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  1. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
    ×3.18 10 #17 | 374 points by petecooper 15 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×1.76 16 | 7 points by winkelmann 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Have the PHP vulnerabilities been exploited?
    ×0.64 50 | 5 points by crisnoble 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Biggest pet peeve of FPGA toolchains
    ×0.24 77 | 3 points by vWijdaan 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
    ×2.81 57 | 611 points by rzk 3 days ago | 746 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.53 72 | 55 points by ex-aws-dude 4 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming
    ×3.45 58 | 287 points by petecooper 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by BehanPrW 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world?
    ×0.29 100 | 6 points by parthdesai 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Toyota Releases Video of Wheelchair-Alternative Mobility Concepts in Action
    ×0.36 89 | 13 points by Mobius01 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Run iOS on Android Phones
    ×0.22 99 | 4 points by spicygum 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How can you retrain in a field requiring expensive equipment?
    ×0.27 98 | 14 points by masterchief166 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Am I the only dev who, with the advent if AI, want to work in a forest?
    ×0.37 106 | 12 points by aledevv 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are we giving away our civilization?
    ×1.25 87 | 13 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Friends, what is your Plan B?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by wombat-man 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How does your help desk verify someone before resetting MFA?
    ×0.50 103 | 8 points by ovudus 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Should HN add a "Show AI" prefix for AI-related or AI-assisted projects?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by wslh 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents
    ×1.30 92 | 17 points by shakshukan 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Firefox Auto-Run on Windows
    ×0.32 132 | 3 points by BubbleRings 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
    ×0.86 123 | 26 points by Stitch4223 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AMA – "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", milestone in CGI, is 25 years old
    ×0.93 93 | 12 points by kaveh808 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
    ×0.45 147 | 21 points by okr 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do you know Bitbucket are chaning their SSH endpoints?
    ×0.25 154 | 5 points by mcrmonkey 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?
    ×1.06 113 | 16 points by lualover 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Financial Audit of DuckDuckGo?
    ×0.58 111 | 9 points by giantg2 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. TI C66X / Ad Sharc+ Decompilers
    ×0.55 150 | 5 points by kavinsky777 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?
    ×0.43 141 | 9 points by thechairman12 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day
    ×0.31 134 | 10 points by kinj28 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What have you built privately with AI that you'd like to share?
    ×0.64 144 | 9 points by erelong 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What should I use instead of Firefox on Android?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by trystrawberries 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: I picked up knitting while waiting for my AI agent to complete
    ×1.19 152 | 12 points by amelius 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is Wikipedia going to be obsolete soon?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GCP Europe-West2 Outage
    ×2.16 116 | 31 points by jack7e 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Why HN dosen't have bot problem?
    ×0.85 149 | 9 points by solarpunk_enthu 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What Is the Karakoram Anomaly? (nsidc.org)
    ×0.82 61 #66 | 81 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. CVE Tracker (0xosprey.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by mtweak 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DuckDB 2.0 and the Query Farm extension repository (query.farm)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by rustyconover 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Canary Tokens (canarytokens.org)
    ×1.90 35 | 160 points by wiradikusuma 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. LayerFS: A filesystem for AI coding agents (layerfs.ai)
    ×0.79 73 | 74 points by l2dy 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: git-found, fixes "Repository not found" with multiple GitHub accounts (github.com/advaith334)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by Advaith_12 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Code is clay now (albertodenia.com)
    ×1.77 52 #54 | 247 points by albertodenia 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Overdesigned Simple Solitaire (defaultsolitaire.app)
    ×0.66 120 | 5 points by fsloth 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph (github.com/KatrielMoses)
    ×3.32 74 | 188 points by coding-maniac 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Axes Test – Client-side multi-axis political spectrum mapper (12axestest.org)
    ×0.33 153 | 4 points by Darwin233 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tech's Enshittification, Public Markets, and Business Schools (tomorrowasusual.substack.com)
    ×2.46 36 | 3 points by tudell 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher (github.com/AbdullahAlhariri)
