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  1. Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia
    ×1.08 55 | 4 points by justforfunhere 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?
    ×0.73 27 | 17 points by sandruso 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.12 2 | 660 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 743 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.42 11 | 738 points by petecooper 3 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are people aware OpenAI Dots intercept SSL?
    ×0.74 17 | 6 points by Benjamin_Dobell 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?
    ×0.78 71 | 15 points by jqpabc123 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Kimi Code hit its 5-hour limit after $1.37 of API usage
    ×0.37 85 | 5 points by waximabbax 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.20 73 | 304 points by petecooper 5 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.50 68 | 86 points by stanislavb 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Flow-state induction via raw mouse input (a working biohacking protocol)
    ×0.39 92 | 5 points by rejabusafint 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Game trips modem/router breaker
    ×0.24 87 | 4 points by simpaticoder 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering
    ×0.50 99 | 4 points by pauliusztin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.33 114 | 5 points by stdc105 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do people self host email and maintain deliverability?
    ×0.76 94 | 7 points by smithbob 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×0.66 90 | 9 points by nonfunctional 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×0.67 98 | 8 points by cromka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.67 102 | 12 points by winkelmann 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.24 117 | 14 points by masterchief166 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.36 111 | 5 points by Mutinix 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.41 116 | 15 points by aledevv 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.23 140 | 5 points by BehanPrW 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.30 126 | 4 points by abakh 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.34 113 | 14 points by Mobius01 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.39 119 | 10 points by parthdesai 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.24 105 | 18 points by bigwheels 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.45 131 | 9 points by ovudus 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Have the PHP vulnerabilities been exploited?
    ×0.38 125 | 6 points by crisnoble 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.27 136 | 5 points by vWijdaan 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.09 108 | 18 points by shakshukan 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles (bigwhalehunting.com)
    ×1.57 #1 | 75 points by vfxGer 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism (panamericandispatch.org)
    ×4.14 77 #79 | 443 points by vrganj 7 hours ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. JetBrains Thinkrail (github.com/JetBrains)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by hmokiguess 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: MXValidation – Send an email and get an authentication and DNS report (mxvalidation.com)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by metalinvest 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Architectural Decision Records (adr.github.io)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by pelasaco 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Securing our frontier model training environment (openai.com)
    ×1.60 33 | 119 points by pretext 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Agentsh – A Decentralized, Scalable Multiagent Harness (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.73 75 | 7 points by brunoborges 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer (darkhorizons.com)
    ×2.03 53 | 89 points by xoxxala 13 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. DNS: A Replacement for Finger (altchan.org)
    ×0.74 60 | 59 points by Bender 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. YousefAbdulHusain – The Dune Movies Erase Islam [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.62 43 #49 | 3 points by abdelhousni 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Vibe Coding for Free: What $0 Gets You in 2026 (codingplans.dev)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by nedsma 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Protocols and Relationships (systemsoflife.substack.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by mday404 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. MongoDB vs. FerretDB: When Open Source Compatibility Becomes a Patent Risk (shujisado.org)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by maxloh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions (epfl.ch)
    ×0.86 51 #27 | 127 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021) (aresluna.org)
    ×0.87 41 #31 | 61 points by jllyhill 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Low Birthrates in England Could Lead to 'Closure of 800 Primary Schools by 2029' (theguardian.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by karakoram 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says (reuters.com)
    ×3.23 23 | 142 points by firesteelrain 21 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Linear A decipherment open-sourced (plasma.ai)
    ×1.86 134 | 5 points by NatalieTrono 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens (scabshack.lol)
    ×1.57 24 #8 | 10 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A hacky f*d up way to portably access errno from outside of C (sebsite.pw)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by dverlaeckt80 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Anthropic sued for allegedly stealing from The King (avclub.com)
