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  1. We Built UltrafastSecp256k1 Up to 51% Faster ECC Across x86,ARM64,and RISC-V
    ×1.01 | 2 points by shrecshrec 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Open-Source Bionic Reading Chrome Extension (MIT)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by sdgnbs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Orvia – Spin up a real-time room, share files, leave – everything disappears
    ×1.14 | 2 points by yc_surajkr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.20 55 | 5 points by sujayk_33 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.28 69 | 9 points by dakiol 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
    ×0.92 59 | 11 points by moomoo11 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?
    ×0.84 41 | 8 points by arm32 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.49 44 | 1141 points by chaseadam17 4 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Claude crashed? Am I playing for the tokens for it to fix itself?
    ×1.17 68 | 5 points by jrs235 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects
    ×0.47 82 | 5 points by amin2011 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do You Love My "Assess Idea" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by burnerToBetOut 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Peer validation platform for engineering skills (inspired by X community notes)
    ×0.13 120 | 4 points by ms_sv 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?
    ×1.14 116 | 3 points by piratesAndSons 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×1.08 89 | 31 points by zekejohn 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What (other) jobs do you think of doing?
    ×0.36 84 | 9 points by penguin_booze 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?
    ×0.71 103 | 11 points by givemeethekeys 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How Real-Time Voice Agents Work: Media Infrastructure and Latency
    ×0.21 136 | 3 points by gokuljs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.38 130 | 11 points by kwar13 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Reddit Ads support is leaking PII and actively crossing user sessions
    ×0.87 94 | 18 points by arashvakil 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Who Should I Talk To?
    ×1.69 127 | 6 points by 3pt14159 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.12 135 | 23 points by TazeTSchnitzel 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.48 139 | 12 points by fdneng 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?
    ×0.26 138 | 7 points by arboles 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Google Cloud APIs (gcloud CLI) seems to be down or broken
    ×0.14 140 | 3 points by thej 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.48 133 | 29 points by causal 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.83 128 | 48 points by ColinWright 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: ByePhone- An AI assistant to automate tedious phone calls (byephone.io)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by gitpullups 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Solving Impossible Problems for Fun and Profit – Dan Gelbart (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by mhb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders (anthropic.com)
    ×0.90 48 | 133 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Script Snap – Extract code from videos (script-snap.com)
    ×0.55 86 | 13 points by liumw1203 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: New kid on the block: meet Ajime, robotics CI/CD next-gen platform
    ×0.72 | 2 points by ajime 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Resilient OpenClaw Browser Relay – Survives WS Drops and MV3 Restarts (github.com/Unayung)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by unayung 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust (harudagondi.space)
    ×1.35 16 #18 | 220 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (micasa.dev)
    ×2.58 31 | 641 points by cpcloud 2 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
    ×1.16 96 | 173 points by elayabharath 6 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Intensive grazing and soil fertility favor the growth of non-native plants (phys.org)
    ×1.70 | 2 points by PaulHoule 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Does Syntax Matter? (gingerbill.org)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by vrnvu 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.92 70 | 59 points by penguin_booze 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Museum of Handwritten Code (If, While, Binary Search, Merge Sort) (museum.codes)
    ×1.12 107 | 3 points by sgraphics8 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: NF-1 – A resource-zero programming language for low-end hardware (github.com/sonamsingh25437-ship-it)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by aditya_rai-331 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust (github.com/Ragnaroek)
    ×0.78 60 #49 | 74 points by ragnaroekX 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization (arxiv.org)
    ×0.57 61 #51 | 14 points by IdealeZahlen 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Gitas – A tool for Git account switching (github.com/letmutex)
    ×0.82 61 #77 | 66 points by letmutex 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents (june.kim)
    ×1.22 38 #86 | 151 points by gfortaine 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. When etcd crashes, check your disks first (nubificus.co.uk)
    ×0.74 58 | 45 points by _ananos_ 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake (garryslist.org)
    ×2.96 5 | 43 points by mooreds 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Nucleus - A Sovereign Control Plane for AI Agents (github.com/eidetic-works)
    ×1.12 81 | 3 points by NucleusOS 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate (floedb.ai)
    ×1.58 11 #13 | 145 points by matheusalmeida 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019) (cern.ch)
