hackerstest 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do teams really need to use GitHub?

×0.41 108 | 5 points by avinoth 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for letting AI deactivate driver accounts (nltimes.nl)

×2.38 26 #86 | 14 points by biglyburrito 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BracketView – local JSON workspace for Windows (bracketview.in)

×0.76 | 1 points by bracketview 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)

×1.03 44 | 83 points by wise_blood 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Run 290B+ frontier MoE models locally on your gaming PC (github.com/FlashML-org)

×1.45 55 #70 | 31 points by shenli3514 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance and Takeovers [pdf] (liuyanecon.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by highfrequency 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Omacom Foundation launches with $8M (omarchy.org)

×2.78 24 | 179 points by djfergus 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants (cnn.com)

×1.33 9 | 94 points by jader201 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)

×1.01 120 | 86 points by adjohu 6 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)

×4.78 8 #21 | 1213 points by speckx 1 day ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bhartrhari's Paradox (futilitycloset.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by leephillips 25 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Ghost job' ads are getting so bad that lawmakers want to ban them (wsj.com)

×4.62 19 | 86 points by bcaulfield 19 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (bbc.com)

×6.74 2 #20 | 141 points by tartoran 11 hours ago | 722 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)

×3.32 29 #85 | 854 points by Ariarule 2 days ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What happens to our conscious experience after we die? (sidhsikka.substack.com)

×0.78 | 1 points by sidhsikka123 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One of the worst scientific papers I've ever seen (columbia.edu)

×1.95 16 | 3 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)

×2.12 1 #1 | 111 points by jemoka 3 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)

×0.86 35 #66 | 92 points by rhgraysonii 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free tool to check Supabase vulnerabilities (defencecore.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by tornadorice 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3D Chesss (chesss.xyz)

×0.58 | 1 points by niksda 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents (argentic.network)

×0.31 95 | 9 points by Ag0146 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A data viewer for choosing Frigate-compatible IP cameras (github.com/ch-bas)

×8.53 63 | 48 points by martinAndy 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ContextForge – context engineering platform for AI-assisted development (github.com/waterflane)

×0.68 | 2 points by waterflane 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jelqing: The latest in a long history of attempts to enlarge the male member (theconversation.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by Teever 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)

×1.50 25 #53 | 265 points by spankibalt 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No Boss, No Money: The Raw Reality of China's Gen-Z Freelancers (youtube.com)

×0.85 | 1 points by conferza 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)

×12.77 63 | 1654 points by speckx 1 day ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos (experimental-history.com)

×2.89 27 | 201 points by cwal37 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Traccia - Observability, Runtime Control & Audit for agents (traccia.ai)

×0.38 | 2 points by vijaypoudel 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)

×1.75 13 | 293 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agile AI Development Lifecycle (valeriavg.dev)

×0.45 | 2 points by valeriavg_dev 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string (wolfoo2931.github.io)

×0.68 69 | 12 points by WolfOliver 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Openleetcode – Local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com/therepanic)

×0.67 96 | 73 points by therepanic 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OTel isn’t going well (matduggan.com)

×1.86 8 #25 | 199 points by hn_acker 19 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Three important steps in my maturation process (thomasdullien.github.io)

×1.57 2 #36 | 199 points by tdullien 19 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (2007) (kleppmann.com)

×1.55 28 #83 | 88 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CLI to Churn Out CLIs (github.com/chinmayrelkar)

×0.78 124 | 3 points by Chnmy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP (github.com/paulsp94)

×0.98 65 | 56 points by paulsp 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes (docker.com)

×1.15 18 #45 | 44 points by mfranzon 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say (cnbc.com)

×3.17 39 #47 | 30 points by newsomix9xl 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin (lithub.com)

×0.35 61 #77 | 17 points by prismatic 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI as Cognitive Gym Equipment (replit.app)

×0.53 | 1 points by ersinesen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Steganeur – Hide secret messages in LLM-generated text (Rust) (github.com/marcsnid)

×1.07 117 | 3 points by marcsnid 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)

×1.19 15 #61 | 131 points by ra7 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The August 17 outage (github.blog)

×2.65 27 #89 | 633 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 747 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rackast, a screen recorder with a built in editor, made with Tauri (rackast.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by SzegiRoli 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If I Could Only Do One Exercise, It Would Be Squats (julienreszka.com)

×2.07 37 | 3 points by julienreszka 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
That's Rich: Crashing Monterey Car Week (insidehook.com)

×1.92 25 | 3 points by RickJWagner 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Chrome extension to filter X (Twitter) posts by country or region (google.com)

×1.22 | 2 points by apoorvdarshan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark (twitter.com/NVIDIAAI)

×1.74 30 | 70 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)

×0.42 112 | 13 points by valentinprgnd 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RF Cafe (rfcafe.com)

×0.75 14 #10 | 15 points by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HN: The Good Parts (2016) (danluu.com)

×0.99 35 #42 | 70 points by adletbalzhanov 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows (github.com/peterkelly)

×0.54 58 #73 | 25 points by peterkelly 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Scam Hunt (nrk.no)

×0.79 | 1 points by karencarits 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stash, turn your Instagram saves into notes Claude finds on its own (github.com/Parthuss)

×0.55 | 1 points by ParthAkholkar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SHOW HN: WillItSpam – paste an email, see why it will land in spam (willitspam.com)

×1.40 110 | 4 points by vladimir-aleksi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Samuel – Model that recreates speech using Pink Trombone (vvolhejn.com)

×0.67 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No one is ready for this generation [video] (youtube.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by Bender 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WaveHouse – Supabase for ClickHouse (wavehouse.dev)

×2.05 93 | 18 points by ericandr 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Diffview, a fast Git diff viewer written in Rust (github.com/sleipner42)

×1.26 129 | 3 points by sleipner42 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)

×2.18 22 #59 | 489 points by dares2573 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DefCon 34 – Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video] (youtube.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by JKCalhoun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)

×0.97 50 | 58 points by olexsmir 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative (zoneless.com)

×0.89 56 | 82 points by tinyprojects 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mixxxdj/Mixxx: Programmers Wanted for PR Reviews/Testing Check Zulip/GitHub (mixxx.discourse.group)

×0.78 | 1 points by mxmilkiib 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Treating Dockerfiles as shell scripts (2020) (jakewharton.com)

×1.30 | 2 points by hard_times 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Training Dyna-2 at million-hour scale, repeatably (dyna.co)

×0.58 | 1 points by intrepidsoldier 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Structural code grep across public GitHub repositories (codemod.com)

×4.27 62 | 6 points by mohebifar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ServerKit - Self-hosted control panel for apps, Docker, and databases (github.com/jhd3197)

×1.05 89 | 3 points by jhd3197 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Heimdall – Trust-verified knowledge layer for AI coding agents (github.com/ArihantDeva)

×1.48 79 | 4 points by arihantdeva 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???