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  1. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
    ×2.41 21 | 506 points by ffworld 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.28 82 | 14 points by catapart 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.23 88 | 4 points by jmount 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities?
    ×1.73 31 | 5 points by orange_puff 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×0.76 53 | 5 points by absoluteunit1 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.22 93 | 36 points by gusmally 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. It Isn't the Tool, but the Hands – A Response to "Something Big Is Happening"
    ×0.49 81 | 3 points by markferraz 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.71 103 | 31 points by alexdobrenko 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. ClawdReview – OpenReview for AI Agents
    ×0.51 78 | 5 points by mingtianzhang 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.65 110 | 20 points by tefloon69 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health
    ×0.53 98 | 5 points by kinj28 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. 25 years after the Agile, did the industry help or hurt software development?
    ×0.42 101 | 3 points by ghostinit 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.47 134 | 9 points by syx 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Moving My Blog to IPv6 Only Internet
    ×1.54 87 | 5 points by quaintdev 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's You Opinon on XMTP
    ×0.14 | 2 points by julienreszka 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.72 105 | 72 points by alexandrehtrb 3 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.34 158 | 4 points by AlePra00 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: My OpenClaw doesn't respond. Anybody met with the same problem?
    ×0.63 113 | 4 points by Fendy1 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by b3rkus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.25 140 | 5 points by jerlendds 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone else finding the new Gemini Deep Think troublingly sycophantic?
    ×0.65 116 | 4 points by neom 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.32 152 | 4 points by kart23 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. We just released Khaos SDK and khaos-examples (BSL 1.1)
    ×0.44 127 | 3 points by exordex 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.80 124 | 9 points by falsework 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.53 129 | 7 points by emerongi 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.77 128 | 6 points by moomoo11 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on
    ×0.31 137 | 4 points by hexagonal-sun 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.32 145 | 9 points by nycdatasci 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.46 147 | 5 points by stosssik 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×0.73 149 | 5 points by legitimate_key 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.21 133 | 30 points by fandorin 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×0.63 153 | 5 points by tardis_thad 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×0.83 155 | 5 points by arthurlee 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O
    ×0.61 136 | 5 points by Jyotishmoy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by asmodeuslucifer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.43 163 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×1.00 144 | 5 points by SunshineTheCat 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.20 | 2 points by mw1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How to build text-to-app platforms?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by desperado1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Is Prettier extension working for you in Cursor?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by vldszn 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Anyone else get bricked by the macOS update?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by bix6 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How the world will be if P = NP?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by fouadelkh 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
    ×0.19 157 | 5 points by th0th 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API
    ×0.49 161 | 4 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable?
    ×0.15 166 | 4 points by xinbenlv 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. HN needs a context reminder in the URL window
    ×0.66 167 | 4 points by newsoftheday 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Something Big Is (Not) Happening (aricolaprete.com)
    ×1.47 71 | 38 points by DiscourseFan 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Azazel – Lightweight eBPF-based malware analysis sandbox using Docker (github.com/beelzebub-labs)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by mariocandela 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Amsterdam Compiler Kit (github.com/davidgiven)
    ×0.92 24 #10 | 112 points by andsoitis 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Can my SPARC server host a website? (rup12.net)
    ×0.96 9 #16 | 41 points by e145bc455f1 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I built a concurrent BitTorrent engine in Go to master P2P protocols
    ×0.86 96 | 3 points by Jyotishmoy 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: 20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source) (github.com/mutable-state-inc)
    ×0.77 94 | 51 points by austinbaggio 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: My agent started its own online store (clawver.store)
    ×0.86 123 | 5 points by nwang783 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools (ncl.ac.uk)
    ×1.20 18 #5 | 92 points by geox 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? (serverfault.com)
    ×3.09 37 | 5 points by gurjeet 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. MythConceptions – Most Contagious Falsehoods (informationisbeautiful.net)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by vismit2000 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Private Processing for WhatsApp – Technical White Paper and Security Guide (meta.com)
    ×1.51 32 | 3 points by doodlesdev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? (usatoday.com)
    ×1.37 12 #15 | 78 points by brandonb 9 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016) (microscopy-uk.org.uk)
    ×0.77 40 #24 | 72 points by 1970-01-01 13 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh (metachris.dev)
    ×0.74 53 #54 | 19 points by metachris 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M (nytimes.com)
    ×3.11 7 | 44 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Terminalcore – The Rhythm Game for PC (terminalcore.vercel.app)
    ×1.15 100 | 3 points by Kejii_2770 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Ktop – a themed terminal system monitor with charts and OOM tracking (github.com/brontoguana)
    ×3.46 165 | 8 points by brontoguana 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Aristotle and the so-called Tragic Flaw (jonathanbate.substack.com)
    ×1.72 8 | 3 points by B1FF_PSUVM 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission (theconversation.com)
    ×5.20 47 | 580 points by DamnInteresting 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza? (aljazeera.com)
    ×8.71 70 | 64 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Building a TUI is easy now (hatchet.run)
    ×1.74 1 | 294 points by abelanger 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Twsnmp FK – Lightweight NMS Built with Go, Wails, and Svelte (github.com/twsnmp)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by twsnmp 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A playable toy model of frontier AI lab capex decisions (railway.app)
    ×0.44 66 #79 | 8 points by jimmyechan 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 (backblaze.com)
    ×1.72 4 #87 | 156 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu (github.com/zed-industries)
    ×1.63 15 | 311 points by jpeeler 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone (github.com/alichherawalla)
    ×1.63 5 #12 | 74 points by ali_chherawalla 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption (fortune.com)
    ×3.34 32 #43 | 329 points by WhatsTheBigIdea 13 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Retrieve and Rerank: Personalized search without leaving Postgres (paradedb.com)
    ×0.76 74 #56 | 12 points by philippemnoel 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Breaking the spell of vibe coding (fast.ai)
    ×2.82 3 #13 | 167 points by arjunbanker 9 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Auto-Layouting ASCII Diagrams (github.com/switz)
    ×0.59 61 #82 | 6 points by switz 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Project 12 (mypinata.cloud)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by KaoruAK 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I speak 5 languages. Common apps taught me none. So I built lairner (lairner.com)
    ×2.09 83 | 34 points by t17r 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Deadlog – almost drop-in mutex for debugging Go deadlocks (github.com/stevenctl)
    ×0.68 146 | 19 points by dirteater_ 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. An OpenClaw agent wrote a blog post about my site and misquoted me (nickvecchioni.github.io)
    ×1.55 28 | 3 points by nickvec 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says (bbc.com)
    ×7.83 10 | 83 points by tartoran 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Open-source CI for coding with AI (github.com/sburl)
    ×0.26 74 | 4 points by sburl 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Lucid – Catch hallucinations in AI-generated code before they ship (github.com/gtsbahamas)
    ×1.24 111 | 4 points by jordanappsite 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I asked Claude Code to remove jQuery. It failed miserably (jitbit.com)
    ×4.86 64 | 64 points by speckx 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way (github.com/mogenius)
    ×0.41 114 | 43 points by JanLepsky 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. CSS-Doodle (css-doodle.com)
    ×1.35 70 #70 | 189 points by dsego 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Nucleus MCP – Forensic deep-dive into agent resource locking (loom.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by NucleusOS 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. UpScrolled Suspended from Google Play (upscrolled.com)
    ×2.19 6 | 4 points by lyu07282 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Remote-OpenCode – Run your AI coding agent from your phone via Discord (github.com/RoundTable02)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by remocode 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Watch Men (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.34 48 | 3 points by trojanalert 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???