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  1. Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
    ×1.77 8 #46 | 47 points by tonymet 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×3.65 39 #55 | 415 points by leumon 9 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How many of you juggle multiple agent sessions at the same time?
    ×1.22 | 2 points by top_rooster 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: AI agent acts. Your logs say so. But you wrote the logs
    ×1.02 24 | 4 points by Yahyaaa 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.58 28 | 11 points by FireUpTheTorren 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why is AI civil tech and not military first?
    ×1.11 47 | 7 points by esher 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Solving all open source tech debt with Codex
    ×0.43 | 2 points by surajkrajan 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should I leave web development to study medicine in my mid-30s?
    ×0.84 80 | 3 points by lovepuzzles 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you guys stop coding agents from acting out of line?
    ×0.96 86 | 3 points by vivekyyy 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer?
    ×1.02 87 | 3 points by metrofun 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?
    ×1.42 73 | 6 points by stefanos82 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Ideas for dealing with overly-do-gooder agents
    ×0.68 | 2 points by zof3 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Gmail can mark legit mail from google.com as spam
    ×0.90 65 | 5 points by salviati 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new 5H usage limit in Codex?
    ×0.91 108 | 3 points by embedding-shape 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by AmirMakirr 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Another Webpage Screenshot and OG Image Generation API
    ×0.51 | 2 points by foodpad 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Flock contract cancellations grow among cities, other jurisdictions
    ×1.44 49 | 3 points by achristmascarl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Bast Text to Speech Tool
    ×0.76 | 2 points by chaofan11 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why do tools like customer.io abandon self-serve after their Series A?
    ×0.37 126 | 14 points by alessandroetc 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you still do pair programming in this agentic age?
    ×0.45 120 | 6 points by Andugal 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI Artist
    ×0.60 | 2 points by thallukrish 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Where else do you spend time on the internet other than HN?
    ×0.30 136 | 10 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?
    ×0.67 145 | 9 points by JacobWolf 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Taalas API Anyone?
    ×0.07 | 2 points by revanthmatha 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Encoding Myself into the System
    ×0.26 139 | 4 points by nharziro 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.82 138 | 74 points by kaladan 3 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.44 142 | 30 points by foota 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I keep getting flagged for AI, but I suck at writing. How can I solve this?
    ×0.46 137 | 6 points by quesobob 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How about delayed MIT/GPL?
    ×0.43 143 | 5 points by afiori 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane' (bbc.com)
    ×3.28 26 #28 | 108 points by vinni2 2 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Optimus Prime and Eeyore voice actor Peter Cullen has died (bbc.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by tigerlily 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Turn ad-hoc subagents into durable, accountable AI teams (github.com/ringlochid)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by ringlochid 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Devx – Autonomous AI coding agent built for Android Termux and desktop (github.com/apvcode)
    ×0.68 130 | 12 points by apvcode 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (codecanary.org)
    ×1.10 131 | 129 points by tke248 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: A local tool that logs every time you swear at your AI coding assistant (github.com/fireinbelly)
    ×1.59 140 | 9 points by lokinkl 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The terrifying mechanics of the Nepali flash flood (economist.com)
    ×1.45 32 #23 | 30 points by vinni2 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Pixel Agents: Turn AI coding agents into animated pixel-art characters (github.com/pixel-agents-hq)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by vitaelabitur 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tim Curry has died (theguardian.com)
    ×4.58 24 | 709 points by mykowebhn 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others (github.com/runetes)
    ×0.89 113 | 114 points by zdw 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: PwnPad – hardware hacking platform built for practical learning (github.com/twelvesec)
    ×1.38 77 | 3 points by therepanic 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Spore – run local models on your own hardware, use them from anywhere (sporeintel.com)
    ×1.26 107 | 3 points by chrisischris 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Prompt Builder – Free Templates (promptbuilder.space)
    ×0.98 129 | 20 points by LandoLorinse 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A lightweight, stateless database for agent memory (polign.com)
    ×0.53 41 #34 | 13 points by anuptalwalkar 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Zohran and the Short Link (iamwillwang.com)
    ×1.85 40 #37 | 279 points by wxw 19 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API (wagtail.org)
