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  1. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×1.06 13 #72 | 84 points by mtlynch 18 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.76 18 | 216 points by linsomniac 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.18 46 | 730 points by jameslk 3 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.19 53 | 557 points by eggbrain 3 days ago | 689 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: If LLM reverse engineering is deemed illegal, is that precedent for OSS?
    ×0.46 79 | 3 points by apatheticonion 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?
    ×0.72 73 | 4 points by kradeelav 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I turned an ESP32-S3 into a Tailscale gateway with recovery functions
    ×0.58 91 | 7 points by Mattboxx 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.91 76 | 531 points by user052919 4 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase
    ×0.71 93 | 15 points by bbg2401 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. We're bringing back the HN meeting in Mexico City
    ×0.48 86 | 5 points by ysangkok 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.13 97 | 165 points by punchmesan 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.57 101 | 111 points by neya 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What tech companies do you think have a good moral compass?
    ×1.19 105 | 6 points by gehwartzen 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Seeking advice: Wix stolen my .com domain
    ×0.69 108 | 12 points by wixcom 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What fun things to do with an iPhone 11?
    ×0.59 114 | 8 points by wanderingpixel 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Be Careful with Stripe Connect
    ×1.15 96 | 16 points by breue 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Slickdeals.net Is Compromised
    ×2.39 90 | 22 points by intenex 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What are you building – I'd try it, pay for it, or even star your repo
    ×1.51 87 | 4 points by grandimam 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A new protocol and software suite for AIs
    ×0.37 134 | 3 points by homingpigeon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Looking for a CTO
    ×0.34 143 | 3 points by alpbahadur 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I tried to connect every GPU on the planet together (kinda)
    ×0.50 128 | 4 points by lukefrisker 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How are companies hiring developers nowadays?
    ×0.87 121 | 5 points by Frazzlebilt 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. OpenClaw SaaS?
    ×0.45 153 | 3 points by alexfthom 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to resist endless app directories listing your product?
    ×0.48 155 | 3 points by gosen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Verifying a satellite image with temporal evidence
    ×0.22 | 2 points by avijeetsingh16 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Executive (C-Level) Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Large Language Models
    ×1.17 123 | 5 points by northlondoner 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is anyone running multi/always-on agents that don't cost a fortune?
    ×1.19 119 | 6 points by abejora 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How's your home-cooked software revolution going?
    ×0.57 157 | 3 points by nihakue 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files (apiiro.com)
    ×3.28 1 #5 | 383 points by shmulc 12 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Retro Song Bird: Plug in any Game Boy cartridge to hear the soundtrack (retrosongbird.com)
    ×1.12 9 #30 | 71 points by hentrep 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Running cyberpunk 2077 nativery on Vision Pro (github.com/Ag3497120)
    ×2.59 69 | 3 points by masaton 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Great GOP Dummymander of 2026 (nationalreview.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by carabiner 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Where Were We (wherewerewe.app)
    ×0.87 14 #38 | 43 points by zkiihne 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Mercury 3 cost calculator (launch promo vs. list pricing) (llmendpoint.com)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by pulseguide 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: UUMit – turn idle machines into model endpoints (uumit.ai)
    ×0.93 133 | 4 points by rory18439909614 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7 (kevinboone.me)
    ×2.64 31 #56 | 207 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Sodium-ion batteries approach cost parity with LFP (pv-magazine.com)
    ×2.16 15 | 216 points by doener 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Size-It-Up (Game) (magnitudle.com)
    ×0.75 61 | 81 points by whoishiding 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Scriptable GeoDNS: Leaving AWS for Bunny (bernat.ch)
    ×1.20 71 | 67 points by sshah03 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab (bosscher.ch)
    ×3.05 1 #3 | 568 points by LaurensBER 15 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Running a law firm on Free software (decoded.legal)
    ×2.12 6 #28 | 272 points by DeepLogin 23 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. What do the next 4000 emoji look like? (jenniferdaniel.substack.com)
    ×1.28 59 #40 | 91 points by lacieargyle 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Bot scans DDoS your Django app? Hurricane 2.0 (now Rust-powered) (django-hurricane.io)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by schille 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: CloneGuard – Scan a repo for credential-stealing tricks before it runs (github.com/tharun208)
    ×1.66 83 | 31 points by tharun208 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: R/place for Git – Open-source Git server sustaining 567 pushes/s (reasonmachines.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by svemyh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (blog.google)
    ×1.71 4 #71 | 362 points by thisisauserid 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.43 17 | 317 points by dgellow 1 day ago | 617 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. RIP Cybertruck (wired.com)
