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  1. Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
    ×1.65 8 #25 | 120 points by semidror 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Effort to reduce wasted compute and move towards a greener future
    ×0.25 | 2 points by adityankale1995 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. When Claude CLI asks for feedback, responding authorizes conversation capture
    ×0.68 29 | 4 points by mmaunder 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What is the most interesting project you are working on?
    ×1.40 25 | 5 points by skwasimin 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: My recent show HN post got flagged need guidance
    ×0.20 65 | 5 points by theguysudo 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Knowledge Refresh for Production RAG
    ×0.10 | 2 points by rajkumarsamra 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
    ×0.61 74 | 44 points by mdwelsh 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
    ×0.90 80 | 119 points by keymasta 4 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Diablo 4 on Ubuntu?
    ×0.07 104 | 3 points by herodoturtle 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. OSS, security and Funding: libjpeg-turbo
    ×0.67 68 | 6 points by ternaus 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Remember N8n? Anyone?
    ×0.33 121 | 10 points by sankalpdomore 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Some Thoughts on the Economics of UPI and MDR
    ×0.18 105 | 5 points by pyeri 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
    ×2.49 70 | 315 points by jakemanger 4 days ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Losing motivation to work in the IT field, need advice
    ×0.75 95 | 21 points by trowa159 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone using DeepSeek Harness (dsh) as part of a customer-facing agent?
    ×0.25 124 | 5 points by mmartindevelope 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. My Thoughts on AI and LLMs
    ×0.22 126 | 13 points by leonardovb 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What happens when Claude Code goes away?
    ×0.32 133 | 8 points by HoldOnAMinute 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
    ×0.65 131 | 25 points by learner_yearner 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: ICLR went from 143 submissions to 62,301 submission IDs – what happened?
    ×0.47 113 | 8 points by luxshan_t 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. ESP32 p4 pico and IMX477 camera
    ×0.20 137 | 5 points by time-q 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Does this mean it's fine to use Claude subscriptions with third party harnesses?
    ×0.15 138 | 4 points by jakemanger 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. We Asked a Urologist Whether Icing Your Testicles Boosts Testosterone (dartmouth.edu)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by harry_nutsachs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Influence of AI on Human Decisions in DHS Surveillance (techpolicy.press)
    ×1.21 | 1 points by cdrnsf 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. North Korea Stopped Nuclear Testing in 2017, Triggered 1k Earthquakes Since (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by gmays 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Telling a Computer to Do Things (will-keleher.com)
    ×0.95 52 | 87 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative (radius.to)
    ×1.05 47 #53 | 152 points by radius89 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Coding Theory: A Playful Introduction (paramrathour.github.io)
    ×0.90 40 #86 | 24 points by vismit2000 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion (pirateface.co)
    ×2.90 43 | 544 points by skepticalgenius 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Scrolling Text Generator – marquee, ticker and credits in the browser (scrollingtextgenerator.space)
    ×1.30 97 | 4 points by liweipt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits (gadgetreview.com)
    ×1.53 42 #32 | 276 points by geox 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games (tinybrains.dev)
    ×0.93 55 #47 | 97 points by codetiger 20 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The senior engineer death spiral (sunilpai.dev)
    ×4.11 30 #60 | 228 points by nsavage 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Jev-Leftpad (github.com/f)
    ×1.98 51 #73 | 226 points by fka 9 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Singeli: High-level domain-specific metaprogrammin language for low-level progra (github.com/mlochbaum)
    ×1.89 | 2 points by fanf2 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Everyday Tiktokers Are Making $6k a Month Posting Stealth Ads (wsj.com)
    ×1.53 8 #45 | 10 points by apparent 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Don't Use AI to Write (paulbakker.io)
    ×2.36 26 #57 | 114 points by eigenBasis 8 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. X's Updates to Terms of Service (x.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by simonebrunozzi 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Formatting Guidelines for LLM Comments
    ×1.46 | 2 points by manlymuppet 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Sommelier, an Excel Addin for your agent (grokked.it)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by grokkedit 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I analysed 169,123 Chess Olympiad moves and gave out 132 silly awards (olympiadstats.fun)
    ×1.56 44 | 3 points by pompomltd 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia (pnas.org)
    ×0.31 51 #66 | 3 points by Thevet 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. RSA-896 (saweis.net)
    ×1.41 35 #84 | 224 points by madars 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (fenski.pl)
    ×1.44 50 | 174 points by farlight 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Jeff – A read-only CLI for semantic code review using Jev (github.com/Alurith)
    ×1.05 98 | 27 points by imalessandro 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Qwen Image 2.1 (qwen.ai)
    ×2.98 1 #43 | 711 points by jmillikin 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Snagr – abandoned checkout emails for Polar (snagr.sh)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by tejasbhovad 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. PyPy v8.0.0 Release (pypy.org)
