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  1. Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
    ×3.87 #1 | 614 points by rickybule 6 hours ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Services for Shutting Down a Startup?
    ×0.98 | 2 points by Felicia_Juhn 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
    ×2.16 70 | 431 points by stephenheron 3 days ago | 614 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Where can I see a live octopus in Maine?
    ×0.72 46 | 5 points by Octopus88 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Anyone working on bringing software back from US clouds?
    ×0.48 68 | 8 points by sam_lowry_ 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. CompactifAI Inference API
    ×0.19 | 2 points by Compactifai 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?
    ×0.52 122 | 56 points by diasks2 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps
    ×5.19 67 | 267 points by nativeforks 13 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Did modern AI's coding abilities make you lose interest in programming?
    ×0.66 102 | 30 points by amichail 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Anthropick.com Redirects to ChatGPT
    ×0.80 95 | 13 points by nerdcortex 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are the best Google alternatives in 2025?
    ×1.50 107 | 15 points by eel 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: GitHub Copilot down?
    ×1.43 65 | 58 points by thecopy 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Windows 11 Update Fail – Linux Distro Suggestions?
    ×0.84 84 | 3 points by giardini 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?
    ×1.01 144 | 30 points by owenmakes 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What to Learn for Math for Modeling?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by shivajikobardan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Units of Economics of LLMs. Reply to Ed Zitron's "AI Is a Money Trap"
    ×0.42 167 | 6 points by tudorizer 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to Learn to Build Agentic AI Systems (Like Claude Code)
    ×0.73 142 | 6 points by hhimanshu 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?
    ×0.59 153 | 103 points by pixelworm 4 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Does sentience put stress on the brain?
    ×0.30 166 | 7 points by trinsic2 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is there a temp phone number like temp email?
    ×0.70 168 | 9 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What measures are you taking to stop AI crawlers?
    ×0.52 150 | 6 points by kjok 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is backlink trading still a problem worth solving?
    ×0.36 174 | 3 points by sathishn 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Out of curiosity: what kind of people use this "forum" (I mean Hacker News)?
    ×1.38 140 | 21 points by adinhitlore 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why are so many services rejecting Google Voice numbers for signups?
    ×1.19 160 | 12 points by electric_muse 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What should I use to run React Native tests on a device?
    ×0.53 189 | 4 points by dboreham 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Stop squashing your commits. You're squashing your AI too
    ×0.30 202 | 4 points by jannesblobel 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are AI filters becoming stricter than society itself?
    ×0.22 187 | 29 points by tsevis 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: any reasonably used DB will likely outlast the programs using it
    ×0.80 151 | 3 points by dvrp 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Any experienced devs who use AI extensively in their work?
    ×0.38 195 | 3 points by atleastoptimal 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?
    ×0.56 178 | 22 points by jmward01 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How are you attributing your AI usage when developing software?
    ×0.32 193 | 4 points by hartleybrody 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join
    ×0.53 188 | 44 points by gavino 6 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Patient Lisp Hacker Seeks Same for Long Walks Through IPL-V Code
    ×0.65 182 | 7 points by abrax3141 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Has anyone else used online communities that are archetypically "savvy"?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by Use 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. High rate of LLM (GPT5) hallucinations in dense stats domains (cricket)
    ×0.29 207 | 3 points by sp1982 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2025)?
