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  1. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.79 72 #53 | 144 points by Ixander 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
    ×0.15 56 | 3 points by reacharavindh 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser
    ×0.58 57 | 20 points by mhloo 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.76 75 | 579 points by IvanK_net 6 days ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.40 58 | 775 points by lukehandcool 4 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. ChatGPT Plugin in Review for Weeks
    ×0.16 | 2 points by dthedavid 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.92 67 | 423 points by mariocesar 6 days ago | 664 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How does your organization make build vs. buy decisions now?
    ×0.43 77 | 6 points by bigblind 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. In-car display of surrounding environment in AVs
    ×0.14 | 2 points by ajahso4 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
    ×0.54 92 | 25 points by lgregg 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
    ×0.66 86 | 11 points by le_curious 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is voice becoming your main input? What happens to open-plan offices?
    ×0.35 93 | 4 points by ProblemExplorer 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you build a reputation without social media?
    ×1.33 97 | 5 points by unbeholden 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?
    ×0.39 94 | 10 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×0.76 131 | 8 points by Kamabz 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.35 141 | 35 points by onemiketwelve 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: AIs Do Not Laugh
    ×0.66 85 | 5 points by AnimalMuppet 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What is the most obscure book you own?
    ×0.76 99 | 8 points by Kovah 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A hub that controls all your coding agents in one place
    ×0.31 123 | 4 points by mubashir1osmani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I don't think image containers supporting both lossless and lossy is good
    ×0.49 112 | 5 points by functionmouse 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting
    ×0.49 127 | 7 points by tsydenzhap 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Vibecoded 3D Game Running on Veda OS
    ×0.13 142 | 3 points by vahmoh25 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×0.96 122 | 9 points by dfps 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×0.78 124 | 9 points by coherenttemple 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.62 125 | 9 points by sankde 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.49 145 | 12 points by hanstyle 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.74 135 | 16 points by consumer451 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How would you go about domain change and getting a job in the domain?
    ×0.25 134 | 5 points by joddystreet 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. All startups need is distribution
    ×0.69 117 | 9 points by relaxfolio 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.72 146 | 13 points by thelastgallon 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Resources for best practices in software development with AI?
    ×0.62 130 | 7 points by sergio-gdr 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Anatomy of SharePoint HTML Pages (n8d.at)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Birkoff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) (github.com/p10node)
    ×0.72 101 | 69 points by pierreneter 4 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Quaesito: a self-hosted app for quiz nights with friends (github.com/ggirelli)
    ×0.87 143 | 3 points by ggirelli 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Seekter – an open-source job-search agent that runs in Claude Code (github.com/selfishprimate)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by selfishprimate 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Let's Encrypt on an HP LaserJet M553, Renewed from a Proxmox Container (ryjones.org)
    ×0.95 133 | 4 points by RyJones 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X (intel.com)
    ×1.81 18 #8 | 255 points by hurricanepootis 14 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Neuroscience can make decluttering easier (nytimes.com)
    ×0.87 26 #74 | 29 points by gumby 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers (photonlines.substack.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by surprisetalk 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. MDMA: An open source federated LLM inference engine (github.com/seuros)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by urzil 21 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence (sakana.ai)
    ×1.14 35 | 135 points by hardmaru 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I bought a bunch of 'smart' devices. AI was able to hack most of them (hwrebench.com)
    ×0.64 90 | 3 points by Yenrabbit 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I Cut my Agent Tokens By 50%
    ×1.66 106 | 6 points by iohotspot 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities (arxiv.org)
    ×1.97 13 #27 | 228 points by sbulaev 10 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: SecuBuzz – Factual 60-word cybersecurity briefs and CISA zero-day radar (secubuzz.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by nisarg-soni 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.70 113 | 88 points by yashdotrv 6 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Preloop – GitHub Actions locally in microvms and SSH/pause failures (github.com/preloopdev)
    ×0.79 91 | 9 points by Bnjoroge 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: OpenClear – Self-hosted check and ACH fraud screening for small banks (github.com/chaffed)
    ×0.97 132 | 4 points by villson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (filippo.io)
    ×1.12 47 #58 | 97 points by gavide 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Let your agents create product demo for you (fluxcut.dev)
