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  1. Ask HN: Is anyone still running Token Ring or FDDI networks?
    ×0.41 40 | 8 points by robotnikman 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
    ×0.67 76 | 125 points by reacharavindh 4 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Emu Concept – Make AI Follows Your Rules. (Feedback Wanted)
    ×0.30 84 | 4 points by JariwalaH 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why is there no AlphaZero for theorem proving?
    ×0.24 96 | 3 points by hyperpallium2 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Flying Car Practical Tech
    ×0.41 98 | 5 points by NarcisMirandes 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026?
    ×0.71 78 | 9 points by abhishekbasu 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work)
    ×0.99 91 | 6 points by pieratt 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AI Revolution vs. Computing Revolution
    ×0.14 | 2 points by nitinagg 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. VectorCraft vs. Figma vs. Penpot vs. Adobe Illustrator vs. Wunjo Design?
    ×0.71 90 | 5 points by wladradchenko 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: macOS 27.x upgrade without Siri eating disk space?
    ×0.56 116 | 3 points by prologic 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless
    ×0.60 110 | 9 points by bb88 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?
    ×0.43 113 | 5 points by chessnode 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Has anyone decompiled Claude Code yet?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by matt3210 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How to make my business survives it's first 5 years?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by SSDIE 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
    ×0.57 136 | 11 points by nikanj 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
    ×0.33 126 | 18 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Demonstrating Skills When Everything Is a Prompt
    ×0.33 137 | 7 points by Brisk4t 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Apple HomeView. What problem is Apple Home solving?
    ×0.16 138 | 4 points by NarcisMirandes 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?
    ×0.91 121 | 35 points by piratesAndSons 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Domain Health
    ×0.24 142 | 9 points by anjalibery 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Did you 'invest' in NFTs or memecoins?
    ×0.53 124 | 9 points by agent008t 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: ChatGPT on macOS grants local computer access to cloud account
    ×0.40 143 | 9 points by lxgr 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Can I tell my managers to skip the corporate bs and get to the point?
    ×0.58 127 | 12 points by nhgiang 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. German police launch investigation after robot allegedly gropes teenage girl (cnn.com)
    ×3.24 32 #50 | 9 points by snarky-comments 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Maybe some hope for the future (kadhirvelm.dev)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by kadhirvelm 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era (simonsfoundation.org)
    ×1.35 31 | 247 points by aaraujo002 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change (blumify.io)
    ×1.49 95 | 117 points by gcsydney 3 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Knitting – A shared-memory concurrency runtime for Node.js,Bun,and Deno (knitting.run)
    ×1.01 140 | 12 points by mimiMonads 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election (reuters.com)
    ×4.08 32 | 60 points by 01-_- 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Vercat – Vercel on the Go (vercat.dev)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by kuoxinbuild 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free (petal.live)
    ×1.21 69 | 220 points by thedracle 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. EPGM: Execution Provenance for Budgeted Agent Memory Retrieval (arxiv.org)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by axis_official 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Moon-Like Madagascar (nasa.gov)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why We're Banning AI (currentaffairs.org)
    ×7.32 19 | 255 points by vinyl7 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: ƜackDown – Win64 Native Markdown Viewer (bezkom.github.io)
    ×1.14 133 | 4 points by bezko 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Self-hosted infrastructure with Incus OS (dataswamp.org)
    ×1.51 56 #49 | 19 points by psxuaw 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Source code of the Estonian online voting system (github.com/valimised)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second (foxbusiness.com)
    ×5.30 26 | 70 points by nsoonhui 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Katalog – a fast local music library app for Mac (91k tracks in ~1s) (musickatalog.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by TG-labs 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: BlastLoop, a structure-first coding method for AI agents (github.com/rlshaw-ml)
    ×0.64 111 | 15 points by rossleeshaw 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The 39 pictures that changed the way we see men (for good and for bad) (theguardian.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by mellosouls 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood (engadget.com)
    ×3.74 4 | 6 points by wondersky 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The insider trading you're allowed to do (coached.com)
    ×1.60 42 | 67 points by rohanm93 22 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How the Claude Code team does code review (claude.dev)
    ×3.33 14 #19 | 299 points by pretext 10 hours ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies? (wiley.com)
    ×0.68 51 #57 | 50 points by porridgeraisin 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026) (windows.com)
    ×0.78 55 #77 | 43 points by telestew 18 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I made a New tab page to give you NASA's Image of the day everytime you newtab (avycado13.github.io)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by avycado13 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. CDN cache hit ratio is lying to you (plimie.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by pcaminog 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks (pdftomp3.com)