    ×2.02 170 | 10 points by iryndin 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 429 Too Many Requests from registry.npmjs.org
    ×0.20 | 2 points by mirekrusin 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine (tsundoku.io)
    ×2.24 54 | 409 points by chromy 2 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye (dseltzer.gitlab.io)
    ×1.04 119 | 176 points by zorlack 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: My OSS P2P file transfer tool for learning Next.js (as a C++ dev) (privydrop.app)
    ×0.64 159 | 15 points by david_bai 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Element to LLM – Extension That Turns Runtime DOM into JSON for LLMs
    ×1.16 162 | 5 points by Alechko 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Widespread Data Theft Targets Salesforce Instances via Salesloft Drift (google.com)
    ×1.74 20 | 3 points by floren 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson (twitter.com/nealstephenson)
    ×5.64 86 | 284 points by SLHamlet 3 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine (github.com/lunarengine)
    ×0.95 125 | 279 points by libreboxdevs 5 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: GrowChief – open-source social media outreach tool (github.com/growchief)
    ×3.20 73 | 8 points by nevodavid 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built a robot that draws caricatures with a Sharpie (caricature-bot.com)
    ×1.32 169 | 4 points by ringerapps 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Word Slicer – browser word game (follow-up, looking for feedback) (wordslicer.com)
    ×1.08 204 | 3 points by NoArcher888 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Sip: Alternative to Git Clone (github.com/allocata)
    ×0.98 205 | 3 points by seeyebe 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux (tuned-project.org)
    ×1.24 15 #7 | 20 points by tanelpoder 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents
    ×0.48 44 #12 | 42 points by windsor 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why Collaborate with XAI? (github.com/orgs)
    ×1.99 2 #79 | 4 points by azkae 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: AI Agent in Jupyter – Runcell (runcell.dev)
    ×2.00 89 | 8 points by loa_observer 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Magic links – Get video and dev logs without installing anything
    ×0.82 | 2 points by irtefa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Creao – Vibe coding product for founders (creao.ai)
    ×0.42 194 | 26 points by north_creao 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The sisters “paradox” – counter-intuitive probability (engora.com)
    ×1.53 29 #34 | 66 points by Vermin2000 10 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files (github.com/soulim)
    ×1.67 31 #62 | 169 points by secwang 21 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions (techxplore.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Pompelmi – RFI-safe uploads for Node.js with ZIP inspection, MIME/size checks (github.com/pompelmi)
    ×1.88 35 | 3 points by zdw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: I built AI Agents that automate comprehensive due diligence on stocks (decodeinvesting.com)
    ×1.13 209 | 3 points by clark-kent 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Expert LSP the official language server implementation for Elixir (github.com/elixir-lang)
    ×2.37 #9 | 26 points by pimienta 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study (cnbc.com)
    ×3.56 13 #14 | 133 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS (github.com/mi12labs)
    ×1.13 18 #22 | 45 points by mi12-root 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year (cnbc.com)
    ×4.45 23 #73 | 556 points by frays 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Linux Foundation Opens the Door to DocumentDB (thenewstack.io)
    ×1.91 30 | 3 points by CrankyBear 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Starship Will Reduce Bandwidth Launch Cost by Up to 50x (33fg.com)
    ×2.69 5 | 4 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Framework Laptop 16 (frame.work)
    ×4.71 52 | 454 points by susanthenerd 2 days ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Birth of 86-DOS (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.85 17 #74 | 46 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: How much better can the LLMs become assuming no AGI
    ×0.69 | 1 points by yalogin 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A new interface for doing research fast with an LLM (proread.ai)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by kanodiaashu 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Bitter Lesson (incompleteideas.net)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by amichail 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (googleblog.com)
    ×4.01 18 | 1072 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.91 72 | 402 points by Bogdanp 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. China is eating the world (apropos.substack.com)
    ×5.49 34 #46 | 166 points by sg5421 7 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The latest Covid vaccines come with restrictions (npr.org)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by metabagel 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What Is Orf? (medscape.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by wjb3 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Why don't back end developers make portfolios?
    ×1.93 6 | 3 points by yeahimjt 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions (github.com/ghostty-org)
    ×0.89 116 | 724 points by freetonik 1 week ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Sometimes CPU cores are odd – Anubis (techaro.lol)
    ×1.69 2 #6 | 26 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (mcdreeamiemusings.com)
    ×2.04 36 #24 | 6 points by scapecast 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters (2015) (narkive.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by WorldPeas 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Finding cool CA license plates (jonlu.ca)
    ×2.40 19 | 4 points by jonluca 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Anthropic's Claude Chrome browser extension rolls out – how to get early access (zdnet.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by CrankyBear 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: FilterQL – A tiny query language for filtering structured data (github.com/adamhl8)
    ×0.72 82 | 75 points by genshii 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Created a Node.js's addon that can handle 1M req/s
    ×1.48 136 | 5 points by StellaMary 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Important machine learning equations (chizkidd.github.io)
    ×1.90 19 #38 | 271 points by sebg 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami (broadcom.com)
    ×1.82 8 #56 | 329 points by zdkaster 18 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. About Containers and VMs (linuxcontainers.org)
    ×1.39 58 #75 | 102 points by Bogdanp 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by Improvement 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: AlphaSuite – An open-source platform for quantitative stock analysis (github.com/rsandx)
    ×0.79 185 | 3 points by sandx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A private, flat monthly subscription for open-source LLMs (synthetic.new)
    ×2.28 28 #53 | 12 points by reissbaker 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???