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  1. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.35 7 #46 | 603 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 673 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.52 5 #74 | 723 points by petecooper 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×0.61 48 | 5 points by nonfunctional 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.62 34 | 79 points by stanislavb 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×1.06 47 | 8 points by cromka 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Don't use Fathom Analytics (founder is blocking criticism)
    ×0.68 66 | 7 points by dorianniemiec 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.39 88 | 4 points by stdc105 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.34 64 | 299 points by petecooper 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.48 80 | 5 points by Mutinix 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.43 92 | 4 points by abakh 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.82 84 | 12 points by winkelmann 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.21 125 | 4 points by BehanPrW 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.25 109 | 14 points by masterchief166 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Have the PHP vulnerabilities been exploited?
    ×0.43 100 | 6 points by crisnoble 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.34 117 | 12 points by aledevv 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.33 105 | 13 points by Mobius01 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.17 130 | 3 points by vWijdaan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×0.94 120 | 30 points by Stitch4223 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.34 114 | 8 points by parthdesai 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.16 101 | 15 points by bigwheels 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.43 124 | 8 points by ovudus 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.30 118 | 6 points by spicygum 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.13 103 | 17 points by shakshukan 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.44 143 | 10 points by thechairman12 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×1.02 113 | 17 points by lualover 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. TI C66X / Ad Sharc+ Decompilers
    ×0.43 146 | 5 points by kavinsky777 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Firefox Auto-Run on Windows
    ×0.36 141 | 4 points by BubbleRings 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old
    ×0.83 110 | 12 points by kaveh808 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business (emudhra.com)
    ×4.80 52 | 1139 points by bo0tzz 1 day ago | 736 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: A billing ledger on Postgres, tested with randomized invariants (github.com/alt-f6)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by Proph8 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur (martinfinkel.com)
    ×1.70 6 #14 | 46 points by martz 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The current state of new media (twitter.com/kramnotmark)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by binarynate 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Anthropic employee tells students their careers may not exist by graduation (twitter.com/cheaf25master)
    ×2.49 3 | 5 points by entryleveljobsc 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Google's Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas and the Future of AI (bigtechnology.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Lifetime (frontend-tree-life.pages.dev)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by reachie 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Dagger 1.0 Beta (dagger.io)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by handfuloflight 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Apple-design-hig agent skill, DocC updater CLI, and MCP server (github.com/mr8lu)
    ×1.18 71 | 3 points by mr8lu 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: What if your website could sell while you sleep? (brevn.com)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by brevn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026 (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.04 31 #16 | 20 points by civicpivot 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.65 45 #22 | 23 points by gmays 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Uringscope: eBPF Tracer and Analyzer for io_uring (github.com/rch0wdhury)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by tanelpoder 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone (calif.io)
    ×3.98 6 #8 | 803 points by pavel_lishin 12 hours ago | 526 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Railpass (samismith.com)
    ×1.15 46 #76 | 130 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I built rooms for AI agents to work together (bellman.sh)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by mcfearsome 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Move Slow and Fix Things (2024) (endler.dev)
    ×8.13 2 | 170 points by ahmedhossamdev 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Lumabri – Run large AI models across your computers and servers.Pure C (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.84 122 | 5 points by vforno 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Who Wrote This Byte? (fzakaria.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by Sighery 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: CallFlow – VS Code REST client that also captures your terminal's HTTP (smallhours.works)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by arexey 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Apple Security Research Device (apple.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by neom 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Jared Kushner's Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations (vanityfair.com)
    ×2.72 19 | 66 points by alexander2002 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Bringing uv and ty together (astral.sh)
    ×2.11 8 #9 | 74 points by Ravencentric 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. LibreSSL 4.4 Released with Faster SHA3, Bug Fixes (phoronix.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by ksec 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest (techspot.com)
    ×4.56 9 | 326 points by wetwater 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list (phoronix.com)
    ×2.27 28 | 250 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.85 63 | 115 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. This I Believe (1952) (awakin.org)
    ×1.03 60 #43 | 150 points by ctoth 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions (arxiv.org)
    ×1.19 2 #83 | 201 points by martincsweiss 23 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Web Bot Auth SDK and SSH Utilty (messh.io)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by malviyamukul 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Security incident: Hostwinds client area offline (hostwinds.com)
    ×1.22 29 | 3 points by debo_ 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The anti-AI writing police are everywhere. What are they looking for? (cnn.com)
    ×1.56 42 | 3 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: ObsidianYouTubeSync – Sync YouTube History into Obsidian (github.com/mr8lu)
    ×0.83 72 | 3 points by mr8lu 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025) (quantum5.ca)
    ×0.74 29 #27 | 40 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Who will become the new mathematicians of Math 2.0? (proofsandprompts.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by the-mitr 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A map of outdoor gyms and pull-up bars (openairworkout.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by hunvreus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Yab, yet Another Browser (yetanotherbrowser.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by nmiv 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Julia Returns to Tiobe's Top 20 (tech-insider.org)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by sumnole 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007) (swtch.com)
    ×2.01 20 | 3 points by giancarlostoro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Brotli Decoder Vulnerability (patchtheplanet.org)
    ×1.65 43 | 3 points by nthypes 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border (cnn.com)
    ×2.84 46 | 130 points by bushwart 14 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Is this the new cyber normal? (silcock.dev)
    ×1.28 38 #26 | 151 points by drewsberry 18 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart (github.com/anubhavmalhotra)
    ×0.83 67 #45 | 92 points by animalhot 22 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 'Smart Wall' of AI Cameras Is Watching the Border and More Than a Million People (nytimes.com)
    ×1.73 | 2 points by ryan_j_naughton 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Colors of a Soap Film (aseemrb.me)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Tabletop Whale is an original science illustration blog (tabletopwhale.com)
    ×0.99 20 | 3 points by Levitating 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS (grapheneos.social)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by privacyishuman 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: MotorHangar: Car specs, safety ratings, and recalls in one place (motorhangar.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by lou_alcala 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude (sverigesradio.se)
    ×3.26 67 | 316 points by armcat 17 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses (funcarena.com)
    ×3.01 #11 | 41 points by klaussilveira 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more (nitter.click)
    ×1.95 13 #20 | 129 points by cowlevel 5 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. We have traits at home (axelmagn.com)
    ×0.46 59 #55 | 43 points by Ygg2 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: KronLSTM Walkthrough (kron-lstm.vercel.app)
    ×0.78 99 | 3 points by aithena 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher (github.com/AbdullahAlhariri)
    ×0.88 95 | 66 points by abdullahalharir 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities (alexsci.com)
    ×1.07 19 #19 | 121 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A visual introduction to information theory (arxiv.org)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by nill0 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier (tvfandomlounge.com)
    ×4.22 65 | 422 points by robtherobber 20 hours ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy (bottlecapai.com)
    ×1.45 12 #42 | 109 points by armcat 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Build your coding orchestrator from scratch part 1 (wiilearn.substack.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by mf_kevintruong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Lights-on software factory boilerplate for Claude Code (github.com/gojko)
    ×0.79 129 | 21 points by gojkoa 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: RigCheck – can your GPU or Mac run this open model? Sourced, open data (localrigcheck.com)
    ×0.83 138 | 3 points by chenzige 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden (berget.ai)
    ×2.95 | 140 points by jlundberg 22 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???