    ×1.39 20 #83 | 249 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: OpenBrowser MCP: Give your AI agent a real efficient browser (openbrowser.me)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by billy-enrizky-1 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Capitalle – Daily world capital guessing game (no back end, pure client-side) (capitalle.app)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by dingobp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hotline Webring (hotlinewebring.club)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by TigerUniversity 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Trump raises tariffs to 15% day after Supreme Court ruling (bbc.co.uk)
    ×9.43 42 | 41 points by rwmj 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Trawlx - Tweet text, likes, and retweets as JSON, no API keys (github.com/timstarkk)
    ×1.63 73 | 4 points by timstark 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Infinichess – Multiplayer Infinite Chessboard (infinichess.io)
    ×0.95 95 | 3 points by gregjw 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Write native binary web apps with TypeScript and Express (github.com/tsoniclang)
    ×0.28 115 | 14 points by jeswin 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Four-Color Theorem 1852–1976 (ams.org)
    ×1.89 57 #19 | 7 points by bikenaga 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI (github.com/ggml-org)
    ×3.08 9 #62 | 819 points by lairv 2 days ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight (arxiv.org)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by Terretta 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Crosspassion: The Magical Intersection When Interests Collide (beehiiv.com)
    ×1.96 34 | 3 points by subdomain 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. OpenScan (openscan.eu)
    ×1.48 27 | 224 points by joebig 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium (github.com/HenryNdubuaku)
    ×0.83 119 | 88 points by HenryNdubuaku 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What's the best way to learn a new language? (bbc.com)
    ×1.18 33 #16 | 29 points by 1659447091 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013) (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.91 40 #21 | 38 points by zepearl 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
    ×0.81 109 | 120 points by dogline 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: MeMCP – MCP for Personal Profile (github.com/nickyreinert)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by y42 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Minimalistic workout tracker for iPhone – Stats, Trends, Streaks (streakout.app)
    ×0.34 137 | 4 points by toni88x 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++ (github.com/a-e-k)
    ×0.99 39 #33 | 112 points by PaulHoule 19 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Padlet (YC W13) Is Hiring in San Francisco and Singapore (padlet.jobs)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI (twitter.com/peterjliu)
    ×1.17 35 #72 | 145 points by somerandomness 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. DHS pausing TSA PreCheck, Global Entry programs amid funding lapse (nbcnews.com)
    ×3.31 19 #74 | 36 points by LopRabbit 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I'm #1 on Google thanks to AI bullshit [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.31 14 #85 | 33 points by basilikum 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Thoughts on Coding Agents (dennybritz.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by dennybritz 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Browse, preview and install 460 Ghostty terminal themes in one click (ghostty-style.vercel.app)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by dhruv_ahuja 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Dq – pipe-based CLI for querying CSV, JSON, Avro, and Parquet files (github.com/razeghi71)
    ×0.91 98 | 3 points by razeghi71 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: CEL by Example (celbyexample.com)
    ×0.66 102 | 82 points by bufbuild 4 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct (theguardian.com)
    ×2.26 13 #52 | 5 points by helsinkiandrew 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What happens after Coding is solved (lennysnewsletter.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by alokDT 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: undent - fix indentation issues in multiline strings in js (github.com/okikio)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by okikio 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Boperators: Operator Overloading JavaScript and TypeScript (npmjs.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by thunderbong 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Salvius Joins Moltbook (salvius.org)
    ×1.91 31 | 3 points by gunthercox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet (neuroai.science)
    ×1.39 32 | 225 points by pminimax 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: How to Verify USDC Payments on Base Without a Payment Processor (paywatcher.dev)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by Sem_pre 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What Is a Database Transaction? (planetscale.com)
    ×1.38 1 #2 | 54 points by 0x54MUR41 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. OpenQ4: Open-source reimplementation of Quake 4 engine (github.com/themuffinator)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by klaussilveira 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Local LLM Setup on Windows with Ollama and LM Studio (ThinkPad / RTX A3000 GPU) (github.com/gbro3n)
    ×1.87 29 | 3 points by appsoftware 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization (mines.fyi)
    ×0.66 51 | 102 points by irasigman 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: ShuttleAI – One API for Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 (shuttleai.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by tristandevs 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The U.S. spent $30B to ditch textbooks (fortune.com)
    ×3.76 26 #80 | 8 points by _tk_ 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Does Opus 4.6 find the needle in the haystack? (georggrab.net)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by grey-area 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???