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  1. Has anyone figured out how to guard LLMs on kernel level?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by isaacnsisong 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: It's a Lot
    ×2.96 23 | 5 points by mettamage 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is neuromorphic computing going to replace traditional AI?
    ×0.55 18 | 3 points by lennart-rth 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Codex Is Down
    ×1.92 60 | 11 points by freakynit 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How would you harden AI changes to a 1M-line legacy SaaS before review?
    ×1.08 48 | 3 points by thegreatkahuna 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. ChatGPT Is Down
    ×2.40 49 | 9 points by anujbans 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Postgress in Rust
    ×0.20 | 2 points by poldex 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Companies are optimizing models for specific benchmarks
    ×0.25 | 2 points by mzubairtahir 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×4.54 19 | 476 points by Thrashed 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's Up with Archive.today?
    ×0.26 83 | 5 points by nobody9999 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. GPL Infection of LLMs?
    ×0.38 96 | 4 points by sl_convertible 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude used my pipeline to find a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture
    ×0.54 77 | 6 points by JGPTechCo 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate
    ×1.02 57 | 9 points by rellyattd 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do I find startups that are looking for a dev? How to approach them?
    ×0.17 98 | 5 points by need_a_work23 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.44 93 | 30 points by amichail 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Two Gov Websites Compromised
    ×0.88 89 | 7 points by relunsec 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: ChatGPT exports do not contain all conversation messages
    ×0.42 103 | 5 points by afpx 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to get in touch with Paddle (MoR)
    ×0.26 111 | 6 points by probst 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.83 101 | 29 points by sam_lowry_ 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are your current favorite monitoring and observability solutions?
    ×0.60 106 | 3 points by Exoristos 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
    ×1.07 116 | 12 points by nothrowaways 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is anyone giving out tokens for benchmarking LLMs?
    ×0.19 129 | 3 points by emosenkis 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Can we get a day that is free from AI news?
    ×1.47 87 | 8 points by MichaelMoser123 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How are you getting decent front end interface results out of LLMs?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by VladVladikoff 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?
    ×0.19 122 | 4 points by lellow 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Has your typing gotten worse with AI?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by aizk 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Single-click and remote OpenCode session right in the browser
    ×0.26 142 | 3 points by jashandeep31 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A VSCode extension for AI to understand your project
    ×0.19 | 2 points by bailingyuan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Any Good Pi.dev Setups?
    ×0.41 143 | 3 points by galsapir 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?
    ×0.55 117 | 32 points by dondraper36 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What are your thoughts on spec-driven development?
    ×0.39 95 | 4 points by Austin_Conlon 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Pixel phones getting ad notifications
    ×0.81 130 | 8 points by explodes 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Convince me to not to shelve my app (I've decided to)
    ×0.25 | 2 points by asdfbank 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Audio Player with "Binaural Beats" tuned to the same key as your music (github.com/henrygabriels)
    ×0.79 80 | 19 points by gabriel666smith 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Uploads.sh – the missing upload command for coding agents (open-source) (uploads.sh)
    ×1.62 90 | 10 points by zachdunn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.19 21 #30 | 157 points by Bootvis 19 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I got into YC Startup School by hacking it (obaid.wtf)
    ×1.33 1 #72 | 104 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Cygnus – A fast, lightweight self-hostable serverless runtime and PaaS (cygnus.run)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by ccheshirecat 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (claude.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by e2e4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Visual 6502 (visual6502.org)
    ×1.08 42 | 104 points by infiniteregrets 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models (obsoletesony.substack.com)
    ×2.14 53 #64 | 207 points by speckx 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Presearch Has Shut Down (presearch.io)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by paulnpace 59 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.82 9 #14 | 629 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Smriti: Your Photos, Your Memories (chivukulavirinchi.github.io)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by virinchi_cv 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn? (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.78 | 2 points by hebelehubele 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Sandbox-bwrap-Nix: A lightweight sandbox for AI agents and experiments (grigio.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by grigio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: YC Has It – describe your problem, find the YC startup that solves it (ychasit.com)
    ×2.02 118 | 5 points by intelligentleak 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey (thehindu.com)
    ×4.11 16 #38 | 478 points by rootkea 21 hours ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The math of traffic jams and how to avoid them (theconversation.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by beardyw 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why My Open-Source Project Hasn't Done Better
    ×0.75 | 1 points by yohji1984 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How to Visualize Capitalism (asomo.co)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by Gigamouse 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI (blog.google)
    ×1.96 79 | 77 points by swolpers 2 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
    ×4.09 1 | 1013 points by starfallg 2 days ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×1.32 65 | 185 points by HenryNdubuaku 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A gate for AI agents that ships a board of its own worst flaws (github.com/githubscum)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by hnscum 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: CockroachCrawler–1 package for crawling,browsers,PDF,extraction,and MCP (github.com/AjnasNB)
    ×1.70 109 | 5 points by Cognifyr 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Quil – a reboot-proof terminal multiplexer that resumes AI sessions (github.com/artyomsv)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by artyomsv 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Kalshi demands Netflix down trailer misleading prediction market documentary (cnn.com)
    ×3.75 63 | 5 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Do types make a language more expressive, or less?