    ×1.50 24 | 3 points by righthand 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. We should be more ambitious with the software we build (danluu.com)
    ×2.98 10 #6 | 592 points by ltratt 18 hours ago | 588 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020) (github.com/e-n-f)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by theanonymousone 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz? (jevcards.com)
    ×1.18 95 | 72 points by totisjosema 5 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. JPEG XL with WebGPU makes smaller files than libjxl in 150 KB JavaScript (github.com/jackskip22)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by jackskip22 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Beam – Play Local MKV/MP4 Files from a Mac on a Chromecast (github.com/prasad-kumkar)
    ×0.80 128 | 3 points by PrasadKumkar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN:Odd Orbit, live 3D globe of quakes, weather, satellites and UFO reports (oddorbit.app)
    ×0.42 137 | 7 points by oddorbitapp 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards (github.com/Zagitta)
    ×2.26 40 #26 | 308 points by fragebogen 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Making My Blog Readable by AI Agents (deallocatedobjects.com)
    ×1.28 61 #50 | 28 points by ingve 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Tablesample Picks Rows (boringsql.com)
    ×0.18 60 #72 | 5 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Researchers thread the first touchscreen into a garment (nus.edu.sg)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by geox 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab (roku.com)
    ×1.56 3 #34 | 298 points by cxr 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706 (gitlab.com)
    ×0.67 37 #83 | 56 points by t20n 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Enjoy – A free AI creative studio for macOS, Windows, and Linux (enjoy.dev)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by mobitar 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. White House Directly Intervened to Shut Down Epstein Files Probe (newrepublic.com)
    ×13.42 61 | 52 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.47 14 | 139 points by amichail 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window (github.com/rbartoli)
    ×0.38 88 | 28 points by zzyyxx332211 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Defcon like browser game with slower pace and growth (tushynski.me)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by larry-the-agent 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Decido – an open decision model that runs CPU-only on a laptop (github.com/decido-ai)
    ×1.19 151 | 3 points by gauravapiscean 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless (twitter.com/boneGPT)
    ×4.93 38 #47 | 69 points by MrBuddyCasino 3 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Human Creativity in the Age of AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by epiccoleman 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Slack's experience being acquired by Salesforce (part one) (buildingslack.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by brandonb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. CVE Tracker (0xosprey.com)
    ×1.39 7 | 221 points by Group_B 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI (typeui.sh)
    ×0.88 74 | 80 points by elwingo1 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Walkman – turn-by-turn routing in the browser, built from vector tiles (walkman.uz)
    ×1.34 141 | 4 points by sardor_r1 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal (simedw.com)
    ×2.59 67 #42 | 645 points by alphax314 3 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026 (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.73 58 #88 | 50 points by civicpivot 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ford Patents Idea That Lets Parked Cars Autonomously Flee Danger (caranddriver.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by RickJWagner 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Firecrawl's Government Index (lexifina.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by alansaber 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: What had they done by your age? (by-your-age.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by dvdpearson 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I made a jobs-near-you map (offpeak.fyi)
    ×1.55 106 | 5 points by vsurraco 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.54 2 #48 | 658 points by privacyishuman 1 day ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog (lukaswerner.com)
    ×0.76 34 #53 | 61 points by derHackerman 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Progressive disclosure in agents to make them 2.3x faster (skyvern.com)
    ×0.84 54 #86 | 19 points by suchintan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Knip: finds and fixes unused dependencies in JavaScript and TypeScript projects (github.com/webpro-nl)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by modinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970 (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.59 23 | 156 points by speckx 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files? (lequin.dev)
    ×1.92 34 | 132 points by skadamat 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: WhatsApp Bridge for those with their own VPS (github.com/vid-t)
    ×1.09 79 | 4 points by vid_t 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A wysiwyg Markdown editor for macOS that works with agents (kirahowe.com)
    ×0.76 147 | 3 points by kmclean 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023) (ratfactor.com)
    ×1.13 45 #24 | 107 points by andsoitis 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer (corgi.computer)
    ×1.12 46 #70 | 134 points by eiopa 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???