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  1. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.55 12 | 24 points by JohnDSDev 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks?
    ×0.92 37 | 8 points by fur-tea-laser 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions
    ×0.55 68 | 5 points by throwaw12 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Elastic Layoffs?
    ×1.43 16 | 7 points by nunocoracao 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.47 93 | 14 points by neya 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE?
    ×0.29 84 | 9 points by mariopt 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×0.22 128 | 8 points by spidy__ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.54 103 | 17 points by niyazpk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.88 101 | 18 points by tossitawayplz 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Anyone else feels many LLMs are heavily biased towards consumerism these days?
    ×0.27 105 | 6 points by pyeri 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.12 117 | 13 points by vasko 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.09 120 | 152 points by amichail 5 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×0.98 118 | 50 points by xupybd 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.58 90 | 78 points by ayi 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 145 | 95 points by asim 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.99 119 | 22 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What's the worst thing your AI agent did in production without asking first?
    ×0.39 111 | 3 points by rockingraj 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are people generally interested using LLMs for learning purposes?
    ×0.28 125 | 7 points by iknownthing 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.41 167 | 25 points by agos 6 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.35 144 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 4 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Open source, global vs. proprietary but for US in US, which is fundable in SaaS?
    ×0.20 159 | 4 points by avijeetsingh16 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
    ×0.32 160 | 7 points by AbstractH24 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.39 163 | 10 points by hmokiguess 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
    ×0.41 157 | 9 points by po1nt 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.35 168 | 8 points by snowhy 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?
    ×0.80 112 | 19 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Grove – fast source insights for coding agents – via Tree-sitter (github.com/Entelligentsia)
    ×0.43 143 | 4 points by bonigv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Souso – plan your week, fill your AH/Jumbo basket (MEGATHON Amsterdam) (souso.app)
    ×1.56 166 | 8 points by ntorresdev 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison (thedrive.com)
    ×1.57 26 #79 | 223 points by mauvehaus 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: perl-lsp – annotation free static analysis for Perl (github.com/tree-sitter-perl)
    ×1.28 161 | 3 points by rabbiveesh 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (glyphcss.com)
    ×1.74 4 #90 | 200 points by apresmoi 21 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why (thedrive.com)
    ×7.59 38 | 197 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Introduction to the DOM for Vulnerability Researchers (youtube.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by wetw0rk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: RLM-based local debugger for AI agent traces (github.com/context-labs)
    ×0.46 92 | 24 points by mikepollard_dev 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? (natkr.com)
    ×0.97 47 #19 | 75 points by logickkk1 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Introduction to Making Makefiles (jfranken.de)
    ×1.89 51 #51 | 20 points by pillmillipedes 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. World Action Models: A Survey (arxiv.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by simonpure 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG (deepset.ai)
    ×0.75 30 #54 | 85 points by doener 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Food Delivery Killed Competition (and Your Budget) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod (mitchivin.com)
    ×1.01 127 | 70 points by mitchivin 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Jerry's Map (jerrysmap.com)
    ×2.20 2 #69 | 567 points by turtleyacht 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.92 60 #83 | 105 points by neogoose 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Clippy for Vim (codeberg.org)
    ×1.71 107 | 5 points by borysj 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Recall – Local project memory for Claude Code (github.com/raiyanyahya)
    ×1.11 104 | 135 points by mateenah 3 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Source-available post-quantum messenger – crypto core on GitHub (github.com/VeilusDigital)
    ×0.76 130 | 3 points by VeilusDigital 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I taught a bucket to speak Git (tigrisdata.com)
    ×0.82 10 #34 | 77 points by xena 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How to Get Your First 10 Customers (ycombinator.com)
    ×2.06 32 #49 | 24 points by aurenvale 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Is There a 'Vienna School of Agentic Coding'? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by raybb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×1.37 47 #50 | 194 points by ilreb 22 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Congress passes largest housing affordability bill and Trump cancels signing (npr.org)