    ×0.56 | 1 points by greenlimetea 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)
    ×2.36 3 | 377 points by dhorthy 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
    ×0.85 58 | 109 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] (spacex.com)
    ×3.31 54 | 113 points by cryptoz 13 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: TechStacks – Popular Tech news summarized, including comments (techstacks.io)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by mythz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. ARC-AGI Leaderboard (arcprize.org)
    ×1.45 #4 | 113 points by rzk 6 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Firefox Containers Preview (mozilla.org)
    ×3.33 28 #19 | 382 points by twapi 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hitchcock and Herrmann: The friendship and film scores that changed cinema (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.31 53 #84 | 19 points by mitchbob 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Personal context data isn't a moat, tacit knowledge is (cse.ac)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by hyeongjun 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Git rebase -I is not that scary (cachebag.sh)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by birdculture 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The University After AI (chronicle.com)
    ×2.02 46 | 3 points by Michelangelo11 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I built an app where tasks live inside calendar events (apple.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by zesfyapp 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Trajectory: A Standard Format for Agent Experience Data (letta.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by wertyk 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Saga: Source Attribution of Generative AI Videos (identifies the model used) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Hetzner is working on LLM Inference (sliplane.io)
    ×2.63 3 | 148 points by jonas_scholz 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Mourning Dan Williams (lwn.net)
    ×1.51 55 | 91 points by speckx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Sequence, a daily spatial number puzzle (notebeck.com)
    ×1.11 138 | 3 points by aidanbeck 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Copyfarleft (p2pfoundation.net)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by Tepix 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
    ×1.11 49 #78 | 186 points by hchtin 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. So Bright the Vision (1956) – a story about machines writing instead of humans [pdf] (wasabisys.com)
    ×0.35 64 #83 | 16 points by marysminefnuf 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages (hopl.info)
    ×0.39 46 #88 | 25 points by gregsadetsky 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes (bruh.ltd)
    ×0.61 62 #46 | 49 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing? (elsewhere.news)
    ×0.88 34 #87 | 56 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Preventing line breaks in <code> elements (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.27 62 #89 | 14 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Millenium Bug, retro-banking CSS stylesheet (mtct.github.io)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by mtct88 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Power Coding – an AI-coding skill I audited on Claude Code and Codex (github.com/APareek89)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by anandp1989 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (ycombinator.com)
    42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Future euro banknote design proposals (europa.eu)
    ×2.41 23 #29 | 229 points by robin_reala 23 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Jixp, a Lisp DSL for describing Jax neural nets (github.com/baileywickham)
    ×1.44 97 | 6 points by baileywickham 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: PocketLens – free, self-hosted Mint alternative via Plaid (github.com/PocketLens)
    ×1.83 105 | 5 points by ashrithanumala 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The case for MUDs in modern times (2018) (andrewzigler.com)
    ×0.95 57 #36 | 100 points by bw86 23 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Self-host your mail server (haschek.at)
    ×1.77 5 #60 | 116 points by geek_at 19 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???