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  1. Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    ×1.30 1 #11 | 41 points by alegd 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Warning: If you search "Claude Desktop" on Google, the 2nd ad result is a scam
    ×0.73 | 3 points by diogenescynic 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I Built a 22k-Line App with Zero Coding Experience. Or, how to control agents
    ×0.30 | 2 points by JasonGravy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×1.94 7 #85 | 275 points by modelcroissant 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session
    ×0.28 78 | 7 points by agentseal 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×1.90 72 | 337 points by misterchocolat 4 days ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×0.76 81 | 62 points by fnoef 3 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: May be a basic question, but how can I use AI well?
    ×0.61 83 | 8 points by jdw64 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager
    ×0.52 79 | 7 points by chairhairair 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.78 86 | 78 points by absurdwebsite 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I built a real-time AR plane spotter, here's the math that makes it work
    ×0.31 89 | 6 points by ananddhruv29 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?
    ×0.22 105 | 6 points by tuvix 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?
    ×0.54 97 | 11 points by canterburry 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
    ×1.08 113 | 16 points by arikusi 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
    ×1.03 96 | 23 points by throwaw12 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does magic link authentication use HTML canvassing?
    ×0.35 111 | 5 points by trinsic2 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.82 115 | 26 points by RockstarSprain 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: ChatAi web-based session notation?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by xtiansimon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
    ×0.58 98 | 31 points by fny 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error
    ×0.89 119 | 13 points by ascarola 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.21 109 | 31 points by thewillmoss 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.70 128 | 14 points by Anon84 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.56 135 | 11 points by comrade1234 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.62 130 | 14 points by wasimsk 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?
    ×0.44 124 | 6 points by s_u_d_o 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)
    ×0.55 120 | 7 points by leetrout 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?
    ×0.72 132 | 6 points by coreyp_1 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?
    ×1.26 121 | 16 points by smonk108 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?
    ×0.45 149 | 6 points by etherus 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing
    ×0.61 107 | 19 points by limalabs 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)
    ×2.66 32 | 377 points by whiteyford 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.76 70 | 44 points by arjunchint 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GitHub's Fake Star Economy (awesomeagents.ai)
    ×2.92 4 #4 | 422 points by Liriel 6 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (discovermagazine.com)
    ×1.15 22 #14 | 123 points by janandonly 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Who Is Blake Whiting? (theamericanscholar.org)
    ×0.64 26 #28 | 30 points by Caiero 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
    ×1.14 55 #47 | 103 points by Akcium 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.72 28 #83 | 283 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Building an OPNsense router (clintonboys.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by mtsolitary 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Haversine Distance (4rknova.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Sudomake Friends, personalized AI personas in a Telegram group chat (github.com/audiodude)
    ×1.17 145 | 7 points by audiodude 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1 (lwn.net)
    ×0.48 24 #17 | 12 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Yann LeCun says Dario Amodei "knows nothing about AI effects on jobs" (indiatimes.com)
    ×2.04 20 #44 | 10 points by kordlessagain 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Most people care about farm animals – our food system doesn't reflect that (ourworldindata.org)
    ×1.81 29 | 3 points by alphabetatango 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Your models are collapsing because they are closed loops. (amazon.co.uk)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by martynagass 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Arrow. Point your phone, walk where it says, find out where (kouh.me)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by kouhxp 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption (hajo.me)
    ×0.72 57 #75 | 24 points by fxtentacle 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com/coremaze)
    ×0.88 52 #78 | 65 points by Bawoosette 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)
    ×7.70 35 | 351 points by trocado 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.90 62 | 91 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: AWS's Kiro just got an Open source Codex (github.com/thabti)
    ×2.98 93 | 8 points by sovietism 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust (medium.com)
    ×1.27 27 #24 | 107 points by PaulHoule 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Peoples of America (palladiummag.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by NaOH 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)
    ×3.96 43 | 170 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: CyberWriter – a .md editor built on Apple's (barely-used) on-device AI (cyberwriter.app)
    ×0.88 19 | 3 points by uncSoft 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Link Shortener – Itlinks.me (itlinks.me)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by IgorStojanov 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: P2 - Object Storage Server with S3 Compatible API, MIT License (github.com/Suleman-Elahi)
    ×0.68 156 | 3 points by isuleman 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Turning a Chinese IoT camera into an owl livestream (alexbeals.com)
    ×0.56 5 #22 | 13 points by dado3212 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com/shivampkumar)
    ×1.41 #49 | 188 points by shivampkumar 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. File System Wars (bytearchitect.io)
    ×1.29 49 #55 | 11 points by rantingdemon 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices (theguardian.com)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by ciconia 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.53 72 | 47 points by vrganj 3 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean (github.com/mmaaz-git)
    ×0.71 87 | 12 points by mmaaz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (axios.com)
    ×3.59 4 #13 | 272 points by Palmik 5 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age (phys.org)
    ×1.00 36 #31 | 83 points by pseudolus 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    ×2.16 14 #72 | 335 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    ×2.71 17 #77 | 581 points by DamnInteresting 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore (twitter.com/Lina_Hoshino)
    ×2.31 18 #35 | 45 points by tasoeur 3 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Swiss AI Initiative (2023) (swiss-ai.org)
    ×0.97 42 #46 | 86 points by doener 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Car Owners Are Revolting over Tesla's Self-Driving Promises (wsj.com)
    ×1.96 4 #51 | 9 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. GraalVM JavaScript Sandboxing (graalvm.org)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by eatonphil 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Hot-wiring the Lisp machine (scheatkode.com)
    ×0.91 72 #66 | 44 points by spudlyo 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Shared Dissatisfaction in an Age of Liberal Disillusion (greyenlightenment.com)
    ×1.97 | 2 points by paulpauper 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Data Center Is Getting a $77M Tax Break to Create One Job (nysfocus.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by jaredwiener 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Codebase Readiness Grid: can your repo handle AI agents? (github.com/Kenogami-AI)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by zoyth 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Omi – watches your screen, hears conversations, tells you what to do (github.com/BasedHardware)
    ×1.69 127 | 19 points by kodjima33 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (vulture.com)
    ×0.36 36 #37 | 39 points by prismatic 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: ANSI Saver for Apple TV (apple.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by lardissone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Tracking Top US Science Olympiad Alumni over Last 25 Years (perplexity.ai)
    ×0.90 143 | 5 points by bkls 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Generate a realistic handwriting animation from any text (getmycursive.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by chunza2542 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Free API and widget to look up US representatives (repscontact.com)
    ×0.98 154 | 3 points by waterproof 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 'No Random Woman Is Getting What I Built': Founder Reveals 'Floozy Clause' (ibtimes.co.uk)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by randycupertino 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Observability for AI Agents (cloudpresser.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by cloudpresser 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency (bbc.com)
    ×9.50 65 | 273 points by blondie9x 13 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
    ×1.54 69 | 52 points by mhb 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Clone, a small Rust VMM, forks VMs in under 20ms via CoW (github.com/unixshells)
    ×2.13 64 | 10 points by rasengan 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: EDDI – Multi-agent AI engine where agent logic lives in JSON, not code (github.com/labsai)
    ×0.30 | 2 points by ginccc 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. America Is in the Middle of a Stealth Manufacturing Boom (wsj.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of iLearningEngines charged with fraud (reuters.com)
    ×3.40 25 | 154 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 16 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)
    ×5.04 65 | 76 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???