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  1. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.40 8 | 8 points by langs 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.40 41 | 8 points by AG25 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.47 56 | 29 points by 019 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Dear astronomers, what are the most interesting things in space lately?
    ×0.64 21 | 10 points by simonebrunozzi 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Can non-developer build commercial products with AI
    ×0.70 | 2 points by rkorlimarla 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    ×0.85 70 | 147 points by alegd 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.51 74 | 19 points by burnt-resistor 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?
    ×0.56 66 | 10 points by smackeyacky 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
    ×0.14 112 | 3 points by preston-kwei 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.13 81 | 33 points by alpinisme 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition?
    ×0.30 95 | 6 points by gokuljs 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users
    ×0.75 90 | 17 points by darkhorse13 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's your favorite Emacs package?
    ×0.55 75 | 5 points by blenderob 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are cloud coding agents useful in real workflows yet?
    ×0.09 128 | 3 points by Rperry2174 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
    ×0.75 86 | 34 points by sunny678 3 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session
    ×0.35 132 | 14 points by agentseal 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. OpenClaw stats don't add up
    ×0.43 97 | 10 points by iliaov 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?
    ×0.55 98 | 10 points by nnurmanov 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are there any engineering orgs that use incentives?
    ×0.18 142 | 3 points by jppope 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask Anthropic: Requesting clarity on Claude -p situation
    ×0.54 129 | 5 points by andai 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. My file access workaround for cron in Tahoe
    ×0.17 143 | 4 points by noduerme 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GPT 5.5 Released in Codex
    ×2.02 87 | 16 points by zuzululu 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Getting back into photography, ditching the phone camera in 2026?
    ×0.37 133 | 7 points by eigenhombre 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager
    ×0.40 141 | 11 points by chairhairair 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub (rocher.lc)
    ×1.19 17 #17 | 110 points by Cynddl 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Raylib v6.0 (github.com/raysan5)
    ×2.35 13 #63 | 209 points by rydgel 19 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production (anthropocenemagazine.org)
    ×1.35 49 #77 | 112 points by dotcoma 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. SilentGlass actively blocks malicious HDMI and Display Port connections (ncsc.gov.uk)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by urban_winter 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The importance of stupidity in scientific research (2008) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by the-mitr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Intel Arc Pro B70 benchmarks for LLMs and video generation (github.com/PMZFX)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by mroche 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Tmuxx – simpler tmux, fewer keystrokes, no duplicate groups (github.com/timsayshey)
    ×0.95 124 | 3 points by good8675309 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×2.93 69 | 240 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Maryland to become first state to ban 'dynamic pricing' in grocery stores (yahoo.com)
    ×3.30 55 | 64 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: WeTransfer Alternative for Developers (dlvr.sh)
    ×1.09 91 | 24 points by mariusbolik 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Mimi in the browser – hear the semantic/acoustic split (frisson-labs.com)
    ×0.81 148 | 4 points by ymaws 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.49 5 #34 | 856 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Nev – keyboard focused GUI and terminal text editor (github.com/Nimaoth)
    ×1.41 32 #36 | 12 points by archargelod 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Rendezvous and Docking: A User's Guide for Non Rocket Scientists (baen.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by EvgeniyZh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I Built SwiftUI but for macOS MDM (github.com/photon-hq)
    ×2.63 127 | 9 points by RyanZhuuuu 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)
    ×7.62 5 #25 | 2177 points by Kaibeezy 1 day ago | 744 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Chinese Hospitals Are Selling Patient Data to Fuel the AI Boom (caixinglobal.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by NewCzech 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. My .config Ship of Theseus (shift1w.com)
    ×2.13 32 | 4 points by jacobwiseberg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Code garden deep-dive: my Forth C64 tetromino game (github.com/ekipan)
    ×0.32 80 | 3 points by ekipan 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: CLI-use – turn any MCP server into a CLI in one command
    ×1.70 110 | 7 points by justvugg 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Auto-generated titles and colors for parallel Claude Code sessions (github.com/jbarbier)
    ×0.62 150 | 3 points by julien421 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Sheetflow – Manage Webflow CMS Directly from Google Sheets (webflow.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by jpdpeters 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. What Are Unix Domain Sockets? (sweeting.me)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by nikisweeting 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Intel Arc Pro B70 Review (pugetsystems.com)
