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  1. All startups need is distribution
    ×1.18 45 | 6 points by relaxfolio 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
    ×0.92 36 #66 | 11 points by lgregg 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Resources for best practices in software development with AI?
    ×1.18 24 | 6 points by sergio-gdr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?
    ×1.82 44 | 5 points by dfps 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.47 45 | 763 points by lukehandcool 2 days ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.89 81 | 407 points by mariocesar 4 days ago | 644 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.85 114 | 568 points by IvanK_net 4 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Locked out of Google despite knowing password and having email access
    ×1.52 83 | 6 points by coherenttemple 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
    ×0.29 116 | 3 points by sankde 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: MS Outlook login without an extra email address
    ×0.17 | 2 points by narevent 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Fake abuse reports keep auto-blocking my site on Cloudflare
    ×0.98 | 2 points by Kamabz 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How do Lightroom/DxO achieve such good AI denoising results?
    ×0.18 126 | 3 points by febed 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
    ×5.06 82 | 38 points by bjourne 3 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Does YC use AI agents to review your pitch?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by AravPhi 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job?
    ×0.98 113 | 4 points by bumicodes 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.71 144 | 13 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.48 143 | 8 points by fragmede 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.35 167 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.52 155 | 11 points by hanstyle 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?
    ×0.50 146 | 5 points by dfps 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.52 164 | 12 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.81 170 | 12 points by thelastgallon 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×0.73 177 | 8 points by amichail 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×1.05 159 | 14 points by scoofy 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.27 190 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.74 193 | 6 points by bigmattystyles 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.70 186 | 13 points by Crontab 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×0.98 182 | 17 points by saimiam 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.44 180 | 12 points by penskymaterial 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.16 157 | 40 points by trencedamp 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival
    ×0.62 112 | 24 points by hanstyle 21 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.59 197 | 8 points by maxignol 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.09 | 2 points by northlondoner 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence
    ×0.76 173 | 8 points by butlersean 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What happened with quantum computers anyway?
    ×0.40 189 | 4 points by pera 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired
    ×2.00 137 | 12 points by karimelgazar 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.44 191 | 7 points by Bender 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Stop Reaching for WebSockets by Default: WebSockets vs. SSE vs. Long Polling (medium.com)
    ×1.93 13 | 8 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.49 51 | 5 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Alternatives Won't Replace College, but They Must Adapt (insidehighered.com)
    ×1.86 7 #68 | 7 points by ahsteele 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Eye Cells May Have Been Rejuvenated for the First Time in People (time.com)
    ×2.11 30 | 6 points by davidrjones1977 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.02 93 | 64 points by piotrgrabowski 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) (github.com/p10node)
    ×0.72 125 | 69 points by pierreneter 2 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A minimal Rust TUI for managing GitHub repos and branches (github.com/jorgeandrecastro)
    ×0.96 13 | 6 points by drew0670 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack (opentelemetry.io)
    ×0.80 118 | 63 points by dhruv_ahuja 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Lunatic Fling – a cel-shaded 3D remake of After Dark's Lunatic Fringe (lunaticfling.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by hoag 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A simple to-do app for iPhone, Mac, and your agent (ilia.page)
    ×0.78 119 | 16 points by shmilia 22 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Open-Source Canva Alternative (github.com/shaongitbd)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by Aditya_1 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos (wordminos.com)
    ×0.86 149 | 23 points by dyarosla 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots (theverifiedpost.com)
    ×0.93 72 #40 | 59 points by kgolubic 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors (righto.com)
    ×1.12 96 #42 | 22 points by pwg 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)
    ×4.21 15 #72 | 665 points by gumby 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Soliton (wikipedia.org)
    ×3.48 35 | 6 points by kaycebasques 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)
    ×1.90 #1 | 145 points by TheWaffleHax 2 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB (cactuscompute.com)
    ×3.41 41 #79 | 946 points by gmays 2 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. There are many themes, but this one is yours (earendil.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by jljljl 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GPON support is coming to Linux kernel (kernel.org)
    ×2.16 37 | 3 points by ___n 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Apogee: Rebuilding Mozilla's Orbit, fully local and private (github.com/darshi1337)
    ×3.05 117 | 66 points by zxdc7896 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Rutter – shared decision memory across AI tools (ruttermemory.com)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by shinytoyrobots 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer (github.com/nano-muse)
    ×0.83 151 | 65 points by ilreb 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Yeah Nah – a BS score for Australian job ads (yeahnah.lol)
    ×1.64 128 | 13 points by veilmux 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Page.json – An open standard for representing UI (wuwei.us)
    ×2.11 181 | 5 points by laybak 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes (nature.com)
    ×1.28 17 #17 | 19 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024) (usenix.org)
    ×2.01 59 #26 | 320 points by ortusdux 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Mindset before tools: How to Win Innovation (architectureintel.com)
    ×2.77 4 | 6 points by younss 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Homes of Most Extraordinary Architects (dailymail.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by SirLJ 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Discord Just Couldn't Resist... [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.59 39 | 4 points by Bender 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man (opper.ai)
    ×0.87 122 | 77 points by felix089 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Aura – a self-hosted, multi-user AI agent with per-person graph memory (github.com/chetto1983)
    ×1.13 176 | 7 points by chettto983 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: HCSM – An Open Framework for the Hodge Complex Standard Model (github.com/007STAN)
    ×0.63 188 | 3 points by 007STAN 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System (github.com/vahmoh25)
    ×1.80 7 #8 | 32 points by vahmohh 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cloudflare acquires Deno (deno.com)
    ×4.81 8 #35 | 1345 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 695 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it (reddit.com)
    ×2.27 113 #80 | 292 points by pyduan 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.80 43 #81 | 412 points by franze 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days (digicert.com)
    ×4.75 75 | 6 points by thread_id 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Are iPhones the Handheld Version of Flock?
    ×2.25 19 | 8 points by dfps 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: ISA Workbench – Classify and explore binaries in the browser (zr.ax)
    ×3.15 20 | 6 points by 19h 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Lobbying (geohot.github.io)
    ×5.99 9 | 184 points by smilelamp 22 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com/rociiu)
    ×1.43 27 #14 | 262 points by rociiu 16 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.95 94 #73 | 1348 points by OfficialTurkey 4 days ago | 1527 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Silicon Valley's Dream City Has Crashed into Small-Town Politics (wsj.com)
    ×1.75 63 | 4 points by Anon84 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. FrameLab – FPS calculator for PC games, checked against real hardware runs (framelab-fps.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by BMatiashchuk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Genius or Mid Life Crisis Lol (reddit.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by jimmyshoez 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists (twitter.com/WallStreetApes)
    ×2.02 55 | 190 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.71 150 | 88 points by yashdotrv 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People (linuxstans.com)
    ×2.11 72 | 88 points by dxs 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.86 6 | 60 points by bhrlady 12 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Terse, a Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler (github.com/lowenbjer)
    ×0.99 156 | 24 points by lowenbjer 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics (karagila.org)
    ×1.33 98 #90 | 208 points by md224 2 days ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The True Scale of the Original Trilogy [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.32 2 | 4 points by sjav 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???