    ×2.06 67 | 64 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: MidiSlayer, a desktop sight-reading trainer for MIDI keyboards (midislayer.com)
    ×1.12 103 | 3 points by monoglyph 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Nginx Control API: View In-Memory Configuration and Reload via HTTP Requests (nginx.org)
    ×2.48 26 | 4 points by aaaaffine 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Winning the visa lottery (aeaweb.org)
    ×1.59 29 #33 | 93 points by neehao 14 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Prompts aren’t Real (evaluation.club)
    ×1.23 30 #82 | 116 points by mcfunley 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Dreams of making drugs and tissues in space get closer to reality (science.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by geneticdrifts 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Apocalypse Will Not Be Sexy (techdirt.com)
    ×2.01 51 | 4 points by beardyw 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. OpenAI projections point to a $278B cash burn through 2030 (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by MC995 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution (hrw.org)
    ×5.39 21 | 252 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August (twitter.com/Lon)
    ×4.04 2 #4 | 113 points by espeed 1 hour ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right (i-kh.net)
    ×2.28 54 #68 | 112 points by bucket2015 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Pipper (github.com/maker-or)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by handfuloflight 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees (multifamilydive.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 13 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix (pdp1173.com)
    ×1.23 11 #5 | 40 points by davepl 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: 8 months extending my terminal to handle all my work with all agents (github.com/albertwujj)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by aywu 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Saudi Arabia's Ceer launches flagship electric vehicles (agbi.com)
    ×0.76 16 #34 | 5 points by abdullahalharir 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++ (github.com/adonis-singh)
    ×1.09 58 #48 | 130 points by metrofun 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Good people refuse to do bad things (carette.xyz)
    ×4.60 71 #76 | 119 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Big AI to humanity: drop dead (matthewbutterick.com)
    ×2.12 40 | 3 points by Tomte 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How do I talk about using AI without sounding like an AI evangelist? (askamanager.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by MattSayar 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Judge HN Threads with Jev (hnjudge.vercel.app)
    ×1.47 6 | 3 points by rishi_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM (github.com/volotat)
    ×1.94 9 #23 | 224 points by volotat 13 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I am vibe coding a drone (railway.app)
    ×1.92 125 | 5 points by couAUIA 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Nanosamur.ai – Ollama for Voice Models (STT) (github.com/nanosamurai)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by newcrobuzon 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (jock.pl)
    ×0.77 100 | 81 points by joozio 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: jevc – compile policy prompts into deterministic verdict programs (github.com/doronp)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by doronp 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a 64 GB M2 Ultra: A 66-Minute Real Work Run (b1tank.github.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by b1tank 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Steerable Cultural Preference Optimization of Reward Models (arxiv.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by measurablefunc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Sublime Text Build 4213 (sublimetext.com)
    ×2.47 36 #35 | 48 points by konz 10 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (convaiinnovations.com)
    ×5.16 2 #71 | 1322 points by nandakishor_ml 2 days ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Don't Be Nice (roe.dev)
    ×10.77 47 | 86 points by edent 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Mahabharata Characters – 307 figures with gunas and decision primitives (huggingface.co)
    ×1.00 75 | 4 points by init0 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Study: BEVs emit 88g CO2/km over their lifecycle, less than half ICE cars [pdf] (nature.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Newly discovered asteroid 2026 SY2 changes how NEO data is interpreted (astrophyzix.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by JEOFFEZZ 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: AI Hack Watch - timeline and dataset of hacking incidents(JSON/RSS) (aihackwatch.com)
    ×1.34 107 | 3 points by Satinel 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AI proves Medvedev logic is undecidable (arxiv.org)
    ×1.86 35 | 3 points by carra 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Antigravity Spaces – Switch Antigravity IDE Projects Easily (github.com/ApollosWave)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by apolloswave 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI shopping agent (theregister.com)
    ×2.05 3 #36 | 10 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: FearGate – AI Fear Machine (feargate.org)
    ×1.80 | 2 points by t_nate 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I don't care about majors, minors, or honors programs. Do you? (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mathattack 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others (mysetup.ai)
    ×1.86 71 | 249 points by steveybrown 4 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How do Traffic Signals Work (2019) (practical.engineering)
    ×0.55 15 #14 | 12 points by at1as 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Whirlpool Washer Transmission Repair (2007) (k0lee.com)
    ×0.54 18 #16 | 18 points by userbinator 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side (aresluna.org)
    ×1.04 61 #49 | 158 points by zdw 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???