    ×0.90 20 #51 | 13 points by ThibWeb 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built xvisibility.lol to get more visible on X without paying (xvisibility.lol)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by joshue 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Not American Enough (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.23 6 | 3 points by Jtsummers 35 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Harness Is the Thing (scott-fryxell.github.io)
    ×1.63 16 | 198 points by sfryxell 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants (yale.edu)
    ×1.37 62 | 135 points by speckx 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
    ×2.20 9 #16 | 93 points by nanna 4 hours ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Apronagents – give each AI coding agent a disposable Git remote (github.com/Ut8v)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by utshavkhatiwada 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
    ×3.60 43 | 282 points by mobilio 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)
    ×1.00 63 | 183 points by altilunium 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.82 46 | 175 points by polyrand 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Voronoi Go (voronoigo.com)
    ×1.57 35 #24 | 8 points by igpay 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Cartesia tops text-to-speech leaderboard with Sonic 3.6 (cartesia.ai)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by ganeshmm 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I said Route 53 was a database. Colin took it personally (shitposting.ai)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by cperciva 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. London: Drawn Like a Painting (sheets.works)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by lordbubbles 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. CIA Has a Gen Z Problem – Young Spies Are Just Not 'Feeling It' (spyscape.com)
    ×1.77 12 | 3 points by jumpocelot 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Memorial for Athena Strand. She will always be remembered (athena-strand.org)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by computerex 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.69 30 | 262 points by blimmer 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.74 56 | 137 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 (mturk.com)
    ×2.33 8 #58 | 512 points by tmp10423288442 19 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE (ibm.com)
    ×1.26 31 | 168 points by porridgeraisin 23 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Sumday – a daily game: make an equation from today's date (playsumday.com)
    ×2.48 105 | 4 points by buzzy_hacker 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Fewer Americans Pay to Use LLMs Than Still Pay to Play World of Warcraft (wjamesau.substack.com)
    ×2.57 19 #67 | 5 points by SLHamlet 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino (bbc.com)
    ×2.74 49 #79 | 59 points by brudgers 4 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Investigation of agents in OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident (metr.org)
    ×1.43 13 #84 | 5 points by giardini 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Warp for Desktop and Cloudflare for Teams (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by bagana 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Backprompter – create, test, and deploy agents without a back end (backprompter.com)
    ×1.53 90 | 3 points by aj-srivastava 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.56 61 | 177 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
    ×4.02 8 #61 | 1102 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 551 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Telem – Route agent web search across providers and inspect the traces (telem.ai)
    ×3.16 33 | 4 points by yurikoif 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by theanonymousone 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
    ×4.99 52 | 188 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: ThunderPhone v2 – a new architecture for voice AI (thunderphone.com)
    ×2.17 69 | 4 points by kolchinski 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Turn every PR into animated architecture diagrams (open-source) (github.com/coldteadotai)
    ×3.08 50 | 6 points by TheAnkurTyagi 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why (github.com/kelviq)
    ×1.52 22 #43 | 52 points by sachinneravath 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Laion Big Video Dataset (laion.ai)
    ×0.72 61 #69 | 83 points by ks2048 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada (thetariffcost.com)
    ×1.96 33 #87 | 217 points by mikestorrent 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. History of the Atlantic Cable and Undersea Communications (atlantic-cable.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by CaesarA 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Danrh: A blog won't give you an edge anymore (danrh.net)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Easily deploy vibecode apps through MCP (zerolith.io)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by yojukawa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Markdown Database Pattern (wayofmarkdown.com)
    ×1.80 36 #33 | 17 points by rufuspollock 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms (reuters.com)
    ×3.30 32 #64 | 63 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.73 94 | 186 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments (americanbazaaronline.com)
    ×7.11 76 | 25 points by Tabular-Iceberg 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: KinoPipe – FFmpeg as a service for AI agents (typed ops, no shell) (kinopipe.com)
    ×1.45 84 | 3 points by nicniclapanique 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How to Deploy Your Model (sailresearch.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by bobstax 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Revenue Agents that monitor churn, upsell, and deal risk (rimplo.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by Hoss-Elkhateeb 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???