    ×1.02 93 | 174 points by janpmz 3 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Sufuku – Sudoku, but Numbers Repeat (crossnum.com)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by matthorse 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Chickadee Bandit – Build private apps for your family (chickadeebandit.com)
    ×1.22 130 | 4 points by ChickadeeBandit 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Stream live open data in two commands (hypermass.io)
    ×0.40 139 | 15 points by gardensalad 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What was a Token Ring network? (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.19 35 #33 | 106 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire (michelecoscia.com)
    ×1.18 35 #47 | 151 points by mikk14 21 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI engineers became hot property. Now they're targets for seduction (indiatimes.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by snarky-comments 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Proa – A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering (proa.so)
    ×0.96 62 | 105 points by burnrate 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug
    ×1.98 41 | 87 points by rsorto 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude (anthropic.com)
    ×1.07 20 #12 | 122 points by pretext 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. /dev/null: social network for developers (dev-null.sh)
    ×1.52 10 #43 | 139 points by mnapoli 13 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Scammers, exit nodes, and my part-time job fighting abuse (val.town)
    ×1.83 37 | 3 points by jackyalcine 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran (fortran-lang.org)
    ×1.64 20 | 311 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: New social networking site supprting feature phones built in malawi (mososi.vercel.app)
    ×1.30 104 | 4 points by RedsonNgwira 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Cr34te.it – a website anyone can rewrite one turn at a time with AI (cr34te.it)
    ×0.64 118 | 3 points by y42 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Lobby Domains: Find Domains with Chrome's On-Device AI (lobby.domains)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by dalemhurley 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10 (github.com/mixelpixx)
    ×1.40 35 #54 | 128 points by ofrzeta 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Symmetries in Boolean Scan (ap29600.github.io)
    ×0.33 70 #72 | 12 points by g0xA52A2A 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Weatheristic.com to answer questions other weather sites don't (weatheristic.com)
    ×1.35 129 | 4 points by zievo 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tort Law at the Frontier of Artificial Intelligence (ssrn.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by reasonableklout 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Theory of Psycho-Intellectual and Silic-Intellectual Duality (zenodo.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by KuriousWonder 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD (calif.io)
    ×1.12 10 #25 | 177 points by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 15 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS (onedeploy.co)
    ×0.58 49 #86 | 26 points by relatedcode 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Jev meets the Trolley Problem (zachlandes.com)
    ×3.61 22 #89 | 625 points by zlandes86 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: 100kb-SDK – Client-side WASM image and PDF optimizer to cut S3 bills (100kb.in)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by Abhishek_6277 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design (github.com/fyzugx)
    ×2.94 20 | 684 points by FinalDestiny 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch (maczan.pl)
    ×0.36 71 #27 | 3 points by yu3zhou4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Waymo in Toronto (waymo.com)
    ×2.19 16 #31 | 305 points by ChrisArchitect 15 hours ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Coconuts in Medieval Britain (2015) (themarysue.com)
    ×1.11 17 #32 | 16 points by wolfi1 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents (rstation.ai)
    ×0.87 47 #59 | 51 points by stephenchung 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Computer Memory Is a Lie (hackaday.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How an agentic chat interface can break (astralbeam.ai)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by aakashns 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. DeepSeek v4.1 flash on OpenCode pretty good (github.com/aditauqir)
    ×1.90 46 | 7 points by skmpe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Weatherdeck – a read-only status board for AI coding agent lanes (github.com/Moshik21)
    ×0.36 67 | 8 points by Konnerm 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I made puzzle game IT THINKS – you build a GPU from logic gates (catchy.games)
    ×1.36 115 | 3 points by benbenhere 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: PTrace – An iPhone Running Tracker with MCP (apple.com)
    ×1.16 119 | 3 points by slaskis 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A week on the farm with Dylan Araps (adamschaefers.com)
    ×0.64 65 #44 | 8 points by djnaraps 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Alef Aeronautics Flying Car [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by enjoyyourlife 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Not sure but maybe that's why we all do coding
    ×0.46 | 1 points by BlackScythe 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Ask a technical question, get an animated explainer you can interrupt (openlume.com)
    ×0.93 122 | 17 points by shadaba 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Forwarder.cc – Static-site forms sent to your inbox, pay per message (forwarder.cc)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by calyhre 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do (wonderhop.io)
    ×0.89 43 #29 | 84 points by mtlduo 14 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???