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  1. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×3.04 2 #7 | 372 points by _-x-_ 13 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Has Claude Opus 4.7 nerfed?
    ×1.09 13 | 3 points by souravroy78 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What to Expect in 2030s?
    ×1.14 40 | 4 points by alexander2002 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×1.09 49 | 91 points by LatencyKills 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript
    ×0.40 62 | 5 points by g48ywsJk6w48 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?
    ×0.88 71 | 10 points by dwa3592 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?
    ×0.43 70 | 4 points by samarthv 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Oh, What Places to Go (Seriously Tho)
    ×0.46 75 | 4 points by thx 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Batteries Included CLI Framework
    ×0.28 92 | 5 points by maxalbarello 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS
    ×0.36 105 | 4 points by lifeisstillgood 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How did the industry settle on weekly limits?
    ×0.21 100 | 3 points by saratogacx 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?
    ×0.37 90 | 7 points by visox 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?
    ×3.27 73 | 14 points by fandorin 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by Haeuserschlucht 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?
    ×0.70 136 | 4 points by Erndob 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.73 102 | 28 points by langs 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?
    ×1.60 80 | 7 points by hamiecod 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
    ×0.55 97 | 22 points by honungsburk 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.59 114 | 40 points by 019 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How to Attend the Altman vs. Musk Trial
    ×1.95 76 | 8 points by major4x 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.65 127 | 19 points by AG25 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
    ×1.03 120 | 15 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?
    ×0.35 128 | 7 points by coreyp_1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking
    ×0.35 135 | 10 points by mfi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?
    ×0.81 134 | 7 points by zkid18 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?
    ×1.01 130 | 8 points by namegulf 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.60 139 | 25 points by burnt-resistor 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?
    ×2.27 111 | 24 points by lyfeninja 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded
    ×1.36 131 | 9 points by vintagedave 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?
    ×0.58 116 | 13 points by thinkingtoilet 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Can non-developer build commercial products with AI
    ×1.33 146 | 10 points by rkorlimarla 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.34 138 | 44 points by alpinisme 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Is possible a language easy as py, fast as C, more secure than Rust?
    ×0.89 141 | 10 points by jerryzhang66 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
    ×0.46 157 | 11 points by preston-kwei 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?
    ×0.67 145 | 14 points by smackeyacky 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users
    ×1.05 148 | 26 points by darkhorse13 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Dear astronomers, what are the most interesting things in space lately?
    ×1.04 124 | 19 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games (github.com/MartinGalway)
    ×1.11 20 #54 | 177 points by ingve 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Physics Slop That YouTube Wants Tibees to Make (youtube.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by srean 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Stop Celebrating Ubuntu 26.04 – It's a Disaster [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by muterad_murilax 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. CSS as a Query Language (evdc.me)
    ×0.90 59 | 80 points by evnc 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI Might Be Lying to Your Boss (williamoconnell.me)
    ×3.56 52 #59 | 35 points by annjose 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software (feldera.com)
    ×1.94 16 | 47 points by gz09 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A faster, drop-in replacement for Tailscale's DERP relay (hyper-derp.dev)
    ×0.94 108 | 3 points by KRuskowski 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases (github.com/refactoringhq)
    ×1.72 44 | 300 points by lucaronin 2 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: LocalLLM – Recipes for Running the Local LLM (Need Contributors) (locallllm.fly.dev)
    ×0.73 142 | 14 points by Igor_Wiwi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Cartoon Studio – an open-source desktop app for making 2D cartoon shows (github.com/Jellypod-Inc)
    ×2.27 147 | 15 points by bilater 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980) (eternal-flame.org)
    ×0.89 37 #46 | 33 points by xeonmc 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Claude Opus 4.6 vs. Opus 4.7 Effort Levels and Prompt Steering Benchmarks (georgeliu.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by mszel 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. This is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies (nytimes.com)