    ×5.58 3 | 302 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I built ivyNote, a local-first Markdown notes app (ivynote.app)
    ×1.57 111 | 5 points by songtianlun1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI (kevinboone.me)
    ×1.38 30 #68 | 248 points by LaSombra 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Samsung Put Ads on a Refrigerator You Bought (thepricer.org)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by marksmark 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. In Praise of Cash (2017) (aeon.co)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by germanrabbit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: AegisKernel – Zero-trust POSIX runtime for AI agents in <0.016ms (adikshatriyag-crypto.github.io)
    ×0.39 103 | 13 points by adityawebde 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Shadow of the Sun (2021) (mattlakeman.org)
    ×0.60 41 #49 | 24 points by andsoitis 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The message format that was already in ASCII (openbohemians.org)
    ×1.60 | 3 points by tabtom 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Interleaf: An experimental tool for LLM assisted knowledge exploration
    ×0.42 | 1 points by atulvi 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Here Be Monsters (nybooks.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Pico-WAM – smallest world-action-model (keivalya.com)
    ×1.22 152 | 3 points by keivalya 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Agentic Development Future and Current Directions – Nov 2026 (robotpaper.ai)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by royosherove 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Rise of Microdramas (bbc.com)
    ×2.02 45 | 3 points by sarreph 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Indirect Change (herbertlui.net)
    ×1.47 36 | 3 points by herbertl 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Insane Pour (crux.quest)
    ×1.52 126 | 4 points by saretup 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: We made a new theme to increase engagement on our website (zenmemes.com)
    ×1.63 89 | 5 points by forgotmypw17 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: IMDb for YouTube (Long-Form Videos Only) (eamag.me)
    ×1.76 117 | 5 points by eamag 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Is anyone using Codex, Gemini or another model over Claude Code?
    ×0.84 | 1 points by turbobutton 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. C development for Linux without a standard library (kevinboone.me)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. BYD's electric hypercar hits 312 MPH, first production car over 500 km/h (electrek.co)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card (openai.com)
    ×1.60 39 | 94 points by Aldipower 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. 2026 ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference (sigops.org)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by so-cal-schemer 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I'm Rewriting IBM SPSS Statistics in 100% Safe Rust, Alone (github.com/kobaltgit)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by kobaltGIT 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. We're All Idiots (samparr.com)
    ×1.42 22 | 3 points by Olshansky 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Local tier-1 SOC triage on Wazuh with a fine-tuned Gemma 4 (github.com/oleg-vdv)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by ipgleg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients (github.com/dmunozv04)
    ×1.88 8 #12 | 34 points by xnx 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside console.log (textjs.org)
    ×1.07 14 #33 | 103 points by nateb2022 18 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them (github.com/anteloc)
    ×0.65 84 | 31 points by antelocnova 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Site Tools Box – Free webmaster tools with no login (sitetoolsbox.com)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by kagouhui 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment (lorekit.io)
    ×1.84 1 #2 | 11 points by mthines 54 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Hacker Living – HN's most recommended places (hacker.living)
    ×2.15 116 | 6 points by grandimam 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: FoilGateway–Linux firewall gateway with telemetry blocking (2×Ethernet) (github.com/iBgeek)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by Codemonkey2k5 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Unclickbait – Replace clickbait YouTube thumbnails (unclickbait.app)
    ×1.30 131 | 15 points by namuorg 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them? (scotthelme.co.uk)
    ×1.84 26 #36 | 207 points by speckx 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Project Steadfast (noteflakes.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by ciconia 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. VindexLLM – Windows Vulkan GPU GGUF LLM inference engine written in Delphi 12 (github.com/tinyBigGAMES)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by peter_d_sherman 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: NASA's Swift telescope's 22 years in orbit, rebuilt from its archive (rory.codes)
    ×1.51 120 | 5 points by mrroryflint 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Claude Code sends your email address to websites (github.com/anthropics)
    ×6.07 27 #69 | 1596 points by motoroco 2 days ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Specter of Neuralese (astralcodexten.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Pinot Noir: inside the criminal gangs making fake wine (economist.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by axiomdata316 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web (github.com/anomalyco)
    ×1.71 28 | 177 points by mik3y 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy (science.org)
    ×1.29 12 #14 | 42 points by maxall4 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Deuterium's Impact on OLED Displays (2024) (oled-info.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by zeristor 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???