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  1. We're bringing back the HN meeting in Mexico City
    ×1.58 66 | 4 points by ysangkok 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×1.55 40 #54 | 59 points by mtlynch 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.83 8 | 213 points by linsomniac 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I turned an ESP32-S3 into a Tailscale gateway with recovery functions
    ×0.54 62 | 5 points by Mattboxx 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.19 52 | 728 points by jameslk 3 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.18 59 | 551 points by eggbrain 3 days ago | 680 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase
    ×0.80 75 | 15 points by bbg2401 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What tech companies do you think have a good moral compass?
    ×1.18 83 | 4 points by gehwartzen 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.92 71 | 531 points by user052919 4 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.14 88 | 165 points by punchmesan 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.57 89 | 110 points by neya 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Be Careful with Stripe Connect
    ×1.24 79 | 16 points by breue 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Seeking advice: Wix stolen my .com domain
    ×0.74 90 | 12 points by wixcom 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What fun things to do with an iPhone 11?
    ×0.64 95 | 8 points by wanderingpixel 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Slickdeals.net Is Compromised
    ×2.51 76 | 21 points by intenex 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A new protocol and software suite for AIs
    ×0.26 | 2 points by homingpigeon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Looking for a CTO
    ×0.37 122 | 3 points by alpbahadur 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I tried to connect every GPU on the planet together (kinda)
    ×0.56 106 | 4 points by lukefrisker 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are companies hiring developers nowadays?
    ×0.75 109 | 4 points by Frazzlebilt 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. OpenClaw SaaS?
    ×0.53 133 | 3 points by alexfthom 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How to resist endless app directories listing your product?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by gosen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Verifying a satellite image with temporal evidence
    ×0.27 | 2 points by avijeetsingh16 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Executive (C-Level) Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Large Language Models
    ×0.65 135 | 3 points by northlondoner 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is anyone running multi/always-on agents that don't cost a fortune?
    ×1.03 104 | 5 points by abejora 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How's your home-cooked software revolution going?
    ×0.67 138 | 3 points by nihakue 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is the most secure OS for mobile phone?
    ×1.74 101 | 6 points by Muralnick 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How can I get informed in the static vs. dynamic typing debate?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by zingar 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Engineers Focus Using AI
    ×0.67 140 | 3 points by elchuzade 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Has anyone used LLMs to audit TrueCrypt for backdoors?
    ×1.46 110 | 5 points by dlphii 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Codet JSON
    ×0.35 141 | 3 points by fifflesticks 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Where should I start to do marketing?
    ×0.72 143 | 6 points by dhruonweb 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Mighty and mysterious Celts hailed from the heart of Europe (science.org)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I mapped all known crypto scams (dontgetrekt.today)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by marciob 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie (uncracked.city)
    ×0.85 87 | 127 points by passkey1510 3 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: HackerRepos – HackerTube for repos mentioned on HN (hackerrepos.fyi)
    ×1.09 102 | 10 points by mmvvaa 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The $8 Linux Computer (2022) (thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com)
    ×1.36 4 #7 | 154 points by zenincognito 5 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A Portrait of the Luddite as a Young Man (shipwrecklibrary.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by measurablefunc 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them (github.com/anteloc)
    ×0.63 67 | 30 points by antelocnova 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: IMDb for YouTube (Long-Form Videos Only) (eamag.me)
    ×1.78 98 | 5 points by eamag 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Weeny.Cloud – A Linux server for your coding agent's apps (weeny.cloud)
    ×1.23 136 | 3 points by isaacrolandson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative (metaebene.me)
    ×1.62 48 #61 | 260 points by luoc 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web (github.com/anomalyco)
    ×1.71 20 #85 | 175 points by mik3y 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Mega API Universe – 76,000 free APIs in a searchable SQLite database (fullfreeapilist.netlify.app)
    ×1.18 123 | 3 points by salonsh 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Libghostty 1.0 (mitchellh.com)
    ×4.38 4 #11 | 958 points by mfiguiere 19 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.54 32 #29 | 188 points by derbOac 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016) (pensoft.net)
    ×1.17 53 #66 | 178 points by hitekker 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. In less than $1, DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 built a Mac App (twitter.com/1littlecoder)
