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  1. Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?
    ×0.90 4 #59 | 18 points by olalonde 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.11 51 | 671 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 743 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.41 55 | 743 points by petecooper 3 days ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How fast is your CI these days?
    ×0.18 71 | 4 points by easterncalculus 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Mined crypto on Azure when I was 13, after 12y still cannot open account
    ×0.22 76 | 4 points by realaccfromPL 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I'm creating my own OS, check it out, LimonOs no Unix no Linux
    ×0.28 80 | 4 points by Drfoxi 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?
    ×0.78 61 | 22 points by sandruso 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?
    ×0.72 91 | 16 points by jqpabc123 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.11 89 | 304 points by petecooper 5 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are people aware OpenAI Dots intercept SSL?
    ×0.58 87 | 7 points by Benjamin_Dobell 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.45 88 | 86 points by stanislavb 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Kimi Code hit its 5-hour limit after $1.37 of API usage
    ×0.38 102 | 6 points by waximabbax 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Flow-state induction via raw mouse input (a working biohacking protocol)
    ×0.34 116 | 5 points by rejabusafint 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Game trips modem/router breaker
    ×0.21 115 | 4 points by simpaticoder 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.30 134 | 5 points by stdc105 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering
    ×0.64 110 | 6 points by pauliusztin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do people self host email and maintain deliverability?
    ×0.67 113 | 7 points by smithbob 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×0.61 111 | 9 points by nonfunctional 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.64 122 | 12 points by winkelmann 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×0.62 118 | 8 points by cromka 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.24 131 | 14 points by masterchief166 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.42 132 | 11 points by parthdesai 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.40 129 | 15 points by aledevv 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.22 148 | 5 points by BehanPrW 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.33 128 | 14 points by Mobius01 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.34 133 | 5 points by Mutinix 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.28 139 | 4 points by abakh 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine (github.com/ihhub)
    ×1.38 4 #58 | 204 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tev Plays Dino: Tev running on the Mac playing the dinosaur game on Chrome (visualist.in)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by threecats 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Local-first video production workspace for people and AI agents (github.com/TriHerm)
    ×1.52 8 | 3 points by jev-yeb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 rewritten from scratch in Rust (github.com/ludovic111)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by privacyishuman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: How religions evolved? Charts, Maps, Citations (howitevolved.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by silly073 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards (github.com/Zagitta)
    ×2.22 30 | 339 points by fragebogen 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Attention Is Not What You Need (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 17 #9 | 70 points by westurner 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (edjefferson.com)
    ×5.99 43 #46 | 1685 points by sohkamyung 3 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions (epfl.ch)
    ×0.85 75 #66 | 138 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: AgentTrust – Zero-trust security and human approvals for AI agents (github.com/SRN0129)
    ×0.81 77 #71 | 7 points by SRN0129 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz (missileer.watch)
    ×1.45 31 | 198 points by liotier 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart (github.com/anubhavmalhotra)
    ×0.89 77 | 109 points by animalhot 3 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Turn regular JavaScript into a neural net (chenglou.me)
    ×0.61 98 | 45 points by chenglou 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms (unicode.org)
    ×0.55 68 #42 | 38 points by robin_reala 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. JetBrains Thinkrail (github.com/JetBrains)
    ×2.77 17 #50 | 200 points by hmokiguess 13 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" (isburmistrov.substack.com)
    ×1.86 14 #63 | 88 points by bootlegbilly 11 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: God – real-time control room for LLM agent societies (EMNLP 2026 demo) (github.com/XiaoLuoLYG)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by xiaoluolyg 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Data centre debate heats up ahead of US midterms (bbc.com)
    ×1.89 10 | 9 points by Betelbuddy 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher (github.com/AbdullahAlhariri)
    ×0.87 107 | 66 points by abdullahalharir 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Where the Romans Fought (interactive map) (iosiflazaridis.github.io)