    ×0.88 85 | 66 points by abdullahalharir 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Rust Style Guide (google.github.io)
    ×1.93 4 | 377 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch (github.com/zolagonano)
    ×0.74 118 | 18 points by znano 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability (eliastaylor.com)
    ×3.85 43 | 611 points by zkldi 1 day ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How to Design Flowers (asimov.press)
    ×0.73 23 #22 | 16 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices (github.com/oosexgang)
    ×2.00 1 #9 | 327 points by aghuang 10 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world (impossiblemachines.xyz)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by bhaprayan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mississippi AG says use of force was 'justified' in fatal shooting of toddler (npr.org)
    ×2.02 2 #78 | 4 points by AdmiralAsshat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Build a world on your phone, explore it in XR on Vision Pro and Quest (camilleworld.com)
    ×0.36 63 #55 | 12 points by suejunghuh0 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Coding Magic the Gathering in C# – Part Two – The Impossible Magic Card (youtube.com)
    ×1.92 13 | 4 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tangled knot that runs on Cloudflare Workers (tangled.org)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by jcbhmr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Twine is a meta-harness with workflows, cross-agent memories and traces (github.com/standing-desks)
    ×1.53 115 | 5 points by SurfingAlpaca 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada (cbc.ca)
    ×3.02 13 #36 | 231 points by Teever 11 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides (claude.com)
    ×1.77 39 #90 | 85 points by gmays 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: RigCheck – can your GPU or Mac run this open model? Sourced, open data (localrigcheck.com)
    ×0.85 97 | 3 points by chenzige 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer (celphase.github.io)
    ×1.20 105 | 179 points by celphase 5 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums (lastmuseum.com)
    ×1.00 30 #33 | 108 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Agentic ML Experimentation at Snap (snap.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by wyes 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key (github.com/dsmurrell)
    ×1.70 59 | 6 points by dsmurrell 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation (biograph.com)
    ×1.23 2 #37 | 77 points by brandonb 7 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud (openai.com)
    ×1.87 22 | 322 points by armcat 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Cathode, a Gtk4 YouTube player based on mpv and yt-dlp (github.com/andunieee)
    ×1.22 110 | 5 points by andunie 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: CertAvert – Free SSL/TLS tools and certificate expiry alerts (certavert.com)
    ×1.06 121 | 4 points by asiliev20 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache (github.com/kividbio)
    ×0.77 107 | 69 points by murtazayusuf 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Turn regular JavaScript into a neural net (chenglou.me)
    ×0.68 32 #34 | 36 points by chenglou 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A farewell to Arc browser (arc.net)
    ×2.39 16 #28 | 229 points by suhdonghwi 9 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Next Bottleneck in AI for Science (mixtureofexperts.co)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose (wvez.org)
    ×1.91 61 | 83 points by wvez22 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Speeding up code review with `small-change` (lethain.com)
    ×0.82 22 #24 | 24 points by alexmolas 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The phenomena that brighten dawn and dusk (2016) (colorado.edu)
    ×0.40 47 #30 | 29 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system (catgirl.cloud)
    ×4.07 37 #45 | 157 points by tensegrist 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Affluent and Older Americans Got Much Richer in Postpandemic Years (wsj.com)
    ×1.78 7 | 3 points by tchalla 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Apple's $2k iPhone Duo is selling for as little as $800 (cnbc.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by mgh2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out (php.net)
    ×4.51 25 | 277 points by timvdalen 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data (openai.com)
    ×1.01 48 | 155 points by raahelb 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: AI-built browser games, collected in one place (playgroundarcade.com)
    ×1.59 67 | 35 points by richleigh 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Docker is weird (codeandcake.dev)
    ×2.80 1 #1 | 112 points by psxuaw 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Plex laid off the whole player team (plex.tv)
    ×4.67 32 | 159 points by zzyzxd 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Embodsi – Embodied Super Intelligence (embodsi.com)
    ×1.04 131 | 3 points by laser 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.25 10 | 4 points by csh0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI Keeps Getting Better. Why Is Its Writing Still So Bad? (greyenlightenment.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by paulpauper 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. PHP web runtimes (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) (amazon.com)
    ×1.56 42 | 116 points by hayd 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I can't believe PowerShell is good (spacebar.news)
    ×2.89 45 | 66 points by corbindavenport 22 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I Rebuilt Del.icio.us (webmark.ing)
    ×1.08 94 | 3 points by mban23 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???