    ×1.50 39 | 3 points by sizzle 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Transformer Primitives – A visual explainer you can send to anyone (understandgpt.xyz)
    ×2.28 135 | 6 points by arzt 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Prismag – Per-block model routing for the terminal and any IDE (github.com/rufus-SD)
    ×0.56 165 | 5 points by arthur-G 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. We'll fight the platform war against Big AI (anildash.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by aendruk 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Obsidian-Inspired Social Network (aphant.dev)
    ×2.70 13 | 5 points by Aikaros 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Will It Mythos? (swelljoe.com)
    ×1.66 51 | 316 points by mindingnever 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Samsung demonstrates 3D stacked FETs with triple nanosheet channels at 42nm (samsung.com)
    ×0.86 64 #87 | 125 points by its_ajseven 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Absurdly Optimized (absurdlyoptimized.com)
    ×1.98 | 2 points by skogstokig 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: AGI will not come from better models, it will come from meta harness (github.com/the-open-engine)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by covibes 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I Built a Zero-Trust Resume Pipeline to Stop AI from Hallucinating (github.com/Gotili)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by g0tili 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says (reuters.com)
    ×14.27 15 | 506 points by supercopter 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse (ft.com)
    ×5.44 94 | 77 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights (cbc.ca)
    ×2.76 53 #88 | 104 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis by automated, iterative genomic reanalysis (microsoft.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by femto 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place (stephendiehl.com)
    ×3.29 21 | 409 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber (openai.com)
    ×1.88 64 | 220 points by AaronO 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring (nega.tv)
    ×1.17 56 | 159 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward (techstrong.ai)
    ×2.97 24 #42 | 197 points by CrankyBear 9 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Models (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.80 33 #43 | 12 points by ryanmerket 37 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite (thinkgeoenergy.com)
    ×1.61 70 #63 | 212 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets (freedom.press)
    ×8.39 24 | 84 points by kevinwang 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing (github.com/baidu)
    ×2.16 10 | 486 points by ingve 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Forte – Cloud infra to get startups to production faster (forteplatforms.com)
    ×2.32 71 | 6 points by mvand 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)
    ×1.58 108 | 233 points by shpran 4 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. We’re making Bunny DNS free (bunny.net)
    ×3.48 5 #4 | 840 points by dabinat 15 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The CAPTCHA arms race: from distorted text to browser identity (browserbase.com)
    ×1.06 5 #60 | 66 points by harsehaj 8 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (reuters.com)
    ×3.30 44 | 6 points by madars 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (cauenapier.com)
    ×1.65 102 | 272 points by cauenapier 4 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Snowscroll – I removed addictive feeds from social media (snowscroll.com)
    ×2.21 139 | 5 points by junnam586 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero (nvidia.com)
    ×3.12 20 #9 | 166 points by nitin_flanker 10 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Finding the best dog treat with statistics (wespiser.com)
    ×0.85 77 #89 | 137 points by wespiser_2018 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: The most Y Combinator YC application: it applied itself
    ×1.73 83 | 5 points by keepamovin 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Natural Language Is an Interface Capability, Chat Is Just a Mechanism (robenglander.com)
    ×2.15 | 2 points by robenglander 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Docket Fleet – mobile device cloud (docketqa.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by boriskurikhin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem (apnews.com)
    ×2.07 26 | 183 points by sva_ 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean (github.com/cajal-technologies)
    ×0.88 137 | 106 points by mfornet 6 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors” (theregister.com)
    ×2.34 28 #48 | 157 points by connorboyle 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Steam Machine launches today (steampowered.com)
    ×6.83 #77 | 1908 points by theschwa 2 days ago | 1698 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. To sell toys (tfwiki.net)
    ×2.12 | 2 points by unleaded 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Treedocs: Documentation that automatically checks for staleness (dandylyons.github.io)
    ×0.66 86 | 52 points by DandyLyons 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: OpenTerm – A tiny, fast SSH client (no login, no cloud, free) (github.com/zhangshuo1991)
    ×1.36 156 | 4 points by zhangshuo1991 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???