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  1. Bob Cringely Has Died
    ×4.03 12 #17 | 19 points by paveworld 38 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×0.73 88 | 127 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.13 69 | 263 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.36 89 | 464 points by dan-bailey 4 days ago | 880 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.30 103 | 5 points by Dinuda 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
    ×0.35 124 | 3 points by Steaglsz 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.50 143 | 17 points by jopizio 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. GitHub mutuals on AI in life sciences or bioinformatics
    ×0.36 117 | 5 points by arli_ap 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
    ×0.68 127 | 17 points by thatonehack 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.38 140 | 6 points by esher 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.75 135 | 30 points by zcalvin 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Favorite TV Show?
    ×1.72 42 | 5 points by chistev 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.28 146 | 8 points by bigfishhk 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming
    ×1.59 123 | 21 points by temilson 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What landmarks/lighthouses in the era of LLM/AI?
    ×0.18 156 | 3 points by throw_away_ai 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
    ×1.81 130 | 22 points by k9294 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: 80s Choplifter game ported to Vision Pro as an agent eval (WIP) (bounds.dev)
    ×1.28 122 | 4 points by boundsj 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: I made a computer vision tool for evaluating deadlift form (github.com/jeremyipark)
    ×2.50 142 | 8 points by dr_blueberry 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.50 #1 | 116 points by elffjs 1 hour ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. We diffed all 66 release pairs of the official MCP servers, 140 silent changes (github.com/Paraphern)
    ×1.52 69 #90 | 6 points by paraphern 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.56 28 | 136 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Bise – a multi-agent harness, made for humans (bise.dev)
    ×1.73 119 | 9 points by gvergnaud 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager (whec.com)
    ×1.56 11 #5 | 145 points by gscott 8 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (tdk.com)
    ×1.71 18 #39 | 21 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I built a vibe coded website checker for leaked secrets (digitup.dev)
    ×1.94 28 | 4 points by ahmgeek 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Use all Codex Plugins inside Pi (github.com/wileai)
    ×1.24 98 | 20 points by alexandroskyr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)
    ×1.01 128 | 80 points by thefourthchime 5 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. PL research is dead, the age of PL exploration is just beginning (kirancodes.me)
    ×1.40 9 | 3 points by azhenley 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal (science.org)
    ×3.30 40 | 134 points by xqcgrek2 2 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 (dwarfstar.sh)
    ×2.22 10 #83 | 342 points by fibo 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Mulleted, Meme-Loving Billionaire Behind Meta's Hit AI App (wsj.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by nradov 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Merging With An LLM: Can an LLM reconstruct my values from small data? (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by crescit_eundo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter (theregister.com)
    ×1.38 84 | 50 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Teacher Planner – A digital planbook with AI tools for teachers (teacherplanner.ai)
    ×1.56 138 | 3 points by sunpy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields (notoriousbfg.com)
    ×1.54 4 #2 | 227 points by trwhite 7 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today (red5.net)
    ×0.80 37 #35 | 35 points by mondainx 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit (behindthecode.ca)
    ×1.22 59 #58 | 74 points by paulgerhardt 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: AilaFlow – A Self-Hosted AI Workspace for Teams (ailaflow.com)
    ×0.97 150 | 3 points by b4rtazz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I'm color blind, so I built a way to show people how I see (josh.ing)
    ×2.40 133 | 5 points by jshchnz 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art (newgrounds.com)
    ×2.20 3 #50 | 436 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com/anteloc)
    ×1.28 50 #65 | 143 points by antelocnova 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model (sshh.io)
    ×2.11 14 | 162 points by iacguy 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's (christies.com)
    ×0.99 85 #67 | 84 points by peter_hansteen 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cloudflare opens more Enterprise-only features to all customers (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.79 84 #74 | 47 points by sdko 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
    ×6.38 5 #89 | 1693 points by bradleyg223 3 days ago | 1179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) (kevincox.ca)
    ×0.94 16 #25 | 37 points by KomoD 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com/ahmetomerv)
    ×1.48 100 | 3 points by ahmetomer 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Billions of triangles redux (zeux.io)
    ×0.72 87 #70 | 51 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why should I have to pay more for buses if I don't use a smartphone? (theguardian.com)
    ×4.51 15 | 61 points by DamonHD 17 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B into quashing datacenter dissent (theregister.com)
    ×4.78 65 | 53 points by joebuckwilliams 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict (cosmowenman.substack.com)
    ×1.45 6 #3 | 76 points by CosmoWenman 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Your body of work thinks back at you (photoni.st)
    ×1.35 7 #10 | 20 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city (nytimes.com)
    ×3.43 1 #54 | 652 points by CoryOndrejka 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy (dental-scope.com)
    ×1.47 102 | 132 points by Zeruxe 5 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Docker Compose implementation in Rust for Windows WSL containers (wslc) (ricardoborges.github.io)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by r2ob 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Make Tmux the OS (matduggan.com)
    ×2.32 24 #44 | 190 points by weaksauce 21 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Can AI read pain in your cat's face? (tailstory-app.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by Mohsentr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Is library building obsoleted by AI coding?