    ×2.27 47 | 4 points by amrrs 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Straitjacket: A TypeScript template with Guardrails for your agents (github.com/balajeerc)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by hannofcart 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap (worldstrike.fun)
    ×1.48 41 | 172 points by n4ze3m 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Where each U.S. state gets its tax revenue from (visualcapitalist.com)
    ×2.58 55 | 72 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away (sheets.works)
    ×1.85 8 #13 | 25 points by user_7832 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 (reuters.com)
    ×1.74 25 #30 | 395 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. NASA's Juno Captured a Green Lightning Flash Inside a Storm on Jupiter (space.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by Adam-Hincu 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Search for everyone (kagi.com)
    ×3.79 3 | 751 points by elashri 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. $2.5T has been wiped from US stocks (finlaws.substack.com)
    ×4.65 60 | 164 points by madihaa 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander (fireflyk64.github.io)
    ×1.75 72 | 255 points by daniel_rh 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Mercury 3 cost calculator (launch promo vs. list pricing) (llmendpoint.com)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by pulseguide 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Free real-time order book heatmap for Bitcoin, gold and US 500 (swiftedge.uk)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by Stangenberg295 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7 (kevinboone.me)
    ×2.58 12 #18 | 122 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots (github.com/andrewboldi)
    ×0.87 47 #74 | 49 points by boldi 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Day AI: Context Graph and Agent Control Plane for GTM (day.ai)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by handfuloflight 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging (maccus.fr)
    ×2.48 44 | 97 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why (windowslatest.com)
    ×3.97 62 | 80 points by thunderbong 8 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Retex, a Faster LaTeX Engine (gitlab.com)
    ×0.88 82 | 3 points by skadge 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign (infohawk.com)
    ×1.29 35 #58 | 163 points by fiej 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Fox Bought Roku (theverge.com)
    ×1.99 11 #44 | 12 points by DASD 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist (acid.vegas)
    ×0.93 17 #84 | 47 points by NewCzech 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier (village.dev)
    ×1.39 70 | 77 points by kevin_hu 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: flashjson (github.com/giancarloromeo)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by giancarloromeo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller (github.com/hedgerow-dev)
    ×1.47 #4 | 90 points by hedgerow-dev 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Hacker Living – HN's most recommended places (hacker.living)
    ×2.23 97 | 6 points by grandimam 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Grid – A Hold'em arena where your AI agent plays your strategy (Beta) (penguinbase.com)
    ×1.13 111 | 4 points by taelimoh 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How we built Render OIDC (render.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by anurag 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser (nfsu2.xyz)
    ×4.37 #8 | 598 points by fluxusars 9 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Microsoft open-sources DACS: stalled data loads fell from 14% to 0.1% (microsoft.com)
    ×0.71 91 #64 | 3 points by wondersky 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue (yahoo.com)
    ×4.08 12 | 509 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Hackintosh Reborn (naut.ca)
    ×2.07 25 | 409 points by rubatuga 2 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. show HN: Computer-Generated Asset Pipelines: Shading Language in Toy Story (1995) (codeaihq.com)
    ×1.05 118 | 3 points by CodeAIHQ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Infinity – Git-style branching for AI chats (infinitychat.app)
    ×1.64 105 | 4 points by nkotov 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas (hamza.se)
    ×1.17 2 #20 | 48 points by hamza512b 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Learn C++ Before You Learn What It Costs You (fagnerbrack.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by fagnerbrack 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Paranoia: A Beginner's Guide (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by eatitraw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 'You Are Not Expected to Understand This': Unix's Notorious Code Comment (2017) (thenewstack.io)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by ohjeez 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. RIP Cybertruck (wired.com)
    ×5.73 10 | 302 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Datastructures-JS – The JavaScript data structures project (github.com/datastructures-js)
    ×1.22 47 #43 | 6 points by Brysonbw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. ZeBridge – PostgreSQL replicas on devices, synchronized over NATS (github.com/ndrean)
    ×0.67 5 #27 | 15 points by ndrean 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Spindle – a full-featured, type-safe web framework for OCaml 5 (github.com/hyphatech)
    ×0.81 22 #28 | 51 points by zaiev 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Flash C Compiler (adafruit.com)
    ×1.17 39 #40 | 97 points by AlexeyBrin 15 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. sshole (sshhole.com)
    ×10.33 13 #53 | 2949 points by josemrb 2 days ago | 741 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???