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  1. Gmail label bridge on Claude Cowork just broke
    ×0.32 67 #69 | 3 points by mangoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?
    ×0.80 8 | 3 points by s_u_d_o 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)
    ×0.58 41 | 4 points by leetrout 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×0.81 57 | 35 points by fnoef 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×2.04 61 | 333 points by misterchocolat 2 days ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by coreyp_1 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×4.67 56 | 819 points by morpheuskafka 3 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
    ×0.96 69 | 15 points by throwaw12 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
    ×0.61 94 | 29 points by fny 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.80 76 | 74 points by absurdwebsite 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
    ×1.82 97 | 14 points by arikusi 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error
    ×1.22 103 | 11 points by ascarola 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.88 112 | 24 points by RockstarSprain 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.48 119 | 8 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing
    ×0.56 93 | 16 points by limalabs 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.48 122 | 8 points by comrade1234 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.66 111 | 13 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.52 109 | 27 points by thewillmoss 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?
    ×1.16 110 | 12 points by smonk108 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×0.86 121 | 25 points by baobabKoodaa 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?
    ×0.55 130 | 6 points by etherus 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?
    ×0.90 139 | 8 points by sahli 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.29 160 | 4 points by apatheticonion 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.66 141 | 12 points by time4tea 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: SeedLegals Partnerships in London, worth it?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by pain_perdu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×1.33 137 | 19 points by kwar13 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.29 114 | 42 points by ssiddharth 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Any engineers here with experience of clinical data standards?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by kalturnbull 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.66 159 | 10 points by vaishcodescape 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×2.69 105 | 118 points by barratia 3 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Codex Hacked a Samsung TV (calif.io)
    ×1.45 40 | 254 points by campuscodi 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] (harvard.edu)
    ×0.59 80 | 70 points by Metacelsus 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units (electrek.co)
    ×4.04 15 #58 | 45 points by doener 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
    ×1.34 11 #61 | 97 points by WesSouza 11 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine (github.com/gainsec)
    ×1.31 6 #90 | 222 points by scaredpelican 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts (wired.com)
    ×1.64 14 | 3 points by pedalpete 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Free tool for WebP and SVG optimization. Privat data (axiomoverclock.ca)
    ×1.52 34 | 3 points by altered_carbine 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task (github.com/AgentSeal)
    ×0.78 63 | 100 points by agentseal 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Compile English specs into 22 MB neural functions that run locally
    ×2.73 129 | 10 points by yuntian 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 3 Hours with Claude Opus 4.7: functional study webapp and remote MCP- Oneshotted (github.com/AmmarSaleh50)
    ×1.00 50 #79 | 4 points by AmmarSaleh50 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×5.32 43 | 381 points by ronsor 23 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Home Memory – A local DB of my house, down to cables and pipes (github.com/impactjo)
    ×1.22 86 | 49 points by impactjo 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: XitDB – an immutable single-file database (github.com/xit-vcs)
    ×2.62 81 | 8 points by xeubie 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: MCP server gives your agent a budget (save tokens, get smarter results) (l6e.ai)
    ×1.81 144 | 6 points by bennettdixon 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.31 3 #5 | 541 points by aray07 10 hours ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow (motherjones.com)
    ×2.69 14 #46 | 14 points by cdrnsf 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day (theverge.com)
    ×2.46 4 #86 | 157 points by dotmanish 21 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Trevex: A Black-Box Detection Framework for Data-Flow Transient Execution Vulns (roots.ec)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by matt_d 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Spending 3 months coding by hand (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.48 15 #21 | 136 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Agentic Dev – AI dev-tools news, curated daily by Claude (agenticdev.blog)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by beeswaxpat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Does the brain make its own DMT? New study ignites debate (refractor.io)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by breve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Uninum – All elementary functions from a single operator, in Python (github.com/Brumbelow)
    ×1.72 155 | 6 points by brumbelow 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.45 55 #80 | 206 points by jgrahamc 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all (qwen.ai)
    ×5.39 53 | 1236 points by cmitsakis 1 day ago | 520 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.22 3 #7 | 225 points by binsquare 8 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Small, an x402 powered writing site (getsmall.xyz)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by trezm 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by rfarley04 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI cybersecurity is not proof of work (antirez.com)
    ×1.49 43 | 234 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The big business of survival bunkers (economist.com)
    ×1.94 34 #36 | 11 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Human Accelerated Region 1 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.17 54 #56 | 116 points by apollinaire 21 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
    ×2.05 55 #65 | 171 points by gmays 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator (github.com/SethPyle376)
    ×0.60 100 | 37 points by ozarkerD 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Flint – A 30B model fine-tuned for less repetition (springboards.ai)
    ×1.77 133 | 6 points by thmsmxwll 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe (calif.io)
    ×2.95 3 #18 | 88 points by arkadiyt 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
    ×6.28 30 #37 | 174 points by breve 6 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (play.date)
    ×1.92 19 #82 | 258 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: SynapseKit – Async-native Python framework for LLM pipelines and agents (github.com/SynapseKit)
    ×1.13 157 | 4 points by aminau 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: web-pinentry: a pinentry program that leverages matrix and http (codeberg.org)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by seanhly 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted (xcancel.com)
    ×2.92 20 | 70 points by johanstokking 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Tracking Top US Science Olympiad Alumni over Last 25 Years (perplexity.ai)
    ×0.96 118 | 5 points by bkls 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A tool to calculate LLM model API costs when coding (the-designengineer.com)
    ×0.77 128 | 4 points by canxerian 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.27 #30 | 145 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: PodWarden – A catalog of 9k+ self-hosted apps with one-click deploy (podwarden.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by rayneclarke 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Llama.cpp Tutorial 2026: Run GGUF Models Locally on CPU and GPU
    ×1.90 14 | 3 points by anju-kushwaha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Predicting RNA activity expands therapeutic possibilities (phys.org)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: AI agents should browse your site, not call your API (rtrvr.ai)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by quarkcarbon279 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Dbg – One CLI debugger for every language (AI-agent ready) (redknightlois.github.io)
    ×2.34 166 | 7 points by redknight666 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs (google.dev)
    ×2.54 12 | 396 points by zanbezi 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service (tokyodev.com)
    ×0.74 88 | 77 points by pwim 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Irl.rent – What renters pay, not what's listed in SF
    ×2.45 21 #50 | 7 points by rajatady 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation (heise.de)
    ×1.79 16 #62 | 51 points by doener 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (github.com/SeanFDZ)
    ×0.89 70 #81 | 146 points by hammer32 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN - TokensAI – Mint for AI Usage (tokensai.dev)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by SowjanyaY 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Stop using naive RAG – adding relationships to AI context
    ×1.02 | 2 points by eduardobenck 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now (wired.com)
    ×4.60 74 | 62 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Simple Machines (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.72 2 | 3 points by ogogmad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day (theregister.com)
    ×2.31 17 | 4 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Cerebras Files for IPO as Demand Surges for More Efficient AI Chips (wsj.com)
    ×1.63 49 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Who Is Blake Whiting? (theamericanscholar.org)
    ×2.31 28 | 4 points by Caiero 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???