    ×1.42 51 | 3 points by k1w1 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What Meta got right with Muse (metedata.substack.com)
    ×1.54 62 #84 | 35 points by young_mete 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.56 4 #85 | 278 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Private capital is reshaping Hollywood moviemaking (cnbc.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by rdmuser 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: ViralWiz – AI captions, clips and thumbnails for short-form video (viralwiz.co)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by moustaqim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Gutsy: Tiny model for typed decisions on CPU (Jev style) (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by mrkn1 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world (jaredpalmer.com)
    ×2.14 50 #47 | 14 points by ilreb 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc (byzantine-systems.github.io)
    ×0.93 77 #69 | 91 points by schonfinkel 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf] (cambridge.org)
    ×3.47 84 | 205 points by skeptical1884 7 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models (reddit.com)
    ×3.94 8 | 57 points by rjh29 16 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: DynamicTune – Closed-form trajectory weight surgery from 4B into 0.8B (github.com/dsadawq3)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by fermlon30000 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: GPT-6 Astra and Claude 5.5 Opus race to create the best StarCraft bot (starskirmish.com)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by __cayenne__ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev) (sezwhere.com)
    ×1.83 149 | 19 points by irs 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. FLUX 3 Image (bfl.ai)
    ×2.42 6 #77 | 428 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google opens Gemini student hub to Workspace for Education users (thelabnotes.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by spy888 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Scorched Planets: "Scorched Earth" but in space with planetary gravity effects (scorchedplanets.com)
    ×1.80 13 | 4 points by hexer303 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.84 101 | 133 points by gvuksic 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Outis – Fight AI spam by sending fake "user unknown" bounce emails (github.com/dtonon)
    ×1.25 145 | 3 points by dtonon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Sarala – An open-source WYSIWYG Markdown editor (solancer.com)
    ×1.83 144 | 23 points by solancer 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Bun-install – Global CLI installer for Bun with local monorepo support (github.com/joeycumines)
    ×1.08 154 | 3 points by joeycumines 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. RuneScape 4 (techpowerup.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by outlore 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Rust's derive often implies inline (yossarian.net)
    ×2.23 | 2 points by woodruffw 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL (reddit.com)
    ×4.19 75 | 81 points by xbmcuser 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Agentlytics – cookieless analytics your AI agent can read and act on (measuremy.site)
    ×1.06 96 | 3 points by developeron29 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.94 108 | 115 points by primitivesuave 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Things that apparently cause cancer (breakthroughjournal.org)
    ×2.47 13 | 204 points by timpera 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court (bbc.com)
    ×5.41 29 | 71 points by porridgeraisin 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS (apple.com)
    ×2.43 33 #46 | 291 points by notfirstpost 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente (senate.gov)
    ×3.90 12 #49 | 33 points by TeaVMFan 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Xnufont (github.com/vladkorotnev)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by xav_authentique 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: S3-Accelerator (github.com/danthegoodman1)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by dangoodmanUT 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Go++, an Aspiring Go Superset (github.com/telgatech)
    ×1.40 152 | 3 points by u89012 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Ferry – Sync your coding agent setup to remote Linux boxes (dlhck.github.io)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by dlhck 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???