    ×1.89 4 | 3 points by trauco 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Safer – Sleep better while AI agents have shell access (github.com/crufter)
    ×1.16 158 | 4 points by friendly_chap 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite (github.com/russellromney)
    ×1.33 50 | 303 points by russellthehippo 3 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Draw Together Online (vidzert.com)
    ×1.22 58 | 6 points by vidzert 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically (hisorty.app)
    ×2.60 87 | 72 points by damiannn 3 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: SQL Protocol – learn SQL by running real queries, with 1v1 PvP (sqlprotocol.com)
    ×0.27 | 2 points by ItaiZeilig 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Reviving BrowserID in 2026 (wakamoleguy.com)
    ×0.58 43 #42 | 28 points by wakamoleguy 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
    ×4.56 27 | 395 points by nreece 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: DSS, a lightweight TUI spreadsheet editor and dashboard in Go (github.com/VincenzoManto)
    ×1.92 1 | 6 points by databasa 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code (github.com/delta-hq)
    ×0.74 63 | 67 points by tejpalv 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Duckville, a persistent-world life SIM where you're a duck (duckville.town)
    ×1.64 109 | 4 points by stfurkan 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Markdown as a Database (github.com/molefrog)
    ×4.31 107 | 12 points by molefrog 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
    ×3.54 17 #25 | 251 points by gasull 10 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A populist wave is rising to end the 'captive' repair economy (cnbc.com)
    ×1.61 19 #40 | 9 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Anthropic's Argument for Mythos SWE-bench improvement contains a fatal error (philosophicalhacker.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by kmdupree 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Classic American Diner (loc.gov)
    ×1.68 9 | 262 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Headless terminal - Allow agents to run any interactive TUI or CLI (github.com/montanaflynn)
    ×0.81 161 | 3 points by anonfunction 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
    ×5.55 3 #5 | 672 points by milkglass 7 hours ago | 401 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)
    ×2.31 28 #47 | 81 points by pabs3 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Gestionale magazzino su misura: come ho digitalizzato un'azienda di ricambi (donatodelpeschio.it)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by donnyBlanko 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. ML supports existence of unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena (arxiv.org)
    ×0.85 67 | 72 points by solarist 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Nimbus – Browser with Claude Code UX (usenimbus.app)
    ×1.38 93 | 17 points by pycassa 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Quay – Menu-bar Git sync (sailorslog.io)
    ×0.96 96 | 4 points by sailingcode 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I built a simple site to reduce tool overload and improve focus
    ×2.80 126 | 8 points by saeefwaleed 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.27 6 #8 | 386 points by gwerbret 16 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (wordpress.com)
    ×0.87 55 #61 | 78 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Disneyland guests can opt out of facial recognition at park entrances (thehill.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers for Bus Mouse Support (phoronix.com)
    ×1.63 72 | 48 points by speckx 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Homebutler – See and manage your homelab from one Go binary (homebutler.dev)
    ×2.06 54 | 3 points by swq115 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments (github.com/adam-s)
    ×0.76 88 | 21 points by dataviz1000 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Chestnut – The antidote to AI-induced skill atrophy (chestnut.so)
    ×1.59 153 | 7 points by NickMiladinov 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: DDoS detection in 0.9s, tested against a 48 Gbps attack live (flowtriq.com)
    ×1.32 46 | 11 points by jacob_masse 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. My .config Ship of Theseus (shift1w.com)
    ×0.84 10 #19 | 15 points by jacobwiseberg 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. National Science Board members told by Trump administration they were terminated (thehill.com)
    ×1.81 39 | 3 points by pera 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The 'smart wall' the US is building on the border (elpais.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by geox 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Hyper-DERP: C++/io_uring DERP relay (hyper-derp.dev)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Escrow Security for iCloud Keychain (apple.com)
    ×1.30 57 | 39 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go (github.com/ENTERPILOT)
    ×1.14 85 | 214 points by santiago-pl 5 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology (nikomc.com)
    ×1.03 39 #88 | 86 points by mailyk 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Documented source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro (bbcelite.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by jimmcslim 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Talisman – A Android instrument played with two thumbs (by-igor.com)
    ×1.41 74 | 6 points by ycosynot 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???