    ×1.67 | 2 points by loveTech 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. FIFA World Cup 2030: Netflix Scores Exclusive Broadcast Rights in Spain and Ando (netflix.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by absqueued 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Let Claude Code answer with a diagram page instead of a wall of text (github.com/QingYunA)
    ×1.62 23 | 4 points by sorlia7z 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Two browser games set inside one real Gaussian-splat scan (yanisfalaki.com)
    ×0.89 82 | 4 points by empyreanite 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Apogee: Rebuilding Mozilla's Orbit, fully local and private (github.com/darshi1337)
    ×2.88 95 | 66 points by zxdc7896 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)
    ×1.05 56 #78 | 140 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. "Rogue agents find a way out": AI communes with evil.com after bypassing sandbox (machine.news)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by LargeLingoMod 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Forkcast, a meal planner and tracker with focus on weekly planning (tizzy.dev)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by tizzyapunkt 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Agent Socializer (agentsocializer.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by agentsocializer 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Origin Story of Kid Pix (red-green-blue.com)
    ×0.99 60 #64 | 16 points by MBCook 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The relationship between anger and creative performance (tandfonline.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by nreece 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (bbc.com)
    ×2.24 11 | 143 points by cataflam 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: NabuSQL – Rust Database GUI for MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQLite, Mssql (nabu.work)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by nabukodonozor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: WriteNative – correct, natural English in any Mac app (writenative.app)
    ×0.61 105 | 4 points by dengzhaofun 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD (github.com/prabanta-dev)
    ×1.52 28 #12 | 166 points by khalidkhair 14 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972) (ways-of-seeing.com)
    ×0.80 65 #67 | 146 points by rafael859 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Ecsodus – Migrate AWS Copilot apps to Terraform without losing prod (github.com/moneytool)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by moneytool 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tilefinch – An experimental web browser for the Sony PSP (github.com/stjanovitz)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by OuterVale 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack (yahoo.com)
    ×4.44 16 | 154 points by thinkcontext 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (bbc.com)
    ×2.05 33 #20 | 359 points by scrlk 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Command line arguments anatomy explained (betterdev.blog)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by ankitg12 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Clean room Adobe/Microsoft forks are rapidly improving (github.com/antstanley)
    ×2.60 36 | 4 points by iamstan23 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper (github.com/rogerbinns)
    ×0.62 60 | 88 points by tosh 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How to let a coding agent port your code and know what it ported (jscpd.dev)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by andreypk 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How to Build Wealth as a Career Person (asheradeniyi.com)
    ×2.41 44 | 156 points by doppp 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo (github.com/hashicorp)
    ×1.27 51 | 85 points by vmatsiiako 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: TerrainSR – fast, realistic heightmap upscaling model (huggingface.co)
    ×0.61 108 | 47 points by joegibbs 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Solar panels that plug into your wall (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×1.86 43 #26 | 209 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Chip stocks slide after Broadcom boss likens AI investing to 'casino' (theguardian.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by samizdis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones (shokunin.studio)
    ×4.67 25 | 130 points by riffraff 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Kindlefall a 3D ARPG in the browser, built with Three.js (kindlefall.com)
    ×1.31 129 | 4 points by djbiccboii 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com/qgis)
    ×2.23 4 #50 | 377 points by bwnkl 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.14 1 #86 | 156 points by dkpk 23 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Building an evidence-grounded agentic security operations harness on Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.75 | 2 points by hnp9j9qtda 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Athenode – plan the whole app as a spec tree, then let agents build it (athenode.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by iskelo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. IPv4 Parsing: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too (extractingcycles.com)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by csno 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Made a good work assistant but can't promote it. Like Viktor.com
    ×0.52 | 1 points by websku 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ordkort – Free vocabulary flashcards for 60 languages, no account (ordkort.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by silicq 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
    ×3.30 66 | 726 points by SpeakingOfBrad 5 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
    ×2.44 60 #39 | 544 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???