    ×1.09 21 #31 | 73 points by endorphine 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer (raspberrypi.com)
    ×0.74 43 #44 | 53 points by Brajeshwar 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Gheist campaign plants secret-dumping workflows using stolen GitHub tokens (wiz.io)
    ×0.92 3 #72 | 47 points by acossta 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab (roku.com)
    ×1.54 32 #80 | 306 points by cxr 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement (reuters.com)
    ×5.39 80 #90 | 262 points by consumer451 9 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Tesla-SpaceX merger explained (finshots.in)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. You Can't Change Your Boss (jacobian.org)
    ×1.63 18 | 3 points by aray07 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI? (apricitas.io)
    ×3.32 34 | 515 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: xcalidraw -a local-first desktop app for managing Excalidraw drawings (github.com/xdagiz)
    ×1.03 84 | 3 points by xdagiz 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited (thisandthat.chat)
    ×1.18 85 | 70 points by jreynar 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness (github.com/slee-persis)
    ×2.48 4 | 183 points by rzk 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents (github.com/omnara-ai)
    ×1.00 92 | 114 points by kmansm27 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Replacing CAPTCHAs with adaptive proof-of-work in WordPress (wordpress.org)
    ×0.37 119 | 15 points by MatthiasNordwig 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: ObsidianYouTubeSync – Sync YouTube History into Obsidian (github.com/mr8lu)
    ×0.67 142 | 3 points by mr8lu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.75 18 #56 | 47 points by levzettelin 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. What are vector embeddings? An interactive guide (isaacus.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by ubutler 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×0.79 25 #10 | 10 points by zahrevsky 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained (shattered.io)
    ×1.75 6 #13 | 28 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The U.S. Power Grid (nomagicpill.site)
    ×1.42 1 #45 | 86 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? (arxiv.org)
    ×2.97 23 | 244 points by canjobear 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless (twitter.com/boneGPT)
    ×5.56 13 | 96 points by MrBuddyCasino 17 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. "Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week (showbiz411.com)
    ×10.97 58 | 51 points by zzzeek 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A 3D mesh playground for coding agents (three.js + manifold-3d) (sketchagent.dev)
    ×1.61 56 | 4 points by wsxiaoys 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: TemplateBox – Free resume, invoice and mockup editors in the browser (templatebox.win)
    ×0.86 94 | 3 points by Templatebox 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Fall of Scientific American (thenation.com)
    ×1.99 9 #8 | 39 points by littlexsparkee 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. What goes into making an animated film? (disneyanimation.com)
    ×1.10 10 #20 | 126 points by embedding-shape 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers (rootkitlabs.com)
    ×1.04 66 #67 | 128 points by machinehum 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (kimi.ai)
    ×3.93 25 #73 | 1083 points by Jowsey 2 days ago | 673 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Sharp Tools (bojidar-bg.dev)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by Curiositry 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: AI text detector that never sees your text (runs 100% in-browser) (kouh.me)
    ×1.80 104 | 7 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: How religions evolved? Charts, Maps, Citations (howitevolved.com)
    ×0.84 130 | 3 points by silly073 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I made a jobs-near-you map (offpeak.fyi)
    ×1.54 127 | 5 points by vsurraco 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Open-source crypto trading terminal in Rust and WebAssembly
    ×0.40 | 1 points by rsalianto 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Goose Programming Language (aardappel.github.io)
    ×2.81 36 | 174 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again (getty.edu)
    ×0.65 34 #26 | 40 points by laybak 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker (simone.computer)
    ×1.06 8 #43 | 43 points by syx 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Og.video – generate og:video tags that make iMessage previews fun [free/OSS] (og.video)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by bookernath 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Dánwò – Open-source E2E testing with emulators and fault injection (github.com/carbonmeai)
    ×0.75 140 | 3 points by faithfulojebiyi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models (cerebras.ai)
    ×1.95 5 #61 | 355 points by gmays 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: How do drone companies conduct tests internally?
    ×0.45 | 1 points by vivek_sg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism (panamericandispatch.org)
    ×4.32 57 | 474 points by vrganj 21 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office (computerworld.dk)
    ×4.56 26 | 229 points by lowkeyokay 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300k cameras, defying cease-and-desist (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.78 67 | 61 points by ryan_j_naughton 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706 (gitlab.com)
    ×0.67 72 | 57 points by t20n 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???