    ×0.33 | 1 points by zdw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale (googleblog.com)
    ×1.47 10 #15 | 122 points by mji 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.33 37 #33 | 43 points by matthewbauer 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Workspace Agents in ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×1.14 49 #65 | 155 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What killed the Florida orange? (slate.com)
    ×1.22 52 #70 | 161 points by danso 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard (theguardian.com)
    ×0.56 56 #88 | 61 points by agronaut 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. ASML's latest chipmaking gear is too pricey, even for TSMC (theedgemalaysia.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by jackyli02 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Linux installer .exe without pendrives (secure-boot compatible) (1clicklinux.org)
    ×1.20 122 | 5 points by arusekk 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why I Write (1946) (orwellfoundation.com)
    ×1.16 4 #2 | 139 points by RyanShook 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. My phone replaced a brass plug (drobinin.com)
    ×1.28 13 #19 | 121 points by valzevul 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A History of Erasures Learning to Write Like Leylâ Erbil (thepointmag.com)
    ×0.26 54 #75 | 26 points by lermontov 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Quest Browser 146.0 adds experimental support for WebGPU in WebXR (bsky.app)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by juretriglav 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files (vidstudio.app)
    ×1.44 48 | 296 points by kolx 2 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Medievalizer, an extension that rewrites pages into Old English scripts (github.com/theletterf)
    ×1.74 115 | 7 points by theletterf 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025) (ar-ms.me)
    ×0.99 48 #26 | 158 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.94 16 #64 | 70 points by darth_avocado 10 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era (blog.google)
    ×2.20 5 #85 | 446 points by xnx 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. DeepSeek targets $20B valuation to stop poaching of staff (ft.com)
    ×1.84 37 | 3 points by petethomas 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.83 51 | 116 points by latein 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Cartoon Studio – an open-source desktop app for making 2D cartoon shows (github.com/Jellypod-Inc)
    ×2.06 71 | 13 points by bilater 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A free tool for non-technical folks to easily publish a website (weejur.com)
    ×0.59 119 | 3 points by npilk 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Using the internet like it's 1999 (joshblais.com)
    ×1.38 9 #14 | 144 points by joshuablais 11 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus (semiengineering.com)
    ×0.43 62 #29 | 39 points by PaulHoule 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable (tenphi.me)
    ×0.62 47 #30 | 65 points by tenphi 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Do those that deserve the world, get the world? (dreamingtooloud.substack.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by homebush 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence (huggingface.co)
    ×7.54 86 | 147 points by cmrdporcupine 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Nobody got fired for Uber's $8M ledger mistake? (alvaroduran.com)
    ×1.71 46 | 126 points by ohduran 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be (craigmod.com)
    ×3.09 24 | 76 points by jen729w 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Spectrum – Deploy AI Agents to iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, and More (photon.codes)
    ×1.25 107 | 8 points by danielsdk 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid (cnn.com)
    ×3.03 10 #6 | 179 points by nkrisc 9 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries (lpeproject.org)
    ×1.10 37 | 122 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products (theverge.com)
    ×1.85 57 | 67 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (anthropic.com)
    ×3.54 5 #3 | 691 points by mfiguiere 13 hours ago | 520 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Our newsroom AI policy (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.32 46 #39 | 192 points by zdw 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AI-powered knowledge assistant for sexual and reproductive health (chathrp.org)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by salkahfi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Microsoft offers buyouts for longtime employees (seattletimes.com)
    ×1.94 12 | 4 points by divbzero 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts (twitter.com/orsonscottcard)
    ×1.31 26 | 139 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them (charlielabs.ai)
    ×0.85 73 | 66 points by rileyt 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.44 59 #66 | 227 points by ingve 2 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. ChatGPT Images 2.0 (openai.com)
    ×3.99 15 #72 | 1036 points by wahnfrieden 2 days ago | 963 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Kernel load balancing for CPU-bound apps with systemd templates and SO_REUSEPORT (dollardeploy.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by huksley 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: LocalLLM – Recipes for Running the Local LLM (Need Contributors) (locallllm.fly.dev)
    ×0.60 61 | 11 points by Igor_Wiwi 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com/shivampkumar)
    ×1.38 69 | 202 points by shivampkumar 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???